2016大學(xué)英語六級仔細(xì)閱讀練習(xí)題及解析

　　Passage One

　　Questions 56 to 60 are based on the followingpassage.

　　Caught in a squeeze between the health needsof aging populations on one hand and the financialcrisis on the other, governments everywhere arelooking for ways to slow the growth in health-carespending. Increasingly, they are looking to the generic-drugs (普通藥物) industry as a savior. InNovember Japan's finance ministry issued a report complaining that the country's use ofgenerics was less than a third of that in America or Britain. In the same month Canada'scompetition watchdog criticized the country's pharmacies for failing to pass on the savingsmade possible by the use of generic drugs. That greed, it reckoned, costs taxpayers nearlyC$1 billion a year.

　　Then on November 28th the European Commission issued the preliminary results of itsyear-long probe into drug giants in the European Union. The report reached a damning~,though provisional, conclusion: the drugs firms use a variety of unfair strategies to protecttheir expensive drugs by delaying the entry of cheaper generic opponents. Though this initialreport does not carry the force of law (a final report is due early next year), it has caused muchcontroversy. Neelie Kroes, the EU's competition commissioner, says she is ready to takelegal action if the evidence allows.

　　One strategy the investigators criticize is the use of the "patent duster( 專利群)". A firmkeen to defend its drug due to go off-patent may file dozens or hundreds of new patents,often of dubious merit, to confuse and terrify potential copycats and maintain itsmonopoly. An unnamed drugs firm once took out 1,300 patents across the EU on a singledrug. The report also suggests that out-of-court settlements between makers of patenteddrags and generics firms may be a strategy used by the former to delay market entry by thelatter.

　　According to EU officials, such misdeeds -have delayed the arrival of generic competitionand the accompanying savings. On average, rite report estimates, generics arrived sevenmonths after a patented drug lost its protection, though where the drug was a big seller thelag was four months. The report says taxpayers paid about q 3 billion more than they wouldhave-had the generics gone on sale immediately.

　　But hang on a minute, Though many of the charges of bad behavior leveled at thepatented-drugs industry by EU investigators may well be true, the report seems to let thegenerics industry off the hook(鉤子) too lightly. After all, if the drugs giants stand accused, ineffect, of bribing opponents to delay the launch of cheap generics, shouldn't the companiesthat accepted those "bribes" also share the blame?

　　56. Why are governments around the world seeking ways to reduce their health-carespending?

　　A) They consider the generic-drugs industry as a savior.

　　B) They are under the double pressure of aging group and financial crisis.

　　C) Health-care spending has accounted too large proportion.

　　D) Health-care spending has cost taxpayers too much income.

　　57. What can we learn from the report issued by the European Commission?

　　A) Drug firm will use just ways to protect their drags.

　　B) Cheaper generic drugs are easy to enter market,

　　C) The report has come to an ultimate conclusion.

　　D) The final report may lead to commissioner's legal action.

　　58. The investigators seriously condemned the drug firms for__________.

　　A) they do not let their opponents to resort to the comet

　　B) they use clusters of patents to protect their products

　　C) they bribe the cheaper generic opponents

　　D) trey do not pass on the savings made by use of generic drugs

　　59. On average, the genetics will be delayed to enter the market by __________.

　　A) seven months

　　B) three months

　　C) four months

　　D) eleven months

　　60. Which of the following accords with the author's view?

　　A) Charges on patented-drug industry are anything but true.

　　B) Generics industry is a sheer victim in the competition.

　　C) Only drug giants are to blame.

　　D) Exclusion of generics industry from taking responsibility is questionable.

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.

　　Yet with economies in free fail, managers also need up-to-date information　about what ishappening to their businesses, so that they can change course　rapidly if necessary. Cisco, anAmerican network-equipment giant, has invested over many years in the technology needed togenerate such data .Frank Caideroni, the firm's CFO, says that every day its senior executivescan track exactly what orders are coming in from sales teams around the world, and identifyemerging trends in each region and market segment. And at the end of each month, the firmcan get reliable financial results within four hours of closing its books. Most firms have to waitdays or even weeks for such certainty.

