2015年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案解析

2015年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案解析

选词填空（一）

 36.  N. swept 原意是“机械织布机取代了手工织布者”，swept aside表示“迅速除去”的意思
37.  B. displaced 与上一句是一个同意结构，displace的意思与sweep aside最为接近！
38.  I.prosperity 首先确定是一个名词，并且是一个正面色彩的，符合条件的有prosperity
39.  H. productive 应该为一个形容词，同样也应该是正面色彩的，productive最为合适
40.  C. employed 工人肯定是“被农场所雇用啊”，所以选employed
41.  F. jobless 根据后面but所接信息可推出该空应该为负面色彩形容词，jobless最合适
42.  M. shrunk 同样根据but以及more，可以推出该空为shrunk
43.  A.benefits  与dislocatingeffect相对应的应该是一个正面的复数名词，或通过but解题
44.  E. impact 首先确定为名词，能够hit rich world也只有impact了
45.  D. eventually 与前面的first相对应

选词填空（二）
"Thatwhich does not kill us makes us stronger.” But parents can’t handleit when teenagers put this J.philosophy into practice. Andnow technology has become the new field for the age-old battlebetween adults and their freedom-craving kids.
Locked indoors,unable to get on their bicycles and hang out with their friends,teens have turned to social media and their mobile phones togossip, flirt and socialize with their peers. What they do onlineoften I.mirrors what they might otherwise do iftheir mobility weren’t so heavily B.constrainedin the age ofhelicopter parenting. Social media and smartphoneapps have become so popular in recent yearsbecause teens need a place to call their own. They want the freedomtoD. exploretheir identity andthe world around them. Instead of L.sneakingout, they jumponline.
As teens havemoved online, parents have projected their fears onto the Internet,imagining all the K.potentialdangers that youth might face–from O.violent strangers to cruel peers topictures or words that could haunt them on Google for the rest oftheir lives.
Rather thanhelping teens develop strategies for negotiating public life andthe potential risks of F.interactingwith others, fearfulparents have focused on tracking, monitoring and blocking. Thesetactics don’t help teens develop the skills they need to managecomplex social situations, A.assessrisks and get helpwhen they’re in trouble. Banning cell phones won’t stop a teenwho’s in love cope with the messy dynamics of sexting. “Protecting”kids may feel like the right thing to do, but it N.underminesthe learning thatteens need to do as they come of age in a technology-soakedworld.
36. J.philosophy 位于代词this后，介词前，填名词。意为：但当把这种哲学付诸实践时，家长们也无法处理。
37.I.mirrors     第二空差谓语，且需要单数三人称形式，意为：他们在线上做的反映了他们若非有家长严密监督以使他们机动性受限的话会做的事情。难点在于mirror是做动词哟。
38.B.constrained前面有系动词，后面有状语，这里最好填形容词表语。意为：他们在线上做的反映了他们若非有家长严密监督以使他们机动性受限的话会做的事情。
39.D.explore   这里是to do做宾补，需要动词原形，意为：他们想要自由去探索自我和身边的世界。
40.L.sneaking   of后接ing做介宾。意为：并非溜出去，他们选择线上翻墙~
41.K.potential   all thedangers结构较完整，缺形容词作定语。意为：想象着所有潜在的危险。
42.O.violent    from后有strangers作介宾，所以需要填形容词。意为：从暴力的陌生人到残酷的同龄人。
43.F.interacting of后接动名词，意为与他人互动的潜在危险。
44.A.assess    并列结构表明该填动词原形，意为：这些策略没有帮助年轻人发展他们的处理复杂社会情境、并在困境中得到帮助的能力的需求。
45.N.undermines 缺谓语，且要单数三人称。意为：它破坏了青少年在技术浸泡年代需要做到的学习。

段落匹配题
46. E) The process described byCutting…
47. B) The intuitive answer is thatsome works of art…
48. H) Although many havetried…
49. C) Cutting, a professor atCornell University, …
50. K) The intrinsic quality of awork of art is starting to…
51. D) Cutting believes hisexperiment offers…
52. L) A study in the British Journalof Aesthetics suggests…
53. F) When Watts looked into thehistory of…
54. J) Although the rigid high-lowdistinction…
55. I) "Saying that cultural objectshave value,"

