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2020年6月大学英语六级长篇阅读练习题(1)10 Ways Obama Could Fight Climate Change[A] One of the biggest surprises of President Barack Obama's inaugural address,on Monday was how much he focused on fighting climate change, spending more time on that issue than any other. "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations," Obama said. The President pointed out that recent severe weather supplied an urgent impetus for energy innovation and staked the nation's economic future on responding to a changing climate. "We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries--we must claim its promise," Obama said. '" That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure--our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped (山顶积雪的) peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. " so what could the President reasonably do to deliver on that vow? Here are ten of their suggestions:Sunset coal with new incentives and regulations.[B] "Provide incentives to phase out the oldest, most polluting power plants," said Robert Jackson, a climate scientist at Duke University. It's already happening, to some degree, as more of the nation transitions to natural gas. Earth scientist Bill Chameides, dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a former chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, urges the administration to use its Clean, Air Act authority to promulgate (颁布)carbon regulations for existing power plants like it has for new ones: "Doing that will force fuel switching from coal to natural gas. "Invest federal stimulus money in nuclear power.[C] It's hardly a perfect fuel, as accidents like Japan's Fukushima fallout have shown, but with safety precautions new nuclear plants can meaningfully offset dirtier types of energy, supporters say."Nuclear is the only short-to medium-term way to really get away from fossil fuels," said Peter Raven. President emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden. He said the damage done by relentless global warming will far exceed the damage done by faults in the nuclear system.Kill the Keystone pipeline.[D] The controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline is up for review again by the White House this year. "The font thing he should do to set the tone to a lowercarbon economy is to reject the Keystone pipeline, “said Raymond Pierrehum Bert, a geophysical scientist at the University of Chicago. The pipeline was never going to be a major driver of global emissions, but Pierre humbert and some other environmentalists say that by killing it the President would send a clear message about America's intent to ramp down fossil fuels.Protect the oceans by executive order.[E] Land use is complicated, but large swaths of oceans can be protected by executive order. Just as President George W. Bush designated the world's largest marine monument northwest of Hawaii in 2006. Obama could single-handedly protect other areas. National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle said the President should focus on parts of the Arctic that are under U. S. control, putting them off limits to energy production, commercial fishing, and mineral exploration. Marine sanctuaries (禁捕区) won't stop climate change, but they can give marine species a better chance of adapting to it by reducing the other man-made threats the animals face.Experiment with capturing carbon.[F] Huge untapped reserves of natural gas and oil make it unlikely that the U. S. will transition away from fossil fuels in the immediate future. Instead, said Wallace Broecker, geology professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, we should attack the atmosphere's carbon surplus directly. "Obama could make available funds to build and test prototype air capture units" to capture and store CO2, said Broecker. Removing some carbon from the atmosphere could buy valuable time as policy makers and scientists explore more permanent solutions.Grow government research for new energy sources.[G] The Department of Energy has a nimble program that's tasked with innovative energy research—the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. The ARPA-E funds research in biofuels, transmission,and battery storage, with an annual budget of $ 275 million. Last year, DOE officials requested at least $ 75 million more. Increasing funding for ARPA-E, said Rare Pomerance, former deputy assistant secretary of state for environment and development and currently an environmental consultant, "you get new technologies that undercut coal, oil, and gas. " Plus, he said, yon get a competitive advantage if American researchersuncover the next big idea in new energy.Tax carbon.[H] Congress would have to agree, but many climate experts say that the most meaningful way to tackle emissions is to set a price on carbon. "We should be asking people to pay the cost of putting carbon into the atmosphere as they buy the fuel," said Josh Willis, climate scientist and oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. To gain political support for the idea, Obama would probably have to show that the tax wonld help accelerate technology, grow new industries, and pay down the deficit.Dial back the federal government's energy use.[I] With more than I. 8 million employees, $ 500 billion in annual purchasing power, and 500,000 buildings to operate, the federal government has been a leader in reducing energy use since Obama signed a 2009 executive order to cut waste. "I would urge him to keep using the power of government to promote energy conservation," said Syndonia Bret-Harte, an Arctic biologist who studies climate change at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.Build a scientific clearinghouse for climate information.[J] "I advocate for building a better information system on what is happening and why," said Kevin Tren berth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U. S. National Center for Atmospheric Research. That involves compiling observations related to climate change from around the world and using the data to refine climate modeling. Think of it as a one-stop, user-friendly website that clearly demonstrates how weather data from around the globe are influenced by broader shifts in the planet's climate.Keep talking. Despite a consensus among top scientists, the world still needs some convincing on climate change.[K] A CNN poll last week found that just 49 percent of Americans agree that global warming is real and is due to human activities. "The most important thing the President can do is to build on his inaugural comments to heighten the sense of urgency about rapid climate destabilization and clarify its connection to virtually every other issue on the national agenda," said David Orr, environmental studies professor at Oberlin College. That means using the bully clergymen to show how a more volatile climate affects everything from agriculture totransportation to 21st-century warfare.46. The urge to promulgate carbon regulations is aimed at pushing power plants to replace coal by natural gas.47. Marine sanctuaries should be preserved because they help sea species adapt to climate alteration.48. The government should take the responsibility to raise Americans' awareness about climate change.49. Many climate experts believe that the most effective way to lower emission is to tax on carbon.50. Nuclear supporters argue that nuclear system failures are less challenging than global warming.51. Recent extreme weather made President Obama feel it is urgent to address climate change.52. Keystone pipeline should be rejected because it is a signal to reduce fossil fuels.53. Since Obama signed a 2009 executive order to cut waste, the federal government has taken the lead in saving energy.54. Lower carbon emission will be most likely to happen if research in new energy resources succeeds.55. Compared with turning to new energy, America prefers carbon