2012英语六级阅读理解练习进步5篇(附规范标准答案)二
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2012英语六级阅读理解练习6篇（附答案）二
第一篇
Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every
normal person is expert in the skill of
pronouncing his own language; but few people
are even moderately proficient at
pronouncing
foreign languages. Now there are many reasons for
this, some obvious,
some perhaps not so
obvious. But I suggest that the fundamental reason
why people in
general do not speak foreign
languages very much better than they do is that
they fail
to grasp the true nature of the
problem of learning to pronounce, and consequently
never set about tackling it in the right way.
Far too many people fail to realize that
pronouncing a foreign language is a skill—one
that needs careful training of a special
kind,
and one that cannot be acquired by just leaving it
to take care of itself. I think
even teachers
of language, while recognizing the importance of a
good accent, tend to
neglect, in their
practical teaching, the branch of study concerned
with speaking the
language. So the first point
I want to make is that English pronunciation must
be
taught; the teacher should be prepared to
devote some of the lesson time to this, and
should get the student to feel that here is a
matter worthy of receiving his close
attention. So, there should be occasions when
other aspects of English, such as
grammar or
spelling, are allowed for the moment to take
second place.
Apart from this question of
the time given to pronunciation, there are two
other
requirements for the teacher: the first,
knowledge; the second, technique.
It is
important that the teacher should be in possession
of the necessary
information. This can
generally be obtained from books. It is possible
to get from
books some idea of the mechanics
of speech, and of what we call general phonetic
theory. It is also possible in this way to get
a clear mental picture of the relationship
between the sounds of different languages,
between the speech habits of English
people
and those, say, of your students. Unless the
teacher has such a picture, any
comments he
may make on his students' pronunciation are
unlikely to be of much use,
and lesson time
spent on pronunciation may well be time wasted.
1. What does the writer actually say
about pronouncing foreign languages?
A. Only
a few people are really proficient.
B. No
one is really an expert in the skill.
C.
There aren't many people who are even fairly good.
D. There are even some people who are
moderately proficient.
2. The writer
argues that going about the problem of
pronunciation in the wrong
way is
A. an
obvious cause of not grasping the problem
correctly
B. a fundamental consequence of
not speaking well
C. a consequence of not
grasping the problem correctly
.
D. not an obvious cause of speaking poorly
3. The best way of learning to speak a
foreign language, he suggests, is
by_______.
A. picking it up naturally as a child
B. learning from a native speaker
C. not
concentrating on pronunciation as such
D.
undertaking systematic work
4. The
value the student puts on correct speech habits
depends upon_______.
A. how closely he
attends to the matter
B. whether it is
English that is being taught
C. his
teacher's approach to pronunciation
D. the
importance normally given to grammar and spelling
5. How might the teacher find himself
wasting lesson time?
A. By spending lesson
time on pronunciation.
B. By making ill-
informed comments upon pronunciation.
C. By
not using books on phonetics in the classroom.
D. By not giving students a clear mental
picture of the difference between
sounds.
第二篇
An industrial society, especially one
as centralized and concentrated as that of
Britain,
is heavily dependant on certain
essential services: for instance, electricity
supply,
water, rail and road transport, the
harbors. The area of dependency has widened to
include removing rubbish, hospital and
ambulance services, and, as the economy
develops, central computer and information
services as well. If any of these services
ceases to operate, the whole economic system
is in danger.
It is this interdependency of
the economic system that makes the power of trade
unions such an important issue. Single trade
unions have the ability to cut off many
economic blood supplies. This can happen more
easily in Britain than in some other
countries, in part because the labor force is
highly organized. About 55 per cent of
British
workers belong to unions, compared to under a
quarter in the United States.
For historical
reasons, Britain's unions have tended to develop
along trade and
occupational lines, rather
than on an industry-by-industry basis, which makes
wage
policy, democracy in industry and the
improvement of procedures for fixing wage
levels difficult to achieve.
There are
considerable strains and tensions in the trade
union movement, some
of them arising from
their outdated and inefficient structure. Some
unions have lost
many members because of
industrial changes. Others are involved in
arguments about
who should represent workers
in new trades. Unions for skilled trades are
separate
from general unions, which means that
different levels of wages for certain jobs are
.
often a source of bad feeling
between unions. In traditional trades which are
being
pushed out of existence by advancing
technologies, unions can fight for their
members' disappearing jobs to the point where
the jobs of other union's members are
threatened or destroyed. The printing of
newspapers both in the United States and in
Britain has frequently been halted by the
efforts of printers to hold on to their
traditional highly-paid jobs.
