六级阅读第二十三天(提高卷)完整版

英语六级阅读理解提分练习和答案英语六级阅读理解提分练习和答案：The moden world only recently reached the Yanomano, a native people of the Amazon basin. Sheltered by thick rainforest,the Yanomano lived a self-contained existence until gold was discovered in their jungle homeland. Miners flocked into the forests, cutting down trees and bringing disease and shot those Yanomano who would not get out of the way. In just seven years from the early 1980s, the population fell 20 per cent.Hands Around the World, a native American cultural association, says the Yanomano are believed to be the most culturally intact people in the world. They wear loin cloths, use fire sticks and decorate their bodies with dye from a red berry(桨果). They dont use the wheel and the only metal they use is what has been traded to them by outsiders. When a Yanomano dies, the body is burned and the remaining bones crushed into a powder and turned into a drink that is later consumed by mourners in memory of the dead.A Hands Around the World report says that in South America not only are the cultures and traditions in danger of disappearing, but some tribes are in danger of extinction. “The Yanomano is a well-known tribe that is rapidly losing its members through the destruction of Western disease,”the report says. Before illegal gold miners entered their rainforest, the Yanomano were isolated from modern sociaty.They occupy dense jungle north of the Amazon River between Venezuela and Brazil and are catalogued by anthropologists(人类学家) as neo-indians with cultural characteristics that date back more than 8,000 years. Each community lives in a circular communal house, some of which sleep up to 400, built around a central square.Though many Yanomano men are monogamous, it is not unusual for them to have two or more wives. Anthropologists from the University of Wisconsin say polygamy is a way to increase ones wealth because having a large family increases help with hunting and cultivating the land. These marriages result in a shortage of women for other men to marry, which has led to inter-tribal wars.Each Yanomano man is responsible for clearing his land for gardening, using slash-and-hum farming methods. They grow plantains, a type of banana eaten cooked, and hunt game animals, fish and anaconda(南美热带蟒蛇) using bows and arrows. (396 words)1. Miners flocked into the forest and shot those Yanomano who _______.A. sheltered in thick rainforestB. would not leave their jungle homelandC. lived a self-contained existenceD. would stand in their way2. The organization called Hands Around the World believes that culturally, the Yanomano is the worlds__________.A. most primitive peopleB. most backward peopleC. most advanced peopleD. oldest people3. Which of the following is NOT true according to an American cultural association report?A. In South America, the cultures are on the verge of extinction.B. In South America, the traditions are on the verge of extinction.C. In South America, the Yanomano can survive extinction.D. In South America, some tribes are on the verge of extinction.4. _________caused the Yanomano to have inter-tribal wars.A. The shortage of women resulting from polygamyB. The difference in wealth resulting from polygamyC. The shortage of women resulting from monogamyD. The difference in wealth resulting from monogamy5. We can infer from the passage that it is imperative for us to protect the Yanomano because__________.A. it is a clturally most intact peopleB. it is a primitive people deep in jungleC. it is a native people of the Amazon basinD. it is primitive people in danger of disappearing1. D 细节理解题。

Passage★★★☆☆Questions1to5are based on the following passage.In the last12years total employment in the United States grew faster than at any time in the peacetime history of any country–from82to110million between1973and1985–that is,by a full one third.The entire growth, however,was in manufacturing,and especially in no–blue-collar jobs. This trend is the same in all developed countries,and is,indeed,even more pronounced in Japan.It is therefore highly probable that in25years developed countries such as the United States and Japan will employ no larger a proportion of the labor force in manufacturing than developed countries now employ in farming–at most,10percent.Today the United States employs around18million people in blue-collar jobs in manufacturing industries.By2010,the number is likely to be no more than12million.In some major industries the drop will be even sharper.It is quite unrealistic,for instance,to expect that the American automobile industry will employ more than one–third of its present blue-collar force25years,hence,even though production might be50percent higher.If a company,an industry or a country does not in the next quarter century sharply increase manufacturing production and at the same time sharply reduce the blue-collar work force,it cannot hope to remain competitive–or even to remain“developed.”The attempt to preserve such blue–collar jobsis actually a prescription for unemployment.This is not a conclusion that American politicians,labor leaders or indeed the general public can easily understand or accept.What confuses the issue even more is that the United States is experiencing several separate and different shifts in the manufacturing economy.One is the acceleration of the substitution of knowledge and capital for manual labor.Where we spoke of mechanization a few decades ago,we now speak of“robotization“or “automation.”This is actually more a change in terminology than a change in reality.When Henry Ford introduced the assembly line in1909,he cut the number of man–hours required to produce a motor car by some80percent in two or three years–far more than anyone expects to result from even the most complete robotization.But there is no doubt that we are facing a new, sharp acceleration in the replacement of manual workers by machines–that is,by the products of knowledge.1.According to the author,the shrinkage in the manufacturing labor force demonstrates_____.