Mobile office is the mutual product of economic，scientific，and social progress.Mobile office has become a solution that provides users with convenient，prompt，safe，reliable，and reasonably priced communications and office faculty anywhere anytime via the sup port of mobile interconnection platform(MIP)and its applications systems.
When you leave your office to attend meetings or travel on business，what would happen to your business routine?Of course，faxes and e-mails would be still sent to your fax machine or e-mail box，but you cannot read them and make prompt reaction timely.When your clients need you to make some urgent modifications on your work and you are neither in the office nor carrying relevant documents，what can you do?Maybe you have to say“sorry”to the clients.But，your business will be affected，the clients will be unhappy and disappointed because of your delay，and you will lose a lot of business opportunities.
In fact，very frequently，you need to check，reply，distribute，display，modify，or read some materials when you are not in your office.You must get out of this dilemma.The best solution to normally handle your business anywhere anytime and not to disappoint your clients is to let your office“move”with you.Thus，you can have convenient，prompt，safe，reliable，and reasonably priced communications and office faculty anywhere anytime.With the development of communications technology，network application，and wireless interconnection，mobile office has become simpler and smaller，and even can be realized via one mobile phone with data communications function.Thus，mobile office has already been put into your pocket，and office mobility has been realized.
Mobile office has provided people with convenient，casual working environment，but at the same time it still has some unsatisfactory aspects such as mismatching equipment interface(接口，界面) and inadequate battery. Nevertheless，we believe that with technical progress，people can certainly overcome all kinds of difficulties.Mobile office will make your career unimpeded，and will realize the dream of completely free https://www.doczj.com/doc/f43199540.html,ers will enjoy more colorful life and better working environment，and users' living standard，working efficiency，and even enterprises' production efficiency will certainly be immensely raised.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the passage above.
1.It can be inferred from the passage that_____.
A.mobile office is the only way by which people could enjoy prompt and safe working environment
B.with the development of science,mobile office comes to our life inevitably
C.people had no convenient and reliable communications and office faculty before
D.mobile interconnection platform and its application systems is the core of mobile office
2.We learn from the passage that without mobile office,_____.
A.you cannot put your business routine aside or attend meetings
B.you cannot read faxes and e-mails when you travel on business
C.you cannot make apologies to the clients for your delay
D.you cannot catch any business opportunities because of bad working condition
3.The passage suggests that mobile office is neccessary,especially when_____.
A.you need to make some urgent modification on your work
B.you need to read and reply faxes and e-mails
C.you are out of the office to attend meetings
D.you can put the mobile office into your pocket
4.Which of the following statement best expresses the main idea of the second paragraph?
A.When you leave your office,you should not forget your business routine.
B.You will lose a lot of business opportunities if you always delay your work.
C.When you leave your office,your business routine would be harmed.
D.When you cannot meet the need of your clients,you should say"sorry".
5.In the eyes of the author,mobile office_____.
A.has some fatal shortcomings
B.is too expensive to afford
C.would be realized in the future
D.has both advantages and disadvantages
参考答案：
1.选D.本题为主要细节正误题。第一段第一句说明移动办公室是经济，社会和科技三者发展共同的产物，并非B选项所说的是科技进步的必然产物;A选项中用了“only”，太片面;C 选项在文中并无相应论述。
2.选B.本题为主要细节正误题。原文第二段第二句说“faxes and e-mails would be still sent to your fax machine or e-mail box，but you cannot read them……”B选项与其意思一致。
3.选C.本题为主要细节正误题。A选项和B选项表述正确，但都缺少一个前提：当你不在办公室的时候。D选项和题干毫无关系。
4.选C.本题为主旨归纳题。A选项与原文意思不符;B选项没有概括出整个段落的意思;D 选项在文中没有提及。
5.选D.本题为观点态度推断题。从原文最后一段“people can certainly overcome all kinds of difficulties”可推断，移动办公室的缺点不是致命的，排除A选项;B、C选项在文中无相应论述;最后一段第一句说“it still has some unsatisfactory aspects such as mismatching equipment interface”，由此可知，移动办公室除了有很多优点外也有其缺点。
Look at the keyboard of any standard typewriter or computer. "Q," "W," "E," "R," "T" and "Y" are the first six letters. Who decided on this arrangement of the letters? And why?
People tried for centuries to invent the typewriter. In 1714 in England, Henry Mill filed a patent for a machine called An Artificial Machine or Method for the Impressing or Transcribing of Letters, Singly or Progressively one after another, as in Writing, whereby all Writing whatsoever may be Engrossed in Paper or Parchment so Neat and Exact as not to be distinguished from Print. That machine probably didn' t sell because no one could remember its name!
