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1、-一二 2018年12月六级英语考试(卷二)真题解析-第 16 页三 作文For this part， you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on how to balance work and leisure。 You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words。第一段：描述工作和业余很难平衡的一个社会现象。第二段：进行观点的阐述。第三段：得出结论。Along with the development of society， more and more problem

2、s are brought to our attention; one of the most serious problems is how to reach the balance between work and leisure。 People have different attitudes towards the problem。It is generally agreed that work has been playing an increasingly important role in our life， because we need to work to earn mon

3、ey for life。 But if people put too much time on work， their health conditions will be damaged and suffer from kinds of diseases。 The sub health among workers has attracted extensive attention of the society， which can be found in TV programs， newspapers， university classes and many aspect of our eve

4、ryday life。 Thus， when people has a completed the work responsibility， they should spend some time on personal leisure。 Then， they could get some rest both physically and mentally， and have better conditions for tomorrows work。 However， if people invest too much time on leisure， their career develop

5、ments may be affected and lost opportunities for a better life。From what has been discussed above， we may safely draw the conclusions that people should ensure their leisure time after work。四 听力Conversation one.M：(1)Do you mind taking my photo with the statue over there? I think it will make a great

6、 shot.W:Sure. No worries. Youre always taking photos. What do you do with all the photos you take?M：Well, dont laugh. My dream is to become an online celebrity of sorts.W：Youre not serious, are you?M：I am completely I just got the idea a few months ago after posting some holiday photos on my social

7、media accounts, a lot of people like my photos and started asking me for travel tips. So I figured id give it a go. I post a lot on social media anyway. So ive got nothing to .W： I guess thats true. So what you have to do to become internet famous .M：Surprisingly, a lot more than I did as a hobby re

8、cently. Ive been spending a lot more time editing photos, posting online and clearing storage on my phone. Its always full. Now that doesnt sound like too much work.W：Well, theres more to it.M：I spent all last weekend researching what topics are popular, what words to use in captions and similar acc

9、ounts to follow really was a lot to take. And I was up well past midnight. Id say its paying off, though I increased the number of people following my accounts by fifteen percent already.W：That is impressive. I guess I never thought much about all the effort behind the scene. Now that I think about

10、it, theres always something wrong with my photos. As it is, half smiles, closed eyes, messy hair. I hope you have better luck than I do. Then. Again, I think the only person interested in my photos is my mum.Question 1. What does the man asked the woman to do?解析：根据问题，问男人让女人做什么，可定位到，对话开篇Do you mind t

11、aking my photo with the statue over there?Question 2. What does the man dream of?解析：根据问题，问男人梦想什么，可定位到，对话中上篇可得，My dream is to become an online celebrity of sorts.Question 3. What has the man been busy doing recently?解析：根据问题，问男人近期忙于做些什么，可定位中间对话可得，Surprisingly, a lot more than I did as a hobby recently

12、. Ive been spending a lot more time editing photos, posting online and clearing storage on my phone.Question 4, what does the woman say about her photos?解析：根据问题，问女人关于她的照片说了什么，可定位至对话结尾处，Now that I think about it, theres always something wrong with my photos. As it is, half smiles, closed eyes, messy

13、hair.Conversation twoM：(5)Good evening and welcome to physics today. Here we interview some of the greatest minds in physics as they help us to understand some of the most complicated theories. Today. Im very pleased to welcome doctor melissa phillips, professor of theoretical physics. Shes here to

14、tell us a little about what it is.(6) She studies doctor phillips. You seem to study everything.W：(6)I guess that would be fair to say I spend most of my time studying the big bang theory and where our universe came from.M：Can you tell us a little about that?W：Well,(7) im very interested in why the

15、universe exists at all. That may sound odd, but the fact is at the moment of the big bang, both matter and antimatter were created for a short time, and I mean just a fraction of a second. The whole universe was a super hot soup of radiation filled with these particles. So what baffled scientists fo

16、r so long is why is there a universe at all?M：Thats because matter and anti matter are basically opposites of each other. They are exactly alike, except that they have opposite electrical charges. So when they collide, they destroy each other.W： Exactly. So during the first few moments of the big ba

17、ng, the universe was extremely hot and very small matter. And the now more exotic anti matter would have had little space to avoid each other. This means that they should have totally wiped each other out, leaving the universe complete. De baron.M：(8)But a recent study seems to point to the fact tha

