英语六级时尚阅读：姑凉们别再羡慕零号身材了 Regarded as the minimum size in US clothing, "size zero" nowrefers to those unbelievably skinny people (especiallywomen)，or trends associated with them. ...
娱乐新闻：比伯为叛逆过往道歉 He has been spending time with 18-year-old model HaileyBaldwin for the past several months. 过去几个月他一直和18岁的模特海莉•鲍德温在一起。 But in the June/Jul ...
2015年英语六级阅读材料：为何Uber模式不是各行业都适用 The success of Uber has inspired hundreds of startups to callthemselves the “Uber of X, Y, or Z.” There are now apps toorder groceries, to hav ...
2015大学六级阅读材料：孩子最爱的玩具是手机 【中英双语文本】 Yesterday, my toddler broke another toy. But this wasn't aninexpensive, plastic doo-dad. It was my husband's iPhone. 昨天，我家宝 ...
2015年英语六级阅读材料：小隔间里的工作吵闹 Ever since the cubicle was invented, office workers have dealtwith the distractions that go along with a workplace devoid ofprivacy. Sights, sounds and sm ...
2015年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题(5) It being not only possible but even easy to predict which ten-year-old boys are at greatest risk of growing up to be persistent offenders, what are we doing with ...
2015年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题(4) The word religion is derived from the Latin noun religio, which denotes both earnestobservance of ritual obligations and an inward spirit of reverence. In modern ...
2015年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题(3) Art is considered by many people to be little more than a decorative means of giving pleasure. This is not always the case, however; at times, art may be seen to ...
2015年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题(2) Art is considered by many people to be little more than a decorative means of giving pleasure. This is not always the case, however; at times, art may be seen to ...
2015年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题(1) You stare at waterfall for a minute or two, and then shift your gaze to its surroundings. What you now see appears to drift upward. These optical illusions oc ...
英语六级阅读辅导之中国高铁将降速 China‘s high-speed trains are cutting back trips， slowing down and slashing prices at the order of the State Council. The cut backs， which start on August 1 ...
They don’t call it retail therapy for nothing. Shopping can actually make you happy， a study has found. 都说购物能让女性心情变好，这可不是水口说说的们最近一份研究调查证实了“血拼”的这一附加 ...
On June 25th more than 4，000 people across the world embraced blue face paint and turned themselves into the Belgian cartoon characters in honour of Global Smurfs Day. 25日，世界各地超过4千人 ...
A staggering four out of five parents worry that their children will become addicted to Facebook， according to a study. 根据一项调查，多达八成父母担心自己的孩子会沉迷于Facebook不可自拔。 ...
2011年12月英语六级考试阅读：出差旅行Business Trip On a business trip to India， a colleague of mine arrived at the airport in Dilhi. He took a taxi to his hotel， where he was greeted by his h ...
The main part of this chapter will deal directly with the technical and artistic limitations and resources that make television unique. But some important differences between television and other fo ...
Leonardo da Vinci was the first man to suggest that growing trees add a new ring in their trunks each year. The 11 in these rings relates to the physical conditions which the tree experiences. Thu ...
Eat more, Play more—Weigh Less In the United States, 20 to 40 percent of the adult population has a "weight problem. " To many people, the cause seems obvious; we eat too much. But scientific ...
When we think of Hollywood—a term I use loosely to describe American movie production in general, not simply films made in Los Angeles—we think of films aimed at amusing audiences and making mon ...
A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people. Day after da ...
The birth of computers has brought with it a new set of opportunities for mischief and crime. Today, computers are easy to come by and many people know how computer technology 11 . More importantly, ...
Wings Across the Atlantic On the morning of May 20, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. took off from a muddy airfield in New York and headed for Paris. Fourteen hours later he was still flying. Du ...
The "standard of living" of any country means the average person's share of the goods and services which the country produces. A country's standard of living, therefore, depends first and foremost ...
The productivity of Americans employed in private businesses has declined. The productivity of workers in countries such as Japan and Germany is increasing. American machine tools, on average, are ...
The productivity of Americans employed in private businesses has declined. The productivity of workers in countries such as Japan and Germany is increasing. American machine tools, on average, are ...
Sugar is so much a part of our modern life that we only really think about it when, for some 11 , we cannot obtain it. It has been known to man for at least 3,000 years, but has 12 into common use ...
Colleges and Universities More than 60 percent of all high school graduates continue their formal education after graduation. Many attend colleges that offer four-year programs leading to a ba ...
Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language; but few people are even moderately proficient at pronouncing foreign languages. Now t ...
An industrial society, especially one as centralized and concentrated as that of Britain, is heavily dependant on certain essential services: for instance, electricity supply, water, rail and road ...
I have never attended a large company's board meeting in my life, but I feel certain that the discussion often takes the following lines. The 11 of producing a new—for example—toothpaste would m ...
Putting the Sun to Work It's a hot summer day, and you, your family, and friends decide to drive to the beach for a cookout. When you get to the beach, the sand and the rocks are so hot th ...
Although credit cards are becoming a more acceptable part of the financial scene, they are still regarded with suspicion by many as being a major part of the "live now pay later" syndrome(^Jttt). ...
Once you're prepared for a situation, you're 50 percent of the way toward overcoming nervousness. The other 50 percent is the physical and mental control of nervousness; adjusting your attitude so ...
Climate, more than any other single factor, 11 the distribution of life on Earth. Climatic boundaries establish the limits within which organisms can survive. Plants, even more than animals, must ...
