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　　18年12月大学英语六级阅读解析

　　【整体评述】：

　　今年的六级阅读难度适中，各个板块阅读的主题也比较容易理解。

　　选词填空生僻词汇不是很多，所以此部分只要我们能够分析出正确的句式，理解文章的意思，认真使用我们课上讲解过的解题方法是很快就能够找到正确答案的。

　　段落信息匹配部分，题干也基本能够从原文中找到原词重现，需要同学们能够巧妙地运用跳读，扫读，详读和略读相结合的方法，一一攻克，且注意，此题型不可用排除法，并且应该按照先易后难的原则进行解题。

　　传统阅读两篇难度相对较大，选项设置的干扰项较多，但考察的内容定位都比较清晰，题干中出现的词很多都可以从文章中找到，也不难去进行同义替换，小部分需要推理，整体难度适中，同学们只要按照老师讲解的正确的解题方法以及阅读方法，平时多积累单词，多进行练习，考试时遇到类似的难度，也会轻而易举的把它拿下。

　　现在我们就本套试卷简单地给大家做一个解析。

　　Section B

　　Resilience Is About How You recharge, Not How You Endure

　　[A] As constant travelers and parents of a 2-year-old, we sometimes fantasize about how much work we can do when one of us gets on a plane, undistracted by phones, friends, or movies. We race to get all our ground work done: packing, going through security, doing a last-minute work call, calling each other, then boarding the plane. Then, when we try to have that amazing work session in flight, we get nothing done. Even worse, after refreshing our email or reading the same studies over and over, we are too exhausted when we land to soldier on with(继续处理) the emails that have inevitably still piled up.

　　[B] Why should flying deplete us? We’re just sitting there doing nothing. Why can’t we be tougher — more resilient(有复原力的) and determined in our work so we can accomplish all of the goals we set for ourselves? Based on our current research, we have come to realize that the problem is not our hectic schedule or the plane travel itself; the problem comes from a misunderstanding of what it means to be resilient, and the resulting impact of overworking.

　　[C] We often take a militaristic, “tough” approach to resilience and determination like a Marine pulling himself through the mud, a boxer going one more round, or a football player picking himself up off the ground for one more play. We believe that longer we tough it out, the tougher we are, and therefore the more successful we will be. However, this entire conception is scientifically inaccurate.

　　[D] The very lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to be resilient and successful. Research has found that there is a direct correlation between lack of recovery and increased incidence of health and safety problems. And lack of recovery — whether by disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having continuous cognitive arousal by watching our phones — is costing our companies $62 billion a year in lost productivity.

　　[E] And just because work stops, it doesn’t mean we are recovering. We “stop” work sometimes at 5PM, but then we spend the night wrestling with solutions to work problems, talking about our work over dinner, and falling asleep thinking about how much work we’ll do tomorrow. In a study just released, researchers from Norway found that 7.8% of Norwegians have become workaholics(工作狂). The scientists cite a definition of “workaholism” as “being overly concerned about work, driven by an uncontrollable work motivation, and investing so much time and effort to work that it impairs other important life areas.”

　　[F] We believe that the number of people who fit that definition includes the majority of American workers, including those who read HBR, which prompted us to begin a study of workaholism in the U.S. Our study will use a large corporate dataset from a major medical company to examine how technology extends our working hours and thus interferes with necessary cognitive recovery, resulting in huge health care costs and turnover costs for employers.

　　[G] The misconception of resilience is often bred from an early age. Parents trying to teach their children resilience might celebrate a high school student staying up until 3AM to finish a science fair project. What a distortion of resilience! A resilient child is a well-rested one. When an exhausted student goes to school, he risks hurting everyone on the road with his impaired driving; he doesn’t have the cognitive resources to do well on his English test; he has lower self-control with his friends; and at home, he is moody with his parents. Overwork and exhaustion are the opposite of resilience. And the bad habits we learn when we’re young only magnify when we hit the workforce.

