恩波：2008年12月英語六級預測試卷答案解析(二)

　　Section C

　　Gordon Parks is best known for his work with a camera. But he is an artist who has many skills. His (36) photographs, books, music and movies have (37) influenced many people throughout the world. He was the first African American director of major Hollywood movies.

　　Gordon Parks-art deals with important social (38) issues such as the poor, racism and crime. He (39) sought to help the poor and to end the racism with two very powerful weapons:his camera and his (40) creative eye. He chose the camera as a means of (41) expression and communication. He used the words and pictures to (42) explore the differences in people.

　　Gordon Parks was born in the middle western state of Kansas in 1912. He was the (43) youngest of 15 children and his mother died when he was 16. He moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota to live with his sister. (44) In the following years, he supported himself by working several low-paying jobs. Gordon Parks became interested in photography at the age of 25. He experienced growing up poor. He wanted to show how difficult it was to be poor. Photography could give him a way to express that, he thought.

　　(45) In 1941, Gordon Parks took pictures of the poor living conditions he found in the Middle city of Chicago, Illinois. In 1948, Gordon Parks began working as a photographer for Life magazine. Life magazine was the best-known cultural magazine of the time. Millions of people around the world read each issue. (46) By the 1960s, Gordon Parks was one of the most influential photographers of his time.

　　Part ⅣReading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

　　47. A person who varies his manner of reading according to context.

　　第一段第三句是對不會讀書者的概況總結;四、五、六三句則是詳細描述會讀書者�？忌�摘抄時如果只鎖定第四句，則是片面的回答。因此，概況總結會讀書者應將第三句中對不會讀書者的定義改為相反義即可。

　　48. all readers

　　空白處填入名詞性成份。文章第一段講述了三類人的讀書方式，涵蓋了所有讀書者，因此答案應為all readers。

　　49. Detection of misprints

　　空白處所填內容做主語，可以包括名詞、動名詞和主語從句。根據(jù)關鍵詞proofreading鎖定文章第二段第一句，即這類讀者不關心語義表達錯誤，而只注意校正文章的拼寫和排版錯誤，因此答案為Detection of misprints，或者Detecting /Finding out misprints。

　　50. Maintaining the same speed whatever material he or she is reading.

　　根據(jù)關鍵詞less efficient reader鎖定第一段倒數(shù)第三句。簡短回答是問什么答什么。題目問的是方式，所以把動詞原形maintain改為動名詞。

　　51. Different ways of reading.

　　本題問的是主旨，瀏覽全文，可知文章講述的是不同的閱讀方式，因此答案為Different ways of reading。

　　Section B

　　Passage One

　　52. D 細節(jié)題根據(jù)第一段最后一句“At the office conversations around the water cooler and coffee maker serve to spread even more items of information.”可知人們在辦公室里站在冷飲機和咖啡壺邊的談話可以傳播更多的信息，但文章沒有具體介紹這些信息的內容和性質，因此應當選D。

　　53. C 推斷題根據(jù)第三段第一句中的“…h(huán)ow does one sift through it all to sort out the facts…”可知，要對信息進行判斷，sift through (過濾篩選)是前提，也就是首先要接收信息，并且進行初步處理，然后才能做出判斷。作者沒有直接表達這個意思，但可以通過推斷獲得。

　　54. A段落主旨題本題關系到對文章最后一段的理解，尤其是該段第一句。開頭的a better method相當于a better approach，后面的skeptical意思是“懷疑的”�？梢娮髡哔澇沙謶岩蓱B(tài)度，反對cynical(憤世嫉俗的)態(tài)度。

　　55. B推斷題最后一段第二、三句作者對skeptic(懷疑論者)和cynic(憤世嫉俗者)作了區(qū)分。前者“提倡用證據(jù)來證實或否定某一觀點的正確性”，因而合乎情理;后者“拒絕新觀點僅僅因為這些觀點的新穎”，顯得過于極端。