英语六级阅读
英语六级阅读理解100篇
1 We can begin our discussion of ―population as global issue‖with what most persons mean when they discuss ―the populationproblem‖: too many people on earth and a too rapid increase in the number added each year. The facts are not in dispute It wasquite right to employ the analogy that likened demographic growth to ―a long thin powder fuse that burns steadily and haltinglyuntil it finally reaches the charge and explodes.‖To understand the current situation which is characterized by rapid increases in population it is necessary to understand thehistory of population trends. Rapid growth is a comparatively recent phenomenon. Looking back at the 8000 years ofdemographic history we find that populations have been virtually stable or growing very slightly for most of human history.For most of our ancestors life was hard often nasty and very short. There was high fertility in most places but this wasusually balanced by high mortality. For most of human history it was seldom the case that one in ten persons would live pastforty while infancy and childhood were especially risky periods. Often societies were in clear danger of extinction becausedeath rates could exceed their birthrates. Thus the population problem throughout most of history was how to preventextinction of the human race. This pattern is important to notice. Not only does it put the current problems of demographic growth into a historicalperspective but it suggests that the cause of rapid increase in population in recent years is not a sudden enthusiasm for morechildren but an improvement in the conditions that traditionally have caused high mortality. Demographic history can be divided into two major periods: a time of long slow growth which extended from about 8000BC.till approximately AD. 1650. In the first period of some 9600 years the population increased from some 8 million to 500million in 1650. Between 1650 and the present the population has increased from 500 million to more than 4 billion. And it is estimated that by theyear 2000 there will be 6.2 billion people throughout the world. One way to appreciate this dramatic difference in such abstractnumbers is to reduce the time frame to something that is more manageable. Between 8000BC and 1650 an average of only50000 persons was being added annually to the world‘s population each year. At present this number is added every six hours.The increase is about 80000000 persons annually.1.Which of the following demographic growth pattern is B.About 50000 babies are born every six hours at present.most suitable for the long thin powder fuse analogy C.Between 8000 BC and the present the population increaseA.A virtually stable or slightly decreasing period and then a is about 80000000 persons each year.sudden explosion of population. D.The population increased faster between 8000BC andB.A slow growth for a long time and then a period of rapid 1650 than between 1650 and the present.dramatic increase.C.Too many people on earth and a few rapid increase in the 4.The author of the passage intends to___.number added each year. A.warn people against the population explosion in the nearD.A long period when death rates exceeds birthrates and then future.a short period with higher fertility and lower mortality. pare the demographic growth pattern in the past with that after 1650.2.During the first period of demographic history societies C.find out the cause for rapid increase in population in recentwere often in danger of extinction because___. years.A.only one in ten persons could live past 40. D.present us a clear and complete picture of the demographicB.there was higher mortality than fertility in most places. growth.C.it was too dangerous to have babies due to the poorconditions. 5.Theword ―demographic‖in the first paragraph means___.D.our ancestors had little enthusiasm for more children. A.statistics of human. B.surroundings study.3.Whichstatement is true about population increase C.accumulation of human.A.There might be an increase of 2.2 billion persons from D.development of human.now to the year 2000.答案:ABADA 2 Most of us are taught to pay attention to what is said—the words. Words do provide us with some information but meaningsare derived from so many other sources that it would hinder our effectiveness as a partner to a relationship to rely too heavilyon words alone. Words are used to describe only a small part of the many ideas we associate with any given message.Sometimes we can gain insight into some of those associations if we listen for more than words. We don‘t always s ay what wemean or mean what we say. Sometimes our words don‘t mean anything except ― I‘m letting off some steam. I don‘t really wantyou to pay close attention to what I‘m saying. Just pay attention to what I‘m feeling.‖Mostly we mean several things at once. Aperson wanting to purchase a house says to the current owner ―This step has to be fixed before I‘ll buy.‖The owner says ― It‘sbeen like that for years.‖Actually the step hasn‘t been like that for years but the unspoken message is: ― I don‘t want to f ix it.We put up with it. Why can‘t you‖The search for a more expansive view of meaning can be developed of examining amessage in terms of who said it when it occurred the related conditions or situation and how it was said. When a message occurs can also reveal associated meaning. Let us assume two couples do exactly the same amount ofkissing and arguing. But one couple always kisses after an argument and the other couple always argues after a kiss. Theordering of the behaviors may mean a great deal more than the frequency of the behavior. A friend‘s unusually docile behaviormay only be understood by noting that it was preceded by situations that required an abnormal amount of assertiveness. Someresponses may be directly linked to a developing pattern of responses and defy logic. For example a person who says ―No‖toa serials of chargeslike ―You‘re dumb‖―You‘re lazy‖and ―You‘re dishonest‖may alsosay ―No‖and try to justify his or herresponse if the next statement is ―And you‘re good looking.‖We would do well to listen for how messages are presented. The words ―If sure has been nice to have you over‖can be saidwith emphasis and excitement or ritualistically. The phrase can be said once or repeated several times. And the meanings weassociate with the phrase will change accordingly. Sometimes if we say something infrequently it assumes more importancesometimes the more we say something the less importance it assumes. 1.Effective communication is rendered possible between C.the condition of the step is only a minor fault.two conversing partners if ___. D.the cost involved in the fixing should be shared.A.they use proper words to carry their ideas.B.they both speak truly of their own feelings. 4.Some responses and behaviors may appear very illogicalC.they try to understand each other‘s ideas beyond words. but are justifiable if___.D.they are capable of associating meaning with their words. A.linked to an abnormal amount of assertiveness. B.seen as one‘s habitual pattern of behavior.2.―I‘m letting off some stea m‖in paragraph 1 means___. C.taken as part of an ordering sequence.A.I‘m just calling your attention. D.expressed to a series of charges.B.I‘m just kidding.C.I‘m just saying the opposite. 5.The word ―ritualistically‖in the last paragraph equalsD.I‘m just giving off some sound. something done___.A.without true intention.3.The house-owner‘s example shows that he actuallyB.light-heartedly.means___.C.in a way of ceremony.A.the step has been like that for years.D.with less emphasis.B.he doesn‘t think it ne cessary to fix the step.答案:DBABC3 A controversy erupted in the scientific community in early 1998 over the use of DNA deoxyribonucleic acid fingerprintingin criminal investigations. DNA fingerprinting was introduced in 1987 as a method to identify individuals based on a patternseen in their DNA the molecule of which genes are made. DNA is present in every cell of the body except red blood cells.DNA fingerprinting has been used successfully in various ways such as to determine paternity where it is not clear who thefather of a particular child is. However it is in the area of criminal investigations that DNA fingerprinting has potentiallypowerful and controversial uses. DNA fingerprinting and other DNA analysis techniques have revolutionized criminal investigations by giving investigatorspowerful new tools in the attempt to trove guilt not just establish innocence. When used in criminal investigations a DNAfingerprint pattern from a suspect is compared with a DNA fingerprint pattern obtained from such material as hairs or bloodfound at the scene of a crime. A match between the two DNA samples can be used as evidence to convict a suspect. The controversy in 1998 stemmed form a report published in December 1991 by population geneticists Richard C.Lewontin of Harvard University in Cambridge Mass. and Daniel L. Hartl called into question the methods to calculate howlikely it is that a match between two DNA fingerprints might occur by chance alone. In particular they argued that the currentmethod cannot properly determine the likelihood that two DNA samples will match because they came from the sameindividual rather than simply from two different individuals who are members of the same ethnic group. Lewontin and Hartlcalled for better surveys of DNA patterns methods are adequate. In response to their criticisms population geneticists Ranajit Chakraborty of the University of Texas in Dallas and KennethK.Kidd of Yale University in New Haven Conn. argued that enough data are already available to show that the methodscurrently being used are adequate. In January 1998 however the federal Bureau of Investigation and laboratories that conductDNA tests announced that they would collect additional DNA samples form various ethnic groups in an attempt to resolvesome of these questions. And in April a National Academy of Sciences called for strict standards and system of accreditationfor DNA testing laboratories. 1.Before DNA fingerprinting is used suspects____.A.would have to leave their fingerprints for further 2.DNA fingerprinting can be unreliable when____.investigations A.the methods used for blood- cell calculation are notB.would have to submit evidence for their innocence accurateC.could easily escape conviction of guilt B.two different individuals of the same ethnic group mayD.cold be convicted of guilt as well have the same DNA fingerprinting patternC.a match is by chance left with fingerprints that happen to coming from two individual membersbelong to two different individuals B.enough data of DNA samples should be collected toD.two different individuals leave two DNA samples. confirm that only DNA samples form the same person can match3.To geneticists like Lewontin and Hartl the current C.enough data are yet to be collected from various ethnicmethod ____. groups to determine the likelihood of two different DNAA.is not so convincing as to exclude the likelihood that two samples coming form the same personDNA samples can never come from two individualsD.additional samples from various ethnic groups should beB.is arguable because two individuals of the same ethnic collected to determine that two DNA samples are unlikely togroup are likely to have the same DNA pattern. come from the same personC.Is not based on adequate scientific theory of geneticsD.Is theoretically contradictory to what they have been 5.National Academy of Sciences holds the stance that ____.studyingA.DNA testing should be systematizedB.Only authorized laboratories can conduct DNA testing4.The attitude of the Federal Bereau of Investigation showsC.The academy only is authorized to work out standards forthat ____. testingA.enough data are yet to be collected form various ethnicD.The academy has the right to accredit laboratories forgroups to confirm the unlikelihood of two DNA samples DNA testing答案:CBABB 4 Racket din clamor noise whatever you want to call it unwanted sound is America‘s most widespread nuisance. But noise ismore than just a nuisance. It constitutes a real and present danger to people‘s health. Day and night at home at work and atplay noise ca n produce serious physical and psychological stress. No one is immune to this stress. Though we seem to adjust tonoise by ignoring it the ear in fact never closes and the body still responds—sometimes with extreme tension as to a strangesound in the night. The annoyance we feel when faced with noise is the most common outward symptom of the stress building up inside us.Indeed because irritability is so apparent legislators have made public annoyance the basis of many noise abatement programs.The more subtle and more serious health hazards associated with stress caused by noise traditionally have been given much lessattention. Nevertheless when we are annoyed or made irritable by noise we should consider these symptoms fair warning thatother thing may be happening to us some of which may be damaging to our health. Of many health hazards to noise hearing loss is the most clearly observable and measurable by health professionals. Theother hazards are harder to pin down. For many of us there may be a risk that exposure to the stress of noise increasessusceptibility to disease and infection. The more susceptible among us may experience noise as a complicating factor in heartproblems and other diseases. Noise that causes annoyance and irritability in health persons may have serious consequences forthese already ill in mind or body. Noise affects us throughout our lives. For example there are indications of effects on the unborn child when mothers areexposed to industrial and environmental noise. During infancy and childhood youngsters exposed to high noise levels mayhave trouble falling asleep and obtaining necessary amounts of rest. Why then is there not greater alarm about these dangers Perhaps it is because the link between noise and many disabilitiesor diseases has not yet been conclusively demonstrated. Perhaps it is because we tend to dismiss .。
大学英语六级阅读理解(集锦3篇)
大学英语六级阅读理解(集锦3篇)大学英语六级阅读理解(1)"I've never met a human worth cloning," says cloning expert M ark Westhusin from the cramped confines of his lab at Texas A&M University. "It's a stupid endeavor." That's an interesting choice of a djective, coming from a man who has spent millions of dollars tryin g to clone a 13-year-old dog named Missy. So far, he and his team have not succeeded, though they have cloned two calves and expe ct to clone a cat soon. They just might succeed in cloning Missy lat er this year---or perhaps not for another five years. It seems the re productive system of man's best friend is one of the mysteries of modern science.Westhusin's experience with cloning animals leaves him vexed b y all this talk of human cloning. In three years of work on the Miss yplicity project, using hundreds upon hundreds of canine eggs, the A&M team has produced only a dozen or so embryos carrying Miss y's DNA. None have survived the transfer to a surrogate mother. Th e wastage of eggs and the many spontaneously aborted fetuses ma y be acceptable when you're dealing with cats or bulls, he argues, but not with humans. "Cloning is incredibly inefficient, and also dan gerous," he says.Even so, dog cloning is a commercial opportunity, with a nice r esearch payoff. Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in, 1997, Wes thusin's phone at A&M College of Veterinary Medicinehas been ringing busily. Cost is no obstacle for customers like Missy's mysterious owner, who wishes m remain unknown to protec t his privacy. He's plopped down $3.7 million so far to fund the research because he wants a twin to carry on Missy;s fine q ualities after she dies. But he knows her clone may not have her te mperament. In a statement of purpose, Missy's owners and the A& M team say they are "both looking forward to studying the ways th at her clone differ from Missy."The fate of the dog samples will depend on Westhusin's work. He knows that even if he gets a dog viably pregnant, the offspring, should they survive,大学英语六级阅读理解(2)1.大纲要求六级考试大纲对阅读理解题的要求为:既能理解个别句子的意义,也能理解上下文的逻辑关系;既能理解字面的意思,也能理解隐含的意思;既能理解事实和细节,也能理解所读材料的主旨和大意;能就文章的内容进行判断,推理和信息转换。
大学英语六级阅读理解题目及答案