　　Admittedly, Cisco's financial results have not made happy reading recently because, incommon with many other large technology companies, it has seen demand for its productsdecline in the downturn. In early February it announced that its fiscal second-quarterrevenues of $ 9.1 billion were 7.5% lower than the same period in 2008 and that its profit hadfallen by 27%, to $1.5 billion.

　　In response to hard times, Cisco plans to cut $1 billion of costs this year by, among otherthings, making use of its own video-conferencing and other communications technologies toreduce the amount its executives travel. It is also using these facilities to relay information fromemployees on the ground to its senior managers, and to get instructions from Cisco's leadersback out to its 67,000 staff. A rapid exchange of information and instructions is especiallyvaluable if the company wants to alter course in stormy times.

　　If everybody in a company can rapidly grasp what they have to do and how it is changing,they are more likely to get the job done. But some firms are reluctant to share their goals withthe wider world. Unilever, a big Anglo-Dutch consumer-goods group, has decided againstissuing a 2009 financial forecast to investors, arguing that it is difficult to predict what is goingto happen, given the dangerous state of the world economy. "We're not just going to providenumbers for the sake of it," explains James Allison, the company's head of investor relations. 　　Other companies that have decided not to provide annual earnings estimates for 2009include Costco, a big American retailer, and Union Pacific, an American railway company.

　　Some firms, such as Intel, seem to have chosen to take things quarter by quarter. Thegiant chipmaker(芯片制造商) said in January that it would not issue an official forecast for thefirst quarter of 2009 after its fourth-quarter 2008 profit decreased by 90%. Several retailchains have also stopped providing monthly sales estimates because they cannot see what thefuture holds. Retailers, chipmakers and firms in many other industries may have a long waitbefore the economic fog finally lifts.

　　61. What can we learn about Cisco from the passage?

　　A) It will keep a record of the orders from sales teams.

　　B) It cuts $1 billion cost by solely relying on its own technologies.

　　C) Unlike other technology companies, its financial reports are encouraging.

　　D) Only employees can use the video-conferencing to pass information.

　　62. According to the author, the staff can perform better by__________.

　　A) getting instructions from their senior managers

　　B) seizing what to do at hand and what to do next

　　C) having a financial forecast as a goal

　　D) sharing their goals with others

　　63. What is important in the unstable time ff a company wants to change strategies?

　　A) To issue company's financial reports faster.

　　B) To obtain the up-to-date information of company's business.

　　C) To predict what is going to happen in the future.

　　D) To wait until the economic fog finally lifts.

　　64. The reason Unilever plans not to issue financial forecast in 2009 lies in__________.

　　A) its reluctance to share its goal with others

　　B) its rapid grasp of changes in the markets

　　C) the unstable economic situation

　　D) its reduction in the cost of prediction

　　65. What can we know about the giant chipmaker, Intel in the passage?

　　A) It did not issue first-quarter forecast for great decrease in January.

　　B) Inters chain store used to report sales estimates by year.

　　C) Only retailers and chipmakers are greatly influenced.

　　D) Intel's profit was greatly decreased in 2008's last quarter.

　　答案解析：

　　56.B)。定位 由題干中的governments及seekingways to reduce the health-care spending定位到文章第一段第一句：Caught in a squeeze between the healthneeds of aging populations on one hand and thefinancial crisis on the other，governmentseverywhere are looking for ways to slow the growthin health-care spending.

　　詳解 推理判斷題。由定位句可知，各國政府一方面面臨老齡化人群的健康需求，另一方面受到金融危機(jī)的影響，所以都在尋求減少醫(yī)療保健開支的途徑，B)符合題意。第一段第二句提到they are looking to thegenetic-drugs industry as a savior，但是普通藥物只是各國政府減少開支的一個(gè)方法，并不是他們這么做的原因，故排除A);C)的說法在文中沒有提及;本段最后一句提到That greed…costs taxpayers nearlyC $1 billion a year.這里是說藥店的貪心導(dǎo)致納稅人受損，并不是說保健花費(fèi)的問題，故排除D)。

　　57.D)。定位 由題干中的the report issued by the European Commission定位到文章第二段第一句：Then on November 28th the European Commission issued the preliminary results...

