1、大学英语六级综合-篇章词汇理解(二)及答案解析(总分：450.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、篇章词汇理解(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Passage 1(总题数：1，分数：90.00) A. leastD. coverG. groupsJ. citizens M. record B. individualsE. historyH. nominate K. frustration N. best C. thinkF. nameI. understand L. cultivate O. companiesA 1987 survey was given to 5,000 high school
2、 seniors. It showed that they did not know geography. Students in Boston were questioned. One-third of them could not (1) six New England states. Students in Baltimore were questioned. Half could not shade in the United States on a map. Here is what another survey showed. Students did not know (2) .
3、 Most did not know the dates of the American Civil War. Many did not know World War leaders.Someone else asked this question. What did students (3) of social studies? Their answer: social studies were not important. They said it was the (4) important of their studies.What are social studies? It is t
4、he study of (5) . It is the study of groups. It is the study of societies. Social studies (6) many fields. You have read about history and geography. These are part of social studies. It covers many other areas as well. Lets say you study the way people live together in (7) . This is an area of soci
5、al studies. So is learning about very early people. So is studying government.Are social studies important? Early Americans thought so. Students then learned history and civics. This was to make them good (8) . A report from 1916 set a new goal. It said, “The social studies should (9) a sense of mem
6、bership in the world community.“ The world community is very large. But today it is easy to share ideas in it. We have radio and TV; we have phones; we have computers.Social studies help us (10) the worlds people. It helps us know groups and societies. The 1916 goal was important then. It is even mo
7、re important now. We all need to be good world citizens.（分数：90.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_三、Passage 2(总题数：1，分数：90.00) A. extendD. horrifiedG. impatienceJ. instructions M. expect B. frustratedE. officialH. checked K. counterparts N. interested C. officesF
8、. trackI. forgot L. uneasy O. mentalityWhen the Saudi government announced that it was going to invest several million dollars in communication technology, an American businessman went to Riyadh to “get something going“. He was given $3,700 for a week stay. He arrived on a Monday, (1) into his hotel
9、 and began making phone calls to the obvious points of contact. To his surprise he could not (2) down anyone to see regarding his business. By Wednesday he discovered that most (3) were closed on Thursday afternoon and on Friday, the Islamic day of prayer. There was nothing he could do but (4) his s
10、tay and hope for better luck next week.Eventually he made several appointments, but in each case he was (5) by hour-or-more waits, interrupted meetings, endless cups of coffee, and (6) to “come back another day“. He felt (7) doing business with Arabs. After a month he ran into an old friend who intr
11、oduced him to the basic rules of how to do business with Arabs. He was (8) to discover that he had repeatedly insulted his contacts by his undisguised (9) , refusal to take coffee, rush to talk business, and even when he conversationally asked an Arab (10) about his wife. By now his trip had cost we
12、ll over $13,000 and he had only established himself a rude and unworthy American. He learned too late the secrets to successful business in Saudi Arabi（分数：90.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_四、Passage 3(总题数：1，分数：90.00) A. webD. traditionalG. benefitsJ. taken M
13、. moments B. discussionsE. administrationH. missed K. liberal N. critical C. wheneverF. institutionsI. meanwhile L. receive O. weaknessOn-line courses (also called distance learning) are a hot new trend in American education. According to the non-profit Distance Education and Training Council, about
14、 400 U.S. colleges and schools offer some portion of their programs on the (1) . At the university level, they cost the same as (2) classes and require similar weekly assignments and textbook reading; the difference is in class participation.Generally speaking, students congregate on-line throughout
15、 each week to explore topic with the professor, but these (3) occur “asynchronously“ rather than in real time. (You read others comments and post your own (4) you get a chance.) Written assignments are posted; you e-mail in your work periodically, and youre required to take a proctored exam in order
16、 to (5) degree credit. Career boosting business (6) and information technology programs are the most popular, but youll also find a variety of (7) arts offerings, from film theory to medieval history and foreign language study. While you still cant get an Ivy League degree on-line, a growing number