大学英语六级阅读理解题目及答案Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.Music and LanguageMusic and language are two different ---1--- that are often linked together. For example, they both involve a type of communication and have a ---2--- impact on our emotions. However, music and language are fundamentally different in a number of ways.Unlike language, which is composed of words and grammar, music is a ---3--- art form. It uses tones, melodies, rhythms, and harmonies to create emotional ---4---. Language, on the other hand, mainly conveys meaning through the use of words and sentences.Another difference between music and language is their development in humans. ---5--- learn language through exposure to conversations and practice, while music seems to be ---6---. We all have the ability torecognize and appreciate music, even without any formal training. This suggests that our musical abilities may be innate.Furthermore, music and language are processed in different areas of the brain. Language is mainly processed in the left hemisphere, whereas music is ---7--- in both the left and right hemispheres. Evidence has shown that certain ---8--- patients who have lost their ability to speak can still sing, indicating that music may be connected to different neural pathways (神经通路) than language.Despite their differences, music and language are closely related in some ways. Studies have shown that music can assist with language ---9---. For example, listening to music can help ESL students improve their pronunciation and intonation. Similarly, playing a musical instrument can enhance the linguistic abilities of children.In conclusion, while music and language share certain similarities in terms of communication and emotional impact, they also have distinct characteristics. Understanding the differences and connections between music and language can help us appreciate the beauty and uniqueness of each art form.1. [A] skills [B] forms [C] techniques [D] systems2. [A] significant [B] flexible [C] optional [D] limited3. [A] controversial [B] visual [C] sensory [D] practical4. [A] reactions [B] viewpoints [C] expectations [D] contributions5. [A] Babies [B] Adults [C] Animals [D] Artists6. [A] inherited [B] acquired [C] displayed [D] distributed7. [A] analyzed [B] noted [C] localized [D] bypassed8. [A] music-loving [B] language-deficient [C] brain-damaged [D] memory-impaired9. [A] practice [B] revision [C] acquisition [D] retentionSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.Do You Prefer to Stay Single?A. It’s often said that a woman who puts a high priority on her career ends up lying alone on a Saturday night. However, my research on this subject shows that it is basically a myth. In fact, in my surveys I found that highly educated career women are just as likely to form successful marriages as other women, and actually more likely to make a good choice the second time around. By contrast, women who don’t care quite so much about their career and are more willing to settle for less than Mr. Right are more likely to end up single.B. Is marrying for love a good or bad thing? Most of us, it seems, would say, “Good, of course!” But are we really thinking? In reality, marrying purely for love may be less likely to lead to a satisfying marriage. Many psychologists now believe that people who expect marriage to provide happiness are often disappointed. Marrying who we fall in love with is a romantic idea. But psychologists have found it often means falling in love with someone like ourselves and who is familiar to us. Love and passion are often considered separate from friendship and companionship (交往、友谊).C. According to the latest research, newlyweds who feel good abouttheir marriage are healthier than those who don’t. The work is one of thefirst of its kind to show how much influence someone’s thoughts can haveon their health. Researchers measured the heart rate, blood pressure, and cholesterol (胆固醇) levels of 28 married women as they argued with their husbands and measured the levels of a chemical (化学物质) linked to heart disease. The women were asked before having a disagreement if they were happy in their marriages. When the researchers reviewed the results, they discovered that the women who said they had happier marriages also had lower levels of the chemical than those who said their marriages weren’t going well.D. It is a cultural stereotype that young women like to date older men. In a study of 18 to 24-year-old college students, researchers found that about 80% of men were interested in dating women who were significantly younger, while 85% of women were keen on dating older men. Many participants explained this interest in terms of desire for maturity, not money.E. In the past, people routinely built relationships with neighbors, families, and communities. Now, however, only two in 10 Americans indicate that they regularly spend time with their neighbors, and only one-third of Americans report regularly spending time with their families. Loneliness, experts now suggest, is twice as deadly as obesity (肥胖) and is as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Additionally, loneliness can have a long-term impact on both physical and emotional health, increasing the risk for heart disease, depression, and premature death.F. In a research team studying married couples, researchers asked couples whether they felt close to their partners and if they had thought about separating from them. When the researchers reviewed the magnetic resonance imaging (磁共振成像) scans of the participants’ brains, they found that those who had thought about leaving their partners showed activity in the brain regions associated with a variety of negative emotions, such as anger and sadness. On the other hand, couples who felt close and secure with their partners showed greater activation in areas of the brain associated with reward and attachment.11. Couples who feel happy about their marriage have better health.12. Men tend to be interested in dating younger women, while women prefer older men.13. Good family relationships are becoming less common nowadays.14. Love marriages may not always lead to satisfactory marriages.15. People who put a high priority on their careers are less likely to end up single.答案1. B2. A3. C4. A5. D6. B7. C8. C9. A10. B11. C12. D13. E14. B15. A以上是关于大学英语六级阅读理解题目及答案的内容。
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【篇⼀】2021年12⽉⼤学英语六级阅读练习 the last dinner jesus spent his last few hours of liberty quietly in the suburb of bethany. it was the day of passover. the jews observed this feast by eating roast lamb and unleavened bread. 2 jesus asked his disciples to go to town and reserve a room in one of the smaller inns and order a dinner that they might all be together. when evening came, judas, looking bland3 and innocent, left the house together with the others. they went down the mount of olives and entered the city and found that everything was ready. they took their seats around one long table and began to eat. but it was not a cheerful meal. they felt the dread of those coming events which already were casting their terrible shadow over the small group of faithful friends. jesus spoke very little. the others sat in gloomy silence. at last peter could stand it no longer, and he blurted4 out what was in everybody’s mind . “master, ”he said,“we want to know. do you have reason to suspect one of us?” softly jesus answered, “ yes. one among you who is now sitting at this table will bring disaster upon us all. ” then all the disciples got up and crowded around him. they protested their innocence. at that moment judas slipped quietly out of the room. they now all knew what was to come. they could no longer remain in that little room. they needed fresh air, and they left the inn and walked out of the gate and went back to the mount of olives and opened the wicket to a garden which a friend had told them to use whenever they wished to be alone . it was called gethsemane5 , after an old oil-press which stood in a corner. after a while jesus walked away from the little group. but three of the disciples who were closest to him, followed at a distance. he turned around and bade them wait and watch while he prayed. the time had come for a final decision. escape was still possible , but escape would mean a silent confession of guilt and defeat for his ideas. he was alone among the silent trees and fought his last great battle . he was a man in the fullness of his years. life still held a great promise. death, once his enemies captured him, would come in a most terrible form. he made his choice . he stayed. he went back to his friends. and behold! they were fast asleep . a moment later, the whole garden was in an uproar. led by judas, the guards of the sanhedrin rushed upon the prophet. judas was at their head. he threw his arms around his master and kissed him. 6 that was the sign for which the soldiers had waited. at that moment, peter realized what was happening. 阅读⾃测 Ⅰ. welcome to the eden of animals . according to chinese , choose the correct english word: ( bee, rabbit, butterfly, lark, lion, mouse, donkey) 1. tom always has a lot of things to do. every time you see him, he is as busy as a ________( 忙得团团转) . 2. although it was an easy problem, i still made a mistake . it really made feel that i was as stupid as a ________( 蠢如驴) . 3. cathy is dressed very well and looks as beautiful as a ________( 像蝴蝶⼀样漂亮) . 4. the villagers beat the enemy and lived as merry as a ________( ⾮常快活) . 5. tom and jerry are twins, but they are quite different. tom is as timid as a ( 胆⼩如⿏) while jerry as bold as a________ (莽如雄狮) . 6. after the company went into bankruptcy ________( 宣告破产) , he was as poor as a church ________( ⼀贫如洗) . Ⅱ. can you crack the riddle ? have you heard of sphinx ( 斯芬克司) of greek mythology? sphinx was a monster with the head and breast of a woman, the body of a lion, the wings of a bird, a serpent’s tail and lion’s paws. it had a human voice and usually asked passers-by to guess her riddle. if the man was unable to find the answer, she would eat them. if he could, she would kill herself. the riddle is this: what goes on four feet, on two feet, and three, but the more feet it goes on, the weaker it be ? do you get the answer? explain yourself. 参考答案 Ⅰ. 1. bee 2. donkey 3. butterfly 4 . lark 5 . rabbit / lion 6 . mouse Ⅱ. it is a man. as an infant, the man crawls upon all fours. when in manhood, he goes erect on two feet and when in old age , he supports his tottering legs with a stick.【篇⼆】2021年12⽉⼤学英语六级阅读练习 the apple of discord the wedding of peleus and the sea-goddess thetis2 were held and all gods were invited. but her absence3 of one goddess was clearly noticeable. it was eris, the goddess of discord. as she planted seeds of discord wherever she went, it was natural that her presence at the ceremony was not desirable. she had good reason to feel angry. so she decided to make fun of4 the group at the party. eris slipped5 into the hall after the couple left and rolled on the floor a golden apple , having the words, “for the fairest”. it caused a violent quarrel among the three goddesses, hera , athena and aphrodite. zeus found it advisable to send them before a shepherd boy on mt ida, paris by name , for judgment. hermes, the messenger, took the apple in his hand and led the goddess away. paris was son of priam, king of troy. as his mother dreamed at his birth that she was bearing a piece of burning wood, the babe was regarded as representing the destruction of the city itself. to save the kingdom from possible disaster6 , the parents had the helpless infant left on top of mt ida to die. however, he survived his ill fate. brought up by the herdsmen, he became a strong, handsome lad. he was secretly united with oenone, a fair and faithful mountain fairy maiden. on this particular day, as he was taking care of his sheep on the mountain side, the youth was surprised to see four human beings standing before him. hermes told him about his mission and left. the three holy beauties then competed with each other, showing themselves up before the shepherd. hera promised to make him king of asia. athena undertook7 to help him get imperishable fame in war; whereas aphrodite offered to secure for him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. the primitive instinct of the boy thus moved, aphrodite won the prize , and the other two goddesses left in anger and became deadly enemies of troy. 阅读⾃测 Ⅰ. fill in the blanks with proper words in the passage : 1. but the absence________ one goddess was clearly noticeable. 2. it was natural that eris, the goddess of discord, her presence________ the ceremony was not desirable. 3. he decided to make fun________ the group at the party. 4. eris slipped________ the hall after the new couple left. 5. as his mother dreamed ________ his birth that she was bearing a piece of burning wood, the babe was regarded representing ________ the destruction of the city itself. Ⅱ. questions : 1. who rolled the golden apple on the floor? 2. who were the three goddesses to compete to win the apple ? 3. who at last won the title of“ the fairest”and what was the disaster? 参考答案 Ⅰ. 1. of 2. at 3. of 4. into 5 . at / as Ⅱ. 1. eris rolled the golden apple on the floor. 2. the three goddesses were hera, athena , aphrodite. 3. aphrodite at last won the title of“ the fairest”, but it made the other two goddesses become the deadly enemies of troy.【篇三】2021年12⽉⼤学英语六级阅读练习 christianity christianity began life as a jewish sect. far from attempting to find a new religion, the first christians viewed themselves as jews following the teachings of the jewish messiah . it was only later, after many non-jews converted, that christianity became a religion distinct from judaism2 although christianity shares much with judaism, these two faiths differ significantly with respect to such fundamental issues as god’s relationship with humanity. the central motif through which this relationship has been understood in both traditions is that of a covenant or contract. in hebrew scr iptures ( the old testament3) , god offers a special relationship with his chosen people — the jews through a contract that specifies the terms of this relationship . the details of this arrangement have been modified and expanded from time to time, in a series of covenants with noah, abraham, and moses4. the most well known of these contracts is god’s agreement with moses on mt. sinai, the ten commandments5. in the christian understanding of covenant theology, god offers humanity a new contract — the new testament6— as revealed in the person and teaching of jesus. unlike previous covenants, the new covenant refers to the eternal fate of individuals rather than to the worldly fate of the nation of i s r a e l . a l s o , r a t h e r t h a n b e i n g o f f e r e d o n l y t o j e w s , t h e n e w c o n t r a c t i s o f f e r e d t o h u m a n i t y a s a w h o l e . i n d i v i d u a l s a l v a t i o n 7 a n d t h e q u e s t i o n o f h o w t h a t s a l v a t i o n c a n b e a c h i e v e d i s a d o m i n a n t t h e m e o f t r a d i t i o n a l c h r i s t i a n i t y . / p > p b d s f i d = " 1 2 4 " > 0 0 s a l v a t i o n , a c c o r d i n g t o t h i s t r a d i t i o n , i s n e c e s s a r y b e c a u s e o t h e r w i s e t h e i n d i v i d u a l i s c o n d e m n e d t o s p e n d e t e r n i t y i n h e l l 8 , a p l a c e o f e t e r n a l p u n i s h m e n t . b o r n i n t o s i n , t h e s e n t e n c e o f e t e r n a l d a m n a t i o n i s t h e f a t e o f e v e r y p e r s o n u n l e s s s h e o r h e i s sa v e d f r o m t h i s f a t eb y b e i n g b o r n a g a i n t h r o u g h f a i t h i n j e s u sc h r i s t . a l l o t h e rd o c t r i ne s a r eb u i l t a r o u n d a w a r n i n g o fc o nde m n a t i o n a n d a r e d e e m i n g m e s s a g e of r e d e m p t i o n . a s t h e c o r e d o c t r i n e , i t w o u l d b e n a t u r a l t h a t a rg u m e n t s o v e r s o t e r i o l o g y ( o n e s th e o r y o f r e d e m p ti o n ) w o u l d l e a d t o r e l i g i o n s s c h i s m s . d i s a g r e e m e n t o v e r c o m p e t i n g n o t i o n s o f s a l v a t i o n l e d t o t h e s p l i t b e t w e e n c a t h o l i c i s m a n d p r o t e s t a n t i s m . / p > p b d s f i d = " 1 2 5 " > 0 0 g i v e n t h e s t a r k c o n t r a s t b e t w e e n h e a v e n a n d h e l l a s e t e r n a l a b o d e s o f t h e s o u l , s e r i o u s t h i n k e r s h a v e h a d t o g r a p p l e w i t h t h e q u e s t i o n w h a t h a p p e n s t o p e o p l e w h o , w h i l e n o t s a i n t s , n e v e r t h e l e s s a r e g e n e r a l l y g o o d p e o p l e w h o h a v e n e v e r c o m m i t t e d a n y m aj o r s i n s i n t h e i r l i v e s ? r e f l e c t i o n o n t h i s p r o b l e m l e d t o t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f p u r g a t o r y 9 , a n i n t e r m e d i a t e r e a l m b e t w e e n h e a v e n a n d h e l l . i n p u r g a t o r y , s o u l s a r e t o r t u r e d f o r t h e i r s i n s , b u t a r e e v e n t u a l l y r e l e a s e d a n d a l l o w e d t o e n t e r h e a v e n . / p >。
适合英语六级阅读文章
适合英语六级阅读文章大学英语文章阅读是大学英语教育教学中的重点,对教学目标的实现具有非常重要的作用。
下面是店铺带来的适合英语六级阅读文章,欢迎阅读!适合英语六级阅读文章篇一Oprah Winfrey (逆风飞扬)Oprah Winfrey is one of the most exciting,highest paid,and best-loved celebrities in American . She is also the country‘s top television a talk show host. Oprah Winfrey is a very fine actress and a successful producer. She is a living example of what talent,hard work,and determination can do.Oprah Winfrey has come a long way from her poor childhood home in a small Mississippi town. She was an unwanted child whose parents never married. She was brought up on her grandmother‘s farm. The possibility that she would become rich and famous was not very good.Oprah‘s mother left her child in her mother’s care,so she could go to work in Milwaukee,Wisconsin. It was a strict and difficult life for Oprah. But it also led the way for her future. She was a highly intelligent child. By the age of three,she had learned to read and write. She also made her first public appearance at that age. She gave a talk in church,which impressed everyone.“That child is gifted,”people said.Oprah‘s intelligence was resented by other children her age. They called her unkind names and pushed her away. Oprah felt very isolated and unwanted. It made her feel worse that she didn’t live with her mother and father. She felt that no one loved her. This made her angry,resentful,and rebellious. These feelings brought her much trouble as she was growing up. Sheoften behaved badly,causing her grandmother to punish her. By the time Oprah was seven,she was too much for grandmother to discipline. Then Oprah went to live with her mother,Vernita,in Milwaukee.Vernita worked very hard at her job as a housekeeper. It was hard for her to work and take care of her bright,troublesome child. Oprah was a burden,and she knew it. They lived in poverty in a small apartment in the city. Oprah took out all her angry feelings on her mother. She was difficult child. When Oprah was eight,Vernita sent her to live her father and stepmother in Nashville,Tennessee. But she moved again a few months later when Vernita married a man with two children. Vernita wanted Oprah with her and her new family.Unfortunately felt she didn‘t belong with them. She believed she wasn’t loved by anyone. Her angry and frustration grew stronger. She struck back by misbehaving and running away from home. Her parents found her impossible to discipline. When she was 14 they tried to send her to a special center for troubled girls. But there was no room for her. So Vernita sent Oprah back to live with her father. Vernon Winfrey was by then a successful businessman and family man. He took one look at his daughter and knew she needed guidance,love,and discipline. He gave her all three. It was a turning point in Oprah‘s life. Vernon Winfrey was strict about his daughter’s education. He gave her homework in addition to her schoolwork. She was allowed to watch only one hour of television a day. She became an A student and a popular girl in her class.Oprah watched Barbara Walters,a famous journalist and interviewer,and decided that was what she wanted to be. When she was still in high school,she got a part-time job reading newson the radio. In her senior year she won a beauty contest and a four-year scholarship to Tennessee State University. While still in college she was offered a job as a news broadcaster at a local television station. She was the first female and the first African- American newscaster in Nashville. She was promoted to anchor,the most important position on the news team,while still a senior.After Oprah graduated she got a job with a Baltimore news station. But she soon realized that broadcasting news wasn‘t enough for her. She had to let her personality shine through. She wanted to show emotion when she told a story,not just report it. Meanwhile the station manager were thinking the same way. They couldn’t stop her from commenting on the news she read. They removed her from the anchor spot and wondered what to do with her. Finally they put her on an early morning talk show called People Are T alking. No one knew what to expect.The show was a great success. In a very short time,the managers and Oprah all knew what she was born to do. She was funny,witty,charming,warm,and compassionate. She was everything a talk show host should be. She was so successful that she got show with a bigger station in Chicago. It was called A. M. Chicago within one month the show‘s ratings were the best in years. Twice she left the show to make movies,The Color Purple and Native Son. In 1985 the show was changed to The Oprah Winfrey Show. It was broadcast nationally and soon became the most popular talk show on television . By the age of 35,Oprah Winfrey was one of the most famous celebrities in American.Milada Broukal适合英语六级阅读文章篇二The Cobbler and the banker (皮匠和银行家)A cobbler passed his time in singing from morning till night;it was wonderful to see,wonderful to hear him;he was more contented in shoes,than was any of the seven sages.His neighbor,on the contrary,who was rolling in wealth,sung but little and slept less.He was a banker;when by chance he fell into a doze at day-break,the cobbler awoke him with his song.The banker complained sadly that Providence had not made sleep a saleable commodity,like edibles or drinkables.Having at length sent for the songster,he said to him,“How much a year do you earn,Master Gregory?”