The first practical typewriter was patented in the United States in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes. His machine was known as the type-writer. It had a movable carriage, a lever for turning paper from line to line, and a keyboard on which the letters were arranged in alphabetical order.
But Sholes had a problem. On his first model, his "ABC" key arrangement caused the keys to jam when the typist worked quickly. Sholes didn' t know how to keep the keys from sticking, so his solution was to keep the typist from typing too fast.Sholes asked his brother-in-law to rearrange the keyboard so that the commonest letters were not so close together and the type bars would come from opposite directions. Thus they would not clash together and jam the machine.The new arrangement was the QWERTY arrangement typists use today. Of course,
Sholes claimed that the new arrangement was scientific and would add speed and efficiency. The only efficiency it added was to slow the typist down, since almost any word in the English language required the typist' s fingers to cover more distance on the keyboard.
The advantages of the typewriter outweighed the disadvantages of the keyboard. Typists memorized the crazy letter arrangement, and the typewriter became a huge success. By the time typists had memorized the new arrangement of letters and built their speed, typewriter technology had improved, and the keys didn' t stick as badly as they had at first.
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the passage above.
1.We know from the passage that the inventor of the first practical typewriter is_____.
A.Henry Mill
B.Christopher Latham Sholes
C.Sholes'brother-in-law
D.Allbert Einstein
2.The author thinks the machine invented by Henry Mill could not be sold because_____.
A.it was difficult for people to accept new things
B.there were great disadvantages of the keyboard
C.the machine could not be distinguished from print
D.the name of the machine was too long
3.Sholes decided the QWERTY arrangement of the keyboard in order to_____.
A.arrange the letters in alphabetical order
B.cause the keys to jam when the typist worked quickly
C.solve the problem of the keys jamming
https://www.doczj.com/doc/f43199540.html,pete with "ABC" key arrangement
4.It is inferred that the QWERTY arrangement of the keyboard_____.
A.is the most scientific arrangement
B.adds speed and efficiency of typists
C.keeps the typist from typing too fast
D.is easy for typists to memorize
5.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A.The Arrangement of The Letters on Keyboard
B.The Story of Christopher Latham Sholes
C.How to Invent The Typewriter
D.The First Practical Typewriter
参考答案：
1.选 B.本题为主要细节正误题。第三段第一句说“The first practical typewriter was patented in the United States in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes.”，由此可知，B选项正确。
2.选 D.本题为观点态度推断题。第二段最后一句“That machine probably didn't sell because no one could remember its name!”可推知，坐着认为机器可能卖不出去是因为它的名字太长了，没有人能记住。
3.选C.本题为观点态度推断题。从第四段“……his "ABC" key arrangement caused the keys to jam when the typist worked quickly. ”可知，肖尔斯决定“QWERTY”这种排列是为了解决“ABC”键这种排列所引起的“键堵塞”问题。
4.选C.本题为主要细节正误题。从第四段中的“……his solution was to keep the typist from typing too fast.”和“The only efficiency it added was to slow the typist down……”可知，
QWERTY排列只能让打字员的打字速度慢下来，C选项与其意思一致。
5.选A.本题为主旨归纳题。第一段的“Who decided on this arrangement of the letters? And why?”是全文的主旨句，文章后面的内容都是围绕这两个问题展开的。
The British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive “attachment”period from birth to three may scar a child's personality and predispose to emotional problems in later life. Some people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlby's work that children should not be subjected to day care before the age of three because of the parental separation it entails，and many people do believe this. But there are also arguments against such a strong conclusion.
Firstly，anthropologists point out that the insulated love affair between children and parents found in modern societies does not usually exist in traditional societies. For example，we saw earlier that among the Ngoni the father and mother of a child did not rear their infant alone——far from it. Secondly，common sense tells us that day care would not so widespread today if parents，caretakers found children had problems with it. Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carried out，and even if they were，the results would be certain to be complicated and controversial.
Thirdly，in the last decade，there have been a number of careful American studies of children in day care，and they have uniformly reported that day care had a neutral or slightly positive effect on children's development. But tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough accepted to settle the issue.
But Bowlby's analysis raises the possibility that early day care has delayed effects. The possibility that such care might lead to，say，more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only be explored by the use of statistics. Whatever the long-term effects，parents sometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with. Children under three are likely to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness. At the age of three or three and a half almost all children find the transition to nursery easy，and this is undoubtedly why more and more parents make use of child care at this time. The matter，then，is far from clear-cut，though experience and available evidence indicate that early care is reasonable for infants.
1.This passage primarily argues that ___.
A.infants under the age of three should not be sent to nursery schools.
