2010年6月19日6级快速阅读答案及解析

2010年6月19日6级快速阅读答案及解析
1. How did Erin White feel upon seeing Barack Obama’s victory in the election”?
A) Excited.
B) Victorious.
C) Anxious.
D) Relieved.
此题问的是Eric对于Obama选举胜利后感觉如何？
此题从文中第一段来找，As Erin White watched the election results head towards victory for Barack Obama, she felt a burden lifting from her shoulders. 关键字为a burden lifting from her shoulders（肩上放下了一个重担）与D选项relieved同义，故此题答案为D。

2. Before the election, Erin White has been haunted by the question of whether ________.
A) she could obtain her MBA degree
B) she could go as far as she wanted in life
C) she was overshadowed by her white peers
D) she was really an achiever as a student
此题问的是选举前Erin被什么问题所困扰？
此题从文中第二段找答案，But there had always been these things in the back of my mind questioning whether I really can be who I want.
关键字是whether，题目中有个whether,而此句中也有个whether.
题目中有个词haunted意思是：长期不断地缠扰（某人）,缠绕, 萦绕
而此句in the back of my mind 与haunted同义，
所以要选择与I really can be who I want（我想成为我想成为的人）的意思相近，故选择B选项（在她的生活中，她想走多远，就能走多远，即她可以成为她想成为的人）。

3. What is the focus of Ashby Plant’s study?
A) Racist sentiments in America.
B) The power of role models.
C) Personality traits of successful blacks.
D) The dual character of African Americans.
此题问的是Plant的研究重点在于什么？
此题可以从文中找到答案:
Ashby Plant is one of a number of psychologists wh o seized on Obama’s candidacy to test hypotheses about the power of role models.
关键字为：the power of role models，与B选项对应，故此题答案为B。

4. In their experiments, Ray Friedman and his colleagues found that ________.
A) blacks and whites behaved differently during the election
B) whites’ attitude towards blacks has dramatically changed
C) Obama’s election has eliminated the prejudice against blacks
D) Obama’s success impacted blacks’ performance in language tests
此题问的是在试验中，Ray Friedman 和他的同事发现了什么？
此题也可以从文中找到相应的答案：When the Obama fever was at its height, however, the black participants performed much better. Those who had watched Obama’s acceptance speech as the Democrats’ presidential candidate performed just as well, on average, as the white subjects. 当奥巴马热达到最高潮时，那些黑人试验者表现就更好，这说明Obama的成功影响着黑人的表现，与D选项对应，故此题答案为D。

5. What do Brian Nosek’s preliminary results suggest?
A) The change in bias against blacks is slow in coming.
B) Bias against blacks has experienced an unusual drop.
C) Website visitor’s opinions are far from bei ng reliable.
D) Obama’s popularity may decline as time passes by.
此题问的是Brian 的初步结果显示什么？
此题从文中可以找到答案:Drop in bias
Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who runs a website that measures implicit bias using silimar test, has also observed a small drop in bias in the 700,000 visitors to the site since January 2007, which might be explained by Obama’s rise to popularity. However, his preliminary results suggests that change will be much slower coming than Plant’s results suggest.关键词为：change will be much slower coming，而根据原文，change具体指a small drop in bias against blacks.
所以综合起来就是：对黑人歧视的人的数量将减少，这一改变将会慢慢到来，与A选项对应，故此题答案为A。

6. A negative side of the Obama effect is that ________.
A) more people have started to criticise President Obama’s raci al policies
B) relations between whites and African Americans may become tense again
C) people are now less ready to support policies addressing racial inequality
D) white people are likely to become more critical of African Americans
此题问的是Obama effect所带来得消极影响是什么？
此题也可以从文中找到答案:
The Obama effect may have a negative side. Just one week after Obama was elected president, participants were less ready to support policies designed to address racial inequality than they had been two weeks before the election.
参与者在奥巴马当选后，支持解决种族不平等的政策的人变得少些了。

与C选项对应，故此题答案为C。

7. Cheryl Kaiser holds that people should be constanly reminded that ________.
A) Obama’s success is sound proof of black’s potential
B) Obama is but a rare example of black’s excellence
C) racial inequality still persists in American society
D) blacks still face obstacles in political participation
此题问的是Cheryl Kaiser 认为人们应该不停地被提醒什么事情？
此题也可以从文中找到答案：
Those trying to address issues of racial inequality need to constantly remind people of the inequalities that still exists to counteract the Obama’s effect.
关键词是：remind people of the inequalities that still exists 提醒人们不平等仍然存在，persist与exist是近义词，都是存在的意思。

与C选项对应，故此题答案为C。

8. According to Effron, if Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin had been elected, there would also have been a negative effect on our views of women.
此题问的是如果Hillary Clinton 或Sarah Palin 当选，会有什么负面影响？
从文中也可以找到答案：
“There’s no reason we wouldn’t have seen the same effect on our views of women if Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin had been elected,” says Effron. So the election of a female leader might have a downside for other women.
这里的the same effect 是指与奥巴马有同样的影响，即the negative effect.
关键词为：effect on our views of women ，故此题答案为：our views of women
9. It is possible that the Obama effect will be short-lived if there is a change in people’s political sentiment.
此题问的是如果人们的什么改变的话，奥巴马热将会消失。

从文中此处可以找到答案：We also don’t yet know how long the Obama effect—both its good side and its bad—will last. Political sentiment is notoriously changeale: What if things begin to go wrong for Obama, and his popularity slumps?
关键词为：Political sentiment is notoriously changeale即政治态度的改变。

后面又进一步解释说明。

故此题答案为：political sentiment
10. The worst possible aspect of the Obama effect is that people could ingore his race altogether and continue to hold on to their old racial sterotypes.
此题从文中最后一段可以找到答案：And what if Americans become so familiar with having Obama as their president that they stop considering his race altogether? “Over time he might become his own entity,” says Plant. This might seem like the ultimate defeat for racism, but ignoring the race of certain select individuals—a phenomenon that psychologists call subtyping—also has an insidious(隐伏的)side. “We think i t happens to help people preserve their beliefs, so they can still hold on to the previous sterotypes.” That could turn out to be the cruellest of all the twists to the Obama effect.
关键词为：hold on to the previous sterotypes，
这里需要解释下sterotypes:刻板印象（sterotype）便是众人共同形成的人格化
而An ethnic stereotype is a generalized representation of an ethnic group, composed of what are thought to be typical characteristics of members of the group. Ethnic stereotypes are commonly portrayed in ethnic jokes.
ethnic是与racial同义的，故此题答案为：sterotypes.。