下半年英语六级考试阅读理解练习及解析

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2016下半年英语六级考试阅读理解练习及解析

　　距离下半年英语六级考试还有几个月的.时间，说多不多，说少也不少，小伙伴们还是要抓紧时间多复习。下面是CN人才网小编为大家整理的相关练习题，希望对大家有所帮助。

2016下半年英语六级考试阅读理解练习及解析

　　Baseball and football1 crowds are happiest whenthey feel that they have become a part of the gamethat is being played for them. . .. in baseball,sections of the rooters2 set out deliberately torattle 3 a pitcher with rhythmic or anti-rhythmichand-clappings, whichever they think will annoy himthe most, or by setting up4 a bedlam5 of sound, orby waving somewhat cloudy pocket-handkerchiefs at him. most rooting, as a matter of fact,grows out of the individual spectator’s desire to identify himself with the proceedings on thefield, to shake himself free of the anonymity of the crowd and become an active participant ina sport for which nature happens not to have fitted him.

　　the loveliest girls in the world sit in the football crowds, their fresh faces framed in fur. thetoughest babies in town seem to collect6 at the ball games, idle sisters sitting in pairs chewinggum7, fanning8 themselves with their score cards and adding their harsh screams to thehullabaloo9 that accompanies a sharply hit ball or the race between ball and man for the base .the baseball crowd is cosmopolitan10 . it contains representatives from every walk in life andfrom every profession. it is the most expert gathering in the world, and the most appreciativeof skill. the crowd of sixty thousand that sits in the yankee stadium 11 on a sunday afternoonin midsummer, and the world series12 crowd of the same number that watches the inter-league play-off13 in the fall, are as different as black and white14, although both are looking atthe same game. world series spectators aren’t regular baseball fans. most of them have neverseen a game before. they are drawn by the ballyhoo , the publicity and the higher prices. theysit on their hands15 and refuse to warm up to the rising and falling tides of battle. the bleachercrowd gets a better view of the game than the snootier patrons in the stands and boxes. theysee the game the way the players see it.

　　阅读自测

　　Ⅰ. in this p assa ge , there a re many te rms a bout spor ts and try to wr ite them down according to th e chinese meanings :

　　啦啦队队员———

　　啦啦队队长———

　　投手———

　　记分牌———

　　球场———

　　球迷———

　　廉价露天看台———

　　看台———

　　包厢———

　　世界职业棒球锦标赛———

　　夺标决赛———

　　Ⅱ. question :

　　try to say something about fans on the field.

　　参考答案:

　　Ⅰ. rooter / cheerleader / pitcher score card / field /fan bleacher / stands / box world series / play-off

　　Ⅱ. in baseball, sections of the rooters set outdeliberately to rattle a pitcher with rhythmic oranti-rhythmic hand-clappings, whichever they thinkwill annoy him the most, or by setting up a bedlamof sound, or by waving somewhat cloudy pocket-handkerchiefs at him. but there are also some fans who are only drawn by the ballyhoo, thepublicity and the higher prices.

　　Faced with rapid change and the fear anduncertainty1 that go with it, individuals as well asnations sometimes seek to return to the ways of thepast as a solution. in the early 1980s the idea ofreturning to the ways of the past had a strongappeal 2 to many americans who increasingly viewedtheir past as being better than their future. Twofamous experts have observed that until the 1970 s americans generally believed that thepresent was a better time for their country than the past and that the future would be betterthan the present; by 1978, however, public opinion polls3 showed that many americans hadcome to believe that just the opposite 4 was true: the past had been better for the countrythan the present, and the present was better than the future would be.

　　The popular appeal of returning to the ways of the past as a solution to the problems of the1980s was demonstrated when ronald reagan5 was elected president of the united states in1980 . time magazine chose president reagan as its "man of the year" and said of him, "intellectually, emotionally, reagan lives in the past."

　　One of president reagan’s basic beliefs is that the united states should return as much aspossible to its pre-19307 ways. in those times business institutions were strong andgovernment institutions were weak. reagan believes that the american values of individualfreedom and competition are strengthened by business and weakened by government.therefore, his programs as president have been designed to greatly strengthen business andreduce the size and power of the national government. by moving in this way toward thepractices of the past, president reagan believed that the standard of living of americans wouldbegin to improve once more in the 1980s as it had done throughout most of the nation’shistory.