　　[H] As Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz have written, if you have too much time in the performance zone, you need more time in the recovery zone, otherwise you risk burnout. Mustering your resources to “try hard” requires burning energy in order to overcome your currently low arousal level. This is called upregulation. It also exacerbates exhaustion. Thus the more imbalanced we become due to overworking, the more value there is in activities that allow us to return to a state of balance. The value of a recovery period rises in proportion to the amount of work required of us.

　　[I] So how do we recover and build resilience? Most people assume that if you stop doing a task like answering emails or writing a paper, that your brain will naturally recover, such that when you start again later in the day or the next morning, you’ll have your energy back. But surely everyone reading this has had times where you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep because your brain is thinking about work. If you lie in bed for eight hours, you may have rested, but you can still feel exhausted the next day. That’s because rest and recovery are not the same thing. Stopping does not equal recovering.

　　[J] If you’re trying to build resilience at work, you need adequate internal and external recovery periods. As researchers Zijlstra, Cropley and Rydstedt write in their 2014 paper: “Internal recovery refers to the shorter periods of relaxation that take place within the frames of the workday or the work setting in the form of short scheduled or unscheduled breaks, by shifting attention or changing to other work tasks when the mental or physical resources required for the initial task are temporarily depleted or exhausted. External recovery refers to actions that take place outside of work—e.g. in the free time between the workdays, and during weekends, holidays or vacations.” If after work you lie around on your bed and get riled up by political commentary on your phone or get stressed thinking about decisions about how to renovate your home, your brain has not received a break from high mental arousal states. Our brains need a rest as much as our bodies do.

　　[K] If you really want to build resilience, you can start by strategically stopping. Give yourself the resources to be tough by creating internal and external recovery periods. Amy Blankson describes how to strategically stop during the day by using technology to control overworking. She suggests downloading the Instant or Moment apps to see how many times you turn on your phone each day. You can also use apps like Offtime or Unpludded to create tech free zones by strategically scheduling automatic airplane modes. The average person turns on their phone 150 times every day. If every distraction took only 1 minute, that would account for 2.5 hours a day.

　　[L] In addition, you can take a cognitive break every 90 minutes to charge your batteries. Try to not have lunch at your desk, but instead spend time outside or with your friends —not talking about work. Take all of your paid time off, which not only gives you recovery periods, but raises your productivity and likelihood of promotion.

　　[M] As for us, we’ve started using our plane time as a work-free zone, and thus time to dip into the recovery phrase. The results have been fantastic. We are usually tired already by the time we get on a plane, and the crowed space and unstable internet connection make work more challenging. Now, instead of swimming upstream, we relax, sleep, watch movies, or listen to music. And when we get off the plane, instead of being depleted, we feel recovered and ready to return to the performance zone.

　　36. It has been found that inadequate recovery often leads to poor health and accidents.

　　37. Mental relaxation is much needed, just as physical relaxation is.

　　38. Adequate rest not only helps one recover, but also increases one’s work efficiently.

　　39. The author always has a hectic time before taking a flight.

　　40. Recovery may not take place even if one seems to have stop ped working

　　41. It is advised that technology be used to prevent people from overworking

　　42. Contrary to popular belief, rest does not equal recovet.

　　43. The author has come to see that this problem results from a misunderstanding of the meaning of resilience.

　　44. People’s distorted view about resilience may have developed from their upbringing.

　　45. People tend to think the more determined they are, the greater their success will be.

　　【答案】DJLAE KIBGC

　　【解析】

　　36. D. It has been found that inadequate recovery often leads to poor health and accidents.

　　定位到[D]段的 Research has found that there is a direct correlation between lack of recovery and increased incidence of health and safety problems，其中inadequate是lack of的同义替换， accidents是safety problems的同义替换。

　　37. J. Mental relaxation is much needed, just as physical relaxation is.

　　定位到[J] 段的最后一句Our brains need a rest as much as our bodies do，其中Mental relaxation是Our brains need a rest的同义替换，physical relaxation是as our bodies do的同义替换。

