英语六级难度快速阅读

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英语六级难度快速阅读

英语六级难度快速阅读【模拟题】（6 页）Reading Comprehension(Skimming andScanning)(15 minutes) Directions:In thispart,you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer thequestions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7,choose the best answer from thechoices marked A),B),C)and D).For questions 8 to10,complete the sentenceswith the information given in the passage. How to Be a Leader At a moment when we are waiting to seewhether we have elected a President or a leader,it is worth examining thedifferences between the two.For not every president is a leader,but everytime we elect a President we hope for one,especially in times of doubt andcrisis.In easy times we are ambivalent----the leader,after all,makes demands,challenges the status quo,shakes things up. Leadership is as much a question of timing asanything else.The leader must appear on the scene at a moment when people arelooking for leadership,as Churchill did in 1940,as Rooseveltdid in 1933,as Lenin in 1917.And when he comes,he must offer a simple,eloquent message. Great leaders are almost always greatsimplifiers,who cut through argument,debate and doubt to offer a solutioneverybody can

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understand and remember.Churchill warned the British to expectblood,toil,tears and sweat,FDR told Americans thattheonly thing we have to fear is fear itself;Lenin promised the war-wearyRussians peace,land and bread.Straightforward but potent messages. It also helps for a leader to be able to dosomething most of us can’t:FDR overcame polio;Mao swam the Y angtse Riverat the age of 72.We don’t want our leaders to bejust like us.Wewant them to be like us but better,special,more so.Yet if they are toodifferent,we reject them.Adlai Stevenson was too cerebral.Nelson Rockfeller,too rich. A leader must know how to use power(that’swhat leadership is about)but he also has to have way of showing that he does.He has to be able to project firmness-no physical clumsiness(like Ford),norapid eye movement(like Carter). A Chinese philosopher once remarked that aleader must have the grace of a good dancer,and there is a great deal ofwisdom to this.A leader should know how to appear relaxed and confident.Hiswalk should be firm and purposeful.He should be able,like Lincoln,FDR,Truman,Ike and JFK,to give a good,hearty,belly laugh,instead of sicklygrin that passes for good humor in Nixon or Carter.Ronald Reagan’s training asan actor showed to good effect in the debate with Carter,when by

---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ his easymanner and apparent affability,he managed to convey the impression that infact he was the President and Carter the challenger. If we know what we’re looking for,why is itso difficult to find?The answer lies in a very simple truth about leadership.People can only be led where they want to go.The leader follows,through astep ahead.Americans wanted to climb out of the Depression and needed someoneto tell them they could do it,and FDR did.The British believed that theycould still win the war after the defeats of 1940,and Churchill told them theywere right. A leader rides the waves,moves with thetides,understands the deepest desires of his people.He cannot make a nationthat wants peace at any price go to war,or stop a nation determined to fightfrom doing so.His purpose must match the national mood.His task is to focusthe people’s energies and desires,to define them in simple terms,to inspire,to make what people already want seem attainable,important,within theirgrasp. Above all,he must dignify our desires,convince us that we are taking part in the making of great history,give us asense of glory about ourselves.Winston Churchill managed,by sheer rhetoric,to turn the British defeat and the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 into

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a major victory.FDR’swords turned the sinking of the American fleet at Pearl Harbourinto a national rallying cry instead of a humiliating national scandal.Aleader must stir our blood,not appeal to our reason. For this reason,businessmen generally makepoor leaders.They tend to be pragmatists who think that once you’ve explainedwhy something makes sense,people will do it.But history shows the fallacy ofthis belief.When times get tough,people don’t want to be told what wentwrong,or lectured,or given a lot of complicated statistics and plans(likeCarter’s energy policy)they don’t understand.They want to be moved,excited,inspired,consoled,uplifted---in short,led! A great leader must have a certain irrationalquality,a stubborn refusal to face facts,infectious optimism,the ability toconvince us that all is not lost even when we’re afraid it is.Confuciussuggested that,while the adviser of a great leader should be as cold as ice,the leader himself should have fire,a spark of divine madness. He won’t come until we’re ready for him,forthe leader is like a mirror,reflecting back to us our own sense of purpose,putting into words our own dreams and hopes,transforming our needs and fearsinto coherent policies and programs. Our strength makes him strong;ourdetermination makes him determined;our courage

---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ makes him a hero;he is,inthe final analysis,the symbol of the best in us,shaped by our own spirit andwill.And when these qualities are lacking in us,we can’t produce him;andeven with all our skill at image building,we can’t fake him.He is,after all,merely the sum of us. 1.In this passagethe author is mainly talking about__________________. A)the differencesbetween a President and a leader B)specific ways tobecome a leaderC)the makings(素质)of a leader D)the relationshipbetween personality and leadership 2.In the first twoparagraphs the author emphasizes___________________. A)the necessity ofdistinguishing a leader from a President B)the role of aleader in times of doubt and crisisC)timing as acrucial factor

in the rise of a leader D)people’sexpectation of their President as a leader 3.The author pointsout in this article that virtually all great leaders are__________. A)Outstandingspeakers,witty and eloquent B)able to come upwith explicit and unquestionable solutions to problems or crises. C)good atexpressing their ideas in a simple,clear an effective way,bringing home theirforceful messages to all people.