　　阅读自测：

　　Ⅰ. add the correct prefix to the following words:

　　plan

　　bearable

　　expected

　　pay

　　certain

　　war

　　known

　　common

　　decided

　　Ⅱ. fill in the blanks with the words or phrases in the passage:

　　1. happiness doesn't necessarily ________( 伴随) money.

　　2. traveling has a strong ________ ( 吸引力) to many young people nowadays.

　　3. bill clinton has ever been chosen as ________ ( 年度风云人物) in the 1990s.

　　4. we all want to learn ________ ( 尽可能) to get a better future. 5. we are confident that the________ ( 生活水平) of china has been greatly improved since the open-up.

　　参考答案:

　　Ⅰ. preplan / unbearable / unexpected prepay /uncertain / prewar unknown / uncommon /undecided

　　Ⅱ. 1. go with 2 . appeal 3 . man of the year 4. asmuch as possible 5. standard of living

　　One often hears it said that travel broadens themind: if you stay in your own country the whole time, your ideas remain narrow; whereas if you travelabroad you see new customs, eat new foods, do newthings, and come back home with a broader mind.

　　But does this always — or even usually — happen?An acquaintance2 of mine who lives in England andhad never been outside it until last summer, decided to go over3 to France for a trip. When hereturned, I asked him how he liked it.“Terrible, ”was his answer.“ I couldn’t get a nice cup of teaanywhere . 4 Thank goodness I’m back. ”I asked him whether he hadn’t had any good foodwhile he was there .“Oh, the dinners were all right, ”he said.“I found a little place where theymade quite good fish and chips. Not as good as ours, mind you5, but they were passable. Butthe breakfasts were terrible: no bacon or kippers. I had fried eggs and chips, but it was quite a6 business getting them to make them. They expected me to eat rolls. And when I asked formarmalade , they brought strawberry jam. And do you know, they insisted that it wasmarmalade? The trouble is they don’t know English. ”

　　I thought it useless to explain that we borrowed the word‘marmalade ’from French, and that itmeans, in that language, any kind of jam. So I said,“But didn’t you eat any of the famousFrench food?”“What? Me?”he said.“Of course not! Give me good old English food every time!None of these fancy bits for me! ”Obviously travel had not broadened his mind.

　　This does not, of course, happen only to Englishmen in France: all nationalities, in all foreigncountries, can be found judging what they see, hear, taste and smell according to their ownhabits and customs. People who are better educated and who have read a lot about foreigncountries tend to be more adaptable7 and tolerant8, but this is because their minds havealready been broadened before they start travelling. In fact, it is easier to be broad-mindedabout foreign habits and customs, if one’s acquaintance with these things is limited to booksand films. The American smiles tolerantly over the absence of central heating in most Englishhomes when he is himself comfortably seated in his armchair in his centrally heated house inChicago; the English man reads about the sanitary arrangements in a certain tropical country,and the inhabitants of the latter read about London fogs, and each side manages to bedetached and broad-minded. 9 But actual physical contact with things one is unaccustomed tois much more difficult to bear philosophically.

　　Perhaps the ideal would be if travel could succeed in making people tolerant of the habits andcustoms of others without abandoning their own. The criterion for judging a foreigner couldbe: Does he try to be polite and considerate to others? Instead of: Is he like me?

　　阅读自测

　　Ⅰ. True o r Fa lse :

　　1. It is often said that if you travel abroad to see many new things, your mind will bebroadened.

　　2. The Englishman had a happy life when he travelled to France .

　　3. The word‘marmalade’is originally a French word, which means any kind of jam.

　　4. In the view of the author, people often judge things according to their own habits andcustoms.

　　5. The author thinks that people who are better educated and read a lot are easily to betolerant.

　　6. Tea , bacon, kippers, chips are all typical English food.

　　参考答案:

　　Ⅰ. 1. T 2. F 3 . T 4 . T 5 . T 6 . T

　　Dr. Heinrich Applebaum recently completed a studyon the effects of television on children. In his case,though, he wasn’t concerned1 with violence , buthow television gives children a false sense of reality.

　　Dr. Applebaum told me,“The greatest danger oftelevision is that it presents a world to children thatdoesn’t exist, and raises expectations that can neverbe fulfilled. ” “ I don’t understand, Doctor, ”I said. “Well, let me cite one example. Have youever seen a television show where a person in an automobile doesn’t immediately find aparking2 place on the very first try?” “Come to think of it, ”I said,“I haven’t. ”

　　“Not only is there always a parking spot available3 but the driver doesn’t even have to backinto it. There are two parking spaces available whenever someone in a TV show needs one .Children are being led to believe that when they grow up they will always be able to find aparking place when and where they want it. Can you imagine the trauma when they discoverthat in real life you can drive around a block for three hours and still not find a place to putyour car?”

