2017年6月英語六級練習題：閱讀理解③

從最近幾年的英語六級閱讀理解真題中，不難看出，閱讀理解目前考察的方向多偏向於社會經濟、文化等方面，日常複習中我們也要提前儲備一些常考話題材料，更需要大量的練習。小編今天為大家帶來了幾套六級閱讀理解的練習題，希望對大家的學習有所幫助。

閱讀理解3-1

請閱讀下面的英文文章，回答問題：

Terry Wolfisch Cole may seem like an ordinary 40-year-old mom, but her neighbors know the truth: She』s one of the "Pod People." At the supermarket she wanders the aisles in a self-contained bubble, thanks to her iPod digital music player. Through those little white ear buds, Wolfisch Cole listens to a playlist mixed by her favorite disc presenter-herself.

At home, when the kids are tucked away, Wolfisch Cole often escapes to another solo media pod- but in this one, she』s transmitting instead of just receiving. On her computer web log, or "blog", she types an online journal chronicling daily news of her life, then shares it all with the Web.

Wolfisch Cole-who also gets her daily news customized off the Internet and whose digital video recorder (DVR)scans through the television wasteland to find and record shows that suit her tastes-is part of a new breed of people who are filtering, shaping and even creating media for themselves. They are increasingly turning their backs on the established system of mass media that has provided news and entertainment for the past half-century. They』ve joined the exploding "iMedia" revolution, putting the power of media in the hands of ordinary people.

The tools of the movement consist of a bubbling stew of new technologies that include iPods, blogs, podcasts, DVRs, customized online newspapers, and satellite radio.

Devotees of iMedia run the gamut (範圍)from the 89-year-old New York grandmother, known as Bubby, who has taken up blogging to share her worldly advice, to 11-year-old Dylan Verdi of Texas, who has started broadcasting her own homemade TV show or "vlog』, for video web log. In between are countless iMedia enthusiasts like Rogier van Bakel, 44, of Maine, who blogs at night, reads a Web- customized news page in the morning, travels with his fully loaded iPod and comes home to watch whatever the DVR has chosen for him.

If the old media model was broadcasting, this new phenomenon might" be called ego-casting, says Christine Rosen, a fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The term fits, she says, because the trend is all about me-me-media -" the idea is to get exactly what you want, when and where you want it."

Rosen and others trace the beginnings of the iMedia revolution to the invention of the TV remote, which marked the first subtle shift of media control away from broadcasters and into the hands of the average couch potato. It enabled viewers to vote with their thumbs-making it easier to abandon dull programs and avoid commercials. With the proliferation (激增)of cable TV channels in the late 1980s followed by the mid-1990s arrival of the Internet, controlling media input wasn』t just a luxury. "Control has become a necessity," says Bill Rose, "Without it, there』s no way to sort through all the options that are becoming available."

1. Who is Terry Wolfisch Cole probably according to the passage?

A.A middle-aged housewife.

B.A saleswoman in the supermarket.

C.A disc presenter.

D.An online news writer.

2. Which of the following is the characteristic of the new breed of people according to the passage ?

A.They provide news and entertainment for the public.

B.They have started the iMedia revolution.

C.They have helped ordinary people control media.

D.They choose what to listen to or watch by themselves.

3. What can be learned about the devotees of iMedia from the passage?

A.They are either very old or very young.

B.They consist of people of all ages.

C.They are located in New York, Texas and Maine.

D.They share the same interests.

4. According to the passage, Christine Rosen calls the iMedia revolution ego-casting because _________

A.people show themselves in the media

B.people get their needs for media met

C.people can watch whatever they like

D.it is the invention of an individual

5. Why was the invention of the TV remote important according to the passage?

A.Because it enabled ordinary people to control media to some extent.

B.Because it made more cable TV channels available to people.

C.Because it led to the invention of Internet in the 1990s.

D.Because it made life easier for couch potatoes.

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閱讀理解3-2

There is a certain inevitability that ebook sales have now overtaken paperback sales on Amazon』s US site. Amazon』s Kindle 2 is so light and so cheap that it』s easy to see why people have rushed to buy it. Though I』m still not keen on the design of the Kindle, it is a vast improvement on its predecessor and certainly tolerable. Beyond the device itself, Amazon has done a great job of rolling out Kindle apps, ensuring that people like me-who have an iPad but not a Kindle-can still join in the fun. Once you』re into the Kindle ecosystem, Amazon locks you in tightly-just as Apple does with its iTunes/ iPod ecosystem. It』s so easy to buy from Amazon』s store and the books are so cheap that it』s not worth the effort of going elsewhere.

While I remain opposed to Amazon』s DRM (數字版權管理)-indeed, I』m opposed to DRM on any ebooks-I have to admit that the implementation is so smooth that most Kindle users won』t care at all that their ebooks can』t be moved to other devices.

The ebook trend is nowhere near peaking. Over the next five years we can expect to see more and more readers move away from printed books and pick up ebooks instead. But I don』t think that will mean the death of the printed book.

There are some who prefer printed books. They like having shelves filled with books they』ve read and books they plan to read; they like the feel of the book in their hands and the different weights and typefaces and layouts of different titles. In other words, they like the physical form of the book almost as much as the words it contains.

