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1、2022-2023年湖南省常德市大学英语6级大学英语六级真题一卷(含答案)学校:_ 班级:_ 姓名:_ 考号:_一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1.The Internet Junkies are too engrossed with their Internet world to _ their actual life.2.Suicide rate is particularly high among young aboriginal men as they have to struggle against not
2、only employment and poverty but also _.3.Both Mark and Czerwinski noticed that some computer users relied on _ as reminders to help them cope with distractions.4.The author believes that a good knowledge of gender differences in ways of talking might eventually lead to _.5.Reaching old age, men shou
3、ld try hard to maintain good bone density so as not to suffer _.6.The garments made of electricity-storing carbon nanotube fibers are smart in that they are bulletproof and can _ with sensors.7.If a good way can be found to trap and dispose of the associated CO2, there is the possibility of continui
4、ng to use fossil fuels as _.8.Learning about a countrys culture is a show of respect and is always deeply appreciated.A.Y B.N C.NG9.Best Time KeeperWaldo Wilcox knew there was trouble the moment he saw the mauled(受伤的) deer carcass, not far from one of the meadows where his cattle grazed. His dogs, D
5、ink and Shortie, sensed it toomountain lion. He grabbed his pistol and a rope from his truck, and said, Lets get him. Then he headed up the mountainside, his hounds racing far ahead.Wilcox moved in long strides up the rocky grade. Still, it took some time before he topped the summit. The big cat was
6、 not 50 yards in front of him, its fangs(尖牙) bared, cornered by the dogs on a massive sandstone bluff.Wilcox gripped his gun. He hoped to take the mountain lion alive and sell it to a zoo; hed done that before and made a tidy profit. Wilcox took quick aim, his pistol cracked, and there was a sudden
7、silence as the animal fell limp to the ground.It wasnt until the red dust had settled and Wilcoxs pulse had slowed that he gazed around. What he saw stunned him. High on the bluff lay an archeological(考古学的) treasure trove(珍藏物) large pieces of pottery, stone shelters that once housed whole families,
8、and domed structures that had held wild grains harvested centuries before Europeans set foot in North America.Wilcox made his discovery on the bluff almost 20 years agobut it was not the first time he had found relics on his land. Since 1951, when his father bought the high valley Range Creek ranch,
9、 a year had seldom passed in which Wilcox did not come upon some spot of archeological interest. Occasionally he stumbled across burial plots.Native American CultureFor nearly half a century, he kept quiet about the riches, telling hardly anyone outside his immediate family what was hidden in the is
10、olated valley 160 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. When he discovered a new site, Wilcox would note its locationthen just let things be.Now the secret of Range Creek is finally out. Four years ago, forced by time to give up ranching, Wilcox, 75, sold his beef-cattle property in a deal that ultimat
11、ely put the land in state hands. Thanks to Wilcoxs silence, the 4,200-acre ranch is one huge, untouched archeological site. Today, scientists from Utahs Division of State History and the University of Utah are busily cataloguing magnificent, previously unknown ruins on the property.What the scientis
12、ts are learning at Range Creek has already begun to shed light on one of the greatest mysteries of Native American historythe fate of the Fremont culture, which had thrived in Utah for almost 1,000 years, then vanished virtually over-night in the 1300s.The very existence of the Fremont did not come
13、to light until the late 1920s, when a Harvard University expedition discovered evidence of an ancient people who settled along the Fremont River in southern Utah. Farmers and hunter-gatherers who arrived in the region at about A.D. 400, the Fremont lived in one-room homes dug into the earth and fini
14、shed off with stacked-stone wails and roofs made of reeds and mud. Carbon dating of corncobs found on the Wilcox ranch hint that Range Creek was buzzing with activity from roughly A.D. 900 to 1100.But right around the beginning of the 14th century, some great shift occurred. The drawings, pottery an
15、d structures particular to the Fremont culture ceased to be made anywhere. Some experts guess that other peoples pushed out the Fremont. Others speculate that some climatic event forced the Fremont to move south, where they may have integrated with other tribes.A Living MonumentIn terms of history a
16、nd archeological study, Range Creek is essential to the state, explains former governor Olene S. Walker. It gives us a view into a period for which we have no written history. She is speaking primarily about the Fremont culture, but A World That Time Forgot. Even today, the valley resembles a world that t