　　“ I never thought of it but it’s true . What else do they show on television which gives adistorted4 picture of the real world?” “Have you noticed that whenever a character walks out ofa restaurant or office building or apartment and says to the doorman,‘Get me a taxi, ’the taxiimmediately arrives? Millions of children are under the impression5 that all a doorman has to dois blow his whistle and a taxi will be there. I have never seen a show where the doorman hassaid, ‘ I’m sorry. I can’t get you a taxi. You better take the bus. ’” “Of course , ”I said.“I neverknew before what bothered me about those TV action programs, but now I do. There is alwaysa yellow taxi waiting off screen. ” “Now, ”said Applebaum,“ have you ever said to a taxi driver,‘Follow that car and don’t lose him’?”

　　“Not really. ” “Well, if you had, the driver would have told you to blow it out your ear. No taxidriver is in a mood to follow another car because that means he ’s going to get involved.

　　But on TV every cabdriver looks as if he ’d like nothing better to do than to drive 90 miles anhour through a rain-swept street trying to keep up with a carful of hoods. And the worst thingis that the kids believe it. ”

　　阅读自测

　　Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks with the following phrases : ( be concerned with, as far as . . . concerned,parking lot, on the first try, under the impression)

　　1. Driving around for almost an hour, I finally found a_________ .

　　2. The study _________the effect of financial crisis on international trade .

　　3._________ , jazz is a kind of classic music.

　　4. I find the place_________ .

　　5. Many of us are _________that a man with an ugly face is a bad guy.

　　Ⅱ. Question : List two examples to illustrate the unreality of TV.

　　参考答案:

　　Ⅰ. 1. parking lot 2. is concerned with 3 . As far as Iam concerned 4. on the first try 5. under theimpression

　　Ⅱ. 1. Whenever and wherever you want a parkingplace , you can find it. 2. Whenever you walk out of arestaurant, the doorman could find you a taxi.

　　Television And Violent Crime

　　Children are born ready to imitate adult behavior.That they can imitate an array of adult facialexpressions have been demonstrated in newborns asyoung as a few hours old, before they are even oldenough to know that they have facial features. It is amost useful instinct, for the developing child mustlearn and master a vast repertoire1 of behavior inshort order.

　　But while children have instinctive desire to imitate, they do not possess an instinct fordetermining whether a behavior ought to be imitated. They will imitate anything, includingbehavior that most adults regard as destructive and antisocial2. It may give pause forthought, then, to learn that infants as young as fourteen months demonstrably observe andincorporate behavior seen on television.

　　The average American preschooler watches more than twenty-seven hours of television perweek. This might not be bad if these young children understood what they were watching. Butthey don’t. Up through ages three and four, most children are unable to distinguish fact fromfantasy3 on TV, and remain unable to do so despite adult coaching. In the minds of youngchildren, television is a source of entirely factual information regarding how the world works4 .There are no limits to their credulity. 5 To cite one example, an Indiana school board had toissue an advisory to young children that, no, there is no such thing as Teenage Mutant NinjaTurtles6. Children had been crawling down storm drains looking for them.

　　Naturally, as children get older, they come to know better, but their earliest and deepestimpressions are laid down at an age when they still see television as a factual source ofinformation about the outside world. In that world, it seems, violence is common and thecommission7 of violence is generally powerful, exciting, charismatic, and effective. In laterlife, serious violence is most likely to erupt at moments of severe stress — and it is preciselyat such moments that adolescents and adults are most likely to revert to8 their earliest, mostvisceral sense of the role of violence in society and in personal behavior. Much of this sense willhave come from television.

　　阅读自测

　　Ⅰ. Fill in each blank with the proper form of the words given in the brackets :

　　1. She has an________ ( instinct) sympathy with the poor people.

　　2. These conclusions are ________ ( demonstrate ) wrong.

　　3. There is a slight________ ( face ) resemblance between the two men.

　　4. This man has coaxed millions of pounds from a________ ( credulity) public .

　　Ⅱ. Are these statements True o r False according to the article :

　　1. Babies know they have facial features just after they come to the world.

　　2. Children can imitate everything because imitation is their instinct.

　　3. Television is a source of entirely factual information regarding how the world works.

　　4. Television plays an important role in giving rise to social violence .

　　参考答案: