大学英语六级阅读暑假模拟练习题

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篇1：大学英语六级阅读暑假模拟练习题

It is often claimed that nuclear energy is something we cannot do without. We live in a consumer society where there is an enormous demand for commercial products of all kinds. Moreover. an increase in industrial production is considered to be one solution to the problem of mass unemployment. Such an increase presumes an abundant and cheap energy supply. Many people believe that nuclear energy provides an inexhaustible and economical source of power and chat it is therefore essential for an industrially developing society. There are a number of other advantages in the use of nuclear energy. Firstly, nuclear power. except for accidents, is clean. A further advantage is that a nuclear power station can be run and maintained by relatively few technical and administrative staff. The nuclear reactor represents an enormous step in our scientific evolution and, whatever the anti-nuclear group says, it is wrong to expect a return to more primitive sources of fuel. However, opponents of nuclear energy point out that nuclear power stations bring a direct threat not only to the environment but also to civil liberties.

Furthermore, it is questionable whether ultimately nuclear power is a cheap source of energy. There have. for example. been very costly accidents in America, in Britain and, of course. in Russia. The possibility of increases in the cost of uranium(铀) in addition to the cost of greater safety provisions could price nuclear power out of the market. In the long run, environmentalists argue, nuclear energy wastes valuable resources and disturbs the ecology to an extent which could bring about the destruction of the human race. Thus, if we wish to survive. we cannot afford nuclear energy. In spice of the case against nuclear energy outlined above. nuclear energy programmes are expanding. Such an expansion assumes a continual growth in industrial production and consumer demands. However, it is doubtful whether this growth will or can continue Having weighed up the arguments on both sides, it seems there are good economic and ecological reasons for sources of energy other than nuclear power.

【测试题】

1. The writer's attitude toward nuclear energy is______________.

A) indifferent B) tolerant C) favorable D) negative

2. According to the opponents of nuclear energy, nuclear energy is________________.

A) primitive B) cheap C) exhaustible D) unsafe

3. Some people claim that nuclear energy is essential because____________________.

A) it provides a perfect solution to mass unemployment

B) it represents an enormous step forward in our scientific evolution

C) it can meet the growing demand of an industrially developing society

D) nuclear power stations can be run and maintained by relatively few technical and administrative staff

4. Which of the following statements does the writer support?

A) The demand for commercial products will not necessarily keep increasing.

B) Nuclear energy is something we cannot do without.

C) Uranium is a good source of energy for economic and ecological reasons.

D) Greater safety provisions can bring about the expansion of nuclear energy programmes.

5. The function of the last sentence is to___________________.

A) advance the final argument

B) reflect the writer's attitude

C) reverse previously expressed thoughts

D) show the disadvantages of nuclear power

篇2：大学英语六级阅读模拟练习题

Leonard Da Vinci

Leonard da Vinci was a painter, a sculptor, an architect, a musician, an engineer, and a scientist. He was a man of many talents, a Renaissance man1 in the true sense of the word.

Leonard was born at a small town near Florence, where he was apprenticed to2 a painter. But he soon surpassed his masters in uniting precision of line with rhythm of movement, and in finding new ways to show light and shade.

Although Leonard is generally known as a painter, his actual output was very small. In fact today only about twelve paintings are looked upon as3 having been done by him. This is because his diverse interest, his far-ranging curiosity in nature and his endless scientific experiments and designings. To understand the man one has therefore , to read the 5, 000 notebooks in which he put down his observations in life and his sketch4 drawings.

Nevertheless, Leonard had profound understandings of art, which exerted5 great influence among the painters of his own generation and generations to follow. In painting he stressed the expression of emotional states, which , to him were, the heart of painting:

“A good painter has two chief objects ― to paint man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard, for it must be expressed by gestures and the movement of the limbs . .. A painting will only be wonderful for the beholder by making that which is not so raised and detached from the wall.”

His major works: Last Supper, many European art masters have painted on the same subject. But none of their versions has been as impressive as da Vinci's. And none has the enduring value in the art world as his.

Mona Lisa, if Last Supper is the most famous of religious pictures, then Mona Lisa probably is the world's most famous portrait. Mona Lisa had as its model wife of a banker. The quietly folded hands, the gaze that is directed at the observer, the ambiguity of the“smile”together help to create a curious effect and a secret effect.

阅读自测

Ⅰ. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words :

Leonard da Vinci is first known as a________ , and he is also a________ , an________ , a ________ , an________ , and a ________ . The amount of da Vinci's paintings is very small. There are only about________ paintings. For da Vinci, a good painter has two chief objects ― to paint ________ and the ________ of his soul. In his famous work Mona Lisa , the quietly________ hands, the________ that is directed at the observer, the ambiguity of the “________ ” together help to create a curious effect and a secret effect.

Ⅱ. Question :

What are da Vinci's famous paintings?

篇3：大学英语六级阅读暑假练习题

The direct raya of the sun touch the equator and strike northward toward the Tropic of Cancer. In the Southern hemisphere winter has begun, and it is summer north of the equator. The sea and air grow warmer; the polar air of winter begins its gradual retreat.

