大学英语六级考试阅读练习题(1)
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2020年大学英语六级考试阅读练习题（1）
It is doing something better than other people that makes
us unique. Yet a surprising number of people still see
individuality as a surface thing. They wear bright clothes,
dye their hair strange colors and decorate their skin with
tattoos (文身) to make some kind of social statement.
The whole purpose of individuality is excellence. The
people who comprehend the simple principle of being unique
through performance make our entire political and economic
system work. Those who invent, who improve, who know more
about a subject than other people do, and who take something
that doesn't work and make it work—these people are the very
soul of capitalism.
Charles Kettering didn't like the idea of cranking a car
to make it start, so he invented the electric starter. Henry
Ford figured out the assembly-line technique and made it
possible to mass-produce automobiles. Lewis Waterman saw no
need to go on dipping a pen into an inkwell, so he put the
ink into the pen. George Westinghouse told the world how to
stop a train, and Elisha Otis, inventor of the elevator,
indirectly created the city skyline. These people understood
that individualism means working at the top of one's capacity.
Fortunately, enough Americans have been inspired to do
something with their uniqueness that we have developed in
less than three centuries from a frontier outpost into not
only a country of freedom but a country strong enough to
protect that freedom. These people prized the notions of
individuality and excellence above all things and thus kept the great machine functioning. The ones with the purple hair
and the horrorable jewelry are just along for the ride,
trying to be "different" and not knowing how to go about it.
1 The student who earns A's on his report card has
grasped the idea and has found the real meaning of
individuality. So has the youngster who has designed his own
spaceship, who paints pictures of the world around him, or
who can name all the states and their capitals. According to
the author unique individuals are persons who______.
A. do something better than other people
B. know more about a subject than other people
C. excel others in work
D. all of the above
2、People who regard individuality as a surface thing
always do the following EXCEPT
A. wearing bright clothes B. coloring their hair
C. doing better than others D. decorating their skin with
tattoos
3、Which is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A. Henry Ford invented assembly-line technique.
B. Elisha Otis was the inventor of the lift
C. George Westinghouse created cranks.
D. Lewis Waterman put the ink into the pen.
4、It can be inferred from the passage that______.A. the real secret to being unique lies in our excellent
work
B. if we want to be different we'd gain more profit
C the student who earns A's on the report card has not
grasped the real meaning of individuality
D. all Americans work miracles In the writer's opinion
5、who has understood the sense of individuality?
A. The youngster who designed his own spaceship.
B. The youngster who painted worthy pictures.
C. The youngster who was interested in wearing strange
clothes.
D. Both A and B.
答案：D C C A D
