2024年大学英语六级阅读专项练习8试题

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2024年大学英语六级阅读专项练习8试题

　　试题1：

　　A hundred years ago it was assumed and scientifically “proved” by economists that the laws of society made it necessary to have a vast army of poor and jobless people in order to keep the economy going.Today, hardly anybody would dare to voice this principle.It is generally accepted that nobody should be excluded from the wealth Western industrialized countries, a system of insurance has been introduced which guarantees everyone a minimum of subsistence in case of unemployment, sickness and old age.I would go one step further and argue that, even if these conditions are not present, everyone has the right to receive the means to subsist, in other words, he can claim this subsistence minimum without having to have any “reason”.I would suggest, however, that it should be limited to a definite period of time, let’s say two years, so as to avoid the encouraging of an abnormal attitude which refused any kind of social obligation.

　　This may sound like a fantastic proposal, but so, I think, our insurance system would have sounded to people a hundred years ago.The main objection to such a scheme would be that if each person were entitled to receive minimum support, people would not work.This assumption rests on the fallacy of the inherent laziness in human nature, actually, aside from abnormally lazy people, there would be very few who would not want to earn more than the minimum, and who would prefer to do nothing rather than work.

　　However, the suspicions against a system of guaranteed subsistence minimum are not groundless, from the standpoint of those who want to use ownership of capital for the purpose of forcing others to accept the work conditions they offer.If nobody were forced to accept work in order not to starve, work would have to be sufficiently interesting and attractive to induce one to accept it.Freedom of contract is possible only if both parties are free to accept and reject it; in the present capitalist system this is not the case.

　　But such a system would not only be the beginning of real freedom of contract between employers and employees, its principal advantage would be the improvement of freedom in inter-personal relationships in every sphere of daily life.

　　26.People used to think that poverty and unemployment were due to ________.

　　A) the slow development of the economy

　　B) the poor and jobless people’s own faults

　　C) the lack of responsibility on the part of society

　　D) the large number of people who were not well-educated

　　27.Now it is widely accepted that ________.

　　A) the present system of social insurance should be improved

　　B) everybody should be granted a minimum of subsistence without any “reason”

　　C) everybody has the right to share in the wealth of the country

　　D) people have to change their attitude towards the poor

　　28.The writer argues that a system of social insurance should ________.

　　A) provide benefits for the sick, old and unemployed

　　B) encourage people to take on more social obligations

　　C) guarantee everyone the right to be employed

　　D) provide everyone with the right to a minimum subsistence for a certain period

　　29.The word “fallacy” (Para.2.L.6) means ________.

　　A) doubt

　　B) fact

　　C) strong argument

　　D) wrong belief

　　30.According to the writer, a system of guaranteed subsistence minimum ________.

　　A) demands too much from society

　　B) makes freedom of contract impossible

　　C) helps people take interest in their work

　　D) helps bring about changes in the relationship among people

　　参考答案：cbbdd

　　试题2：

　　If the population of the earth goes on increasing at its present rate, there will eventually not be enough resources left to sustain life on the planet.By the middle of the 21st century,if present trends continue, we will have used up all the oil that drives our cars,for example.Even if scientists develop new ways of feeding the human race,the crowded conditions on earth will make it necessary for lus to look for open space somewhere else.But none of the other planets in our solar system are capable of supporting life at present.One possible solution to the problem, however,has recently been suggested by American scientist, Professor Carl Sagan.Sagan believes that before the earths resources are compleetely exhausted it will be possible to change the atmophere of Venus and so create a new world almost as large as earth itself.The difficult is that Venus is much hotter than the earth and there is only a tiny amount of water there.Sagan proposes that algae organisms that can live in extremely hot or cold atmospheres and at the same time produce oxygen,should be bred in condition similar to those on Venus.As soon as this has been done, the algae will be placed in small rockets.Spaceship will then fly to Venus and fire the rockets into the atmosphere .In a fairly short time, the alge will break down the carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon.When the algae have done theri work, the atmosphere will become cooler,but befor man can set foot on Venus it will be neccessary for the oxygen to produce rain.The surface of the planet will still be too hot for man to land on it but the rain will eventually fall and in a few years something like earth will be reproduced on Venus.-

　　1.Inte long run, the most insoluble problem caused by population growth on earth will probably be the lack of ______.

　　a.food

　　b.oil

　　c.space d.resources

　　2.Carl Sagan believes that Venus might be colonized from earth because _____ a.it might be possible to change its atmosphere b.its atmosphere is the same as the earths

　　c.there is a good supply of water on Venus

　　d.the days on Venus are long enough

　　3.On Venus there is a lot of ________.

　　a.water

　　b.carbon dioxide

　　c.carbon monoxide d.oxygen

　　4.Algae are plants that can____.

　　a.live in very hot temperatures

　　b.live in very cold temperatures

　　c.manufacture oxygen d.all of the above

　　5.Man can land on Venus only when_______.a.the algae have done their work -

　　b.the atmosphere becomes cooler