capture and store as a temporary measure.2020年6月大学英语六级长篇阅读练习题(2)How to Make Attractive and Effective PowerPoint PresentationsA) Microsoft PowerPoint has dramatically changed the way in which academic and business presentations are made. This article outlines few tips on making more effective and attractive PowerPoint presentations.The TextB) Keep the wording clear and simple. Use active, visual language. Cut unnecessary words—a good rule of thumb is to cut paragraphs down to sentences, sentences into phrases, and phrases into key words.Limit the number of words and lines per slide. Try the Rule of Five-five words per line, five lines per slide. If too much text appears on one slide, use the AutoFit feature to split it between two slides. Click within the placeholder to display the AutoFit Options button (its symbol is two horizontal lines with arrows above and below), then click on the button and choose Split Text between Two Slides from the submenu.C) Font size for titles should be at least 36 to 40, while the text body should not be smaller than e only two font styles per slide—one for the title and the other for the text. Choose two fonts that visually contrast with each other. Garamond Medium Condensed and Impact are good for titles, while Garamond or Tempus Sans can be used for the text body.D) Embed the fonts in your presentation, if you are not sure whether the fonts used in the presentation are present in the computer that will be used for the presentation. To embed the fonts: (1) On the File menu, click Save As. (2) On the toolbar, click Tools, click Save Options, select the Embed TrueType Fonts check box, and then select Embed characters in use only.E) Use colors sparingly; two to three at most. You may use one color for all the titles and another for the text body. Be consistent from slide to slide. Choose a font color that contrasts well with the background.F) Capitalizing the first letter of each word is good for the title of slides and suggests a more formal situation than having just the first letter of the first word capitalized. In bullet point lines, capitalize the first word and no other words unless they normally appear capped. Upper and lower case lettering is more readable than all capital letters. Moreover, current styles indicate that using allcapital letters means you are shouting. If you have text that is in the wrong case, select the text, and then click Shift+F3 until it changes to the case style that you like. Clicking Shift+F3 toggles the text case between ALL CAPS, lower case, and Initial Capital styles.G) Use bold or italic typeface for emphasis. Avoid underlining, it clutters up the presentation.Don’t center bulleted lists or text. It is confusing to read. Left align unless you have a good reason not to. Run “spell check” on your show when finished.The BackgroundH) Keep the background consistent. Simple, light textured backgrounds work well. Complicated textures make the content hard to read. If you are planning to use many clips in your slides, select a white background. If the venue of your presentation is not adequately light-proof, select a dark-colored background and use any light color for text. Minimize the use of “bells and whistles” such as sound effects, “flying words” and multiple transitions. Don’t use red in any fonts or backgrounds. It is an emotionally overwhelming color that is difficult to see and read.The ClipsI) Animations are best used subtly; too much flash and motion can distract and annoy viewers. Do not rely too heavily on those images that were originally loaded on your computer with the rest of Office. You can easily find appropriate clips on any topic through Google Images. While searching for images, do not use long search phrases as is usually done while searching the web-use specific words.J) When importing pictures, make sure that they are smaller than two megabytes and are in a .jpg format. Larger files can slow down your show. Keep graphs, charts and diagrams simple, if possible. Use bar graphs and pie charts instead of tables of data. The audience can then immediately pick up the relationships.The PresentationK) If you want your presentation to directly open in the slide show view, save it as a slide show file using the following steps. Open the presentation you want to save as a slide show. On the File menu, click Save As. In the Save astype list, click PowerPoint Show. Your slide show file will be saved with a ppt file extension. When you double-click on this file, it will automatically start your presentation in slide show view. When you’re done, PowerPoint automatically closes and you return to the desktop. If you want to edit the slide show file, you can always open it from PowerPoint by clicking Open on the File menu.L) Look at the audience, not at the slides, whenever possible. If using a laser pointer, don’t move it too fast. For examp le, if circling a number on the slide, do it slowly. Never point the laser at the audience. Black out the screen (use “B” on the keyboard) after the point has been made, to put the focus on you. Press the key again to continue your presentation.M) You can use the shortcut command [Ctrl]P to access the Pen tool during a slide show. Click with your mouse and drag to use the Pen tool to draw during your slide show. To erase everything you’ve drawn, press the E key. To turn off the Pen tool, press [Esc] once.MiscellaneousN) Master Slide Set-Up: The “master slide” will allow you to make changes that are reflected on every slide in your presentation. You can change fonts, colors, backgrounds, headers, and footers at the “master slide” level. First, go to the “View” menu. Pull down the “Master” menu. Select the “slide master” menu. You may now make changes at this level that meet your presentation needs.1. The ways in which academic and business presentations are made have been changed by Microsoft PowerPoint.2. When making the PowerPoint, the wording of the text should not be complicated.3. In each slide, the font styles for the title and the text should contrast with each other.4. A more formal situation is capitalizing the first letter of the first word.5. Centering bulleted lists or text can not help to read.6. Sound effects should be used as less frequently as possible.7. When importing pictures, make sure that they are smaller than two megabytes.8. When making the presentation, you should look at the audience as possible as you can.9. Pressing the E key can help you to erase everything you've drawn.10. In order to meet your presentation needs, you can make changes at the “slide master”level.2020年6月大学英语六级长篇阅读练习题(3)Paper--More than Meets the EyeA) We are surrounded by so much paper and card that it is easy to forget just how complex it is. There are many varieties and grades of paper materials, and whilst it is fairly easy to spot the varieties, it is far more difficult to spot the grades.B) It needs to be understood that most paper and card is manufactured for a specific purpose, so that whilst the corn-flake packet may look smart, it is clearly not something destined for the archives. It is made to look good, but only needs a limited life span. It is also much cheaper to manufacture than high grade card.C) Paper can be made from an almost endless variety of cellulose-based material which will include many woods, cottons and grasses or which papyrus is an example and from where we get the word "paper". Many of these are very specialized, but the preponderance of paper making has been from soft wood and cotton or rags, with the bulk being wood-based.Paper from WoodD) In order to make wood into paper it needs to be broken down into fine strands. Firstly by powerful machinery and then boiled with strong alkalies such as caustic soda, until a fine pulp of cellulose fibers is produced. It is from this pulp that the final product is made, relying on the bonding together of the cellulose into layers. That, in a very small nutshell, is the essence