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1、12015 年年 6 月六级真题月六级真题 卷二卷二 Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on Albert Einsteins remark “I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.” You can cite one example or two to illustrate your point of view. You shou
2、ld write at least 150 but no more than 200 words.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Travel websites have been around since the 1990s, when Expedia, Travelocity, and other holiday booking sites were launched, allowing travellers to compare flight and hotel prices with the click of
3、a mouse. With information no longer 36. by travel agents or hidden in business networks, the travel industry was revolutionized, as greater transparency helped 37. prices. Today, the industry is in the throes of a new revolutionthis time transforming service quality. Online rating platforms 38. in h
4、otels, restaurants, apartments, and taxisallow travellers to exchange reviews and experiences for all to see. Hospitality businesses are now ranked, analysed, and compared not by industry 39. , but by the very people for whom the service is intendedthe customer. This has 40. a new relationship betwe
5、en buyer and seller. Customers have always voted with their feet; they can now explain their decision to anyone who is interested. As a result, businesses are much more 41. , often in very specific ways, which creates powerful 42. to improve service. Although some readers might not care for gossipy
6、reports of brusque bellboys (行李员行李员) in Berlin or malfunctioning hotel hairdryers in Houston, the true power of online reviews lies not just in the individual stories, but in the websites 43. to aggregate a large volume of ratings. The impact cannot be 44. . Businesses that attract top ratings can e
7、njoy exponential growth, as new customers are attracted by good overall reviews and 45. provide yet more (positive) feedback. So great is the influence of online ratings that many companies now hire digital reputation managers to ensure a favourable online identity.A) accountable I) persisting B) ca
8、pacity J) pessimisticC) controlled K) professionalsD) entail L) slash E) forged M) specializingF) incentives N) spectatorsG) occasionally O) subsequently H) overstated Section B Plastic surgery A better credit card is the solution to ever larger hack attacks A A thin magnetic stripe (magstripe) is a
9、ll that stands between your credit-card information and the bad guys. And theyve been working hard to break in. Thats why 2014 is shaping up as a major showdown: banks, law enforcement and technology companies are all trying to stop a network of hackers who are succeeding in stealing account numbers
10、, names, email addresses and other crucial data used in identity theft. More Than 100 million accounts at Target, Neiman Marcus and Michaels stores were affected in some way during the most recent attacks, starting last November. B Swipe (刷卡刷卡) is the operative word: cards are increasingly vulnerabl
11、e to attacks when you make purchases in a store. In several recent incidents, hackers have been able to obtain massive information of credit-debit (借记借记) or prepaid-card numbers using malware, i.e. malicious software, inserted secretly into the retailers point-of-sale systemthe checkout registers. H
12、ackers then sold the data to a second group of criminals operating in shadowy corners of the web. Not long after, the stolen data was showing up on fake cards and being used for online purchases. C The solution could cost as little as $2 extra for every piece of plastic issued. The fix is a security
13、 technology used heavily outside the U.S. While American credit cards use the 40-year-old magstripe technology to process transactions, much of the rest of the world uses smarter cards with a technology called EMV(short for Europay, MasterCard, Visa) that employs a chip embedded in the card plus a c
14、ustomer PIN(personal identification number) to authenticate(验证验证) every transaction 2on the spot. If a purchaser fails to punch in the correct PIN at the checkout, the transaction gets rejected. (Online purchases can be made by setting up a separate transaction code.) D Why havent big banks adopted
15、the more secure technology? When it comes to mailing out new credit cards, its all about relative costs says David Robertson, who runs the Nilson Report, an industry newsletter: “ The cost of the card, putting the sticker on it, coding the account number and expiration date, embossing (凸印凸印) it, the
16、 small envelopall put together, you are in the dollar range.” A chip-and-PIN card currently costs closer to $3, says Robertson, because of the price of chips. (Once large issuers convert together, the chip costs should drop.) E Multiply $3 by the more than 5 billion magstripe credit and prepaid cards in c