[A].the degree to which a country’s production is robotized[B].a reduction in a country’s manufacturing industries[C].a worsening relationship between labor and management[D].the difference between a developed country and a developing country2.According to the author,in coming25years,a developed country or industry,in order to remain competitive,ought to_____.[A].reduce the percentage of the blue-collar work force[B].preserve blue–collar jobs for international competition[C].accelerate motor–can manufacturing in Henry Ford’s style[D].solve the problem of unemployment3.American politicians and labor leaders tend to dislike____.[A].confusion in manufacturing economy[B].an increase in blue–collar work force[C].internal competition in manufacturing production[D].a drop in the blue–collar job opportunities4.The word“prescription”in“a prescription for unemployment”may be the equivalent to____.[A].something recommended as medical treatment[B].a way suggested to overcome some difficulty[C].some measures taken in advance[D].a device to drive5.This passage may have come from_____.[A].a magazine about capital investment[B].an article on automation[C].a motor-car magazine[D].an article on global economy每日一句（Daily Sentence）Sometimes you have to fallbefore you can fly.有时候，你得先跌下去，才能飞起来。

六级阅读第三十八天（加强卷）完整版Passage★★★☆☆Questions1to5are based on the following passage.Analysis of ice cores drilled from the glaciers of the Tibetan plateau shows that the region is warmer now than any other time since the so-called"Holocene maximum",between6,000and8,000years ago. And the temperatures in central China during the past50years were a full degree Celsius warmer than those of the previous50years.The results are important because computer simulations show that central Asia is likely to be the first place where significant global warming due to the greenhouse effect will show up.Lonnie Thompson and his colleagues from Ohio State University have been working with researchers from Chinese Academy of Science and the University of Copenhagen.They drilled the ice cores from the large ice cap which lies high on the Tibetan plateau,south of the Gobi desert. The cores provide a record extending back well into the time of the latest ice age,and perhaps beyond100,000years ago.Such ice cores yield information about past climates in two ways—from analysis of the varying.dust content at different layers in the core,and from measurements of the relative abundance of isotopes(同位素)of oxygen locked up in the molecules of the ice.The amount of dust in the ice depends on how dry the atmosphere was when it was laid down,while the isotopic studies provide a direct measure of the averagetemperature.The amount of water evaporating from sea and falling as snow is different for water containing each of the two mainoxygen isotopes.The ratio between these depends on temperature in a well-determined way. Using these two lines of attack,Thompson and his colleagues have shown that,in the late stages of the most recent ice age,conditions were colder,wetter and dustier than today.This matches expectations based on the idea that stronger winds blew around an expanded northern ice cap.The new study is very interesting,however.It focuses on the discovery that the past60years were at least as warm as any period in the record,with highest values in the1940s,1950s and1980s.Scientists have recently carried out computer simulations which show that the central part of the Asian continent is likely to be one of the regions most strongly affected by the anticipated global warming caused by the greenhouse effect./doc/b714329779.html,puter simulations show that______.[A].central Asian continent will affect the global climate[B].central Asian will become one of the warmest regions in the world[C].greenhouse effect will affect the climate in central Asia first[D].greenhouse effect will have a strongest effect on the central Asian climate2.The ice cores from the Tibetan plateau provide information about climate______.[A].beyond100,000years ago[B].from the100,000years ago to the latest ice age[C].as far as the latest ice age or even before[D].since the Holocene maximum3.The phrase"these two lines of attack"(Line3,Para.3)refers to______.[A].dust content analysis and isotopic study[B].calculating the ratio between water evaporating from sea and water falling as snow[C].comparing the two main oxygen isotopes[D].ice content analysis and average temperature measurement4.In the new study,researchers are interested in the fact that______.