英语六级阅读理解训练附答案

　　That’s why Eterna Cadencia, an independent publisher and book store, decided to createsomething different to _2_ their new authors into the market-“The Books That Can’t Wait”,which seeks to _3_ bonds between first-time writers and their readers by getting their booksread quickly.

　　What’s that? They developed the _4_ kind of ink, an ink that starts to disappear when it comesin contact with light and air. Then they printed a _5_ of works by the best new American Latinauthor, using this ink, to create a new kind of book—a book that lasts only two months onceyou open it This makes for an interesting approach to motivate book buyers to read booksmore __6__, giving first-time author’s the attention they need to survive.

　　They _7_ “The Book That Can’t Wait” for the critics and the press. The invention was _8_.Hundreds of people came to the bookstore to pick up their book. They gave away the entirefirst edition the very same day it was released. _9_ they received thousands of requests for thebook.

　　This time they had the _10_ that their new authors were read. Then they are going to use thebook as a platform for other different titles, because there’re a lot of literatures out there thatdon’t deserve to wait on the shelf. And theirs won’t wait at all.

　　A) promptly B) tolerant C) turbulent D) vanished

　　E) presented F) launch G) pledge H)triumphant

　　I) opaque J) collection K) guarantee L) occasionally

　　M) strengthen N) unique O) subsequently

　　解题思路

　　1.[B]空格在be动词后，说明books的特点，应为作表语的名词、形容词或分词。根据上文的wait, days,months，years等词，可推断此处空格的词义与“时间”或“等待”有关，此处应选用tolerant，表示“书籍很有耐性地等待我们去读”。

　　2.[F]空格在不定式标记to后，应为动词原形。上一段提及新出道的作家经不起长时间的等待，这里则讲到Eterna Cadencia设法改善这种情况。动词launch可与into the market搭配，表示“推出新出道的作家，让他们进入市场”。

　　3.[M]空格在不定式标记to之后，应为动词原形。空格后的“使读者更快读完他们的书”提示，“The BooksThat Can’t Wait”对读者和新出道的作家之间的联系起积极的作用，故选用strengthen“增强”。

　　4.[N]空格在定冠词the和名词之间，应为名词、形容词或分词作定语，概括ink的特点。这种墨汁在接触光和空气后会逐渐消失，据此可见，这种墨汁很特别，unique符合文中语境。

　　5.[J]空格在不定冠词a和介词of之间，应为名词。printed提示此处的名词应与某种印刷品有关，据此选collection一词。a collection of works 意为“作品集”。

　　6.[A]空格在比较级标记more之后，应为修饰不定式动词read的副词。根据上文对于墨汁和书的描述，可以推断这种书会让读者抓紧时间读书，赶在字体消失之前把书读完，此处选用promptly最为合适。

　　7.[E]空格在主语和宾语之间，应为动词充当句子谓语。本段与上一段都使用了过去时态，故该空格也应是动词过去式。此处应选用presented,表示“他们把《不能等的书》赠送给评论家和新闻界”。

　　8.[H]空格在be动词后，可为名词、形容词或分词作表语，说明该发明怎样。根据后一句提到的“许多人跑去书店买书”可知,新发明的这种书占有了市场，应该是成功的，故此处选用triumphant最为合适。

　　9.[O]空格位于句子开头，其后被逗号与句子其他部分隔开,可见空格应为副词。上一句提到，第一版书在发行当天就全部售完;本句则说出版商接到了许多订单。此处应选用subsequently“随后”，表明前后句子谓语动作发生的先后顺序。

　　10.[K]空格在定冠词the之后，应为名词。本题应从词库中选用guarantee,该句意为：现在他们有了“保障”新出道的作家的作品不会被束之高阁的方法。词库中其他名词与上下文语义不符。

　　Many countries have a holiday to celebrate workers’rights on or around May 1, but Labour Dayin Canada is celebrated on the first Monday of September.

