2022年下半年英语六级阅读练习

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1.2022年下半年英语六级阅读练习

  Craze In First Run Of Bulls

  Bulls and humans alike slipped and slid on thecobblestone streets, but the first of Pamplona'sannual runs with the bulls was largely free of injuryas thousands of daredevils2 sprinted with the half-ton animals.

  Some runners, sounding disappointed, said theywould seek out greater danger in coming days as thewidely popular, centuries-old San Fermin3 festival serves up six more runs this week.

  “ It was a bit timid, to be honest. Nowhere near as scary as in the books, ”said Johnny, 26,from New Zealand, here for the first time after reading about San Fermin on a website.

  “Tomorrow we are going to try and run a bit closer to the bulls and get a bit more adrenaline, ”added his friend, Richard, 26 , cradling the day's first beer.

  The streets were slightly slick with morning dew as six fighting bulls and six steers dashedfrom a corral along the 900 -yard course through the city’s old quarter to the bull ring.

  At two sharp turns, several bulls slipped and went down with a heavy thud, and two bulls wereseparated from the pack. And a minor pileup of fallen runners formed at the tunnel leadinginto the bullring. Bulls jumped or stepped over the runners.

  Thousands of people watching in the street and from balconies shouted as the bulls rumbledthrough the city’s old quarter, taking just over two and a half minutes to cover course.

  No one was gored, although four people who were trampled were hospitalized for treatment ofhead, chest, rib or leg injuries. None was seriously hurt.

  The steers are meant to keep the bulls more or less in a cluster — a spooked, isolated bull isvery dangerous

  The fiesta 4, famed for its all-night street parties, dates back to the late 16 th century butgained world fame from Ernest Hemingway5's novel The Sun Also Rises. Tens of thousandsfrom all over the world have been pouring into Pamplona for the annual festival ever since .

  阅读自测

  Ⅰ. Find the words in the pass age with meaning similar to the following phrases :

  1. happening every year ( )

  2. causing fear and alarm ( )

  3. move suddenly and quickly; rush ( )

  4. travel a certain distance ( )

  5. ( cause people or things to) come or go in a continuous stream ( )

  Ⅱ. Are these statements True or False a ccording to the article?

  1. On the first day of Pamplona's annual runs with bulls, no one was serious hurt.

  2. A lot of runners were gored by bulls.

  3. It only took the bulls two minutes to cover the 900-yard course .

  4. The annual San Fermin festival attracts thousands of people all over the world to Pamplona. 5. The fiesta gained world fame in the late 16 th century.

2.2022年下半年英语六级阅读练习

  The“V”Sign

  The palm-forward“V”sign, formed by raising andspreading the first two fingers1 ,has three differentmeanings in American culture.The most popularmeaning of the“V”sign was invented in 1941 by aBelgian, Victor De Lavalaye. Wanting a symbol forresistance to the Nazi2 occupation, he came upwith the single letter“V”, which stood not only for hisown first name3, but also for English victory, Flemish virijheid, and French victoire. Thesymbolism of the sign spread very quickly, and Winston Churchill4 used it constantly in publicappearance. Thus throughout the 1940 s and 1950 s, the gesture meant simply“victory”.Thesecond meaning came in the 1960 s. Because of its military implication, Americanantiwarprotestors used the sign sarcastically against the arms, so that it became known as the“ peacesign”. In the 1970s, the“V”sign , which had lost its military implication, was a commongreeting among freedom lovers, acid heads5, political radicals, and ultimately, young people ingeneral. So by about the middle of the 1970s, it ceased to give clue to the user’s philosophy.The third meaning is the oldest and least common. American children jokingly put “V”, whichresembles“ horns”, behind friends’heads in group snapshots. The are unknowingly reproducingsomething that southern Europeans would find highly offensive. This mischief, called“horns ofthe Devil”, is a variant of the European“ horns”gesture, which is obscene. Here the“V”signmeans“Your wife has been cheating on you ”or, when placed behind another’s head,“His wifehas been cheating on him”. In the United States, the gesture is typically given with the palmfacing the viewer. The British use both this version and an older, palm-backward version; thelatter is obscene in American culture, and corresponds to the American“ finger”6 . Churchill gotsome surprised stares in 1941 when, evidently unaware of the vulgar usage, he gave thepalm-backward“V”to British troops. In England today you could have to be a social hermit notto understand the distinction. Astonishingly, however, Margaret Thatcher7 repeatedChurchill’s error after her victory in the 1979 election.