[A].the weather in the past60years was as warm as or warmer than before[B].the weather became warmer and warmer in the past60years[C].the warmest weather occurred in1940,1950and1980[D].the weather was colder60years ago than it is today5.The most suitable title for the passage is______.[A].Climate in Central Asia and Greenhouse Effect[B].Chinese Ice Reveals Stronger Warming Trend[C].Ice Cores Yield Information about Past Climate[D].Climate Changes during the Last Century in Central Asia每日一句（Daily Sentence）If not now,when?If not me,who?——Mayun此时此刻，舍我其谁！——马云Words1.drill:[dr?l]vt.&vi.钻（孔），打（眼）2.plateau:['pl?t??]n.高原3.simulation:[?s?mju?le??n]n.模仿，模拟4.show up:(使)清晰，(使)变得明显，(使)显现出来5.evaporate:[i?v?p?reit]vt.&vi.（使某物）蒸发掉6.extend:[?k'stend]vt.&vi.延伸，扩大，推广7.content:[?k?ntent]n.所容纳之物，所含之物，内容，目录，目次8.measure:[?me??(r)]vt.测量，估量n.测量，测度9.yield:[ji:ld]v.出产（作物），产生（收益、效益等），提供；屈服，让步题目解析1.选[C]。

英语六级阅读理解提分试卷附答案2017年英语六级阅读理解提分试卷附答案become a scholar, famous oath not to return to study.以下是店铺为大家搜索整理的.2017年英语六级阅读理解提分试卷附答案，希望对正在关注的您有所帮助!Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families，while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children. These roles were firmly fixed for most people， and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles. But by the middle of this century，men‘s and women’s roles were becoming less firmly fixed.In the 1950s， economic and social success was the goal of the typical American. But in the 1960s a new force developed called the counterculture. The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals. The counterculture presented men and women with new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare，men began to share child-raising tasks with their wives. In fact，some young men and women moved to communal homes or farms where the economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes. In addition，many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier. Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Vietnam.In terms of numbers，the counterculture was not a very large group of people. But its influence spread to many parts of American society. Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social patterns. Industrial workers andbusiness executives alike cut down on “overtime” work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families. Some doctors， lawyers， and teachers turned away from high paying situations to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods.In the 1970s，the feminist movement，or women‘s liberation， produced additional economic and social changes. Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force in greater numbers. Most of them still took traditional women’s jobs as public school teaching，nursing，and secretarial work. But some women began to enter traditionally male occupations：police work，banking，dentistry，and construction work. Women were asking for equal work，and equal opportunities for promotion.Today the experts generally agree that important changes are taking place in the roles of men and women. Naturally， there are difficulties in adjusting to these transformations.1.Which of the following best express the main idea of Paragraph 1?A.Women usually worked outside the home for wages.B.Men and women‘s roles were easily exchanged in the past.C.Men’s roles at home were more firmly fixed than women‘s.D.Men and women’s roles were usually quite sepa rated in the past.2.Which sentence best expresses the main idea of Paragraph 2?A.The first sentence.B.The second and the third sentences.C.The fourth sentence.D.The last sentence.3.In the passage the author proposes that the counterculture___.A.destroyed the United States.B.transformed some American values.C.was not important in the United States.D.brought people more leisure time with their families.4.It could be inferred from the passage that___.A.men and women will never share the same goals.B.some men will be willing to exchange their traditional male roles.C.most men will be happy to share some of the household responsibilities with their wives.D.more American households are headed by women than ever before.5.The best title for the passage may be ___.A.Results of Feminist MovementsB.New influence in American LifeC.Counterculture and Its consequenceD.Traditional Division of Male and Female Roles.答案： DCBCB【2017年英语六级阅读理解提分试卷附答案】。

英语六级阅读理解强化练习及答案六级阅读理解强化练习1：Without regular supplies of some hormones our capacity to behave would be seriously impaired; without others we would soon die. Tiny amounts of some hormones can modify moods and actions, our inclination to eat or drink, our aggressiveness or submissiveness, and our reproductive and parental behavior. And hormones do more than influence adult behavior; early in life they help to determine the development of bodily form and may even determine an individuals behavioral capacities. Later in life the changing outputs of some endocrine glands and the bodys changing sensitivity to some hormones are essential aspects of the phenomena of aging.Communication within the body and the consequent integration of behavior were considered the exclusive province of the nervous system up to the beginning of the present century. The emergence of endocrinology as a separate discipline can probably be traced to the experiments of Bayliss and Starling on the hormone secretion. This substance is secreted from cells in the intestinal walls