17、of elite (8) , including Stanford and New York University are beginning to offer on-line courses.The (9) for busy people are obvious. “I always get a front row seat,“ says one student studying at the State University of New York Learning Network.“I can get up in the middle of class to grab a cup of
18、coffee. The class is waiting for me when I get back, and I havent (10) a thing.“ On the other hand, some students miss the face-to-face interaction that often sparks interest and involvement.（分数：90.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_五、Passage 4(总题数：1，分数：90.00) A
19、. consistsD. purchasersG. authoritativelyJ. correctly M. useful B. demonstrateE. newspaperH. manufacturers K. changing N. books C. problemsF. coloredI. developing L. mediates O. considerOne of the most authoritative voices speaking to us today is, of course, the voice of the advertisers. Its shrilli
20、ng clamor dominates our lives. It shouts at us from the television screens and the radio loudspeakers; waves to us from every page of the (1) ; plucks at our sleeves on the escalator; signals to us from the road-side billboards all day and flashes messages to us in (2) lights at night. It has forced
21、 on us a whole new conception of the successful man as a man no less than 20% of whose mail (3) of announcements of giant carpet sales.Advertising has been among Englands biggest growth industries since the war, in terms of the ratio of money earnings to (4) achievement. Why all this fantastic expen
22、diture?Perhaps the answer is that advertising saves the (5) from having to think about the customer. At the stage of designing and (6) a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer-appeal
23、 to all his other (7) of man-hours and machine tolerances and stress factors. So they just go ahead and make the thing and leave it to the advertiser to find the ways of making it appeal to (8) after they finished it, by pretending that it gives status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness. If t
24、he advertising agency can do this (9) enough, the manufacturer is in clover.Other manufacturers find advertising saves them from (10) their product. And manufacturers hate change. For the ideal product, some alteration is called forhow much better to change the image, the packet or the pitch made by
25、 the product, rather than go to all the inconvenience of changing the product itsel（分数：90.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_六、Passage 5(总题数：1，分数：90.00) A. oppositeD. teenagerG. lessonsJ. passionate M. like B. responsibilitiesE. effectivelyH. substitute K. simil
26、arly N. intimate C. completeF. despiteI. male L. relatives 0. possibilityIn the current cultural atmosphere, much is made of interchangeability between the sexes. Women can hold mens jobs, and men can hold womens; both men and women can play the same sports; both are supposed to share household (1)
27、. Also, with the rise of so many single-parent families, mothers or fathers often have to become two-parents-in-one for their (2) .Yet, (3) these trends, I believe firmly that there is a special importance in same-sex relationships between mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. Without these r
28、elationships, or some (4) that fulfills a similar function, its hard for children and parents to experience the full range of (5) talking relationships.My reasoning? In order to function (6) in the adult world, we need good role models to show us how to behave and react. To be sure, you can learn a
29、great deal from the parent of the (7) sex, and in the same cases, you may learn all you need to know. But in most cases, there is no real substitute for a good same-sex role model to give a child the best chance at (8) and well-balanced emotional development.Perhaps the most important (9) we learn f
30、rom our same-sex parents are how to relate both to people of the same sex and also to those of the opposite sex. Thus, sons need a strong (10) role model to learn how men deal with each other and with women. Similarly, daughters need a strong female model to understand how women relate to each other
31、 and to men.（分数：90.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_大学英语六级综合-篇章词汇理解(二)答案解析(总分：450.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、篇章词汇理解(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Passage 1(总题数：1，分数：90.00) A. leastD. coverG. groupsJ. citizens M. record B. individualsE. historyH. nominate K. frustration N. best C. thin
32、kF. nameI. understand L. cultivate O. companiesA 1987 survey was given to 5,000 high school seniors. It showed that they did not know geography. Students in Boston were questioned. One-third of them could not (1) six New England states. Students in Baltimore were questioned. Half could not shade in
