2013年12月英语六级选词填空习题及答案
2013年12月英语六级真题(含答案)
2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题（第1套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)（请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试）Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on happiness by referring to the saying“Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.”You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain how you can develop your ability to deal with problems and be happy. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At theend of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。
2013年12月英语六级真题(含答案)(共三套)最新排版整理
2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题（第3套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)（请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试）请用黑色签字笔在答题卡1指定区域内作答作文题，在试题册上的作答无效！Part ⅡListening Comprehension(30 minutes)Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section AQuestions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Cell phones provide instant access to people. They are creating a major 36 in the social experiences of both children and adolescents. In one recent U.S. survey, about half the teens polled said that their cell phone had 37 their communication with friends. Almost all said that their cell phone was the way they stayed in touch with peers, one-third had used the cell phone to help a peer in need, and about 80% said the phone made them feel safer. Teenagers in Australia, 38 ,said that their mobile phones provided numerous benefits and were an39 part of their lives; some were so 40 to their phones that the researchers considered it an addiction. In Japan, too, researchers are concerned about cell phone addiction. Researchers in one study in Tokyo found that more than half of junior high school students used their phones to exchange e-mails with schoolmates more than 10 times a day.Cell phones 41 social connections with peers across time and space. They allow young people to exchange moment-by-moment experiences in their daily lives with special partners and thus to have a more 42 sense of connection with friends. Cell phones also can 43 social tolerance because they reduce children's interactions with others who are different from them. In addition to connecting peers, cell phones connect children and parents. Researchers studying teenagers in Israel concluded that, in that 44 environment, mobile phones were regarded as "security objects" in parent-teen relationships―im portant because they provided the possibility of 45 and communication at all times.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答A) affiliatedB) attachedC) contactD) contendE) continuousF) diminishG) enduranceH) foster I) hazardous J) improved K) instantaneous L) intrinsicM) relatively N) shiftO) similarlySection BWaste Not, Want Not Feeding the 9 Billion: The Tragedy of Waste[A] By 2075, the United Nations' mid-range projection for global population is about 9.5 billion.This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century,a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorie intake and dietarypreferences of people in developing countries across the world. Such a projection presents mankind with wide-ranging social, economic, environmental and political issues that need to be addressed today to ensure a sustainable future for all. One key issue is how to produce more food in a world of finite resources.[B] Today, we produce about four billion metric tonnes of food per year. Yet due to poor practicesin harvesting, storage and transportation, as well as market and consumer wastage, it is estimated that 30-50% of all food produced never reaches a human stomach. Furthermore, this figure does not reflect the fact that large amounts of land, energy, fertilisers and water have also been lost in the production of foodstuffs which simply end up as waste. This level of wastage is a tragedy that cannot continue if we are to succeed in the challenge of sustainably meeting our future food demands. |Where Food Waste Happens[C] In 2010,the Institution of Mechanical Engineers identified three principal emerging populationgroups across the world, based on characteristics associated with their current and projected stage of economic development.• Fully developed, mature, post-industrial societies, such as those in Europe, characterised by stable or declining populations which are increasing in age.• Late-stage developing nations that are currently industrialising rapidly, for example China, which will experience declining rates of population growth, coupled with increasing affluence (富裕）and age profile.• Newly developing countries that are beginning to industrialise, primarily in Africa, with high to very high population growth rates, and characterised by a predominantly young age profile.[D] Each group over the coming decades will need to address different issues surrounding foodproduction, storage and transportation, as well as consumer expectations, if we are to continue to feed all our people.