1、大学英语六级改革适用（阅读）-试卷 180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）_On Saturday, Bexar County Digital Librarya $2.4 million, 4,000-square-foot space located on the south side of San Antonioopens to the public. The li
2、brary, built with $1.9 million in county tax money and $500,000 in private 1is stocked with 10,000 e-books, 500 e-readers, 48 computers, and 20 iPads and laptops. It has a childrens area, study rooms and a cafe. Most 2it will have no printed material. This isnt the first time a public library has 3t
3、o go bookless. Considering our 4away from print and toward all things digital, the idea of the bookless library no longer seems so 5Around the country, a number of public libraries have undergone 6transformations to cater to the needs of its visitors, often by moving and 7its book collections to mak
4、e way for digital spaces that can easily adapt to emerging technologies. Chicago Public librarys YOUmedia offers space for teens to create digital content like podcasts and video games. The District of Columbia Public Library system and the Columbus Metropolitan Library System in Ohio are renovating
5、 many of their locations to create all-digital areas and open spaces for 8to work together. Arizona State University and the Scottsdale Public Library system are even collaborating to attract small businesses and 9to work in libraries across the state. In New York City, 40 of the 62 Queens Libraries
6、 have been renovated in part to increase space for jobseekers who dont have access to a computer at home. They are focused on programs and services like resume writing, job search tips and language classes. Public libraries now offer one program a day 10in the U.S. A)scrutiny B)importantly C)patrons
7、 D)supplementing E)innovative F)radical G)tentative H)attempted I)entrepreneurs J)definitely K)donations L)consolidating M)justified N)drift O)averagely（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:_Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller won the
8、Nobel Prize for economics on Monday for developing methods to study trends in stock, bond and housing markets. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that through their research, the three had laid the 1of the current understanding of asset prices and changed the way people invest. While its 2wh
9、ether stock or bond prices will go up or down in the short term, its possible to foresee 3over periods of three years or longer, the academy said. “These findings, which might seem surprising and contradictory, were 4made and analyzed by this years prize winners,“ the academy said. Fama, 74, and Han
10、sen, 60, are 5with the University of Chicago. Shiller, 67, is a professor at Yale University. Starting in the 1960s, Fama and others showed how difficult it is to predict individual stock prices in the short run. His findings 6the practice of investing, leading to the emergence of index funds. Two d
11、ecades later, Shiller showed that there is more predictability in the long run in stock and bond markets, while Hansen developed a 7method to test theories of asset pricing. “These are three 8different kinds of people and the thing that unites them all is asset pricing,“ says David Warsh, who tracks
12、 academic economists on his Economic Principals blog. The economics award is not a Nobel Prize in the same sense as the medicine, chemistry, physics, literature and peace prizes, which were 9by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in 1895. Swedens central bank added the economics prize in 1968 as a 10
13、to Nobel. A)unpredictable B)foundation C)supplementary D)utterly E)fellowship F)movements G)illuminates H)memorial I)inaugurated J)separately K)created L)statistical M)associated N)cooperatively O)revolutionized（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:_A study c
14、onducted by an Australian science agency has discovered signs that the countrys ancient Aborigines may have been the worlds first astronomers, 1Stonehenge(巨石阵)in Britain by more than a thousand years. Professor Ray Norris, of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO),
15、said 2knowledge of the stars through songs and stories had been passed down through generations by the Aboriginal people, whose history dates back tens of thousands of years. “We know there are many stories about the sky: songs, legends, myths to mark out the seasons, so they are very 3Norris said.
16、People 4changed settlement, so when Pleiades(the Seven Sisters star 5)was up they would move to where the nuts and berries are. Another sign and it would be time to move to the rivers to fish for barramundi, and so on.“ Norris, who has studied Aboriginal culture 6and has made several journeys to Ar
17、nhem Land in Australias Outback, said the research also 7more detailed astronomical thought. “Clearly some thinker in the past has been sitting down in the bush, watching the 8and trying to figure out how it works,“ he said. “Those thoughts are then encoded in the songs and ceremonies.“ Norris is no
18、w looking for 9that might date the earliest signs of Aboriginal astronomy, such as a stone carving of a meteor strike or comet. Norris is confident that the Aborigines pre-dated European astronomers, including Stonehenge and Egypts great pyramid Giza, both of which are 10at around 3100 BC. “Weve est
19、ablished there is all this astronomy, what I dont know is how far back this goes. If it goes back 10,000 or 20,000 years, that makes Aborigines the worlds first astronomers,“ he said. A)detailed B)boosted C)eclipse D)vigorous E)practical F)evidence G)revealed H)estimated I)regularly J)routine K)clus
20、ter L)preceding M)extensively N)rectifying O)respectively（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 180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：On Sat
21、urday, Bexar County Digital Librarya $2.4 million, 4,000-square-foot space located on the south side of San Antonioopens to the public. The library, built with $1.9 million in county tax money and $500,000 in private 1is stocked with 10,000 e-books, 500 e-readers, 48 computers, and 20 iPads and lapt
22、ops. It has a childrens area, study rooms and a cafe. Most 2it will have no printed material. This isnt the first time a public library has 3to go bookless. Considering our 4away from print and toward all things digital, the idea of the bookless library no longer seems so 5Around the country, a numb
