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1、2022-2023年河南省洛阳市大学英语6级大学英语六级重点汇总（含答案）学校:_ 班级:_ 姓名:_ 考号:_一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1.The Next SocietyThe new economy may or may not materialize, but there is no doubt that the next society will be with us shortly. In the developed world, and probably in the emerging countr
2、ies as well, this new society will be a good deal more important than the new economy (if any). It will be quite different from the society of the late 20th century, and also different from what most people expect. Much of it will be unprecedented. And most of it is already here, or is rapidly emerg
3、ing.In the developed countries, the dominant factor in the next society will be something to which most people are only just beginning to pay attention: the rapid growth in the older population and the rapid shrinking of the younger generation. Politicians everywhere still promise to save the existi
4、ng pension system, but they-and their constituents-know perfectly well that in another 25 years people will have to keep working until their mid-70s, health permitting.What has not yet sunk in is that a growing number of older people-say those over 50-will not keep on working as traditional full tim
5、e nine-to-five employees, but will participate in the labor force in many new and different ways: as temporaries, as part-timers, as consultants on special assignments, and so on. What used to be personnel and are now known as human resources departments still assume that those who work for an organ
6、ization are full-time employees. Employment laws and regulations are based on the same assumption. Within 20 or 25 years, however, perhaps as many as half the people who work for an organization will not be employed by it, certainly not on a full-time basis. This will be especially true for older pe
7、ople. New ways of working with people at arms length will increasingly become the central managerial issue of employing organizations, and not just of businesses.The shrinking of the younger population will cause an even greater upheaval, if only because nothing like this has happened since the dyin
8、g centuries of the Roman Empire. In every single developed country, but also in China and Brazil, the birth rate is now well below the replacement rate of 2.2 live births per woman of reproductive age. Politically, this means that immigration will become an important and highly divisive issue in all
9、 rich countries. It will cut across all traditional political alignments. Economically, the decline in the young population will change markets in fundamental ways. Growth in family formation has been the driving force of all domestic markets in the developed world, but the rate of family formation
10、is certain to fall steadily unless bolstered by large-scale immigration of younger people. The homogeneous mass market that emerged in all rich countries after the Second World War has been youth-determined from the start. It will now become middle-age-determined, or perhaps more likely it will spli
11、t into two: a middle-age-determined mass market and a much smaller youth-determined one. And because the supply of young people will shrink, creating new employment patterns to attract and hold the growing number of older people (especially older educated people) will become increasingly important.K
12、nowledge is allThe next society will be a knowledge society. Knowledge will be its key resource, and knowledge workers will be the dominant group in its workforce. Its three main characteristics will be:- Borderlessness, because knowledge travels even more effortlessly than money.- Upward mobility,
13、available to everyone through easily acquired formal education.- The potential for failure as well as success. Anyone can acquire the means of production,i. e, the knowledge required for the job, but not everyone can win.Together, those three characteristics will make the knowledge society a highly
14、competitive one, for organizations and individuals alA.Y B.N C.NG2.According to Statistics Canada, most Canadian seniors over 65 try to live independently until they die.A.Y B.N C.NG3.Using Land WiselyA very important world problemin fact, I am inclined to say it is the most important of all the gre
15、at world problems which face US al the present timeis the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources.It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important, It works out to be about 1.6 per cent per annual net increase. In terms
16、of numbers this means something like forty to forty-five million additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million-rather less than six months climb in world population. Take Australia. There are ten million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less than three months to add to itself a population. Let the US take our own crowded countryEngland and Wales: forty-five to fifty
