英語六級閱讀自測試題
英語六級考試的目的在于全面考核已修完大學英語六級的學生是否達到教學大綱所確定的各項目標。下面是小編分享的英語六級閱讀自測試題，一起來看一下吧。
英語六級閱讀自測試題 1
Egypt
Ever since Herodotus2, the ancient Greek historianand traveler, first described Egypt as“the gift of theNile3”, she has been capturing the imagination of allwho visit her.
The awe -inspiring monuments, left by thePharaohs, Greeks and Romans as well as by the earlyChristians and Muslims, attract thousands of visitorsevery year — but the pyramids, temples, tombs, monasteries and mosques are just part of thiscountry’s fascination.
Modern Egypt —where mud-brick villages stand beside Pharaonic ruins surrounded by toweringsteel, stone and glass buildings — is at the cultural crossroads of East and West, ancient andmodern. While TV antennae decorate rooftops everywhere, from the crowded apartmentblocks of Cairo to the mud homes of farming villages and the goatskin tents of the Bedouins4,the fellahin throughout the Nile’s fertile valley still tend their fields with the archaic tools oftheir ancestors.
In the gargantuan5city of Cairo the sound of the muezzin6 summoning the faithful to prayercompetes with the pop music of ghetto blasters7 and the screech of car horns. Andeverywhere there are people : swathed in long flowing robes or western-style clothes, hangingfrom buses, weaving through an obstacle course of animals and exhaust-spewing traffic orspilling from hivelike buildings.
Spectacular edifices aside, the attraction of this country lies in its incredible natural beauty andin the overwhelming hospitality of the Egyptian people .
Through everything the Nile River flows serene and majestic, the lifeblood of Egypt as it hasbeen since the beginning of history.
閱讀自測
�、�. Give the synonyms to the following words:
1. archaic 2. swathe 3. incredible 4. screech 5. serene 6. gargantuan
�、�. Translate the sentences into English with the words in parenthe ses :
1. 她的精彩表演使觀眾為之神往。( capture )
2. 她初見長城時, 敬畏之感油然而生。( awe)
3. 他被召進宮里。( summon)
4. 消除緊張的方法在于學會放松。( lie )
參考答案
�、�. 1. ancient / antique 2. wrap / clothe 3.unbelievable / inconceivable 4. shriek / scream 5.quiet / tranquil / peaceful 6. giant / huge /tremendous
Ⅱ. 1. Her brilliant performance captured theaudience’s imagination. 2. Her first view of the GreatWall filled her with awe. 3. He was summoned to thepalace. 4. The cure for stress lies in learning to relax.
參考譯文
尼羅河的饋贈—埃及
自古希臘歷史學家、旅行家希羅多德首次將埃及描述為“ 尼羅河的禮物”以來, 埃及就 一直讓所有參觀過此地的人為之神往。
法老們、希臘人、羅馬人以及早期基督 徒和穆 斯林們遺留下來的歷史遺跡使人產生敬 畏之心, 每年都吸引了成千上萬的參觀者— 金字塔、廟宇、陵墓、修道院和清真寺, 它們只 是這個國家令人著迷的事物中的一部分。
現代埃及泥磚搭建的村莊和法老王宮的廢墟咫尺而立, 它們又被由鋼鐵、石塊和 玻璃建成的.高聳的大廈所包圍正處在東西文化和古今文明的交叉口上。無論是開羅 擁擠的公寓樓, 還是農場村莊的泥土房和貝都因人山羊皮搭成的帳篷, 這些屋頂上如今都 架著電視天線, 與此同時, 肥沃的尼羅河流域的農民們還依舊用先祖們曾使用的原始工具 照料著耕地。
在開羅這個大城市, 宣禮員召喚忠實信徒做禱告的聲音與黑人音盒里放出來的流行音 樂及汽車喇叭的刺耳嘯鳴交相呼應。到處都是人: 裹著飄拂長袍的或穿著西式服裝的, 他 們有的懸吊在公交車外面, 有的在夾雜著家畜和排著廢氣的車輛的路上迂回穿行, 還有的 從蜂窩式的樓群里一涌而出。
除了富麗豪華的摩天大廈之外, 這個國家吸引人的地方還在于她那壯美的自然風光和 埃及人民極度熱情好客的風俗。
尼羅河流過萬物, 有史以來, 它就是那么靜謐、高貴, 它是埃及的血脈。
英語六級閱讀自測試題 2
Singapore
Singapore is a small, flat, marshy island that hasbeen developed to become the most important portand business center in Southeast Asia and one ofthe ten wealthiest countries in the world in terms ofgross national product per capita2 .
Singapore has a population of 3. 5 million peopleand a high density of more than 500 people persquare kilometer. The superior infrastructure — especially the excellent port and internationalairport — has made Singapore the import and transshipment center for the region. It is one ofthe world’s largest oil refining centers3, where crude oil is unloaded and refined beforeshipment to the rest of Asia . These functions are complemented by a large variety ofmaritime service activities, including banking, insurance, communications, and consulting.