仔细阅读
Passage1 56.C.Unemployment
关键词JY。定位到第一段第二三句，意为她作为FRD下届主席热门候选人发现自己处于很重要的位置，而失业是如今的【主要】社会和经济话题。
 57. D.Pour money into the marketthrough asset buying.
关键词08.定位到第二段，解题句为前两句，意为Yellen作为美联储副主席，在3万8千亿美元的救市中是主要设计者。而该就是央行主要是通过资产购买手段。
58.B.Deflation
关键词Generalpublic。定位至第四段But后的morepeople.意为更多人担心的不是通胀，而是紧缩将会激化经济问题。
59.C.Tightenfinacial regulation.
关键词Fedchief。定位到第五段第一行，该段意为她打算慢慢结束这次经济刺激，稳健地去泡沫并且让市场稳定平缓下来。
60.A.She possessesstrong persuasive power.
关键词AB，定位到末端倒数第三行，意为她既像一个有逻辑且善于辩论的党鞭，又是一个好的倾听者，她说服人又不会带去敌意。

Passage2
参考原文：
Early decision — you apply to oneschool, and admission is binding — seems like a great choice fornervous applicants. Schools let in a higher percentage ofearly-decision applicants, which arguably means that you have abetter chance of getting in. And if you do, you’re done with thewhole agonizing process by December. But what most students andparents don’t realize is that schools have ulterior motives foroffering early decision, and in many cases, it’s better forstudents to use nonbinding options like early action or to simplywait to apply at the regular time.
Early decision, since it’s binding,allows schools to fill their classes with qualified students; itallows admissions committees to select the students that are inparticular demand for their college and know those students willcome. It also gives schools a higher yield rate (the percentage ofstudents admitted to attend the school), which is often used as oneof the ways to measure college selectivity and popularity. Inshort, it’s a tremendously useful tool for colleges anduniversities.
The problem is that this processeffectively shortens the window of time students have to make oneof the most important decisions of their lives up to that point.Under regular admissions, seniors have until May 1 to choose whichschool to attend; early decision effectively steals six months fromthem, months that could be used to visit more schools, do moreresearch, speak to current students and alumni and arguably make amore informed decision.
There are, frankly, an astonishingnumber of exceptional colleges and universities in America, and forany given student, there are a number of schools that are a greatfit. When students become too fixated on a particular school earlyin the admissions process — especially if that school is a highlycompetitive school — that fixation can lead to severedisappointment if they don’t get in or, if they do, the possibilitythat they are now bound to go to a school that, given time forfurther reflection, may not actually be right for them.
Moreover, the advantage earlydecision seems to give its applicants is probably not so great asthe numbers might imply, since recruited student athletes (whoseadmission is all but guaranteed) and legacies (who have a muchhigher chance of admission) tend to apply through early decision,and the quality of applicants in general tends to be higher. Butinsofar as early decision offers a genuine admissions edge, thatadvantage goes largely to students who already have numerousadvantages. The students who use early decision tend to be thosewho have received higher-quality college guidance, usually a resultof coming from a more privileged background (a private school or ahigher-quality public school that can afford more and betterguidance for its students). In this regard, there’s something of anethical argument against early decision, as students fromlower-income families are far less likely to have the admissionssavvy to navigate the often confusing early deadlines.
Students who have done theirresearch and are confident that there’s one school they would bethrilled to get into should, under the current system, probablyapply under early decision (unless their top-choice school has theoption for early action). But for students who haven’t yet doneenough research, or who are still constantly changing their mindson favorite schools, or who frequently second-guess majordecisions, the early-decision system needlessly and prematurelynarrows the field of possibility just at a time when studentsshould be opening themselves to a whole range of thrillingoptions.
61.  B. Attend the school oncethey are admitted.
迅速根据earlydecision与自然段界定法将解题信息锁定到第一段，第一句的插入语you apply to one school, and admission isbinding就是对earlydecision进行介绍，同学们应该准确理解bind的含义方能解题，选项B是对插入语的同义改写。其他三项都是无关干扰！
62.  A. To make sure they getqualified students.
解题信息来自第二段第一句，early decision可以让学校“充满”了合格的学生，A选项就是对它的同义改写。B、C为无中生有；D为拼凑第一段中的一些细节。
63.  C. It allows them littletime to make informed choice.
根据problem定位到第三段第一句，大意为“early decision缩短了学生作出重要选择的时间”，C选项是对它的同义改写。其他三项都为无关干扰！
64.  D. It places students fromlower-income families at a disadvantage.
根据倒数第二段倒数第一句同义改写。
65.  B. Avoid choosing earlydecision unless they are fully prepared.
   最后一段一个很明显的转折词but，前面是给做好准备的学生提供的意见，后面是给为做好准备的学生提供的意见，综合来看，B选项是最后一段的同义改写。A、D都在拼凑无关细节；C看上去合理，其实偏离了文章earlydecision的主旨。
 