18、t would matter. And anti matter were first created. There were slightly more particles of matter which allowed the universe we all live in to formW:exactly because there was slightly more matter. The collisions quickly depleted all the anti matter and left just enough matter to create stars, planets

19、, and eventually us.Question 5. What does the man say is physics today?根据问题，问男人说“今日物理学”是怎样的，可定位至对话开篇Good evening and welcome to physics today. Here we interview some of the greatest minds in physics as they help us to understand some of the most complicated theoriesQuestion 6. What is the woman phys

20、icists? Main research area?根据问题，问女人主要研究的领域是什么，可定位至文章开篇对话处，She studies doctor phillips. You seem to study everything. I guess that would be fair to say I spend most of my time studying the big bang theory and where our universe came from.Questions 7. What is the woman interested in?根据问题，问女人的兴趣所在，可得im

21、 very interested in why the universe exists at all.Question 8. What seems to be the finding of the recent study?根据问题，问近期研究的发现，可定位至对话结尾处But后，But a recent study seems to point to the fact that would matter. And anti matter were first created. There were slightly more particles of matter which allowed

22、the universe we all live in to form .Passage 1In this weeks edition of special series on bizarre medical conditions. Theres a report of the case of Michelle Myers. Myers is an American woman who woke up one day speaking with a British accent, even though shes lived in the united states all her life

23、in two thousand fifteen, Myers went to bed with9 a terrible headache. She woke up sounding like someone from England. Her British accent has remained for the past two years previously, 9Meyers had woken up speaking in Irish and Australian accents.However, on both of those occasions, the accents last

24、ed for only a week. Myers has been diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome. 10Its a disorder in which a person experiences a setting change to their speech so that they sound like they are speaking in a foreign accent. The condition is most often 10caused by a stroke or traumatic brain injury. Althou

25、gh people with the syndrome have intelligible speech, their manner of speaking is altered in terms of timing and tongue placement, which may distort their pronunciation. The result is that they may sound foreign when speaking their native language.Its not clear whether Myers has experienced a stroke

26、 or other brain damage, but she also has a separate medical condition which can result and loose joints easily bruised skin and other problems. Foreign accent syndrome is rare, with only about sixty cases reported within the past century. 11However, a different American woman reportedly spoke with t

27、he Russian accent in two thousand ten after she fell down the stairs and hit her head.Question 9. What happened to Michelle Myers One day?解析：根据故事线索定位答案，Michelle Myers一天晚上头疼，醒来后发现自己说澳大利亚口音和爱尔兰口音的英语。Question 10. What does the passage say about foreign accent syndrome?解析：通过however和cause定位答案位置，外国语音的症状主要

28、由于中风和头痛引起的语音失调的症状。Question 11. What accent did another American woman speak with after a head injury?解析：通过however和文章结尾一个美国女人视听一致定位答案位置，这个美国女人从楼梯上摔下来后说俄语口音的英语。Passage 2There is something about water that makes it a good metaphor for life. That may be one reason why so many people find relief in swimm

29、ing when life seized get rough. And 12it goes some way towards explaining why books about swimming, in which people tackle icy legs, race and rivers, and overcome oceans while reflecting on their lives have recently become so popular.These books reflect a trend particularly strong in Britain, where

30、swimming in pools is declining, but more and more folks are opting for open water. While swimming seems to be especially popular among women. 13Jenny landreth recently published a guide to the best swimming spots in London. Her new book swell into weaves her own story with a history of female pionee

31、rs who accomplished remarkable feats paved the way for future generations. 14Notions of modesty restricted women in the Victorian era, but they still swam. A bathing machine was rolled down to the sea shore, so women would not be seen in swim wear in 1892,14 the gentle womans book of sport described

32、 a woman swimming in a heavy dress, boots, hat, gloves and carrying an umbrella.Eventually swimming became freer. Mixed bathing was permitted on British beaches. In 1901, women won the right to swim in public pools, learn to swim properly, created appropriate swimwear, and in time even competed agai

33、nst men. 15The first woman to cross the English channel was Gertrude Elderly. In 1926, she beat the record by almost two hours and her father rewarded her with a red sports car.Question 12. What has become so popular recently?解析：根据问题最近比较流行定位文章第第二句，有原因词why提示游泳成为人们遇到困难时排解的方式，所以关于游泳的书籍最近非常受欢迎。Question