33、the United States on a map. Here is what another survey showed. Students did not know (2) . Most did not know the dates of the American Civil War. Many did not know World War leaders.Someone else asked this question. What did students (3) of social studies? Their answer: social studies were not impo
34、rtant. They said it was the (4) important of their studies.What are social studies? It is the study of (5) . It is the study of groups. It is the study of societies. Social studies (6) many fields. You have read about history and geography. These are part of social studies. It covers many other area
35、s as well. Lets say you study the way people live together in (7) . This is an area of social studies. So is learning about very early people. So is studying government.Are social studies important? Early Americans thought so. Students then learned history and civics. This was to make them good (8)
36、. A report from 1916 set a new goal. It said, “The social studies should (9) a sense of membership in the world community.“ The world community is very large. But today it is easy to share ideas in it. We have radio and TV; we have phones; we have computers.Social studies help us (10) the worlds peo
37、ple. It helps us know groups and societies. The 1916 goal was important then. It is even more important now. We all need to be good world citizens.（分数：90.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：F）解析：该空格前为情态动词的否定结构 could not，空格后为名词短语 six.states，因此空格处应选及物动词原形。结合上下文可知，空格所在句应是对美国学生地理知识匮乏的举例说明，再结合句意“其中三分之一无法_新英格兰的六个州”可知，空格处所选单
38、词应意为“指出”或“确定”，只有Fname(说出的名字，确定)最适合。nominate 指“提名，推荐”，故排除 H。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：E）解析：该空格前为动词 know，因此空格处应选名词作其宾语。分析上下文可知，空格所在句之后的两句是对该句的举例说明，而美国内战的日期和二战的领导人都应该是历史方面的知识，故 E history(历史)最适合。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：C）解析：该空格前为名词 students，空格后为介词 of，而空格所在句为特殊疑问句，因此空格处应选动词原形作谓语。结合句意“学生们怎么_社会学科”和选项，C think(想，认为)最适合，且 think 与后
39、面的介词 of 构成固定搭配，意为“考虑”。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A）解析：该空格前为定冠词 the，空格后为形容词 important，因此空格处应选副词修饰 important。上文提到，学生们认为社会学科不重要，再结合句意“他们说那是他们学习中_重要的”和选项可知，A least(最少)最适合，修饰 important 时表示重要性最小的，即最不重要的。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B）解析：该空格前为介词 of，再结合之前 study 可知，空格处应选名词。分析上下文可知，空格所在句与后两句构成并列，是对社会学科的具体说明，因此所选单词应该与 groups(团体)和 societi
40、es(社会)构成递进关系，选项中只有 Bindividuals(个人)最适合。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：D）解析：分析句子结构可知，空格所在句缺少谓语动词，再结合上下文采用的一般现在时以及空格前的名词studies 可知，空格处应选及物动词原形。原句意为“社会学科_许多领域”，因此所选单词应意为“涉及”或“涵盖”，只有 D cover(涉及，包括)最适合。此外，结合下文提到的“它还涉及其他许多方面”(It covers many other areas as well)，也可确定答案。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：G）解析：该空格前为介词 in，再结合之前的动词 live 可知，空格处应选名词
41、。结合句意“比如说，你研究人们一起生活在_中的方式”和选项，G groups(团体)最适合。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：J）解析：该空格前为形容词 good，因此空格处应选名词。原句意为“这要让他们成为好的_”，其中(this)指代的是上一句提到的“学生们学习历史和公民学”，推断可知，学习公民学应该可以让学生们成为好公民，故 J citizens(公民)最适合。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：L）解析：该空格前为情态动词 should，空格后为名词短语 a sense of.，因此空格处应选及物动词原形。原句意为“社会学科应该在世界社区中_成员感”，而“成员感”一般是培养起来的，因此 L cult
42、ivate(培养)最适合。填空项 1:_ （正确答案：I）解析：该空格所在句隐含 help sb. do sth.的结构，因此空格处应选及物动词原形。分析上下文可知，该句和下一句构成并列，因此所选单词应和下一句中的 know 构成并列，再结合句意“社会学科有助于我们_世界人民。它有助于我们了解团体和社会”和选项，I understand(了解)最适合。三、Passage 2(总题数：1，分数：90.00) A. extendD. horrifiedG. impatienceJ. instructions M. expect B. frustratedE. officialH. checked
43、K. counterparts N. interested C. officesF. trackI. forgot L. uneasy O. mentalityWhen the Saudi government announced that it was going to invest several million dollars in communication technology, an American businessman went to Riyadh to “get something going“. He was given $3,700 for a week stay. H
44、e arrived on a Monday, (1) into his hotel and began making phone calls to the obvious points of contact. To his surprise he could not (2) down anyone to see regarding his business. By Wednesday he discovered that most (3) were closed on Thursday afternoon and on Friday, the Islamic day of prayer. Th
45、ere was nothing he could do but (4) his stay and hope for better luck next week.Eventually he made several appointments, but in each case he was (5) by hour-or-more waits, interrupted meetings, endless cups of coffee, and (6) to “come back another day“. He felt (7) doing business with Arabs. After a
46、 month he ran into an old friend who introduced him to the basic rules of how to do business with Arabs. He was (8) to discover that he had repeatedly insulted his contacts by his undisguised (9) , refusal to take coffee, rush to talk business, and even when he conversationally asked an Arab (10) about his wife. By now his trip had cost well over $13,000 and he had only established himself a rud