“How much a year,sir?”said the merry cobbler laughing,“I have reckon in that way,living as I do from one day to another;somehow I manage to reach the end of the year;each day brings its meal.”“Well then!How much a day do you earn,my friend?”“Sometimes more,sometimes less;but the worst of it is,-and,without that our earnings would be very tolerable,-a number of days occur in the year on which we are forbidden to work;and the curate,moreover,is constantly adding some new saint to the list.”The banker,laughing at his simplicity,said,“In the future I shall place you above want.Take this hundred crowns,preserve them carefully,and make use of them in time of need.”The cobbler fancied he beheld all the wealth which the earth had produced in the past century for the use of mankind.Returning home,he buried his money and his happiness at the same time,No more singin;he lost his voice,the moment he acquired that which is the source of so much grief.Sleep quitted his dwelling;and cares,suspicions,and false alarms took its place,All day,his eye wandered in the directionof his treasure;and at night,if some stray cat made a noise,the cat was robbing him.At length the poor man ran to the house of his rich neighbor:“Give my back.”said he,“sleep and my voice,and take your hundred crowns.”La Fontaine适合英语六级阅读文章篇三Three Passions (三种激情)Three passionsThree passions,simple but overwhelmingly strong,have governed my life:the longing for love,the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions,like great winds,have blown me hither and thither,in a wayward course,over a deep ocean of anguish,reaching to the very verge of despair.I have sought love,first,because it brings ecstasy–ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it,next,because it relieves loneliness——that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it,finally,because in the union of love I have seen,in a mystic miniature,the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought,and though it might seem too good for human life,this is what- at last- I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flu.A little of this,but not much,I have achieved.Love and knowledge,so far as they were possible,ledupward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine,victims tortured by oppressors,helpless old people a hated burden to their sons,and the whole world of loneliness,poverty,and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil,but I cannot,and I too suffer.This has been my life. I have found it worth living,and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.三种激情——罗素三种激情虽然简单,却异常强烈,它们统治着我的生命,那便是:对爱的渴望,对知识的追求,以及对人类苦难的难以承受的同情。
英语六级阅读真题训练及答案
英语六级阅读真题训练及答案英语六级阅读真题训练及答案英语六级考试中的阅读题是考试中的'重点题型,需要考生多做阅读练习提高阅读能力,下面店铺为大家带来英语六级阅读真题训练及答案,供各位考生模拟练习。
英语六级阅读真题训练1Some futurologists have assumed that the vast upsurge (剧增) of women in the workforce mayportend a rejection of marriage. Many women, according to this hypothesis, would ratherwork than marry. The converse (反面) of this concern is that the prospects of becoming amulti-paycheck household could encourage marriages. In the past, only the earnings andfinancial prospects of the man counted in the marriage decision. Now, however, the earningability of a woman can make her more attractive as a marriage partner. Data show thateconomic downturns tend to postpone marriage because the parties cannot afford to establisha family or are concerned about rainy days ahead. As the economy rebounds, the number ofmarriages also rises.Coincident with the increase in women working outside the home is the increase in divorcerates. Yet, it may be wrong to jump to any simple cause-and-effect conclusions. The impact ofa wife’s work on divorce is no less cloudy than its impact on marriage decisions. The realizationthat she can be a good provider may increase the chances that a working wife will choosedivorce over an unsatisfactory marriage. But the reverse is equally plausible. Tensionsgrounded in financial problems often play a key role in ending a marriage. Given highunemployment, inflationary problems, and slow growth in real earnings, aworking wife canincrease household income and relieve some of these pressing financial burdens. By raising afamily’s standard of living, a working wife may strengthen her family’s financial andemotional stability.Psychological factors also should be considered. For example, a wife blocked from a careeroutside the home may feel caged in the house. She may view her only choice as seeking adivorce.On the other hand, if she can find fulfillment through work outside the home, work andmarriage can go together to create a stronger and more stable union.Also, a major part of women’s inequality in marriage has been due to the fact that, in mostcases, men have remained the main breadwinners. With higher earning capacity and statusoccupations outside of the home comes the capacity to exercise power within the family. Aworking wife may rob a husband of being the master of the house. Depending upon how thecouple reacts to these new conditions, it could create a stronger equal partnership or it couldcreate new insecurities.英语六级阅读真题训练26. The word “portend” (Line 2, Para. 1) is closest in meaning to “________”.A) defyB) signalC) suffer fromD) result from(B)27. It is said in the passage that when the economy slides, ________.A) men would choose working women as their marriage partnersB) more women would get married to seek financial securityC) even working women would worry about their marriagesD) more people would prefer to remain single for the time being(D)28. If women find fulfillment through work outside the home, ________.A) they are more likely to dominate their marriage partnersB) their husbands are expected to do more houseworkC) their marriage ties can be strengthenedD) they tend to put their career before marriage(C)29. One reason why women with no career may seek a divorce is that ________.A) they feel that they have been robbed of their freedomB) they are afraid of being bossed around by their husbandsC) they feel that their partners fail to live up to their expectationsD) they tend to suspect their husb ands’ loyalty to their marriage(A)30. Which of the following statements can best summarize the author’s view in thepassage?A) The stability of marriage and the divorce rate may reflect the economic situation of thecountry.B) Even when economically independent, most women have to struggle for real equality inmarriage.C) In order to secure their marriage women should work outside the home and remainindependent.D) The impact of the growing female workforce on marriage varies from case to case.英语六级阅读真题训练答案26. B 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. D英语六级阅读真题训练2For most thinkers since the Greek philosophers, it was self-evident that the re is somethingcalled human nature, something that constitutes the essence of man. There were various viewsabout what constitutes it, but there was agreement that such an essence exists—that is to say,that there is something by virtue of which man is man. Thus man was defined as a rationalbeing, as a social animal, an animal that can make tools, or a symbol-making animal.More recently, this traditional view has begun to be questioned. One reason for this changewas the increasing emphasis given to the historical approach to man. An examination of thehistory of humanity suggested that man in our epoch is so different from man in previoustimes that it seemed unrealistic to assume that men in every age have had in commonsomething that can be called “human nature.” The historical approach was reinforced,particularly in the United States, by studies in the field of cultural anthropology (人类学). Thestudy of primitive peoples has discovered such a diversity of customs, values, feelings, andthoughts that many anthropologists arrived at the concept that man is born as a blank sheet ofpaper on which each culture writes its text. Another factor contributing to the tendency todeny the assumption of a fixed human nature was that the concept has so often been abusedas a shield behind which the most inhuman acts are committed. In the name of humannature, for example, Aristotle and most thinkers up to the eighteenth century defendedslavery. Or in order to prove the rationality and necessity of the capitalist form of society,scholars have tried to make a case for acquisitiveness, competitiveness, and selfishness asinnate (天生的) human traits. Popularly, one refer s cynically to “humannature” in accepting theinevitability of such undesirable human behavior as greed, murder, cheating and lying.Another reason for skepticism about the concept of human nature probably lies in theinfluence of evolutionary thinking. Once man came to be seen as developing in the process ofevolution, the idea of a substance which is contained in his essence seemed untenable.Yet I believe it is precisely from an evolutionary standpoint that we can expect new insightinto the problem of the nature of man.英语六级阅读真题训练31. The traditional view of “human nature” was strongly challenged by ________.A) the emergence of the evolutionary theoryB) the historical approach to manC) new insight into human behaviorD) the philosophical analysis of slavery(A)32. According to the passage, anthropologists believe that human beings ________.A) have some traits in commonB) are born with diverse culturesC) are born without a fixed natureD) change their characters as they grow up(C)33. The author mentioned Aristotle, a great ancient thinker, in order to ________.A) emphasize that he contributed a lot to defining the concept of “human nature”B) show that the concept of “human nature” was used to justify social evilsC) prove that he had a profound influence on the concept of “human nature”D) support the idea that some human traits are acquired(D)34. The word “untenable” (Line 3) in the last paragraph of the passage most probablymeans ________.A) invaluableB) imaginableC) changeableD) indefensible(D)35. Most philosophers believed that human nature ________.A) is the quality distinguishing man from other animalsB) consists of competitiveness and selfishnessC) is something partly innate and partly acquiredD) consists of rationality and undesirable behavior英语六级阅读真题训练答案31. A 32. C 33. D 34. D 35. A【英语六级阅读真题训练及答案】。
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大学生英语六级阅读文章大学生英语六级阅读文章,是很多在参加六级考试的大学生都在经常寻找的,也是六级考试的一种练习。
下面是店铺为大家整理的关于大学生英语六级阅读文的相关资料,供您参考!大学生英语六级阅读文篇1Reading ComprehensionReading Comprehension for CET 6 In the 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia,one scene shows an American newspaper reporter eagerly snapping photos of men looting a sabotaged train.One of the looters,Chief Auda abu Tayi of the Howeitat clan,suddenly notices the camera and snatches it.Am I in this?he asks,beforesmashing it open.To the dismayed reporter,Lawrence explains,He thinks these things will steal his virtue.He thinks you're a kind of thief.As soon as colonizers and explorers began taking cameras into distant lands,stories began circulating about how indigenous peoples saw them as tools for black magic.The ignorant natives may have had a point.When photography first became available,scientists welcomed it as a more objective way of recording faraway societies than early travelers' exaggerated accounts.But in some ways,anthropological photographs reveal more about the culture that holds the camera than the one that stares back.Up into the 1950s and 1960s,many ethnographers sought pure pictures of primitive cultures,routinely deleting modern accoutrements such as clocks and Western dress.They paid men and women to re-enact rituals or to pose as members of war or hunting parties,often with little regard for veracity.Edward Curtis,the legendary photographer of NorthAmerican Indians,for example,got one Makah man to pose as a whaler with a spear in 1915--even though the Makah had not hunted whales in a generation.These photographs reinforced widely accepted stereotypes that indigenous cultures were isolated,primitive,and unchanging.For instance,National Geographic magazine's photographs have taught millions of Americans about other cultures.As Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins point out in their 1993 book Reading National Geographic,the magazine since its founding in 1888 has kept a tradition of presenting beautiful photos that don't challenge white,middle-class American conventions.While dark-skinned women can be shown without tops,for example,white women's breasts are taboo.Photos that could unsettle or disturb,such as areas of the world torn asunder by war or famine,are discarded in favor of those that reassure,to conform with the society's stated pledge to present only kindly visions of foreign societies.The result,Lutz and Collins say,is the depiction of an idealized and exotic world relatively free of pain or class conflict.Lutz actually likes National Geographic a lot.She read the magazine as a child,and its lush imagery influenced her eventual choice of anthropology as a career.She just thinks that as people look at the photographs of other cultures,they should be alert to the choice of composition and images.大学生英语六级阅读文篇2The British Medical Journal recently featured a strong response to what was judged an inappropriately lenient reaction by a medical school to a student cheating in anexamination.Although we have insufficient reliable data about the extent of this phenomenon,its prevention,or itseffective management,much can be concluded and acted upon on the basis of common sense and concepts with face validity.There is general agreement that there should be zero tolerance of cheating in a profession based on trust and one on which human lives depend.It is reasonable to assume that cheaters in medical school will be more likely than others to continue to act dishonestly withpatients,colleagues,insurers,and government.The behaviours under question are multifactorial in origin.There are familial,religious,and cultural values that are acquired long before medical school.For example,countries,cultures,and subcultures exist where bribes and dishonest behaviour are almost a norm.There are secondary schools in which neither staff nor students tolerate cheating and others where cheating isrampant;there are homes which imbue young people with high standards of ethical behaviour and others which leave ethical training to the harmful influence of television and the market place.Medical schools reflect society and cannot be expected to remedy all the ills of a society.The selection process of medical students might be expected to favour candidates with integrity and positive ethical behaviour—if one had a reliable method for detecting such characteristics in advance.Medical schools should be the major focus of attention for imbuing future doctors with Reading Comprehensionintegrity and ethical sensitivity.Unfortunately there are troubling,if inconclusive,data that suggest that during medical school the ethical behaviour of medical students does not necessarily improve;indeed,moral development may actuallystop or even regress.The creation of a pervasive institutional culture of integrity is essential.It is critical that the academic and clinical leaders of the institution set a personal example of integrity.Medical schools must make their institutional position and their expectations of students absolutely clear from day one.The development of a school's culture of integrity requires a partnership with the students in which they play an active role in its creation and nurturing.Moreover,the school's examination system and general treatment of students must be perceived as fair.Finally,the treatment of infractions must be firm,fair,transparent,and consistent.大学生英语六级阅读文篇3Reading Comprehension A big focus of the criticism of computer games has concerned the content of the games being played.When the narratives of the games are analyzed they can be seen to fall into some genres. The two genres most popular with the children I interviewed were‘Platformers’ and ‘Beat-them-ups.’ Platform games such as Sonic and Super Mario involve leaping from platform to platform,avoiding obstacles,moving on through the levels,and progressing through the different stages of the game.Beat-them-ups are the games which have caused concern over their violent content.These games involve fights between animated characters.In many ways this violence can be compared to violence within children’ s cartoons where a character is hit over the head or falls of a cliff but walks away unscathed.Controversy has occurred in part because of the intensity of the game play,which is said to spill over into children’ s everyday lives.There are worries that children are becoming moreviolent and aggressive after prolonged exposure to these games.Playing computer games involves feelings of intense frustration and anger which often expresses itself in aggressive‘yells’ at the screen.It is not only the‘Beat-them-up’ games which produce this aggression;platform games are just as frustrating when the characters lose all their‘lives’ and‘die’ just before the end of the level is puter gaming relies upon intense concentration on the moving images on thescreen and demands great hand-to-eye coordination.When the player loses and the words‘Game over’ appear on the screen,there is annoyance and frustration at being beaten by the computer and at having made an error.This anger and aggression could perhaps be compared to the aggression felt when playing football and you take your eye off the ball and enable the opposition to score.The annoyance experienced when defeated at a computer game is what makes gaming‘addictive’:the player is determined not to make the same mistake again and to have‘one last go’ in the hope of doing better next time.Some of the concern over the violence of computer games has been about children who are unable to tell the difference between fiction and reality and who act out the violent moves of the games in fight on the playground.The problem with video games is that they involve children more than television or films and this means there are more implications for their social behavior.Playing these games can lead to anti-social behavior,make children aggressive and affect their emotional stability.。
