2013年12月CET6選詞填空---六級(jí)必過

1、The secret to happ in ess is keep ing busy, research has found. Keep ing the mi nd 3K6 with tasks-no matter how meanin gless-staves off趕走)n egative emoti ons, the study found.However, the bad news is that humans seem hard-wired 天生的)to be lazy in order to save en ergy, accordi ng to Professor Christo

2、pher Hsee, a behavioral scie ntist at Chicago Uni versity.In a study 98 stude nts were asked to complete two surveys. After they had completed the first they were made to wait 15 minutes to receive the next one. They were given a choice of either handing in the first 317 nearby or at a more distant

3、locati on they had to walk to. Whichever opti on they chose, they received a chocolate bar. Two- thirds (68 per cent) chose the lazy 3D8 . Those who had taken the walk reported feeli ng happier tha n those who bad stayed 3N9Prof Hsee 4L0 keep ing busy helped keep people happy. He said the findin gs,

4、 reported in the journal Psychological Scien ce, had policy 4H1 "Gover nments may in crease the happ in ess of idle citize ns by hav ing them build bridges that are 402 useless," he proposed. At the in dividual level, he advised, "Get up and do someth ing. Anything. Eve n if there rea

5、lly is no point to what you are doing, you will feel better for it. " He 4B3 , "Incidentally, thinking deeply or engaging in self-reflection 4M4 as keeping busy, too. You do not need to be running aroun d-you just n eed to be 4E5 , either physically or men tally."A.studyF. especiallyK

6、.occupiedB.addedG. in creasedL.con cludedC.thoughtH. implicatio nsM .countsD.opti onI. surveyN.putE.engagedJ. soluti onsO.actuallyWome n in 2021 made no sig nifica nt gains in winning more top US bus in ess jobs, accord ing to a study, but the head of the study said wome n are poised to make J36 in

7、the year ahead.The nu mber of wome n who were board directors, corporate officers or top earners at Fort une 500 compa nies rema ined 3I7 un cha nged, said the study by Catalyst, a non profit group that 3K8 opport un ities for wome n in bus in ess.The perce ntage of compa nies with wome n on the boa

8、rd of directors was 15.1 percent this year, compared with 14.8 percent in 2021, Catalyst said.Also, the perce ntage of corporate officer positi ons 3N9 by wome n was 15.7 perce nt in 2021 and 15.4 perce nt in 2021, it said. The perce ntage of top earners in 2021 who were wome n was 6.2 perce nt, com

9、pared to 6.7 perce nt in 2021, it said.The research on the Fort une 500 compa nies was 4C0 on data as of March 31, 2021. The slight cha nges in the nu mbers are not con sidered 4L1 sig nifica nt, Catalyst said.Nevertheless, given the changes in U.S. politics, the future for women in bus in ess looks

10、 more 4F2 , said Ile ne Lang, preside nt and chief executive 43 ofCatalyst."Overall we're 404 to see change next year," Lang said. "When we look at shareholders, decisi on makers, the gen eral public, they're look ing for cha nge.""What they're basically say ing

11、is, ' Don't give us 4E5 of the status quo現(xiàn)狀. Get new ideas in there, get some fresh faces,'" she said.A.officerF. promisi ngK.promotesB.changesG. bus in esslikeL.statisticallyC.basedH. survey ingM .con fusedD.positi onsI.esse ntiallyN.heldE.moreJ.stridesO.expect ingNearly a third of

12、 women are the main breadwinners in their household in Britain, according to a major survey.Researchers said that in many relati on ships it was no Ion ger assumed that the man would bring in the bigger in come, 136 in a time of widespread redundan cies 裁員.In a O 37 shift in attitudes, four out ofte

13、 n wome n said that the career of whichever part ner had the highest in come would take A 38 in the relatio nship.In one in ten families, a house husba nd looks after the childre n and does the L39while their female part ner works full time.Ten perce nt of wome n admitted this role 40 had put strai

14、ns on their relati on ship and some said it had eve n led to themJ41compa ny.The Women and Work Survey 2021, commissioned 受.委托by Grazia magaz ine, found that almost half of full-time mothersM42 not earningtheir own mon ey.And two thirds of the mothers among the 2,000 women in the survey said they wa

15、n ted to keep worki ng in some way after hav ing childre n.A D 43 higher nu mber of those with childre n un der three said they would prefer to work-preferably part- time-rather tha n stay at home.Victoria Harper of Grazia said,"Wome n are gett ing good jobs whe n they graduate, and work ing up

16、 the career E 44 faster tha n they have ever don e."This means that there has to be more N45betwee n the roles of menand wome n in a relatio nship and whe n they have childre n.A.precede neeF. favoredK.oppositeB.conn ecti onG. planL.choresC.prospectH. reversalM.dislikedD.slightlyI. especiallyN.

17、fluidityE.ladderJ. parting0.sig nifica nt36、根據(jù)以下短與答案，填寫36-46題。Cancer is the world's top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death. Can cer costs more in I and lost life tha n AIDS, malaria, the flu and other diseases that spread pers on-to-pers on. Chronic diseases

18、 in clud ingcan cer, heart disease and diabetes E 37 for more tha n 60 perce nt of deaths worldwide but less tha n 3 perce nt of public and private F 38 for global health, said Rachel Nuge nt of the Cen ter for Global Developme nt, a Washi ngton-based policy research group. Money should n't be t

19、ake n away from fighti ng diseases that. D 39pers on-to-pers on, but the amount H40 to cancer is way out of whack (重?fù)?with the impact it has, said Otis Brawley, the can cer society's chief medical officer.Cancer's economic toll (損耗)was $895 billion in 2021-equivalent to 1.5 perce nt of the w

20、orld's gross _L 41 product, the report says. That's in terms of disability and years of life lost-not the cost of treating the disease, which was n't addressed in the report. Many groups have bee n push ing for more atte nti on to non-i nfectious causes of death, and the Un ited Nati ons

21、 Gen eral Assembly has set a meet ing on this a year from now. Some policy experts are K 42 it to the global in itiative that led to big in creases in spe nding on AIDS n early a decade ago. "This n eeds to be discussed at the UN-how we are going to deal with this rising burden of J 43 disease&

22、quot;, said Dr. AndreasUllrich, medical officer for can cer con trol at WHO.Researchers used the World Health Orga ni zati on's death and disability reports, and econo mic data from the World Bank.They G 44 disability-adjusted life years, which reflect the impact a disease has on how long and ho

23、w A 45 people live.A.productivelyF . fundingK .compari ngB.suppl yingG . calculatedL .domesticC.shiftingH . devotedM.doubtfulD.spreadI . productivityN.clumsilyE.acco untJ. chronicO .disability36、答復(fù)36-46題：Wome n with low literacy suffer disproporti on ately more tha n men, encoun teri ng more 36 ( D

24、) in finding a well-pay ing job and being twice as likely to end up in the group of lowest wage earn ers, a study released on Wedn esday said.Analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR . found women at all levels of 37(K ) tend to ear n less tha n men, but it's at the lowest

25、literacy levels that the wage gap between genders is most striking.Wome n with low literacy are twice as 38(M) as men at thesame skill level to be among the lowest earners, bringing in $300 a week or less, the report said."Because women start off so low in terms of wages, having higher literacy and more skills reall