1、大学英语六级改革适用（阅读）-试卷 178及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.Part III Reading Comprehension（分数：20.00）_2.Section A（分数：20.00）_Back in the carefree days of the Noughties boom, Britains youngsters were swept along by the buy-now-pay-later culture embraced by consumers up and
2、down the country. During a decade of near-full employment, many 1quickly from one joband one credit cardto another, and rainy days were such a distant memory that they 2seemed worth saving for. But with the supply of cheap credit 3up and a generation of school and university leavers about to 4the re
3、cession-hit job market, thousands of young people with no memory of the early 1990s recession are shocked into the 5that the world of 2009 is very different. Katie Orme, 19, who lives in Birmingham, says she has decided never to get a credit card after seeing the problems that her parents and 22year
4、old sister have had with debtjust one of the 6lessons that she has had to learn. Orme finished her A-levels a year ago, and has been searching for a joband living at home with her parentsever since. She has had to 7on to support herself and is now on a 12-week internship(实习期)at the Princes Trust to
5、improve her 8The Trust says that the number of calls from 9people such as Orme has shot up by 50% over six months. “Its so hard to get a job at the moment,“ she says, “its better to go and get more qualifications so when more jobs are 10you will be better suited.“ A)sign B)skipped C)available D)most
6、ly E)anxious F)mug G)hardly H)remedy I)realization J)dynamic K)resume L)tough M)neglected N)drying O)flood（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_Many countries have a holiday to celebrate workers rights on or around May 1, but Labour Day in Canada is celebrat
7、ed on the first Monday of September. Canadas Labour Day was 1celebrated in the spring but it was moved to the fall after 1894. The origins of Labour Day can be traced back to April 15, 1872, when the Toronto Trades Assembly organized Canadas first significant 2for workers rights. The aim was to rele
8、ase the 24 leaders of the Toronto Typographical Union who were imprisoned for 3to campaign for a nine-hour working day. At this time, trade unions were still illegal and what they did was seen as a criminal conspiracy to 4trade. In spite of this, the Toronto Trades Assembly was already a significant
9、 organization and encouraged workers to form trade unions, 5in disputes between employers and employees and signaled the 6of workers. There was 7public support for the demonstration and the authorities could no longer deny the important role that the trade unions had to play in the 8Canadian democra
10、tic society. A few months later, a similar demonstration was organized in Ottawa and passed the house of Canadas first prime minister, Sir John Macdonald. Later in the day, he appeared before the gathering and promised to 9all Canadian laws against trade unions. This happened in the same year and 10
11、led to the founding of the Canadian Labour Congress in 1883. A similar holiday, Labor Day is held on the same day in the United States of America. Canadian trade unions are proud that this holiday was inspired by their efforts to improve workers rights. A)disrupt B)enormous C)lashed D)muttering E)st
12、riking F)mediated G)originally H)perpetual I)eventually J)emerging K)gesture L)mistreatment M)abolish N)parade O)practically（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_We buy books, and then they wait for us to read them Days, months, even years. Books are 1Thats
13、OK for books, but not for new authors. If people dont read their first books, theyll never make it to a second. Thats why Eterna Cadencia, an independent publisher and book store, decided to create something different to 2their new authors into the market“The Books That Cant Wait“, which seeks to 3b
14、onds between first-time writers and their readers by getting their books read quickly. Whats that? They developed the 4kind of ink, an ink that starts to disappear when it comes in contact with light and air. Then they printed a 5of works by the best new American Latin author, using this ink, to cre
15、ate a new kind of booka book that lasts only two months once you open it This makes for an interesting approach to motivate book buyers to read books more 6giving first-time authors the attention they need to survive. They 7“The Book That Cant Wait“ for the critics and the press. The invention was 8
16、 Hundreds of people came to the bookstore to pick up their book. They gave away the entire first edition the very same day it was released. They 9received thousands of requests for the book. This time they had the 10that their new authors were read. Then they are going to use the book as a platform
17、for other different titles, because therere a lot of literatures out there that dont deserve to wait on the shelf. And theirs wont wait at all. A)promptly B)tolerant C)turbulent D)vanished E)presented F)launch G)pledge H)triumphant I)opaque J)collection K)guarantee L)occasionally M)strengthen N)uniq
18、ue O)subsequently（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_大学英语六级改革适用（阅读）-试卷 178答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：5，分数：100.00)1.Part III Reading Comprehension（分数：20.00）_解析：2.Section A（分数：20.00）_解析：Back in the carefree days of the Noughties boo
19、m, Britains youngsters were swept along by the buy-now-pay-later culture embraced by consumers up and down the country. During a decade of near-full employment, many 1quickly from one joband one credit cardto another, and rainy days were such a distant memory that they 2seemed worth saving for. But
20、with the supply of cheap credit 3up and a generation of school and university leavers about to 4the recession-hit job market, thousands of young people with no memory of the early 1990s recession are shocked into the 5that the world of 2009 is very different. Katie Orme, 19, who lives in Birmingham,
21、 says she has decided never to get a credit card after seeing the problems that her parents and 22yearold sister have had with debtjust one of the 6lessons that she has had to learn. Orme finished her A-levels a year ago, and has been searching for a joband living at home with her parentsever since.
