英语六级阅读理解100篇英语六级阅读题型
六级阅读中的题型主要可以分为以下几类：一、细节题细节题就是针对文章中的细节所出的考题。这些事实和细节主要包括：主要人物、主要事件、主要情节、主要过程、主要的原因和结果、主要的数据、主要的时间和地点。有一些方法可以准确地找到细节和事实： A．找到中心思想，那么支持中心思想的事实与细节就自然显现出来了。 B．要明确所有事实和细节并不是同等重要的。与中心思想相联系的事实和细节是重要的事实和细节；与中心思想无关，只是引起兴趣的事实和细节是次要的事实和细节。要把重要的事实和细节分开，因为，出题的地方一般是重要的事实与细节，这样次要的部分就可以略去不阅读了。 C．寻找段落的构成及信息的排列形式。 D．要把作者的观点与事实分开。 E．在阅读的过程中要给自己提问(Who?Where?When?What or what happened?＆Why?) F．最后，要迅速地检查一下所找到的事实与细节，并加以总结。细节题主要命题方式有：According to the passage，it is…that… The author describes…as…because…A chief factor in…is根据分类，细节题一般有以下几种形式： 1．词性、同义词、反义词的转换，这类题主要考查读者对原文表达细节信息的词汇、惯用法的正确理解，这是相对比较简单的题目，只要在原文中找到支持选项的词语即可。 2．同时利用词语和句法的转换。这类题目的正确选项与原文的表达不尽相同，一般会在词语或句型上有变化，比如原文用的是双重否定，选项中常常出现肯定的句式；或原文与选项互换反义词。解这类题的关键也是要找对考点，因为无论怎
样变化，原文表达具体事实和细节的信息与问题加选项的信息在意思上一定是相同的。 3．综合细节题。需要将文章的信息与自己对主题的原有观点和判断相结合，综合概括作者给出的各种细节。 4．排除型题型。要仔细找到每个选项的出处，一个一个地排除，这种题型没有技巧可言，只要仔细就可以做对。例如： A single word emptied Surat" s usually swarming streets last week. Ignoring public - health officials" frantic appeals to stay home, residents began escaping the slum- ridden city, about 175 kilometers north of Bombay, by any means at hand. Doctors identified the disease, which has already killed more than 100 inhabitants,as pneumonic plague. Bubonic plague, the disease"s more common form, is carried by fleas from rats---animals considered sacred by many Indians. Bubonic plague ravaged Europe in the 14th century, making itself infamous as the Black Death, and killed nearly million people in India between 1896 and 1936. The even more lethal pneumonic form can also travel directly from human to human, causing high fever, a bloody congh and often death without hours. As of late last week, relief workers said roughly 500,000 of Surat" s 2.5 million residents had already fled. The mass exodus raised worries of a full - blown epidemic.Officials tried to cordon off the city, hoping to prevent people already infected with the disease from carrying it elsewhere--especially to crowded Bombay, just three hours away by train. But containing the public"s growing
sense of panic was beyond the powers of belated separations and emergency shipments of antibiotics. An outbreak of bubonic plague, Indian" s first encounter with that disease since 1966, hit the area of Bombay shortly before the pneumonic virus arrived in Surat. Late lastweek officials declared the bubonic contagion under control. Of the few score people known to have contracted the disease, none had died. But the pneumonic killer remained on the loose. 1. Surat was a______ A)big and crowed city. B)poor and densely populated city.