[E] In less-developed countries, such as those of sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, wastagetends to occur primarily at the farmer-producer end of the supply chain. Inefficient harvesting, inadequate local transportation and poor infrastructure (基础设施)mean that produce is frequently handled inappropriately and stored under unsuitable farm site conditions.[F] In mature, fully developed countries such as the UK, more-efficient farming practices andbetter transport, storage and processing facilities ensure that a larger proportion of the food produced reaches markets and consumers. However, characteristics associated with modern consumer culture mean produce is often wasted through retail and customer behaviour. [G] Major supermarkets, in meeting consumer expectations, will often reject entire crops ofperfectly edible fruit and vegetables at the farm because they do not meet exacting marketing standards for their physical characteristics, such as size and appearance.[H] Of the produce that does appear in the supermarket, commonly used sales promotionsfrequently encourage customers to purchase excessive quantities which, in the case of perishable foodstuffs, inevitably generate wastage in the home. Overall between 30% and 50% of what has been bought in developed countries is thrown away by the purchaser.Better Use of Our Finite Resources[I] Wasting food means losing not only life-supporting nutrition but also precious resources,including land, water and energy. As a global society, therefore, tackling food waste will help contribute towards addressing a number of key resource issues.[J] Land Usage: Over the last five decades, improved farming techniques and technologies have helped to significantly increase crop yields along with a 12% expansion of farmed land use.However, a further increase in farming area without impacting unfavourably on what remains of the world's natural ecosystems appears unlikely. The challenge is that an increase in animal-based production will require more land and resources, as livestock (牲畜)farming demands extensive land use.[K] Water Usage: Over the past century, human use of fresh water has increased at more than double the rate of population growth. Currently about 3.8 trillion m3of water is used by humans per year. About 70% of this is consumed by the global agriculture sector, and the level of use will continue to rise over the coming decades.[L] Better irrigation can dramatically improve crop yield and about 40% of the world's food supply is currently derived from irrigated land. However, water used in irrigation is often sourced unsustainably.In processing foods after the agricultural stage, there are large additional uses of water that need to be tackled in a world of growing demand. This is particularly crucial inthe case of meat production, where beef uses about 50 times more water than vegetables. In the future, more effective washing techniques, management procedures, and recycling and purification of water will be needed to reduce wastage.[M]Energy Usage: Energy is an essential resource across the entire food production cycle, with estimates showing an average of 7-10 calories of input being required in the production of one calorie of food. This varies dramatically depending on crop, from three calories for plant crops to 35 calories in the production of beef. Since much of this energy comes from the utilisation of fossil fuels, wastage of food potentially contributes to unnecessary global warming as well as inefficient resource utilisation.[N] In the modem industrialised agricultural process—which developing nations are moving towards in order to increase future yields—energy usage in the making and application of fertilisers and pesticides represents the single biggest component. Wheat production takes 50% of its energy input for these two items alone. Indeed, on a global scale, fertiliser manufacturing consumes about 3-5% of the world's annual natural gas supply. With production anticipated to increase by 25% between now and 2030, sustainable energy sourcing will become an increasingly major issue. Energy to power machinery, both on the farm and in the storage and processing facilities, adds to the energy total, which currently represents about 3.1% of annual global energy consumption.Recommendations[O] Rising population combined with improved nutrition standards and shifting dietary preferences will exert pressure for increases in global food supply. Engineers, scientists and agriculturalists have the knowledge, tools and systems that will assist in achieving productivity increases. However, pressure will grow on finite resources of land, energy and water. The potential to provide 60-100% more food by simply eliminating losses, while simultaneously freeing up land, energy and water resources for other uses, is an opportunitythat should not be ignored. In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that:•The UN Food and Agriculture Organisat ion work with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries. This will help improve produce handling in the harvest, and immediate post-harvest stages of food production.• Governments of rapidly developing countries incorporate waste minimisation thinking into the transport infrastructure and storage facilities currently being planned, engineered and built.• Governments in developed nations devise and im plement policy that changes consumer expectations. These should discourage retailers from wasteful practices that lead to the rejection of food on the basis of cosmetic characteristics, and losses in the home due to excessive purchasing by consumers.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