第二套
Passage 1
参考原文：
Air pollution is deteriorating inmany places around the world. The fact that public parks in citiesbecome crowded as soon as the sun shines proves that people long tobreathe in green, open spaces. They do not all know what they areseeking but they flock there, nevertheless. And, in thesesurroundings, they are generally both peaceful and peaceable. It israre to see people fighting in a garden. Perhaps struggle unfoldsfirst, not at an economic or social level, but over theappropriation of air, essential to life itself. If human beings canbreathe and share air, they don't need to struggle with oneanother. And consequently, it appears to be a basic crime againsthumanity to contribute to air pollution.
Unfortunately, inour western tradition, neither materialist nor idealisttheoreticians give enough consideration to this basic condition forlife. As for politicians, despite proposing curbs on environmentalpollution, they have not yet called for it to be made a crime.Wealthy countries are even allowed to pollute if they pay forit.
But is our lifeworth anything other than money? Are we, then, still living? Or, dowe only sense what life could be when we enjoy greenspaces?
The plant worldshows us in silence what faithfulness to life consists of. It alsohelps us to a new beginning, urging us to care for our breath, notonly at a vital but also at a spiritual level. We must, in turn,care for it, opposing any sort of pollution that destroys both ourworld and that of plants. The interdependence to which we must paythe closest attention is that which exists between ourselves andthe vegetal world. Often described as "the lungs of the planet",the woods that cover the earth offer us the gift of breathable airby releasing oxygen. But their capacity to renew the air pollutedby industry has long reached its limit. If we lack the airnecessary for a healthy life (or, indeed, for any kind of life), itis because we have filled it with chemicals and undercut theability of plants to regenerate it. As we know, rapid deforestationcombined with the massive burning of fossil fuels, which arelargely the remnants of past plants, is an explosive recipe for anirreversible disaster.
The fight over theappropriation of resources will lead the entire planet to an abyssunless humans learn to share life, both with each other and withplants. This task is simultaneously ethical and political becauseit can be discharged only when each takes it upon her – or himself– and only when it is accomplished together with others. The lessontaught by plants is that sharing life augments and enhances thesphere of the living, while dividing life into so-called natural orhuman resources diminishes it. We must come to view the air, theplants and ourselves as the contributors to the preservation oflife and growth, rather than a mesh of quantifiable objects orproductive potentialities at our disposal. Perhaps then we wouldfinally begin to live, rather than being concerned with baresurvival.
56. A.To get their share of clean air.
根据struggle马上定位到第一段的Perhaps struggle unfolds first, not at an economic orsocial level, but over the appropriation of air, essential to lifeitself，A选项显然是该句话的同义改写。
57. D.Falling to pass laws to curb environmental pollution.
根据politician马上定位到第二段（注意第二段都是在写西方国家哦）的As forpoliticians, despite proposing curbs on environmental pollution,they have not yet called for it to be made acrime，不难看出作者通过让步表达自己对“西方政客立法不作为”的现象表示不满。
58. B.Our relationship to the plant world.
根据closest attention定位到The interdependence to whichwe must pay the closest attention is that which exists betweenourselves and the vegetal world，该句是一个长难句，主干为The interdependence isthat…. 可以看出作者需要我们密切关注我们人类与植物世界之间的依赖关系，注意plant与vegetal对应哦。
59. D.By pooling their efforts together.
   根据自然段界定法，解题信息应该出现在倒数第二段后半部分和最后一段前半部分，仔细阅读之后可以确定解题信息为This task issimultaneously ethical and political because it can be dischargedonly when each takes it upon her – or himself – and only when it isaccomplished together withothers，该句话理解难度较大，但是不难看出作者所传达的思想应该是合作（together）。
60. C.Share life with nature.
   根据survive定位到文末最后一句由then可知方法肯定在前面有介绍到！而本段的分论点就是sharelife，与C选项符合。其他三项都是细节干扰！
 （本文选自2014年3月份的英国卫报，主题是关于airpollution）

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