C) city with a long history of plague. D)busy city with narrow streets. 综合细节题型，第一段三处分别提到了Surat是一个贫穷且人
口密集的城市，综合得出B)为正确选项。2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?A) The cause of bubonic plague.B)The symptoms of pneumonic plague.C)The measures taken by the officials.D)The first time the plague hit India. 排除型题型，第
一段和第二段分别提到了A)、B)、c)选项的内容，故排除D)，所以D)也
就是正确答案。二、主旨大意题主要的命题方式有： What"s the subject of the passage? The main idea(point)of the passage is______． The suitable title for the passage might be_______．主旨大意题一般有以下几种形式： 1．段落主旨题。这种段落的中心大意一般出现在这一段的第一句或最后一句，但有时也有几句话的综合，并不直接在某一句中体现。 2．全篇主旨题。这种题主要考对全文的中心大意的概括能力。有时中心意思在首段用主题句等方式表达出来，有时则在中段或尾段。有主题
句的文章的其他各部分通常都紧密围绕主题句层层展开。一般在阅读文章的时候就应该对作者的中心大意有一个比较准确的理解，在前面所提到的勾画主题句可以很好的解决主旨型题型。还有一点必须注意的是，在做完所有的题后，应该再重新考虑主旨题，看是否与其他各题有矛盾之处，如有，那么主旨题应该重新考虑答案。 Though they were not trained naturalists, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in their explorations of North American in the early nineteenth century came across enough unfamiliar birds, mammals, and reptiles to fill a zoo. In keeping with president Jefferson"s orders, they took careful note of 2 species and subspecies that were unknown to science and in many eases native only to the West. Clark make sketches of any particularly intriguing creature. He and lewis also collected animal hides and horns and skins with such care that a few of them were still intact nearly two centuries later. While Lewis and Clark failed to meet the mythological monsters reputed to well in the West, they did unearth the bones of a 45 - foot dinosaur. Furthermore, some of the living beasts they did come upon, such as the woolly mountain goat and the grizzly bear were every bit as odd or as fearsome as any myth. In their collector"s enthusiasm, they even floated aprairie dog out of its burrow by pouring in five barrelfuls of water,then shipped the frisky animal to Jefferson alive and yelping. Q: What does the passage mainly discuss? A) President
Jefferson" s pets. B) Collector"s techniques for capturing wildlife.
C) Jobs for trained naturalists. D) Record newly discovered species of animals. 正确答案为C)。原文要讲述Mefiwether Lewis和William Clark在19世纪早期在北美探险时发现的一些以前所不熟悉的鸟、哺乳动物及爬行动物等。这在原文开头提到了，接着具体叙述他们探险时遇到各种动物时的情况。这是典型的中心句在句首的情况。三、逻辑关系题这种题型的主要命题方式有： From the passage we know that______． The first sentence in the passage tells us that________． 1．句子之
间的逻辑关系题。正确勾画出信号词对这种题非常有用。只要找到信号词，就可以把握句子之间到底是因果关系还是转折关系。但在更多情况下，逻辑关系并没有明显的标志词，这时一定要小心分析句子之间存在的隐形的逻辑关系。 2．文章各段之间的关系。文章各段落之间的逻辑关系通常都体现在段落的开头和结尾。找到前一段的最后一句与后一段的第一句之间的关系便成为解题的关键。一般段落之间的关系有时间先后顺序、平行列举关系、对比结构关系、因果关系等。因为为了使文章的结构严密，作者通常会使用一些表示次序、递进、转折等的过渡词，勾画出这些标志词可以方便理解段落之间的关系。例如： Shakespeare said that" some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. "So it is with leadership. Some men are born with capacity for leadership. Some acquire that art by watching and studying the actions of those around them. Other persons find themselves thrown into unusual situations which require them to draw on resources they
never realized they had, and events bring out marked leadership. Most of us are never put to such tests. Most of us are not born leaders. Q: At the beginning of the passage, Shakespeare"s words are quoted A)to make readers appreciate the writer"s style B)to show the writer"s appreciation of Shakespeare"s ideas C) to stress the importance of good leadership D)to help describe different kinds of leaders "so it is"意思是"也一样"，看出这里是类比关系，表明莎
士比亚的话同样适用对领导才能的描述。莎翁提到3种不同的人，那么领导人也有至少3种类型，由此可知，作者引述这句话的目的在于描绘不同类型的领导，故正确选项是D)。四、推断题主要的提问方式有： It can be inferred from the passage that________． 1t is implied in the passage that_______． It is implied but not stated：_______．推断题有一定的难度，在解决时要结合文章的主旨大意，从语篇层面上把握全文，同时要利用相关部分的背景知识，甚至常识推理。不能死抠字面意思，也不可以主观臆断，还有一点就是必须区分事实和观点。例如：Dialectic in this sense of the word has no other aim but to reduce to a regular system and collect and exhibit the arts which most men employ when they observe in a dispute , that Ruth is not on their side, and still attempt to gain the day. Hence, it would be very inexpedient to pay any regard to objective troth or its advancement in the science of Dialectic, since this is not done in that original and natural Dialectic, innate in men, where they strive for nothing but victory.