2013年12月英语六级真题(含答案共3套)
2013 年 12 月大学英语六级考试真题（第 1 套）Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions orunfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Youshould decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with asingle line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.Among the government’ s most interesting reports is one that estimates what parents spend ontheir children. Not surprisingly, the costs are steep. For a middle-class, husband-and-wife family(average pretax income in 2009: $76,250), spending per child is about $12,000 a year. Withinflation the family’ s spending on a child will total $286,050 by. age 17The dry statistics ought to inform the ongoing deficit debate, because a budget is not just acatalog of programs and taxes. It reflects a society’ s priorities and values. Our society does not despite rhetoric (说辞 ) to the contrary — put much value on raising children. Present budgetpolicies tax parents heavily to support the elderly. Meanwhile, tax breaks for children are modest. Ifdeficit reduction aggravates these biases, more Americans may choose not to have children or tohave fewer children. Down that path lies economic decline.have stagnant (萧条的 ) or shrinking markets for goods and services. With older populations,theyresist change. To stabilize its population —discounting immigration — women must have anaverage of two children. That’ s a fertility2rate.0.Manyof countries with struggling economiesare well below that.Though having a child is a deeply personal decision, it ’shaped by culture, religion,economics, and government policy.“ Noa onegoodhanswer” asto why fertility varies amongcountries, says sociologist Andrew Cherlin of The Johns Hopkins University.Eroding religiousbelief in Europe may partly explain lowered birthrates. In Japan young women may be rebellingagainst their mothers ’isolated lives of child rearing. General optimism and pessimism count.Hopefulness fueled Ameri ca ’ babys boom.After the Soviet Union ’ collapse, says Cherlin,“ anxiety for the future” depressed birthratesRussiaandin Eastern Europe.the number of family workers and providing supports for parents in their old age. In wealthy societies,the logic often reverses. Government now supports the elderly, diminishing the need forchildren. By some studies, the safety nets for retirees have reduced fertility rates by 0.5 children inthe United States and almost 1.0 in Western Europe, reports economist Robert Stein in the journalNational Affairs. Similarly, some couples don ’ t have children because they don’ t want to sacrificetheir own lifestyles to the lime and expense of a family.Young Americans already face a bleak labor market that cannot instill (注入 ) confidenceabout having children. Piling on higher t axes won ’ t help,“ If higher taxes make it more expensiveto raise children,” says Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute,“ peopltwice about having another child.t seems” likeTha common sense, despite the multiple influences on becoming parents.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
201312CET-6(共三套)真题+参考答案
2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题(第1套）Part IDWriting(30 minutes)(请干正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将迸行听力考试）Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on happiness by referring to the saying “Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.，，You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain how you can develop your ability to deal with problems and be happy. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:/n this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At theend of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Ans^wer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
历年六级选词填空真题2013.12~2015.12
2013.12Some performance evaluations require supervisors to take action. Employees who receive a very favorable evaluation may deserve some type of recognition or even a promotion. If supervisors do not acknowledge such outstanding performance, employees may either lose their36 and reduce their effort or search for a new job at a firm that will37 them for high performance. Supervisors should acknowledge high performance so that the employee will continue to perform well in the future.Employees who receive unfavorable evaluations must also be given attention. Supervisors must 38 the reasons for poor performance. Some reasons, such as a family illness, may have a temporary adverse 39 on performance and can be corrected. Other reasons, such as a bad attitude, may not be temporary. When supervisors give employees an unfavorable evaluation, they must decide whether to take any 40 actions. If the employees were unaware of their own deficiencies, the unfavorable evaluation can pinpoint(指出) the deficiencies that employees must correct. In this case, the supervisor may simply need to monitor the employees 41 and ensure that the deficiencies are corrected.If the employees were already aware of their deficiencies before the evaluation period, however, they may be unable or unwilling to correct them. This situation is more serious, and the supervisor may need to take action. The action should be 42 with the firm’s guidelines and may include reassigning the employees to new jobs, 43 them temporarily, or firing them. A supervisor’s action toward a poorly performing worker can 44 the attitudes of other employees. If no 45 isimposed on an employee for poor performance, other employees may react by reducing their productivity as well.Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second language to speak only English, and not their native language, at home. Although these educators may have good36 ,their advice to families is misguided, and it 37 from misunderstandings about the process of language acquisition. Educators may fear that children hearing two languages will become 38 confused and thus their language development will be 39 ;this concern is not documented in the literature. Children are capable of learning more than one language, whether 40 or sequentially(依次地). In fact, most children outside of the United States are expected to become bilingual or even, in many cases, multilingual. Globally, knowing more than one language is viewed as an 41 and even a necessity in many areas.It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, notto wealthier families who have many educational advantages. Since children from poor families often are 42 as at-risk for academic failure, teachers believe that advising families to speak English only is appropriate. Teachers consider learning two languages to be too 43 for children from poor families, believing that the children are already burdened by their home situations.If families do not know English or have limited English skills themselves, how can they communicate in English? Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is 44 to telling them not to communicate with or interact with their children. Moreover, the 45message is that the family's native language is not important or valued.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
2013年12月英语六级考试阅读新型题型之选词填空习题答案详解
FOR half a century, the (1) of progress in the computer industry has been to do more with less. space (2) every 18 months. Yet as (3)who has been building tiny (4), in the form of living cells and their components, for billions of A paper published in Small, a nanotechnology journal , sets out the latest example of the (5). The researchers took their (6) from Magnetospirillum magneticum, a bacterium that is sensitive to to (7) this protein in bulk. squares, and dunked the whole lot into a heated (8) of iron salts. the size of each domain is huge by modern computing (9). The (10) of this approach is that it might not be so capital-intensive as building a fab. A) components B) advantageC) standards D) complimentsE) essence F) inspirationG) disadvantage H) doublesI) solution J) resolutionK) devices L) manufactureM) spirit N) productO) technique但是随着部件越来越小，它们的制造难度和成本也逐渐增加。
2013年12月英语六级真题及答案解析(3套)
2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题（第1套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)（请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试）Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on happiness by referring to the saying“Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to dea l with them.”You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain how you can develop your ability to deal with problems and be happy. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At theend of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。
2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题第一套答案详解
2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题(一)答案详解Part 4 Translation参考译文与难点注释The Chinese garden has become a landscape of unique style after an evolution for more than 3 000 years. It includes not only the large gardens built as entertainment venues for the royal family, but also the private gardens built as secluded retreats for scholars, merchants and retired government officials. These gardens have constituted a miniature designed to express the harmonious relationship between man and nature. A typical Chinese garden is surrounded by walls, and in the garden there are ponds, rockwork, trees, flowers and all kinds of buildings linked by winding trails and corridors. Wandering in the gardens, people may feel that a series of well-designed scenery spreads out before us like a landscape scroll.1. 第一句中，"三千多年演变"可以译成an evolution for more than 3 000 years,不能译成more than 3 000 years of evolution;"独具一格的"可以用单个形容词unique来表达，也可以用短语of unique style来表达。