  阅读自测

  Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks with proper words :

  American children______________________ ( 开玩笑地) put“V”,which______________________ ( 类似)“ horns”,

  behind friends’heads in group ______________________( 快照) . Theyare______________________ ( 无意中地) reproducing

  something that southern Europeans would find highly______________________ ( 无礼的) .

  This mischief, called“ horns of the Devil”, is a ______________________( 变体) of theEuropean

  “ horns”gesture, which is______________________ ( **的) .

  Ⅱ. Exp lain the fo llowing phras es in bold typ e in yo ur own words :

  1. If you kee p yo ur fin ge rs crossed , you ______________________.

  2. If you are all fin ge rs a nd thumbs , you ______________________ .

  3. If you ha ve a finger in every pie , you______________________ .

  4. If you thumb a lift, you______________________.

  参考答案

  1. jokingly / resembles / snapshots / unknowingly /offensive / variant / obscene

  2. 1. hope that something will happen the way youwant2. are clumsy or awkward with your hands

  3. are involved in everything that is happening

  4. try to get a free ride in a motor vehicle ; hitchhike

3.2022年下半年英语六级阅读练习

  Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.

  The "paperless office" has earned a proud place on lists of technological promises that did not come to pass. Surely, though, the more modest goal of he carbon-paperless office is within the reach of mankind? Carbon paper allows two copies of a document to be made at once. Nowadays, a couple of keystrokes can do the same thing with a lot less fuss.

  Yet carbon paper persists. Forms still need to be filled out in a way that produces copies. This should not come as a surprise. Innovation tends to create new niches( 合适的职业), rather than refill those that already exist. So technologies may become marginal, but they rarely go extinct. And today the little niches in which old technologies take refuge are ever more viable and accessible, thanks to the Internet and the fact that production no longer needs to be so mass; making small numbers of obscure items is growing easier.

  On top of that, a widespread Technology of nostalgia(技术怀旧 ) seeks to preserve all the ways people have ever done anything, simply because they are kind of neat. As a result technologies from all the way back to the stone age persist and even flourish in the modern world. According to What Technology Wants, a book by Kevin Kelly, one of the founders of Wired magazine, America's flintknappers (燧石) produce over a million new arrow and spear heads every year. One of the things technology wants, it seems, is to survive.

  Carbon paper, to the extent that it may have a desire for self-preservation, may also take comfort in the fact that, for all that this is a digital age, many similar products are hanging on, and even making comebacks. Indeed, digital technologies may prove to be more transient than their predecessors. They are based on the idea that the medium on which a file's constituent 0s and 1s are stored doesn't matter, and on Alan Turing's insight that any computer can mimic any other, given memory enough and time. This suggests that new digital technologies should be able to wipe out their predecessors completely. And early digital technologies do seem to be vanishing. The music cassette is enjoying a little renaissance, its very faithlessness apparently part of its charm; but digital audio tape seems doomed.

  So revolutionary digital technologies may yet discard older ones to the dustbin. Perhaps this will be the case with a remarkable breakthrough in molecular(分子的) technology that could, in principle, store all the data ever recorded in a device that could fit in the back of a van. In this instance, it would not be a matter of the new extinguishing the old. Though it may never have been used for MP3s and PDFs before, DNA has been storing data for over three billion years. And it shows no sign of going extinct.

  1. Which of the following is TRUE about the carbon paper?

  A) It is the key to paperless office.

  B) It will be replaced by the computer soon.

  C) It is more troublesome than the computer.

  D) It can hardly survive in the digital age.

  2. According to the passage, "viable" ( Line 4, Para. 2) means __

  A) secure

  B) dynamic

  C) feasible

  D) flexible

  3. Why does the author mention the example of What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly?

  A) To point out that old Technology of nostalgia will flourish in the modern world.

  B) To illustrate the importance of flintknappers.

  C) To show that flintknapping is one of the stone age technologies.

  D) To prove that old technologies seemingly never die.

  4. What can be inferred about digital technologies?

  A) Digital audio tape will be vanished because of its accuracy.

  B) Digital technologies have been proved to outlive the old technologies.

  C) Early digital technologies will never go extinct.

  D) The future of digital technologies will be used for DNA research.

  5 The passage mainly concerned with

  A) the difficulty of the realization of paperless office

  B) the fact that newest technologies may die out while the oldest survive

  C) the reason why old technologies will never be on the edge of extinction

  D) the importance of keeping improving technologies all the time

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