The science of Dialectic, in one sense of the word, is mainly concerned to tabulate and analyze dishonest stratagems, in order that in a real debate they may be at once recognized and defeated. It is for this very reason that Dialectic must admittedly take victory, and not objective truth, for its aim and purpose...QI: In the context of the selection, "dialectic" most probably means A)the search for truth B) an objective attitude toward reality C)a philosophic acceptance of deficit D) a system of logical thinking rulesQ2: The term " inexpedient" ( sentence 2) is likely to mean A)innocent B) wise C) impractical D) efficientQ3: When the author claims that the science of dialectic enables a person to "analyze dishonest stratagems", the term "stratagem" seems to mean A) statistics B)devices C)attitudes D)gesturesQ4: When he implies that the desire to win is" innate in men," the author means that the urge is A)natural B)vicious C)wrong D) theoreticalQ1：在选文中，单词dialectic的大意是：A)：对真理的探索；B)：对现实的客观态度；C)：逆来顺受；D)：辩证法的体系。根据上下文，正确答案应该是选项D)，其他选项都不对。 Q2：句子二中inexpedient一词的含义是不便的，不明智的。所给的四个选项的意思分别是：A)：无故的；B)：明智的；C)：不现实的；D)：效率高的。从文章和句子中可以看出，正确答案是选项c)。其他选项都不对。 Q3：作者称辩证法可以帮助一个人分析不诚实的"stratagems"。所给四个选项的意思分别是：A)：统计学；B)：工具；C)：
态度；D)：手势。在本文中stratagem应为"方式、方法、工具"之意，所以正确答案是选项B)，其他选项都不对。 Q4：当作者暗示说他想得到的是人的天性，作者指的这种驱动力是：A)：自然的；B)：邪恶的；C)：错误的；D)：理论的。考生可以从innate天生的，固有的，一词推知答案是选项A)，其他选项都不对。又如：1990年1月试题第31题31 、It is implied that fifty years ago_______A) eighty per cent of American working people were employed in factoriesB) twenty per cent of American intellectuals were employeesC)the percentage of intellectuals in the total work force was almost the same as that of individual workersD) the percentage of intellectuals working as employees was not so large as that of the industrial workers 答案选D)。这是一道需要自己推断结论的题，在文中没有现成的答案。文章中提到约一百年前只有1／5的人受雇于人，50年前被雇佣意味着在工厂或农场当劳力，而今天只有1／5的人不受雇于人，而且今天的雇员中受过教育的中产阶级的数目越来越大，由此推出50年前的雇员中知识分子的比例远远小于产业工人。有的考生往往把推理题想得太难，于是就天马行空地乱推，一般推一步就可以得到结论了，最多都不要推过两层意思。
五、作者的观点、态度题作者往往并不直接表明自己对某一事物或观点的态度和倾向，有时通过全文的叙述，有时可通过作者的用词(尤其是形容词和副词)，推断作者的语气。常见的提问方式有： What is the author"s opinion? How does the author feel about．．．? Which of the following can best describe the style of the passage? 要做对这类题，必须做
到正确理解作者真正的观点，同时还要正确地推断作者的语气、态度，弄清作者写这篇文章的目的是什么，作者的态度是肯定还是否定，以及文中的事实论据是否支持作者的论点等等。同时还必须体会作者的用词和其他修饰手段，例如比喻和讽刺。在读文章的时候要注意勾画出表示作者态度的一些词语，比如sure，satisfaction，magnanimous，还有一些带有消
极意义的词，比如ruffled，stingy等。例如：The deliberate violation of constituted law (civil disobedience )is never morally justified if the law being violated is not the prime target or focal point of the protest. While our government maintains the principle of the Constitution by providing methods for and protection of those engaged in individual or group dissent, the violation of law simply as a technique of demonstration constitutes rebellion.Civil disobedience is by definition a violation of the law. The theory of civil disobedience recognizes that its actions, regardless of their justification, must be punished. However, disobedience of laws not the subject of dissent, but merely used to dramatize dissent, is regarded as morally as well as legally unacceptable. It is only with respect to those laws which offend the fundamental values of human life that moral defense of civil disobedience can be rationally supported.For a just society to exist, the principle of tolerance must be accepted, both by the government in regard to properly expressed individual dissent and by the individual toward
