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2021年英语六级阅读理解模拟试题及答案（卷五）

The Guidford Four,freed last week after spending 15 years in prison

for crimes they did not commit,would almost certainly have been

executed for the pub bombing they were convicted had the

death penalty been in force at the time of their may now be a

decent interval before the pro-hanging lobby,which has the support of

the Prime Minister,makes another attempt to reintroduce the noose.

Reflections along these lines were about the only kind of

consolation to be derived from this gross miscarriage of justice which is

now to be the subject of a judicial(司法的) the

meantime,defense lawyers are demanding compensation and have in

mind about half a million pounds for each of their clients.

The first three to be Conlon,

Armstrong and Richardson-left prison with the 34 pounds

which is given to all departing fourth, Hill,was not

released immediately but taken to Belfast,where he lodged an appeal

against his conviction for the murder of a former British this

conviction,too,was based on the now discredited statements allegedly

made to the Survey police,he was immediately let out on bail(保释).But

he left empty-handed.

The immediate reaction to the scandal was renewed demand for

the re-examination of the case against the Birmingham Six, who are

serving life sentences for pub bombings in that city. Thus far the Home

secretary, Mr. Douglas Hurd, is insisting that the two cases are not

comparable; that what is now known about the Guilford investigation

has no relevance to what happened in Birmingham.

Mr. Hurd is right to the extent that there was a small-though flimsy

and hotly-contested-amount of crime evidence in the Birmingham

disturbing similarity is that the Birmingham Six,like the Guilford

Four,claim that police officers lied and fabricated evidence to secure a

conviction.

Making scapegoats(替罪羊)of a few rogue police officers will not be

sufficient to eliminate the Guilford miscarriage of are

already demands that the law should be changed;first to make it

impossible to convict on“confessions”alone;and secondly to require that

statements from accused persons should only be taken in the presence

of an independent third patty to ensure they are not made under

punishment.

It was also being noted this week that the Guilford Four owe their

release more to be persistence of investigative reporters than to the

diligence of either the judiciary or the investigative

reports-particularly on television-have recently been a particular target

for the condemnation of er and some of her ministers who

seem to think that TV should be muzzled(钳制言论的手段) in the public

interest and left to get on with soap operas and quiz shows.

word“noose”(Line 7,Para.1)has the closest meaning

to________.

[A].death penalty

[B].hanging

[C].trial

[D].punishment

compensate the miscarriage of justice,the defense lawyers

may_________.

[A].demand 500,000 pounds for the Guilford Four.

[B].demand 500,000 pounds for each of the Guilford Four.

[C].demand 1,000,000 pounds for each of the Guilford Four.

[D].demand a re-examination of the Birmingham pub bombings.

was there a renewed demand for the re-examination of the

case against the Birmingham Six?

[A].The Birmingham Six were believed to have criminal connections

with the Guilford Four.

[B].The two cases were similar in that both were about pub

bombings.

[C].The bombings in Birmingham happened at the same time.

[D].The Birmingham Six also claimed that there were police

malpractice’s in their case.

existing law states that________.

[A].convictions can be made on confessions and statements taken

by police officers from accused persons are valid legal evidence.

[B].convictions can’t be made on confessions alone and there

should be a third party when taking statements from accused persons.

[C].convictions can be made on confessions and a third party should

be present when taking statements from accused persons.

[D].convictions can’t be made on confessions alone and the

statements taken by police officers from accused persons are valid legal

evidence.

ing to the article,which of the following parties contributed

most to the release of the Guilford Four?

[A].Reporters

[B].Lawyers

[C].The police

[D].The judiciary

答案: B B D A A

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 on its capacity to

produce wealth."Wealth"in this sense is not money,for we do not live on

money but on things that money can buy:"goods"such as food and

clothing,and"services"such as transport and entertainment.

A country's capacity to produce wealth depends upon many

factors,most of which have an effect on one depends to

a great extent upon a country's natural resources,such as coal,gold,and

other minerals,water supply and so regions of the world are

well supplied with coal and minerals,and have a fertile soil and a

favorable climate;other regions possess perhaps only one of these

things,and some regions possess none of U.S.A is one of the

wealthiest regions of the world because she has vast natural resources

within her borders,her soil is fertile,and her climate is Sahara

Desert,on the other hand,is one of the least wealthy.

Next to natural resources comes the ability to turn them to

is perhaps as well off as the natural resources,but

suffered for many years from civil and external wars,and for this and

other reasons to develop her and stable

political conditions,and freedom from foreign invasion,enable a country

to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily,and to produce

more wealth than another country equally well served by nature but less

well r important factor is the technical efficiency of a

country's countries that have,through many centuries,trained

up numerous skilled craftsmen and technicians are better placed to

produce wealth than countries whose workers are largely

also produces a country becomes

wealthier,its people have a large margin for saving,and can put their

savings into factories and machines which will help workers to turn out

more goods in their working day.