B.whether children under the age of three should be sent to nursery schools.
C.there is not negative long-term effect on infants who are sent to school before they are three.
D.there is some negative effect on children when they are sent to school after the age of three.
2.The phrase “predispose to”(Para. 1，line 3) most probably means ___.
A.lead to
B.dispose to
C.get into
D.tend to suffer
3.According to Bowlby's analysis，it is quite possible that ___.
A.children's personalities will be changed to some extent through separation from their parents.
B.early day care can delay the occurrence of mental illness in children.
C.children will be exposed to many negative effects from early day care later on.
D.some long-term effects can hardly be reduced from children's development.
4.It is implied but not stated in the second paragraph that ___.
A.traditional societies separate the child from the parent at an early age.
B.Children in modern societies cause more troubles than those in traditional societies.
C.A child did not live together with his parents among the Ngoni.
D.Children in some societies did not have emotional problems when separated from the parents.
5.The writer concludes that ___.
A.it is difficult to make clear what is the right age for nursery school.
B.It is not settled now whether early care is reasonable for children.
C.It is not beneficial for children to be sent to nursery school.
D.It is reasonable to subject a child above three to nursery school.
参考答案：
BCCCD
Fresh water life itself，has never come easy in the Middle East. Ever since the Old Testament(旧约圣经) God punished man with 40 days and 40 nights of rain，water supplies here have been dwindling. The rainfall only comes in winter，Inshallah ——Good willing –and drains quickly through the semiarid land，leaving the soil to bake and to thirst for next November.
The region's accelerating population，expanding agriculture，industrialization，and higher living standards demand more fresh water. Drought and pollution limit its availability. War and mismanagement squander it. Says Joyce Starr of the Global Water Summit Initiative，based in Washington，D.C.“Nations like Israel and Jordan are swiftly sliding into that zone where they are suing all the water resources available to them. They have only 15 to 20 years left before their agriculture，and ultimately their food security，is threatened.”
I came here to examine this crisis in the making，to investigate fears that “water wars ”are imminent，that water has replaced oil as the region's most contentious commodity. For more than two months I traveled through three river valleys and seven nations ——from southern Turkey down the Euphrates River Syria，Iraq，and on to Kuwait; to Israel and Jordan，neighbors across the valley of the Jordan; to the timeless Egyptian Nile.
Even amid the scarcity there are haves and have –notes. Compared with the United States，which in 1990 had a freshwater potential of 10000 cubic meters(2.6 million galloons) a year for each citizen，Iraq had 5 500，Turkey had 4 000，and Syria had more than 2 800. Egypt's potential was only 1 100. Israel had 460，Jordan a meager 260. But these are not firm figures，because upstream use of river water can dramatically alter the potential downstream.
Scarcity is only one element of the crisis. Inefficiency is another，as is the reluctance of
some water –poor nations to change priorities from agriculture to less water –intensive enterprises. Some experts suggest that if nations would share both water technology and resources，they could satisfy the region's population，currently 159 million. But in this patchwork of ethnic and religious rivalries，water seldom stands alone as an issue. It is entangled in the politics that keep people from trusting and seeking help from one another. Here，where water，like truth，is precious，each nation tends to find its own water and supply its own truth.
As Israeli hydrology professor Uri Shamir told me ：“If there is political will for peace，water will not be a hindrance. If you want reasons to fight，water will not e a hindrance. If you want reasons to fight，water will give you ample opportunities.”
1.Why “for next November”(para.1)? Because________.
A.according to the Ole Testament fresh water is available only in November
B.rainfall comes only in winter starting form November
C.running water systems will not be ready until next November
D.it is a custom in that region that irrigation to crops is done only in November
2.What is the cause for the imminent water war?
https://www.doczj.com/doc/f43199540.html,ck of water resources
https://www.doczj.com/doc/f43199540.html,ck of rainfall
C.Inefficient use of water
D.All the above
3.One way for the region to use water efficiently is to _______
A.develop other enterprises that cost less water
B.draw a plan of irrigation for the various nations
C.import water from water –rich nations
D.stop wars of any sort for good and all
4.Uri Shamir's viewpoint is that ________.
A.nations in that region are just fighting for water
B.people there are thirsty for peace instead of water
C.water is no problem as long as there is peace
D.those nations have every reason to fight for water
5.The author's tone in the article can be described as ______-.
A.depressing
B.urgent
C.joking
D.mocking
参考答案：
BDACB
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 not reality, 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 glamorous
B.successful
C.obvious
D.both A and B
2.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.