of paper making from wood. However, the reality is rather more complicated. In order to give us our white paper and card, the makers will add bleach and other materials such as china clay and additional chemicals.E) A further problem with wood is that it contains a material that is not cellulose. Something called lignin. This is essential for the tree since it holds the cellulose fibres together, but if it is incorporated into the manufactured paper it presents archivists with a problem. Lignin eventually breaks down and releases acid products into the paper. This will weaken the bond between the cellulose fibers and the paper will become brittle and look rather brown and careworn. We have all seen this in old newspapers and cheap paperback books. It has been estimated that most paper back books will have a life of not greaterthan fifty years. Not what we need for our archives.F) Since the lignin can be removed from the paper pulp during manufacture, the obvious question is "why is it left in the paper?" The answer lies in the fact that lignin makes up a considerable part of the tree. By leaving the lignin in the pulp a papermaker can increase his paper yield from a tree to some 95%. Removing it means a yield of only 35%. It is clearly uneconomic to remove the lignin for many paper and card applications.G) It also means, of course, that lignin-free paper is going to be more expensive, but that is nevertheless what the archivist must look for in his supplies. There is no point whatsoever in carefully placing our valuable artifacts in paper or card that is going to hasten their demise. Acid is particularly harmful to photographic materials, causing them to fade and is some cases simply vanish!H) So, how do we tell a piece of suitable paper or card from one that is unsuitable? You cannot do it by simply looking, and rather disappointingly, you cannot always rely on the label. "Acid-free" might be true inasmuch as a test on the paper may indicate that it is a neutral material at this time. But lignin can take years before it starts the inevitable process of breaking down, and in the right conditions it will speed up enormously.I) Added to this, as I have indicated earlier, paper may also contain other materials added during manufacture such as bleach, china clay, chemical whiteners and size. This looks like a bleak picture, and it would be but for the fact that there are suppliers who will guarantee the material that they sell. If you want to be absolutely sure that you are storing in, or printing on, the correct material then this is probably the only way.J) Incidentally, acids can migrate from material to material. Lining old shoe boxes with good quality acid-free paper will do little to guard the contents. The acid will get there in the end.Paper from RagK) Paper is also commonly made from cotton and rag waste. This has the advantage of being lignin-free, but because there is much less cotton and rag than trees, it also tends to be much more expensive than wood pulp paper. You will still need to purchase from a reliable source though, since even rag paperand card can contain undesirable additives.L) A reliable source for quality rag papers is a recognized art stockiest. Many water color artists insist on using only fine quality rag paper and board.M) The main lesson to learn from this information is that you cannot rely on purchasing archival materials from the high street. The only safe solution is to purchase from specialist suppliers. It may cost rather more, but in the end you will know that your important and valuable data and images have the best home possible.1. The corn-flake packet is cheaper than high grade card.2. There are a lot of materials which can be used for making paper, but the superiority ones are soft wood, cotton and rags.3. During the whole manufacturing process, the final product is made froma pulp of cellulose fibres.4. In order to make white paper and card, the makers will add bleach.5. Liguin is essential for the tree but it will make paper easy to break.6. Many paper producers will preserve lignin during manufacture, because leaving the lignin will make more paper from a tree.7. Acid is particularly harmful to photographic materials.8. If the lignin is removed from the paper, the paper will be more expensive.9. Although free of lignin, paper made from cotton and rag waste can also cost more money than wood pulp paper because there is much less cotton and rag than trees.10. What we can learn from "Paper from Rag" is that you had better buy archival materials from specialist suppliers.2020年6月大学英语六级长篇阅读练习题(4)Definitions of ObesityA: How does one define when a person is considered to be obese and not just somewhat overweight? Height-weight tables give an approximate guideline as to whether one is simply overweight or has passed into the obese stage.B: The World Health Organization recommends using a formula that takes into account a person's height and weight. The "Body Mass Index" (BMI) is calculated by dividing the person's weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters, and is thus given in units of kg/m2. A BMI of 18.5-24.9 is considered to be the healthiest. A BMI of between 25 and 29.9 is considered to be overweight, while a BMI of over 30 is considered to be obese.C: However, it is recognized that this definition is limited as it does not take into account such variables as age, gender and ethnic origin, the latter being important as different ethnic groups have very different fat distributions. Another shortcoming is that it is not applicable to certain very muscular people such as athletes and bodybuilders, who can also have artificially high BMIs. Agencies such as the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) in the USA and the International Diabetes Foundation (IDF) are starting to define obesity in adults simply in terms of waist circumference.Health Effects of ObesityD: Over 2000 years ago, the Greek physician Hippocrates wrote that "persons who are naturally very fat are apt to die earlier than those who are slender". This observation remains very true today. Obesity has a major impact on a person's physical, social and emotional well-being. It increases the risk of developing diabetes mellitus type 2 ("mature onset diabetes") and also makes Type 2 diabetes more difficult to control. Thus weight loss improves the levels of blood glucose and blood fats, and reduces blood pressure. The association between obesity and coronary heart disease is also well-known.CancerE: Furthermore, in 2001 medical researchers established a link between being overweight and certain forms of cancer, and estimated that nearly 10,000 Britons per year develop cancer as a result of being overweight. This figure was made up of 5,893 women and 3,220 men, with the strongest associations beingwith breast and colon cancers. However, it is thought that being overweight may also increase the risk of cancer in the reproductive organs for women and in the prostate gland for men.F: The link between breast cancer and nutritional status is thought to be due to the steroid hormones oestrogen and progesterone, which are produced by the ovaries, and govern a woman's menstrual cycle. Researchers have found that the more a woman eats, or the more sedentary her lifestyle, the higher are the concentrations of progesterone. This link could explain why women from less affluent countries have lower rates of breast cancer. Women from less affluent nations tend to eat less food and to lead lifestyles which involve more daily movement. This lowers their progesterone level, resulting in lower predisposition to breast cancer.G: The Times newspaper, in 2002 reported that obesity was the main avoidable cause of cancer among non-smokers in the Western world!AgingH: Research published by St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK in 2005 showed a correlation between body fat and aging, to the extent that being obese added 