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1、2017年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案 第1套 选词填空AfterbecomingpresidentofPurdueUniversityin2013,MitchDanielsaskedthefacultytoprovethat their students have actually achieved one of higher educations most important goals:criticalthinking skills. Two years before, a nationwide study of college graduates had shown thatmoreth
2、anathird had made no 26 gainsinsuchmentalabilities duringtheirschoolyears.Mr.Danielsneededto_27_thehighcostofattendingPurduetoitsstudentsandtheirfamilies.After all, the percentage of Americans who sayacollegedegreeisveryimportanthasfallen 28 inthe last5-6years.Purduenowhasapilottesttoassessstudentsc
3、riticalthinkingskills.Yetlikemanycollege teachersaroundtheU.S.,thefacultyremain_29_thattheirworkaseducatorscanbe measured by learning 30 _ suchasagraduatesabilitytoinvestigate and reason. However, the professors neednotworrysomuch. The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use _3
4、1_metricstomeasurehowwellstudentsdointhreekeyareas:criticalthinking,writtencommunication,andquantitativeliteracy.Despitethesuccessoftheexperiment,theactualresultsareworrisome,andmostly_32_earlierstudies.Theorganizersoftheexperimentconcludedthatfarfewerstudentswere achieving high levels on critical t
5、hinking than they were doing for written communication or quantitativeliteracy.Andthatconclusion is based only on students nearing graduation. American universities, despite their global 33_forexcellenceinteaching,haveonly beguntodemonstratewhattheycanproduceinreal-worldlearning. Knowledge-based deg
6、rees are still important, but employers are stillimportant,butemployersare_34_advancedthinkingskillsfromcollege graduates. If the intellectual worth of a college degree can be_35_measured,more peoplewillseekhighereducationandcomeoutbetterthinkers.A.accurately B.confirm C.demanding D.doubtful E.drast
7、ically F.justify G.monopolized H.outcome I.predominance J.presuming K.reputation L.significantM.signify N.simultaneously O.standardized答案：(26)L. significant (27)F. justify(28)E. drastically(29)D. doubtful(30)H. outcome(31)O. standardized(32)B. confirm(33)K. reputation(34)C. demanding(35)A. accuratel
8、y2017年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案 第1套 仔细阅读2篇Opendatasharersarestillintheminorityinmanyfields.Althoughmanyresearchersbroadly agreethatpublicaccesstorawdatawouldacceleratescience,mostarereluctanttopostthe resultsoftheirownlaborsonline.Somecommunitieshaveagreedtoshareonlinegeneticists,forexample,postDNAsequence satt
9、heGenBankrepository(库) ,andastronomersareaccustomedtoaccessingimagesof galaxiesandstarsfrom,say,theSloanDigitalSkySurvey,atelescopethathasobservedsome500millionobjectsbuttheseremaintheexception,nottherule.Historically,scientistshave objectedtosharingformanyreasons:itisalotofwork;untilrecently,goodda
10、tabasesdidnot exist;grantfunderswerenotpushingforsharing;ithasbeendifficulttoagreeonstandards forformattingdata;andthereisnoagreedwaytoassigncreditfordata.Butthebarriersaredisappearing,inpartbecausejournalsandfundingagenciesworldwideare encouragingscientiststomaketheirdatapublic.Lastyear,theRoyalSoc
11、ietyinLondonsaidin itsreportthatscientistsneedtoshiftawayfromaresearchculturewheredataisviewedasa privatepreserve.Fundingagenciesnotethatdatapaidforwithpublicmoneyshouldbepublic information,andthescientificcommunityisrecognizingthatdatacannowbeshareddigitally inwaysthatwerenotpossiblebefore.Tomatcht
12、hegrowingdemand,servicesarespringingup tomakeiteasiertopublishresearchproductsonlineandenableotherresearcherstodiscover andcitethem.Althoughcallstosharedataoftenconcentrateonthemoraladvantagesofsharing,the practiceisnotpurelyaltruistic(利他的).Researcherswhosharegetplentyofpersonalbenefits,includingmor
13、econnectionswithcolleagues,improvedvisibilityandincreasedcitations.The mostsuccessfulsharersthosewhosedataaredownloadedandcitedthemostoften-get noticed,andtheirworkgetsused.Forexample,oneofthemostpopulardatasetson multidisciplinaryrepositoryDryadisaboutwooddensityaroundtheworld;ithasbeen downloaded5
14、,700times.Co-authorAmyZannethinksthatusersprobablyrangefromclimate-changeresearcherswantingtoestimatehowmuchcarbonisstoredinbiomass,toforesters lookingforinformationondifferentgradesoftimber. Idmuchprefertohavemydatausedby themaximumnumberofpeopletoasktheirownquestions,shesays. Itsimportanttoallow readersandreviewerstoseeexactly