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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 FOR half a century, the (1)__________of progress in the computer industry has been to do more with less. Moore's law famou observes that the number of transistors which can be crammed into a given space (2)__________ every months. The amount of data that can be stored has grown at a similar rate. Yet as (3)________ get smaller, making them gets harder and more expensive. On May 10th Paul Otellini, the boss of ntel, a big American chipmaker, put the price of a new chip factory at around $10 billion. Happily hose that lack Intel's resources, there may be a cheaper option—namely to mimic Mother Nature, 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 , set out the latest example of the (5)__________. In it, a group of researchers led by Sarah Staniland at 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 th 6)__________ from Magnetospirillum magneticum, a bacterium that is sensitive to the Earth's magnet ield thanks to the presence within its cells of flecks of magnetite, a form of iron oxide. Previous w 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. Next, they imprinted a block of gold with a microscopic chessboard pattern of chemicals. Half the squares contained anchoring points for the protein. The other half were left untreated as controls. They then dipped the gold into a solutio containing the protein, allowing it to bind to the treated squares, and dunked the whole lot into a heated 8)__________ of iron salts. After that, they examined the results with an electron microscope. Sure enough, groups of magnetite grains had materialised on the treated squares, shepherded into place he bacterial protein. In principle, each of these magnetic domains could store the one or the zero o bit of information, according to how it was polarised. Getting from there to a real computer memor would be a long road. For a start, the grains of magnetite are not strong enough magnets to make a useful memory, and the size of each domain is huge by modern computing (9)__________. But Dr Staniland reckons that, with enough tweaking, both of these objections could be dealt with. The 10)__________ of this approach is that it might not be so capital-intensive as building a fab. Grow hings does not need as much kit as making them. If the tweaking could be done, therefore, the resu 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) technique2013年12月英语六级选词填空习题及答案(2)juicy Apple ALTHOUGH he is still (1)__________ things up at Dell, an ailing computer-maker, n 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 ht. Mr Icahn’s intentions, however, are crystal clear: he wants the consumer-electronics behemoth to e s to return some of its whopping $147 billion of cash and marketable securities to shareholders. Mr o after more money at Dell, where he has been lobbying with allies against a (3)__________ buy-out p orward by Michael Dell, the firm’s founder, and Silver Lake, a private-equity firm. His pressing has alr ed the buy-out group to raise its initial offer by over $350m, to $24.8 billion and he has taken his_________ to the courts in a bid to extract an even higher price. Other tech firms have been attracti tion of activist investors too. Earlier this year ValueAct Capital, an investment fund, said it had built up on stake in Microsoft. Jaguar Financial, a Canadian bank, has been (5)__________ fresh thinking at tro kBerry, which announced on August 12th that it is exploring various (6) __________options, including nces and a possible sale. And Elliott Management, a hedge fund, has been lobbying for change at NetA storage firm that it thinks could do more to improve returns to (7)__________. One reason tech fir found themselves in activists’ crosshairs is that, like Apple, some built up big cash piles during the omic downturn and have been slow to use the money. Financiers hope to get them to loosen their purse gs faster and to pocket some of the cash. Mr Icahn wants Apple to increase and (8)__________ a share programme that is currently set to return $60 billion to shareholders by the end of 2015. Another r ech firms make tempting targets for shareholder activists is that swift changes in technologies can trip the mightiest. Witness the case of Microsoft, which ruled the roost during the personal-computer era b gled to adapt to a world in which tablets and smartphones are all the rage. Investors hope to mint mone ing companies to change more rapidly in response to such upheavals in their markets. The rewards ubstantial. Egged on by Third Point, an activist hedge fund, Yahoo (9) __________Marissa Mayer as it executive in July 2012. By the time she celebrated a year in the job last month, the troubled web giant e price had risen by over 70%. In July the hedge fund sold a big chunk of shares back to Yahoo. Mr Ica ks Apple’s share price, which closed at $499 on August 14th, could soar too if the firm follows his advi backs. He tweeted this week that he had had a “nice (10)__________” with Tim Cook, Apple’s boss, a dea, though he did not say what Mr Cook thought of it. If Apple drags its feet, expect things to turn nas 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)eer that (1)__________ to beer bellies. It could also be the extra calories, fat and unhs that may come with (2) __________drinking. A recent study found that men consume an_______ 433 calories (equivalent to a McDonald's double cheeseburger) on days they drink a moderate t of alcohol. About 61% of the caloric increase comes from the alcohol itself. Men also report eating hi ts of saturated fats and meat, and less fruit and milk, on those days than on days when they aren't drink dy showed. Women fared a bit better, taking in an extra 300 calories on moderate-drinking days, f ohol and eating fattier foods. But women's increase in calories from additional eating wasn't statisticall cant, the study said. 