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1、2022-2023年江西省宜春市大学英语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.The most obvious difference between real essays and the things one has to write in school is that real essays are not exclusively about English literature. Certainly schools should teach stu
2、dents how to write. But due to a series of historical accidents the teaching of writing has gotten mixed together with the study of literature. And so all over the country students are writing not about how a baseball team with a small budget might compete with the Yankees, or the role of color in f
3、ashion, or what constitutes a good dessert, but about symbolism in Dickens.How did things get this way? To answer that we have to go back almost a thousand years. Around 1100, Europe at last began to catch its breath after centuries of chaos, and once they had the luxury of curiosity they rediscover
4、ed what we call the classics. The effect was rather as if we were visited by beings from another solar system. These earlier civilizations were so much more sophisticated that for the next several centuries the main work of European scholars, in almost every field, was to assimilate what they knew.
5、During this period the study of ancient texts acquired great prestige. It seemed the essence of what scholars did. As European scholarship gained momentum it became less and less important; by 1350 someone who wanted to learn about science could find better teachers than Aristotle in his own era. Bu
6、t schools change slower than scholarship. In the 19th century the study of ancient texts was still the backbone of the curriculum. What tipped the scales, at least in the US, seems to have been the idea that professors should do research as well as teach. This idea was imported from Germany in the l
7、ate 19th century. Beginning at Johns Hopkins in 1876, the new model spread rapidly. Writing was one of the casualties. Colleges had long taught English composition, But how do you do research on composition? The professors who taught math could be required to do original math, the professors who tau
8、ght history could be required to write scholarly articles about history, but what about the professors who taught rhetoric or composition? What should they do research on? The closest thing seemed to be English literature.And so in the late 19th century the teaching of writing was inherited by Engli
9、sh professors. This had two drawbacks: (a) an expert on literature need not himself be a good writer, any more than an art historian has to be a good painter, and (b) the subject of writing now tends to be literature, since thats what the professor is interested in.It s no wonder if this seems to th
10、e student a pointless exercise, because we re now three steps removed from real work: the students are imitating English professors, who are imitating classical scholars, who are merely the inheritors of a tradition growing out of what was, 700 years ago, fascinating and urgently needed work.The oth
11、er big difference between a real essay and the things they make you write in school is that a real essay doesnt take a position and then defend it. That principle, like the idea that we ought to be writing about literature, turns out to be another intellectual hangover of long forgotten origins.Its
12、often mistakenly believed that medieval universities were mostly seminaries. In fact they were more law schools. And at least in our tradition lawyers are advocates, trained to take either side of an argument and make as good a case for it as they can. Whether cause or effect, this spirit pervaded e
13、arly universities. The study of rhetoric, the art of arguing persuasively, was a third of the undergraduate curriculum. And after the lecture the most common form. of discussion was the disputation. This is at least nominally preserved in our present-day thesis defense: most people treat the words t
14、hesis and dissertation as interchangeable, but originally, at least, a thesis was a position one took and the dissertationA.Y B.N C.NG2.Discovery Channels weekly series Unsolved History is one of the best among similar TV programs.A.Y B.N C.NG3.In the United States, most of the electricity is genera
15、ted from coal or natural gas.A.Y B.N C.NG4.According to the passage, what will cause humans to live in the Eremozoic Era?A.Forests razed can grow back.B.We are losing just a few species.C.Habitat loss and climate change.D.Humans would survive on the earth.5. According m the passage, social anxiety d
16、isorder is probably because of a combination of _.6.(9)7.Earths climate would surely become warmer and warmer.A.Y B.N C.NG8.Security is als0 a big concern as Bluetooth technology has an essence of _.9.To judge how serious a flood is, we have to consider the volumes of rivers and streams in an area and _.10.Second Life s basic mem