1. Why is
the question of trade union power important in
Britain?
A. The economy is very much
interdependent.
B. Unions have been
established a long time.
C. There are more
unions in Britain than elsewhere.
D. There
are many essential services.
2. Because
of their out-of-date organization some unions find
it difficult
to______.
A. change as
industries change B. get new members to join them
C. learn new technologies D. bargain for
high enough wages
3. Disagreements
arise between unions because some of them
A.
try to win over members of other unions
B.
ignore agreements
C. protect their own
members at the expense of others
D. take
over other union's jobs
4. It is
difficult to improve the procedures for fixing
wage levels because______.
A. some
industries have no unions
B. unions are not
organized according to industries
C. only 55
per cent of workers belong to unions
D. some
unions are too powerful
5. Which of the
following is NOT TRUE?
A. There are strains
and tensions in the trade union movement.
B.
Some unions have lost many members.
C. Some
unions exist in the outdated structure.
D. A
higher percentage of American workers belong to
unions than that of British
workers.
第三篇
Although credit cards are becoming a
more acceptable part of the financial scene,
they are still regarded with suspicion by many
as being a major part of the
pay
later
provide encouragement to spend more
money. Of course, it is only the foolhardy who
yield to the temptation to live, temporarily
at least, beyond their means, and such
.
people would no doubt manage to
do so even without credit cards.
Advertising
campaigns have, however, promoted a growing
realization of the
advantages of these small
pieces of plastic. They obviate (避免) need to carry
large
amounts of cash and are always useful in
emergencies.
All the credit card
organizations charge interest on a monthly basis
which may
work out as high as 25 per cent a
year, yet judicious purchasing using a card can
mean
that you obtain up to seven weeks,
interest-free credit. Using the card abroad, where
items frequently take a long time to be
included on your account, can extend this
period even further.
It is worthwhile
shopping around before deciding on a particular
credit card. It is
necessary to consider the
amount of credit granted; interest rates, which
may vary
slightly; the number and range of
outlets, though most cards cover major garages,
hotels, restaurants and department stores; and
of course, what happens if your card is
lost
or stolen. A credit card thief may be sitting on a
potential goldmine particularly if
there is a
delay in reporting the loss of the card.
However, if used wisely, a credit card can cost
nothing, or at least help to tide
you over a
period of financial difficulty.
1.
Which of the following can not make you spend more
money?
A. Credit cards. B. Hire-purchase.
C. Rental and leasing schemes. D. None of
the above is right.
2. The foolhardy are
people who_______.
A. spend more money than
they have B. spend less money than other people C.
save money D. make money
3. The
disadvantage of credit cards is_______.
A.
to enable you to buy things without carrying large
amount of cash
B. to encourage people to
spend more money
C. to be always useful in
emergencies
D. to help people tide over a
period of financial difficulty
4. According
to the passage, credit cards are made of_______.
A. paper B. gold
C. plastic D. tin
5. Deciding on a particular credit, you do
not have to consider______.
A. the amount of
credit granted
B. the number and range of
outlets
C. the possibility of loss of money
D. the department stores where you are going
to use your credit cards
第四篇
More
attention was paid to the quality of production in
France at the time of Rene
Coty. Charles
Deschanel was then the financial minister. He
stressed that
workmanship and quality were
more important than quantity for industrial
production.
It would be necessary to produce
quality goods for the international markets to
.
compete with those produced in
other countries. The French economy needed a
larger
share of international market to
balance its import and export trade.
French industrial and agricultural production was
still inadequate to meet the
immediate needs
of the people, let alone long-ranged developments.
Essential imports
had stretched the national
credit to the breaking point. Rents were tightly
controlled,
but the extreme inflation affected
general population most severely through the cost
of
food. Food costs took as much as 80 percent
of the worker's income. Wages, it is true,
had
risen. Extensive family allowances and benefits
were paid by the state, and there
was fulltime
and overtime employment. Taken together, these
factors enabled the
working class to exist but
allowed them no sense of security. In this
discouraging
situation, workmen were willing
to work overseas for higher wages.