Singapore has diversified its service sector to include a wider range of financial,communications, and management activities and has attracted the regional headquarters ofmany multinational corporations. And tourism has also become a significant industry. Thisdiversification, as well as high consumption levels in the domestic market, allowed Singaporeto cope with the 1983 oil crisis and 1997 Asian financial crisis somewhat more easily than didother countries in the region.
Singapore has a population of diverse ethnicity and religion, but it is dominated ( 77 percent)by overseas Chinese, descendants of immigrants who moved to Singapore in the colonial periodand followed the religions of Buddhism and Taoism. Other groups include Malays ( about 15percent) and Indians ( about 7 percent, mainly Hindu) . Fertility rates are low in Singapore, andthe government has tried to promote more births among the highly educated in order toreduce labor shortages and ensure a workforce to support the older population. ColonialSingapore was residentially segregated, with the British living next to the government buildingson the east shore of the Singapore River4, Chinatown on the west riverbank, and Indian andMalay neighborhoods farther toward the east. There are remnants of this structure incontemporary Singapore, but the city is now characterized by dozens of tall office buildings,housing complexes, new towns and new industrial parks.
The government has made serious attempts to foster harmony between ethnic groups and tocreate a sense of national identity by designating four official languages ( Mandarin 064Chinese, English, Malay, and Indian Tamil) . They promote an Asian identity through schoolsand national military service that emphasize hard work, community consensus, and respectfor authority. They also enforce Singapore’s image of a clean and crime-free 5 environmentthrough very strict rules against litter and graffiti, media censorship, and licensing of satellitedishes and street entertainers.
閱讀自測
Ⅰ. Complete the sentence s with the proper forms of the words given in parentheses :
1. The nation’s _______( consume) of coal decreased continuously last year.
2. Today’s bicycles are _______( descend ) of the earlier velocipede ( 早期的腳踏兩 輪車) .
3. The Chinese are an _______ ( industry) nation.
4. _______( immigrate) can’t work in the United States without a permit.
�、�. Complete each sentence with a proper word , and make changes if necessary: (characterize , fund, enforce, ensure , dominate)
1. Successful leaders events rather than react to them.
2. We can that the work shall be done in the right way.
3. This disease is by rash and high fever.
4. The responsibility that the police shoulders is to the law.
5. The space program is completely by the central government
參考答案
�、�. 1. consumption 2. descendants 3. industrious 4. Immigrants
�、�. 1. dominate 2. ensure 3. characterized 4.enforce 5. funded
參考譯文
非凡島國———新加坡
新加坡面積不大,地勢平坦,是個濕潤的島國,現已發展成東南亞最重要的港口和商業中心。按照人均國民生產總值計算的話,新加坡現已成為世界最富的十國之一。
新加坡有350 萬人口,人口高度密集,每平方公里就有五百多個人。新加坡的基礎設 施完備,其港口和國際機場尤為精良,優越的條件已使新加坡成為東南亞地區進口和中轉中心。新加坡也是世界最大的煉油中心之一,原油在這里卸載,進行精煉, 然后運送到亞洲其他地方。這些功能與種類繁多的銀行、保險、通信和咨詢等海事服務機構相輔相承。
新加坡使本國的服務業多樣化,它廣泛開展各種金融、通訊和管理活動,于是吸引了許多跨國公司在當地建立地區性總部。同樣,旅游業也成為一個重要的產業。服務業的多樣化以及國內市場的高消費水平,使新加坡能比該地區其他國家更加從容地應付1983年的石油危機和1997年的亞洲金融危機。
新加坡人有著不同的種族和不同的宗教信仰,但海外華人處于支配地位(占總人口的 77%), 他們是殖民時期移民到新加坡的華人的后代,信仰佛教和道教。其他種族包括馬來人(約占15%) 和印度人(約占7% ,主要是印度教徒)。新加坡的人口出生率不高, 因此政 府鼓勵受過高等教育的人多生育,從而緩解勞動力不足, 確保人口結構的平衡。殖民地時 期的新加坡在住宅區實行種族隔離,當時英國人住的地方貼近佇立在新加坡河東岸的政府 大樓,唐人街在河的.西岸,而印度人和馬來人住的地方離東岸更遠。如今的新加坡還留有這種結構的殘跡,但現在整個城市已到處都是高聳的寫字樓、配套住宅區、新興城鎮和新興工業園。
新加坡政府努力促進不同種族間的和諧相處,通過將四種語言定為官方語言(分別為 漢語、英語、馬來語和印度泰米爾語),來促使每個新加坡人產生民族身份感。新加坡政府還通過教育和義務兵役制來強調努力工作、與社會保持一致和尊重權威的理念, 從而促進了新加坡國民亞洲人的身份感。新加坡政府還嚴格實施各種法規, 嚴禁亂扔垃圾和任意涂鴉,對媒體進行嚴格審查,并對圓盤式衛星電視天線和街頭藝人頒發許可證來進行限制,以此樹立新加坡環境清潔、治安良好的國家形象。
英語六級閱讀自測試題 3
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
It would be all too easy to say that Facebooks market meltdown is coming to an end. Afterall, Mark Zuckerbergs social network burned as much as $ 50 billion of shareholders wealth injust a couple months. To put that in context, since its debut(初次登臺) on NASDAQ in May,Facebook has lost value nearly equal to Yahoo, AOL, Zynga, Yelp, Pandora, OpenTable,Groupon, LinkedIn, and Angies List combined, plus that of the bulk of the publicly tradednewspaper industry:
As shocking as this utter failure may be to the nearly 1 billion faithful Facebook usersaround the world, its no surprise to anyone who read the initial public offering (IPO)prospectus (首次公開募股說明書). Worse still, all the crises that emerged when the companydebuted-overpriced shares, poor corporate governance, huge challenges to the core business,and a damaged brand-remain today. Facebook looks like a prime example of what Wall Streetcalls a falling knife-that is, one that can cost investors their fingers if they try to catch it.