8.8 years to a woman's biological age. The effect was exacerbated by smoking, and a non-overweight woman who smokes 20 cigarettes a day for 20 years added 7.4 years to their biological age. The combination of being obese and a smoker added at least ten years to a woman’s biological age, and although the study only involved women, the lead researcher Professor Tim Spector believes the finding would also apply to men.I: The aging effect was determined by measuring the length of telomeres, tiny "caps" on the ends of chromosomes, which help protect the DNA from the ageing process. Indeed, telomeres have been dubbed the "chromosomal clock" because, as an organism ages, they become progressively shorter, and can be used to determine the age of the organism. Beyond a certain point, the telomere becomes so short that it is no longer able to prevent the DNA of the chromosome from falling apart. It is believed that excess body fat, and the chemicals present in tobacco smoke release free radicals which trigger inflammation. Inflammation causes the production of white blood cells which increases the rate of erosion of telomeres.DementiaJ: Recent research (2005) conducted in the USA shows that obesity in middle age is linked to an increased risk of dementia, with obese people in their40s being 74% more likely to develop dementia compared to those of normal weight. For those who are merely overweight, the lifetime risk of dementia risk was 35% higher.K: Scientists from the Aging Research Centre at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden have been able to take information such as age, number of years in education, gender, body mass index, blood pressure level, physical activity and genetic factors, assigning each a risk score. They then used this information to devise a predictive test for dementia. This test will enable people at risk, for the first time, to be able to affect lifestyle changes which will reduce their risk ofcontracting dementia.Other ProblemsL: The world-wide upsurge in obesity, particularly in children, is of major economic concern, liable to drain economies. Of further concern is that research conducted in Australia and published in 2006, shows that up to one third of breech pregnancies were undetected by the traditional "palpation" examination, the danger being greatest for those women who are overweight or obese—a growing proportion of mothers. This means that such women are not getting the treatment required to turn the baby around in time for the birth, and in many cases require an emergency Caesarean section.M: This is a true health-care crisis, far bigger than Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and ultimately, even bigger than AIDS.1. You can judge whether one is simply overweight or has passed into the obese stage according to the height-weight table.2. Using the "Body Mass Index"to define a person's weight ideal is limited, because it does not takes into account many variables such as age, gender and ethnic origin.3. A person's emotional well-being would be affected by obesity.4. Obesity has something to do with cancer in the prostate gland for man.5. Women from less affluent nations tend to have much less breast cancer.6. A non-overweight woman who smokes 20 cigarettes a day for 20 years added7.4 years to her biological age.7. The excess body fat, like the chemicals present in tobacco smoke, can lead to inflammation.8. Obese people in middle age run an increased risk of dementia .9. The predictive test for dementia will help people to affect lifestyle changes that will reduce their risk of contracting dementia.10. The world-wide upsurge in obesity, particularly in children, will possibly drain economies.。
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六级长篇阅读专项练习六级长篇阅读专项练习原文:Six Steps to Tackling Your Student Loans[A] Any payment is a good debt payment, but a strategy can be useful too-even if your strategy means opening the envelope.Open the envelope[B] This is the hardest thing to do. The bills come with the "Sallie Mae" or "Discover" logo on them and you toss them aside, hoping to deal with them when you feel less besieged (围攻). You know you started owing some amount- $20,000, $50,000, $100,000—and that the interest is piling up, but you dont know exactly how much or how. When faced with heavy debt, many people try to avoid seeing the numbers.[C] This doesnt work, even psychologically. Anyone who has let credit-card bills or mortgage bills pile up, 1reopened, knows that avoiding the envelope does not reduce your anxiety; it increases it. As those envelopes multiply, they take over your psychological state. In horror movies, its like the monster in the room behind the door. You dont know what it looks like, but it keeps you scared and immobile. So, open the envelope.[D] Or, even better, log in online. All student loan providers have a web site where you can see what you owe, your interest rates, and your payment schedules. SallieMae. com is no-frills, but still allows you to see your loans on one screen, including your interest rates. Discover.corn also has a pretty basic site. Citibank has a more complex site. Get used to logging into these sites pretty often; ff you need motivation, think of it as visiting your money while its in prison.[E] The websites all have one thing in common: they let you see how much you owe, and what your interest is, and they make it easy to pay-but they dont let you see how much your debt load is growing. This is a major motivating factor in paying down your loans. Identify your loans[F] Are your loans held by the federal government--usually through Sallie Mae--or through "private" lenders like Citibank or Discover? if you dont know who holds your loans, you can find out here, at the National Student Loan Data System.[G] Why do you need to know who holds your loans? This will make a difference to your payment options and your interest rates, if you have a federal loan, for instance, your interest rate is probably very low, around 32% ; ff you have private loans, the interest rates are likely to be much higher, around 48%. Federal loans also give you options like requesting forbearance (延期还贷) ff youre out of work or if your income is too low-handy for the times when youre down on your luck.Start seeing your debt in new ways[H] The websites of lenders are often limited and only have basic information. To really tackle your student loans, it can often be useful to visualize how much progress youre making. There are several ways to do that.[I] One really useful new free site is Tuition. io, which gathers information for all your loans in one place. You can see your debt incolorful charts, play around with repayment plans, and, once you start paying your loans, you can see the numbers start to fall. That can be very motivating.[J] For the same effect that you can customize yourself, try a Google Docs spreadsheet. Theres a template that already exists for paying down loans; it has the unpromising title of "Loan amortization schedule by Vertex42. corn" but it has very handy calculators built in so that you can tweak your monthly payments to see how much progress you can make if you increase or decrease your payments in any given month. If you dont like that template, just create a Google Docs spreadsheet with the categories you need: date; loan name/number; loan interest rate; starting loan amount ( including how much you owe on that date) ; payment amount you made on that date; ending loan amount after that payment. After you have enough entries, you can start creating graphs; there are few things more satisfying than seeing that graph move downward as you pay off your debt.