2021年6月大学英语六级考试真题（三）Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the chart below.Youshould start your essay with a brief description of the chart and comment on China's achievements in povertyalleviation.You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Rural population in povertypoverty headcount ratio(Million people)(of rural population)100125025002012201320142015:20162017201820192020Sources:China's National Bureau of Statistics,China's State Council Leading Group Office ofPoverty Alleviation and Development-Part IListening Comprehension(30 minutes)说明：由于2021年6月六级考试全国共考了2套听力，本套真题听力与前2套内容完全一样，只是顺序不一样，因此在本套真题中不再重复出现。Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for eachblank from a list of choices given in a word.bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefullybefore making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the correspondingletter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with.a.single line through the centre.You may not use any of thewords in the bank more than once.At 43,I've reached the stage where women are warned to watch out for the creeping sadness ofmiddle age.We're served up an endless stream of advice on"how to survive your 40s",as if we're in theendurance stage of a slow limp toward 26.This is the age women start to become "invisible"-ourvalue,attractiveness and power supposedly 27 by the vanishing of youth.But I don't feel like I'mfading into 28.I feel more seen than I ever have,and for.the first time in my life,I have a clear-eyedview of myself that is 29 compassionate and accepting.When I look in the mirror,I'm proud of who I am-even those "broken"parts that for so longseemed impossible to love.So when advertisers try to sell me ways to "turn back the clock",I have to30 a laugh.I wouldn't go back to the crippling self-consciousness of my youth if you paid me.Thishard-won sense of self-acceptance is one of the joys of being an older woman.But it's a narrative often31 out by the shame that marketers rely on to peddle us their diet pills,miracle face creams andbreathable yoga pants-as if self-love is a 32 commodity.六级2021年6月47For some women I know,this sense of trust and self-belief later in life gave them the courage to leavedysfunctional relationships or 33 on new career paths.Others talked about enjoying their owncompany,of growth through 34,deepening bonds of friendships,the ability to be morecompassionate,less judgmental and to listen more and appreciate the small pleasures.Life past 40 is farfrom smooth sailing,but it's so much more than the reductive 35 we see in women's magazines and onthe Hollywood big screen.A)adversityF)drownedK)outlinesB)authenticG)embarkL)prevalentC)conveyH)fragilityM)purchasableD)depictionsI)neglectedN)submitE)diminishedJ)obscurityO)suppressSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a.passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which theinformation is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with aletter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.What Are the Ethics of CGI Actors-And Will They Replace Real Ones?A)Digital humans are coming to a screen near you.As computer-generated imagery (CGD has becomecheaper and more sophisticated,the film industry can now convincingly recreate people on screen-even actors who have been dead for decades.The technology's ability to effectively keep celebritiesalive beyond the grave is raising questions about public legacies and image rights.B)Late in 2019,it was announced that US actor James Dean,who died in 1955,will star in a VietnamWar film scheduled for release later this year.In the film,which will be called Finding Jack,Deanwill be recreated on screen with CGI based on old footage(影片镜头)and photographs,with anotheractor voicing him.The news was met with excitement by those keen to see Dean digitally brought backto life for only his fourth film,but it also drew sharp criticism."This is puppeteering the dead for theirfame alone,"actress Zelda Williams wrote on Twitter."It sets such an awful precedent for the futureof performance."Her father,Robin Williams,who died in 2014,was keen to avoid the same:fate.Before his death,he filed a deed protecting the use of his image until 2039,preventing others fromrecreating him using CGI to appear in a film,TV show or as a hologram(全息影像).C)The James Dean film is a way to keep the actor's image relevant for younger generations,says MarkRoesler of CMG Worldwide,the firm that represents Dean's estate."I think this is the beginning ofan entire wave,"says Travis Cloyd,CEO of Worldwide XR,one of the companies behind the digitalrecreation of Dean."Moving into the future,we want James Dean to be brought into different gamingenvironments,or different virtual reality environments,or augmented reality environments,"he says.D)Other actors have been revived,with the permission of their estates,for advertising purposes:forexample,a 2011 