2013年12月英语六级选词填空习题及答案

2013 年 12 月英语六级选词填空习题及答案(1)
A novel way of making computer memories, using bacteria computer industry has been to do more with less.
FOR half a century, the (1) __________of progress in the
Moore's law famously observes that the number of transistors which can The amount of data that can be stored has grown at a On May 10th Paul Happily for
be crammed into a given space (2)__________ every 18 months. similar rate.
Yet as (3)__________ get smaller, making them gets harder and more expensive.
Otellini, the boss of Intel, a big American chipmaker, put the price of a new chip factory at around $10 billion. those that lack Intel's resources, there may be a cheaper option—namely to mimic Mother Nature,
who has been building
tiny (4)__________, in the form of living cells and their components, for billions of years, and has thus got rather good at it. A paper published in Small, a nanotechnology journal , sets out the latest example of the (5)__________. In it, a group of
researchers led by Sarah Staniland at the University of Leeds, in Britain, describe using naturally occurring proteins to make arrays of tiny magnets, similar to those employed to store information in disk drives. The researchers took their
(6)__________ from Magnetospirillum magneticum, a bacterium that is sensitive to the Earth's magnetic field thanks to the presence within its cells of flecks of magnetite, a form of iron oxide. Previous work has isolated the protein that makes
these miniature compasses. Using genetic engineering, the team managed to persuade a different bacterium—Escherichia coli, a ubiquitous critter that is a workhorse of biotechnology—to (7)__________ this protein in bulk. block of gold with a microscopic chessboard pattern of chemicals. protein. The other half were left untreated as controls. Next, they imprinted a
Half the squares contained anchoring points for the
They then dipped the gold into a solution containing the protein, After that,
allowing it to bind to the treated squares, and dunked the whole lot into a heated (8)__________ of iron salts. they examined the results with an electron microscope.
Sure enough, groups of magnetite grains had materialised on the In principle, each of these magnetic domains could store the Getting from there to a real computer memory
treated squares, shepherded into place by the bacterial protein.
one or the zero of a bit of information, according to how it was polarised. would be a long road.
For a start, the grains of magnetite are not strong enough magnets to make a useful memory, and the But Dr Staniland reckons that, with enough tweaking,
size of each domain is huge by modern computing (9)__________. both of these objections could be dealt with. capital-intensive as building a fab.
The (10)__________ of this approach is that it might not be so If the tweaking could be
Growing things does not need as much kit as making them.
done, therefore, the result might give the word biotechnology a whole new meaning. A) components B) advantage C) standards D) compliments E) essence F) inspiration G) disadvantage H) doubles I) solution J) resolution K) devices L) manufacture M) spirit N) product O) technique

2013 年 12 月英语六级选词填空习题及答案(2)
Nice juicy Apple
ALTHOUGH he is still (1)__________ things up at Dell, an ailing computer-maker, Carl Icahn has found time
to tilt at another tech titan. On August 13th the veteran shareholder activist (2) __________that he had built up a stake in Apple, though he stayed mum about exactly how many shares he had bought. Mr Icahn’s intentions, however, are crystal clear: he wants the consumer-electronics behemoth to expand plans to return some of its whopping $147 billion of cash and marketable securities to shareholders. Mr Icahn is also after more money at Dell, where he has been lobbying with allies against a (3)__________ buy-out plan put forward by Michael Dell, the firm’s founder, and Silver Lake, a private-equity firm. His pressing has already forced the buy-out group to raise its initial offer by over $350m, to $24.8 billion and he has taken his (4)__________ to the courts in a bid to extract an even higher price. Other tech firms have been attracting the attention of activist investors too. Earlier this year
ValueAct Capital, an investment fund, said it had built up a $2 billion stake in Microsoft. Jaguar Financial, a Canadian bank, has been (5)__________ fresh thinking at troubled BlackBerry, which announced on August 12th that it is exploring various (6) __________options, including alliances and a possible sale. And Elliott Management, a hedge fund, has been lobbying for change at NetApp, a data-storage firm that it thinks could do more to improve returns to (7)__________. One reason tech firms have found themselves in activists’ crosshairs is that, like Apple, some built up big cash piles during the economic downturn and have been slow to use the money. Financiers hope to get them to loosen their purse-strings faster and to pocket some of the cash. Mr Icahn wants Apple to increase and (8)__________ a share buy-back programme that is currently set to return $60 billion to shareholders by the end of 2015. Another reason that tech firms make tempting targets for shareholder activists is that swift changes in technologies can
trip up even the mightiest. Witness the case of Microsoft, which ruled the roost during the personal-computer era but has struggled to adapt to a world in which tablets and smartphones are all the rage. Investors hope to mint money by pushing companies to change more rapidly in response to such upheavals in their markets. The rewards can be substantial. Egged on by Third Point, an activist
hedge fund, Yahoo (9) __________Marissa Mayer as its new chief executive in July 2012. By the time she celebrated a year in the job last month, the troubled web giant’s share price had risen by over 70%. In July the hedge fund sold a big chunk of shares back to Yahoo. Mr Icahn thinks Apple’s share price, which closed at $499 on August 14th, could soar too if the firm follows his advice on buy-backs. He tweeted this week that he had had a “nice (10)__________” with Tim Cook, Apple’s boss, about his idea, though he did not say what Mr Cook thought of it. If Apple drags its feet, expect things to turn nasty.
A) shareholders B) strategic C) communication D) battle E) conversation F) encouraging G) exciting H) stirring
I) appointed J) race K) revealed L) method M) accelerate N) proposed O)

