Passage 1
Do you send and receive more phones calls or e-mail? If your answer is e-mail, or you wish it were, then a new breed of telecommunications devices called an e-mail phone or Internet phone may soon find its way into your kitchen or living room. Essentially, an e-mail phone, or e-phone for short, is the merger of telephone and computer. With most of these new screen phones, that means being able to read and reply to electronic mail directly from the phone, without starting up (or even owning) a PC. With some, it also means being able to search through the Web to make vacation plans or research homework assignments though at slow speeds and on a rather small screen. And you can still make phone calls, too.
No computer experience is required to use an e-phone. Most let you sign up with Internet service provider (ISP), which typically charges about ＄20 per month. Once you're past this tedious work and enter the account information into the phone, you can check your e-mail from either your computer or phone.
To assess your e-mail account from one of these phones, you typically have to select e-mail service from a menu. Phones with touch screens have an icon (图标) for that on the opening screen. For other phones, you press one of the buttons lining the bottom or sides of the display, much as with an ATM machine. The phone then calls your ISP. When the ISP picks up, the phone automatically transfers your account name and password. Once accepted, the ISP will start sending the phone your messages. By touching the item you want to read or hitting a button next to it, the message will be displayed. Once you've read it, you can reply to the message, move onto the next one, or, with most phones, delete the message from your account. You can check your e-mail manually, but most e-phones can also be set to check several times a day automatically. In automatic mode, the phone flashes to tell you mail is waiting. If you happen to be using the phone when it is scheduled to check for e-mail, the phone will automatically try again when the line is free.
One serious drawback to e-mail by phone is that it cannot receive (or send) attached files, whether they contain documents or graphics. Some phones will attempt to display simple text files as part of the message, but other types of files will appear as gibberish（乱码）, or not at all. If you share the e-mail account with a PC and don't delete the message, however, you can usually retrieve the message and file on your computer.
57. An e-mail phone is an improved device of telecommunication in that _________.
A) it can record a message in the form of e-mails
B) it can be used to receive and send e-mails
C) it can be connected with computers
D) it can be used to visit websites
58. Compared with a traditional telephone, an e-mail phone probably_________.
A) has a colored screen
B) has a larger size
C) has similar key arrangement
D) does not have a receiver
59. When an e-mail phone is being used to make phone calls, it_________.
A) cannot receive new messages
B) send out a signal of new messages
C) cannot display e-mail messages
D) automatically checks new messages
60. One fundamental flaw of e-mail phones is that people cannot use it to_________.
A) receive or send e-mails with attached files
B) receive attached files with documents
C) read attached files with graphics
D) read only messages in the form of simple text
61. It can be inferred from the passage that e-mails phones are designed to_________.
A) make transmission of e-mail messages faster
B) make communication through e-mails cheaper
C) make communication through e-mails easier
D) make communication through e-mails more popular
文章大意
文章介绍了一种新的电信装置--电子邮件电话。利用电子邮件电话，人们可以在不启动电脑的情况下也可以收发电子邮件，甚至可以浏览网页。利用电话的触摸屏或按钮登录账号后，人们便可以查收、浏览、回复、删除邮件，也可以启动电话自动查收邮件功能。该装置的缺点是不能收发附件，而且未删除的邮件在电脑中将被重新查收。
试题解析
57. 选B）。细节题。第一段第四句解释了e-mail phone的功能，即用电话代替电脑处理电子邮件，B）与之相符。排除干扰A）为无关选项，可直接排除；第一段第四句指出，有了e-mail phone，即使不开电脑，也可以处理电子邮件，故排除C）；第一段第五句说明不是所有的e-mail phone都可以浏览网页，故排除D）。