[K] If you want to see your loans in a larger context of your whole financial picture, LearnVest is a great mobile app for iPhone. It gathers all your information income, loans, credit card debt by linking to your accounts. It serves up useful graphs on your net worth, comparing your assets to what you owe -and theres nothing more motivating than seeing a "minus" sign next to your financial picture. LearnVest "also lets you track your spending, which may make it easier to see where to cut down on expenses so that you can put more into your loan payments. LearnVest also has a good website full of useful advice .Dont be afraid to scare yourself[L] Student loans can often be scary and thats Why you should slay them. The more you see how much you owe, and how fast your interest is rising, the more motivated you can be to fight back by paying those loans. One staffer, after she saw how much money she was wasting on interest payments, increased her student loan payments by $ 75 a month.[M] It can also be tempting to believe that your student debt is so big that nothing you do can ever make a dent in it. Thats completely untrue. Only paying your loans will shrink them. It will take years, true. It will take even longer if you dont pay, or pay the minimum. Theres only one outcome of shirking your loans: ending up with bigger loans. Then youre in an even bigger bind. No one is going to save you from student loans. Action counts.Choose a strategy[N] Any payment is a good payment, but a strategy can be very useful too. There are two aspects to loans :principal and interest .Principal is how much youve borrowed ,and the interest is what youre paying every month for the privilege of having borrowed that money. Your goal is to pay down as much of the principal as possible. Your chief enemy here is interest: it grows fast, and makes the principal recede more distantly.[O] So make sure you know the rank of your loans, in order from smallest to largest, and lowest interest to highest interest. Do whatever is possible to reduce the interest; as our columnist Helaine Olen points out, Sallie Mac offers you a 0. 25% reduction in your loan interest if you sign up for an automatic debit ( 借方 ) plan--just make sure the money is always going to be in your account. If you dont want to do that, follow Helaines other piece of advice: youre smarter to pay off the loans with the higherinterest rate flint. This will create the biggest impact. Another popular strategy is the "snowball" method, where you pay the most on the smallest debt owed. So if you have a $20,000 loan and a $10,000 loan, the "snowball" method means you will start paying more towards the $10,000 loan. Youll see it disappear faster. These two methods dont always go together; so try what feels comfortable. The important thing is to see and track your progress.[P] If your income isnt enough, consider other methods of producing money: side projects, odd jobs, or selling things you dont need on eBay or Craigslist. For those whose parents can afford it, working out a joint payment plan can make sense. One graduate we know struck a savvy (精明的) deal with his parents: if he made the minimum student loan payment every month, they would contribute $100 toward his student loans. Thats $100 he doesnt have to cut from his own budget. As a benefit, making bigger payments will help you pay down the principal of the loan, since the minimum payments often only end up reducing your interest, which balloons back later. Even $ 50 more a month can help.[Q] Heres an example: if you have a $ 20,000 loan, with a 4.2% interest, rate, you will end up paying an extra $ 2,814 in interest alone over six and a half years. If you increase your payment by only $ 50 a month, youll cut that interest by $ 500 ; ff you can find a way to pay $ I00 more a month, youll save nearly $ 800 in interest. Thats $ 800 more in the bank, and $ 800 less wanted on pointless interest payments.Take it in stride[R] Most Americans owe some form of debt; learning how to handle it is a lifelong process. Most of all, dont beat yourself up if youre notperfect at paying down your loans. Some of the savviest financial players struggled for years with their own finances. We all learn in our own time and we rind what works for us and what doesnt. Accept your own progress.六级长篇阅读专项练习选项:46. If you have a federal loan, you are allowed to pay back the loan later when you are fired.47. LearaVest informs you about your spending so that you can see where to save money to pay off your debt.48. Even for financial experts, financial problems may have taken them years to deal with.49. You are advised to start with the loans with the higher interest rate.50. Many Americans are in debt and learning how to handle it will takea lifetime.51. With Google Docs spreadsheet, you can create your own personalized debt graphs.52. If you dont have enough income, you are advised to try other ways of making money.53. Those student, loan providers websites dont present the growth of your debt load.54. The result of inaction to your loans is to bring about bigger loans.55. When you toss away envelopes containing your bills, you actually feel more anxious about it.六级长篇阅读专项练习答案:DBGFEOICAD。
U校园新六级阅读通关特训答案

第2章仔细阅读课时5:专项训练1仔细阅读10题1) D. Their wish to improve their appearance.2) A. be ironic3) C. show women's affection for them4) B. are injurious to women's health5) A. see through the very nature of fashion myths6) C. different stress from the caveman7) D. a normal state for everyone8) B. Lack of adaptability9) A. do things of our own accord10) C. learn how to cope with stress and live in a proper way课时6:专项训练2仔细阅读10题1) C. People's speaking styles vary according to different situations2) D. personal secrets the other person reveals3) B. President Kennedy unconsciously sought social integration with other people.4) C. speech divergence5) A. Different Patterns of Speech in Different Situations6) C. walking on artificial floor coverings7) B. They feel very tired.8) C. predict earthquakes9) D. near a fountain10) A. note their own reactions课时7:专项训练3仔细阅读10题1) D. Eating tomatoes can lower the risk of cancer.2) A. Tomatoes are proved to be able to lower the risk of cancer.3) B. 30 to 60 percent4) C. The lighter red the tomato, the less lycopene it contains.5) A. it must be consumed with a certain amount of fat.6) B. Workplace conflict can arise from honest disagreements.7) A. can be more difficult for engineers8) C. reduce9) C. stall the development of your career10) D. more common today than in the past课时8:专项训练4仔细阅读10题1) B. train employees to be acquainted with e-commerce2) D. They sometimes are against the change resulted from new technologies.3) D. E-business has great potential and will make changes in the country.4) A. The last five years has seen an improvement of productivity in the U.S. manufacturing sector.5) B. business has been influenced so much by e-commerce6) C. in photographs7) A. in an ordinary mirror8) B. It depicts God and Adam reaching out toward each other9) A. difficult10) C. It reflects one's looks in a different light.课时9:专项训练5仔细阅读10题1) C. leisure, elegance, and taste2) B. they actually enjoy working at the assembly line -3) C. Student critics have, on occasion, resorted to violent means against the trend4) A. in pursuing material gains the French are suffering losses elsewhere5) A. Changes in the French Way of Life6) A. how to deal with old age.7) D. in old age one should switch his thoughts to the future.8) B. too much concern for grown-up children may likely make you a burden to them.9) A. Leave them to live their own life and learn their own lessons.10) D. Find out your own impersonal interest involving proper activities and try to be actively engaged in them.