The
government was unwilling to let workers leave the
country. It was feared
that migration of
workers would reduce the labor force. The lack of
qualified workers
might hinder the improvement
in the quality of industrial products produced.
Qualified workers employed abroad would only
increase the quantity of quality goods
produced in foreign countries. Also the
quantity of quality goods produced in France
would not be able to increase as part of its
ualified labor force moved to other
countries.
1. The purpose of the passage is
to_______.
A. explain the French
government's emphasis on quality products
B.
discuss Charles Deschanel's contribution to the
French industrial development
C. compare the
quality of French goods with that of foreign goods
D. show French workmen's enthusiasm to seek
well-paid jobs in foreign
countries
2.
It can be inferred from the passage that at the
time of Rene Coty .
A. France was still at
the first stage of industrial development
B.
French workers were better paid than the workers
in any other European
countries
C. the
unemployment rate in France was comparatively
higher than that in other
European countries
D. French workers were able to live better
with the increase in their wages
3. It is
implied in the passage that at that time_______.
A. France had a very large share of
international market
B. the import and
export trade in France was making a successful
advance
C. demand and supply in France was
barely balanced
D. France was experiencing
economic depression
4. Which of the
following is the best indicator of the extreme
inflation in France?
A. Eighty percent
increase in the prices of consumer goods.
B.
High cost of food.
C. High rents for houses.
D. Lack of agricultural products.
.
5. Which of the following is
NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Rents in
France were tightly controlled.
B. France
was flooding the international market with
inferior products.
C. French workers were
prohibited from going abroad to find jobs.
D. The migration of French workers would hinder
the improvement of quality in
industrial
production.
第五篇
As a company
executive(总经理) who spent ten years in federal
service, I am often
asked what I regard as the
biggest difference between working for the
government and
working for a private company.
My invariable response is to say that I look back
on
my time in government as one of the most
exciting and challenging experiences of my
life. Furthermore, I never worked as hard as
when I was a public servant.
When I worked
for the government, I worked with some of the
finest, most
competent and most committed
people I have ever met. I was impressed by the
overall quality of our career civil servants
then, and I still am. But one of my greatest
concerns now is that I will not be able to
hold this same high opinion in the future.
Career public servants are leaving government in
alarming numbers, and
qualified replacements
are becoming harder and harder to find. Good
people who
leave career government service are
striving for highly paid positions in private
enterprises.
We depend on government to
keep this country safe in an uncertain world, to
secure justice and domestic order and to solve
a host of pressing problems. We need
the best
possible people performing and overseeing these
vital tasks. A high-quality,
professional
federal service has been a source of national
pride for more than a
century. But what we
have built up during a hundred years can be lost
in less time
than we imagine. We can't afford
to let this happen. We must act now if this
country is
to be assured of the quality public
service it deserves.
1. Career public
servants are leaving government in alarming
numbers. One of
the
reasons may be
that______.
A. they received lower pay B.
they deserved no fame and glory
C. they
performed poorly D. they worked harder than anyone
else
2. According to the author, _______, so
I will not be able to hold this same high
opinion
toward the public servants in
the future.
A. I never worked as hard as
when I was a public servant
B. I have become
a company executive
C. there will not be so
many competent and qualified servants in the
government
as we had before
D. my time
in government was not the most exciting experience
in my life
.
3. We depend on
government to keep this country safe in an
uncertain world,
therefore,
A. we should
make greater contributions to the country
B.
the best possible people are urgently needed to do
important tasks
C. we should show deep
concern about the nation's future
D. we
should become public servants
4. If we
neglect the serious problem and make no efforts,
we will lose_______.
A. national pride B.
high-quality professional federal service
C.
good people D. private enterprise
5. Which
of the following is NOT TRUE?
A. Those who
work for companies are highly paid.
B. More
and more public servants have left the government.
C. Career public servants are qualified.
D. Many people of high qualities want to work
in the government.
According to the
latest research in the' United States of America,
men and women talk
such different languages
that it is like people from two different cultures
trying to
communicate. Professor Deborah
Tannen of Georgetown University, has noticed the
difference in the style of boy's and girl's
conversations from an early age. She says
that
little girls' conversation is less definite than
boys' and expresses more doubts.
Little boys
use conversation to establish status with their
listeners.