when food enters the stomach; it travels through the bloodstream and stimulates the pancreas to liberate pancreatic juice, which aids in digestion. By showing that special cells secret chemical agents that are conveyed by the bloodstream and regulate distant target organs or tissues. Bayliss and starling demonstrated thatchemical integration could occur without participation of the nervous system.The term “hormone” was first used with reference to secretion. Starling derived the term from the Greek hormone, meaning “to excite or set in motion. The term “endocrine” was introduced shortly thereafter “Endocrine” is used to refer to glands that secret products into the bloodstream. The term “endocrine” contrasts with “exocrine”, which is applied to glands that secret their products though ducts to the site of action. Examples of exocrine glands are the tear glands, the sweat glands, and the pancreas, which secrets pancreatic juice through a duct into the intestine. Exocrine glands are also called duct glands, while endocrine glands are called ductless.1.What is the authors main purpose in the passage?A.To explain the specific functions of various hormones.B.To provide general information about hormones.C.To explain how the term “hormone” evolved.D.To report on experiments in endocrinology.2.The passage supports which of the following conclusions?A.The human body requires large amounts of most hormones.B.Synthetic hormones can replace a persons natural supply of hormones if necessary.C.The quantity of hormones produced and their effects on the body are related to a persons age.D.The short child of tall parents very likely had a hormone deficiency early in life.3.It can be inferred from the passage that before the Bayliss and Starling experiments, most people believed that chemical integration occurred only___.A.during sleep.B.in the endocrine glands.C.under control of the nervous system.D.during strenuous exercise.4.The word “liberate” could best be replaced by which of the following?A.EmancipateB.DischargeC.SurrenderD.Save5.According to the passage another term for exocrine glands is___.A.duct glandsB.endocrine glandsC.ductless glandsD.intestinal glands.六级阅读理解强化练习答案：BDCBA六级阅读理解强化练习2：If the old maxim that the customer is always right still has meaning, then the airlines that ply the worlds busiest air route between London and Paris have a flight on their hands.The Eurostar train service linking the UK and French capitals via the Channel Tunnel is winning customers in increasing numbers. In late May, it carried its one millionth passenger, having run only a limited service between London, Paris and Brussels since November 1994, starting with two trains a day in each direction to Paris and Brussels. By 1997, the company believes that it will be carrying ten million passengers a year, and continue to grow from there.From July, Eurostar steps its service to nine trains each way between London and Paris, and five between London and Brussels. Each train carries almost 800 passengers, 210 of them in first class.The airlines estimate that they will initially lose around 15%-20% of their London-Paris traffic to the railways once Eurostar starts a full service later this year (1995), with 15 trains a day each way. A similar service will start to Brussels. The damage will be limited, however, the airlines believe, with passenger numbers returning to previous levels within two to three years.In the short term, the damage caused by the 1 million people-levels traveling between London and Paris and Brussels on Eurostar trains means that some air services are already suffering. Some of the major carriers say that their passenger numbers are down by less than 5% and point to their rivals-Particularly Air France-as having suffered the problems. On the Brussels route, the railway company had less success, and the airlines report anything from around a 5% drop to no visible decline in traffic.The airlines optimism on returning traffic levels is based on historical precedent. British Midland, for example, points to its experience on Heathrow Leeds Bradford service which saw passenger numbers fold by 15% when British Rail electrified and modernized the railway line between London and Yorkshire. Two years later, travel had risen between the two destinations to the point where the airline was carrying record numbers of passengers.1.British airlines confide in the fact that__.A.they are more powerful than other European airlines.B.their total loss wont go beyond a drop of 5% passengers.C.their traffic levels will return in 2-3 years.D.traveling by rail can never catch up with traveling by air.2.The authors attitude towards the drop of passengers may be described as__.A.worried.B.delightedC.puzzled.D.unrivaled.3.In the passage, British Rail (Para 6) is mentioned to__.A.provide a comparison with Eurostar.B.support the airlines optimism.C.prove the inevitable drop of air passengers.D.call for electrification and modernization of the railway.4.The railways Brussels route is brought forth to show that__.A.the Eurostar train service is not doing good business.B.the airlines can well compete with the railway.C.the Eurostar train service only caused little damage.D.only some airlines, such as Air France, are suffering.5.The passage is taken from the first of an essay, from which we may well predict that in the following part the author is going to__.A.praise the airlines clear-mindedness.B.warn the airlines of high-speed rail services.C.propose a reduction of London/Paris flights.D.advise the airlines to follow British Midland as their model. 六级阅读理解强化练习答案：CABCB。

