四六级

　　俗话说，得阅读者得天下。相信很多正在准备英语六级的考生都深有体会，六级阅读是考试的难点与重点，小编来给大家支一招——通篇翻译。翻译不光可以提高你的词汇语法，更重要可以让你了解文章结构，以及行文逻辑。在破解方法上有帮助。不过比较消耗时间，但长期练习，提高非常明显，考生可适当选择高级题目进行练习。以下是小编为大家挑选的阅读题，希望有所帮助。

　　It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidence of the depressing state of literacy. These figures from the Department of Education are sufficient: 27 million Americans cannot read at all. and a further 35million read al a level that is less than sufficient to survive in our society.

　　But my own worry today is fess that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence. those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of the classic act of reading. n has been suggested that almost 80 percent of America's literate, educated teenagers can no longer read without an accompanying noise (music) in the background or a television screen flickering (闪烁) at the corner of their field of perception. We know very little about the brain and how it deals with simultaneous conflicting input, but every common-sense intuition suggests we should be profoundly alarmed. This violation of concentration} silence, solitude (独处的状态) goes tothe very heart of our notion of literacy; this new form of part-reading, of part-perception against background distraction renders impossible certain essential acts of apprehension and concentration, let alone that most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves, which is to learn it by heart. Not by brain. by heart; the expression is vital.

　　Under these circumstances. the question of what future there is for the arts of reading is a real one. Ahead of us lie technical. psychic(心理的). and social transformations probably much more dramatic than thosebrought about by Gutenberg, the German inventor in printing. The Gutenberg revolution. as we now know it, took a long time; its effects are still being debated. The information revolution will touch every fact ofcomposition. publication. distribution. and reading. No one in the book industry can say with any confidence what will

　　happen to the book as we've known it.

　　1. The picture of the reading ability of the American people, drawn by the author, is__________.

　　A) rather bleak

　　B) fairly bright

　　C) very impressive

　　D) quite encouraging

　　2. The author's biggest concern is____________________.

　　A) elementary school children’s disinterest in reading classics

　　B) the surprisingly low rate of literacy in the U.S.

　　C) the musical setting American readers require for reading

　　D) the reading ability and reading behavior of the middle class

　　3. A major problem with most adolescents who can read is________________.

　　A) their fondness of music and TV programs

　　B) their ignorance of various forms of art and literature

　　C) their lack of attentiveness and basic understanding

　　D) their inability to focus on conflicting input

　　4. The author claims that the best way a reader can show admiration for a piece of poetry or prose is ___________________.

　　A) to be able to appreciate it and memorize it

　　B) to analyze its essential features

　　C) to think it over conscientiously

　　D) to make a fair appraisal of its artistic value

　　5. About the future of the arts of reading the author feels___________.

　　A) upset

　　B) uncertain

　　C) alarmed

　　D) pessimistic

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