参考答案：
DABAC
一、事实细节题
识别：题目往往会以wh-疑问词(如what, who, which, when, where, why, how)提问。
常考考点：转折、因果、列举、指代等
破解技巧：事实细节题的解题关键在于定位。建议考生先快速浏览题目并划出题干中的关键词，然后回原文找相应的关键词，进行段落定位，之后回到题目和选项，看哪个选项符合题干要求且与原文对应信息表述一致。
注意：正确选项往往是原文对应信息的同义转述，而照抄原文内容的选项往往是干扰项;除此之外，常见的干扰项还包括与原文描述相悖、与原文内容部分相符、原文没有提及的信息等。
二、推理判断题
识别：题干中含有infer, imply, learn from和 conclude等词。
常考考点：对细节、段落或全文进行推断
破解技巧：先扫读题干，判读题目要求是对细节、段落还是全文进行推断。如果是对细节和段落进行推断，则后面的做法与事实细节题相同;如果要求对全文进行推断，则文章主题和中心思想是解题的主要依据，所以需要考生浏览全文掌握文章主题，正确答案往往是对原文描述的总结，或换个角度表述与原文相同的意义。
三、主旨大意题
识别：题干中含有the main idea, the best title和the main purpose of the passage 等词。
破题技巧：该题型考查考生综合概括能力，需要先考生回到原文，重点关注首尾段和各段首尾句，这些句子一般为各段主题句，综合起来即可得出文章主旨;然后回到题目，排除干扰项(如文章局部信息、与原文无关信息以及与原文相悖选项等)，挑出正确选项。
四、观点态度题
识别：题目中有opinion, attitude以及feel about等词。
常考考点：文中某人或作者的观点
破题技巧：如果题目考查文中某人的观点或作者对文中提及某一事物的观点，则需要考生利用题干关键词进行定位，解题方法与事实细节题相同。但是，如果题目考查作者对全文主题的观点态度，则需要考生综合全文信息，体会作者在文章中的写作措辞和语气，进而得出作者的观点态度。
综上所述，大学英语六级仔细阅读题目这四种常考题型可以归纳为两类，要么考查文章部分内容，要么考查文章总体，对于考查部分内容的题目都可以先看题目选项进行定位再解题，而对于考查文章总体的题目则往往需要浏览全文并运用排除法解题。建议考生在做题时运用上述方法，提高解题效率和正确率。
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
最牛英语口语培训模式：躺在家里练口语，全程外教一对一，三个月畅谈无阻！ 洛基英语，免费体验全部在线一对一课程：https://www.doczj.com/doc/f43199540.html,/ielts/xd.html（报名网址） Unit 10 Part ⅡReading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage: More and more, the operations of our businesses, governments, and financial institutions are controlled by information that exists only inside computer memories. Anyone clever enough to modify this information for his own purposes can reap substantial rewards. Even worse, a number of people who have done this and been caught at it have managed to get away without punishment. It's easy for computer crimes to go undetected if no one checks up on what the computer is doing. But even if the crime is detected, the criminal may walk away not only unpunished but with a glowing recommendation from his former employers. Of course, we have no statistics on crimes that go undetected. But it's disturbing to note how many of the crimes we do know about were detected by accident, not by systematic inspections or other security procedures. The computer criminals who have been caught may be the victims of uncommonly bad luck. For example, a certain keypunch (键盘打孔) operator complained of having to stay overtime to punch extra cards. Investigation revealed that the extra cards she was being asked to punch were for dishonest transactions. In another case, dissatisfied employees of the thief tipped off (向……透露) the company that was being robbed. Unlike other lawbreakers, who must leave the country, commit suicide, or go to jail, computer criminals sometimes escape punishment, demanding not only that they not be charged but that they be given good recommendations and perhaps other benefits. All too often, their demands have been met. Why? Because company executives are afraid of the bad publicity that would result if the public found out that their computer had been misused. They hesitate at the thought of a criminal boasting in open court of how he juggled (耍弄) the most confidential records right under the noses of the company's executives, accountants,
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
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
2015年6月大学英语6级真题(三套全) 2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题（第一套） Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section A 1. A) Prepare for his exams. B) Catch up on his work. C) Attend the concert. D) Go on a vacation. 2. A) Three crew members were involved in the incident. B) None of the hijackers carried any deadly weapons. C) The plane had been scheduled to fly to Japan. D) None of the passengers were injured or killed. 3. A) An article about the election. B) A tedious job to be done. C) An election campaign. D) A fascinating topic. 4. A) The restaurant was not up to the speakers' expectations. B) The restaurant places many ads in popular magazines. C) The critic thought highly of the Chinese restaurant. D) Chinatown has got the best restaurant in the city. 5. A) He is going to visit his mother in the hospital. B) He is going to take on a new job next week.
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