　　詳解 事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。定位句提到，11月28日歐洲委員會(huì)發(fā)布的一個(gè)初步調(diào)查報(bào)告，下文開始對該報(bào)告進(jìn)行描述，由第二段最后一句Neelie Kroes，the EU's competition commissioner，says she is ready totake legal action if the evidence allows.可推斷如果證據(jù)充足，委員們會(huì)采取行動(dòng)，D)符合題意。第二段第二句提到the drugs firms use a variety of unfair strategies to protect their expensive drugsby delaying the entry of cheaper generic opponents，可見藥物公司使用了不公平的競爭手段，推遲普通藥物的上市，故排除A)、B);該句前半句提到The report reached a damning，thoughprovisional，conclusion…，可見該報(bào)告的結(jié)論只是暫時(shí)的，并不是最終結(jié)論(ultimate conclusion)，故排除C)。

　　58.B)。定位 由題干中的The investigators seriously condemned the drug firms定位到文章第三段第一句：0ne strategy the investigators criticize is the use of the patent cluster(專利群)”。

　　詳解 推理判斷題。由定位句可知，調(diào)查員們嚴(yán)厲譴責(zé)藥品公司是因?yàn)槠淅��?ldquo;專利群”這一策略，即為一個(gè)產(chǎn)品申請多項(xiàng)專利，B)符合題意。A)的表述在文中并未提及，故排除;最后一段最后一句雖然提到bribingopponents to delay the launch of cheap genetics，但是作者沒有說這是研究者們強(qiáng)烈譴責(zé)的方法，故排除C);第一段倒數(shù)第二句提到Canada’s competition watchdog criticized the country’spharmacies for failing to pass on the savings�？梢娺@里受到譴責(zé)的是加拿大的藥店，不是所有藥品公司，故排除D)。

　　59.A)。定位 根據(jù)題干中的on average，the genetics will be delayed定位到文章第四段第二句：0n average，the report estimates，genetics arrived seven months after a patented drug lostits protection，though where the drug Was a big seller the lag Was four months.

　　詳解 事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。由定位句可知，平均來說，普通藥物要等專利藥物的專利保護(hù)失效7個(gè)月后才能上市，A)符合題意。B)、D)中的數(shù)字文中沒有提及;文中提到了four months，但指的是暢銷藥品被推遲的時(shí)間，而不是平均的，故排除C)。

　　60.D)。定位 根據(jù)題干中的author's view定位到文章最后一段第二句：Though many of thecharges of bad behavior leveled at the patented—drugs industry by EU investigators may wellbe true，the report seems to let the generics industry off the hook(鉤子)too lightly.

　　詳解 觀點(diǎn)態(tài)度題。由定位句可知，作者認(rèn)為歐盟調(diào)查員們對專利藥物行業(yè)的控訴是正確的，但不應(yīng)讓普通制藥行業(yè)太輕易地逃脫責(zé)任，因?yàn)樗鼈冇锌赡芙邮芰藢＠�藥物行業(yè)的賄賂，因此作者認(rèn)為普通藥物行業(yè)同樣需對此承擔(dān)責(zé)任，D)符合題意。由定位句可知，作者同意調(diào)查員們對專利藥物行業(yè)的看法，A)中的anythingbut true的說法太絕對，故排除;作者認(rèn)為普通藥物行業(yè)也應(yīng)該承擔(dān)責(zé)任，可見它并不完全是個(gè)受害者，也不應(yīng)該僅僅譴責(zé)制藥大亨，故排除B)、C)。

　　61.A)。定位 由題干中的Cisco定位到文章第一段第二、三句：Cisco，all American network-equipment giant… its senior executives cart track exactly what orders are coming in from salesteams around the world，and identify emerging trends in each region and market segment.