最新英语六级考试阅读理解提升训练题最新英语六级考试阅读理解提升训练题Homing pigeons are placed in a training program from about the time they are twenty-eight days of age. They are taught to enter the cage through a trap and to exercise above and around the loft(鸽棚) , and gradually they are taken away for short distances in willow baskets and released. They are then expected to find their way home in the shortest possible time.In their training flights or in actual races, the birds are taken to prearranged distant points and released to find their way back to their own lofts. Once the birds are liberated, their owners, who are standing by at the home lofts, anxiously watch the sky for the return of their entries. Since time is of the essence, the speed with which the birds can be induced to enter the loft trap may make the difference between gaining a win or a second place.The head of a homing pigeon is comparatively small, but its brain is one quarter larger than that of the ordinary pigeon. The homing pigeon is very intelligent and will persevere to the point of stubbornness; some have been known to fly a hundred miles off course to avoid a storm.Some homing pigeon experts claim that this bird is gifted with a form of built-in radar that helps it find its own loft after hours of flight, for hidden under the head feathers are two very sensitive ears, while the sharp, prominent eyes can see great distances in daytime.Why do homing pigeons fly home? They are not unique in this inherent skill; it is found in most migratory birds, in bees, ants, toads, and even turtles, which have been known to travel hundreds of miles to return to their homes. But in the animalworld, the homing pigeon alone can be trusted with its freedom and trained to carry out the missions that people demand.21. This passage is mainly about_______.A. homing pigeons and their trainingB. how to buy a homing pigeonC. protection of homing pigeons against the threat of extinctionD. liberation of homing pigeons22. According to the passage, what happens to homing pigeons when they are about a month old?A. They are kept in a trap.B. They enter their first race.C. They begin a training program.D. They get their wings clipped and marked.23. According to the passage, the difference between a homing pigeon and an ordinary one is_______.A. the span of the wingsB. the shape of the eyesC. the texture of the feathersD. the size of the brain24. The author mentions all of the following attributes that enable a homing pigeon to return home EXCEPT_______.A. instinctB. air sacsC. sensitive earsD. good eyes25. Why does the author mention bees, ants, toads, and turtles in the last paragraph?A. To describe some unusual kinds of pets.B. To measure distances traveled by various animals.C. To compare their home-finding abilities with those of homing pigeons.D. To interest the reader in learning about other animals.参考答案21. A 22. C 23. D 24. B 25. C。

Passage★★★☆☆Questions1to5are based on the following passage.In the past century Irish painting has changed from a British-influenced lyrical tradition to an art that evokes the ruggedness and roots of an Irish Celtic past.At the turn of the twentieth century Irish painters,including notables Walter Frederick Osborne and Sir William Orpen,looked elsewhere for influence.Osborne’s exposure to“plein air”painting deeply impacted his stylistic development;and Orpen allied himself with a group of English artists, while at the same time participated in the French avant-garde experiment, both as painter and teacher.However,nationalist energies were beginning to coalesce(接合)，reviving interest in Irish culture-including Irish visual arts.Beatrice Elvery’s(1907),a landmark achievement,merged the devotional simplicity of fifteenth-century Italian painting with the iconography(肖像画法)of Ireland’s Celtic past, linking the history of Irish Catholicism with the still-nascet(初生的)Irish republic.And,although also captivated by the French plein air school.Sir John Lavery invoked the mythology of his native land for a1928 commission to paint the central figure for the bank note of the new Irish Free very chose as this figure,with her arm on a Celtic harp(竖琴)，the national symbol of independent Ireland.In Irish painting from about1910,memories of Edwardian romanticismcoexisted with a new sense of realism,exemplified by the paintings of Paul Henry and Se Keating,a student of Orpen’s.realism also crept into the work of Edwardians Lavery and Orpen,both of whom made paintings depicting World WarⅠ,Lavery with a distanced Victorian nobility,Orpen closer to the front,revealing a more sinister and realistic vision.Meanwhile,counterpoint to the Edwardians and realists came Jack B.Yeats,whose travels throughout the rugged and more authentically Irish West led him to depict subjects ranging from street scenes in Dublin to boxing matches and funerals.Fusing close observations of Irish life and icons with an Irish identity in a new way, Yeats changed the face of Irish painting and became the most important Irishartist of his century.1.Which of the following art most probably exerted the greatest influence on Irish painting in the19th century?