legally established majority verdicts. No individual has a monopoly on freedom and all must tolerate opposition. Dissenters must accept dissent from their dissent, diving it all the respect they claim for themselves. To disregard this principle is to make civil disobedience not only legally wrong but morally unjustifiable. Q: According to the author, A) the principle of tolerance must be accepted by both parties B)civil disobedience cannot be accepted in a just society C)in a just society, no individual tolerate opposition D) many authorities respect dissent as necessary to the functioning of a free society正确答案是A)。文中最后一段第一句正是作者表达的观点：容忍的原则要被双方接受才可。标志词是must be。像must be，should这类语气的词均表明了作者是完全支持这种观点的。
六、词汇题词汇题在很大程度上是根据上下文推测词义的正确理解。常见的提问方式有：The word"…"means--．By"…"the author
means_______. 对于生词、难词，作者一定会在上下文中进行解释、说明或者用一个比较简单的词重复该词，因此这类题并不难做。如：1 would like your candid opinion。direct and truthful．direct和truthful 都是对candid的重复说明，可以推断candid是坦诚的意思。又如：Tom is quite talkative．whereas his sister remains reticent all the time．whereas表示转折，因此可以得出reticent是talkative的反义词，"沉默寡言"之意。而对于熟词僻义的考题，应该推敲上下文，领会其意思，对本文做适当的引伸；有一个小技巧就是排除该单词常见意义的选项，
即对其不予考虑。例如：The lorry had been ordered to arrive at the rest- house at seven- thirty for loading, and by eight - thirty we thought we should be well on the road. It was very apparent that we were new to Africa. At ten o" clock we were pacing round and round our mountain of luggage on the veranda, cursing and fuming impatiently, scanning the road for the truant lorry. At eleven o" clock a cloud of dust appeared on the horizon and in its midst，like a beetle in a whirlwind。was the lorry．It screeched to a halt below，and the driver dismounted．Q1．Pacing means_______.A)running B)walking impatientlyC)counting our steps D)sitting本题正确答案是B)。文章开头谈到车子未按预定时间到达这一事实，作者使用了should be这样的虚拟语气，说明了作者初来乍到，加上大堆行李，因此等得极不耐烦。在这一语境下，B)项的意义更确切。Q2：Fuming
means_______.A)angry B)smokingC)waiting D)laughing本题正确答案是A)。由上文提示，等车等得不耐烦而导致生气发怒，由此推断，"fuming"的意思是"发怒的，生气的"意思。 Q3：Scanning means______。 A)walking along B)standing beside C)blaming D)looking at every part of 从这句话的上文和"scan for the lorry"这一短语可以判断他们是在张望要等的货车，故本题正确答案是D)。 Q4：Truant means_______． A)that hadn"t turned up B)broken-down C)old-fashioned D)dig 本题正确答案是A)。上文谈到由于车子没按预定时间到达而使他们长时间地等候，由此可推断，"truant"意思是"还没出现的"。Q5：Screeched to a halt
means_______.A)crashed B)stopped slowIyC)stopped with a loud noise D)drove up to the door本题正确答案是C)。要知道这一短语的意思，就要弄清"screech"一词的意思。联系此句的上下文可判断，车子尖叫着停了下来，此处是指突然刹车发出的声音。Q6：Dismounted
means________．A)got out B)took the engine to piecesC)opened the door D)drove away again本题正确答案是A)。上文已说明车停了，这一线索和该词前缀dis(意为away)都给了我们猜测该词义的提示。词汇题还包括了关于"it、they、one、that"等常见代词的指代问题的题目。在六级里，无论代词指代的是名词还是句子，都会包含名词在内，因此做这类题有一个小技巧就是找名词，在it的前面一个句子里面去找最近的那一个名词。比如：As families move away from their stable community，the informal flow of information is cut off。and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthyand reliable．这里距it最近的名词是the informal flow of information，可以知道it指代的句子一定与信息流动有关，而只有正确答案the breakdown of informal information channels中间包含非正式信息流的意思。