第3章长篇阅读课时12:专项训练1长篇阅读10题1)C2)B3)D4)F5)E6)G7)I8)H9)M10)K课时13:专项训练2长篇阅读10题1)B2)C3)A4)E5)D6)J7)I8)F9)H10)G课时14:专项训练3长篇阅读10题1)C2)A3)D4)B5)E6)I7)J8)F9)G10)H课时15: 专项训练4长篇阅读10题1)A2)B3)D4)F5)I6)J7)N8)P9)U10)Y课时16: 专项训练5长篇阅读10题1)J2)M3)E4)L5)A6)H7)J8)L9)B10)J第4章词汇理解课时19: 专项训练1词汇理解10题1) aside2) unpredictable3) teamwork4) recovered5) key7) line8) shut9) reopened10) Scratch课时20:专项训练2词汇理解10题1) wandering2) grown3) faulty4) enforce5) differ6) recognize7) asset8) ordering9) cautious10) down课时21:专项训练3词汇理解10题1) invited2) advantage3) sending4) bridegroom5) means6) attend7) register8) Refreshments9) distributed10) honeymoon课时22:专项训练4词汇理解10题1) vanished2) undergone3) expanding4) survived5) process6) terminals7) industrialized8) perceived9) conveniences10) practice课时23:专项训练5 词汇理解10题1) sense3) puzzled4) out .5) came6) flushes7) stop8) projecting9) as if10) rewards第5章六级阅读模拟,课时24:六级阅读模拟1仔细阅读10题1) D. effective control of TV's influence on children from within the home.2) B. silence.3) C. critical and candid.4) D. teenagers.5) D. proper intervention.6) B. they would not know what was beneficial and what was harmful to them.7) A. enjoy being rewarded for doing the right thing.8) C. incentives of any kind,9) B. they are the basis for the social feeling of agreement by which society is maintained.10) D. help us to adapt ourselves to the world surrounding us.长篇阅读10题1)A2) E3) C4) D5) G6) F7) J8) H9) I10) K词汇理解10题1) engaged2) dominant3) exposure4) contribute5) factors6) contrary7) contrary8) affects9) alone10) select课时25:六级阅读模拟2仔细阅读10题1) A. has to go on a diet.2) C. being thin is viewed as a much desired quality.3) B. changed from time to time.4) A. They should be more concerned with their overall lifestyle.5) B.from sociological and medical points of view.6) A. Its comfortable campus life.7) A. Improve their learning environment.8) C. Refrain from making promises they cannot honour.9) B. Whether it is able to deliver what they want.10) D. They are unique one way or another.长篇阅读10题1) B2) E3) C4) I5) D6) G7) L8) M.9) N10) L词汇理解10题1) company2) complicated3) bloom4) courtship5) win6) demonstrated7) considerable8) please9) vanishing10) send .课时26:六级阅读模拟仔细阅读10题A. Men run the world, while women watch them.C. the world will be much more harmoniousC. Women must be uncompromising and steady and need men's support.B. particular strength of womenA. whether female leaders can change the course of our political and economic future D. does better in collecting recyclable trash now than in the pastD. discouraging the students to discard materials that can be reusedA. encouraging more students to join the program.C. It set a good example for such programs in other communities.C. saving the useful materials from being thrown into the garbage bin长篇阅读10题1) B2) C3) C4) D5) G6) E7) L8) L9) K10) M词汇理解10题1) bring2) violates3) safety4) emergencies5) direction6) way7) rescue8) convenient9) necessity10) responsibilities第6章六级全真模拟课时27: Unipus大学英语六级新题型模考训练1写作1题参考答案:On the Housing Shortage in Big CitiesIn recent years, the housing pressure in big cities has caused great concern among the government and ordinary people. People in big cities are complaining about the housing shortage and the soaring prices of houses.There are many factors contributing to this problem. Firstly, people's choices of and attitude toward living are major factors leading to the housing problem. Modern people tend to regard home more as a sign of social status and wealth than as a shelter against nature. Therefore, they would like to purchase as many houses as possible, which disturbs the balance of the housing market. Secondly, an increasing demand for larger and more comfortable houses is pushing up the housing prices which have become unaffordable even for the middle-income people, let alone the low- income people. Lastly, many people are reluctant to live away from the city as they prefer the more diverse, convenient and stylish urban life, no matter how crowded it is.Some measures have been taken by the government and have proved quite effective. Forexample,preferential policies have been worked out to promote the construction of high-rise apartment buildings to meet the demand for more economical use of land. Apart from this, satellite towns are built around the city to attract the urban population and meet their housing demand. However, policies and government actions alone cannot solve the problem completely. The other important key is to change people's concept. Renting a house or living in the suburban areas is also a good choice. With the co-efforts made by both the government and ordinary people, the housing pressure can be relieved to a large extent.长对话8题1) Because her parents aren't feeling well today.2) D.He will help her reach some of the items on high shelves.3) Hospitable.4) Customer and store manager.5) If it matters for one to attend an elite school.6) The name of an elite school can impress others.7) It is quite competitive to get enrolled in an elite school.8) What students do with their time in college.短文理解7题1) C. New methods to evaluate teachers.2) A. Calculating how much each teacher has helped students learn according to the change of exam scores each year.3) B. Paper Questionnaires.4) B. National Dog Day.5) B. To help people know about the living conditions of dogs.6) D. Brain cancer.7) A. Spirit.讲座/讲话10题1) B. The approach to documentary photography.2) C. They hoped to find work in California.3) D. It is representative of the documentary photography.4) C. Food supplies were delivered to the camp.5) C. Infants' awareness of their surroundings.6) D. Whether infants believe hidden objects still exist.7) D. A long carrot passing behind a window screen.8) C. An extremely strong desire for more time online.9) C. It causes people to dream about being online.10) A. The length of time they are spending online.词汇理解10题1)averages2) soaring3) obscure4) released5) disadvantaged6) unusually7) boast8) identify9) instruction10) internships长篇阅读10题1) F2) I3) E4) C5) A6) D7) H8) J9) B10) G仔细阅读10题1) D. effective control of TV"s influence on children from within the home.2) B. silence3) C. critical and candid.4) D. teenagers.5) D. proper intervention.6) B. independent schools close their doors to those who can't afford the fees7) A. are not equipped with an excellent teaching staff8) D. Students from state schools might be discriminated against when applying for the leading universities.9) A. give almost all the children access to private schools10) A. Closing the Education Gap.短文翻译1题参考答案:The main causes of the slowdown of economy are the export slump and softening investment, particularly in real estates. In the first three quarters this year, the shrinkage of net exports has subtracted almost half a percentage point of economic growth. But with China's trade surplus at a 10-year low in the first half of this year, the drag on growth from export is not likely to worsen significantly from here. The bigger worry is the investment in real estates, which is growing at barely half the pace of 2011 but still twice as fast as the underlying economy, If the investment in real estates moderates further for several additional quarters, GDP growth could slide to under 7%.课时28: Unipus大学英语六级新题型模考训练2写作1题参考答案:My View on Human CloningThe past decade has been seeing the rapid development of cloning technology. Ever since the birth of the first. Cloned sheep in Great Britain in 1996, numerous reports about species cloning have brought continuous good news to not only the scientific field but also the average readers.However, when we talk about human cloning, people's attitude varies. On the one hand, for some infertile couples, cloning represents the only hope of having a child carrying their genes. Besides, human cloning technology contributes to combating some fatal diseases and makes the organ transplant easier than before. As the organs are genetically identical between the patient and its cloned copy, there is no need for doctors to worry about organ donation or the blood-type match in surgery.On the other hand, the hypothesis of human cloning also brings a great panic to society, Human cloning is a radical challenge to the most fundamental laws of ethics. It causes chaos to traditional human relationship, because it is really hard to define the cloned copy. A son? A brother? Or another self? What's more, to clone a person would violate human dignity.As far as I am concerned, it is urgent to call for a comprehensive ban on human cloning. The species on the earth have their own law of evolution and our society also has its own law of being harmonious, so we should try to adapt to them rather than manipulate them.