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1、英语六级阅读理解真题卷及答案-1因考试政策、内容不断变化与调整，下面是给大家提供的阅读理解范文供参考，以下是小编给大家整理的英语六级阅读理解真题卷及答案-1，希望可以帮到大家Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage thro

2、ugh carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.In the past 12 months,Nigeria has suffe

3、red from a shrinking economy, a sliding currency, and a prolonged fuel shortage. Now, Africa s largest in facing a food crisis as major tomato fields have been destroyed by an insect,leading to a nationwide shortage and escalating prices.The insect, Tutaabsoluta, has destroyed 80% of farms in Kaduna

4、, Nigeria s largest tomato producing state, leading the government there to declare a state of26 .The insect, also known as the tomato leaf miner, devastates crops by 27 on fruits and digging into and moving through stalks.It 28 incredibly quickly,breeding up to 12 generations per year if conditions

5、 are favorable. it is believed to have 29 in South America in the early 1900s, and later spread to Europe before crossing over to sub-Saharan Africa.In Nigeria, where tomatoes are a staple of local diets,the insect s effects are devastating. Retail prices for a 30 of tomatoes at local markets have r

6、isen from $0. 50 to $2.50. Farmers are reporting steep losses and a new $20 million tomato-paste factory has 31 production due to the shortages.Given the moth s ability also to attack crops like pepper and potatoes, Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria s minister of agriculture, has warned that the pest may create s

7、erious problems for food 32 in the country.Ogbeh says experts are investigating how to control the pest s damage and prevent its spread, which has gone largely 33 until now.Despite being the continent s second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is 34 on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports ev

8、ery year.as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities. A further 35 in local supplies is yet another unwelcome setback to the industry.A) dependent I)originatedB) Embarking J) reductionC) emergenc K) reproducesD) feeding L)securityE) grazes M)terrorF

9、) halted N) uncheckedG) handful O)uncheckedH) multitudeSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may c

10、hoose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.who s really addicting you to Technology?A. Nearly everyone i know is addicted in some measure to the internet, wrote tony Schwartz in The New York Tim

11、es. it s a common complaint these days. A steady stream of similar headlines accuse the net and its offspring apps, social media sites and online games of addicting us to distractionB. There s little doubt that nearly everyone who comes in contact with the net has difficulty concentration than it ta

12、kes to post a status update. as one person ironically put it in the comments section of Schwartz s online article, As I was reading this very excellent article.I stopped at least half a dozen times to cheek my email.C.There s something different about this technology: it is both invasive and persuas

13、ive. but who s at fault for its overuse? To find solutions, it s important to understand what we re dealing with.There are four parties conspiring to keep you connected the tech, your boss, your friends and you.D.The technologies themselves and their makers, are the easiest suspects to blame for our

14、 diminishing attention spans. Nicholas Carr,author of The Shallows： what the internet is doing Our brains, wrote, The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention.E.Online services like Facebook, twitter and the like, are called out of manipula-tion-making，pro

15、ducts so good that people can t stop using them. after studying these products for several years, I wrote a book about how they do it. I learned it all starts with the business model. since these services rely on advertising revenue, The more frequently you use money they make.It s no winder these c

16、ompanies employ teams of people focused on engineering their services to be as engaging as possible. these products aren t habit-forming by chance; it s by design. they have an incentive to keep us hooked.F.However, as good as these services are, there are simple steps we can take to keep them at ba

17、y.For example, we can change how often we receive the distracting notifications that trigger our urge to check.According to adam marchick, ceo of mobile marketing company kahuna, less than 15 percent of smartphone users ever bother to adjust their notification setlings-meaning the remaining 85 perce

18、nt of us default to the app makers every preset trigger.Google and Apple have made it far too difficult to adjust these settings so it s up to us to take steps ensure we set these triggers to suit our own needs, not the needs of the app makers.G.While companies like Facebook harvest attention to gen

19、erate revenue from advertisers, other technologies have no such agenda. take email, for example. this system couldn t care less how often you use it. Yet to many, email is the most habit-forming medium of all.We check email at all hours of the day-we re obsessed, but why? Because that s what the bos

20、s wants.For almost all white-collar jobs, A slowResponse to a message could hurt not only your reputation but also your livelihood.H.Your friends are also responsible.Think about this familiar scene.People gathered around a table, enjoying food and each others company. there s laughter and a bit of