These differences continue
into adult life, she says. In public
conversations, men
talk most and interrupt
other speakers more. In private conversations, men
and women
speak in equal amounts—although they
say things in a different style. Professor
Tannen believes that, for woman, private
talking is a way to establish and test
intimacy. For men, private talking is a way to
explore the power structure of a
relationship.
第六篇
Teaching is one job where the
differences between men's and women's ways of
talking show. When a man teaches a woman, says
Professor Tannen, he wants to show
that he has
more knowledge, and hence more power in
conversation. When a woman
teaches another
woman, however, she is more likely to take a
sharing approach and to
encourage her student
to join in.
But Professor Tannen does
not believe that women are naturally more helpful.
She says women feel they achieve power by
being able to help others. Although the
research suggests men talk and interrupt
people more than women, Professor Tannen
says,
women actually encourage this to happen because
they believe it will lead to
more intimacy and
help to establish a relationship.
Some
scientists who are studying speech think that the
brain is pre¬programmed
.
for
language. As we are usually taught to speak by
women, it seems likely that the
brain must
have a sexual bias(倾向性) in its programming,
otherwise male speech patterns would not
arise at all.
1. In the opinion of the
writer, women encourage men to talk because
A. it will lead to more intimacy and help to
establish a relationship
B. it will help to
establish status with their listeners
C. it
will help to express more clearly
D. it will
help to communicate better
2. There
are_______in little girls' conversation than in
boys'.
A. fewer doubts B. more demands
C. more doubts D. fewer uncertainties
3.
Some scientists believe that brain is pre-
programmed for language. The word
A.
programmed already B. programmed before one is
born
C. programmed early D. programmed by
women
4. In private conversation, women
speak
A. the same things as men B. less than
men
C. more than men D. as much as men
5. The theme of this article is _______.
A.
women are naturally more helpful
B. men and
women talk different languages
C. men talk
most and interrupt other speakers more
D.
little girls' conversation is less definite
第一篇答案、1. C 2. C 3. D 4. C 5.B
第二篇答案、1. A
2. A 3. C 4. B 5. D
第三篇答案、1. D 2. A 3. B 4. D
6. C
第四篇答案、1. A 2. A 3. D 4. B 5. B
第五篇答案、1. A 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. D
第五篇答案、1. A
2. C 3. B 4. D 5. B
.
2012英语六级阅读理解练习6篇（附答案）二
第一篇
Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every
normal person is expert in the skill of
pronouncing his own language; but few people
are even moderately proficient at
pronouncing
foreign languages. Now there are many reasons for
this, some obvious,
some perhaps not so
obvious. But I suggest that the fundamental reason
why people in
general do not speak foreign
languages very much better than they do is that
they fail
to grasp the true nature of the
problem of learning to pronounce, and consequently
never set about tackling it in the right way.
Far too many people fail to realize that
pronouncing a foreign language is a skill—one
that needs careful training of a special
kind,
and one that cannot be acquired by just leaving it
to take care of itself. I think
even teachers
of language, while recognizing the importance of a
good accent, tend to
neglect, in their
practical teaching, the branch of study concerned
with speaking the
language. So the first point
I want to make is that English pronunciation must
be
taught; the teacher should be prepared to
devote some of the lesson time to this, and
should get the student to feel that here is a
matter worthy of receiving his close
attention. So, there should be occasions when
other aspects of English, such as
grammar or
spelling, are allowed for the moment to take
second place.
Apart from this question of
the time given to pronunciation, there are two
other
requirements for the teacher: the first,
knowledge; the second, technique.
It is
important that the teacher should be in possession
of the necessary
information. This can
generally be obtained from books. It is possible
to get from
books some idea of the mechanics
of speech, and of what we call general phonetic
theory. It is also possible in this way to get
a clear mental picture of the relationship
between the sounds of different languages,
between the speech habits of English
people
and those, say, of your students. Unless the
teacher has such a picture, any
comments he
may make on his students' pronunciation are
unlikely to be of much use,
and lesson time
spent on pronunciation may well be time wasted.
1. What does the writer actually say
about pronouncing foreign languages?
A. Only
a few people are really proficient.
B. No
one is really an expert in the skill.
C.
There aren't many people who are even fairly good.
D. There are even some people who are
moderately proficient.
2. The writer
argues that going about the problem of
pronunciation in the wrong
way is
A. an
obvious cause of not grasping the problem
correctly
B. a fundamental consequence of
not speaking well
C. a consequence of not
grasping the problem correctly
.
