2016年12月英語六級閱讀選詞填空真題及答案

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select out one word for each blank from a lot of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Small communities, with their distinctive character—where life is stable and intensely human—are disappearing. Some have __26____ from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have ___27___ changes as they have come into contact with an ___28___ machine civilization. The merging of diverse peoples into a common mass has produced tension among members of the minorities and the majority alike.

The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have ___29___ in the modern world in distinctive, small communities. They have resisted the homogenization ___30___ more successfully than others. In planting and harvest times one can see their bearded men working the fields with horses and their women hanging out the laundry in neat rows to dry. Many American people have seen Amish families with the men wearing broad-brimmed black hats and the women in long dresses. In railway or bus ___31___.Although the Amish have lived with ___32___ America for over two and a half centuries. They have moderated its influence on their personal lives, their families, communities, and their values.

The Amish are often ___33___ by other Americans to be relics of the past who live a simple, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient out-dated customs. They are seen as abandoning both modem ___34___ and the American dream of success and progress, But most people have no quarrel with the Amish for doing things the old-fashioned way. Their conscientious objection was tolerated in wartime. For after all. They are good farmers who ___35___ the virtues of work and thrift.

A)accessing I)progress

B)conveniences J)respective

C)destined K)survived

D)expanding L)terminals

E)industrialized M)undergone

F)perceived N)universal

G)practice O)vanished

H)process

參考答案

Section A

26. [O] vanished

27. [M] undergone

28. [D] expanding

29. [K] survived

30. [H] process

31. [L] terminals

32. [E] industrialized

33. [F] perceived

34. [B] conveniences

35. [G] practice

選詞填空

26.G hypotheses 假設(shè)

填名詞，根據(jù)后面兩個名詞可知，這里一定填復(fù)數(shù)名詞，即“好的科學(xué)基于假設(shè)、實驗和方法論。”

27. C convincing 令人信服的

填形容詞，“好的科學(xué)需要令人信服的理解、明確的解釋和清晰的展示”

填形容詞，意思與后文clear，consise為同義詞。“好的科學(xué)需要令人信服的理解、明確的解釋、簡明的陳述”

28. A arena 舞臺

填名詞，“科學(xué)家愿意踏入公共的舞臺(公眾的視野)”。

29.B contextual

填形容詞，與understandable并列，語義相同，即“語言是公眾能根據(jù)上下文能理解的”

30.I incorporate 合并

填動詞原形，to support… and to incorporate knowledges into…,incorporate into動詞固定搭配。“把知識融入我們的公共交流中”

31.D devoted 奉獻

填動詞過去式。devote to固定搭配。“把17%的花費投入到研究和發(fā)展中”。

32.N reaping 獲得

填現(xiàn)在分詞。reaping decades of economic growth,“獲得幾十年的經(jīng)濟增長”。

33.E digits 位數(shù)

填名詞。single digits個位數(shù)。“這個數(shù)字下降到個位數(shù)”。

34.M pride

填動詞原形。pride一詞多性，這里考察動詞用法：pride oneself on sth，以某人為自豪。“我們不僅以研究為自豪，也為對世界的進步做出的貢獻而自豪”。

35. F hasten

填動詞原形。“為了促進科學(xué)從實驗室到市場的發(fā)展”