2016年6月英语六级真题及答案

2015

年

6

月大学英 语六级考试阅读的

section A

选词填空，要求从

15

个题目中选出

10

个词

填到文章中对应的空格部分。

文章主题是论述科技的进步 对于就业的影响。

文都教育搜集整

理了部分出题可能性较大的原 题，供学习参考：

题目：

Innovation,

the

elixir

(

灵丹妙药

)

of

progress,

has

always

cost

people

their

jobs.

In

the

Industrial Revolution hand weavers were ___36___ aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past

30

years

the

digital

revolution

has

___37___

many

of

the

mid-skill

jobs

that

underpinned

20th-century

middle-class

life.

Typists,

ticketagents,

bank

tellers

and

many

production-line

jobs

have been dispensed with,just as the weavers were.

For

those

who believe

that

technological progress has

made

the

world

a better

place,

such

disruption is a natural part of rising ___38___. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new

and better ones, as a more ___39___ society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand

more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was ___40___ on a

farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were

not

rendered

___41___,

but

found

better-paid

work

as

the

economy

grew

more

sophisticated.

Today the pool of secretaries has___42___, but there are ever more computer programmers and

web designers.

Optimism

remains

the

right

starting-point,

but

for

workers

the

dislocating

effects

of

technology

may

make

themselves

evident

faster

than

its

___43___.

Even

if

new

jobs

and

wonderful

products

emerge,

in

the

short

term

income

gaps

will

widen,

causing

huge

social

dislocation

and

perhaps

even

changing politics.

Technology's

___44___

will

feel

like

a

tornado

(

旋风

),

hitting

the

rich

world

first,

but

___45___

sweeping

through

poorer

countries

too.

No

government is prepared for it.

参考答案：

36. N swept

37. B displaced

38. I prosperity

39. H productive

40. C employed

41. F jobless

42. M shrunk

43. A benefits

44. E impact

45. D eventually

Passage Two

Questions 61-65 are based on the following passage.

Some of the world

’

s most significant problems never hit example comes from

agriculture. Food riots and hunger make news. But the trend lying behind these matters is rarely

talked about. This is the decline in the growth in yields of some of

the world’s major crops.A new

study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where, and how

far, this decline is occurring.

The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops: rice, wheat

corn

and

soybeans(

大豆

).

They

find

that

on

between

24%

and

39%

of

all

harvested

areas,

the

improvement in yields that tood place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s.

There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been particularly sharp in

the world

’

s most populous(

人口多的

) countries, India and China. Their ability to feed themselves

has

been

an

important

source

of

relative

stability

both

within

the

countries

and

on

world

food

markets.

That

self-sufficiency

cannot

be

taken

for

granted

if

yields

continue

to

slow

down

or

reverse.

Second, yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and soyabeans. This is

problematic because wheat and rice are more important as foods, accounting for around half of all

calories consumed. Corn and soyabeans are more important as feed grains. The authors note that

“we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding an

imals and cars rather

than on crops that feed people and are the basis of food security in much of the world.”

The report qualifies the more optimistic findings of another new paper which suggests that

the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to feed 9 billion people in

2050, as the Food and Agriculture Organisation has argued.

Instead, it says, thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughted up for crops

might be able to revert(

回返

)to forest or wilderness. This could happen. The trouble is that the

forecast assumes continued improvements in yields, which may not actually happen.

注意

:

此部分试题请在答题卡

2

上作答。

does the author try to draw attention to?

A)Food riots and hunger in the world. C)The decline of the grain yield growth.

B)News headlines in the leading media. D)The food supply in populous countries.

does the author mention India and China in particular?

A)Their self-sufficiency is vital to the stability of world food markets.

B)Their food yields have begun to decrease sharply in recent years.

C)Their big populations are causing worldwide concerns.

D)Their food self-sufficiency has been taken for granted.

does

the

new

study

by

the

two

universities

say

about

recent

crop

improvement

efforts?

A)They fail to produce the same remarkable results as before the 1980s.

B)They contribute a lot to the improvement of human food production.

C)They play a major role in guaranteeing the food security of the world.

D)They focus more on the increase of animal feed than human food grains.

does the Food and Agriculture Organisation say about world food production in the

coming decades?

A)The growing population will greatly increase the pressure on world food supplies.

B)The optimistic prediction about food production should be viewed with caution.

C)The slowdown of the growth in yields of major food crops will be reversed.

D)The world will be able to feed its population without increasing farmland.

does the author view the argument of the Food and Agriculture Organisation?

A)It is built on the findings of a new study.

B)It is based on a doubtful assumption.

C)It is backed by strong evidence.