D. not an obvious cause of speaking poorly
3. The best way of learning to speak a
foreign language, he suggests, is
by_______.
A. picking it up naturally as a child
B. learning from a native speaker
C. not
concentrating on pronunciation as such
D.
undertaking systematic work
4. The
value the student puts on correct speech habits
depends upon_______.
A. how closely he
attends to the matter
B. whether it is
English that is being taught
C. his
teacher's approach to pronunciation
D. the
importance normally given to grammar and spelling
5. How might the teacher find himself
wasting lesson time?
A. By spending lesson
time on pronunciation.
B. By making ill-
informed comments upon pronunciation.
C. By
not using books on phonetics in the classroom.
D. By not giving students a clear mental
picture of the difference between
sounds.
第二篇
An industrial society, especially one
as centralized and concentrated as that of
Britain,
is heavily dependant on certain
essential services: for instance, electricity
supply,
water, rail and road transport, the
harbors. The area of dependency has widened to
include removing rubbish, hospital and
ambulance services, and, as the economy
develops, central computer and information
services as well. If any of these services
ceases to operate, the whole economic system
is in danger.
It is this interdependency of
the economic system that makes the power of trade
unions such an important issue. Single trade
unions have the ability to cut off many
economic blood supplies. This can happen more
easily in Britain than in some other
countries, in part because the labor force is
highly organized. About 55 per cent of
British
workers belong to unions, compared to under a
quarter in the United States.
For historical
reasons, Britain's unions have tended to develop
along trade and
occupational lines, rather
than on an industry-by-industry basis, which makes
wage
policy, democracy in industry and the
improvement of procedures for fixing wage
levels difficult to achieve.
There are
considerable strains and tensions in the trade
union movement, some
of them arising from
their outdated and inefficient structure. Some
unions have lost
many members because of
industrial changes. Others are involved in
arguments about
who should represent workers
in new trades. Unions for skilled trades are
separate
from general unions, which means that
different levels of wages for certain jobs are
.
often a source of bad feeling
between unions. In traditional trades which are
being
pushed out of existence by advancing
technologies, unions can fight for their
members' disappearing jobs to the point where
the jobs of other union's members are
threatened or destroyed. The printing of
newspapers both in the United States and in
Britain has frequently been halted by the
efforts of printers to hold on to their
traditional highly-paid jobs.
1. Why is
the question of trade union power important in
Britain?
A. The economy is very much
interdependent.
B. Unions have been
established a long time.
C. There are more
unions in Britain than elsewhere.
D. There
are many essential services.
2. Because
of their out-of-date organization some unions find
it difficult
to______.
A. change as
industries change B. get new members to join them
C. learn new technologies D. bargain for
high enough wages
3. Disagreements
arise between unions because some of them
A.
try to win over members of other unions
B.
ignore agreements
C. protect their own
members at the expense of others
D. take
over other union's jobs
4. It is
difficult to improve the procedures for fixing
wage levels because______.
A. some
industries have no unions
B. unions are not
organized according to industries
C. only 55
per cent of workers belong to unions
D. some
unions are too powerful
5. Which of the
following is NOT TRUE?
A. There are strains
and tensions in the trade union movement.
B.
Some unions have lost many members.
C. Some
unions exist in the outdated structure.
D. A
higher percentage of American workers belong to
unions than that of British
workers.
第三篇
Although credit cards are becoming a
more acceptable part of the financial scene,
they are still regarded with suspicion by many
as being a major part of the
pay
later
provide encouragement to spend more
money. Of course, it is only the foolhardy who
yield to the temptation to live, temporarily
at least, beyond their means, and such
.
people would no doubt manage to
do so even without credit cards.
Advertising
campaigns have, however, promoted a growing
realization of the
advantages of these small
pieces of plastic. They obviate (避免) need to carry
large
amounts of cash and are always useful in
emergencies.
All the credit card
organizations charge interest on a monthly basis
which may
work out as high as 25 per cent a
year, yet judicious purchasing using a card can
mean
that you obtain up to seven weeks,
interest-free credit. Using the card abroad, where
items frequently take a long time to be
included on your account, can extend this
period even further.
