1、大学英语六级改革适用（阅读）-试卷 209及答案解析(总分：60.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：8，分数：60.00)1.Part III Reading Comprehension_2.Section A_Aristotle defined a friend as “a single soul dwelling in two bodies“. Members of Facebook whose “friends“ reach triple figures may have a looser definition, but how many
2、friends we have, and how easily we make, 1and lose them, has a significant impact on our 2well-being. Its no surprise, then, that friends can improve just about every aspect of our life. A recent study says that the recovery from a surgery included, 3, a reduction in the level of pain felt by patien
3、ts with the most friends. Likewise, friends can protect us from the aftershocks of bereavement(丧失亲人)or 4. They dont even have to be great friendssome of the 5effect is simply down to the company: have a pint with a mate and youre by definition not socially 6. We first recognise the importance of fri
4、ends in childhood, when were not really sure how to make them. While some of us may 7a few childhood friends, the biggest opportunity for friendship comes in higher education. A study of long-term friendships found that friendships formed during college years stayed close 20 years later, if they sco
5、red highly in closeness as well as communication to begin with. These friendships 8great distances and an average of six house moves. “At college you can cultivate close friendships because youre in such close 9for sustained periods,“ says Glenn Sparks, Purdues professor of communication. “These rel
6、ationships are 10and hard to replicate; theyre very unusual outside family relationships. Even when distance, jobs, family tended to pull them apart, these friends would say that once they re-established contact, they didnt miss a beat.“ A)positive B)suspiciously C)proximity D)retain E)submitted F)e
7、motional G)divorce H)maintain I)sensitive J)rare K)survived L)reunion M)isolated N)ambiguity O)incredibly（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:_4.Section B_Can Mix of Teachers, Computers Lead to Pupil Success? AWhen visitors to the Carpe Diem charter school s
8、ee 175 students wearing headphones and staring into computer screens from small cubicles, principal Mark Forner is ready for a skeptical reaction. “Our critics say it looks like a telemarketing call center,“ he said, pre-emptively(先发制人地). “I tell people it reminds me of a university library.“ BThe t
9、ightly arranged cubed seating in a large, open room isnt the only way Carpe Diem doesnt look like a traditional school. Theres also this factthere are only five teachers for 175 students. Thats a 35-1 student-to-teacher ratio, a little out of line for what many middle and high schools offer. Eventua
10、lly, the five teacherswith the assistance of aideswill be expected to educate 300 students as the school grows, creating a 60-1 ratio more common in Third World countries. CThats because Carpe Diem offers a “blended learning“ curriculum. Its a cutting-edge and controversial concept that delivers a b
11、ig chunk of instruction to students via computer at school and occasionally at home and mixes it with periodic small group discussions and one-on-one instruction. DCarpe Diem, which serves grades 6 to 12 with a 13-member staff, brought blended learning to Indianapolis for the first time last year. T
12、hree more blended learning charter schools recently opened in IndianapolisPhalen Leadership Academy, Nexus Academy and Enlace Academybut the concept is only starting to ramp up. More than a dozen blended learning schools are planned to open here over the next five years. E“Our intuition is that it d
13、oes work,“ said Earl Martin Phalen, founder of the Phalen Academy charter school. “If you watch a two-year-old grab an iPad and flip through it, you see our kids are pretty adept with technology. We certainly understand it can be a learning tool.“ FElectronic instruction is hardly newonline-only sch
14、ools have been around for more than a decade. But blended schools claim to have developed a hybrid they say is more effective for many kids. It allows students to work at their own pace to conquer concepts they can handle and consult a teacher or their peers when they need extra help. Learning model
15、 or profit machine? GCritics of blended learning, however, lump this concept in with other online schools and say they have concerns about the quality of the learning experience and the true motivations of the purveyors(承办商)of electronic instruction. Some wonder if they care more about learning or p
16、rofits. After all, it can be far cheaper to teach a student with a computer in a cubicle than with an actual person standing in front of the classroom. That, in turn, can free up dollars that can be paid out in profit that can go to school operators and the testing companies that make several of the
17、 hot-selling software programs they buy. HLast year, the consulting firm The Parthenon Group did a study that aimed to estimate the cost of blended learning instruction compared with a traditional classroom model. It found the difference could be as much as $2,400 per student below what traditional
18、public schools spend on instruction. Thats almost 25% less than what the typical traditional public school spends, the study said. IPhalen, whose charter school opened in Indianapolis this year, acknowledged that there are those who use online tools to cut costs. But he said his schools and others l
19、ike them are trying to do what every business aims to dofind ways to deliver services that are cheaper and better at the same time. Phalen Academy is not entirely a blended learning school but uses some blended learning techniques in its classes. JRick Ogston, who founded Carpe Diem in Arizona, said
20、 cost-cutting was the last thing on his mind when he began experimenting with blended learning at his first school. His motivation, he said, was to find a way to tailor instruction to the point where it was personalized to each student. Personalized instruction KCarpe Diems Indianapolis principal, M
21、ark Forner, is a former insurance agent who changed careers to become a teacher by joining Teach for America, a program that places new teachers in needy schools nationwide. Forner, 47, said he studied blended learning in graduate school. “The great thing about blended learning is no two kids move a
22、t the same pace,“ he said. “In traditional school if you are a kid who gets it, you have to wait until the next year to move up to the grade. Here you dont have to wait for the cohort(大部队).“ LThats what brought student Sydney Pedigo to Carpe Diem from Western Boone High School last year as a 10th-gr
23、ader. A math genius, she said she was often bored in math class. Even when teachers gave her more advanced work to do on her own she would often zip through it and be stuck waiting for the rest of the class. MCarpe Diems approach is sometimes called the “flipped“ classroom. Lectures that used to tak
24、e place in class are instead routinely watched online on video. Students then work their way through exercises based on the lecture content and take a short quiz. A lesson typically takes about 40 minutes to complete. Then, when students go to class, their work is focused on discussion, group work a