I can sympathise with those people. As I wrote earlier this week, my ideal situation would be for publishers to bundle ebooks with printed ones-in much the same way that film studios btmdie DVDs with digital copies of films. There』s no reason to think that lovers of printed books will change their minds. There will undoubtedly be fewer of them as time goes by because more people will grow up with ebooks and spend little time with printed ones. However, just as there are people who love vinyl records(黑膠唱片), even if they were born well into the CD era, there will still be a dedicated minority who love physical books.

Since there are fewer of these people, that will mean fewer bookshops and higher prices for printed books but I don』t think the picture is entirely bleak. There is scope for smaller print runs of lavishly designed printed books and bookshops aimed at book lovers, rather than the Stieg Larsson-reading masses. With mainstream readers out of the printed book market, book lovers might even find they get a better experience.

1. What can be inferred from Paragraph One?

A.Most people buy Kindle 2 mainly because of its low price.

B.The author of the passage is a loyal customer of Apple products.

C.Amazon』s Kindle 2 surpassed Kindle 1 in designing.

D.The sales of ebook outnumbered those of paperback in the U. S.

2. According to the passage, the reason why the author opposes to Amazon』s DRM is that ______

A.ebooks can only be purchased on Amazon. com

B.Kindle books are not compatible with other electronic reading devices

C.once implemented, ebooks can』t be transferred to other equipments

D.ebooks installed on Kindle 2 can』t be edited freely

3. It can be learned that the trend of ebooks______

A.will come to stop any time soon

B.will reach the summit in the near future

C.will meet its heyday when printed books die

D.has already reached its peak

4. Why does the author believe that the surging sales of ebooks won』t mean the death of the printed book?

A.Because a minority will stick to their love of printed books.

B.Because the majority of book lovers won』t change their minds.

C.Because people always hold nostalgic feelings towards printed books.

D.Because people will return to the printed books as time goes by.

5. According to the author, which of the following is TRUE about the future of printed books?

A.They will be bundled with ebooks.

B.They will no longer be available in the market.

C.They will be sold in small quantity and high quality.

D.They will be redesigned to cater to the masses.

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閱讀理解3-3

Dropping out of university to launch a start-up is old hat. The twist with Joseph Cohen, Dan Getelman and Jim Grandpre is that their start-up aims to improve how universities work. In May 2011 the three founders quit the University of Pennsvlvania. to launch Coursekit,soon renamed as Lore.whichhas already raised $ 6m to develop what Mr. Cohen, its 21-year-old chief executive, describes as a social-learning network for the classroom".

Lore is part of a trend that builds on the familiarity with social networking that has come with the success of Facebook. It customizes the rules of a network to meet the specific needs of students. Anyone teaching a class would reasonably worry that students using Facebook were gossiping rather than learning useful information from their network of friends. Lore allows teachers to control exactly who is in the network by issuing a class-membership code and to see how they are using it. They can also distribute course materials, contact students, manage tests and grades, and decide what to make public and what to keep private. Students can also interact with each other.

In the academic year after launching its first version last November, Lore was used in at least one class in 600 diversities and colleges. Its goal for its second year, about to begin, is to spread rapidly within those 600 institutions, not least to see what the effects of scale are from having lots of classes signed up within the same institution.

The firm has a fast-growing army of fans in the faculty common room. Lore, says Edward Boches, who uses it for his advertising classes at Boston University, makes teaching "more interactive, extends it beyond the classroom and stimulates students to learn from each other rather than just the professor. "

Among other challenges for the company, there remains the small matter of figuring out a business model. For the moment it has none. Mr. Cohen hopes that eventually Lore could become the primary marketplace for everything from courses to textbooks, but so far the service is free and carries no advertising. Blackboard, the industry incumbent (佔有者), charges users for its course-management software. It remains to be seen how it will respond to the upstart(新貴).

The lack of a plan does not appear to bother Lore』s founders or investors, -who seem content to learn a lesson from another university drop-out, Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook: achieve critical mass in your network and the profits will follow. And after that perhaps they can expect an honorary degree from the a/ma mater(母校).

1. What do we learn from the first paragraph about Lore?

A. It specializes in producing old hats.

B. It aims to improve the way universities work.

C. It invests $ 6m in the development of social network.

D. It promotes the communication among classmates.

2. What does Lore enable teachers to do?

A. Meet specific needs of students.

B. Learn useful information from friends.

C. Control the online class membership.

D. Monitor students』 personal privacy.

3. For its second-year goal, Lore is to __

A. increase fans in the faculty common room

B. launch its second version in 600 universities

C. make more classes from 600 institutions signed up

D. spread its influence within the same institution

4. Concerning the prospect of Lore, Mr. Cohen expects it to

A. confront with Blackboard as an equal

B. offer free service to the advertisers

C. cover businesses from courses to textbooks

D. Develop its own come-management software

5. What do we learn about Lore』s founders?

A. They can』t be bothered to design a business model.

B. They learn a lesson from the success of Facebook.

C. They will not make profits without drawing mass users.

D. They desire to receive an honorary degree from the alma mater.

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參考答案：

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1.B)。

2.D)。

3.B)。

4.B)。

5.A)。

閱讀理解3-2

1.C)。

2.C)。

3.B)。

4.A)。

5.C)。

閱讀理解3-3

1.B)。

2.C)。

3.C)。

4.C)。

5.B)。