　　Canada's Labour Day was _1_ celebrated in the spring but it was moved to the fall after 1894.The origins of Labour Day can be traced back to April 15, 1872, when the Toronto TradesAssembly organized Canada’s first significant _2_ for worker’s rights. The aim was to releasethe 24 leaders of the Toronto Typographical Union who were imprisoned for _3_ to campaign.for a nine-hour working day. At this time, trade unions were still illegal and what they did wasseen as a criminal conspiracy to _4_ trade. In spite of this, the Toronto Trades Assemblywas already a significant organization and encouraged workers to form trade unions, _5_ indisputes between employers and employees and signaled the _6_ of workers.

　　There was _7_ public support for the demonstration and the authorities could no longer denythe important role that the trade unions had to play in the _8_ Canadian democratic society. Afew months later, a similar demonstration was organized in Ottawa and passed the house ofCanada’s first prime minister, Sir John Macdonald. Later in the day, he appeared before thegathering and promised to _9_ all Canadian laws against trade unions. This happened in thesame year and _10_ led

　　to the founding of the Canadian Labour Congress In 1883.

　　A similar holiday，Labor Day is held on the same day in the United States of America. Canadiantrade unions are proud that this holiday was inspired by their efforts to improveworkers’rights.

　　disrupt B) enormous C) lashed D) muttering E) striking F) mediated G) originally H)perpetual

　　eventually J) emerging K) gesture L) mistreatment

　　M) abolish N) parade O) practically

　　解题思路

　　1.[G]空格在动词被动语态was…celebrated之间，应为副词。上文提到现在加拿大的劳动节是每年9月的第一个星期一，空格所在句中的in the spring和moved等词表明劳动节原先并不是在9月庆祝的，故选用originally，表示劳动节“原先”在春天庆祝，1894年之后才改为在秋天庆祝。

　　2.[N]空格位于形容词之后,介词之前，应为名词。从下文可知加拿大劳动节起源于一场工人运动，填入此处的名词应与下一段第1句提到的demonstration同义,指一场“运动”或一次“罢工游行”parade符合句意。

　　3.[E]空格在介词for之后,可为名词或现在分词。根据句意，for引出24位工人领袖被囚禁的原因，据此可推测他们因某种行为而人狱。词库中striking原形是strike“罢工”，符合文中语境，故为答案。

　　4.[A]空格在不定式标记to之后，应填人动词原形。空格所在句提到，当时工会所做的事情被视为“犯罪阴谋”,故空格的动词应带有消极含义。此处应选用disrupt，填入文中表示工会所做的事情被视为“妨碍贸易”的犯罪阴谋。

　　5.[F]结合句中多个连接谓语动词的and可知，空格处应为动词的过去式,与encouraged和signaled并列。本句描述工会当时的积极作用，根据disputes between employers and employees(劳资双方的争端)可推断此处应选用mediated“调停”。

　　6.[L]空格在定冠词the和介词of之间,应填入名词。此处仍然是讲工会对工人所起的积极作用，mistreatment为本题答案,表明工会让外界知道工人所受到的不公正对待。

　　7.[B]空格在名词词组public support之前,应为形容词或分词，说明外界对罢工游行的态度。本句后部分提到“当局不能再否认工会所扮演的重要角色”，由此可推知外界对罢工游行给予了“大力”支持，故此处选用enormous最合适。

　　8.[J]空格在定冠词the和名词词组之间,应为形容词或分词。此处说明了当时加拿大民主社会处于一种什么状态。emerging符合句意，表示“逐渐成形的民主社会”。

　　9.[M]空格在不定式标记to之后,应为动词原形。该句表明承诺会对不利工会的法律条文做出处理。动词词库中abolish“废除”符合句意，为本题答案。

　　10.[I]空格在连词and之后，在谓语动词led to之前，故应为副词。led to与前面的happened为并列谓语，这两个动作在时间上有先后之分,且led to常用于引出事件的结果或结论，据此判断此处最佳选择是eventually。