It isn't just the beer that (1)__________ to beer bellies. It could also be the extra calories, fat and unhealthy eating choices that may come with (2) __________drinking. A recent study found that men consume an (3)__________ 433 calories (equivalent to a
McDonald's double cheeseburger) on days they drink a moderate amount of alcohol. About 61% of the caloric increase comes from the alcohol itself. Men also report eating higher amounts of saturated fats and meat, and less fruit and milk, on those days than on days when they aren't drinking, the study showed. Women fared a bit better, taking in an extra 300 calories on moderate-drinking days, from
the alcohol and eating fattier foods. But women's increase in calories from additional eating wasn't statistically significant, the study said. 'Men and women ate less healthily on days they drank alcohol,' said Rosalind Breslow, an epidemiologist with the federal National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and lead author of the study. 'Poorer food choices on drinking days have public-health (4)__________,' she said. The findings dovetail with controlled lab studies in which (5)__________ generally eat more food after
consuming alcohol. Researchers suggest that alcohol may enhance 'the short-term rewarding effects' of consuming food, according to a 2010 report in the journal Physiology & Behavior that reviewed previous studies on alcohol, appetite and obesity. But other studies
have pointed to a different trend. Moderate drinkers gain less weight over time than either heavy drinkers or people who abstain from alcohol, particularly women, this research has shown. Moderate drinking is (6) __________having about two drinks a day for men and one for women. 'People who gain the least weight are moderate drinkers, regardless of [alcoholic] beverage choice,' said Eric
Rimm, an associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard Medical School and chairman of the 2010 review of alcohol in the federal dietary (7)__________. The weight-gain difference is modest, and 'starting to drink is not a weight-loss diet,' he said. The various research efforts form part of a long-standing (8)__________ about how alcohol affects people's appetites, weight and overall health. Researchers say there aren't simple answers, and suggest that individuals' metabolism, drinking patterns and gender may play a role. Alcohol is 'a real wild card when it comes to weight management,' said Karen Miller-Kovach, chief scientific officer of
Weight Watchers International. At seven calories per gram, alcohol is closer to fat than to carbohydrate or protein in caloric content, she said. Alcohol tends to lower restraint, she notes, causing a person to become more (9)__________ with what they're eating. Research bolstering the role of moderate drinking in helping to control weight gain was published in 2004 in the journal Obesity Research. That study followed nearly 50,000 women over eight years. An earlier study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 1994, followed more than 7,000 people for 10 years and found that moderate drinkers gained less weight than nondrinkers. Studies comparing changes in waist circumference among different groups have yielded similar results. Dr. Rimm said
it isn't clear why moderate drinking may be (10)__________ against typical weight gain, but it could have to do with metabolic adjustments. After people drink alcohol, their heart rate increases so they burn more calories in the following hour. 'It's a modest
amount,' he said. 'But if you take an individual that eats 100 calories instead of a glass of wine, the person drinking the glass of wine will have a slight increase in the amount of calories burned.'
A indulgent B participants C debate D considered
E contributes F contest G guidelines H protective
I moderate J index K implications L considerate
M :additional N experienced O owes

2013 年 12 月英语六级选词填空习题及答案(4)
Nearly half the (1)__________ believes UFOs could be a (2) __________of extraterrestrial visitation.
A
HuffPost/YouGov poll reveals that 48 percent of adults in the United States are open to the idea that alien spacecraft are observing our planet -- and just 35 percent outright (3)__________ the idea. The poll was seen as vindication from the community of UFO "It's always been intriguing to me how we act as though
researchers who often feel they are laughed off by government officials.
only kooks and quacks and little old ladies in tennis shoes believe in flying saucers. And it's never been true, at least for 30 or 40 years," said former nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, who was the original civilian investigator of the events surrounding the (4) __________Roswell, NM, UFO crash of 1947. controlled extraterrestrial vehicles. Friedman is very outspoken on the idea that some UFOs are (5)__________
"The believers are far more quiet, but far more on the side of reality," Friedman told The
Huffington Post. "When you look at the polls, it's clear. And I see the benefit of that, (6)__________, because I've only had 11 hecklers in over 700 lectures. I've been out there, all over the place, in every state, 18 other countries, and I know that my (7) __________is more than tolerant -- they're accepting. It's been one of the things that really has kept me going." In the
HuffPost/YouGov poll, conducted between Sept. 6-7, 1,000 adults were asked if they either believed or didn't believe that some people have (8)__________ UFOs that have an extraterrestrial origin. When YouGov offered (9)__________ the choice between
"slightly disagree," "disagree" and "strongly disagree," those numbers added up to 35 percent who are skeptical of the notion that any UFOs may be alien-related. However, nearly half of the adults surveyed (48 percent) resounded in the affirmative, leaving 16
percent who (10)__________ that they weren't sure on either side of the ET issue.
A: legendary B:accept C: reject D: respondents E: personally F: implied G: population H: responsibility I: intelligently J: indicated K: sign L: signal M: witnessed N: story O: audience

