六级英语模拟阅读训练
六级英语模拟阅读训练原文
How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growthwhile Japanhas been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes asa devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self-doubt bas yielded io blind pride. "American industry has changed itsstructure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be morequickwitted," according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvard's Kennedy School ofGovernment. ”It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses areimproving their productivity," says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank inWashington D.C. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people willlook back on this period as "a golden age of business management in che United States.”
六级英语模拟阅读训练题目
1. When the economy of European and Asian were deep in difficulties after WWII, the U.S. wasenjoying a period of_______________________.
2. Until the 1980s Americans began to realize their_____________was on the decline.
3. The loss of U.S. predominance in the world economy caused_______________.
4. According to the passage. some findings tended to attribute the causes of America'sindustrial decline to_____________.
5. What was the reason for the revival of the U.S. economy in the l990s in the author's opinion?
六级英语模拟阅读训练答案
1.[(economic) prosperity]
[定位]第1段最后一句。
解析：题干the economy of... were deep in difficulties是原文whose economies
the war had destroyed的近义改写，答案在主句中找。主句说战后的美国繁荣富
裕。题干要求填入名词，因此只需将prosperous改写为prosperity即可。
2.[industrial competitiveness]
[定位]第2段第3句。
解析：根据时间状语1980s查找到解题关键句。在20世纪80年代，美国人就发现他们的industrialcompetitiveness逐渐衰落。原文中的found 和fading分别对应题干的realized和on the decline.
3.[a crisis of confidence]
[定位]第3段第1句。
解析：文章第2段主要是用一些具体的例子，描述美国的the retreat from predominance(退出统治地位)，即题干中的loss of U.S. predominance in the world economy，紧接着在第3段总结，说所有这些对美国造成了a crisis of confidence(一场信心危机)，即题干所问的后果。
4.[the growing competition from overseas]
[定位]第3段最后一句。
解析：原文就美国产业衰退的原因引申了一些人的看法，提到某些调查结果中全是关于海外经济竞争力增长的警告，也就是说这些调查结果倾向于将原因归结为海外经济竞争力增长，故答案为the growingcompetition from overseas。
5.[A devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle.]
[定位]最后一段第3句。
解析：该段第3句中this指代上一句提到的90年代美国经济的稳步增长，对应题干中的the revival of theU.S. economyin the l990s。答案本句中找。obvious一词表明作者认为这时期美国经济的繁荣主要是因为A devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle。后面内容是一些名人对于美国经济的盲目自信，而非作者的观点。注意避免观点张冠李戴。