The northward shift of the sun also brings the season of tropical cyclones to the northern hemisphere, a season that is ending for the Pacific and India Oceans south of the equator. Along our coasts and those of Asia. it is time to look seaward. to guard against the season's storms. Over the Pacific, the tropical cyclone season is never quite over. but varies in intensity. Every year. conditions east of the Philippines send a score of violent storms howling toward Asia, but it is worst from June through October. Southwest of Mexico. a few Pacific hurricanes will grow during spring and summer. but most will die at sea or perish over the desert or the lower California coast as squalls.

Along our Atlantic and Gulf coasts. the hurricane season is from June to November. In an average year, there are fewer than ten tropical cyclones and six of them will develop into hurricanes. These will kill 50 to 100 persons between Texas and Maine and cause property damage of more than $100 million. If the year is worse than average, we will suffer several hundred deaths,and property damage will run to billions of dollars.

Tornadoes, floods, and severe storms are in season elsewhere on the continent. Now, to these destructive forces must be added the hazard of the hurricane. From the National Hurricane Center in Miami. a radar fence reaches westward to Texas and northward to New England. It provides a 200-mile look into offshore disturbances. In Maryland. che giant computers of the National Meteorological Center digest the myriad bits of data-atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, surface winds. and winds aloft-received from weather stations and ships monitoring the atmospheric setting each hour, every day. Cloud photographs from spacecraft orbiting the earth are received in Maryland and are studied for che telltale spiral on the warming sea. The crew of United States aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and Atlantic watch the sky and wait for the storm that will bear a person's name. The machinery of early warning vibrates with new urgency as the season of great storms begins.

【参考译文】

[1]太阳直射光线接近赤道并向北回归线移动。南半球冬季开始了，而赤道北面则是夏季。海洋和天空变得温暖，冬天的极地气团开始逐渐减弱。

[1]太阳北移也为北半球带来了热带气旋季节，而太平洋和印度洋的赤道以南部分却是这个季节的结束。沿着我国和亚洲的海岸，又到了监视海洋、提防夏季暴风的时候了。[2]在整个太平洋上空热带气旋季节从来就不会完全过去，只是强度会有所不同。每年菲律宾东部一带会生成20个暴风咆哮刮向亚洲，但从6月直到整个10月是最糟糕的日子。[2]/[3]在墨西哥西南部，春季和夏季会生成几个太平洋飓风，但是大多数会在海上消亡，或者成为暴风雨而在沙漠的上空或加利福尼亚南部海岸消逝。

在我国的太西洋和海湾沿岸，飕风季节从6月到11月。在一般的年份，热带气旋少于10个，有6个会发展成飓风。从得克萨斯州到缅因州，这些飓风令导致50到100人丧生，造成超过1亿美元的财产损失。如果是比一般年份更糟，就会有几百人丧生和高达几十亿美元的财产损失。

此时大陆的其他地方正是龙卷风、洪水和猛烈暴风的季节。现在，除了这些破坏性的天气以外，还得加上飓风的危险。[4]在迈阿密的国家飓风中心，西至得克萨斯州，北至新英格兰建起了一道雷达防护栏。它可以对离岸200英里的大气扰动进行监视。在马里兰州，国家气象中心巨型计算机对巨量的数据进行整理，这些数据包括从每时每日监测着大气状况的各个气象观测站台和观测船只接收到的大气压力、温度、湿度、表面风和高空风等等数据。马里兰州还接收从在地球轨道飞行的太空船发回的云图，研究在温暖海洋上空的那些先兆性气旋。在墨西哥湾、加勒比海和大西洋上空飞行的美国飞机上的机务人员监视着无空，等待着以一个人的名字书名的暴风到来。随着巨大暴风季节的开始，早期预警机制会对新的紧急状况迅速发出警报。

【测试题】

1.The cyclone season of the Southern hemisphere__________________.

A) is brought by the polar air of winter

B) ends when winter comes to the Southern hemisphere

C) virtually lasts throughout the year

D) begins when the sun rays strike the Tropic of Cancer

2.What is true about the storms howling towards Asia?

A) They originate over the Pacific.

B) They influence Southeast Asia most violently.

C) They mainly grow during spring and summer.

D) They usually perish off coast.

3.When the Pacific hurricanes reach the lower California. most of them will_____________.

A) reduce their intensity B) increase their intensity

C) cause much property damage D) result in great rain and floods

4.What can we leam about the National Hurricane Center in Miami?

A) It mainly provides protection against hurricanes to Texas and New England.

B) It warns the whole country against tornadoes, severe storms and hurricanes.

C) It consists of radars along the coast of the west and the north of U.S.

D) It supervises the coastal areas stretching from Texas to New England.

5.The passage discusses most clearly about_______________.

A) the factors that cause hurricanes

B) the most risky areas that suffer hurricanes

C) the early warning system against hurricanes

D) the remedies for property damage by hurricanes

篇4：6月大学英语六级阅读模拟练习题

When we think of Hollywood―a term I use loosely to describe American movie production in general, not simply films made in Los Angeles―we think of films aimed at amusing audiences and making money for producers.