'Men and women ate less healthily on days they drank alcohol,' said Rosalind w, an epidemiologist with the federal National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and lead aut dy. 'Poorer food choices on drinking days have public-health (4)__________,' she said. The findings il with controlled lab studies in which (5)__________ generally eat more food after consuming alcohol chers suggest that alcohol may enhance 'the short-term rewarding effects' of consuming food, accordin eport in the journal Physiology & Behavior that reviewed previous studies on alcohol, appetite and obe other studies have pointed to a different trend. Moderate drinkers gain less weight over time than either drinkers or people who abstain from alcohol, particularly women, this research has shown. Moderateg is (6) __________having about two drinks a day for men and one for women. 'People who gain eight are moderate drinkers, regardless of [alcoholic] beverage choice,' said Eric Rimm, an associateor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard Medical School and chairman of the 2010 review of alcoh eral dietary (7)__________. The weight-gain difference is modest, and 'starting to drink is not a weigh e said. The various research efforts form part of a long-standing (8)__________ about how alcoho people's appetites, weight and overall health. Researchers say there aren't simple answers, and suggest uals' metabolism, drinking patterns and gender may play a role. Alcohol is 'a real wild card when it c ght management,' said Karen Miller-Kovach, chief scientific officer of Weight Watchers International. calories per gram, alcohol is closer to fat than to carbohydrate or protein in caloric content, she said. Al o lower restraint, she notes, causing a person to become more (9)__________ with what they're eating. ch bolstering the role of moderate drinking in helping to control weight gain was published in 2004 in t Obesity Research. That study followed nearly 50,000 women over eight years. An earlier study, publi American Journal of Epidemiology in 1994, followed more than 7,000 people for 10 years and found th ate drinkers gained less weight than nondrinkers. Studies comparing changes in waist circumference am nt groups have yielded similar results. Dr. Rimm said it isn't clear why moderate drinking may be________ against typical weight gain, but it could have to do with metabolic adjustments. After people l, their heart rate increases so they burn more calories in the following hour. 'It's a modest amount,' h you take an individual that eats 100 calories instead of a glass of wine, the person drinking the glass of ve 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 owes2013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 ation. A HuffPost/YouGov poll reveals that 48 percent of adults in the United States are open to th alien spacecraft are observing our planet -- and just 35 percent outright (3)__________ the idea. Th seen as vindication from the community of UFO researchers who often feel they are laughed off by rnment officials. "It's always been intriguing to me how we act as though only kooks and quacks a old ladies in tennis shoes believe in flying saucers. And it's never been true, at least for 30 or 40 years, er nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, who was the original civilian investigator of the events surround 4) __________Roswell, NM, UFO crash of 1947. Friedman is very outspoken on the idea that som s are (5)__________ controlled extraterrestrial vehicles. "The believers are far more quiet, but far e side of reality," Friedman told The Huffington Post. "When you look at the polls, it's clear. And I see fit of that, (6)__________, because I've only had 11 hecklers in over 700 lectures. I've been out there, a the place, in every state, 18 other countries, and I know that my (7) __________is more than tolerant -re accepting. It's been one of the things that really has kept me going." In the HuffPost/YouGov po ucted between Sept. 6-7, 1,000 adults were asked if they either believed or didn't believe that some peo (8)__________ UFOs that have an extraterrestrial origin. When YouGov offered (9)__________ ce between "slightly disagree," "disagree" and "strongly disagree," those numbers added up to 35 perce are skeptical of the notion that any UFOs may be alien-related. However, nearly half of the adults eyed (48 percent) resounded in the affirmative, leaving 16 percent who (10)__________ that they were 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: audiencenumerous 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)consisting1.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 4. 答案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:indicated5.ANSWER: 1. 选J）。