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1、2022-2023年四川省巴中市大学英语6级大学英语六级真题(含答案)学校:_ 班级:_ 姓名:_ 考号:_一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1.A Brief Introduction of Mark TwainTwain, Mark, pseudonym(笔名) of Samuel Langhome Clemens ( 1835 - 1910 ), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreve
2、rent(不敬的) humor or biting social satire. Twains writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression.Early YearsBorn in Florida, Missouri, Clemens moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, a port on the Mississippi River, when he wa
3、s four years old. There he received a public school education. After the death of his father in 1847, Clemens was apprenticed to two Hannibal printers, and in 1851 he began setting type for and contributing sketches to his brother Orions Hannibal Journal. Subsequently he worked as a printer in Keoku
4、k, Iowa; New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; other cities. Later Clemens was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River until the American Civil War (1861 - 1865) brought an end to travel on the river. In 1861 Clemens served briefly as a volunteer soldier in the Confederate cavalry. Later tha
5、t year he accompanied his brother to the newly created Nevada Territory, where he tried his hand at silver mining. In 1862 he became a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada, and in 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase
6、meaning two fathoms deep. After moving to San Francisco, California, in 1864, Twain met American writers Artemus Ward and Bret Harte, who encouraged him in his work. In 1865 Twain reworked a tale he had heard in the California gold fields, and within months the author and the story, The Celebrated J
7、umping Frog of Calaveras County, had become national sensations.Years of MaturityIn 1867 Twain lectured in New York City, and in the same year he visited Europe and Palestine. He wrote of these travels in The Innocents Abroad (1869), a book exaggerating those aspects of European culture that impress
8、 American tourists. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon. After living briefly in Buffalo, New York, the couple moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Much of Twains best work was written in the 1870s and 1880s in Hartford or during the summers at Quarry Farm, near Elmira, New York. Roughing It (1872) recount
9、s his early adventures as a miner and journalist; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) celebrates boyhood in a town on the Mississippi River; A Tramp Abroad (1880) describes a walking trip through the Black Forest of Germany and the Swiss Alps; The Prince and the Pauper (1882), a childrens book, focu
10、ses on switched identities in Tudor England; Life on the Mississippi (1883) combines an autobiographical account of his experiences as a river pilot with a visit to the Mississippi nearly two decades after he left it; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court (1889) satirizes oppression in feudal E
11、ngland.About His MasterpieceThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the sequel to Tom Sawyer, is considered Twains masterpiece. The book is the story of the title character, known as Huck, a boy who flees his father by rafting down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave, Jim. The pairs advent
12、ures show Huck (and the reader) the cruelty of which men and women are capable. Another theme of the novel is the conflict between Hucks feelings of friendship with Jim, who is one of the few people he can trust, and his knowledge that he is breaking the laws of the time by heping Jim escape. Huckle
13、berry Finn, which is almost entirely narrated from Hucks point of view, is noted for its authentic language and for its deep commitment to freedom. Hucks adventures also provide the reader with a panorama of American life along the Mississippi before the civil War. Twains skill in capturing the rhyt
14、hms of that life help make the book one of the masterpiecA.Y B.N C.NG2.According to Dr. Peter Diot, _ could be powerful enough to prevent HIV transmission.3.Flu vaccines can reduce death by about _ percent among old people.4.Global warming leads to many new diseases.A.Y B.N C.NG5.A dialect is a vari
15、ety of a language spoken by a very small number of people.A.Y B.N C.NG6.The Most Important Secret About TrustWhat Is Trust?You know when you have trust; you know when you dont have trust. Yet, what is trust and how is trust usefully defined for the workplace? Can you build trust when it doesnt exist
16、? How do you maintain and build upon the trust you may currently have in your workplace? These are important questions for todays rapidly changing world.Trust forms the foundation for effective communication, employee retention, and employee motivation and contribution of discretionary (自由决定的) energy, the extra effort that people voluntarily invest in work. Wh