22、 She has had to 7on to support herself and is now on a 12-week internship(实习期)at the Princes Trust to improve her 8The Trust says that the number of calls from 9people such as Orme has shot up by 50% over six months. “Its so hard to get a job at the moment,“ she says, “its better to go and get more
23、qualifications so when more jobs are 10you will be better suited.“ A)sign B)skipped C)available D)mostly E)anxious F)mug G)hardly H)remedy I)realization J)dynamic K)resume L)tough M)neglected N)drying O)flood（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：G）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：N）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：O）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：I）填空
24、项 1:_ （正确答案：L）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：K）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：E）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：C）解析：解析：此处应填入名词、形容词或分词作表语。凯蒂奥勒姆建议拿到更多的资格证，以便能更好地胜任工作，这个前提是有工作机会，available“可得到的”符合句意。Many countries have a holiday to celebrate workers rights on or around May 1, but Labour Day in Canada is celebrated on the first Monday of
25、September. Canadas Labour Day was 1celebrated in the spring but it was moved to the fall after 1894. The origins of Labour Day can be traced back to April 15, 1872, when the Toronto Trades Assembly organized Canadas first significant 2for workers rights. The aim was to release the 24 leaders of the
26、Toronto Typographical Union who were imprisoned for 3to campaign for a nine-hour working day. At this time, trade unions were still illegal and what they did was seen as a criminal conspiracy to 4trade. In spite of this, the Toronto Trades Assembly was already a significant organization and encourag
27、ed workers to form trade unions, 5in disputes between employers and employees and signaled the 6of workers. There was 7public support for the demonstration and the authorities could no longer deny the important role that the trade unions had to play in the 8Canadian democratic society. A few months
28、later, a similar demonstration was organized in Ottawa and passed the house of Canadas first prime minister, Sir John Macdonald. Later in the day, he appeared before the gathering and promised to 9all Canadian laws against trade unions. This happened in the same year and 10led to the founding of the
29、 Canadian Labour Congress in 1883. A similar holiday, Labor Day is held on the same day in the United States of America. Canadian trade unions are proud that this holiday was inspired by their efforts to improve workers rights. A)disrupt B)enormous C)lashed D)muttering E)striking F)mediated G)origin
30、ally H)perpetual I)eventually J)emerging K)gesture L)mistreatment M)abolish N)parade O)practically（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：G）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：N）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：E）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：L）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：J）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：M）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：I）解析：解析：空格在连词 and之后，在谓语动词 led to之前
31、，故应为副词。led to 与前面的 happened为并列谓语，这两个动作在时间上有先后之分，且 led to常用于引出事件的结果或结论，据此判断此处最佳选择是 eventually。We buy books, and then they wait for us to read them Days, months, even years. Books are 1Thats OK for books, but not for new authors. If people dont read their first books, theyll never make it to a second.
32、 Thats why Eterna Cadencia, an independent publisher and book store, decided to create something different to 2their new authors into the market“The Books That Cant Wait“, which seeks to 3bonds between first-time writers and their readers by getting their books read quickly. Whats that? They develop
33、ed the 4kind of ink, an ink that starts to disappear when it comes in contact with light and air. Then they printed a 5of works by the best new American Latin author, using this ink, to create a new kind of booka book that lasts only two months once you open it This makes for an interesting approach
34、 to motivate book buyers to read books more 6giving first-time authors the attention they need to survive. They 7“The Book That Cant Wait“ for the critics and the press. The invention was 8 Hundreds of people came to the bookstore to pick up their book. They gave away the entire first edition the ve
35、ry same day it was released. They 9received thousands of requests for the book. This time they had the 10that their new authors were read. Then they are going to use the book as a platform for other different titles, because therere a lot of literatures out there that dont deserve to wait on the she
36、lf. And theirs wont wait at all. A)promptly B)tolerant C)turbulent D)vanished E)presented F)launch G)pledge H)triumphant I)opaque J)collection K)guarantee L)occasionally M)strengthen N)unique O)subsequently（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：M）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：N）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：J）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：E）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：H）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：O）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：K）解析：解析：空格在定冠词 the之后，应为名词。本题应从词库中选用 guarantee，该句意为：现在他们有了“保障”新出道的作家的作品不会被束之高阁的方法。词库中其他名词与上下文语义不符。