It is worthwhile
shopping around before deciding on a particular
credit card. It is
necessary to consider the
amount of credit granted; interest rates, which
may vary
slightly; the number and range of
outlets, though most cards cover major garages,
hotels, restaurants and department stores; and
of course, what happens if your card is
lost
or stolen. A credit card thief may be sitting on a
potential goldmine particularly if
there is a
delay in reporting the loss of the card.
However, if used wisely, a credit card can cost
nothing, or at least help to tide
you over a
period of financial difficulty.
1.
Which of the following can not make you spend more
money?
A. Credit cards. B. Hire-purchase.
C. Rental and leasing schemes. D. None of
the above is right.
2. The foolhardy are
people who_______.
A. spend more money than
they have B. spend less money than other people C.
save money D. make money
3. The
disadvantage of credit cards is_______.
A.
to enable you to buy things without carrying large
amount of cash
B. to encourage people to
spend more money
C. to be always useful in
emergencies
D. to help people tide over a
period of financial difficulty
4. According
to the passage, credit cards are made of_______.
A. paper B. gold
C. plastic D. tin
5. Deciding on a particular credit, you do
not have to consider______.
A. the amount of
credit granted
B. the number and range of
outlets
C. the possibility of loss of money
D. the department stores where you are going
to use your credit cards
第四篇
More
attention was paid to the quality of production in
France at the time of Rene
Coty. Charles
Deschanel was then the financial minister. He
stressed that
workmanship and quality were
more important than quantity for industrial
production.
It would be necessary to produce
quality goods for the international markets to
.
compete with those produced in
other countries. The French economy needed a
larger
share of international market to
balance its import and export trade.
French industrial and agricultural production was
still inadequate to meet the
immediate needs
of the people, let alone long-ranged developments.
Essential imports
had stretched the national
credit to the breaking point. Rents were tightly
controlled,
but the extreme inflation affected
general population most severely through the cost
of
food. Food costs took as much as 80 percent
of the worker's income. Wages, it is true,
had
risen. Extensive family allowances and benefits
were paid by the state, and there
was fulltime
and overtime employment. Taken together, these
factors enabled the
working class to exist but
allowed them no sense of security. In this
discouraging
situation, workmen were willing
to work overseas for higher wages.
The
government was unwilling to let workers leave the
country. It was feared
that migration of
workers would reduce the labor force. The lack of
qualified workers
might hinder the improvement
in the quality of industrial products produced.
Qualified workers employed abroad would only
increase the quantity of quality goods
produced in foreign countries. Also the
quantity of quality goods produced in France
would not be able to increase as part of its
ualified labor force moved to other
countries.
1. The purpose of the passage is
to_______.
A. explain the French
government's emphasis on quality products
B.
discuss Charles Deschanel's contribution to the
French industrial development
C. compare the
quality of French goods with that of foreign goods
D. show French workmen's enthusiasm to seek
well-paid jobs in foreign
countries
2.
It can be inferred from the passage that at the
time of Rene Coty .
A. France was still at
the first stage of industrial development
B.
French workers were better paid than the workers
in any other European
countries
C. the
unemployment rate in France was comparatively
higher than that in other
European countries
D. French workers were able to live better
with the increase in their wages
3. It is
implied in the passage that at that time_______.
A. France had a very large share of
international market
B. the import and
export trade in France was making a successful
advance
C. demand and supply in France was
barely balanced
D. France was experiencing
economic depression
4. Which of the
following is the best indicator of the extreme
inflation in France?
A. Eighty percent
increase in the prices of consumer goods.
B.
High cost of food.
C. High rents for houses.
D. Lack of agricultural products.
.
5. Which of the following is
NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Rents in
France were tightly controlled.
B. France
was flooding the international market with
inferior products.
C. French workers were
prohibited from going abroad to find jobs.
D. The migration of French workers would hinder
the improvement of quality in
industrial
production.
第五篇
As a company
executive(总经理) who spent ten years in federal
service, I am often
asked what I regard as the
biggest difference between working for the
government and
working for a private company.
My invariable response is to say that I look back
on
my time in government as one of the most
exciting and challenging experiences of my
life. Furthermore, I never worked as hard as
when I was a public servant.
When I worked
for the government, I worked with some of the
finest, most
competent and most committed
people I have ever met. I was impressed by the
overall quality of our career civil servants
then, and I still am. But one of my greatest
concerns now is that I will not be able to
hold this same high opinion in the future.