58. 选B）。推断题。第三段描述了e-mail phone的使用方法，可以得知e-mail phone必须具备可以显示邮件信息的显示器以及用于登录账号及回复邮件所需的键盘，可以推知e-mail phone肯定比普通电话体积大，B）与之相符。排除干扰显示电子邮件不一定需要彩屏，故排除A）；e-mail phone除了普通电话的数字键，肯定需要字母键以及诸多功能键才能执行其功能，故排除C）；第一段最后一句指出e-mail phone保留普通电话的通话功能，因此肯定带听筒，故排除D）。
59. 选A)。推断题。根据题干定位到原文第三段最后一句。如果e-mail phone在查收电子邮件时占线，则会等通话结束后再自动查收，可以推知通话过程中不能接收新邮件，A）与之相符。排除干扰第三段第十句说明只要有未读邮件，电话的指示灯就会不断闪烁，故排除B）；不能接收新邮件不说明不能查看已接收的邮件，故排除C）；D）与第三段最后一句不符。
60. 选D）。细节题。根据题干one fundamental flaw定位到原文第四段第一句和第二句。该段第二句说明e-mail phone将来只可以显示简单文本的附件内容，这说明现在还不能显示简单文本的附件内容，D）与之相符。排除干扰该段第一句指出e-mail phone 不能接收附件，与A）中"不能接受带附件的邮件"不一致，故排除A）；第一句指出，无论附件是文档文件还是图表文件都不能被接收或显示，B）和C）只是分别表述了其部分的意思，故排除。
61. 选C）。推断题。从原文第一段第二句及第二段第一句得知，e-mail phone可以安装在厨房及客厅等最经常使用的场所，而且即使不会操作电脑的人也可以用它来收发电子邮件，因此使电子邮件通信更为便利、简单，C）与之相符。排除干扰A）和B)为无关选项，可直接排除；D）是这项新发明产生的原因而不是目的。
Passage 2
Scientific consensus is a rare thing. But the experts agree almost unanimously on one thing —humankind is changing the earth's natural environment, and quickly. As an expanding global population spreads ever further around the globe, habitats (栖息地) are being destroyed to make room for mushrooming towns and cities, all the while consuming more and more oil and other fossil fuels.
In many ways humans have never had it so good: average global life expectancy has shot up by almost 20 years in the past half-century, most countries are getting richer by the day and medical science has beaten scores of previously fatal conditions. And yet there are increasing fears that this human-dominated phase of the earth's long history does much harm to the earth. The statistics compiled by the United Nations Environment Programme, or UNEP, can make for depressing reading. Species are becoming extinct at a speed around 100 times faster than would happen naturally. Almost half the world's original forests —the habitat which supports around two-thirds of the wildlife - has disappeared in the past three decades. Farming land is eaten by deserts around 30 times faster than ever before seen, while air pollution is thought to kill 50,000 annually in the United States.
Most seriously of all, the climate appears to be changing. The billion of tons of carbon dioxide pumped into the earth's atmosphere annually, along with other so-called greenhouse gases, is causing the earth to heat up, virtually all environmental scientists agree. Such a change would have a wide range of impacts on the natural world and human society.
Environmental campaigners —joined by increasing numbers of politicians —want urgent action. "We really should be very alarmed as a global community," says Tony Juniper, director of green group Friends of the Earth, "We still have time to do something about these things, but time is now extremely short. There is an increasingly confident assessment about the likelihood of the
consequences of global climate change, and the time scales that we have to deal with it."
The international response has been mixed. The 1997 Kyoto protocol (协议) committed industrialized nations to cut their combined greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2008, 12, but was undermined after the United States, the biggest global polluter, declined to approve the deal. Washington opposed Kyoto's methods rather than its aims. It acknowledged something needs to be done, calling for the country to cure its addiction to oil. Whatever the consensus on diagnosis, there is little agreement on action, something the UNEP warns must change. To tackle global warming, it warns that only a fundamental change in lifestyle and economy, with a significant moderation in the consumption of resources, can bring any hope of a solution.
62. By saying that "humans have never had it so good" (Line1, Para.2), the author means that people nowadays _________.
A) enjoy a much better life than before
B) has reached the peak of civilization
C) are more powerful in changing the earth
D) live in a world with more advanced medical science
63. What is the most alarming consequence of the fast growing population?
A) Species are dying out at an unnatural high speed.
B) Living areas for wildlife are disappearing rapidly.
C) The global weather is becoming warmer.
D) All kinds of natural resources are draining.