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
2019年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案：Passage One答案及解析 Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity”, and praised the creation of an academic institute dedicated to researching the fut ure of intelligence as “crucial to the future of our civilization and our species.” Hawking was speaking at the opening of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) at Cambridge University, a multi-disciplinary institute that will attempt to tackle some of the open-ended questions raised by the rapid pace of development in AI research. “We spend a great deal of time studying history,” Hawking said, “which, let’s face it, is mostly the history of stupidity. So it’s a welcome change that people are studying instead the future of intelligence.” While the world-renowned physicist has often been cautious about AI, raising concerns that humanity could be the architect of its own destruction if it creates a super-intelligence with a will of its own, he was also quick to highlight the positives that AI research can bring. “The potential benefits of creating intelligence are huge,” he said. “We cannot predict what we might achieve when our own minds are amplified by AI. Perhaps with the tools of this new
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
2005 年-2012 年六级作文真题及范文 2012 年6 月英语六级作文题 题目：The impact of the Internet on interpersonal communication 要求：commenting on "Dad：Hi sweetie, how was school, today? Daughter: You can read all about it on my blog, Dad" The impact of the Internet on interpersonal communication In contemporary society, our life is filled with a variety of anecdotes or stories, and the following is no exception: "Dad：Hi sweetie, how was school, today? Daughter: You can read all about it on my blog, Dad." Funny as it seems, this conversation can be naturally associated with the impacts of Internet on our life: In an era of Internet, the time for interpersonal communication is impaired by online chats or blogs. Apparently, the impacts of the Internet on interpersonal communication are diverse. For one thing, as a vital invention, Internet brings great convenience to our communication, eliminates the barrier of distance, and helps humans to keep in touch wherever and whenever. For another, it is Internet that does not enables family members, friends or classmates to communicate more in a face-to-face way. One case in point is that youngsters may spend hours chatting with acquaintances through QQ or MSN, but rarely do they talk with other face to face. Unfortunately, it we let this trend to continue as it is, the interpersonal relationship will, definitely, become alienated. To my understanding, it is advisable for people to communicate more with their families, friends and acquaintances in real life instead of merely through the Internet. Do bear in mind: Internet is just a tool. 2011 年12 月英语六级作文题 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Way to Success by commenting on Abraham Lincoln s famous remark, "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend, the first four sharpening the axe." You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. The