34、13. What did Jenny Landreth do recently?解析：根据人名和best定位答案位置，Jenny Landreth最近出版了一本书，关于指导人们发现最好的游泳地点。Question 14. What do we learn about women in the Victorian era?解析：通过转换词but和时间词1892及维多利亚女性话题可以定位答案位置，在保守的维多利亚时期，女性在游泳时依然穿着厚着的衣服，坚持游泳。Question 15. What does the passage say about Gertrude?解析;通过first和文章结尾定

35、位答案位置，Gertrude是第一位穿过英吉利海峡的女性，并且打破了2小时的记录，因此她父亲奖励一辆跑车给她。Recording OneToday Im going to talk about a very special kind of person. Psychologists call them masters of deception. Those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie. (16) For decade

36、s, researchers and law enforcement agencies have tried to build a machine that will do the same thing. Now, a company in Massachusetts says that by using magnetic brain scans, they can determine with 97% accuracy whether someone is telling the truth.They hope that the technology will be cleared for

37、use in American courts by early next year. (17)But is this really the ultimate tool for you? The lawyers of tomorrow? You will not find many brain scientists celebrating this breakthrough. The company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception has not provided cre

38、dible proof. Thats because the technology has not been properly tested in real world situations. In life, there are different kinds of lies and diverse contexts in which theyre told. These differences may elicit different brain responses.Does their hypothesis behind the test apply in every case? We

39、dont know the answer, because studies done on how reliable this machine is have not yet been duplicated. Much more research is badly needed. Whether the technology is eventually deemed reliable enough for the courts will ultimately be decided by the judges. Lets hope theyre wise enough not to be foo

40、led by a machine that claims to determine truthfulness at the flip of a switch. They should also be skeptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity. Often, they do not map that easily.Moreover, understanding the brain is not the same as

41、understanding the mind. Some researchers have suggested that thoughts cannot properly be seen as purely internal. Instead, thoughts make sense only in reference to the individuals external world. So while there may be insights to be gained from matching behavior to brain activity, those insights wil

42、l not necessarily lead to justice in a court of law. Problems surround the use of machines to spot deception, at least until it has been rigorously tested. (18)A high tech test that can tell when a person is not telling the truth. Sounds too good to be true. And when something sounds too good to be

43、true, it usually is.Question 16. What have researchers and law enforcement agencies tried to do?Questions17. How do many brain scientists respond to the Massachusetts companies so called technological breakthrough?Question 18. What does the speaker think of using a high tech test to determine whethe

44、r a person is telling the truth?讲座1解析如同上课时我们讲到的，讲座题一定要听好开头，开头往往揭示主题。本篇开头即提到一类人，masters of deception。对于生僻名词必然给出解释: Those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie.当我们听到But is this really the ultimate tool for you? The lawyers of tomorrow?

45、You will not find many brain scientists celebrating this breakthrough. 时，我们得知很多科学家持反对意见。我们在设问后的问题之处得知but之后便是17题的答案，has not provided credible proof.本篇难点在于16,17题离得比较近，符合我们所讲的连续出题原则，考生须在确定一题答案后马上开始对下一题的判断。后面大段不出题，知道最后给出最后一题的答案。18题作者对于使用高科技仪器测谎的想法是too good to be true，所以需要选择和负面色彩相关的选项。Recording TwoLast w

46、eek, I attended a research workshop on an island in the South Pacific. Thirty people were present, and all except me came from the island called Mcclure in the nation of Vanuatu. They live in sixteen different communities and speak sixteen distinct languages. In many cases, you could stand at the ed

47、ge of one village and see the outskirts of the next community. (19)Yet the residents of each village speak a completely different language. According to recent work by my colleagues at the Max Plank Institute for the science of human history, this island, just one hundred kilometers long and twenty

48、kilometers wide, is home to speakers of perhaps forty different indigenous languages. (20)Why so many? We could ask the same question of the entire globe. People dont speak one universal language or even a handful. Instead, today, our species collectively speaks over seven thousand distinct languages, and these languages are not spread randomly across the planet. For example, far more languages are found in tropical regions that in the mi