"2017年12月大学英语六级考试真题1及听力部分"

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The writing of the 2017 December College English Level 6 Exam (Set 1) Part I required the test taker to write an essay in response to the saying "Respect others, and you will be respected". The task allowed 30 minutes to complete and required the writer to provide their perspective on the quote, using examples to support their views, with a minimum of 150 words and a maximum of 200 words. In Part II, Listening Comprehension, Section A of the exam, test takers were required to listen to two long conversations. This section lasted for 30 minutes, and the test takers were evaluated on their ability to comprehend and understand the content of the conversations. Overall, the exam tested the test-taker's writing skills by asking them to provide a well-constructed essay supporting their views on the quote. It also evaluated their listening comprehension skills through the two long conversations in Section A. This comprehensive evaluation allowed the examiners to assess the test-taker's English language proficiency in both written and oral communication.

court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation

(FBI) to unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San

Bernardino, California, in December.

D) In the other corner is the world’s most valuable company, whose chief executive, Timothy

Cook, has said he will appeal the court’s order. Apple argues that it is fighting to preserve a

principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single

iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk

weakening all iPhones for any government intruder, anywhere.

E) There will probably be months of legal tussling, and it is not at all clear which side will

prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor. Yet underlying all of

this is a simple dynamic: Apple, Google, Facebook and other companies hold most of the

cards in this confrontation. They have our data, and their businesses depend on the global

public’s collective belief that they will do everything they can to protect that data.

F) Any crack in that front could be fatal for tech companies that must operate worldwide. If

Apple is forced to open up an iPhone for an American law enforcement investigation, what is

to prevent it from doing so for a request from the Russians or the Iranians? If Apple is forced

to write code that lets the FBI get into the Phone 5c used by Syed Rizwan Farook, the male

attacker in the San Bernardino attack, who would be responsible if some hacker got hold of

that code and broke into its other devices?

G) Apple’s stance on these issues emerged post-Snowden, when the company started putting in

place a series of technologies that, by default, make use of encryption (加密) to limit access

to people’s data. More than that, Apple--and, in different ways, other tech companies,

including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft--have made their opposition to the

government’s claims a point of corporate pride.

H) Apple’s emerging global brand is privacy; it has staked its corporate reputation, not to

mention the investment of considerable technical and financial resources, on limiting the sort

of mass surveillance that was uncovered by Mr. Snowden. So now, for many cases involving

governmental intrusions into data, once-lonely privacy advocates find themselves fighting

alongside the most powerful company in the world.

I) “A comparison point is in the 1990s battles over encryption,” said Kurt Opsahl, general

counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy watchdog group. “Then you had a

few companies involved, but not one of the largest companies in the world coming out with a

lengthy and impassioned post, like we saw yesterday from Tim Cook. The profile has really

been raised.”

J) Apple and other tech companies hold another ace: the technical means to keep making their

devices more and more inaccessible. Note that Apple’s public opposition to the government’s

request is itself a hindrance to mass government intrusion. And to get at the contents of a

single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple’s help to write new code;

in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on (热衷

于) privacy, the FBI may have been able to break into the device by itself.

K) You can expect that noose (束缚) to continue to tighten. Experts said that whether or not

Apple loses this specific case, measures that it could put into place in the future will almost

certainly be able to further limit the government’s reach.

L) That’s not to say that the outcome of the San Bernardino case is insignificant. As Apple and

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