　　38. L. Adequate rest not only helps one recover, but also increases one’s work efficiently.

　　定位到[L]段的Take all of your paid time off, which not only gives you recovery periods, but raises your productivity and likelihood of promotion，其中 increases one’s work efficiently

　　是raises your productivity的同义替换。

　　39. A. The author always has a hectic time before taking a flight.

　　定位到A段的doing a last-minute work call, calling each other, then boarding the plane，其中before taking a flight.是 then boarding the plane的同义替换。

　　40. E. Recovery may not take place even if one seems to have stopped working

　　定位到[E]段的第一句 And just because work stops, it doesn’t mean we are recovering。

　　41. K. It is advised that technology be used to prevent people from overworking

　　定位到[K]段的Amy Blankson describes how to strategically stop during the day by using technology to control overworking，其中prevent是control的同义替换。

　　42. I. Contrary to popular belief, rest does not equal recovery.

　　定位到[I]段的Most people assume that if you stop doing a task…that your brain will naturally recover…If you lie in bed for eight hours, you may have rested, but you can still feel exhausted the next day。

　　43. B. The author has come to see that this problem results from a misunderstanding of the meaning of resilience.

　　定位到[B]段的we have come to realize that the problem is not our hectic schedule or the plane travel itself; the problem comes from a misunderstanding of what it means to be resilient。

　　44. G. People’s distorted view about resilience may have developed from their upbringing.

　　定位到[G]段的第一句 The misconception of resilience is often bred from an early age，其中 distorted view about resilience 是 misconception of resilience 的同义替换，developed from their upbringing是bred from an early age的同义替换。

　　45. C. People tend to think the more determined they are, the greater their success will be.

　　定位到[C]段的We believe that longer we tough it out, the tougher we are, and therefore the more successful we will be，其中 the more determined they are是 longer we tough it out的同义替换。

　　Section C

　　Passage2

　　Q51-55

　　On Jan. 9, 2007, 10 years ago today, Steve Jobs formally announced Apple's "revolutionary mobile phone" — a device that combined the functionality of an iPod, phone and Internet communication into a single unit, navigated by touch.

　　It was a huge milestone in the development of smartphones, which are now owned by a majority of American adults and are increasingly common across the globe.

　　As smartphones have proliferated, so have questions about their impact on how we live and how we work. Often the advantages of convenient, mobile technology are both obvious and taken for granted, leaving more subtle topics for concerned discussion: Are smartphones disturbing children's sleep? Is an inability to get away from work having a negative impact on health? And what are the implications for privacy?

　　But today, on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, let's take a moment to consider a less obvious advantage: the potential for smartphone technology to revolutionize behavioral science. That's because, for the first time in human history, a large proportion of the species is in continuous contact with technology that can record key features of an individual's behavior and environment. To quote a recent article published in Perspectives in Psychological Science: "Psychology has a great deal of data on what people believe they do... but little data on what people actually do."

　　Researchers have already begun to use smartphones in social scientific research, either to query people regularly as they engage in their normal lives or to record activity using the device's built-in sensors. These studies are confirming, challenging and extending what's been found using more traditional approaches, in which people report how they behaved in real life or participate in relatively short and artificial laboratory-based tasks.

　　To illustrate the use of smartphone-based data collection, consider a forthcoming study that combined queries embedded in everyday life with sensor data to paint a more accurate picture of how mood is affected by a person's location. The data for the study came from more than 12,000 members of the general public who downloaded a free Android app to participate in the research. Twice during the day, they were prompted to report their mood and location, with location information additionally collected from the phone's location sensors. Using both kinds of location data, the study found that people reported significantly more positive moods in locations that typically involve social interactions (such as a café or friend's house) than at home, and more positive moods at home than at work.

　　Other studies have used sensor data to draw more subtle kinds of inferences. For instance, a study published in 2015 followed 48 students over the course of a 10-week school term. Using a combination of location, activity and audio sensors, the researchers could infer students' patterns of class attendance, study time, physical activity and socializing. These variables, in turn, predicted student GPA with surprisingly high accuracy. Another 2015 study used mobile phones to track 40 adult participants over a two-week period. Using patterns of movement and phone usage, the researchers were able to identify behaviors that predicted symptoms of depression.