英语六级考试阅读题专项练习及答案(最新6篇)
英语六级考试阅读题专项练习及答案(最新6篇)英语六级考试阅读题专项练习及答案篇一It is doing something better than other people that makes us unique. Yet a surprising number of people still see individuality as a surface thing. They wear bright clothes, dye their hair strange colors and decorate their skin with tattoos (文身) to make some kind of social statement.The whole purpose of individuality is excellence. The people who comprehend the simple principle of being unique through performance make our entire political and economic system work. Those who invent, who improve, who know more about a subject than other people do, and who take something that doesn#39;t work and make it work—these people are the very soul of capitalism.Charles Kettering didn#39;t like the idea of cranking a car to make it start, so he invented the electric starter. Henry Ford figured out the assembly-line technique and made it possible to mass-produce automobiles. Lewis Waterman saw no need to go on dipping a pen into an inkwell, so he put the ink into the pen. George Westinghouse told the world how to stop a train, and Elisha Otis, inventor of the elevator, indirectly created the city skyline. These people understood that individualism means working at the top of one#39;s capacity.Fortunately, enough Americans have been inspired to do something with their uniqueness that we have developed in less than three centuries from a frontier outpost into not only a country of freedom but a country strong enough to protect that freedom. These people prized the notions of individuality and excellence above all things and thus kept the great machine functioning. The ones with the purple hair and the horrorable jewelry are just along for the ride, trying to be different and not knowing how to go about it.1 The student who earns A#39;s on his report card has grasped the idea and has found the real meaning of individuality. So has the youngster who has designed his own spaceship, who paints pictures of the world around him, or who can name all the states and their capitals. According to the author unique individuals are persons who______.A. do something better than other peopleB. know more about a subject than other peopleC. excel others in workD. all of the above2、People who regard individuality as a surface thing always do the following EXCEPTA. wearing bright clothesB. coloring their hairC. doing better than othersD. decorating their skin with tattoos3、Which is NOT TRUE according to the passage?A. Henry Ford invented assembly-line technique.B. Elisha Otis was the inventor of the liftC. George Westinghouse created cranks.D. Lewis Waterman put the ink into the pen.4、It can be inferred from the passage that______.A. the real secret to being unique lies in our excellent workB. if we want to be different we#39;d gain more profitC the student who earns A#39;s on the report card has not grasped the real meaning of individualityD. all Americans work miracles In the writer#39;s opinion5、who has understood the sense of individuality?A. The youngster who designed his own spaceship.B. The youngster who painted worthy pictures.C. The youngster who was interested in wearing strange clothes.D. Both A and B.答案D C C A D英语六级考试阅读题专项练习及答案篇二Two astronauts face a not-so-merry Christmas after being told to ration their food and hope a cargo ship with extra supplies docks on Dec. 21. Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and American Leroy Chiao have been asked to cut out calories equal to three cans of Coke from their daily diet—around 10 percent of their daily __1__ and an amount that would be little noticed, NASA said.Russian officials, quoted in the local media, have __2__ blamed the previous crew for overeating during their one-month mission earlier this year, leaving a __3__ of meat and milk and a surplus of juice and confectionery .The Dec. 24 launch of the next Progress is now __4__ for the crew, stationed in orbit since October. It is due to __5__ with the ISS on Dec. 21.NASA officials said their situation was not so different from being cut off on Earth, and their lives were not at risk. If they do not receive __6__supplies, the astronauts would have to __7__ the station and return to Earth on the Soyuz capsule that is docked there.Russia has been the sole lifeline to the ISS for almost two years when the United States grounded its __8__ fleet after the fatal Columbia accident. Russia has often __9__ of its financial struggle to keep the ISS fully serviced single-handedly. Shuttle flights could __10__in May, officials have said, but in the meantime Russia will continue to launch all manned and cargo ships.A) deficit B) complaine C) severely D) allowanceE) considerately F) shuttle G) evacuate H) absentlyI) adequate J) dock K) resume L) vitalM) trivial N) evaluate O) fresh答案1. D 空格前为形容词daily,空格后为连词and和an amount,分析句子结构可知,此处应填入一个名词。
英语六级阅读理解练习5篇(附答案)二
英语六级阅读理解练习6篇(附答案)二第一篇Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language; but few people are even moderately proficient at pronouncing foreign languages. Now there are many reasons for this, some obvious, some perhaps not so obvious. But I suggest that the fundamental reason why people in general do not speak foreign languages very much better than they do is that they fail to grasp the true nature of the problem of learning to pronounce, and consequently never set about tackling it in the right way. Far too many people fail to realize that pronouncing a foreign language is a skill—one that needs careful training of a special kind, and one that cannot be acquired by just leaving it to take care of itself. I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the importance of a good accent, tend to neglect, in their practical teaching, the branch of study concerned with speaking the language. So the first point I want to make is that English pronunciation must be taught; the teacher should be prepared to devote some of the lesson time to this, and should get the student to feel that here is a matter worthy of receiving his close attention. So, there should be occasions when other aspects of English, such as grammar or spelling, are allowed for the moment to take second place.Apart from this question of the time given to pronunciation, there are two other requirements for the teacher: the first, knowledge; the second, technique.It is important that the teacher should be in possession of the necessary information. This can generally be obtained from books. It is possible to get from books some idea of the mechanics of speech, and of what we call general phonetic theory. It is also possible in this way to get a clear mental picture of the relationship between the sounds of different languages, between the speech habits of English people and those, say, of your students. Unless the teacher has such a picture, any comments he may make on his students' pronunciation are unlikely to be of much use, and lesson time spent on pronunciation may well be time wasted.1. What does the writer actually say about pronouncing foreign languages?A. Only a few people are really proficient.B. No one is really an expert in the skill.C. There aren't many people who are even fairly good.D. There are even some people who are moderately proficient.2. The writer argues that going about the problem of pronunciation in the wrong way isA. an obvious cause of not grasping the problem correctlyB. a fundamental consequence of not speaking wellC. a consequence of not grasping the problem correctlyD. not an obvious cause of speaking poorly3. The best way of learning to speak a foreign language, he suggests, is by_______.A. picking it up naturally as a childB. learning from a native speakerC. not concentrating on pronunciation as suchD. undertaking systematic work4. The value the student puts on correct speech habits depends upon_______.A. how closely he attends to the matterB. whether it is English that is being taughtC. his teacher's approach to pronunciationD. the importance normally given to grammar and spelling5. How might the teacher find himself wasting lesson time?A. By spending lesson time on pronunciation.B. By making ill-informed comments upon pronunciation.C. By not using books on phonetics in the classroom.D. By not giving students a clear mental picture of the difference between sounds.第二篇An industrial society, especially one as centralized and concentrated as that of Britain, is heavily dependant on certain essential services: for instance, electricity supply, water, rail and road transport, the harbors. The area of dependency has widened to include removing rubbish, hospital and ambulance services, and, as the economy develops, central computer and information services as well. If any of these services ceases to operate, the whole economic system is in danger.It is this interdependency of the economic system that makes the power of trade unions such an important issue. Single trade unions have the ability to cut off many economic blood supplies. This can happen more easily in Britain than in some other countries, in part because the labor force is highly organized. About 55 per cent of British workers belong to unions, compared to under a quarter in the United States. For historical reasons, Britain's unions have tended to develop along trade and occupational lines, rather than on an industry-by-industry basis, which makes wage policy, democracy in industry and the improvement of procedures for fixing wage levels difficult to achieve.There are considerable strains and tensions in the trade union movement, some of them arising from their outdated and inefficient structure. Some unions have lost many members because of industrial changes. Others are involved in arguments about who should represent workers in new trades. Unions for skilled trades are separate from general unions, which means that different levels of wages for certain jobs areoften a source of bad feeling between unions. In traditional trades which are being pushed out of existence by advancing technologies, unions can fight for their members' disappearing jobs to the point where the jobs of other union's members are threatened or destroyed. The printing of newspapers both in the United States and in Britain has frequently been halted by the efforts of printers to hold on to their traditional highly-paid jobs.1. Why is the question of trade union power important in Britain?A. The economy is very much interdependent.B. Unions have been established a long time.C. There are more unions in Britain than elsewhere.D. There are many essential services.2. Because of their out-of-date organization some unions find it difficult to______.A. change as industries changeB. get new members to join themC. learn new technologiesD. bargain for high enough wages3. Disagreements arise between unions because some of themA. try to win over members of other unionsB. ignore agreementsC. protect their own members at the expense of othersD. take over other union's jobs4. It is difficult to improve the procedures for fixing wage levels because______.A. some industries have no unionsB. unions are not organized according to industriesC. only 55 per cent of workers belong to unionsD. some unions are too powerful5. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?A. There are strains and tensions in the trade union movement.B. Some unions have lost many members.C. Some unions exist in the outdated structure.D. A higher percentage of American workers belong to unions than that of British workers.第三篇Although credit cards are becoming a more acceptable part of the financial scene, they are still regarded with suspicion by many as being a major part of the "live now pay later" syndrome(^Jttt). Along with hire-purchase, rental and leasing schemes, they provide encouragement to spend more money. Of course, it is only the foolhardy who yield to the temptation to live, temporarily at least, beyond their means, and suchpeople would no doubt manage to do so even without credit cards.Advertising campaigns have, however, promoted a growing realization of the advantages of these small pieces of plastic. They obviate (避免) need to carry large amounts of cash and are always useful in emergencies.All the credit card organizations charge interest on a monthly basis which may work out as high as 25 per cent a year, yet judicious purchasing using a card can mean that you obtain up to seven weeks, interest-free credit. Using the card abroad, where items frequently take a long time to be included on your account, can extend this period even further.It is worthwhile shopping around before deciding on a particular credit card. It is necessary to consider the amount of credit granted; interest rates, which may vary slightly; the number and range of outlets, though most cards cover major garages, hotels, restaurants and department stores; and of course, what happens if your card is lost or stolen. A credit card thief may be sitting on a potential goldmine particularly if there is a delay in reporting the loss of the card.However, if used wisely, a credit card can cost nothing, or at least help to tide you over a period of financial difficulty.1. Which of the following can not make you spend more money?A. Credit cards.B. Hire-purchase.C. Rental and leasing schemes.D. None of the above is right.2. The foolhardy are people who_______.A. spend more money than they haveB. spend less money than other peopleC. save moneyD. make money3. The disadvantage of credit cards is_______.A. to enable you to buy things without carrying large amount of cashB. to encourage people to spend more moneyC. to be always useful in emergenciesD. to help people tide over a period of financial difficulty4. According to the passage, credit cards are made of_______.A. paperB. goldC. plasticD. tin5. Deciding on a particular credit, you do not have to consider______.A. the amount of credit grantedB. the number and range of outletsC. the possibility of loss of moneyD. the department stores where you are going to use your credit cards第四篇More attention was paid to the quality of production in France at the time of Rene Coty. Charles Deschanel was then the financial minister. He stressed that workmanship and quality were more important than quantity for industrial production. It would be necessary to produce quality goods for the international markets tocompete with those produced in other countries. The French economy needed a larger share of international market to balance its import and export trade.French industrial and agricultural production was still inadequate to meet the immediate needs of the people, let alone long-ranged developments. Essential imports had stretched the national credit to the breaking point. Rents were tightly controlled, but the extreme inflation affected general population most severely through the cost of food. Food costs took as much as 80 percent of the worker's income. Wages, it is true, had risen. Extensive family allowances and benefits were paid by the state, and there was fulltime and overtime employment. Taken together, these factors enabled the working class to exist but allowed them no sense of security. In this discouraging situation, workmen were willing to work overseas for higher wages.The government was unwilling to let workers leave the country. It was feared that migration of workers would reduce the labor force. The lack of qualified workers might hinder the improvement in the quality of industrial products produced. Qualified workers employed abroad would only increase the quantity of quality goods produced in foreign countries. Also the quantity of quality goods produced in France would not be able to increase as part of its ualified labor force moved to other countries.1. The purpose of the passage is to_______.A. explain the French government's emphasis on quality productsB. discuss Charles Deschanel's contribution to the French industrial developmentC. compare the quality of French goods with that of foreign goodsD. show French workmen's enthusiasm to seek well-paid jobs in foreign countries2. It can be inferred from the passage that at the time of Rene Coty .A. France was still at the first stage of industrial developmentB. French workers were better paid than the workers in any other European countriesC. the unemployment rate in France was comparatively higher than that in other European countriesD. French workers were able to live better with the increase in their wages3. It is implied in the passage that at that time_______.A. France had a very large share of international marketB. the import and export trade in France was making a successful advanceC. demand and supply in France was barely balancedD. France was experiencing economic depression4. Which of the following is the best indicator of the extreme inflation in France?A. Eighty percent increase in the prices of consumer goods.B. High cost of food.C. High rents for houses.D. Lack of agricultural products.5. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?A. Rents in France were tightly controlled.B. France was flooding the international market with inferior products.C. French workers were prohibited from going abroad to find jobs.D. The migration of French workers would hinder the improvement of quality in industrial production.第五篇As a company executive(总经理) who spent ten years in federal service, I am often asked what I regard as the biggest difference between working for the government and working for a private company. My invariable response is to say that I look back on my time in government as one of the most exciting and challenging experiences of my life. Furthermore, I never worked as hard as when I was a public servant.When I worked for the government, I worked with some of the finest, most competent and most committed people I have ever met. I was impressed by the overall quality of our career civil servants then, and I still am. But one of my greatest concerns now is that I will not be able to hold this same high opinion in the future.Career public servants are leaving government in alarming numbers, and qualified replacements are becoming harder and harder to find. Good people who leave career government service are striving for highly paid positions in private enterprises.We depend on government to keep this country safe in an uncertain world, to secure justice and domestic order and to solve a host of pressing problems. We need the best possible people performing and overseeing these vital tasks. A high-quality, professional federal service has been a source of national pride for more than a century. But what we have built up during a hundred years can be lost in less time than we imagine. We can't afford to let this happen. We must act now if this country is to be assured of the quality public service it deserves.1. Career public servants are leaving government in alarming numbers. One of thereasons may be that______.A. they received lower payB. they deserved no fame and gloryC. they performed poorlyD. they worked harder than anyone else2. According to the author, _______, so I will not be able to hold this same high opiniontoward the public servants in the future.A. I never worked as hard as when I was a public servantB. I have become a company executiveC. there will not be so many competent and qualified servants in the government as we had beforeD. my time in government was not the most exciting experience in my life3. We depend on government to keep this country safe in an uncertain world, therefore,A. we should make greater contributions to the countryB. the best possible people are urgently needed to do important tasksC. we should show deep concern about the nation's futureD. we should become public servants4. If we neglect the serious problem and make no efforts, we will lose_______.A. national prideB. high-quality professional federal serviceC. good peopleD. private enterprise5. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?A. Those who work for companies are highly paid.B. More and more public servants have left the government.C. Career public servants are qualified.D. Many people of high qualities want to work in the government.According to the latest research in the' United States of America, men and women talk such different languages that it is like people from two different cultures trying to communicate. Professor Deborah Tannen of Georgetown University, has noticed the difference in the style of boy's and girl's conversations from an early age. She says that little girls' conversation is less definite than boys' and expresses more doubts. Little boys use conversation to establish status with their listeners.These differences continue into adult life, she says. In public conversations, men talk most and interrupt other speakers more. In private conversations, men and women speak in equal amounts—although they say things in a different style. Professor Tannen believes that, for woman, private talking is a way to establish and test intimacy. For men, private talking is a way to explore the power structure of a relationship.第六篇Teaching is one job where the differences between men's and women's ways of talking show. When a man teaches a woman, says Professor Tannen, he wants to show that he has more knowledge, and hence more power in conversation. When a woman teaches another woman, however, she is more likely to take a sharing approach and to encourage her student to join in.But Professor Tannen does not believe that women are naturally more helpful. She says women feel they achieve power by being able to help others. Although the research suggests men talk and interrupt people more than women, Professor Tannen says, women actually encourage this to happen because they believe it will lead to more intimacy and help to establish a relationship.Some scientists who are studying speech think that the brain is pre¬programmedfor language. As we are usually taught to speak by women, it seems likely that the brain must have a sexual bias(倾向性) in its programming,otherwise male speech patterns would not arise at all.1. In the opinion of the writer, women encourage men to talk becauseA. it will lead to more intimacy and help to establish a relationshipB. it will help to establish status with their listenersC. it will help to express more clearlyD. it will help to communicate better2. There are_______in little girls' conversation than in boys'.A. fewer doubtsB. more demandsC. more doubtsD. fewer uncertainties3. Some scientists believe that brain is pre-programmed for language. The word "pre programmed" means_______.A. programmed alreadyB. programmed before one is bornC. programmed earlyD. programmed by women4. In private conversation, women speakA. the same things as menB. less than menC. more than menD. as much as men5. The theme of this article is _______.A. women are naturally more helpfulB. men and women talk different languagesC. men talk most and interrupt other speakers moreD. little girls' conversation is less definite第一篇答案、1. C 2. C 3. D 4. C 5.B第二篇答案、1. A 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. D第三篇答案、1. D 2. A 3. B 4. D 6. C第四篇答案、1. A 2. A 3. D 4. B 5. B第五篇答案、1. A 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. D第五篇答案、1. A 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. B。
英语六级仔细阅读练习附答案讲解
英语六级仔细阅读练习附答案讲解英语六级仔细阅读练习一56.B)。
定位由题干中的governments及seeking ways to reduce the health-care spending定位到*第一段第一句:Caught in a squeeze between the health needs of aging populations on onehand and the financial crisis on the other,governments everywhere are looking for ways to slowthe growth in health-care spending.详解推理判断题。
由定位句可知,各国政府一方面面临老龄化人群的健康需求,另一方面受到金融危机的影响,所以都在寻求减少医疗保健开支的途径,B)符合题意。
第一段第二句提到they are looking to thegenetic-drugs industry as a savior,但是普通药物只是各国政府减少开支的一个方法,并不是他们这么做的原因,故排除A);C)的说法在文中没有提及;本段最后一句提到That greed…costs taxpayers nearly C$1 billion a year.这里是说药店的贪心导致纳税人受损,并不是说保健花费的问题,故排除D)。
57.D)。
定位由题干中的the report issued by the European Commission 定位到*第二段第一句:Then on November 28th the European Commission issued the preliminary results...详解事实细节题。
定位句提到,11月28日欧洲委员会发布的一个初步调查报告,下文开始对该报告进行描述,由第二段最后一句Neelie Kroes,the EUs competition commissioner,says she is ready totake legal action if the evidence allows.可推断如果证据充足,委员们会采取行动,D)符合题意。
英语六级的阅读练习题及答案
英语六级的阅读练习题及答案英语六级的阅读练习题及答案「篇一」1.She was a very quiet and kind director.She neverlaughed,___1___lose her temper.But when she worked she was verystrict.We have been told by her that under no circumstance____2___the telephone in the office for personal affairs。
1.[a] or she never did [b]nor did she ever[c]or did she ever [d]nor she never did2.[a]may we use [b]we may use[c]we could use [d]did we use2.Seldom___3___any mistakes during my past five years ofworks.However,I still could not gain success as a good writer like my teacher.Finally my teacher told me:”Only when you have acquired a good knowledge of life around you___4___write successfully and meaningfully”3.[a]should I make [b]did I make[c]I did make [d]would I make4.[a]you will [b]can’t you[c]you can [d]can you答案:1.选B。
该题考点为当前面的句子和后面的句子都含否定意义时,后面的分句常用nor连接,并采用部分倒装语序。
【大学英语六级阅读专项练习35篇】附答案
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羽天全国英语六级阅读理解阅读理解专项练习3 5 篇1.2007 年12 月英语六级阅读专项训练(1)Giving Credit Where Credit Is Not Due The big identity-theft bust last week was just a taste of what's to come. Here's how to protect your good name HERE'S THE SCARY THING about the identity-theft ring that the feds cracked last week: there was nothing any of its estimated 40,000 victims could have done to prevent it from happening. This was an inside job, according to court documents. A lowly help-desk worker at Teledata Communications, a software firm that helps banks access credit reports online, allegedly stole passwords for those reports and sold them to a group of 20 thieves at $60 a pop. That allowed the gang to cherry-pick consumers with good credit and apply for all kinds of accounts in their names. Cost to the victims: $3 million and rising. Even scarier is that this, the largest identity-theft bust to date, is just a drop in the bit bucket. More than 700,000 Americans have their credit hijacked every year. It's one of crime's biggest growth markets. A name, address and Social Security number--which can often be found on the Web--is all anybody needs to apply for a bogus line of credit. Credit companies make $1.3 trillion annually and lose less than 2% of that revenue to fraud, so there's little financial incentive for them to make the application process more secure. As it stands now, it's up to you to protect your identity. The good news is that there are plenty of steps you can take. Most credit thieves are opportunists, not well-organized gangs. A lot of them go Dumpster diving for those millions of "pre-approved" credit-card mailings that go out every day. Others steal wallets and return them, taking only a Social Security number. Shredding your junk mail and leaving your Social Security card at home can save a lot of agony later. But the most effective way to keep your identity clean is to check your credit reports once or twice a year. There are three major credit-report outfits: Equifax (at ), Trans-Union () and Experian (). All allow you to order reports online, which is a lot better than wading through voice-mail hell on their 800 lines. Of the three, I found TransUnion's website to be the cheapest and most comprehensive--laying out state-by-state prices, rights and tips for consumers in easy-to-read fashion. If you're lucky enough to live in Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey or V ermont, you are entitled to one free report a year by law. Otherwise it's going to cost $8 to $14 each time. A void services that offer to monitor your reports year-round for about $70; that's $10 more than the going rate among thieves. If you think第1 页共52 页羽天全国英语六级阅读理解you're a victim of identity theft, you can ask for fraud alerts to be put on file at each of the three credit-report companies. Y ou can also download a theft-report form at /idtheft, which, along with a local police report, should help when irate creditors come knocking. Just don't expect justice. That audacious help-desk worker was one of the fewer than 2% of identity thieves who are ever caught. 1.What is the trend of credit-theft crime?[A]Tightly suppressed. [B]More frightening. [C]Rapidly increasing. [D]loosely controlled. 2.The expression “inside job”(Line 6, Paragraph 1) most probably means . [A]a crime that is committedby a person working for the victim [B]a crime that should be punished severely [C]a crime that does great harm to the victim [D]a crime that poses a great threat to the society 3.The creditors can protect their identity in the following way except . [A]destroying your junk mail [B]leaving your Social Security card at home [C]visiting the credit-report website regularly [D]obtaining the free report from the government 4.Why is it easy to have credit-theft? [A]More people are using credit service. [B]The application program is not safe enough. [C]Creditors usually disclose their identity.[D]Creditors are not careful about their identity. 5.What is the best title of the text? [A]The danger of credit-theft [B]The loss of the creditors [C]How to protect your good name [D]Why the creditors lose their identity 2. 2007 年12 月英语六级阅读专项训练(2)Opinion polls are now beginning to show that,whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on,high unemployment is probably here to say.This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work? The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which第2 页共52 页羽天全国英语六级阅读理解most people’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now becoming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom. Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work fr om people’s homes. Later, as transport improved first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they live. Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In preindustrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and families to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes. It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded—a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives. All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the idealist goal creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs. 21.What is the main idea of the passage? A)Employment became widespread in the 17th and 18th centuries. B)Unemployment will remain a major problem for industrialized nations. C)The industrial age may now be coming to an end. D)Some efforts and resources should be devoted to helping morepeople cope with the problem of unemployment. 22.Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a factor contributing to the spread of employment? A)The enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries. B )The development of factories. C)Relief from housework on the part of women. D)Development of modern means of transportation.第3 页共52 页羽天全国英语六级阅读理解23.It can be inferred from the passage that. A)most people who have been polled believe that the problem of unemployment may not be solved within a short period of time B)many farmers lost their land when new railways and factories were being constructed C)in preindustrial societies housework and community service were mainly carried out by women D)some of the changes in work pattern that the industrial age brought have been reversed 24.What does the word “daunting”in the third paragraph mean? A)Shocking B)Interesting C)Confusing D)Stimulating 25.Which of the following is NOT suggested as a possible means to cope with the current situation? A)Create situations in which people work for themselves. B)Treat employment as the norm. C )Endeavor to revive the household and the neighborhood as centers of production. D)Encourage people to work in circumstances other than normal working conditions. 3.2007 年12 月英语六级阅读专项训练(3)No one should be forced to wear a uniform under any circumstance. Uniforms are demanding to the human spirit and totally unnecessary in a democratic society. Uniforms tell the world that the person who wears one has no value as an individual but only lives to function as a part of a whole. The individual in a uniform loses all self-worth. There are those who say that wearing a uniform gives a person a sense of identification with a larger, more important concept. What could be more important than the individual himself? If an organization is so weak that it must rely on cloth and buttons to inspire its members, that organization has no right to continue its existence. Others say that the practice of making persons wear uniforms, say in a school, eliminates all envy and competition in the matter of dress, such that a poor person who cannot afford good-quality clothing is not to be belittled by a wealthy person who wears expensive quality clothing. Those persons conveniently ignore such critical concepts as freedom of choice, motivation, and individuality. If all persons were to wear the same clothing, why would anyone strive to be better? It is only a short step from forcing everyone to drive the same car, have the same type of foods. When this happens, all incentive to improve one’s life is removed. Why would parents bother to work hard so that their children could have a better life than they had when they know that their children are going to be forced to have exactly the same life that they had?第4 页共52 页羽天全国英语六级阅读理解Uniforms also hurt the economy. Right now, billions of dollars are spent on the fashion industry yearly. Thousands of persons are employed in designing, creating and marketing different types of clothing. If everyone were forced to wear uniforms, artistic personnel would be unnecessary. Sales persons would be superfluous as well; why bother to sell the only items that are available? The wearing of uniforms would destroy the fashion industry, which in turn would have a ripple effect on such industries as advertising and promotion. Without advertising, newspapers, magazines, and television would not be able to remain in business. One entire information andentertainment industry would collapse. 26.The author’s primary purpose in writing this passage was to . A)plead for the abolishment of uniforms B)show that uniforms are not possible in a democratic society C )advocate stronger governmental controls on the wearing of uniforms D)convince the reader that uniforms have more disadvantages than advantages 27.Why does the author discuss forcing everyone to buy the same car or eat the same food? A) To show that freedom of choice is absolute. B) To show that the government has interfered too much in the lives of individual. C) To suggest what would happen if uniforms became compulsory. D) To predict the way the society will be in the next few generations. 