长对话8题1) D. He is a clerk in the Correspondence Section.2) C. Because he didn't want to be away from home too much.3) D. A job that takes him less time away from home.4) C. She merely expresses her best wishes and regards to him.5) A. Purchase her plane ticket.6) B. She would have difficulty finding another apartment nearby.7) D. He used to work with him.8) C. Three months.短文理解7题1) D. Evolve some extremely ingenious devices for locating their food and enemies.2) A. Identifying and collecting food.3) A. When hunting for food.4) B. Doctors can see both the risks and benefits of medication.5) C. Making judgments about benefits and risks.6) A. Patients might know more about their health problems.7) A. They must share the same understanding of risk with doctors.讲座/讲话10题1) A. Their students gain more in test scores.2) D. To calculate how much each teacher has helped students learn.3) D. They collect student evaluations annually to improve instruction.4) B. Teaching for the test makes students do worse' on the tests.5) C. The necessary service and basic facilities are far away from them.6) A. They'd better walk with their children.7) A. We've addicted ourselves to driving them.8) B. The difference between fads and trends.9) A. The length of time that each one lasts.10) B. It usually stays within one industry.词汇理解10题U校园新六级阅读通关特训答案1) investing2) appropriately3) return4) postage5) delivery6) naturally7) misread8) assume9) extra10) affects .长篇阅读10题1)V2) A3) B4) C5) D6) F7) L8) K9) P10) S仔细阅读10题1) C. The Titanic Discovery.2) C. his team should find the wreckage of former US warships3) C. 19984) B. Because they fear that the collection will worsen the conditions of the wreckage.5) B. Creating of a 3-D Titanic image is another feasible option.6) D. diseases prevention and personal fitness7) D. monitor 9,000 variables collected by sensors8) C. There were few kinds of such products in the market.9) D. $333.10) B. Body Sensing Comes to Smartphones.短文翻译1题参考答案:Shanghai is a must on any agenda during a tour of China. In this commercial center, visitors will find elegant buildings, the imposing Bund, glittering shops and malls, and fascinating museums. Shanghai bustles by day and people live life to the /full by night in some night spots. As an international metropolis, Shanghai presents different pictures for visitors with different purposes. It is known as the leading shopping capital of China, and a paradise for leisure and pleasure for tourists.。
六级长篇阅读技巧

六级长篇阅读技巧六级长篇阅读是英语六级考试难度较高的一项,需要考生具备一定的英语阅读能力和技巧。
以下是关于六级长篇阅读技巧的一些建议。
1. 学习词汇阅读过程中,遇到生词时容易影响理解和速度。
因此,在准备六级考试前,我们应该加强词汇的学习。
多进行词汇记忆和应用练习,建立自己的词汇库,减少失败的可能性。
2. 掌握阅读节奏阅读节奏是指通过掌握文段的层次和关系来控制阅读的速度。
对于六级长篇阅读,我们需要先浏览全文,对整篇文章做一个大体的了解,然后重点阅读,对于每段的主旨、逻辑关系和结论做好归纳和总结,在节奏上应把握得宜,避免过快或过慢的问题。
3. 训练阅读理解能力为了应付六级长篇阅读,我们需要在平时进行大量阅读练习,提升阅读理解能力。
这种训练可以从短篇阅读开始,逐步向长篇转化。
在阅读时,可以逐步提高阅读难度,同时编写问题,培养自己的细节注意力,把理解和记忆更好地融合在一起。
4. 做好笔记做好笔记是阅读的重要技能。
对于六级长篇阅读,我们一定要做好笔记。
可以将文章主题、重点词汇、段落的结论、支持理由等内容写在便签上,便于整理和复习。
更好的建议是将笔记整理成一个小结,可以回顾和加深记忆。
5. 实践问题解决技巧在阅读中碰到问题,我们要采用正确的方法解决。
首先,必须通过上下文确定意思。
如果还是不确定词汇或短语的含义,可以使用分析法、猜测法、查找法找出答案。
重要的是,应该严格依照问题进行分析,不要在问题的解决过程中对文章内容进行主观猜测。
总的来说,六级长篇阅读需要我们具备良好的英语读写能力和阅读技巧。
学习词汇是阅读的基础,掌握适当的阅读节奏可以提高阅读效率,训练阅读理解能力可以更好地理解文章,做好笔记可以帮助整理和复习,实践问题解决技巧可以更好地解决难题。
希望以上技巧能够帮助考生在考试中得到更好的成绩。
大学英语六级长篇阅读练习(5套)

大学英语六级考试阅读要求考生能顺利读懂语言难度中等的一般性题材的文章、掌握中心大意以及说明中心大意的事实和细节,并能进行一定的分析、推理和判断。
下面小编为大家整理了六级长篇阅读练习题及答案解析,希望对您有所帮助,祝大家备考顺利!大学英语六级改革新题型长篇阅读练习(一)英语六级新题型练习之长篇阅读:段落匹配题。
Paper--More than Meets the EyeA) We are surrounded by so much paper and card that it is eas y to forget just how complex it is. There are many varieties and grades of paper materials, and whilst it is fairly easy to spot the variet ies, it is far more difficult to spot the grades.B) It needs to be understood that most paper and card is manu factured for a specific purpose, so that whilst the corn-flake packetmay look smart, it is clearly not something destined for the archives. It is made to look good, but only needs a limited life span. It isalso much cheaper to manufacture than high grade card.C) Paper can be made from an almost endless variety of cellulo se-based material which will include many woods, cottons and grass es or which papyrus is an example and from where we get the word "paper". Many of these are very specialized, but the preponderance of paper making has been from soft wood and cotton or rags, with the bulk being wood-based.Paper from WoodD) In order to make wood into paper it needs to be broken do wn into fine strands. Firstly by powerful machinery and then boiled with strong alkalies such as caustic soda, until a fine pulp of cellulo se fibers is produced. It is from this pulp that the final product is m ade, relying on the bonding together of the cellulose into layers. Th at, in a very small nutshell, is the essence of paper making from wood. However, the reality is rather more complicated. In order to give us our white paper and card, the makers will add bleach and other materials such as china clay and additional chemicals.E) A further problem with wood is that it contains a material th at is not cellulose. Something called lignin. This is essential for the t ree since it holds the cellulose fibres together, but if it is incorporat ed into the manufactured paper it presents archivists with a proble m. Lignin eventually breaks down and releases acid products into th e paper. This will weaken the bond between the cellulose fibers and the paper will become brittle and look rather brown and careworn. We have all seen this in old newspapers and cheap paperback book s. It has been estimated that most paper back books will have a lif e of not greater than fifty years. Not what we need for our archive s.F) Since the lignin can be removed from the paper pulp during manufacture, the obvious question is "why is it left in the paper?" T he answer lies in the fact that lignin makes up a considerable part of the tree. By leaving the lignin in the pulp a papermaker can incr ease his paper yield from a tree to some 95%. Removing it means a yield of only 35%. It is clearly uneconomic to remove the lignin f or many paper and card applications.G) It also means, of course, that lignin-free paper is going to be more expensive, but that is nevertheless what the archivist must look for in his supplies. There is no point whatsoever in carefully pl acing our valuable artifacts in paper or card that is going to hastentheir demise. Acid is particularly harmful to photographic material s, causing them to fade and is some cases simply vanish!H) So, how do we tell a piece of suitable paper or card from o ne that is unsuitable? You cannot do it by simply looking, and rathe r disappointingly, you cannot always rely on the label. "Acid-free" might be true inasmuch as a test on the paper may indicate that it is a neutral material at this time. But lignin can take years before it starts the inevitable process of breaking down, and in the right co nditions it will speed up enormously.I) Added to this, as I have indicated earlier, paper may also c ontain other materials added during manufacture such as bleach, ch ina clay, chemical whiteners and size. This looks like a bleak pictur e, and it would be but for the fact that there are suppliers who will guarantee the material that they sell. If you want to be absolutely sure that you are storing in, or printing on, the correct material th en this is probably the only way.J) Incidentally, acids can migrate from material to material. Lin ing old shoe boxes with good quality acid-free paper will do little to guard the contents. The acid will get there in the end.Paper from RagK) Paper is also commonly made from cotton and rag waste. Th is has the advantage of being lignin-free, but because there is muc h less cotton and rag than trees, it also tends to be much more ex pensive than wood