1.A country's wealth depends upon______.,

[A].its standard of living

[B].its money

[C].its ability to provide goods and services

[D].its ability to provide transport and entertainment

word"foremost"means______.

[A].most importantly

[B].firstly

[C].largely

[D].for the most part

main idea of the second paragraph is that______.

[A].a country's wealth depends on many factors

[B]].the one of the wealthiest countries in the world

[C].the Sahara Desert is a very poor region

[D].natural resources are an important factor in the wealth or

poverty of a country

third paragraph mentions some of the advantages which one

country may have over another in making use of its many

such advantages are mentioned in this paragraph?

[A].2

[B].3

[C].4

[D].5

second Paragraph 3 is______.

[A].the main idea of the paragraph

[B].an example supporting the main idea of the paragraph

[C].the conclusion of the paragraph

[D].not related to the paragraph

答案:C A A B B

The productivity of Americans employed in private businesses has

productivity of workers in countries such as Japan and

Germany is an machine tools,on average,are

old,relatively inefficient,and rapidly becoming obsolete,whereas those of

our competitors overseas,in comparison,are newer and more

are no longer the most productive workers in the

are no longer the leaders in industrial innovation(革新).We are an

immensely

wealthy nation of educated men and women who seem to have lost

sight of the fact that everything—from the simplest necessities to the

finest luxuries—must be produced through our own collective hard

have come to expect automatic increases in our collective

standard of living,but we seem to have forgotten that these increases are

possible only when our productivity continues to grow.

One thing that must change is the rate at which we substitute

capital equipment for human put,our labor force has

increased at a far greater rate than has our stock of capital

seem to have forgotten that our past productivity

gains,to a large extent,were realized from substitutions of capital for

human ,3 times as many robots are listed as capital assets by

Japanese firms as by United States firms.

There is no doubt that robots will become a common sight in

American enting a new generation of technology,robots

will replace factory labor much as the farm tractor replaced the

technology has much to offers higher levels of

productivity and quality at lower costs;in promises to free men and

women from the dull,repetitious toil of the factory,it is likely to have an

impact on society comparable to that made by the growth of computer

technology.

word"obsolete"(Para.1)most probably means_______.

[A].weak

[B].old

[C].new

[D].out of date

author is anxious about_______.

[A].his people no longer taking the lead in industrial innovation

[B].his country no longer being a wealthy nation

[C].his people forgetting to raise their productivity

[D].his country falling behind other industrial nations

ing to the author,in his country_______..

[A].the proportion of labor force to capital investment is quite low

[B].the growth rate of labor force should be greater than that of

capital investment

[C].the productivity increases should be achieved by the increases

of labor force

[D].capital investment should have increased more rapidly than

labor force

far as the influence on society is concerned,_______.

[A].robot technology seems to be much more promising than

computer technology

[B].computer technology has less to offer than robot technology

[C].robot technology can be compared with computer technology

[D].robot technology cannot be compared with computer

technology

purpose of the author in writing this passage is to show

that_______.

[A].robots will help increase labor productivity

[B].robots will rule American factories

[C].robots are cheaper than human laborers

[D].robots will finally replace humans in factories

答案: D C D C A

Pronouncing a language is a normal person is expert in

the skill of pronouncing his own language;but few people are even

moderately proficient at pronouncing foreign there are

many reasons for this,some obvious,some perhaps not so I

suggest that the fundamental reason why people in general do not speak

foreign languages very much better than they do is that they fail to grasp

the true nature of the problem of learning to pronounce,and

consequently never set about tackling it in the right too many

people fail to realize that pronouncing a foreign language is a skill—one

that needs careful training of a special kind,and one that cannot be

acquired by just leaving it to take care of itself.I think even teachers of

language,while recognizing the importance of a good accent,tend to

neglect,in their practical teaching,the branch of study concerned with

speaking the the first point I want to make is that English

pronunciation must be taught;the teacher should be prepared to devote

some of the lesson time to this,and should get the student to feel that

here is a matter worthy of receiving his close ,there should

be occasions when other aspects of English,such as grammar or

spelling,are allowed for the moment to take second place.

Apart from this question of the time given to pronunciation,there

are two other requirements for the teacher:the first,knowledge;the

second,technique.

It is important that the teacher should be in possession of the

necessary can generally be obtained from is

possible to get from books some idea of the mechanics of speech,and of

what we call general phonetic is also possible in this way to get

a clear mental picture of the relationship between the sounds of

different languages,between the speech habits of English people and

those,say,of your the teacher has such a picture,any

comments he may make on his students' pronunciation are unlikely to be

of much use,and lesson time spent on pronunciation may well be time

wasted.

does the writer actually say about pronouncing foreign

languages?

[A].Only a few people are really proficient.

[B].No one is really an expert in the skill.

[C].There aren't many people who are even fairly good.

[D].There are even some people who are moderately proficient.