Way to Success What is success? In fact, success is a positive feeling, it is a state of confidence after we achieve our ideals So all of us will try our best to get success."If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z..Hardworking is x; y is good methods and z is stop talking and get down to work."It is said by Einstein, who is used to be a winner of the Nobel Prize. According to this Wisdom, we known that if we want to do everything successful, we must follow these ways. When we begin to study, our parents and teachers always told us to study hard. Hardworking, which is an useful way to success, is necessary for us. Hardworking, which means we should try our best to do the things. Besides, if you want to get success, we not only need hardworking, but also have some useful methods. If you have some useful methods, you will feel that it is easier to achieve your goals. What ' s more, we must stop talking and get down to work. Success is base on the actions. Actions, may not let we get success. But if we not action, it can never be successful. Regardless of the dream is big or small, the goal is high or low, from now on, swing it into action. In my opinion, if you follow these important ways to do every things, you will get success at last. 2011 年6 月英语六级作文题 1.现在许多人热衷于各类证书考试 2.其目的各不相同
2014年12月大学英语六级考试备考资料《阅读理解》考前训练（21-30）及答案 考前训练(21) How to Deal With Difficult People In New York City one day, a businesswoman got into a taxi. Because it was rush hour and she was hurrying for a train, she suggested a route. "I've been a cabby(车夫) for 15 years!" the driver yelled. "You think I don't know the best way to go?" The woman tried to explain that she hadn't meant to offend him, but the driver kept yelling. She finally realized he was too upset to be reasonable. So she did the unexpected. "You know, you're right," she told him. "It must seem dumb for me to assume you don't know the best way through the city. " Taken aback, the driver flashed his rider a confused look in the rear-view mirror, turned down the street she wanted and got her to the train on time. "He didn't say another word the rest of the ride," she said, "until I got out and paid him. Then he thanked me. " When you encounter people like this cab driver, there's an irresistible urge to dig in your heels. This can lead to prolonged arguments, soured friendships, lost career opportunities and broken marriages. As a clinical psychiatrist, I've discovered one simple but extremely unlikely principle that can prevent virtually any conflict or other difficult situation from becoming a recipe for disaster. The key is to put yourself in the other person's shoes and look for the truth in what that person is saying. Find a way to agree. The result may surprise you. Sulkers Steve's 14-year-old son, Adam, had been irritable for several days. When Steve asked why, Adam snapped, "Nothing's wrong! Leave me alone!" and stalked off to his room. We all know people like this. When there's problem, they may sulk(生闷气) or act angry and refuse to talk. So what's the solution? First, Steve needs to ask himself why Adam won't talk. Maybe the boy is worried about something that happened at school. Or he might be