21、kidding. Then, during an interval in the conversation, someone takes out their phone to check who knows what.Barely anyone notices and no one says a thing.I.Now imagine the same dinner,but instead of checking their phone, the person belches(打嗝)-loudly.Everyone notices. unless the meal takes place in

22、 a beer house, this is considered bad manners. The impolite act violates the basic rules of etiquette. one has to wonder why don t we apply the same social norms to checking phones during meals, meetings and conversations as we do to other antisocial behaviors somehow, we accept it and say nothing w

23、hen someone offends.J.The reality is taking one s phone out at the wrong time is worse than belching because, unlike other minor offense, checking tech is contagious. once one person looks at their phone,other people feel compelled to do the same, starting a chain reaction. the more people are on th

24、eir phones, the fewer people are talking until finally you are the only one left not reading email or checking twitter. from a societal perspective, phone checking is less like belching in public and more like another bad habit. our phones are like cigarettes-something to do when were bored or when

25、our fingers need something to toy with seeing others enjoy a smoke,or sneak a quick glance, is too tempting to resist and soon everyone is doing it.K.The technology, your boss, and your friends, all influence how often you find yourself using (or overusing )these gadgets. but there s still someone w

26、ho deserves scrutiny-the person holding the phone.L. I have a confession. even though i study habit-forming technology for a living, disconnecting is not easy for me.I m online far more than I d like like Schwartz and so many others, I often find myself distracted and off tack.I wanted to know why s

27、o i began self-monitoring to try to understand my behavior. that s when i discovered an uncomfortable truth. i use technology as an escape. when I m doing something I d rather not do, or when I m someplace I d rather not attention was often a good thing, like when passing time on public transportati

28、on, but frequently my tech use was not so benign. when i faced difficult work, like thinking through an article idea or editing the same draft for the hundredth time, for example, a more sinister screen would draw me in. i could easily escape discomfort.temporarlly.by answering email or browsing ing

29、 the web under the pretense of so-called research. though I desperately wanted to lay blame elsewhere, i finally had to admit that my bad habits had less to do with new-age.technology and more to do with old-fashioned procrastination(拖延)M.it s easy to blame technology for being so distracting, but d

30、istraction is nothing new. Aristotle and Socrates dehated nature of “akrasia”-our tendency to do things agninst our interests. If we re honest with ourselves, tech is just another way to occupy our time and minds,if we weren t on our devices. We d likely do similarly unproductive.N.personal technolo

31、gy is indeed more engaging than ever, and there s no doubt companies are engineering their products and services to be more compelling and attractive but would want it any other way the intended result of making something better is that people use it more. that s not necessarily a problem, that s pr

32、ogress.O.These improvements don t mean we shouldn t attempt to control our use of technology. In order to make sure it doesn t control us, we should come to terms with the fact that it s more than the technology itself that s responsible for our habits. our workplace culture, social norns and indivi

33、dual behaviors all play a part to put technology in its place, we must be conscious not only of how technology is changing, but also of how it is changing us.36.Online services are so designed that the more they are used, the more profit they generate.37. The author admits using technology as an esc

34、ape from the task at hand.38. Checking phones at dinners is now accepted as normal but not belching39. To make proper use of technology, we should not only increase our awareness of how it is changing but also how it is impacting us.40. Most of us find it hard to focus on our immediate tasks because

35、 of internet distractions41. when one person starts checking their phone, the others will follow suit.42.The great majority of smartphone users don t take the trouble to adjust their settings to suit their own purposes.43.The internet is regarded by some as designed to distract our attention.44. The

36、 author attributes his tech addiction chiefly to his habit of putting off doing what he should45.White-collar workers check email round the clock because it is required by their employers2018年6月英语六级阅读理解-4附翻译 因考试政策、内容不断变化与调整，下面是给大家提供的阅读理解范文供参考，以下是小编 大学英语阅读真题及答案 因考试政策、内容不断变化与调整，下面给大家整理的大学阅读理解真题供参考，以下是小 英语六级阅读理解真题卷及答案-2 因考试政策、内容不断变化与调整，下面是给大家提供的阅读理解范文供参考，以下是小编 2018年6月英语六级阅读理解-3 因考试政策、内容不断变化与调整，下面是给大家提供的阅读理解范文供参考，以下是小编第 12 页 共 12 页