25、nd individual help, said Liz Retana, the schools English teacher. So far, the results are impressive. NMost new charter schools start with low student scores, and the good ones raise them over time. In its first year, Carpe Diem saw 73% of its students pass English and math on Indiana Statewide Test
26、ing for Educational Progress, just a half-point below the state average. By comparison, Indianapolis Public School 27, which two years ago converted to the highly regarded Center for Inquiry curriculum, saw just 54.7% pass. The two schools have very similar demographics. Carpe Diem has slightly more
27、 poor and minority students and slightly fewer students learning English as a second language or in special education. Moving too quickly? OButler University education professors Shelly Furuness and Kelli Esteves, who have experimented with blended learning in their college classes and support the i
28、dea, nonetheless worry about the workload for teachers such as Retana. PFuruness and Esteves have used blended learning for core foundation courses in learning theories, education concepts and educational history at Butler. Their decision to try blended learning was also influenced by the goal of in
29、dividualized instruction. But the two were quick to point out that they co-teach a class with 25 students when they do blended learninga 12-1 ratio of students to teacherand only for select classes. The two are skeptical of blended learning as a central concept for a whole school. QFuruness said she
30、 worries when she hears about students who quickly complete high school courses by relying heavily on online tools. At college level, she said, students often struggle not because they havent passed tests on basic concepts but because they cant connect those concepts through critical thinking. That
31、sort of skill is typically polished up in conversation with teachers and peers. “Sometimes theyre collecting gold stars when they should be connecting dots,“ Furuness said. RForner, Carpe Diems principal, doesnt disagree. “We are very clear with parents we are not an online school and that we have h
32、igh-quality teachers,“ he said. “There are some things you cannot get from an online-only school that you can only get with a high-quality teacher. That includes real-world application. You can only get that from a great teacher down in the classroom.（分数：20.00）(1).Several schools with blended-learni
33、ng method have opened recently in Indianapolis.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(2).For some visitors, Carpe Diem resembles a call center, even though the principal disagrees.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(3).In Carpe Diem, its expected to offer only one teacher for about sixty students in the future.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(4).Some teac
34、hers worry about the quick-learning speed in blended learning because students may not acquire the skills necessary at college level.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(5).Even though blended schools appear later than online-only schools, they claim to be a more effective approach.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(6).According to a st
35、udy conducted by a consulting firm, the cost of blended learning could be much lower than that of traditional public schools.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(7).For the founder of Carpe Diem in Arizona, his motivation is to create a personalized instruction instead of cutting cost.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(8).A flipped clas
36、sroom consists of video-watching, exercising and in-class learning, which has excellent results for now.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(9).For two schools with similar demographics, when it comes to the pass in English and math, the one with blended learning stands out.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(10).Founder of a charter sch
37、ool admitted some schools try to cut cost through online tools.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_5.Section C_The 35-year-old Beijing woman is watching an ad showing a giant television made by the Chinese company Haier. A stream of introduction for the television floats in and out of view, including one about receivin
38、g electronic mail over the tube. A surfer rides the waves between skyscrapers, his wash leaving an “ in the water. The ad is “too direct“, she tells an interviewer. “There is this guy talking, telling me all about the product, showing me some images. We get itbut we dont like it.“ Since a Shanghai t
39、elevision station aired Chinas first TV commercial in 1979, most have been the plain, straightforward, tell-the-name-of-the-product-and-what-it-does kind. Those started disappearing in the U.S. in the late 1960s in favor of more subtle pitches using irony and humor. Now a study says Chinese commerci
40、als dont have to talk down to consumers anymore eitherat least the one-third of them living in Chinas prosperous cities, and who most interest advertisers. Even the Western agencies that win awards elsewhere for hip, inventive commercials usually keep it simple in China. After all this country only
41、began opening up 20 years ago and is fairly new to advertising. And to consumer culture, too. China is still a developing nation where an income of just $20,000 a year qualifies an urban household as middle-class. On the other hand, city people who once aspired to own the “big three“a television, re
42、frigerator and washing machinehave already moved up to DVD players and mobile phones. And with a population of 1.3 billion, the worlds largest, China is a huge market. That is why the worlds largest companies, from Coca-Cola to Procter theyre very unusual outside family relationships. Even when dist
43、ance, jobs, family tended to pull them apart, these friends would say that once they re-established contact, they didnt miss a beat.“ A)positive B)suspiciously C)proximity D)retain E)submitted F)emotional G)divorce H)maintain I)sensitive J)rare K)survived L)reunion M)isolated N)ambiguity O)incredibl
44、y（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：H）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：O）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：G）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：M）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：C）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：J）解析：解析：空格作句子的表语，可为名词、形容词或分词。根据空格后的“难以复制”可知，这些关系很珍贵，rare“罕见的；珍奇的”符合语义。4.Section B_解析：Can Mix of Teachers, Computers Lead to Pupil S
45、uccess? AWhen visitors to the Carpe Diem charter school see 175 students wearing headphones and staring into computer screens from small cubicles, principal Mark Forner is ready for a skeptical reaction. “Our critics say it looks like a telemarketing call center,“ he said, pre-emptively(先发制人地). “I t
46、ell people it reminds me of a university library.“ BThe tightly arranged cubed seating in a large, open room isnt the only way Carpe Diem doesnt look like a traditional school. Theres also this factthere are only five teachers for 175 students. Thats a 35-1 student-to-teacher ratio, a little out of line for what many middle and high schools offer. Eventually, the five teacherswith the assistance of aideswill be expected to educate 300 students