[A].British lyrical tradition[B].French avant-garde experiment[C].notionalist energies[D].Italian painting2.It is implied_____was least influenced by the contemporary art of Frence.[A].Sir John Lavery[B].Sir William Orpen[C].Beatrice Elvery[D].Se Keating3.Which of the following best explains the author’s use of the word “counterpoint”in referring to Yeats?[A].Yeats’paintings differed significantly in subject matter from those of his contemporaries in Ireland.[B].Yeats reacted to the realism of his contemporary artists by invoking nineteenth-century naturalism in his own painting style.[C].Yeats avoided religious and mythological themes in favor of mundane portrayals of Irish life.[D].Yeats built upon the realism painting tradition,elevating it to unprecedented artistic heights.4.The author points out the coexistence of romanticism and realism most probably in order to show that_____.[A].Irish painters of the early twentieth century tended to romanticize the harsh reality of war[B].for a time painters from each school influenced painters from the other school[C].Yeats was influenced by both the romantic and realist schools of Irish painting[D].the transition in Irish painting from one predominant style to the other was not an abrupt one5.The most likely topic of the paragraph followed is_____.[A].The Role of Celtic Mythology in Irish Painting[B].Who Deserves Credit for the Preeminence of Yeats among Irish Painters?[C].Realism vs.Romanticism:Ireland’s Struggle for National Identity[D].Irish Paintings:Reflections of an Emerging Independent State每日一句（Daily Sentence）Smile and let everyone knowthat today you're a lot strongerthan you were yesterday.用微笑告诉世人，今天的你比昨天更加强大。

Passage★★★☆☆Questions1to5are based on the following passage. Federal Reserve System,central banking system of the United States, popularly called 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 of12 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 banksorient 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 is 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($20.2billion in1992)comes mainly from Reserve bank holdings of income-earning securities,primarily those of the ernment.Outlays ($1.5billion in1992)are mostly for operational expenses in providing services to the government and for expenditures connected with regulation and monetary policy.In1992the Federal Reserve returned416.8billion in earnings to the U.S.treasury.1.The Fed of the United States___.[A].function as China Bank[B].is the counterpart of People’s Bank of China[C].is subjected to the banking community and government[D].has13top 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 control[B].means the latter is in control[C].means the latter is subjected to the Reserve banks[D].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 times[C].isn’t limited by comptroller of the Currency and FDIC[D].is limited by Board of governors5.Income of the Board of governors___.[A].is borrowed from the U.S.treasury[B].is used by the government to make various policies[C].comes from the U.S.Treasury[D].is not granted by the government每日一句（Daily Sentence）I love you more and more eachday as time goes by.——Bertie Higgins《Casablanca》时光流逝，我对你的爱与日俱增。

PassageQuestions1to5are based on the following passage.You stare at waterfall for a minute or two,and then shift your gaze to its surroundings.What you now see appears to drift upward.These optical illusions occur because the brain is constantly matching its model of reality to signals from the body’s sensors and interpreting what must be happening—that your brain must have moved,not the other;that downward motions is now normal,so a change from it must now be perceived as upward motion.The sensors that make this magic are of two kinds.Each eye contains about120million rods,which provide somewhat blurry black and white vision.These are the windows of night vision;once adapted to the dark,they can detect a candle burning ten miles away.Color vision in each eye comes from six to seven million structures called cones.Under ideal conditions,every cone can“see”the entire rainbow spectrum of visible colors,but one type of cone is most sensitive to red, another to green,a third to blue.Rods and cones send their messages pulsing an average20to25times per second along the optic nerve.We see an image for a fraction of a second longer than it actually appears.In movies,reels of still photographs are projected onto screens at24frames per second,tricking our eyes into seeing a continuous moving picture.Like apparent motion,color vision is also subject to unusual effects. When day gives way to night,twilight brings what the poet T.S.Eliot called “the violet hour.”A light levels fall,the rods become progressively less responsive.Rods are most sensitive to the shorter wavelengths of blue and green,and they impart a strange vividness to the garden’s blue flowers.However,look at a white shirt during the reddish light of sunset,and you’ll still see it in its“true”color—white,not red.Our eyes are constantly comparing an object against its surroundings.They therefore observe the effect of a shift in the color of illuminating on both,and adjust accordingly.The eyes can distinguish several million graduations of light and shade of color.Each waking second they flash tens of millions of pieces of information to the brain,which weaves them incessantly into a picture of the world around us.Yet all this is done at the back of each eye by a fabric of sensors,called the retina,about as wide and as thick as a postage stamp.As the Renaissance inventor and artist Leonardo daVinci wrote in wonder,“Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?”1.Visual illusions often take place when the image of reality is___.