64. Concerned with the rising temperature of the earth, Tony Juniper suggests that_________.
A) there is no way to prevent the serious consequences
B) it has to be stopped with the help of politicians
C) measures should be carried out immediately to stop it
D) the serious consequences cannot be predicted
65. The US refused to join the 1997 Kyoto protocol because it_________.
A) thought it unnecessary to deal with the global warming
B) found it impossible to reach the goal set by the protocol
C) doubted whether it was treated equal as the biggest polluter
D) believed that control of oil use would be more effective
66. In order to handle the greenhouse effect, the UNEP warns that _________.
A) the world must agree on what has caused the changing climate
B) the world must agree on what may result from the changing climate
C) all the countries should agree on how to reduce the greenhouse gases
D) all the countries should take part in looking for the solutions
文章大意
全世界的科学家共同看到一个问题--人类正在迅速改变地球自然环境：人口膨胀、能源枯竭、物种锐减、原生林大幅度缩小、耕地沙化以及空气污染加剧，最严重的是大量二氧化碳等气体引发温室效应。环境保护的倡导者呼吁人们立即行动，但各国在解决办法上无法达成一致。联合国环境规划署认为只有各国共同努力，改变人类生活方式、缩减能源消费，才能遏制全球气候变暖。
试题解析
62.选A）。语义题。第二段第一句中冒号后的部分是对这句话的进一步解释：寿命的大幅度延长、生活水平的迅速提高以及医学的高度发展，使人们的生活比以往任何时候更加美好，A）正说明了这一点。排除干扰B）和C）为无关选项，可直接排除；发达的医学只是其中一方面，故排除D）。
63. 选C）。细节题。文章前两段描述了人类对自然环境各个方面造成的破坏。第三段第一句则明确指出：最严重的后果是气候发生了改变，C）与之相符。排除干扰A），B）和D）分别是文中第二段第四句Species are becoming extinct…faster than would happen naturally.，第一段第三句中的habitats are being destroyed以及该句中的consuming more and more oil and other fossil fuels 的同义表达，但和题干the most alarming consequence不符。
64. 选C）。推断题。根据题干Tony Juniper定位到原文第四段。第一句是该段的主旨句，指出环保主义者呼吁人们马上采取行动，作者引用Tony Juniper的话是为了说明这一点，C）中carry out measures immediately 是文中urgent action 的同义表达。排除干扰该段第二句指出：我们还有时间解决问题，故排除A）；第一句joined by increasing numbers of politicians 只说明越来越多的政治家呼吁环境保护，而不说明环境保护需要政治家的帮助，故排除B）；第三句指出人们对全球气候变化带来的后果做出了更加明确的估计，故排除D）。
65. 选D）。细节题。第五段第三句说明美国反对《京都协定书》的具体做法，第四句则指出美国的做法是号召全国降低对石油的依赖程度，D）与之相符。排除干扰A）与第五段第四句中的It acknowledged something needs to be done相反。
66. 选C）。推断题。根据题干the UNEP warns 定位到原文第五段第五句，该句指出，各个国家在如何采取行动方面没有达成一致，联合国环境规划署因此发出警告，要求改变这一现状，C）与之相符。排除干扰第三段第二句说明人们已经认可了全球气温升高的原因是向大气排放大量二氧化碳等气体，故排除A）；第五段第五句the consensus on diagnosis指各个国家对全球升温的原因及后果意见一致，故排除B）。
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Passage 3
Anthropologists（人类学家）believe that laughter dates back millions of years —we were laughing long before we were verbally communicating. Whether you speak Chinese, English or Swahili, a laugh or smile has virtually the same meaning all over the world.
Human beings love to laugh, and the average adult laughs 17 times a day. Humans love to laugh so much that there are actually industries built around laughter. Jokes, situation comedies and comedians are all designed to get us laughing, because laughing feels good. But why do we laugh? After all, it's not exactly a trait we share with other animal species. Philosopher John Morreall believes that the first human laughter may have begun as a gesture of shared relief at the passing of danger. And since the relaxation that results from laughter inhibits the biological fight-or-light response, laughter may indicate trust in one's companions.
Many researchers believe that the purpose of laughter is related to making and strengthening human connections. Laughter occurs when people are comfortable with one another, when they feel open and free. And the more laughter there is, the more bonding occurs within the group. This feedback "loop" of bonding-laughter-more bonding, combined with the common desire not to be singled out from the group, may be another reason why laughter is often contagious (易感染的). We laugh 30 times as much when we're with other people than we do when we are alone and laughing is not a solo activity.