Start with the valuation(估值). To justify a stock price close to the lower end of theprojected range in the IPO, say $ 28 a share, Facebooks future growth would have needed tomatch that of Google seven years earlier. That would have required increasing revenue by some80 percent annually and maintaining high profit margins all the while.
Thats not happening. In the first half of 2012, Facebook reported revenue of $ 2.24 billion, up38 percent from the same period in 2011. At the same time, the companys costs surged to $ 2.6 billion in the six-month period.
This so-so performance reflects the Achilles heel of Facebooks business model, which thecompany clearly stated in a list of risk factors associated with its IPO: it hasnt yet figured outhow to advertise effectively on mobile devices, The number of Facebook users accessing thesite on their phones surged by67 percent to 543 million in the last quarter, or more than half itscustomer base.
Numbers are only part of the problem. The mounting pile of failure creates a negativefeedback loop that threatens Facebooks future in other ways. Indeed, the more Facebooksdisappointment in the market is catalogued, the worse Facebooks image becomes. Not onlydoes that threaten to rub off on users, its bad for recruitment and retention of talentedhackers, who are the lifeblood of Zuckerbergs creation.
Yet the brilliant CEO can ignore the sadness and complaints of his shareholders thanks tothe super- voting stock he holds. This arrangement also was fully disclosed at the time of theoffering. Its a pity so few investors apparently bothered to do their homework.
61. What can be inferred about Facebook from the first paragraph?
A.Its market meltdown has been easily halted.
B.It has increased trade with the newspaper industry.
C.It has encountered utter failure since its stock debut.
D.Its shareholders have invested $ 50 billion in a social network.
62. The crises Facebook is facing_____
A.have been disclosed in the IPO prospectus
B.are the universal risks Wall Street confronts
C.disappoint its faithful users
D.have existed for a long time
63. To make its stock price reasonable, Facebook has to____
A.narrow the IPO price range
B.cooperate with Google
C.keep enormously profitable
D.invest additional $ 2.6 billion
64. It can be inferred from the context that the "Achilles heel" (Line 1, Para. 5) refersto____
A.deadly weakness
B.problem unsolved
C.indisputable fact
D.potential risk
65. What effect will Facebooks failure in the market have?
A.Its users benefits will be threatened.
B.Talented hackers will take down the website.
C.The CEO will hold the super-voting stock.
D.The companys innovation strength will be damaged.
參考答案
61.C)。本題考查第一段的主旨大意。此種題型可以使用排除法，將各選項代入原文來驗證對錯。A)“臉譜網的市場崩潰已被輕而易舉地制止了”，原文開篇指出，說臉譜網的市場崩潰將要結束未免太簡單了.A)與原文不符，故排除;B)“臉譜網增加了與報紙業之間的商務往來”，原文首段末句plus that of…中的that指的是value，意指臉譜網自登陸納斯達克以來，損失的價值等同于幾個大型互聯網企業加上大部分報業價值的總和，B)與原文不符，故排除;C)“臉譜網自股票上市以來遭遇了巨大失敗”，由第一段中的burned，lost等詞可以推斷臉譜網上市后遭遇了巨大失敗，故為答案。
62.D)。事實細節題。D)‘‘已經存在很長時間了”，與定位句中remain today的意思相同，故為答案。
63.C)。本題考查臉譜網如何才能使其制定的股價合理，題干中的reasonable對應原文中的justify。定位句提到，要實現接近其公開募股說明書上的較低股價，比如每股28美元，這就要求臉譜網年收益增長要高達80%，并始終保持高利潤率，故答案為c)。
64.A)。本段提到，臉譜網現在還未解決如何有效地在移動設備上做廣告這一問題，而用手機登錄其網站的`用戶數量卻不斷飆升，且文章通篇語義色彩都是消極的，故可推出此處應指臉譜網商業模式中的致命軟肋，故答案為A)。
65.D)。由定位句可知，臉譜網在市場上的失意不僅會影響到用戶，還會影響招募和挽留天才黑客，而這些人正是扎克伯格創造力的命脈。由此推知，臉譜網的創新力會因其市場失意而受到損害，故答案為D)。
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