28.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the author? A) The person who wears a uniform has no self-worth. B) Wearing a uniform gives a person a sense of identification with a larger concept. C) Uniforms will hurt one entire information and entertainment industry. D) Envy and competition are incentive to improve one’s life. 29.The word “superfluous”(Para. 3) most probably means . A) indispensable B) available C) surplus D) supplementary 30.The next paragraph in this passage might discuss. A) the positive effects of wearing uniforms B) more negative effects of wearing uniforms C) alternative to wearing uniforms D) the legal rights of those not wishing to wear uniforms 4.2007 年12 月英语六级阅读专项训练(4)A strange thing about humans is their capacity for blind rage. Rage is presumably an emotion resulting from survival instinct, but the第5 页共52 页羽天全国英语六级阅读理解surprising thing about it is that we do not deploy it against other animals. If we encounter a dangerous wild animal - a poisonous snake or a wild cat - we do not fly into a temper. If we are unarmed, we show fear and attempt to back away; if we are suitably armed, we attack, but in a rational manner not in a rage. We reserve rage for our own species. It is hard to see any survival valu e in attacking one’s own, but if we take account of the long competition, which must have existed between our own subspecies and others like Neanderthal man - indeed others still more remote from us than Neanderthal man human rage becomes more comprehensible. In our everyday language and behavior there are many reminders of those early struggles. We are always using the words “us and them”. “Our”side is perpetually trying to do down the “other” side. In games we artificially create other subspecies we ca n attack. The opposition of “us” and “them” is the touchstone of the two-party system of “democratic” politics. Although there are no very serious consequences to many of these modern psychological representations of the “us and them”emotion, it is as well to remember that the original aim was not to beat the other subspecies in a game but to exterminate it. The readiness with which humans allow themselves to be regimented has permitted large armies to be formed, which, taken together with the “us and them” blind rage, has led to destructive clashes within our subspecies itself. The First World War is an example in which Europe divided itself into two imaginary subspecies. And there is a similar extermination battle now in Northern Ireland. The idea that there is a religious basis for this clash is illusory, for not even the Pope has been able to control it. The clash is much more primitive than the Christian religion, much older in its emotional origin. The conflict in Ireland is unlikely to stop until a greater primitive fear is imposed from outside the community, or until the combatants become exhausted. 31.A suitable title for this passage would be. A) Why Human Armies Are Formed B) Man’s Anger Against Rage C) The Human Capacity for Rage D) EarlyStruggles of Angry Man 32.According to the author, the surprising aspect of human anger is.A) its lengthy and complex development B) a conflict such as is now going on in Northern Ireland C) that we do not fly into a temper more often D) that we reserve anger for mankind 33.The passage suggests that. A) historically, we have created an “us”versus “them”society B) humans have had a natural disinclination toward formal grouping 第6 页共52 页羽天全国英语六级阅读理解C) the First World War is an example of how man has always avoided domination D) the emotional origin of the war in Ireland is lost in time 34.From the passage we can infer that .A) the artificial creation of a subspecies unlike us is something that never happens B) games are psychologically unhealthy C) any artificially created subspecies would be our enemy D) the real or imagined existence of an opposing subspecies is inherent in man’s activities 35.The author believes that a religious explanation for the war in Northern Ireland is.A) founded in historical fact B) deceptive C) apparent D) probably accurate 5.2007 年12 月英语六级阅读专项训练(5)The first way we can approach language is as a phenomenon of the individual person. It is concerned with describing and explaining language as a matter of human behavior. People speak and write; they also evidently read and understand what they hear. They are not born doing so; they have to acquire these skills. Not everybody seems to develop them to the same degree. People may suffer accidents or diseases, which impair their performance. Language is thus seen as part of human psychology, a particular sort of behavior, the behavior, which has as its principal, function that of communication. The trouble with the term “behavior”is that it is often taken to refer only to more or less overt, and describable, physical movements and acts. Y et part of language behavior-that of understanding spoken or written language, for example-has little or no physically observable signs. It is true we can sometimes infer that understanding has taken place by the changes that take place in the other person’s behavior. When someone has been prohibited from doing something, we may infer that he has understood the prohibition by observing that thereafter he never behaves in that way. We cannot, of course, be absolutely sure that his subsequent behavior is a result of his understanding; it might be due to a loss of interest or inclination. So behavior must be taken to include unobservable activity, often only to be inferred from other observable behavior. Once we admit that the study of language behavior involves describing and explaining the unobservable, the situation becomes much more complicated, because we have to postulate some set of processes, some internal mechanism, which operates when we speak and understand. We have to postulate something we can call a mind. The study of language from this point of view can then be seen as a study of the specific properties, processes and states of the mind第7 页共52 页羽天全国英语六级阅读理解whose outward manifestations are observable behavior; what we have to know in order to perform linguistically. This approach to language, as a phenomenon of the individual, is thus principally concerned with explaining how we acquire language, and its relation to general human cognitive systems, and with the psychological mechanisms underlying the comprehension and production of speech; much less with the problem of what language is for, that is, its function ascommunication, since this necessarily involves more than a single individual. 36.What is the best title for this passage? A) Language as Means of Communication. B) Language and Psychology. C) Language and the Individual. D) Language as a Social Phenomenon.37.According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? A) Language is often regarded as part of human psychology. B) People develop language skills of different degrees as a result of different personal experiences. C) Language is a special kind of psychological behavior that is born with an individual. D) People learn to speak and write through imitation and training. 38.What does the term “behavior ”in the second paragraph especially refer to in this passage? A) It refers to observable and physical movements and acts.B) It refers to the part of language behavior that involves understanding or interpretation. C) It refers to both the overt and the unobservable language behaviors in communicating. D) It refers to acts of speaking and writing. 39.What does “internal mechanism”(Line 3, Para. 3) mean? A) Secret machine. B) Mental processes. C) Overt system. D) Mechanic operation.40.What can you infer from the passage? A) Its individualistic approach to language is meant to study the psychological processes of language acquisition. B) The individualistic approach to language is mainly concerned with how language functions in society. C) The study of language is sure to involve more than a single individual. D) Psychological approach to language is concerned with the comprehension and production of speech. 6.2007 年12 月英语六级阅读专项训练(6)The American economic system is organized around a basically 第8 页共52 页羽天全国英语六级阅读理解private-enterprise,market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen,striving to make profits,produce these goods and services in competition with other businessmen;and the profit motive,operating under competitive pressures,largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus,in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers,coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes,that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy ,this mechanism is provided by a price system,a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand,the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If,on the other hand,producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost,this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers,which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus,price is the regulating mechanism in the America economic system. The important factor in a private-enterprise economy is that individual are allowed to own productive resources (private property),and they are permitted to hire labor,gain control over natural resources,and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy,the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights,including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual. 1.In Para. 1,“the desire ofindividuals to maximize their incomes”means . A.Americans never feel satisfied with their incomes. B.Americans tend to overstate the amount of their incomes. C.Americans want to have their incomes increased. D.Americans want to increase the purchasing power of their incomes.2.The first two sentences in the second paragraph clarity the idea to us that . A.producers can satisfy the consumers by mechanized production. B.consumers can express their demands through producers. C.producers decide the prices of products. D.supply and demand regulate prices.3.The word “embraces” in Para. 3 probably parallels .第9 页共52 页羽天全国英语六级阅读理解A.enfoldB.hugprehendD.support 4.According to the passage , a private-enterprise economy is characterized by . A.private property and rights concerned.B.manpower and natural resources control.C.ownership of productive resourcesD.free contracts and prices. 5.The passage is mainly talking about . A.how American goods are produced. B.how American consumers buy their goods. C.how American economic system works. D.how American businessman make their profits 7.2007 年12 月英语六级阅读专项训练(7)There are various ways in which individual economic units can interact with one another. Three basic ways may be described as the market system,the administered system,and the traditional system. In a market system individual economic units are free to interact among each other in the marketplace. It is possible to buy commodities from other economic units or sell commodities to them. In a market ,transactions may take place via barter or money exchange. In a barter economy,real goods such as automobiles,shoes,and pizzas are traded against each other. Obviously,finding somebody who wants to trade my old car in exchange for a sailboat may not always be an easy task. Hence,the introduction of money as a medium of exchange eases transactions considerably. In the modern market economy,goods and services are bought or sold for money. An alternative to the market system is administrative control by some agency over all transactions. This agency will issue edicts or commands as to how much of each good and service should be produced ,exchanged ,and consumed by each economic unit. Central planning may be one way of administering such an economy. The central plan,drawn up by the government,shows the amounts of each commodity produced by the various firms and allocated to different households for consumption. This is an example of complete planning of production,consumption,and exchange for the whole economy. In a traditional society,production and consumption patterns are governed by tradition;every person‘s place within the economic system is fixed by parentage,religion,and custom. Transactions take place on the basis of tradition,too. People belonging to a certain group or caste may have an obligation to care for other persons,provide them with food and shelter ,care for their health ,and provide for their education. Clearly,in a system where every decision第10 页共52 页羽天全国英语六级阅读理解is made on the basis of tradition alone,progress may be difficult to achieve. A stagnant society may result. 1.What is the main purpose of the passage? A.To outline contrasting types of economic systems. B.To explain the science of economics. C.To argue for the superiority of one economic system. D.To compare barter and money-exchange markets. 2.In the second paragraph,the word “real”in “real goods”could best be replaced by ,A.high quality B.concrete C.utter D.authentic. 3.According to the passage,a barter economy can generate . A.rapid speed of transactions. B.misunderstandings. C.inflation D.difficulties for the traders. 4.According to the passage,who has the greatest degree of control in the administered system?A.Individual households B.Small businesses. C.Major corporations. D.The government. 5.Which of the following is not mentioned by the author as a criterion for determining a person‘s position in a traditional society? A.Family background B.Age C.Religious beliefs. D.Custom 8.2007 年12 月英语六级阅读专项训练(8)Western airliner manufacturers seem to be tripping over themselves in their eagerness to sign collaborative agreements with Asian partners as a low-cost route to developing new airliners. Their potential Asian partners seem to be tripping over themselves to sign such agreements ,as a low-cost route to acquiring new airliner technology. If they are not careful the two sides will end up tripping over each other:the one by selling its birth-right for short-term gain,the other by trying to break into a market which isn‘t big enough to sustain it. Technology transfer works in a growing market ,where the aspirations of the new entrant receiving that technology can be met through expansion. The airliner market is not such a device. Even the most optimistic projections of airliner sales for the next 20 years show that airliner manufacture can only be profitable if a small number of aircraft builders share the available sales. It follows that if new manufacturers come into the market and take sales,their sales must come from substitution,not expansion. Given the complexity of today‘s airliners,it is unlikely that any new entrant will have both the financial and technical resources to come into the market without the involvement of an established manufacturer. In the short term,such involvement may not be to the exclusive benefit of the new entrant :most of the established manufacturers are searching for ways to reduce costs of manufacture.第11 页共52 页羽天全国英语六级阅读理解In the short term ,,it can be of benefit to an established Western manufacturer to have either components of complete air –frames made or assembled in lower-wage economics such a China,Taiwan or Korea ,while retaining the design ,development and marketing of aircraft for itself. It would be a very unwise Western manufacturer which did not heed the fact that these developing economies are acquiring skills (like computing )at least as quickly as they are acquiring skills in metallbashing. The danger comes when the new entrant no longer needs the established Western partner because it has acquired the technical and intellectual ability to design and build its own aircraft. An Asian partner may well find itself in the happy position of having the low-cost labour base,the high-cost technology base and the vital financ ial base to build a new airliner. 1.The author‘s attitude towards Western/eastern collaboration can be depicted as .A.positiveB.progressiveC.conservativeD.negative 2.“The airliner market is not such a device ” means that the airliner market . A.does not encourage technology transfer B.is too limited to offer chances of success C.requires hi-tech rather than unaccepted devices D.is full of competitions even for new entrants 3.Established manufacturers search for partners in order to . A.save the cost of the airframe B.improve some aircraft components C.save the cost of labour D.develop new technology 4.According to the author,a wise established manufacturer should . A.try to benefit from both financial and technical resources B.break up his partnership with the East once profits are made C.keep a tight told over hi-tech development and marketing of airliners D.collaborate。