Here's to Your Health As the only freshman on his school's varsity(代表队) wrestling team, Tod was anxious to fit in with his older teammates. One night after a match, he was offered a whisky ...
More attention was paid to the quality of production in France at the time of Rene Coty. Charles Deschanel was then the financial minister. He stressed that workmanship and quality were more impor ...
As a company executive(总经理) who spent ten years in federal service, I am often asked what I regard as the biggest difference between working for the government and working for a private company ...
Scientists at Sussex University appear to be on the way to 11 how the mosquito, carrier of diseases such as malaria and yellow fever, homes in on its target. The problem is that they have found th ...
Models and Monuments It is fashionable nowadays to talk about "Englishes"—surely one of the least attractive of recent coinages. But it is an indication that the great community of users of E ...
Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely enough, the answer to both these questions is yes. To some exten ...
Homing pigeons are placed in a training program from about the time they are twenty-eight days of age. They are taught to enter the cage through a trap and to exercise above and around the loft(鸽 ...
The difference between a liquid and a gas is obvious under the conditions of temperature and pressure commonly found at the surface of the Earth. A liquid can be kept in an open container and fill ...
The Story of Progress and Discovery You have probably heard it said that if you put a horsehair in a container of rainwater and place it in the sunshine, a snake will develop. It is hard to co ...
In today's world, insurance plays a vital role in the economic and social welfare of the entire population. The wish to guard against dangers to life and property is basic to human nature. By usin ...
Plastics are materials which are softened by heat and set into lasting form when shaped in a mold. Some are natural; some are semi-synthetic(半合成的) , the result of chemical action on natural su ...
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, migrations have taken place within 11 countries; the cities with their industries have attracted people away from the country. The possibility of ear ...
Fire A gift of the gods. According to an old Greek myth, Prometheus and his brother, Epimetheus, heroes of a race of giants called the Titans, were given the task of creating man. Epimetheus w ...
Laziness is a sin(罪), everyone knows that. We have probably all had lectures pointing out that laziness is immoral, that it is wasteful, and that lazy people will never amount to anything in life ...
What do we think with? Only the brain? Hardly. The brain is like a telephone exchange. It is the switchboard, but not the whole system. Its function is to receive incoming signals, make proper con ...
Like most parents, geologist Brain Atwater worries about his daughter's safety. But these days, he has an unusual concern; The public school she 11 in Seattle has unreinforced brick walls, a 12 be ...
Hope is Healthy You are about to go to the hospital for a routine surgical procedure. Which attitude is healthier? A. "I'd better find out everything I can about this operation—you can ne ...
Every day 25 million U. S. children ride school buses. The safety record for these buses is much better than for passenger cars; but nevertheless, about 10 children are killed each year riding on ...
For as long as humans have raised crops as a source of food and other products, insects have damaged them. Between 1870 and 1880, locusts ate millions of dollars' worth of crops in the Mississippi V ...
Growth of trade will depend greatly on availability of energy sources. There may still be a trillion barrels of recoverable oil in the Middle East. But the oil crisis of 1974 has 11 to renewed int ...
Computer Use in School Education Accompanying the developments in computing as a subject for study there has been a corresponding growth in the use of the computer as an aid to teaching across ...
According to the latest research in the' United States of America, men and women talk such different languages that it is like people from two different cultures trying to communicate. Professor D ...
In the last two hundred years there have been great changes in the method of production of goods. This is now also true of the building industry; for mechanization has been introduced. System buil ...
The economy of the United States after 1952 was the economy of a well-fed, almost fully employed people. Despite 11 alarms, the country escaped any postwar depression and lived in a 12 of boom. An ...
Etiquette (礼仪) The origins of etiquette—the conventional rules of behavior and ceremonies observed in polite society—are complex. One of them is respect for authority. From the most primit ...
Nearly everyone agrees that money doesn't buy as much as it used to, no matter where you want to spend it. This is certainly true of the paper money that passes so quickly through one's hands. Inf ...
To understand why someone becomes an optimist or a pessimist, it helps to understand what distinguishes them. Say you crash your car. Do you expect good things to happen after the accident—an eas ...
Social customs and ways of behaving change. Things which were considered impolite many years ago are now 11 . Just a few years ago, it was 12 impolite behavior for a man to smoke on the street. No ...
Informing the World Every day, the news of the world is relayed to people by over 300 million copies of daily papers, over 400 million radio sets, and over 150 million television sets. Additio ...
When blood is sent to the lungs by the heart, it has come back from the cells in the rest of the body. So the blood that goes into the wall of an air sac (Jl) contains much dissolved carbon dioxid ...
The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman's life spent in caring for the ch ...
No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world, but 11 suggest the figure is over 450 million. The number of disabled people in India 12 is probably more than double the ...
Making Friends in Family WHEN Joan gave birth to the first boy in her family in three generations, she and her husband were ecstatic. So were her parents. Joan expected her older sister, Sally ...
Of all the continents, the most drastic reduction in wildlife has occurred in North America, where the transition from a rural to a highly industrialized society has been most rapid. Among the vic ...
In order to give you as much help as possible, I have drawn up a list of questions that you ought to ask yourself. "Have I given thought to what I would like to be doing in 15 to 20 years from ...
If you are looking for information, library shelves are a good place to start. But if you need up-to-the-minute data or have specialized needs, you may find a computerized database more useful, le ...
What Will Space People Look Like? Once we are in space, the question arises—will we be the only ones? Will we find other intelligent beings plying (往返于) the space ways, and if so, what wil ...