advertisement for Dior featured contemporary actress Charlize Theron alongsideiconic 20th-century stars Marilyn Monroe,Grace Kelly and Marlene Dietrich.Later,Audrey Hepburnwas digitally recreated for a chocolate commercial in 2013.In the same year,a CGI Bruce Leeappeared in a Chinese-language ad for a whisky brand,which offended many fans because Lee waswidely known not to drink alcohol at all."In the last five years,it's become more affordable and moreachievable in a whole movie,"says Tim Webber at UK visual effects firm Framestore,the companybehind the Hepburn chocolate ad.Framestore used body doubles with resemblance to Hepburn's facialstructure and body shape as a framework for manual animation.The process was extremely difficultand expensive,says Webber,but the technology has moved on.六级2021年6月48E)Now,a person can be animated from scratch."If they're alive today,you can put them in scanningrigs,you can get every detail of their body analysed very carefully and that makes it much easier,whereas working from available photographs is tricky,"says Webber,who won an Academy Awardfor his visual effects work on the 2013 film Gravity."I also see a lot of actors today who will have thedesire to take advantage of this technology:to have their likeness captured and stored for futurecontent,"says Cloyd."They foresee this being something that could give their estates and give theirfamilies the ability to make money from their likeness when they're gone.F)A hidden hazard of digitally recreating a deceased (celebrity is the risk of damaging theirlegacy."We have to respect the security and the integrity of rights holders,"says John Canning atDigital Domain,a US firm that created a hologram rapper(说唱艺人)Tupac Shakur,which appearedat the Coachella music festival in 2012,15 years after his death.G)Legally,a person's rights to control the commercial use of their name and image beyond their deathdiffer between and even within countries.In certain US states,for example,these rights are treatedsimilarly to property rights,and are transferable to a person's heirs.In California,under theCelebrities Rights Act,the personality rights for a celebrity last for 70 years after their death."We'vegot a societal debate going on about access to our public commons,as it were,about famous faces,says Lilian Edwards at Newcastle University,UK.Should the public be allowed to use or reproduceimages of famous people,given how iconic they are?And what is in.the best interest of a deceasedperson's legacy may conflict with the desires of their family or the public,says Edwards.H)A recreation,however lifelike,will never be indistinguishable from a real actor,says Webber."Whenwe are bringing someone back,representing someone who is no longer alive on the screen,what weare doing is extremely sophisticated digital make-up,"he says."A performance is a lot more than aphysical resemblance."I)As it becomes easier to digitally recreate celebrities and to entirely manufacture on-screen identities,could this kind of technology put actors out of jobs?"I think actors are worried about this,"saysEdwards."But I think it will take a very long time."This is partly because of the risk that viewers findvirtual humans scary.Edwards cites widespread backlash to the digital recreation of Carrie Fisher as ayoung Princess Leia in Rogue One,a trick later repeated in the recent Star Wars:The Rise ofSkywalker,which was filmed after Fisher's death in 2016."People didn't like it,"she says."Theydiscovered the uncanny valley(诡异谷).”J)This refers to the idea that when objects trying to resemble humans aren't.quite perfect,they can makeviewers feel uneasy because they fall somewhere between obviously non-human and fully human."That's always a danger when you're doing anything human or human-like,"says Webber."There're athousand things that could go wrong with a computer-generated facial performance,and any one ofthose could make it fall into the uncanny valley,"he says."Your brain just knows there's somethingwrong."The problem often arises around the eyes or mouth,says Webber."They're the areas that youlook at when you're talking to someone.K)An unfamiliar digital human that has been created through CGI will also face the same challenge as anunknown actor:they don't have the appeal of an established name."You have to spend substantialcapital in creating awareness around their likeness and making sure people are familiar with who theyare,says Cloyd.This is now starting to happen."The way you pre-sell a movie in a foreign market isbased on relevant talent,"he says."I think we're a long way away from having virtual beings that havethe ability to pre-sell content."L)Webber expects that we will see more digital humans on screen."It's happening because it canhappen,”he says..Referring to a line from Jurassic Park(侏罗纪公园)，he adds:“People are too.busythinking about what they can do to think about whether they should do it.六级2021年6月49