23、er of public libraries have undergone 6transformations to cater to the needs of its visitors, often by moving and 7its book collections to make way for digital spaces that can easily adapt to emerging technologies. Chicago Public librarys YOUmedia offers space for teens to create digital content lik
24、e podcasts and video games. The District of Columbia Public Library system and the Columbus Metropolitan Library System in Ohio are renovating many of their locations to create all-digital areas and open spaces for 8to work together. Arizona State University and the Scottsdale Public Library system
25、are even collaborating to attract small businesses and 9to work in libraries across the state. In New York City, 40 of the 62 Queens Libraries have been renovated in part to increase space for jobseekers who dont have access to a computer at home. They are focused on programs and services like resum
26、e writing, job search tips and language classes. Public libraries now offer one program a day 10in the U.S. A)scrutiny B)importantly C)patrons D)supplementing E)innovative F)radical G)tentative H)attempted I)entrepreneurs J)definitely K)donations L)consolidating M)justified N)drift O)averagely（分数：20
27、00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：K）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：H）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：F）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：L）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：C）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：I）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：O）解析：解析：句子主谓宾结构完整，故空格应为副词作状语。本段描述各公共图书馆提供的数字化服务，最后一句对全段内容做了小结。averagely 符合句意，表明美国的公共图书馆“平均”每天提供一项此类服务。Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Ha
28、nsen and Robert Shiller won the Nobel Prize for economics on Monday for developing methods to study trends in stock, bond and housing markets. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that through their research, the three had laid the 1of the current understanding of asset prices and changed the
29、way people invest. While its 2whether stock or bond prices will go up or down in the short term, its possible to foresee 3over periods of three years or longer, the academy said. “These findings, which might seem surprising and contradictory, were 4made and analyzed by this years prize winners,“ the
30、 academy said. Fama, 74, and Hansen, 60, are 5with the University of Chicago. Shiller, 67, is a professor at Yale University. Starting in the 1960s, Fama and others showed how difficult it is to predict individual stock prices in the short run. His findings 6the practice of investing, leading to the
31、 emergence of index funds. Two decades later, Shiller showed that there is more predictability in the long run in stock and bond markets, while Hansen developed a 7method to test theories of asset pricing. “These are three 8different kinds of people and the thing that unites them all is asset pricin
32、g,“ says David Warsh, who tracks academic economists on his Economic Principals blog. The economics award is not a Nobel Prize in the same sense as the medicine, chemistry, physics, literature and peace prizes, which were 9by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in 1895. Swedens central bank added the
33、 economics prize in 1968 as a 10to Nobel. A)unpredictable B)foundation C)supplementary D)utterly E)fellowship F)movements G)illuminates H)memorial I)inaugurated J)separately K)created L)statistical M)associated N)cooperatively O)revolutionized（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F
34、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：O）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：L）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：D）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：K）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：H）解析：解析：a 提示空格应为单数名词。该句子是讲“经济学奖在 1968年由瑞典中央银行设立，用以诺贝尔”，memorial“纪念物”符合上下文语义。A study conducted by an Australian science agency has discovered signs that the countrys ancient Aborigines may h
35、ave been the worlds first astronomers, 1Stonehenge(巨石阵)in Britain by more than a thousand years. Professor Ray Norris, of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), said 2knowledge of the stars through songs and stories had been passed down through generations by the A
36、boriginal people, whose history dates back tens of thousands of years. “We know there are many stories about the sky: songs, legends, myths to mark out the seasons, so they are very 3Norris said. “People 4changed settlement, so when Pleiades(the Seven Sisters star 5)was up they would move to where t
37、he nuts and berries are. Another sign and it would be time to move to the rivers to fish for barramundi, and so on.“ Norris, who has studied Aboriginal culture 6and has made several journeys to Arnhem Land in Australias Outback, said the research also 7more detailed astronomical thought. “Clearly so
38、me thinker in the past has been sitting down in the bush, watching the 8and trying to figure out how it works,“ he said. “Those thoughts are then encoded in the songs and ceremonies.“ Norris is now looking for 9that might date the earliest signs of Aboriginal astronomy, such as a stone carving of a
39、meteor strike or comet. Norris is confident that the Aborigines pre-dated European astronomers, including Stonehenge and Egypts great pyramid Giza, both of which are 10at around 3100 BC. “Weve established there is all this astronomy, what I dont know is how far back this goes. If it goes back 10,000
40、 or 20,000 years, that makes Aborigines the worlds first astronomers,“ he said. A)detailed B)boosted C)eclipse D)vigorous E)practical F)evidence G)revealed H)estimated I)regularly J)routine K)cluster L)preceding M)extensively N)rectifying O)respectively（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：L）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：I）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：K）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：M）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：G）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：C）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：H）解析：解析：around 3100 BC 提示空格所在从句补充说明巨石阵和吉萨金字塔的年代，但对于它们的建造年代并没有确切的记录，只能推测，estimated 符合句意，与系动词 are构成被动语态。