[A].matched to six to seven million structures called cones.[B].confused in the body’s sensors of both rods and cones.[C].interpreted in the brain as what must be the case.[D].signaled by about120million rods in the eye.2.The visual sensor that is capable of distinguishing shades of color is called___.[A].cones[B].color vision[C].rods[D].spectrum3.The retina send pulses to the brain___.[A].in short wavelengths[B].as color pictures[C].by a ganglion cell[D].along the optic nerve.4.Twenty-four still photographs are made into a continuous moving picture just because___.[A].the image we see usually stays longer than it actually appears.[B].we see an object in comparison with its surroundings.[C].the eyes catch million pieces of information continuously.[D].rods and cones send messages20to25times a second.5.The author’s purpose in writing the passage lies in___.[A].showing that we sometimes are deceived by our own eyes.[B].informing us about the different functions of the eye organs.[C].regretting that we are too slow in the study of eyes.[D].marveling at the great work done by the retina.每日一句（Daily Sentence）I'm a great believer in luck,andI find the harder I work,themore I have of it.——Thomas Jefferson我很相信运气，而我发现我越努力，我的运气越好。

大学英语六级（阅读）模拟试卷22(题后含答案及解析)题型有： 2. Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) 4. Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-4, mark：Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN)if the information is not given in the passage.Rise of Civilizations and Empires Historians often write of world history in terms of the development of civilizations defined by a characteristic empire. What defines an empire and what does the building of empire suggested? The regions of Mesopotamia, Egypt(the Nile Valley), and the Indus Valley are three rich areas for studying how people and ideas come together to create civilizations and empires. Imagine three spaces that are sparsely populated, yet well watered and fertile, in a time before written history. Two are river valleys, another lies between two rivers forming a rich plain. Imagine that humans settle in these regions and domesticate plants and animals. The domestication made possible by these river territories and the success of that domestication —farming and grazing —lure increasingly greater human and animal migration to these spaces. As these populations increase, so do their needs. These needs give rise to the social and political economic formations that characterize the ancient urban spaces and states of Mesopotamia, the Indus and Nile valleys. Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Indus Valley civilizations are noted for their dense populations, urbanization processes, and cultural innovation. These elements are tied to the growth of commerce and broader cultural interaction. That is, as empires these civilizations can be thought of as collections of peoples, goods, and ideas whose existence and dynamism were built on movement and exchange. The initial formation of these civilizations is based on the movement of peoples into the river valleys and plains. They often described their environments as god-like and characterized their nearby rivers as life-giving. The transformation of these valleys and plains into places capable of physically nurturing the various peoples who moved into them was one of the first acts of cultural innovation and exchange. The use of these valleys’soil and water was signs of innovation and exchange. For the Mesopotamians, the key to making the land fertile was the technology of irrigation. In fact, irrigation became the key feature of the civilization. As a result of the need for irrigation, religious and legal codes in many Mesopotamian societies focused on water use. Egypt and the Nile Valley civilizations were defined by the rich alluvial soils(冲击土)that annual floods deposited along the Nile banks and in the delta and flood plains. The use of water and the timing of flood seasons gave rise to a number of technological innovations, such as the calendar. These cultural and technologicalinnovations also guaranteed the growth of large populations and increased the possibility that some of those populations would be located in central urban centers. These societies’agricultural and ecological technologies drew immigrants and travelers who often brought foods and ideas that contributed to the culture of these civilizations. The ability of these areas to sustain population —an ability that can be thought of as a richness—attracted more peoples. Some of these people entered the areas peaceably. Others used force to maintain or expand geographic and cultural spaces, indicating imperial activity. An interesting pattern emerging here in some urban centers was constructed to protect