2013 年 12 月英语六级选词填空习题及答案(5)
The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but numerous other dependents as well---grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousions. Such "extended" families were suited for survival in slow paced __1__ societies. But such families are hard to __2__. They are immobile.Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family __3__ shed its excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged---a stripped-down, portable family unit __4__ only of parents and a small set of children. This new style family, far more __5__ than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrial counties. Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development, __6__ even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry the streamlinling process, a stePfurther by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more __7__ components, aman and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes and geographic relocations, than teh ordinarily child-cluttered family.A __8__ may be the postponement of children, rather than childlessness. Men and women today are often torn in __9__ between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many __10__ will sidestePthis problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until after retirement. A)transplant B)solution C)gadually D)transport E)elemental F)conflict G)continually H)mobile
I)couples J)agricultural K)including L)compromise M)requires N)primary O)consisting
1.答案： 1.E)essence 2.H)doubles 3.A)components 4.K)devices 5.O)technique 6.F)inspiration 7.L)manufacture 8.I)solution 9.C)standards 10.B)advantage 2. 答案
1.H) stirring 2.K) revealed 3.N) proposed 4.D) battle 5.F) encouraging 6.B) strategic 7.A) shareholders 8.M) accelerate 9.I) appointed 10.E) conversation 3. 答案 1.E:contributes

2.I:moderate 3.M:additional 4.K:implications 5.B:participants 6.D:considered 7.G:guidelines 8.C:debate 9.A:indulgent 10.H:protective
1.G:population 2.K:sign 3.C:reject 4.A:legendary 5.I:intelligently 6.E:personally 7.O:audience 8.M:witnessed 9.D:respondents 10.J:indicated
4. 答案 5.ANSWER: 1. 选 J） 此处应填形容词， 。 修饰名次 societies。 文章第一句就说 The typical pre-industrial family...“工业化之前的典型家庭模式......”， 即“extended" family 存在于工业化之前的社会， 即 agricultural society。故 J）正确。选项中的 primary”最初的，原始的“不符合原文意思。 2. 选 A） 。由 be hard to do sth.可知，此处应填动词原形。They are immobile“这样的家庭 很难流动”，这说明这样的家庭 are hard to...，选项中由 transplant 和 transport 两个动词原形， 前者指的是“迁居，迁移”，后者指的是运输，不难推断前者符合原文意思，故 A）transplant 正确。3. 选 C） 。因为这句话的句子结构完整，固此处应填副词。选项中的副词有 gradually 和 continually,原文中...and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged.所谓的“核心家庭”便出现了 “，emerge 的意思是“浮现" ，强调经过一个过程后出现的。由此可以判断，这句话坏死说明 核心家庭从无到有逐渐出现，而不是连续不断地出现，故选择 C)gradually> 4. 选 O） 。该句可拆分理解，即 a family unit... of parents and a smell set of children "一个 家庭单元......父母和不多的孩子“，由此可以推出这里要填的词是表示”包含，由......组成“的。 选项中的 including 和 consisting 均可以表示此意， 但由原文中的 of 可排除 including,consist of 为固定刺诸，故 O）为正确答案。 5. 选 H） 。从原文中的 more...than 可知，此处应填形容词，构成形容词的比较级结构。 由第一段最后一句可知 the traditional extended family 是 immobile,那么新型的家庭模式比旧 的因该是更有流动性，故应选 H）mobile，说明新型的家庭模式的优点。 6. 选 M） 。此处应填动词，作这句话的谓语。Super-industrialism“(更发达的)超级工业 化”......更具流动性的家庭。可推知空格处应填表示“需要，需求”的词。requires 表示出自一 种迫切的需要而提出的要求，很明显选择 M)requires。 7. 选 E） 。此处应填形容词，用来修饰名词 components。文中说明家庭被减缩到最...... 的成员，即由男人和女人组成，男人和女人是一个家庭最基本的成员。选项中的 E） elemental“基本的，本质的”，而 N）primary“主要的，最早的”，原文强调的是男人和女人是 一个家庭最 basic 的组成部分，故 E）更符合原文意思。 8.选 l） 此处应填名词。 。 上段说两人家庭的优点， 本句中提到 rather than childlessness“而 不 是 不 要 孩 子 ” ， 说 明 晚 要 孩 子 是 解 决 工 作 和 孩 子 的 折 中 的 办 法 ， 故 选 项 中 的 L） compromise“妥协，折中”符合文意。而 solution 虽然也表示解决办法，但不能表达夫妇们无 可奈何的心情，故排除。 9.选 F） 。上题中已提到工作和要孩子之间存在矛盾即 conflict，根据上下文意思，这个 题相对容易。中 华 考 试 网 10.选 I） 。这段一直在说一个家庭里男人和女人因为工作和要孩子的事情发生争吵，那 么将来要解决这个问题的仍然是家庭中的夫妻两人，故这里应填 I）couples。