2013年12月六级选词填空习题

A novel way of making computer memories, using bacteria computer industry has been to do more with less.FOR half a century, the (1) __________of progress in theMoore's law famously observes that the number of transistors which can The amount of data that can be stored has grown at a On May 10th Paul Happily forbe crammed into a given space (2)__________ every 18 months. similar rate.Yet as (3)__________ get smaller, making them gets harder and more expensive.Otellini, the boss of Intel, a big American chipmaker, put the price of a new chip factory at around $10 billion. those that lack Intel's resources, there may be a cheaper option—namely to mimic Mother Nature,who has been buildingtiny (4)__________, in the form of living cells and their components, for billions of years, and has thus got rather good at it. A paper published in Small, a nanotechnology journal , sets out the latest example of the (5)__________. In it, a group ofresearchers led by Sarah Staniland at the University of Leeds, in Britain, describe using naturally occurring proteins to make arrays of tiny magnets, similar to those employed to store information in disk drives. The researchers took their(6)__________ from Magnetospirillum magneticum, a bacterium that is sensitive to the Earth's magnetic field thanks to the presence within its cells of flecks of magnetite, a form of iron oxide. Previous work has isolated the protein that makesthese miniature compasses. Using genetic engineering, the team managed to persuade a different bacterium—Escherichia coli, a ubiquitous critter that is a workhorse of biotechnology—to (7)__________ this protein in bulk. block of gold with a microscopic chessboard pattern of chemicals. protein. The other half were left untreated as controls. Next, they imprinted aHalf the squares contained anchoring points for theThey then dipped the gold into a solution containing the protein, After that,allowing it to bind to the treated squares, and dunked the whole lot into a heated (8)__________ of iron salts. they examined the results with an electron microscope.Sure enough, groups of magnetite grains had materialised on the In principle, each of these magnetic domains could store the Getting from there to a real computer memorytreated squares, shepherded into place by the bacterial protein.one or the zero of a bit of information, according to how it was polarised. would be a long road.For a start, the grains of magnetite are not strong enough magnets to make a useful memory, and the But Dr Staniland reckons that, with enough tweaking,size of each domain is huge by modern computing (9)__________. both of these objections could be dealt with. capital-intensive as building a fab.The (10)__________ of this approach is that it might not be so If the tweaking could beGrowing things does not need as much kit as making them.done, therefore, the result might give the word biotechnology a whole new meaning. A) components B) advantage C) standards D) compliments E) essence F) inspiration G) disadvantage H) doubles I) solution J) resolution K) devices L) manufacture M) spirit N) product O) technique2013 年 12 月英语六级选词填空习题及答案(2)Nice juicy AppleALTHOUGH he is still (1)__________ things up at Dell, an ailing computer-maker, Carl Icahn has found timeto tilt at another tech titan. On August 13th the veteran shareholder activist (2) __________that he had built up a stake in Apple, though he stayed mum about exactly how many shares he had bought. Mr Icahn’s intentions, however, are crystal clear: he wants the consumer-electronics behemoth to expand plans to return some of its whopping $147 billion of cash and marketable securities to shareholders. Mr Icahn is also after more money at Dell, where he has been lobbying with allies against a (3)__________ buy-out plan put forward by Michael Dell, the firm’s founder, and Silver Lake, a private-equity firm. His pressing has already forced the buy-out group to raise its initial offer by over $350m, to $24.8 billion and he has taken his (4)__________ to the courts in a bid to extract an even higher price. Other tech firms have been attracting the attention of activist investors too. Earlier this yearValueAct Capital, an investment fund, said it had built up a $2 billion stake in Microsoft. Jaguar Financial, a Canadian bank, has been (5)__________ fresh thinking at troubled BlackBerry, which announced on August 12th that it is exploring various (6) __________options, including alliances and a possible sale. And Elliott Management, a hedge fund, has been lobbying for change at NetApp, a data-storage firm that it thinks could do more to improve returns to (7)__________. One reason tech firms have found themselves in activists’ crosshairs is that, like Apple, some built up big cash piles during the economic downturn and have been slow to use the money. Financiers hope to get them to loosen their purse-strings faster and to pocket some of the cash. Mr Icahn wants Apple to increase and (8)__________ a share buy-back programme that is currently set to return $60 billion to shareholders by the end of 2015. Another reason that tech firms make tempting targets for shareholder activists is that swift changes in technologies cantrip up even the mightiest. Witness the case of Microsoft, which ruled the roost during the personal-computer era but has struggled to adapt to a world in which tablets and smartphones are all the rage. Investors hope to mint money by pushing companies to change more rapidly in response to such upheavals in their markets. The rewards can be substantial. Egged on by Third Point, an activisthedge fund, Yahoo (9) __________Marissa Mayer as its new chief executive in July 2012. By the time she celebrated a year in the job last month, the troubled web giant’s share price had risen by over 70%. In July the hedge fund sold a big chunk of shares back to Yahoo. Mr Icahn thinks Apple’s share price, which closed at $499 on August 14th, could soar too if the firm follows his advice on buy-backs. He tweeted this week that he had had a “nice (10)__________” with Tim Cook, Apple’s boss, about his idea, though he did not say what Mr Cook thought of it. If Apple drags its feet, expect things to turn nasty.A) shareholders B) strategic C) communication D) battle E) conversation F) encouraging G) exciting H) stirringI) appointed J) race K) revealed L) method M) accelerate N) proposed O)It isn't just the beer that (1)__________ to beer bellies. It could also be the extra calories, fat and unhealthy eating choices that may come with (2) __________drinking. A recent study found that men consume an (3)__________ 433 calories (equivalent to aMcDonald's double cheeseburger) on days they drink a moderate amount of alcohol. About 61% of the caloric increase comes from the alcohol itself. Men also report eating higher amounts of saturated fats and meat, and less fruit and milk, on those days than on days when they aren't drinking, the study showed. Women fared a bit better, taking in an extra 300 calories on moderate-drinking days, fromthe alcohol and eating fattier foods. But women's increase in calories from additional eating wasn't statistically significant, the study said. 