英語六級閱讀真題練習及答案

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　　英語六級閱讀真題練習1

　　About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in seeing to it thatall children, whatever their background, were fairly treated, intelligence testing becameunpopular.

　　Some thought it was unfair to minority children. Through the past few decades such testinghas gone out of fashion and many communities have indeed forbidden it.

　　However, paradoxically, just recently a group of black parents filed a lawsuit ***訴訟*** inCalifornia claiming that the state’s ban on IQ testing discriminates against their children bydenying them the opportunity to take the test. ***They believed, correctly, that IQ tests are avalid method of evaluating children for special education classes.*** The judge, therefore,reversed, at least partially, his original decision.

　　And so the argument goes on and on. Does it benefit or harm children from minority groupsto have their intelligence tested? We have always been on the side of permitting, evenfacilitating, such testing. If a child of any color or group is doing poorly in school it seems to usvery important to know whether it is because he or she is of low intelligence, or whether someother factor is the cause.

　　What school and family can do to improve poor performance is influenced by its cause. It isnot discriminative to evaluate either a child’s physical condition or his intellectual level.

　　Unfortunately, intellectual level seems to be a sensitive subject, and what the law allows us todo varies from time to time. The same fluctuation back and forth occurs in areas other thanintelligence. Thirty years or so ago, for instance, white families were encouraged to adoptblack children. It was considered discriminative not to do so.

　　And then the style changed and this cross-racial adopting became generally unpopular, andsocial agencies felt that black children should go to black families only. It is hard to say whatare the best procedures. But surely good will on the part of all of us is needed.

　　As to intelligence, in our opinion, the more we know about any child’s intellectual level, thebetter for the child in question.

　　英語六級閱讀真題練習

　　31. Why did the intelligence test become unpopular in the past few decades?

　　A*** Its validity was challenged by many communities.

　　B*** It was considered discriminative against minority children.

　　C*** It met with strong opposition from the majority of black parents.

　　D*** It deprived the black children of their rights to a good education.***B***

　　32. The recent legal action taken by some black parents in California aimed to________.

　　A*** draw public attention to IQ testing

　　B*** put an end to special education

　　C*** remove the state’s ban on intelligence tests

　　D*** have their children enter white schools***C***

　　33. The author believes that intelligence testing ________.

　　A*** may ease racial confrontation in the United States

　　B*** can encourage black children to keep up with white children

　　C*** may seriously aggravate racial discrimination in the United States

　　D*** can help black parents make decisions about their children’s education***A***

　　34. The author’s opinion of child adoption seems to be that ________.

　　A*** no rules whatsoever can be prescribed

　　B*** white families should adopt black children

　　C*** adoption should be based on IQ test results

　　D*** cross-racial adoption is to be advocated***D***

　　35. Child adoption is mentioned in the passage to show that ________.

　　A*** good will may sometimes complicate racial problems

　　B*** social surroundings are vital to the healthy growth of children

　　C*** intelligence testing also applies to non-academic areas

　　D*** American opinion can shift when it comes to sensitive issues

　　英語六級閱讀真題練習答案

　　31. B 32. C 33. A 34. D 35. D

　　英語六級閱讀真題練習2

　　Not too many decades ago it seemed “obvious” both to the general public and to sociologiststhat modern society has changed people’s natural relations, loosened their responsibilities tokin ***親戚*** and neighbors, and substituted in their place superficial relationships with passingacquaintances. However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the“obvious” is not true. It seems that if you are a city resident, you typically know a smallerproportion of your neighbors than you do if you are a resident of a smaller community. But,for the most part, this fact has few significant consequences. It does not necessarily follow thatif you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else.

　　Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within small, private social worlds.Indeed, the number and quality of meaningful relationships do not differ between more andless urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin than are big-city residents.Yet city dwellers compensate by developing friendships with people who share similar interestsand activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life, but the quality of life does notdiffer between town and city. Nor are residents of large communities any likelier to displaypsychological symptoms of stress or alienation, a feeling of not belonging, than areresidents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers do worry more about crime, and thisleads them to a distrust of strangers.

　　These findings do not imply that urbanism makes little or no difference. If neighbors arestrangers to one another, they are less likely to sweep the sidewalk of an elderly couple livingnext door or keep an eye out for young trouble makers. Moreover, as Wirth suggested, theremay be a link between a community’s population size and its social heterogeneity ***多樣性***.For instance, sociologists have found much evidence that the size of a community isassociated with bad behavior including gambling, drugs, etc. Large-city urbanites are also morelikely than their small-town counterparts to have a cosmopolitan ***見多識廣者的*** outlook, todisplay less responsibility to traditional kinship roles, to vote for leftist political candidates,and to be tolerant of nontraditional religious groups, unpopular political groups, and so-called undesirables. Everything considered, heterogeneity and unusual behavior seem to beoutcomes of large population size.