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英语六级仔细阅读练习题附答案及解析Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.3D glasses help doctors perform invasive surgery when their hands are obscured from view.Moviegoers arent the only ones wearing 3D glasses nowadays—doctors could benefit fromthem, too, a new study suggests.In the past, doctors have been skeptical of using 3D technology in their work, preferring to relyon their own experience. But that may change, thanks to improved 3D glasses and even glasses-free systems .Funded by industry sponsors, the study of 50 surgeons using the new technologyshowed improvements in surgical precision and speed."While the technology still requires some free-tuning, technology without the need to wearspecial glasses will increase the popularity of 3D systems in operating rooms," study leader UlrichLeiner of the Fratmhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Berlin said in a statement.Improvements to screens are driving developments in 3D technology. High-definition screensare already available. The next step is ultra-high definition, with a sixteen fold improvement inresolution, according to study co-author Michael Witte of HHI.To evaluate whether new 3D technology was ready for hospital applications, researchersinvited surgeons from the Klinikum rechts der Isars surgical hospital to test it out. A leadingendoscope manufacturer and an international display company funded the study.The surgeons tested four different systems: 2D, 3D with glasses, 3D without glasses and amirror-based 3D system. The glasses-free model relied on an eye-tracking camera system thatdelivered separate images to each eye, creating a 3D effect in the brain.The images came from endoscopic cameras used in surgery. The doctors practiced asimulated, routine surgical procedure in which they sewed up a wound in a model patientsstomach using a needle and thread. Just as in a minimally invasive surgery, their hands wereobscured from view and they reliedon the screen to see what they were doing."The results were astonishing," Hubertus Feuner, of the Klinikum rechts der Isar universityhospital in Munich, said in a statement. The winning surgeon performed the procedure in 15percent less time and with considerably increased precision, Feuner said.The most surprising thing was that not only young surgeons benefited, but experiencedsurgeons also, according to the researchers. The winning doctor has worked at the hospital formore than 30 years and has conducted thousands of operations.The surgeons in the study rated the 3D glasses system the highest, and the glasses-free systemas comparable to the 2D one.Once the technology is widely available, will doctors begin using it. "Theres no doubt that 3Dwill be a commodity in the future." Witte said.The studys findings will be presented at a congress of the Association of German. Surgeons inBerlin in April. The findings have not been published in a scientific peer-reviewed journal.56. What can be inferred about 3D glasses from the second paragraph?A) Doctors usually have a poor eye sight.B) Moviegoers often wear 3D glasses to watch films.C) Some doctors are moviegoers.D) Moviegoers know how to perform surgery.57. What was the doctors attitude toward 3D technology in the past?A) Apathetic.B) Positive.C) Disappointed.D) Doubtful.58. To create a 3D effect in the brain, an eye-tracking camera systemA) enabled each eye to receive separate imagesB) separated images for each eyeC) delivered images of each eye through a cameraD) delivered to each glass separate images59. The benefits that 3D technology may bring to surgeons areA) less precision and less timeB) improved precision and less timeC) improved precision and more timeD) obscured views60. What can be inferred from the feedbacks of the surgeons?A) 3D glasses system has the highest technology.B) 3D glasses system is no better than 2D one.C) The glasses-free system is superior to the 2D one.D) 3D glasses system is more helpful than the glasses-free system. Passage TwoQuestions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.A recent BBC documentary, The Town That Never Retired, sought to show the effects ofincreasing the state pension age by putting retirees back to work.Although the results were entertaining, they need not have bothered. Away from the cameras,unprecedented numbers of older people are staying in work .Since the start of the recession thatbegan in 2008, the number of 16-to 24-year-olds in work has fallen by 597,000. Over the sameperiod the number of workers over the age of 65 has increased by 240 o000.The graying of the British workforce dates back to around 2001, since when the proportion ofolder people working has nearly doubled. But it hasaccelerated since the start of the recession.There are several reasons why. Happily, people are living longer and healthier lives, which makesstaying in work less daunting than it was. Less happily, low interest rates, a stagnant stockmarket and the end of many defined-benefit ( 固定收益 ) pension schemes make it a financialnecessity. And changing attitudes ,spurred by rules against age discrimination, are making it easierthan ever.Most older workers are simply hanging on at the office: 63% of workers over state pension agehave been with their employer for more than ten years. Over two-thirds of them work part-time,mostly doing jobs that they once performed full-time. A big advantage is that they do not paynational insurance contributions effectively a second income tax on younger workers.According to Stephen McNair, director of the Centre for Research into the Older Workforce, thisflexibility explains why older workers have not suffered so much in the slump. Instead of slashingthe workforce, as in previous recessions, many firms have halted recruitment and cut workinghours. At small businesses in particular, keeping on older workers is cheaper and less risky thantraining replacements. Over half of workers over state pension age work for businesses with fewerthan 25 employees.Christopher Nipper, who owns David Nipper, a womens wear manufacturer based in Derbyshire,prizes his semi-retired workers, who can be employed at short notice and do not need to work full-time to survive. Retired machinists can fill in if there is a surge in orders; former sales advisers canwork as part-time consultants. As his competitors have movedproduction abroad, depleting thepool of trained labour,retaining older workers and their skills has become even more important.There is scope for the older workforce to expand. Workers over the age of 50 who are madeunemployed find it harder to pick up new jobs, which could mean that more oldsters want to workthan are able to. That would be good. The Office for Budget Responsibility, the fiscalwatchdog,reported on July 12th that an ageing, unproductive population is the biggest long-term threat toBritains economic health.Data from the OECD, a think-tank, shows that employment rates among workers approachingretirement age are split in Europe, with old workers hanging on best in the north. Governmentcredit ratings follow a similar pattern. That Britains ageing workforce more closely resemblesGermanys than Italys could prove the countrys salvation(拯救).61. Which of the following can be inferred from the BBC documentary The Town That NeverRetired?A) What it intends to reveal is contrary to the reality.B) It has received good comments from audience.C) It aims to criticize the poor pension provision in the UK.D) It reflects the current phenomenon of retirees coming back to work.62. According to the passage, "it" ( Line 6, Para. 2 ) refersto__________.A) age discriminationB) the changing attitudeC) a financial necessityD) staying in work after retiring63. According to Paragraph 3, which of the following is TRUE about the older workers in the UK?A) Most of them are loyal to their former employers.B) Most of them rarely challenge themselves by seeking new types of jobs.C) They do not have to pay national income tax.D) 63% of them continue to work over the retirement age.64. According to Christopher Nieper, why are semi-retired workers favored in hiring?A) Because they can fill in the job vacancy in a brief time.B) Because the pool of labour in the UK is drained.C) Because they work harder than the yoking because of economic pressure.D) Because their working hours can be as flexible as they want.65. It can be concluded from the last paragraph that __________.A) Britains ageing workforce is similar to ItalysB) Britains credit ratings are higher than ItalysC) Britains salvation is better than GermanysD) Britains employment rates of ageing workforce are higher than Germanys。
英语六级阅读真题及答案
英语六级阅读真题及答案Passage OneLike most people。
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a man who was talking on his cell phone waved me away and then beckoned me over.When I was 19 years old。
I worked as a waiter during the summers in college and was treated like a peon by many people。
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英语六级阅读理解真题及详解
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Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.According to the text, 127 countries have legislation protecting a citizen’s right to communicate privately by mail; 87 countries have entered into mutual legal assistance arrangements with other nations; and 66 countries have passed legislation mandating privacy in some areas. The U.S. does not have privacy legislation. However, according to the text, a right to privacy is constitutionally supported in the U.S. Le Code de Création pour l’Internet, passed in May 1996, declares illegal any attempt to threaten the privacy of citizens communicating, chatting, and entering into e-contracts with foreign merchants via the worldwide web.1. This passage mainly discusses ______.A) privacy legislation in different countriesB) codes of conduct for good communicationC) legal protection for Internet purchasersD) legislation for international mutual assistance2. According to this passage, 127 countries ______.A) have legislation agreeing to privacy of communication by mailB) have passed legislation to support online shoppingC) have entered into mutual legal assistance agreementsD) have supported the right to privacy constitutionally3. In the U.S., ______.A) citizens’ right to privacy is supported by the constitutionB) privacy legislation fully protects e-contractingC) threatening others’ privacy is illegal on the InternetD) the right to privacy is not constitutionally supported4. The French have ______.A) developed an international code of communicationB) introduced a taxation code for Internet communicationC) forbidden the Internet to merchants dealing with foreign consumersD) p assed a law to safeguard citizens’ privacy on the Internet5. Privacy is protected by legislation in ______ countries.A) 87 B) 66 C) 127 D) 214解析:1. A。
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六级阅读6篇(1)With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporation’s news coverage, as well as listen to it. And of course in Britain listeners and viewers can tune into two BBC television channels, five BBC national radio services and dozens of local radio stations. They are brought sport, comedy, music, news and current affairs, education, religion, parliamentary coverage, children’s programs and films for an annual license fee of 83 per household.It is a remarkable record, stretching back over 70 years—yet the BBC’s future is now in doubt. The Corporation will survive as a publicly-funded broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programs are now the subject of a nationwide debate in Britain.The debate was launched by the government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC—including ordinary listeners and viewers—to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought if it was worth keeping. The reason for its inquiry is that the BBC’s royal charters runs out in 1996 and it must decide whether to keep the organization as it is or to make changes.Defenders of the Corporation—of whom there are many—are fond of quoting the American slogan “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The BBC “ain’t broke”, they say, by which they mean it is not broken (as distinct from the word “broke”, meaning having no money), or why bother to change it?Yet the BBC will have to change, because the broadcasting world around it is changing. The commercial TV channels—ITV and Channel 4—were required by the Thatcher Government’s Broadcasting Act to become more commercial, competing with each other for advertisers, and cutting costs and jobs. But it is the arrival of new satellite channels—funded partly by advertising and partly by viewers’ subscriptions—which will bring about the biggest change in the long term.1.The world famous BBC now is confronted with ___.A.the problem of news coverageB.an uncertain prospectC.inquiries by the general publicD.shrinkage of audience2.In the passage, which of the following about the BBC is not mentioned as the key issue?A.Extension of its TV service to Far East.B.Programs as the subject of a nation-wide debate.C.Potentials for further international co-operations.D.Its existence as a broadcasting organization.3.The BBC’s “royal charter” (Paragraph 4) represents _A.the financial support from the royal familyB.the privileges granted by the QueenC.a contract with the QueenD.a unique relationship with the royal family4.The word “broke” in “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” means ___.A.broke downB.bankruptC.fragmentedD.penniless5.The first and foremost reason why the BBC has to read just itself is no other than ___.A.the emergence of commercial TV channelsB.the enforcement of Broadcasting Act by the governmentC.the urgent necessity to reduce cost—and—job expensesD.the challenges of new satellite channels (1) 答案: BCCDD(2)Federal Reserve System, central banking system of the United States, popularlycalled the Fed. A central bank serves as the banker to both the banking community and the government; it also issues the national currency, conducts monetary policy, and plays a major role in the supervision and regulation of banks and bank holding companies. In the U.S. these function are the responsibilities of key officials of the Federal Reserve System: the Board of Governors, located in Washington, D.C., and the top officers of 12 district Federal Reserve banks, located throughout the nation. The Fed’s actions, described below, generally have a significant effect on U.S. interest rates and, subsequently, on stock, bond, and other financial markets.The Federal Reserve’s basic powers are concentrated in the Board of Governors, which is paramount in all policy issues concerning bank regulation and supervision and in most aspects of monetary control. The board enunciates the Fed’s policies on both monetary and banking matter. Because the board is not an operating agency, most of the day-to day implementation of policy decisions is left to the district Federal Reserve banks, stock in which is owned by the commercial banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Ownership in this instance, however, does not imply control; the Board of Governors and the heads of the Reserve banks orient their policies to the public interest rather than to the benefit of the private banking system.The U.S. banking system’s regulatory apparatus is complex; the authority of the Federal Reserve i shared in some instances for example, in mergers or the examination of banks with other Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). In the critical area of regulating the nation’s money supply in accordance with national economic goals, however, the Federal Reserve is independent within the government, Income and expenditures of the Federal Reserve banks and of the board of governors are not subject to the congressional appropriation process; the Federal Reserve is self-financing. Its income ($20.2 billion in 1992) comes mainly from Reserve bank holdings of income-earning securities, primarily those of the U.S. government. Outlays ($1.5 billion in 1992) are mostly for operational expenses in providing services to the government and for expenditures connected with regulation andmonetary policy. In 1992 the Federal Reserve returned 416.8 billion in earnings to the U.S. treasury.1.The Fed of the United States ___.A.function as China BankB.is the counterpart of People’s Bank of ChinaC.is subjected to the banking community and governmentD.has 13 top officers who can influence the American financial market2.The fact that stock in the Fed belongs to commercial banks ___.A.doesn’t mean the latter is in controlB.means the latter is in controlC.means the latter is subjected to the Reserve banksD.means the Reserve banks orient the latter’s policies3.Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?A.The fed is a very big, complex and significant system which comprises many local banks.B.All the commercial banks are not the components of Federal Reserve System.C.Board of governors is the supreme policy-makers of America.D.District Reserve banks rather than Board of governors perform the day-to-day policies.4.The authority of the federal Reserve ___.A.has to be shared with other establishments.B.is exclusive at other timesC.isn’t limited by comptroller of the Currency and FDICD.is limited by Board of governors5.Income of the Board of governors ___.A.is borrowed from the U.S. treasuryB.is used by the government to make various policieses from the U.S. TreasuryD.is not granted by the government(2) 答案:BACBD(3)If we look at education in our own society, we see two sharply different factors. First of all, there is the overwhelming majority of teachers, principals, curriculum planners, school superintendents, who are devoted to passing on the knowledge that children need in order to live in our industrialized society. Their chief concern is with efficiency, that is, with implanting the greatest number of facts into the greatest possible number of children, with a minimum of time, expense, and effort. Classroom learning often has as its unspoken goal the reward of pleasing the teacher. Children in the usual classroom learn very quickly that creativity is punished, while repeating a memorized response is rewarded, and concentrate on what the teacher wants them to say, rather than understanding the problem.The difference between the intrinsic and the extrinsic aspects of a college education is illustrated by the following story about Upton Sinclair. When Sinclair was a young man, he found that he was unable to raise the tuition money needed to attend college. Upon careful reading of the college catalogue, however, he found that if a student failed a course, he received no credit for the course, but was obliged to take another course in its place. The college did not charge the student for the second course, reasoning that he had already paid once for his credit. Sinclair took advantage of this policy and not a free education by deliberately failing all his courses.In the ideal college, there would be no credits, no degrees, and no required courses.A person would learn what he wanted to learn. A friend and I attempted to put this ideal into action by starting a serials of seminars at Brandeis called “Freshman Seminars Introduction to the Intellectual Life.” In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it—since anyone can improve and learn. The student body might include creative, intelligent children as well as adults; morons as well as geniuses (for even morons can learn emotionally andspiritually). The college would be ubiquitous—that is, not restricted to particular buildings at particular times, and teachers would be any human beings who had something that they wanted to share with others. The college would be lifelong, for learning can take place all through life. Even dying can be a philosophically illuminating, highly educative experience.The ideal college would be a kind of education retreat in which you could try to find yourself; find out what you like and want; what you are and are not good at. The chief goals of the ideal college, in other words, would be the discovery of identity, and with it, the discovery of vocation.1.In the author’s opinion, the majority of education workers ___.A.emphasize independent thought rather than well-memorized responsesB.tend to reward children with better understanding rather than with a goal for creditsC.implant children with a lot of facts at the expense of understanding the problemD.are imaginative, creative and efficient in keeping up with our industrialized society2.Children in the usual classroom learn very quickly when ___.A.they are required to repeat what teacher has saidB.they read books that are not assigned by the teacherC.they know how to behave themselves in face of the teacherD.they can memorize the greatest number of facts in the shortest period of time3.An extrinsically oriented education is one that ___.A.focuses on oriented educationB.takes students’ need into accountys emphases on “earning a degree”D.emphasizes learning through discussion4.To enter the author’s ideal college, a student ___.A.has to pass an enrollment examB.should be very intelligentC.needn’t worry about homeworkD.can be best stimulated for creative work5.The author’s purpose of writing the article is ___.A.to advocate his viewsB.to criticize college studentsC.to stress self-teaching attitudeD.to put technological education to a later stage(3) 答案:CACCA(4)Culture is the total sum of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group og human beings. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to us.To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages.People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of “backward” languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They fall behind our Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflects the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this department, however, two things are to be noted: 1. All languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. 2. The objects and activitiesrequiring names and distinctions in “backward” languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. An accidental language distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness (“this” and “that”); some languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or to the person addressed, or removed from both, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future.This study of language, in turn, casts a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all culture are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.1.the language of uncivilized groups as compared to Western languages are limited in ___.A.sound patternsB.vocabulariesC.grammatical structuresD.both A and B2.The author says that professional linguists recognize that ___.A.Western languages are superior to Eastern languagesB.All languages came from grunts and groansC.The hierarchy of languages is difficult to understandD.There is no hierarchy of languages3.The article states that grunt-and-groan forms of speech are found ___.A.nowhere todayB.among the Australian aboriginesC.among Eastern culturesD.among people speaking “backward” languages4.According to the author, languages, whether civilized or not, have ___.A.the potential for expanding vocabularyB.their own sound patternsC.an ability to transfer ideasD.grammatical structures5.Which of the following is implied but not articulated in the passage?A.The study of languages has discredited anthropological studies.B.The study of language has reinforced anthropologists in their view that there is no hierarchy among cultures.C.The study of language is the same as the study of anthropologists.D.The study of languages casts a new light upon the claim of anthropologists.(4) 答案:BDAAB(5)Most people would probably agree that many individual consumer adverts function on the level of the daydream. By picturing quite unusually happy and glamorous people whose success in either career of sexual terms, or both, is obvious, adverts construct an imaginary world in which the reader is able to make come true those desires which remain unsatisfied in his or her everyday life.An advert for a science fiction magazine is unusually explicit about this. In addition to the primary use value of the magazine, the reader is promised access to a wonderful universe through the product—access to other mysterious and tantalizing worlds and epochs, the realms of the imagination. When studying advertising, it is therefore unreasonable to expect readers to decipher adverts as factual statements about reality. Most adverts are just too meagre in informative content and too rich in emotional suggestive detail to be read literally. If people read then literally, they would soon be forced to realize their error when the glamorous promises held out by the adverts didn’t materialize.The average consumer is not surprised that his purchase of the commodity does not redeem the promise of the advertisement, for this is what he is used to in life: the individual’s pursuit of happiness and success is usually in vain. But the fantasy is his to keep; in his dream world he enjoys a “future endlessly deferred”.The Estivalia advert is quite explicit about the fact that advertising shows us notreality, but a fantasy; it does so by openly admitting the daydream but in a way that insists on the existence of a bridge linking daydream to reality—Estivalia, which is “for daydream believers”, those who refuse to give up trying to make the hazy ideal of natural beauty and harmony come true.If adverts function on the daydream level, it clearly becomes in adequate to merely condemn advertising for channeling readers’ attention and desires towards an unrealistic, paradisiacal nowhere land. Advertising certainly does that, but in order for people to find it relevant, the utopia visualized in adverts must be linked to our surrounding reality by a casual connection.1.The people in adverts are in most coves ___.A.happy and glamorousB.successfulC.obviousD.both A and B2.When the glamorous promises held out by the adverts didn’t materialize the average consumer is not surprised, because ___.A.The consumer is used to the fact that the individual’s pursuit of happiness and success is usually in vain.B.Adverts are factual statements about reality.C.The consumer can come into the realms of imagination pictured by adverts.D.Adverts can make the consumer’s dreams come true.3.What’s the bridge linking daydream to reality in adverts?A.The product.B.Estivalia.C.Pictures.D.Happy and glamorous people.4.Why does the consumer accept the daydream in adverts?A.Because the consumer enjoys a “future endlessly deferred.”B.Because the consumer gives up trying to make his dream come true.C.Because the utopia is visualized in adverts.D.Because his purchased of the commodity does not redeem the promise of the advertisement.5.What is this passage mainly concerned with?A.Many adverts can be read literally.B.Everyone has a daydream.C.Many adverts function on the level of the daydream.D.Many adverts are deceitful because they can not make good their promises.(5)答案:DABAC(6)The establishment of the Third Reich influence events in American history by starting a chain of event, which culminated in war between Germany and the United states. The complete destruction of democracy, the persecution of Jew, the war on religion, the cruelty and barbarism of the Nazis, and especially, the plans of Germany and her allies, Italy and Japan, for world conquest caused great indignation in this country and brought on fear of another world war. While speaking out against Hitler’s atrocities, the American people generally favored isolationist policies and neutrality. The Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1936 prohibited trade with any belligerents or loans to them. In 1937 the President was empowered to declare an arms embargo(禁运)in wars between nations at his discretion.American opinion began to change somewhat after president Roosevelt’s “quarantine the aggressor” speech at Chicago (1937) in which he severely criticized Hitler’s policies. Germany’s seizure of Austria and the Munich Pact for the partition of Czechoslovakia (1938) also aroused the American people. The conquest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 was another rude awakening to the menace of the Third Reich. In August 1939 came the shock of Nazi-Soviet Pact and in September the attack on Poland, the outbreak of European war. The United States attempted to maintain neutrality in spite of sympathy for the democracies arrayed against the Third Reich. The Neutrality Act of 1939 repealed the arms embargo and permitted“cash and carry” exports of arms to belligerent nations. A strong national defense program was begun. A draft act was passed (1940) to strengthen the military service.A Lend Lease Act (1941) authorized the President to sell, exchange, or lend materials to any country deemed necessary by him for the defense of the United States. Help was given to Britain by exchanging certain overage destroyers for the right to establish American bases in British territory in the Western Hemisphere. In August 1941, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met and issued the Atlantic Charter that proclaimed the kind of a world which should be established after the war. In December 1941, Japan launched the unprovoked attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor. Immediately thereafter, Germany declared war on the United States.1.One item occurring before 1937 that the author does not mention in his list of actions that alienated the American public was ___.A.Nazi barbarismB.The pacts with ItalyC.German plans for conquestD.The burning of the Reichstag2.The Neutrality Act of 1939 ___.A.restated America’s isolationist policiesB.proclaimed American neutralityC.permitted the selling of arms to belligerent nationsD.was a cause of our entrance into World War Ⅱ3.An event that did not occur in 1939 was the ___.A.invasion of PolandB.invasion of CzechoslovakiaC.passing of the Neutrality ActD.establishment of the University of Leipzig in Germany4.The Lend Lease Act was blueprinted to ___.A.strengthen our national defenseB.provide battleships to the AlliesC.help the BritishD.promote the Atlantic Charter5.The Neutrality Act of 1939 favored Great Britain because ___.A.the British had command of the seaB.the law permitted us to trade only with the AlliesC.it antagonized JapanD.it led to the Lend Lease Act (6) 答案:DCDAA(1)It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) history, six times more deadly than the Titanic.When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes (鱼雷) fired from a Russian submarine in the final winter of World War II, more than 10,000 people - mostly women, children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Nazi Germany - were packed aboard. An ice storm had turned the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted andbegan to go down. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought offthose in the water who had the strength to try to claw their way aboard. Most people froze immediately. 'Tll never forget the screams," says Christa Ntitzmann, 87, one of the 1,200 survivors. She recalls watching the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave - and into seeming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more than half a century.Now Germany's Nobel Prize-winning author Gtinter Grass has revived the memory of the 9,000 dead, including more than 4,000 children - with his latest novel Crab Walk, published last month. The book, which will be out in English next year, doesn't dwell on the sinking; its heroine is a pregnant young woman who survives the catastrophe only to say later: "Nobody wanted to hear about it, not here in the West (of Germany) and not at all in the East." The reason was obvious. As Grass put it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: "Because the crimes weGermans are responsible for were and are so dominant, we didn't have the energy left to tell of our own sufferings.''The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable - and necessary. By unreservedly owning up to their country's monstrous crimes in the Second World War, Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad, marginalize ( 使...不得势) the neo- Nazis at home and make peace with their neighbors. Today's unified Germany is more prosperous and stable than at any time in its long, troubled history. For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay. But even the most politically correct Germans believe that they' ye now earned the right to discuss the full historical record. Not to equate German suffering with that of its victims, but simply to acknowledge a terrible tragedy.1. Why does the author say the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst tragedy in maritime history?A) It was attacked by Russian torpedoes.B) Most of its passengers were frozen to death.C) Its victims were mostly women and children.D) It caused the largest number of casualties.22. Hundreds of families dropped into the sea whenA) a strong ice storm tilted the shipB) the cruise ship sank all of a suddenC) the badly damaged ship leaned toward one sideD) the frightened passengers fought desperately for lifeboats23. The Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy was little talked about for more than half a century because GermansA) were eager,to win international acceptanceB) felt guilty for their crimes in World War IIC)~ad been pressured to keep silent about itD) were afraid of offending their neighbors24. How does Gunter Grass revive the memory of the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy?A) By presenting the horrible scene of the torpedo attack.B) By describing the ship's sinking in great detail.C) By giving an interview to the weekly Die Woche.D) By depicting the survival of a young pregnant woman.25. It can be learned from the passage that Germans no longer think thatA) they will be misunderstood if they talk about the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedyB) the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy is a reasonable price to pay for the nation's past misdeedsC) Germany is responsible for the horrible crimes it committed in World War IID) it-is wrong to equate their sufferings with those of other countries(2)Given the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools, it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say 'about their school experience. In one study of 400 adul who had achieved distinction in all areas of life, researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school. Few MacArthur Prize fellows, winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment, had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs. Anecdotal ( 名人轶事) reports support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Butler Yeats all disliked school. So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school. About Oliver Goldsmith, one of his teachers remarked, "Never was so dull a boy." Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated.Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their, gifts were not scholastic. Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way. But most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest. Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school: "Because I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own thoughts, I was difficult to teach." As noted earlier, gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconformists. Nonconformity and stubbornness (and Yeats's level of arrogance and self-absorption) are likely to lead to Conflicts with teachers.When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers. A writing prodigy (神童) studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was taught far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher. High-IQ children, in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools. About half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school. They all did well in school and took honors classes when available, and some skipped grades.26. The main point the author is making about schools is thatA) they should satisfy the needs of students from different family backgroundsB) they are often incapable of catering to the needs of talented studentsC) they should organize their classes according to the students' abilityD) they should enroll as many gifted students as possible27. The author quotes the remarks of one of Oliver Goldsmith's teachersA) to provide support for his argumentB) to illustrate the strong will of some gifted childrenC) to explain how dull students can also be successful。
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1.I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
我从不担心行动,而只担心没有任何行动。
2.If you would be loved, love and be loveable.
想被人爱,就要去爱别人,并让自己可爱。
3.The human must have the will, otherwise will accomplish nothing.
人要有毅力,否则将一事无成。
4.When the fight beings within himself, a man’s worth something.
当一个人内心开始斗争时,他就有了价值。
5.I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
我走的很慢,但我从来不会后退。
6.Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
与其诅咒黑暗,不如燃起蜡烛。
7.Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
爱是一种无限宽容的行为,一种已经成为习惯的温柔表情。
8.We all feel like forever is so far off in the distance. When perhaps it is so brief that we miss it
in the blink of an eye. So … give a hug to the person next to you.
我们都以为永远会很远,其实它可能短暂的连我们都看不见。
现在,拥抱你身边的人吧。
9.Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love.
我们当中极少数能做伟大的事情,但是每个人都可以用崇高的爱去做平凡的事。
10.When the world says, “Give Up!” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time”.
当全世界都要我放弃,还是期待有人轻语一声:再试一次。
11.Don’t make promises you can’t keep.
守不住的承诺就别说。
12.If you leave me, please don’t comfort me because each sewing has to meet stinging pain.
离开我就别安慰我,要知道每一次的缝补也会遭遇穿刺的痛。
13.Some o f us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss…But every once in a while you find
someone who’s iridescent, and when you do, nothing w ill ever compare.
有些人浅薄,有些人金玉其外,而败絮其中,有天你会遇到彩虹般绚丽的人…当你遇到TA,会觉得其他都是浮云。