D)Both B)and C) 4.According to theauthor,what other qualities should a leader have? A)He is special,able to do something most

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of us can,but should not be too different from us. B)He knows well howto use power and has a way of showing how to exercise leadership C)He has the graceof a good dancer and knows how to appear relaxed and confident D)All of the above 5.Reagan’s trainingas an actor is mentioned as an example to show_________.

A)stageperformanceB)a goodsense of humor C)an easy andgraceful mannerD)personal charm 6.The difficulty infinding a good leader lies in the fact that_____________. A)People know solittle about leadership and they can only be led where they want to go. B)People want theirleader to be one of them and a step ahead of them C)a leader will notemerge until leadership is needed D)most potentialleaders are too rational to be regarded as qualified leaders 7.Which of thefollowing may serve to explain why businessmen can hardly make good leaders?

A)Practically-minded,they ten d to appeal to people’s reason rather than to theiremotion in resolving any problem and crisis.

B)Concerned withactual results,they attach too much importance to basic facts and well-foundedplans. C)They are toorational to arouse in people’s outbursts of e nthusiasm. D)All of the above 8.In difficulttimes instead of being told what went wrong being given a lot of complicatedstatistics and plans,people want to be. 9.The passage tellsthat a great leader must possess

---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ such irrational qualities asand the ability to convince us thatall is not lost even when we’re afraid it is. 10.In the lastparagraph,the author informs us of the fact a leader,in the final analysis,is shaped by our own spirit and will. 参考答案：

1． C 2.C 3.D 4 D 5.C 6.C 7.D 8.moved,excited,inspired,consoled,uplifted 9.a stubborn refusal to face facts,infectious optimism 10.the symbol of the best in us 英语六级难度仔细阅读【模拟题 3 篇】 Directions： In this section， there is a short passagewith 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Thenanswer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words onAnswer Sheet 2. Questions 47 to 51 are based on the followingpassage. Culture shock is an occupational disease forpeople who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. Like most illness, it hasits own symptoms and a cure. Culture shock is accelerated by the anxietythat results from losing all familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse.Those signs include the thousand and one ways in which we orient ourselves tothe situation of daily life: when to shake hands and what to say when we meetpeople, when and how

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to give tips, how to make purchases, when to accept and refuseinvitations, when to take statements seriously and when not. These signs, whichmay be words, gestures, facial expressions, or customs, are acquired by all ofus in the course

of growing up and as much a part of our culture as thelanguage we speak or the beliefs we accept. All of us depend for our peace ofmind and our efficiency on hundreds of these cues, most of which we do notcarry on the level of conscious awareness. Now when an individual enters a strangeculture, all or most of these familiar signs are removed. He or she is like afish out

of water. No matter how broad-minded or full of goodwill you may be, aseries of supports have been knocked from under you, followed by a feeling offrustration and anxiety. People react

to the frustration in much the same way.First they reject the environment which causes discomfort: The ways ofthe host country are bad because they make us feel bad. For example,Americans who are in a strange land get together to grouse about the hostcountry and its people, you can be sure they are suffering from culture shock.Another phase of culture shock is regression. The home environment suddenlyassumes a tremendous importance. To a foreigner, everything becomesirrationally glorified. All the difficulties and

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problems are forgotten andonly the good things back home are remembered. It usually takes a trip home tobring one back to

reality. 47. What kind of people may suffer fromcultureshock?

48. According to the passage, the signs andcues which we are

familiar with help us ________. 49. Most of the cues which we

depend on forour peace of mind and our efficiency are obtained

___________. 50. According to the author, how would peoplewho

are suffering from cultureshock feel?

51. Apart from rejecting the new environment,people who are

suffering from culture shock may overestimate _________.

Section B Directions：

There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is

followed bysome questions or unfinished statements. For each

of them there are fourchoices marked A), B), C) and D). You

should decide on the best choice and markthe corresponding

letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through thecenter.

Passage One Questions 52 to 56 are based on the followingpassage.