'Men and women ate less healthily on days they drank alcohol,' said Rosalind Breslow, an epidemiologist with the federal National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and lead author of the study. 'Poorer food choices on drinking days have public-health (4)__________,' she said. The findings dovetail with controlled lab studies in which (5)__________ generally eat more food afterconsuming alcohol. Researchers suggest that alcohol may enhance 'the short-term rewarding effects' of consuming food, according to a 2010 report in the journal Physiology & Behavior that reviewed previous studies on alcohol, appetite and obesity. But other studieshave pointed to a different trend. Moderate drinkers gain less weight over time than either heavy drinkers or people who abstain from alcohol, particularly women, this research has shown. Moderate drinking is (6) __________having about two drinks a day for men and one for women. 'People who gain the least weight are moderate drinkers, regardless of [alcoholic] beverage choice,' said EricRimm, an associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard Medical School and chairman of the 2010 review of alcohol in the federal dietary (7)__________. The weight-gain difference is modest, and 'starting to drink is not a weight-loss diet,' he said. The various research efforts form part of a long-standing (8)__________ about how alcohol affects people's appetites, weight and overall health. Researchers say there aren't simple answers, and suggest that individuals' metabolism, drinking patterns and gender may play a role. Alcohol is 'a real wild card when it comes to weight management,' said Karen Miller-Kovach, chief scientific officer ofWeight Watchers International. At seven calories per gram, alcohol is closer to fat than to carbohydrate or protein in caloric content, she said. Alcohol tends to lower restraint, she notes, causing a person to become more (9)__________ with what they're eating. Research bolstering the role of moderate drinking in helping to control weight gain was published in 2004 in the journal Obesity Research. That study followed nearly 50,000 women over eight years. An earlier study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 1994, followed more than 7,000 people for 10 years and found that moderate drinkers gained less weight than nondrinkers. Studies comparing changes in waist circumference among different groups have yielded similar results. Dr. Rimm saidit isn't clear why moderate drinking may be (10)__________ against typical weight gain, but it could have to do with metabolic adjustments. After people drink alcohol, their heart rate increases so they burn more calories in the following hour. 'It's a modestamount,' he said. 'But if you take an individual that eats 100 calories instead of a glass of wine, the person drinking the glass of wine will have a slight increase in the amount of calories burned.'A indulgent B participants C debate D consideredE contributes F contest G guidelines H protectiveI moderate J index K implications L considerateM :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 visitation.AHuffPost/YouGov poll reveals that 48 percent of adults in the United States are open to the idea that alien spacecraft are observing our planet -- and just 35 percent outright (3)__________ the idea. The poll was seen as vindication from the community of UFO "It's always been intriguing to me how we act as thoughresearchers who often feel they are laughed off by government officials.only kooks and quacks and little old ladies in tennis shoes believe in flying saucers. And it's never been true, at least for 30 or 40 years," said former nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, who was the original civilian investigator of the events surrounding the (4) __________Roswell, NM, UFO crash of 1947. controlled extraterrestrial vehicles. Friedman is very outspoken on the idea that some UFOs are (5)__________"The believers are far more quiet, but far more on the side of reality," Friedman told TheHuffington Post. "When you look at the polls, it's clear. And I see the benefit of that, (6)__________, because I've only had 11 hecklers in over 700 lectures. I've been out there, all over the place, in every state, 18 other countries, and I know that my (7) __________is more than tolerant -- they're accepting. It's been one of the things that really has kept me going." In theHuffPost/YouGov poll, conducted between Sept. 6-7, 1,000 adults were asked if they either believed or didn't believe that some people have (8)__________ UFOs that have an extraterrestrial origin. When YouGov offered (9)__________ the choice between"slightly disagree," "disagree" and "strongly disagree," those numbers added up to 35 percent who are skeptical of the notion that any UFOs may be alien-related. However, nearly half of the adults surveyed (48 percent) resounded in the affirmative, leaving 16percent who (10)__________ that they weren't sure on either side of the ET issue.A: legendary B:accept C: reject D: respondents E: personally F: implied G: population H: responsibility I: intelligently J: indicated K: sign L: signal M: witnessed N: story O: audience2013 年 12 月英语六级选词填空习题及答案(5)The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but numerous other dependents as well---grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousions. Such "extended" families were suited for survival in slow paced __1__ societies. But such families are hard to __2__. They are immobile.Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family __3__ shed its excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged---a stripped-down, portable family unit __4__ only of parents and a small set of children. This new style family, far more __5__ than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrial counties. Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development, __6__ even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry the streamlinling process, a stePfurther by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more __7__ components, aman and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes and geographic relocations, than teh ordinarily child-cluttered family.A __8__ may be the postponement of children, rather than childlessness. Men and women today are often torn in __9__ between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many __10__ will sidestePthis problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until after retirement. A)transplant B)solution C)gadually D)transport E)elemental F)conflict G)continually H)mobileI)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:contributes2.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:protective1.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:indicated4. 答案 5.ANSWER: 1. 选 J） 此处应填形容词， 。