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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上大学英语六级分类模拟题320Reading ComprehensionIn most cultures throughout the world, there is an expectation that when a person reaches adult-hood, marriage should soon follow. In the United States alone, each month upwards of 168 000 couples wed, 1 to love, honor, and respect their chosen life ma
2、tes until death parts them. The expectation is deep-rooted. However, the social functions, purposes, and relevance of marriage are rapidly changing in 2 society, making them less clear-cut than they have been throughout history. For instance, in a Pew Research Center random polling of over 2000 3 ,
3、fewer than half of all of the adults polled indicated that if a man and a woman plan to spend the rest of their lives together as a couple, it was important that they 4 marry. Those of us who choose to marry have 5 reasons why we decide to marry the person we do. There is a 6 , however, in our Weste
4、rn, individualistic culture: we tend to marry for reasons that benefit ourselves, rather than for reasons that benefit the society at large, such as found in collectivist cultures. Research in Western cultures has found, for example, that the number one 7 people cite for marrying is to signify a lif
5、elong commitment to someone they love. However, this reason is not the only 8 to why people wedtoday, people get married for reasons of commitment, security, and personal belief systems. The Pew Research Centers recent findings suggest that the main reasons people get married are for 9 happiness and
6、 commitment, and bearing and raising children. As the data from this survey shows us, there are racial, age, and religious differences in what people 10 to be the main purposes of getting married. A. vowing B. mutual C. individuals D. consider E. tendency F. contemporary G. response H. specific I. l
7、egally J. reason K. visual L. pretending M. substitute N. equally O. suggestingThe continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it 11 our kids. Al Gore famously depicted how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost
8、completely flood Florida, New York, Holland, and Shanghai, even though the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen, estimating that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that. When 12 with these exaggerations, some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely there is no
9、 harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change. This 13 is astonishingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm. Worrying 14 about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more good. We focus, for example, on 15 warmin
10、gs impact on malaria (疟疾)which will put slightly more people at risk in 100 yearsinstead of tackling the half a billion people suffering from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that are much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be. 16 also wears out t
11、he publics willingness to tackle global warming. If the planet is doomed, people wonder, why do anything? A record 54% of American voters now believe the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. A 17 of people now believeincorrectly-that global warming is not even caused by hum
12、ans. But the worst cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the 18 alarm that it causesparticularly among children. An article in The Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal 19 from global warming. The newspaper also reposed that parents are searching fo
13、r productive outlets for their eight-year-olds obsessions(忧心忡忡)with dying polar bears. They might be better off educating them and letting them know that, contrary to common belief, the global polar bear population has 20 and perhaps even quadrupled(成为四倍)over the past half century, to about 22,000.
14、Despite diminishingand eventually disappearingsummer Arctic ice, polar bears will not become extinct. Aterrifies Bexcessively Cunnecessary Dargument Eextinction Fexaggeration Gconfronted Hdoubled Imajority Jglobal Kequipped Ldisgusts Mignorantly Nsuppresses OurgentWhen my mothers health was failing,
15、 I was the bad sister who lived far away and wasnt involved. My sister helped my parents. She never asked me to do anything, and I didnt 21 . I was widowed, raising kids and working, but that wasnt really why I kept to weekly calls and short, infrequent visits. I was 22 in my adolescent role as the
16、aloof (超脱的) achiever, defending myself from my 23 mother and other family craziness. As always, I turned a deaf ear to my sisters criticisms about my not being around moreand I didnt hear her rising desperation. It wasnt until my moms 24 , watching my dad and sister cling to each other and weep, tha
17、t I got a hint of their long painful experienceand how badly Id behaved. My sister was so furious, she 25 spoke to me during my fathers last years. To be honest, Im not a terrible person. So how did I get it so wrong? We hear a lot about the 26 of taking care of our graying population. But the big s
18、tory beneath the surface is the psychological crisis among middle-aged siblings (兄弟姐妹) who are fighting toward issues involving their aging parents. According to a new survey, an estimated 43.5 mil-lion adults in the US are looking after an older 27 or friend. Of these, 43% said they did not feel th
19、ey had a 28 in this role. And although 7 in 10 said another unpaid caregiver had 29 help in the past year, only 1 in 10 said the burden was split equally. As siblings who are often separated geographically and emotionally, we are having to come together to decide such 30 issues as where Morn and Dad
20、 should live and where they should be buried. Its like being put down with your siblings in the center of a nuclear reactor and being told. Figure it out, says University of Colorado psychologist Sara Honn Quails. A. stuck B. funeral C. provided D. tough E. costs F. volunteer G. relative H. judgment
21、al I. choice J. barely K. flung L. randomly M. noisy N. adapt O. attachThe shorter growing seasons expected with climate change over the next 40 years will endanger hundreds of millions of already poor people in the global tropics, say researchers working with the worlds leading agricultural organis
22、ations. The effects of climate change are likely to be seen across the entire tropical 31 but many areas previously considered to be 32 food secure are likely to become highly vulnerable to droughts, extreme weather and higher temperatures, say the researchers with the Consultative Group on Internat
23、ional Agricultural Research. Intensively farmed areas like northeast Brazil and Mexico are likely to see their 33 growing seasons fall below 120 days, which is 34 for crops such as corn to mature. Many other places in Latin America are likely to 35 temperatures that are too hot for bean production,
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