During the early years of the new century, as workers won their demands for higher wages and a shorter working week, leisure assumed an increasingly important role in everyday life. Amusement parks, professional baseball games, nickelodeons ((美)门票一律5分的“无分戏院“(电影院)), and dance halls attracted a wide array of men and women anxious to spend their hard earned dollars in the pursuit of fun and relaxation. Yet of all these new cultural endeavors, films were the most important and widely attended source of amusement. For a mere five or ten cents, even the poorest worker could afford to take himself and his family to the local ickelodeon or storefront theatre. Taking root in urban working-class and immigrant neighborhoods, cinemas soon spread to middle-class districts of cities and into small communities throughout the nation. “Every little town that has never been able to afford and maintain an opera house,” observed one journalist in 1908, “now boasts one or two Bijou Dreams. ” By 1910 the appeal of films was so great that nearly one-third of the nation flocked to the cinema each week; ten years later, weekly attendance equaled 50 percent of the nation's population.

Early films were primarily aimed at entertaining audiences, but entertainment did not always come in the form of escapist fantasies. Many other issues were also portrayed on the screen. “Between 1900 and 1917,” observes Kevin Brownlow, “literally thousands of films dealt with the most pressing problems of the day―white slavery, political corruption, gangsterism, loansharking, slum landlords, capital vs. labor, racial prejudice, etc. ” While most of these films were produced by studios and independent companies, a significant number were made by what we might call today “special interest groups”. As films quickly emerged as the nation's most popular form of mass entertainment, they attracted the attention of a wide range of organizations, which recognized the medium's enormous potential for disseminating propaganda to millions of viewers.

26. Hollywood may not be used to describe_______.

A. American movie production in general

B. films nfade in Los Angeles

C. an area in Los Angeles, famous because many popular films have been produced there

D. films aimed at amusing audiences and making money for them

27. It may be inferred from the passage that _______.

A. most of the film-goers were working people

B. films were more interesting than professional baseball games

C. people were eager to spend their money on amusement and relaxation

D. films were the most important and widely enjoyed amusement

28. “Bijou Dreams” in the 2nd paragraph probably refers to_______.

A. opera houses B. amusement parks

C. cinemas D. small and pretty places

29. It can be concluded from the last paragraph that_______.

A. many of the social and political problems were reflected on the screen of the films

B. films often dealt with the most important problems of the day

C. films quickly became a very popular form of entertainment

D. because of the large attendance, films had a great influence on a large number of people

30. The passage is about_______.

A. the term―Hollywood B. American movie production

C. the history and function of the film D. the early films

26. D 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. C

篇5：大学英语六级阅读练习题

Computers monitor everything in Singapore from soil composition to location of manholes. At the airport, it took just 15 seconds for the computerized immigration system to scan and approve my passport. It takes only one minute to be checked into a public hospital.

By 1998, almost every household will be wired for interactive cable TV and the Internet, the global computer network. Shoppers will be able to view and pay for products electronically. A 24-hour community telecomputing network will allow users to communicate with elected representatives and retrieve information about government services. It is all part of the government’s plan to transform the nation into what it calls the “Intelligent Island”.

In so many ways, Singapore has elevated the concept of efficiency to a kind of national ideology. For the past ten years, Singapore’s work force was rated the best in the world-ahead of Japan and the U.S.-in terms of productivity, skill and attitude by the Business Environment Risk Intelligence service.

Behind the “Singapore miracle” is a man Richard Nixon described as one of “the ablest leaders I have met,” one who, “in other times and other places, might have attained the world stature of a Churchill.” Lee Kuan Yew led Singapore’s struggle for independence in the 1950s, serving as Prime Minister from 1959 until 1990. Today (1995), at 71, he has nominally retired to the office of Senior Minister, where he continues to influence his country’s future. Lee offered companies tax breaks, political stability, cheap labor and strike-free environment.

Nearly 90 percent of Singaporean adults now own their own homes and thanks to strict adherence to the principle of merit, personal opportunities abound. “If you’ve got talent and work hard, you can be anything here,” says a Malaysian-born woman who holds a high-level civil-service position.

Lee likes to boast that Singapore has avoided the “moral breakdown” of Western countries. He attributes his nation’s success to strong family ties, a reliance on education as the engine of advancement and social philosophy that he claims is superior to America’s.

In an interview with Reader’s Digest, he said that the United States has “lost its bearings” by emphasizing individual rights at the expense of society. “An ethical society,” he said, “is one which matches human rights with responsibilities.”

1.What characterizes Singapore’s advancement is its___.

A.computer monitoring.

B.work efficiency.

C.high productivity.

D.value on ethics.

2.From Nixon’s perspective, Lee is___.

A.almost as great as Churchill.

B.not as great as Churchill.

C.only second to Churchill in being a leader.

D.just as great as Churchill.

3.In the last paragraph, “lost its bearings” may mean___.

A.become impatient.