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
2010 年6 月六级真题 Passage One 发达国家中只有两个国家不能保证提供用于照料新生儿的带薪休假。去年春天，这两个国家中的一个——澳大利亚——放弃了这种令人质疑的殊荣，建立了自2011 年起开始实施的带薪家庭休假制。在美国这并没有成为新闻，我并不感到意外——现在我们是唯一没有这项政策的富有国家。 美国确实有一个明确的家庭政策，这就是于1993 年通过的《家庭和医疗休假法》。它规定要照料新生儿或处理家庭医疗问题的工人有资格享受时间长达12 个星期的不带薪休假。尽管此法案带来的利益不明显，但当时商务部和其他一些商业团体都极力反对，称其为“政府负责的人事管理”和“危险的先例”。事实上，民主党领袖一直都致力于将能促进工作与家庭关系平衡的措施形成法律条文，但每一次的努力都遭到了商业团体的强烈反对。 正如耶鲁大学法学教授Anne Alstott 所辩解的那样，要肯定父母关爱的作用就要将家庭定义为一种社会商品，从某种意义上讲，社会要为此埋单。在她的书《无路可走：父母对孩子的亏欠以及社会对家长的亏欠》中，她认为父母在生活的多个方面都肩负重担：在谈到孩子的话题时，父母们“无路可走”：“社会希望也需要家长们能不间断地照看好他们的孩子，而且是人类用以开发智力、培养情感和树立道德的那种深度的、亲密无间的照看。社会还希望并需要父母们能坚守这一角色，18 年如一日，如有必要，甚至还可以更长。” 大部分父母出于爱都会照顾孩子，不照顾孩子的父母则会受到公众的处罚。换句话说，父母们所做的一切都是这个国家所密切关注的问题，原因很明显，照顾孩子不仅从道德上来说是迫切的而且对这个社会的未来至关重要。国家在大多数保障儿童福利的家庭法律中都认可了这一点，而父母们在履行社会所强加给他们的、会改变其命运的义务时得到的帮助却甚少。把养育孩子视为个人选择、集体没有责任的做法不仅仅忽视了良好家庭教育所产生的社会效益，而且会抹杀这部分社会效益，因为当今天的孩子成为明天的具有生产力的公民时这部分社会效益会属于整个社会。实际上，据估计父母对孩子投入的价值，包括时间和金钱的投入（包括失去的薪水）相当于国内生产总值的20%—30%。如果这些投入能够产生巨大的社会效益——很明显能产生——那么为家庭提供更多的社会支持所带来的效益将会更加显而易见。 Passage Two 塔夫茨大学公民学习和参与信息研究中心(CIRCLE)一份新的调查显示，现在有比以前更多的年轻人参与投票选举，美国发展中心2008 年的一份调查也表明越来越多的年轻选民和活动家开始支持传统的自由事业。但要看出这些调查数字在现实生活中的意义并非易事。在总统竞选期间，巴拉克·奥巴马以希望和改变为宣传口号组成了不同种族之间和不同意识形态之间人们的联盟。当新一届政府执政下的现实生活步入正轨的时候，有些支持者可能会大失所望。随着国家进一步走入奥巴马执政时代，参与政治的年轻人是会继续支持奥巴马及其施政议程还是会渐行渐远？ “O（奥巴马的简称）一代”是《新闻周刊》新开的一个博客，致力于记录那些支持奥巴马的年轻人的生活。“O 一代”的作者们想就上面的问题做出回答。未来的三个月，Michelle Kremer 和其他11 位年龄从19 岁到34 岁不等的奥巴马支持者将会用博客来记录美国社会的主流生活，一个不同之处在于：通过将他们所有的观点和经历与新任总统及其领导下的政府紧密结合，这些博客作者试图开启一场对话，探讨在当今美国，年轻并且在政治方面活跃到底意味着什么。24 岁的Malena Amusa 是该博客的一位作者，也是来自圣路易斯的一位舞者，她将这一项目看做是即时记录历史的一种方式。Amusa 今年春天为了完成其著作前往印度，后来又去塞内加尔教授英语，她和她的朋友一直在谈论奥巴马当政会如何改变他们的日常生活，她希望把其中的一些观点和她的全球性视角写到帖子里。她很兴奋，要看清楚世界，“我不必等上15 年”，她这样解释说。 Henry Flores 是圣玛丽大学的政治学教授，他将年轻一代的政治力量归因于他们对科技的拥护。“网络使他们接触到更多的思想，”他说，“不同地区想法相同的人们就会聚到一起。”这正是“O 一代”博主们所期待的事情。结果可能会出现一群年轻人，就像他们在二战后生育高峰期出生的父母一样，伴随一种强烈的目的感而成长，他们也会改变此前从“X 一代”人身上所继承下来的冷漠形象。由一群普通但有抱负的年轻人来管理博客是个不小的挑战，但“O 一代”的成员能胜任这项任务。
英语六级阅读专项练习题附答案讲解 英语阅读在六级考试中占有很大的分值，加强英语阅读的练习十分 重要。下面小编为大家带来英语六级阅读专项练习题附答案讲解，欢迎 同学们阅读练习。 英语六级阅读专项练习题原文 Sitting in a back room at London's Barbican ans center, which is hosting the Game OnExhibition,Henry Jenkins delivers a line that would have jaws dropping in any gathering of therich and famous. I think games are going to be the most significant art form of the 2lst century, he says. It is, you might think, exactly what would be expected of someone introduced as a professor ofgaming. But Jenkins is much more than that. He is the director of a graduate program in comparativemedia studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, which also covers film,television and other mass media. Games are a significant but not the primary focus of theprogram, he says. Our approach has been to integrate games more fully into the study of media, rather thanapply them in one specialized field. The problem is that video games have yet to achieve respectability. They are often seenroughly of equal status with pornography (色情资料)，providing instant contentment for thesort of people no one would invite to a dinner party.Practically everyone plays video games,butyou may feel guilty if you are caught at it. But things did not go exactly to plan. Jenkins wrote:We were trying to
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.