Career public servants are leaving government in
alarming numbers, and
qualified replacements
are becoming harder and harder to find. Good
people who
leave career government service are
striving for highly paid positions in private
enterprises.
We depend on government to
keep this country safe in an uncertain world, to
secure justice and domestic order and to solve
a host of pressing problems. We need
the best
possible people performing and overseeing these
vital tasks. A high-quality,
professional
federal service has been a source of national
pride for more than a
century. But what we
have built up during a hundred years can be lost
in less time
than we imagine. We can't afford
to let this happen. We must act now if this
country is
to be assured of the quality public
service it deserves.
1. Career public
servants are leaving government in alarming
numbers. One of
the
reasons may be
that______.
A. they received lower pay B.
they deserved no fame and glory
C. they
performed poorly D. they worked harder than anyone
else
2. According to the author, _______, so
I will not be able to hold this same high
opinion
toward the public servants in
the future.
A. I never worked as hard as
when I was a public servant
B. I have become
a company executive
C. there will not be so
many competent and qualified servants in the
government
as we had before
D. my time
in government was not the most exciting experience
in my life
.
3. We depend on
government to keep this country safe in an
uncertain world,
therefore,
A. we should
make greater contributions to the country
B.
the best possible people are urgently needed to do
important tasks
C. we should show deep
concern about the nation's future
D. we
should become public servants
4. If we
neglect the serious problem and make no efforts,
we will lose_______.
A. national pride B.
high-quality professional federal service
C.
good people D. private enterprise
5. Which
of the following is NOT TRUE?
A. Those who
work for companies are highly paid.
B. More
and more public servants have left the government.
C. Career public servants are qualified.
D. Many people of high qualities want to work
in the government.
According to the
latest research in the' United States of America,
men and women talk
such different languages
that it is like people from two different cultures
trying to
communicate. Professor Deborah
Tannen of Georgetown University, has noticed the
difference in the style of boy's and girl's
conversations from an early age. She says
that
little girls' conversation is less definite than
boys' and expresses more doubts.
Little boys
use conversation to establish status with their
listeners.
These differences continue
into adult life, she says. In public
conversations, men
talk most and interrupt
other speakers more. In private conversations, men
and women
speak in equal amounts—although they
say things in a different style. Professor
Tannen believes that, for woman, private
talking is a way to establish and test
intimacy. For men, private talking is a way to
explore the power structure of a
relationship.
第六篇
Teaching is one job where the
differences between men's and women's ways of
talking show. When a man teaches a woman, says
Professor Tannen, he wants to show
that he has
more knowledge, and hence more power in
conversation. When a woman
teaches another
woman, however, she is more likely to take a
sharing approach and to
encourage her student
to join in.
But Professor Tannen does
not believe that women are naturally more helpful.
She says women feel they achieve power by
being able to help others. Although the
research suggests men talk and interrupt
people more than women, Professor Tannen
says,
women actually encourage this to happen because
they believe it will lead to
more intimacy and
help to establish a relationship.
Some
scientists who are studying speech think that the
brain is pre¬programmed
.
for
language. As we are usually taught to speak by
women, it seems likely that the
brain must
have a sexual bias(倾向性) in its programming,
otherwise male speech patterns would not
arise at all.
1. In the opinion of the
writer, women encourage men to talk because
A. it will lead to more intimacy and help to
establish a relationship
B. it will help to
establish status with their listeners
C. it
will help to express more clearly
D. it will
help to communicate better
2. There
are_______in little girls' conversation than in
boys'.
A. fewer doubts B. more demands
C. more doubts D. fewer uncertainties
3.
Some scientists believe that brain is pre-
programmed for language. The word
A.
programmed already B. programmed before one is
born
C. programmed early D. programmed by
women
4. In private conversation, women
speak
A. the same things as men B. less than
men
C. more than men D. as much as men
5. The theme of this article is _______.
A.
women are naturally more helpful
B. men and
women talk different languages
C. men talk
most and interrupt other speakers more
D.
little girls' conversation is less definite
第一篇答案、1. C 2. C 3. D 4. C 5.B
第二篇答案、1. A
2. A 3. C 4. B 5. D
第三篇答案、1. D 2. A 3. B 4. D
6. C
第四篇答案、1. A 2. A 3. D 4. B 5. B
第五篇答案、1. A 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. D
第五篇答案、1. A
2. C 3. B 4. D 5. B