pulp paper. You will still need to purchase from a reliable source though, since even rag paper and card can contai n undesirable additives.L) A reliable source for quality rag papers is a recognized art st ockiest. Many water color artists insist on using only fine quality rag paper and board.M) The main lesson to learn from this information is that you c annot rely on purchasing archival materials from the high street. Th e only safe solution is to purchase from specialist suppliers. It may cost rather more, but in the end you will know that your important and valuable data and images have the best home possible.1. The corn-flake packet is cheaper than high grade card.2. There are a lot of materials which can be used for making pa per, but the superiority ones are soft wood, cotton and rags.3. During the whole manufacturing process, the final product is made from a pulp of cellulose fibres.4. In order to make white paper and card, the makers will add bleach.5. Liguin is essential for the tree but it will make paper easy to break.6. Many paper producers will preserve lignin during manufactur e, because leaving the lignin will make more paper from a tree.7. Acid is particularly harmful to photographic materials.8. If the lignin is removed from the paper, the paper will be mo re expensive.9. Although free of lignin, paper made from cotton and rag was te can also cost more money than wood pulp paper because there i s much less cotton and rag than trees.10. What we can learn from "Paper from Rag" is that you had b etter buy archival materials from specialist suppliers.文章精要本文主要介绍了我们平常所见所用的纸的复杂性,通过介绍用木头和破布料造纸的过程,使我们对纸的类别、属性有了更深入的了解。
英语六级考试阅读理解突击训练

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2021年12月大学英语六级阅读理解高分特训100篇【命题分析+答题攻略+强化训练】目录第1章 六级阅读考试命题分析 1.1 大学英语六级大纲要求 1.2 大学英语六级阅读题型调整说明 1.3 大学英语六级题源分析 1.4 大学英语六级题材分析 1.5 大学英语六级体裁分析第2章 大学英语六级篇章词汇阅读20篇 2.1 大学英语六级篇章词汇阅读答题攻略 2.2 大学英语六级篇章词汇阅读高分特训20篇第3章 长篇匹配阅读20篇 3.1 大学英语六级长篇匹配阅读答题攻略 3.2 大学英语六级长篇匹配阅读高分特训20篇第4章 大学英语六级篇章仔细阅读60篇 4.1 大学英语六级篇章仔细阅读答题攻略 4.2 大学英语六级篇章仔细阅读高分特训60篇弘博学习网————各类考试资料全收录内容简介本书特别适用于参加大学英语六级考试的考生。
《大学英语六级阅读理解高分特训100篇》按照最新大学英语四六级考试调整说明的要求,并分析总结自题型调整以来大学英语六级考试阅读题型,将阅读分为篇章词汇阅读、长篇匹配阅读和篇章仔细阅读这三部分进行专项练习,其中篇章词汇阅读20篇,长篇匹配阅读20篇,篇章仔细阅读60篇。
每一专项阅读又按照难易程度,分为基础篇、标准篇、能力篇,循序渐进地提高阅读水平。
因篇章仔细阅读在考试时涵盖面很广,本书选材时,将其分为文化教育类、商业经济类、科技科普类、社会生活类、自然环境类等,对于阅读考试具有很强的针对性和实用性。
本书文章均选自国外知名期刊、报纸杂志,如:The Guardian《卫报》、New Scientist《新科学家》、Newsweek《新闻周刊》、The New York Times《纽约时报》、Time《时代周刊》、The Washington Post《华盛顿邮报》、USA Today《今日美国》、The Economist《经济学人》等。
本书在每篇阅读之后都有关于文章大意的介绍,还附有文章中的重点、难点词汇,帮助考生扩大词汇量,更好地理解文章,掌握阅读技巧,提高阅读水平。
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英语六级阅读长篇文章答题技巧在英语六级考试中,阅读长篇文章是考生们最常遇到的一种题型,也是考察考生综合阅读能力的重要环节。
掌握正确的答题技巧能够有效提升答题效率和准确度。
本文将为大家介绍几种有效的答题技巧,帮助大家顺利应对英语六级阅读长篇文章。
一、快速浏览文章首先,快速浏览文章是解决长篇文章阅读的第一步。
在浏览的过程中,不要停留于细节、生词或难句等问题,重点抓住文章的结构、主旨和段落大意。
可以注意标题、开头和结尾的段落,以及段落标识词(如:however, therefore, for example)等。
通过快速浏览,可以提前了解文章的内容框架,为后续的具体问题回答做好准备。
二、精读问题和选项紧接着,需要认真阅读问题和选项。
问题和选项提供了我们答题的线索。
可以用不同颜色的笔或者标记工具将问题和选项进行标记,以便在阅读文章时能够更快地找到相关信息。
同时,要注意问题的问句结构以及选项的排列顺序,这些都可以帮助我们更快地确定答案的位置。
三、找准答案定位点在阅读长篇文章时,要学会找准答案定位点。
需要根据问题的要求和答案的类型,有针对性地寻找相关信息。
可以根据问题的关键词或者有限制词来快速锁定答案所在的段落或句子。
同时,还可以利用排除法来快速确定错误选项。
四、注意词汇和句法关系在解答长篇文章阅读题时,要注意词汇和句法关系。
有时候,选项与文章中的原文语句并不完全一致,但从句法上是等价的。
因此,我们需要对原文语句进行梳理和理解,判断其与选项之间的关系。
此外,掌握一些常见的短语和搭配对理解文章意思和答题有很大帮助。
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在阅读文章时,要注意段落之间的逻辑关系和过渡词的作用,这有助于我们理解文章的主旨和思路。
我们还可以运用自己的常识和背景知识,结合文章的内容进行推理和判断,找到正确答案。
六、练习强化技巧最后,通过大量的练习来巩固和强化答题技巧。
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第一节、长篇阅读技巧.......................................................................... 1 第二节、实战演练 ................................................................................. 3 练习一 ............................................................................................... 3 【阅读试题】.............................................................................. 3 【解题思路】.............................................................................. 7 【全文翻译】.............................................................................. 9 练习二 ............................................................................................. 12 【阅读试题】............................................................................ 12 【解题思路】............................................................................ 15 【全文翻译】............................................................................ 17 练习三 ............................................................................................. 20 【阅读试题】............................................................................ 20 【解题思路】............................................................................ 23 【全文翻译】............................................................................ 25 练习四 ............................................................................................. 28 【阅读试题】............................................................................ 28 【解析思路】............................................................................ 31
【全文翻译】............................................................................ 33 练习五 ............................................................................................. 37 【阅读试题】............................................................................ 37 【解题思路】............................................................................ 40 【全文翻译】............................................................................ 43
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第二节、实战演练
练习一 【阅读试题】
OECD Countries Started Tackling with Adult Illiteracy [A] Ten years ago, a young Labor government commissioned the Moser report on basic skills. Few educational documents have made such an impact. The calculation that 7 million adults in England lacked the knowhow to cope with life in a modern society because they were functionally illiterate or innumerate, was an enormous embarrassment. The shame was magnified by an accompanying observation that this fifth was a bigger proportion of the population than in any other western country bar Poland and Ireland. [B] The message seemed clear: other advanced economies might have grown up people unable to read, write or handle simple numeric calculations, but they are not in as awful a mess as England. That initial response was actually misplaced. Adult illiteracy is a headache for much of the developed world, as anyone strolling into a conference hosted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris last week would have quickly picked up. It was the first time countries had gathered to discuss and trade “good practice” in this field, said Tom Schuller; head of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) at the OECD. [C] Though the methodology on which the Moser report was based has been challenged, few could have disputed the verdict by the then chair of the Basic Skills Agency, Sir Claus Moser, now Lord Moser, who oversaw it, “It is a shocking state of affairs in this rich country, and a sad reflection on past decades of schooling and policy priorities over the years.” In the 20th century’s final decade, similar realizations were dawning across the developed world. It was surely scandalous (可耻的) of states to require children to submit to 14 or more years of education without making sure that at the end of it they could at very least read, write and handle arithmetical calculations. Some countries had previously denied having significant literacy problems. If there was a residue (残余)
第一节、长篇阅读技巧
1. 先读题后读文 先读题后读文是做阅读题的常用技巧, 可粗略了解文章大意并节 省时间,快速锁住信息点。 读题目的同时注意做到以下几点: 1. 标注人名、地名、术语等专有名词; 2. 标注数字、年代; 3. 判断并标注难替代的词。 标注好之后,尽力记住所有题的信息点或关键词,略读文章时, 一旦出现以上标注的词语,即刻回到相应题目,看是否是信息出处。 2. 读文章首尾句 读题是为了记住关键词和了解文章大意。 读文章首尾句也是为了 进一步了解文章大意,印证读题时对文章大意的掌握正确与否。 3. 标注重要细节 读完题目和首尾句之后,快速阅读文章,同时做到: 1. 在文中标注题目中出现过的相同或类似关键词; 2. 在文中标注与题目相同或相似的信息点; 3. 按段落排除法寻找信息点。 做到以上三步之后,60%的信息基本都能找到出处,因为信息题 与其段落出处通常会有相同或相似词语。 余下的信息点再用快速查找 的方法解决。