2022下半年大学英语六级阅读理解习题

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1.2022下半年大学英语六级阅读理解习题

　　faced with rapid change and the fear and uncertainty1 that go with it, individuals as well as nations sometimes seek to return to the ways of the past as a solution. in the early 1980s the idea of returning to the ways of the past had a strong appeal2 to many americans who increasingly viewed their past as being better than their future . two famous experts have observed that until the 1970 s americans generally believed that the present was a better time for their country than the past and that the future would be better than the present; by 1978, however, public opinion polls3 showed that many americans had come to believe that just the opposite 4 was true: the past had been better for the country than 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 the 1980s was demonstrated when ronald reagan5 was elected president of the united states in 1980 . 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 as possible to its pre-19307 ways. in those times business institutions were strong and government institutions were weak. reagan believes that the american values of individual freedom and competition are strengthened by business and weakened by government. therefore, his programs as president have been designed to greatly strengthen business and reduce the size and power of the national government. by moving in this way toward the practices of the past, president reagan believed that the standard of living of americans would begin to improve once more in the 1980s as it had done throughout most of the nation’s history.

　　阅读自测

　　Ⅰ. ad d the correct prefix to the following words:

　　plan———

　　bearable———

　　expected———

　　pay———

　　certain———

　　war———

　　known———

　　common———

　　decided———

　　Ⅱ. fill in the blanks with the words o r phrases in the p ass age :

　　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.

2.2022下半年大学英语六级阅读理解习题

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

　　but does this always — or even usually — happen? an acquaintance2 of mine who lives in england and had never been outside it until last summer, decided to go over3 to france for a trip. when he returned, i asked him how he liked it.“terrible, ”was his answer.“ i couldn’t get a nice cup of tea anywhere . 4 thank goodness i’m back. ”i asked him whether he hadn’t had any good food while he was there .“oh, the dinners were all right, ”he said.“i found a little place where they made quite good fish and chips. not as good as ours, mind you5, but they were passable. but the breakfasts were terrible: no bacon or kippers. i had fried eggs and chips, but it was quite a 6 business getting them to make them. they expected me to eat rolls. and when i asked for marmalade , they brought strawberry jam. and do you know, they insisted that it was marmalade? the trouble is they don’t know english. ”

　　i thought it useless to explain that we borrowed the word‘marmalade ’from french, and that it means, in that language, any kind of jam. so i said,“but didn’t you eat any of the famous french 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 foreign countries, can be found judging what they see, hear, taste and smell according to their own habits and customs. people who are better educated and who have read a lot about foreign countries tend to be more adaptable7 and tolerant8, but this is because their minds have already been broadened before they start travelling. in fact, it is easier to be broad-minded about foreign habits and customs, if one’s acquaintance with these things is limited to books and films. the american smiles tolerantly over the absence of central heating in most english homes when he is himself comfortably seated in his armchair in his centrally heated house in chicago; 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 be detached and broad-minded. 9 but actual physical contact with things one is unaccustomed to is much more difficult to bear philosophically.

　　perhaps the ideal would be if travel could succeed in making people tolerant of the habits and customs of others without abandoning their own. the criterion for judging a foreigner could be: 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 be broadened.

　　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 and customs.

　　5. the author thinks that people who are better educated and read a lot are easily to be tolerant.

　　6. tea , bacon, kippers, chips are all typical english food.

3.2022下半年大学英语六级阅读理解习题

　　one of our expectations about education is that it will pay off1 in terms of upward mobility. historically, the correlation between education and income has been strong. but in the early 1970 s a contradiction developed between education and the economy. our value of education and our average educational attainment outstripped the capacity of the economy to absorb the graduates. since the 1970 s, high-school graduates have experienced a striking decrease in earnings, making them the first generation since world warⅡ to face a lower standard of living than their parents had.

　　experts have argued that this contradiction is at the heart of the problem of public education today. it is not, as business leaders claim, that the schools are failing to properly educate students, that they are turning out2 young people who are inadequately prepared to function in the workplace . the real problem is a dearth of economic opportunities for students who are not continuing on to college .

　　college graduates also are having difficulty finding jobs. even when they do, the jobs may not be commensurate with3 their training and expectations. part of the problem is that too many young americans aspire to have professional jobs, making disappointment and frustration inevitable for some. many students assumed that what was true of an individu-al — that the higher the education, the better the job opportunities —would also be true for an entire society4. but when the numbers of better-educated young people became too great, the economy could no longer absorb them

　　another part of the problem is the assumption that greater educational attainment guarantees career advancement. in fact, employers do not routinely reward educational attainment; rather, they reward it only when they believe it will contribute to the employee ’s productivity.

　　we should not overlook the fact that there is still a strong correlation between education, occupation , and income . college graduates have a strong advantage over those with less education . but the payoff is neither as large nor as certain as it once was.

　　unfortunately, americans have focused so strongly on the economic payoff that many consider their college education useless if it does not yield a desirable, well-paying job. only in this sense can we speak of an“ oversupply”of college graduates. 5 we could argue that all or at least the majority of americans would profit by some degree because higher education can enable the individual to think more deeply, explore more widely, and enjoy a greater range of experiences.

　　阅读自测

　　Ⅰ. choose the be st answer to fill in the blanks :

　　1. in the eyes of the public , higher education can_______ in terms of obtaining a decent job.

　　a. pay back b. pay off c. pay out d. pay up

　　2. things_______ to be exactly as the professor had foreseen.

　　a. turned up b. turned on c. turned out d. turned over

　　3. he was satisfied with the salary that was_________ with his abilities.

　　a. familiar b. proportional c. content d. commensurate

　　Ⅱ. write these sentences in inverted order beginning ea ch one with the words in italics :

　　1. i realized what was happening only then. 2. there were piles of books, magazines and newspapers on the floor.

　　3. i have never heard such nonsense in all my life .

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