Laughter is a great thing —that's why we've all heard the saying, "Laughter is the best medicine." There is strong evidence that laughter can actually do a number of positive physical things to improve health and help fight diseases. Blood pressure is lowered, and there is an increase in blood flow and in oxygenation of the blood, which further assists healing. In addition, people often store negative emotions, such as anger, sadness and fear, rather than expressing them. Laughter provides a way for these emotions to be harmlessly released. That's why some people who are upset or stressed out go to a funny movie or a comedy club, so they can laugh the negative emotions away. Otherwise, these negative emotions, when held inside, may cause biochemical changes that can affect our bodies. What may surprise you even more is the fact that researchers estimate that laughing 100 times is equal to 10 minutes on the rowing machine or 15 minutes on an exercise bike. Laughing can be a total body workout!
52. What is said about the communicative functions of laughter?
A) Meanings conveyed by laughter vary with languages.
B) Laughter serves as a way of interaction with animals.
C) Laughter helped interaction before humans could speak.
D) Human laughed at the very beginning as a sign of pleasure.
53. A laughter can arouse many others in the same group to laugh partly because________.
A) laughter is a sign of open mind and freedom
B) people tend to laugh in a friendly atmosphere
C) people laugh back to show their good manners
D) laughter gives people a sense of belonging
54. Why is laughter generally believed to be the best medicine?
A) Because it keeps people away from falling ill.
B) Because it is an effective way to cure patients.
C) Because it increases the content of oxygen in blood.
D) Because it helps patients recover more quickly.
55. The negative emotions stored inside will________.
A) do harm to physical health
B) have bad influence on psychology
C) be let out through laughter only
D) fade away as time goes on
56. Laughter can be a way of body exercise if people________.
A) laugh much more than they do in everyday
B) laugh much louder than they do in everyday
C) receive special training in how to laugh
D) learn to laugh while doing other exercises
文章大意
笑是人类共同的语言，早在人类掌握语言之前就学会用笑交流。人们喜欢笑，所以才有娱乐业。除了表达欣喜和信赖之外，许多学者认为笑是群体性行为，是建立和强化人际关系的手段。笑还有助于健康：有证据表明笑可以改善体质、预防疾病，而且笑可以将积蓄的负面情绪发泄出来，利于身心健康。笑甚至可以成为锻炼身体的运动项目。
试题解析
52. 选C）。细节题。文章第一段第一句说明人们早在语言出现之前就会笑了，C）与之相符。排除干扰A）与第一段第二句相反；第二段第五句说明笑不是人与动物共有的，故排除B）；根据第二段第六句as a gesture of shared relief 排除D）。
53. 选B）。推断题。根据题干定位到原文第三段第三句，feedback "loop" of bonding-laughter-more bonding是原因之一。笑既是人与人之间关系亲密的表现，也是使关系更加亲密的原因，所以当一个人笑时，其余人感受到友好的氛围，也会跟着笑，B）与之相符。排除干扰第三段第二句中的open and free指"坦诚、随意"，而不是A）中的"开明、自由"；文中的笑是情感性的，而C）中的笑是礼节性的；第三段第三句中另一个原因the common desire not to be singled out from the group指从众心理，而不是归属感，故排除D）。
54. 选D）。细节题。根据题干the best medicine定位到原文第四段第一句。D）与第三句assist healing 同义。排除干扰文中只说明笑有利于康复，而没有提是否能防病，故排除A）；第二句help fight diseases说明笑只能对治疗起辅助作用，故排除B）；第三句increase in oxygenation 指提高血液中氧气的补充速度，而不是增加血液中氧气的含量，故排除C）。
55. 选A）。细节题。根据题干negative emotions定位到原文第四段第四至七句，其中第七句
指出未发泄的负面情绪将引起影响身体健康的生化反应，A）与之相符。排除干扰第五句暗示负面情绪也可以通过其他的途径加以释放，故排除C）。
56. 选A）。推断题。根据题干body exercise 定位到原文最后一句body workout。从第四段第九句可以推知，每天上百次的笑才能达到一定的活动量，而第二段指出成年人平均每天才笑17次，A)与之相符。排除干扰B）可能是事实，但不能直接从原文推断出来。
Passage 4
A doubt crossed my mind earlier this week when interviewing Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on the president's proposal to use National Guard troops to support the border patrol efforts to curb illegal immigration from Mexico. Chertoff was explaining that the 6,000 troops who would supplement the 12,000 patrol agents on the border would be an interim(临时的) force. It might take two years, he said, to recruit and train several thousand additional men and women for the border agency that is now part of his department. As they come on line，the number of Guard troops would be reduced.
Whatever the long-term outcome for the border, this major increase is a significant step. I understand the president's position that tightened border security should be linked to a guest-worker program giving immigrants a way to work temporarily and legally in this country, and to a path for eventual citizenship for the millions who have been residing here illegally for many years. And tough measures should be taken now to close the border and deport the illegals, and only after that has been done should other steps be considered.
But the president's proposal faces a triple hazard in the real world. One potential problem: If the goal is to seal the border, will additional 6,000 National Guard troops plus a load of fancy surveillance (监视) equipment, be sufficient to do the job? Chances are, the answer is no. According to Chertoff and others in the administration, the size of the Border Patrol has grown by 3,000 - from 9,000 to 12,000 - in recent years and spending on border security has gone up at an even faster pace. But the tide of illegals drawn by the promise of jobs they cannot find in their home countries still floods into the United States. The second question is even more basic: Is the assumption that it's possible to seal the border at all realistic? There are students of the border, far more expert than I am, who say that the idea of a barrier — physical, electronic or human — along those miles of desert is unrealistic. Their cautions deserve attention. Finally, there is the political question: Can the House be moved by the proposal the president has put forward? The odds are against it. Bush might have failed last December in a forceful intervention when the House bill was being drafted, but now the chances of getting the House to move to anything like the Bush position are far worse.
Bush's point of view is honorable and generous. But he comes to it in a weakened political position and with a dubious proposal. It will be a miracle if he prevails.
57. National Guard troops are intended by the president to________
A) replace the inefficient border agents
B) help to strengthen the border security
C) work as members of the border agent
D) take charge of the border security
58. The president considers a reinforced border necessary to________
A) stop the large number of immigrants from Mexico
B) deport all the illegal immigrants living in the US
C) lead to a better management of immigrants in the US
D) protect American citizens from illegal immigrants
59. The possibility for the House to pass the proposal is further reduced by the political factor that________.
A) Bush has lost support in the House
B) Bush has some opponents in the House
C) the House tends to disagree with presidents
D) the House thinks it unrealistic to seal the border
60. What can be inferred about the author's view on this major increase?
A) He cannot decide if it will be effective to prevent illegal immigrations.
B) He believes that the number of Guard troops is larger than necessary.
C) He thinks there is still hope for the House to approve the proposal.
D) He respects its aim but doubts its feasibility.
61. The author of this passage is probably________
A) a reporter for a newspaper
B) a commentator on national policies
C) a member of the House
D) an expert on border issues
文章大意
本文是一名记者就国民警卫队支援美墨边境管理的总统议案，采访国内安全部部长Chertoff后的感想。作者理解和尊重总统提出此议案的出发点，但实际操作将面临三个问题：一是增派的国民警卫队人数及装备不足以制止非法移民；二是封锁边境的想法本身是否切实可行；三是总统能否说服国会通过此议案。作者认为，布什已经失去了政治优势，该计划本身又存在问题，因此很难被国会通过。
试题解析
57. 选B）。细节题。原文第一段第一句说明总统的提案是派遣国民警卫队的军人协助执行墨西哥交界处的巡逻任务，B）与之相符。排除干扰A）和D）原文未提及，可直接排除；
第一段第二至四句说明派遣的军队独立于边境安全机构，提供暂时的辅助，故可排除C）。
58. 选C）。推断题。文章第二段第二句说明了美国总统加固边防的出发点是：一方面保护合法移民在美国暂时逗留及工作的权利，另一方面使长期居住在美国的非法移民合法化，C）是对这两点的概括。排除干扰A）中immigrants包括合法移民和非法移民，而文章第二段最后一句deport the illegals 说明边境安全机构的任务是驱逐非法移民，故排除A）；B）与上述第二个方面不符。
59. 选A）。推断题。根据题干the political factor定位到原文第三段第九句the political question。第九、十两句说明无论议案本身是否可行，只要是布什提出的，很难得到众议院的认可。由此可以推知布什已经失去了议员们的支持，A）与之相符。其中，The odds are against it指“形势不利”。排除干扰个别的对手不会影响整个众议院的决定，故排除B）；C）为无关选项，可直接排除；D）针对议案本身存在的问题，与题干political factor不符。
60. 选D）。推断题。文章最后一段Bush's point of view is honorable and generous说明作者认为这次增援行动的目的是有重大意义的，但第三段作者从三个方面对这项计划的可行性提出了质疑，D）与之相符。排除干扰第三段第三句对增援人数是否足够起作用作了否定回答，A）与之不符，B）则正好与之相反；文章最后一句It will be a miracle if he prevails表明作者确信议案不会被通过，故排除C）。
61. 选A）。推断题。从第一段第一句可以推知作者很可能是一名新闻工作者，文章则是一篇社论，A)与之相符。排除干扰该句“采访”一词可以排除B)，C)和D)，而第三段第七句students of the border, far more expert than I am 则进一步否定了D)。
2017年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案第1套选词填空 After becoming president of Purdue University in2013, Mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that their students have actually achieved one of higher education’s most important goals: critical thinking skills. Two years before, a nationwide study of college graduates had shown that more than a third had made no 26 gains in such mental abilities during their school years. Mr. Daniels needed to__27__ the high cost of attending Purdue to its students and their families. After all, the percentage of Americans who say a college degree is "very important" has fallen 28 in the last 5-6 years. Purdue now has a pilot test to assess students' critical thinking skills. Yet like many college " such as a graduate's ability to investigate and reason. However, the professors need not worry so much. The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use __31__ metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitative literacy. Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly __32__ earlier studies. The organizers of the experiment concluded that far fewer students were achieving high levels on critical thinking than they were doing for written communication or quantitative literacy. And that conclusion is based only on students nearing graduation. American universities, despite their global 33__ for excellence in teaching, have only begun to demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning. Knowledge-based degrees are still important, but employers are still important, but employers are __34__ advanced thinking skills from college graduates. If the intellectual worth of a college degree can be __35__ measured, more people will seek higher education—and come out better thinkers. A. accurately B. confirm C. demanding D. doubtful E. drastically F. justify G. monopolized H. outcome I. predominance J. presuming K. reputation L. significant M. signify N. simultaneously O. standardized 答案：(26)L. significant (27)F. justify (28)E. drastically (29)D. doubtful (30)H. outcome (31)O. standardized (32)B. confirm (33)K. reputation (34)C. demanding (35)A. accurately 2017年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案第1套仔细阅读2篇 Open data sharers are still in the minority in many fields. Although many researchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science, most are reluctant to post the results of their own labors online. Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequence sat the GenBank repository (库) , and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some500 million objects—but these remain the excepti on, not the rule. Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not
大学英语六级阅读理解专题训练 2016年下半年英语四六级迫在眉睫，同学们准备得如何了?下面是网提供给大家关于大学阅读理解专题训练，希望对大家的备考有所帮助。 What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 1 about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. We’re 2 with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity(肥胖). Perhaps the 3 to this ambivalence(矛盾情结) lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop(经济作物) wasn’t eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more 4 ways of doing it. The immigrant experience, too, has been one of inharmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans” eat, but our nation’s food has come to be 5 by imports—pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the country’s most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles. Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation’s defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit ins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political 6 . But strong opinions have not brought 7 . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become 8 of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain. The 9 in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness. It’s no coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage(束缚). It’s w hat we eat—and how we 10 it with friends, family, and strangers—that help define America as a community today. A. answer I. creative B. result J. belief C. share K. suspicious D. guilty L. certainty E. constant M. obsessed F. defined N. identify
2018年12月英语六级阅读练习题及答案（五） Everyone has a moment in history, which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person ―the world today‖ or ―life‖ or ―reality‖ he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed(释放的)emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever. For me, this momentfour years in a moment in historywas the war. The war was and is reality for me. I still instinctively live and think in its atmosphere. These are some of its characteristics: Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the president of the United States, and he always has been. The other two eternal world leaders are Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. America is not, never has been, and never will be what the song and poems call it, a land of plenty. Nylon, meat, gasoline, and steel are rare. There are too many jobs and not enough workers. Money is very easy to earn but rather hard to spend, because there isnt very much to buy. Trains are always late and always crowded with ―service men‖. The war will always be fought very far from America, and it will never end. Nothing in America stands still for very long, including the people who are
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Passage One Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage. The 35 percent of African-American youth living in poverty are the most visible victims of what is often called the achievement gap. But black children of all socioeconomic levels perform worse on national tests and graduate in fewer numbers than their white middle-class peers. A study by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics found that African-American students scored, on average, 26 points lower than white students on their reading and math tests. Some say, as Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray did in their 1994 book, The Bell Curve, that the cause is genetic. And though The Bell Curve has been discredited in scientific circles, the idea that IQ is somehow linked to race has been slow to retreat. Others, like Cornell University researchers Gary Evans and Michelle Schamberg, believe that “physiological stress is a plausible model for how poverty could get into the brain and eventually interfere with achievement,” as they wrote in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Our best efforts at narrowing the gap nationally — think No Child Left Behind —haven’t worked. But locally, there are now signs of hope. At the Harlem
大学英语六级阅读模拟试题及答案 第一篇 A scientific panel convened by the World Health Organization recommended guidelines on Friday for doctors conducting clinical studies of SARS patients. The panel urged doctors to apply the guidelines in analyzing the masses of potentially useful information about various therapies that were collected in this year’s epidemic. Much of that information has not been published or analyzed. “It is a matter of urgency to get better analysis and review,” said Dr. Simon Mardel, a WHO official who led the two-day meeting that ended on Friday. He said thousands of potential therapies and compounds had been tested so far as researchers try to determine treatments for SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome. “We recognize that having no treatment for SARS is hindering our ability to control an epidemic in so many ways.” He said. In the epidemic earlier this year, various treatments, like drugs to fight the virus or strengthen the immune system, as well as traditional Chinese medicine, were delivered under emergency conditions, in widely different settings and countries to patients suffering from varying stages of the illness. Those conditions—generally without standardized measurements or controlled situations—have made it hard to interpret results. Standard supportive therapy like nursing, and in severe cases the use of mechanical respirators（呼吸器）to help patients breathe, is the mainstay（主要支持）of SARS care, and helped many patients survive. But doctors still do not know how best to treat SARS patients who have breathing difficulties. Dr. Mardel said. One method is invasive ventilation. A second method involves blowing oxygen into the lungs through a mask. Both carry the risk of transmitting the virus to hospital employees. Without proper analysis, the panel was unable to say definitively which treatment worked best, or which caused the most harm. “There is a lack of shared information,” Dr. Mardel said, noting that a lot of data have not been published. The panel also agreed on guidelines that would allow doctors to conduct quick and safe clinical trials, a process that generally takes years to complete. The world Health Organization, a United Nations agency did not release the guidelines. Dr. Mardel said they were flexible because no one knew where, when and in what setting SARS would return. Experts in many countries have already listed the treatments they want to test, and the health agency is leaving these decisions to individual nations. 1. Guidelines recommended by the scientific panel can be used for _____. A. gathering potentially useful information about various therapies collected B. conducting clinical studies of SARS patients C. determining treatment for SARS D. publishing all the information about SARS
2018年6月大学英语六级考试仔细阅读真题解析（卷二） Section C Directions:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage. Economically speaking, are we better off than we were ten years ago? Twenty years ago? In their thirst for evidence on this issue, commentators seized on the recent report by the Census Bureau, which found that average household income rose by 5.2% in 2015. Unfortunately, that conclusion puts too much weight on a useful, but flawed and incomplete, statistic. Among the more significant problems with the Census’s measure are that: 1) it excludes taxes, transfers, and compensation like employer-provided health insurance; and 2) it is based on surveys rather than data. Even if precisely measured, income data exclude important determinants of economic well-being, such as the hours of work needed to earn that income. While thinking about the question, we came across a recently published article by Charles Jones and Peter Klenow, which proposes an interesting new measure of economic welfare. While by no means perfect, it is considerably more comprehensive than average income, taking into account not only growth in consumption per person but also changes in working time, life expectancy, and inequality. Moreover, it can be used to assess economic performance both across countries and over time. The Jones-Klenow method can be illustrated by a cross-country example. Suppose we want to compare the economic welfare of citizens of the U.S. and France in 2005. In 2005, as the authors observe, real consumption per person in France was only 60% as high as the U.S., making it appear that Americans were economically much better off than the French on average. However, that comparison omits other relevant factors: leisure time, life expectancy, and economic inequality. The French take longer vacations and retire earlier, so typically work fewer hours; they enjoy a higher life expectancy, presumably reflecting advantages with respect to health care, diet, lifestyle, and the like; and income and consumption are somewhat more equally distributed there than in the U.S. Because of these differences, comparing France’s consumption with the U.S.’s overstates
Reading Comprehension for CET 6 Passage 1 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,before smashing 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 North American 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. 1.The main idea of the passage is______________. [A]Photographs taken by Western explorers reflect more Westerners’ perception of the indigenous cultures and the Western values. [B]There is a complicated relationship between the Western explorers and the primitive peoples. [C]Popular magazines such as National Geographic should show pictures of the exotic and idealized worlds to maintain high sales. [D]Anthropologists ask the natives to pose for their pictures,compromising the truthfulness of their pictures. 2.We can infer from the passage that early travelers to the native lands often_________. [A]took pictures with the natives [B]gave exaggerated accounts of the native lands
大学英语六级阅读理解练习及答案 导读：我根据大家的需要整理了一份关于《大学英语六级阅读理解练习及答案》的内容，具体内容：下面是我给大家整理的，希望对大家有帮助。Laziness is a sin(罪), everyone knows that. We have probably all had ... 下面是我给大家整理的，希望对大家有帮助。 Laziness is a sin(罪), everyone knows that. We have probably all had lectures pointing out that laziness is immoral, that it is wasteful, and that lazy people will never amount to anything in life. But laziness can be more harmful than that, and it is often caused by more complex reasons rather than simple wish to avoid work. Some people who appear to be lazy are suffering from much more serious problems. They may be so distrustful of their fellow workers that they are unable to join in any group task for fear of ridicule or of having their idea stolen. These people who seem lazy may be ruined by a fear of failure that prevents fruitful work. Or other sorts of fantasies (幻想) may prevent work; some people are so busy planning, sometimes planning great deals of fantastic achievements that they are unable to deal with whatever "lesser" work is on hand. Still other people are not avoiding work; strictly speaking, they are merely procrastinating rescheduling their day.
2011年6月大学英语六级真题及答案 Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2. Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage. How good are you at saying "no"? For many, it's surprisingly difficult. This is especially true of editors, who by nature tend to be eager and engaged participants in everything they do. Consider these scenarios: It's late in the day. That front-page package you've been working on is nearly complete; one last edit and it's finished. Enter the executive editor, who makes a suggestion requiring a more-than-modest rearrangement of the design and the addition of an information box. You want to scream: "No! It's done!" What do you do? The first rule of saying no to the boss is don't say no. She probably has something in mind when she makes suggestions, and it's up to you to find out what. The second rule is don't raise the stakes by challenging her authority. That issue is already decided. The third rule is to be ready to cite options and consequences. The boss's suggestions might be appropriate, but there are always consequences. She might not know about the pages backing up that need attention, or about the designer who had to go home sick. Tell her she can have what she wants, but explain the consequences. Understand what she's trying to accomplish and propose a Plan B that will make it happen without destroying what you've done so far. Here's another case. Your least-favorite reporter suggests a dumb story idea. This one should be easy, but it's not. If you say no, even politely, you risk inhibiting further ideas, not just from that reporter, but from others who heard that you turned down the idea. This scenario is common in newsrooms that lack a systematic way to filter story suggestions. Two steps are necessary. First, you need a system for how stories are proposed and reviewed. Reporters can tolerate rejection of their ideas if they believe they were given a fair hearing. Your gut reaction (本能反应) and dismissive rejection, even of a worthless idea, might not qualify as systematic or fair. Second, the people you work with need to negotiate a "What if ...?" agreement covering "What if my idea is turned down?" How are people expected to react? Is there an appeal process? Can they refine the idea and resubmit it? By anticipating "What if...?" situations before they happen, you can reach understanding that will help ease you out of confrontations. 47. Instead of directly saying no to your boss, you should find out __________. 48. The author's second warning is that we should avoid running a greater risk by __________. 49. One way of responding to your boss's suggestion is to explain the __________ to her and offer an alternative solution. 50. To ensure fairness to reporters, it is important to set up a system for stories to __________. 51. People who learn to anticipate "What if...?" situations will be able to reach understanding and avoid __________. Section B Directions:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage. At the heart of the debate over illegal immigration lies one key question: are immigrants good or bad for the economy? The American public overwhelmingly thinks they're bad. Yet the consensus among most economists is