The British psychoanalyst John Bowlbymaintains that separation

from the parents during the sensitiveattachment period from

birth to three may scar a child’spersonality and predispose

to emotional problems in later life. Some peoplehave drawn the

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conclusion from Bowlby’s work that children should not besubjected to day care before the age of three because of the parentalseparation it entails, and many people do believe this. But there are alsoarguments against such a strong conclusion. Firstly, anthropologists point out that theinsulated love affair between children and parents found in modern societiesdoes not usually exist in traditional societies. For example, we saw earlierthat among the Ngoni the father and mother of a child did not rear their infantalone--far from it. Secondly, common sense tells us that day care would not sowidespread today if parents, care takers found children had problems with it.Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carried out, and even ifthey were, the results would be certain to be complicated and controversial.Thirdly, in the last decade, there have been a number of careful Americanstudies of children in day care, and they have uniformly reported that day carehad a neutral or slightly positive effect on children’s development. But teststhat have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enoughaccepted to settle the issue. But Bowlby’s analysis raises the possibilitythat early day care has delayed effects. The possibility that such care mightlead to, say, more mental

---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only beexplored by the use of statistics. Whatever the long-term effects, parentssometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with. Children underthree are likely to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness. Atthe age of three or three and a half almost all children find the transition tonursery easy, and this is undoubtedly, why more and more parents make use ofchild care at this time. The matter, then, is far from clear-cut, thoughexperience and available evidence indicate that early care is reasonable forinfants. 52. This passage mainly centers on ______. A) infants under the age of three should notbe sent to nursery schools B) whether children under the age of threeshould go to nursery schools C) there is not negative long-term effect oninfants who are sent to school before they are three D) there is some negative effect on childrenwho are sent to school after the age of three 53. The phrase predispose to inthe first of paragraph most probably means ____ A)relieve B)influence favourably C) dispose of D)tend to suffer 54. According to Bowlby’s belief, it is quitepossible that _____. A) men’s personalities will be changed tosome extent through separation from their parents

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B) early day care can delay the occurrence ofmental illness in children C) children will be exposed to potentialnegative effects from early day care later on D) some long-term effects can hardly bepredicted 55. Those who are against the conclusiondrawn from Bowlby think that _____. A) traditional societies separate the childfrom the parent at an early age B ) day care does not necessarily have anegative effect on children C) a child did not live together with parentsamong Ngoni D) children do emotional problems whenseparated from parents 56. The writer concludes that ______. A) it is difficult to make clear what is theright age for nursery school B) it is not settled now whether early careis reasonable for children C) it

is not beneficial for children to besent to nursery school D)

it is reasonable to subject a child abovethree to nursery school Passage 2 Questions 57 to 61 are based on the followingpassage. Anthropology is the study of human beings ascreatures of society. It fastens its attention upon those physical characteristicsand industrial techniques, those conventions and values, which distinguish onecommunity from all others that belong to a different tradition. The distinguishing mark of anthropology amongthe social sciences is what it includes for serious study of other societiesthan our own. For its purposes

---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ any social regulation of mating and reproductionis as significant as our own, though it may be that of the Sea Dyaks(文莱土著), and have no possible historicalrelation to that of our civilization. To the anthropologist, our customs andthose of a New Guinea tribe are two possible social schemes fordealing with a common problem, and in so far as he remains an anthropologist heis bound to avoid any weighting of one in favor of the other. He is interestedin human behavior, not as it is shaped by one tradition, our own, but as it hasbeen shaped by any tradition whatsoever. He is interested in a wide range ofcustom that is found in various cultures, and his object is to understand theway in which these cultures change and differentiate, the different formsthrough which they express themselves and the manner in which the customs ofany peoples function in the lives of the individuals. Now custom has not been commonly regarded asa subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel tobe uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, isbehavior at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact, it is the other wayround. Traditional custom is a mass of detailed behavior more astonishing thanwhat any one person can ever

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evolve in individual actions. Yet that is a rathertrivial aspect of the matter. The fact of first-rate importance is thepredominant role that custom plays in experience and belief, and the very greatvarieties it may manifest. 57. According to the passage, we can say thatanthropology______. A) can deal with human beings as one group ofthe creatures in living world B) can reveal an enormous diversity oftraditions C) can provide insights into the relationshipbetween human beings and nature D) can distinguish the human race from othercreatures 58. For serious study, an anthropologist______. A) must not study his own cultureB) is not supposed to have a prejudice againstany society C) should focus on those societies which arehistorically related to each other D) should not take an interest in his ownculture 59. In the third paragraph, the author istrying _____. A) to be critical of customB) to say that anthropology is more importantthan psychology C) to strengthen the role custom plays inexperience and belief D) to draw our attention to the importance ofcustom 60. Which of the following does the authormost probably agree with? A) The goal of the anthropologist is tounderstand the way in which people express themselves B) The anthropologist tries to understand whycultures are carried on without any change. C) The

---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ anthropologist’s professional interestis as wide as the variety of customs. D) All of the above. 61. Which of the following is the best titlefor the Passage? A) Humanbehavior. B) Creatures ofSociety.C) The Study ofCustoms D) The Functions

of Cultures. Section A 47. People who suddenly enter a strange culture 或 People who are suddenly transplanted abroad. 48. orient ourselves to the situation of daily life. 49. unconsciously in the course of growing up 50. frustrated and anxious. 51. the home environment. Section B 52-56 BDCBD 57-61 BBDCC

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