against invading forces, and seen in the walled settlements of the Indus Valley and early Mesopotamia. However, as much as these walled settlements repelled invaders, they also attracted them. The river valleys and the plains, and their agricultural richness, supported the formation of cities. The cities became emblems of their respective empires and either allowed for the extension of the empire or resisted the threats of other powers. The historical activities of the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, and Egypt indicate that various peoples moved in and out, contested the regions’ spaces, and sought to control other peoples, their goods and their resources. This interaction had profound consequences on how those involved thought about themselves and each other. Their ideas were tested, challenged, and in many instances, changed. These regions’ cities probably were seen as symbols of wealth; therefore, groups in and outside of the region often sought to control them. Richness is understood as the population’s ability to produce goods and services in quantity not just agriculture, but skills such as metal working, pottery, or commerce. Thus, richness in population meant surpluses allowed the cities and the areas they controlled to support a ruling and administrative class, and maybe an army. Frequently, product surpluses were exchanged, providing wealth for the area and drawing other peoples to it. The Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, and Egypt all experienced the results of a rich and productive population. New language patterns, such as the early substitution of the Akkadian tongue for Sumerian, demonstrate the innovations encouraged by movement and exchange. The gathering of peoples, languages, and cultures was part of the creation of a world view, though, a limited one. By 700 BC, the extent of the Assyrian Empire literally limited it to the activities of the Egyptian quest for empire status. That linkage can be expressed as interaction and exchange. Diplomatic exchange as well as military struggle resolved conflict over the empires’boundaries and areas of control. Marriage was a highly visible form of diplomacy and amounted to an exchange between ruling families that linked them politically and economically. These arrangements often resulted in the cessation of hostilities, greater regional stability, and greater economic exchange. Marriages across the ruling classes of these societies offer one way to conceptualize the world. Political marriages and royal hostages both provided for the sharing of culture across religious and ethnic divisions and differences that may well have contributed to humankind’s history. Movement and interaction also are seen in the clash of armies, which may have meant technological and cultural innovation. For instance, many historians believe that the clash between the Hyksos and Egyptians resulted in the exchange of important military innovations for the Egyptians. Throughthis conflict, the Egyptians discovered the advantages of iron weaponry over bronze and the superiority of the chariot(二轮战车)as an assault weapon. Within the movement and exchange that epitomized(集中体现)the Indus, Meso-potamian, and Nile civilizations, rising empires imposed a stability that occasionally resulted in greater interaction between states and peoples because of the inherent security of the empire. The most striking example of this greater interaction is trade. Many scholars argue that the collection of peoples in certain areas and changes in demographic(人口的)concentration are related to patterns of trade. Urban growth can be explained by looking at the spaces where trade was possible and the ways in which that trade might have drawn together people and their goods or services. Those spaces necessitated some authority to provide order and security. The goods and security offered by these urban spaces lured the merchants not only to travel from place to place carrying goods and ideas but also often to become residents in distant places, establishing new communities within communities. At times, some of these merchants served as ambassadors. They presented information that was important to maintaining good relations between their home societies and those they adopted through trade. We might select any of the remarkable points of these three areas and see them replicated in some form across the others. The reason for this replication, and its differences, reiterates(重申)that the establishment of empires, and the civilizations they represented, was not the creation of discrete imperial space so much as a way of ordering interaction between possible discrete spaces. The structures of these civilizations—these empires, states, cities —did not stop the interaction and the flow of goods, people, and ideas. On the contrary, they encouraged it. That encouragement resulted in the earliest formations of what has been called the Afro-Eurasian Old World —the interaction between the Indus, Mesopotamian, and Nile river systems.1．Which of the following is a remarkable feature of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Indus Valley civilizations?A．Fertile soil and abundant water resources.B．Sparse population.C．Broader cultural interaction.D．Cultural innovation.正确答案：D解析：第一句说这三大文明以其人口密集、城市化进程和文化创新而闻名。