英语六级阅读训练附答案

　　Conrad Hilton really wanted to be a banker. Instead, he successfully changed the _1_purchaseof a Texas low-end hotel into a multimillion-dollar hotel empire that earned him the _2_ “innkeeper to the world.”

　　Born in New Mexico in 1887, Hilton was 19 when his parents began renting out rooms in theirhome. The business didn't interest him, however, so he became a _3_ legislator, founded abank and went off to war. In 1919, after Hilton’s father died, a friend suggested he go to Texasto make his _4_. Hilton ended up in Cisco; when his bank deal there _5_, he headed to anearby hotel, the Mobley. It _6_ to oil-field workers, so its 40 rooms turned over every eighthours. A week later, Hilton owned it. He soon acquired more hotels—and started to build newones. His first, the Dallas Hilton, opened in 1925. By the late 1940s, Hilton’s list included theTown House in Beverly Hills and Chicago’s Palmer House, as well as _7_ nightclubs featuring A-list stars. He also expanded internationally. And in 1949, he bought the “greatest of them all”:New York City's magnificent Waldorf- Astoria. Typically American, Hiltons were _8_ too: the firstto have rooms with air-conditioning, TVs, ironing boards and sewing kits. Even modern hotel-reservations systems _9_ from one Hilton which was established in 1948.

　　Today the Hilton Hotels Corp. owns some 3,300 _10_ in 78 countries. Last year more than aquarter-billion guests checked in.

　　A) soured B) motivated C) nickname D) catered

　　E) previously F) luxurious G) properties H) features

　　I) fortune J) evolved K) casual L) severe

　　M) inherited N) creative O) state

　　解题思路

　　1.[K]此处应为修饰purchase的定语，可为名词、形容词或分词。康拉德?希尔顿本想成为银行家，但后来却建立起了他的酒店王国。casual"偶然的”适合上下文语义。

　　2.[C] the提示此处应为名词。空格后的“世界旅馆大王”是一个称号，故填入nickname—词，earn him thenick?name 意思是“为他贏得了 ……的称号”。

　　3.[O]此处应为定语成分修饰legislator，可为名词、形容词或分词。空格后的legislator(立法者)通常只有联邦的立法者或州、市的立法者之分，与此语义联系最紧密的是state。

　　4.[I] his提示此处应为名词，并可与动词make构成词组。从下文提到的希尔顿所做的一系列工作推断他的朋友建议他去得克萨斯“发展”，fortune符合语义，make one’s fortune意为“发财，发迹”。

　　5.[A]此处需填人动词过去式作when从句的谓语。从本句提到的希尔顿从银行业转向酒店业可以推断当时他从

　　事的银行业“没能成功”，因此填入的动词应表示消极意义，soured符合句意。

　　6.[D]句子缺谓语动词，此处应填入过去式的动词,并可与介词to搭配。本句开头的It指Mobley酒店，根据宾语oil-field workers可推断此处应该讲这间酒店专门为油田工人“提供服务”，因此选用catered—词， cateredto意为“迎合……的需求”。

　　7.[F]此处应为定语修饰nightclubs,可为名词、形容词或分词。从后面的A-list stars可知Hilton所开办的夜总会是“高档的”、“豪华的”，因此选用luxurious。

　　8.[N]空格所在句缺少表语，空格可能是名词、形容词或分词。句中提到希尔顿连锁酒店的房间最先配有空调、电视等设备，可见其创新性，creative符合句意。

　　9.[J]此处应为过去式的动词作谓语，且可与介词from搭配。even提示本句内容是对上一句的进一步补充，还是讲希尔顿连锁酒店的创造性。动词evolved符合句意，就连现代的酒店预订系统也是来源于一间1948年创建的希尔顿酒店。

　　10.[G]此处应为名词，作owns的宾语。本段对希尔顿酒店的发展作总结，指出希尔顿酒店集团拥有多少资产，名词词库中的properties“财产”符合句意。

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　　International airlines have rediscovered the business travelers, the man or woman who regularlyjets from country to country as part of the job. This does not necessarily mean that airlinesever _1_ their business travelers. Indeed, companies like Lufthansa and Swissair would rightlyargue that they have always _2_ best for the executive class passengers. But many lines couldbe accused of concentrating too heavily in the recent past on attracting passengers by volume,often at the _3_ of regular travelers. Too often, they have seemed geared for quantity ratherthan quality. Operating a major airline in the 1980s is essentially a matter of finding the rightmix of passengers. The airlines need to fill up the back end of their wide-bodied jets with lowfare passengers,without forgetting that the front end should be filled with people who pay_4_more for their tickets.

　　It is no _5_ that the two major airline bankruptcies in 1982 were among the companies _6_ incheap flights.but low fares require consistently full aircraft to make flights economicallyviable(可行的), and in the recent recession the volume of traffic has not grown. EquaUy thelarge number of airlines jostling for (争夺)the _7_ passenger has created a huge excess ofcapacity. The net result of excess capacity and cut-throat _8_ driving down fares has been topush some airlines into _9_ and leave many others hovering on the brink.

　　Against this grim background, it is no surprise that airlines are turning increasingly to thebusiness travelers to improve their rates of return. They have _10_ much time and effort toestablish exactly what the executive demands for sitting apart from the tourists.

　　A)competition B)entertained C)coincidence D)abandoned

　　E)expense F)centralizing G)collapse H)attachable

　　I)nvested J)ultimtely K)specializing L)available

　　M)substantially N)approach O)catered

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　　解题思路

　　1.[D]此处应填人that从句的谓语动词。首句提到国际航空公司rediscovered“重新找到”商务游客，由此推断这里应该是讲有关“失去、抛弃”的经历，因此选abandoned，表示“这并不一定意味着航空公司放弃过商务游客”。

　　2.[0]have表明此处应填人动词的过去分词，且能与for搭配。catered for“迎合，顾及”符合句意，表示“他们一直都在迎合商务阶层的乘客”。

　　3.[E] the... of结构表明此处应填入名词。空格所在句提到航空公司被谴责过于关注乘客的数量，由此可知那些定期乘坐航班的乘客被忽略了，at the expense of“以……为代价”符合句意。at the approach of“在……快到的时候”，意思不对，故排除approach。

　　4.[M]此处应填人副词，修饰more。根据逗号前后内容的对比，此处应该选与low fare(低票价)意思相反的词，substantially“大量”修饰more,表示“多得多”，符合句意。

　　5.[C] no表明此处应填入名词。空格后that从句提到，1982年破产的两家大航空公司都是廉价航空，由这个共性选择coincidence“巧合”最恰当。

　　6.[K]此处应填人形容词或分词，作后置定语修饰companies,且能与in搭配。specializing与in搭配，意为“专门从事”，表示这些公司专营廉价航班，符合文中语境。

　　7.[L]此处应填人形容词或分词，修饰passengers。根据句意“众多航空公司为争夺……乘客，已导致了运载量过剩”,可判断此处的定语应该是available“能得到的”。

　　8.[A]此处应填入cut-throat(激烈的，拼命的)所修饰的名词。上文提到航空公司争夺乘客，故competition“竞争”符合此处语境，表示降低票价的激烈竞争。

　　9.[G]此处应填入名词，作介词into的宾语。根据driving down fares(降低票价)和该段首句中的bankruptcies(破产)推断此处应该是讲低价竞争将一些公司逼垮，其他许多公司濒临倒闭。故collapse“倒塌，崩溃”正确。

　　10.[I]have表明此处应填入动词的分词形式，作句子谓语。根据宾语time and effort，此处应选invested“投人(资金、时间等)”。