　　These studies are just first steps. As more data are collected and methods for analysis improve, researchers will be in a better position to identify how different experiences, behaviors and environments relate to each other and evolve over time, with the potential to improve people's productivity and wellbeing in a variety of domains. Beyond revealing population-wide patterns, the right combination of data and analysis can also help individuals identify unique characteristics of their own behavior, including conditions that could indicate the need for some form of intervention — such as an uptick in behaviors that signal a period of depression.

　　Smartphone-based data collection comes at an opportune time in the evolution of psychological science. Today, the field is in transition, moving away from a focus on laboratory studies with undergraduate participants towards more complex, real-world situations studied with more diverse groups of people. Smartphones offer new tools for achieving these ambitions, offering rich data about everyday behaviors in a variety of contexts.

　　So here's another way in which smartphones might transform the way we live and work: by offering insights into human psychology and behavior and, thus, supporting smarter social science.

　　51. What does the author say about the negative impact of smartphones?

　　A. It has been overshadowed by the positive impact.

　　B. It has more often than not been taken for granted.

　　C. It is not so obvious but has caused some concern.

　　D. It is subtle but should by no means be overstated.

　　52. What is considered a less obvious advantaged of smartphone technology?

　　A. It systematically records real human interactions.

　　B. It helps people benefit from technological advances.

　　C. It brings people into closer contact with each other.

　　D. It greatly improves research on human behavior.

　　53. What characterizes traditional psychological research?

　　A. It is based on huge amounts of carefully collected data.

　　B. It relies on lab observations and participants’ reports.

　　C) It makes use of the questionnaire method.

　　D) It is often expensive and time-consuming.

　　54. How will future psychological studies benefit individuals?

　　A) By helping them pin down their unusual behaviors.

　　B) By helping them maintain a positive state of mind.

　　C) By helping them live their lives in a unique way.

　　D) By helping them cope with abnormal situations.

　　55. What do we learn about current psychological studies?

　　A) They are going through a period of painful transition.

　　B) They are increasingly focused on real-life situations.

　　C) They are conducted in a more rigorous manner.

　　D) They are mainly targeted towards undergraduates.

　　【答案】CDBAB

　　【解析】

　　51. What does the author say about the negative impact of smartphones?

　　根据关键词 negative impact of smartphones定位到第三段Often the advantages of convenient, mobile technology are both obvious and taken for granted, leaving more subtle topics for concerned discussion:…from work having a negative impact on health? 分析可知答案为C. It is not so obvious but has caused some concern，其余可以排除。

　　52. What is considered a less obvious advantaged of smartphone technology?

　　根据关键词less obvious advantaged定位到第四段let's take a moment to consider a less obvious advantage: the potential for smartphone technology to revolutionize behavioral science，答案在冒号后面，故选D. It greatly improves research on human behavior，其余可以排除。

　　53. What characterizes traditional psychological research?

　　根据关键词traditional psychological research定位到第五段 using more traditional approaches, in which people report how they behaved in real life or participate in relatively short and artificial laboratory-based tasks，故答案为B. It relies on lab observations and participants’ reports，其余可排除。

　　54. How will future psychological studies benefit individuals?

　　题目问的是心理学研究如何在未来可以受益于人们，我们需要去文中找心理学研究未来的好处，故定位到第七段的Using patterns of movement and phone usage, the researchers were able to identify behaviors that predicted symptoms of depression. 和第八段的the right combination of data and analysis can also help individuals identify unique characteristics of their own behavior,故选A) By helping them pin down their unusual behaviors，其余可排除。

　　55. What do we learn about current psychological studies?

　　根据关键词current psychological studies可定位到第九段的Today, the field is in transition, moving away from a focus on laboratory studies with undergraduate participants towards more complex, real-world situations studied with more diverse groups of people，故选B) They are increasingly focused on real-life situations，其余可排除。

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