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1、1 1英语六级难度快速阅读英语六级难度快速阅读【模拟题模拟题】 （6 页）页） Reading Comprehension(Skimming andScanning)(15 minutes) Directions:In thispart,you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer thequestions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7,choose the best answer from thechoices marked A),B),C)and D).For
2、questions 8 to10,complete the sentenceswith the information given in the passage. How to Be a LeaderAt a moment when we are waiting to seewhether we have elected a President or a leader,it is worth examining thedifferences between the two.For not every president is a leader,but everytime we elect a
3、President we hope for one,especially in times of doubt andcrisis.In easy times we are ambivalent-the leader,after all,makes demands,challenges the status quo,shakes things up.Leadership is as much a question of timing asanything else.The leader must appear on the scene at a moment when people areloo
4、king for leadership,as Churchill did in 1940,as Rooseveltdid in 1933,as Lenin in 1917.And when he comes,he must offer a simple,eloquent message.Great leaders are almost always greatsimplifiers,who cut through argument,debate and doubt to offer a solutioneverybody can understand and remember.Churchil
5、l warned the British to expect“blood,toil,tears and sweat“,FDR told Americans that“theonly thing we have to fear is fear itself“;Lenin promised the war-wearyRussians peace,land and bread.Straightforward but potent messages.It also helps for a leader to be able to dosomething most of us cant:FDR over
6、came polio;Mao swam the Yangtse Riverat the age of 72.We dont want our leaders to be“just like us.“Wewant them to be like us but better,special,more so.Yet if they are toodifferent,we reject them.Adlai Stevenson was too cerebral.Nelson Rockfeller,too rich.A leader must know how to use power(thatswha
7、t leadership is about)but he also has to have way of showing that he does.He has to be able to project firmness-no physical clumsiness(like Ford),norapid eye movement(like Carter).A Chinese philosopher once remarked that aleader must have the grace of a good dancer,and there is a great deal ofwisdom
8、 to this.A leader should know how to appear relaxed and confident.Hiswalk should be firm and purposeful.He should be able,like Lincoln,FDR,Truman,Ike and JFK,to give a good,hearty,belly laugh,instead of sicklygrin that passes for good humor in Nixon or Carter.Ronald Reagans training asan actor showe
9、d to good effect in the debate with Carter,when by his easymanner and apparent affability,he managed to convey the impression that infact he was the President and Carter the challenger.If we know what were looking for,why is itso difficult to find?The answer lies in a very simple truth about leaders
10、hip.People can only be led where they want to go.The leader follows,through astep ahead.Americans wanted to climb out of the Depression and needed someoneto tell them they could do it,and FDR did.The British believed that theycould still win the war after the defeats of 1940,and Churchill told them
11、theywere right.A leader rides the waves,moves with thetides,understands the deepest desires of his people.He cannot make a nationthat wants peace at any price go to war,or stop a nation determined to fightfrom doing so.His purpose must match the national mood.His task is to focusthe peoples energies
12、 and desires,to define them in simple terms,to inspire,to make what 2 2people already want seem attainable,important,within theirgrasp.Above all,he must dignify our desires,convince us that we are taking part in the making of great history,give us asense of glory about ourselves.Winston Churchill ma
13、naged,by sheer rhetoric,to turn the British defeat and the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 into a major victory.FDRswords turned the sinking of the American fleet at Pearl Harbourinto a national rallying cry instead of a humiliating national scandal.Aleader must stir our blood,not appeal to our reason
14、.For this reason,businessmen generally makepoor leaders.They tend to be pragmatists who think that once youve explainedwhy something makes sense,people will do it.But history shows the fallacy ofthis belief.When times get tough,people dont want to be told what wentwrong,or lectured,or given a lot of
15、 complicated statistics and plans(likeCarters energy policy)they dont understand.They want to be moved,excited,inspired,consoled,uplifted-in short,led!A great leader must have a certain irrationalquality,a stubborn refusal to face facts,infectious optimism,the ability toconvince us that all is not l
16、ost even when were afraid it is.Confuciussuggested that,while the adviser of a great leader should be as cold as ice,the leader himself should have fire,a spark of divine madness.He wont come until were ready for him,forthe leader is like a mirror,reflecting back to us our own sense of purpose,putting into words our own dreams and hopes,transforming our needs and fearsinto coherent policies and programs.Our strength makes him s