　　詳解 事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。由定位句可知，思科公司的高級主管每天都會(huì)跟蹤銷售團(tuán)隊(duì)的訂單，確定各個(gè)地區(qū)的新的發(fā)展趨勢，A)符合題意。第三段第一句提到Cisco plans to cut$1 billion of costs this yearby，among other things，making use of its own video0-conferencing and other communicationstechnologies.由among other things可知，思科公司減少開支的途徑不僅僅是依靠自身的技術(shù)，故排除B);第二段第一句提到Cisco’s financial results have not made happy readin9，可見思科公司的財(cái)務(wù)報(bào)告并不樂觀，故排除C);第三段第二 句提到It is also using these facilities…to get instructions fromCisco’s leaders.可見思科公司的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者們同樣可以通過此設(shè)備下達(dá)指令，故排除D)。

　　62.B)。定位 由題干中的the staff can perform better by…定位到文章第四段第一句：Ifeverybody in a company can rapidly grasp what they have to do and how it is changing，theyare more likely to get the job done。

　　詳解 推理判斷題。由定位句可知，如果公司的每一名員工都可以迅速掌握自己目前和下一步該做的事情，他們就能更容易完成工作，即更好地完成工作，B)符合題意。A)對于公司的發(fā)展很重要，但是與員工們的表現(xiàn)無關(guān)，故排除;第四段第二句確實(shí)提到財(cái)務(wù)預(yù)測和財(cái)務(wù)目標(biāo)的論述，但是作者并沒有將它們與員工的表現(xiàn)聯(lián)系起來，故排除C)、D)。

　　63.B)。定位 由題干中的a company wants to change strategies定位到文章第三段最后一句：Arapid exchange of information and instructions is especially valuable if the company wants toalter course in stormy times.

　　詳解 事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。由定位句可知，如果公司想在動(dòng)蕩時(shí)期改變策略，必須迅速交流信息與指示，也就是獲得公司最新的業(yè)務(wù)信息，B)符合題意。第一段最后提到，思科公司可以比其他公司更快得到財(cái)務(wù)結(jié)果，但作者并未明確表　明這樣對改變公司的策略很重要，故排除A);第四段第三句提到it is difficult to predict whatis going to happen，可見公司預(yù)測將來要發(fā)生什么很難，而且文章也未涉及預(yù)測與改變策略的關(guān)系，故排除C);最后一段最后一句提到industries may have a long wait before the economic fog finally lifts，這里是指各行業(yè)所面臨的困難境況，并不是讓他們不采取任何措施，故排除D)。

　　64.C)。定位：由題干中的Unilever plans not to issue financial forecast in 2009定位到文章第四段第三句：Unilever…has decided against issuing a 2009 financial forecast to investors，arguingthat it is difficult to predict what is going to happen，given the dangerous state of the worldeconomy.

　　詳解：事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。由定位句可知，聯(lián)合利華不計(jì)劃發(fā)布其2009年的財(cái)務(wù)預(yù)測的原因是：面臨世界經(jīng)濟(jì)動(dòng)蕩;的不安局勢，一切事情都很難預(yù)測�？梢娝麄儾话l(fā)布預(yù)測就是因?yàn)槭澜缃?jīng)濟(jì)不穩(wěn)定(unstable economicsituation)，C)符合題意。第四段第二句提到But some firms are reluctant to their goals with thewider world，然后舉出了聯(lián)合利華的例子，可見后者只是前者的補(bǔ)充說明，不是因果關(guān)系，故排除A);由定位句可知，目前很難預(yù)測將要發(fā)生的事情，因此該公司不能很快掌握市場的變化形勢，故排除B);D)在文中未提及。

　　65.D)。定位：由題干中的the giant chipmaker，Intel定位到文章最后一段第二句：The giant chipmarker(芯片制造商)said in January that it would not issue an official forecast for the firstquarter of 2009 after its fourth-quarter 2008 profit decreased by 90%.

　　詳解：事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。由定位句可知，根據(jù)大型芯片生產(chǎn)巨頭英特爾一月份的聲明，2008年第四季度其利潤F降了90%，因此該公司不會(huì)正式發(fā)布其2009年第一季度的預(yù)估;可見，該公司2008年最后一個(gè)季度的利潤大幅下降了.D)符合題意。該公司沒有發(fā)布2009年第一季度官方預(yù)測的原因是2008年最后一季度公司利潤下降，并不是因?yàn)楫?dāng)月利潤的減少，故排除A);該段第三句提到Several retail chains have also stoppedproviding monthly sales estimates，可見他們原來是按月上交銷售預(yù)測，并不是按年的，故排除B);最后一句指出Retailers，chipmakers and firms in many other industries may have a long wait…可見除了零售商和芯片制造商外，其他很多行業(yè)也受到了影響，故排除C)。