1、英语六级真题卷第一套含答案2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题（第一套）Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section AQuestions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.That which does not kill us makes us stronger. But parents cant handle it when teenagersput this 36_ into practice. Now technology has become the new field for
2、 the age-old battlebetween adults and their freedom-seeking kids.Locked indoors, unable to get on their bicycles and hang out with their friends, teens haveturned to social media and their mobile phones to socialize with their peers. What they do onlineoften 37_ what they might otherwise do if their
3、 mobility werent so heavily 38_ in the ageof helicopter parenting. Social media and smart-phone apps have become so popular in recentyears because teens need a place to call their own. They want the freedom to 39_ their identityand the world around them. Instead of 40_ out, they jump online.As teens
4、 have moved online, parents have projected their fears onto the Internet, imaginingall the 41_ dangers that youth might face 一from 42_ strangers to cruel peers to pictures or words that could haunt them on Google for the rest of their lives.Rather than helping teens develop strategies for negotiatin
5、g public life and the risks of 43_with others, fear-full parents have focused on tracking, monitoring and blocking. Thesetactics（策略）dont help teens develop the skills they need to manage complex social situations,44_ risks and get help when theyre in trouble. Protecting kids may feel like the right
6、thing todo, but it 45_ the learning that teens need to do as they come of age in a technology-soakedworld.A) assess B) constrained C) contains D) exploreE) influence F) interacting G) interpretation H) magnifiedI) mirrors J) philosophy K) potential L) sneakingM) sticking N) undermines O) violentSect
7、ion BInequality Is Not InevitableA A dangerous trend has developed over this past third of a century. A country that experiencedshared growth after World War II began to tear apart, so much so that when the Great Recessionhit in late 2007, one could no longer ignore the division that had come to def
8、ine the Americaneconomic landscape. How did this shining city on a hill become the advanced country with thegreatest level of inequality?B Over the past year and a half, The Great divide, a series in The New York Times, has presenteda wide range of examples that undermine the notion that there are a
9、ny truly fundamental laws ofcapitalism. The dynamics of the imperial capitalism of the 19th century neednt apply in thedemocracies of the 21st. we dont need to have this much inequality in America.C Our current brand of capitalism is a fake capitalism. For proof of this go back to our responseto the
10、 Great Recession, where we socialized losses, even as we privatized gains. Perfectcompetition should drive profits to zero, at least theoretically, but we have monopolies makingpersistently high profits. C.E.O.s enjoy incomes that are on average 295 times that of the typicalworker, a much higher rat
11、io than in the past, without any evidence of a proportionate increase inproductivity.D If it is not the cruel laws of economics that have led to Americas great divide, what is it? Thestraightforward answer: our policies and our politics. People get tired of hearing aboutScandinavian success stories,
12、 but the fact of the matter is that Sweden, Finland and Norway haveall succeeded in having about as much or faster growth in per capita（人均的）incomes than theUnited States and with far greater equality.E So why has America chosen these inequality-enhancing policies? Part of the answer is that asWorld
13、War II faded into memory, so too did the solidarity it had created. As America triumphed inthe Cold War, there didnt seem to be a real competitor to our economic model. Without thisinternational competition, we no longer had to show that our system could deliver for most of ourcitizens.F Ideology an
14、d interests combine viciously. Some drew the wrong lesson from the collapse ofthe Soviet system in 1991. The pendulum swung from much too much government there to muchtoo little here. Corporate interests argued for getting rid of regulations, even when thoseregulations had done so much to protect an
15、d improve our environment, our safety, our health andthe economy itself.G But this ideology was hypocritical（虚伪的）. The bankers, among the strongest advocates oflaissez-faire（自由放任的）economics, were only too willing to accept hundreds of billions ofdollars from the government in the aid programs that h
16、ave been a recurring feature of the globaleconomy since the beginning of the Thatcher-Reagan era of free markets and deregulation.H The American political system is overrun by money. Economic inequality translates intopolitical in-equality, and political inequality yields increasing economic inequal
17、ity. So corporatewelfare increases as we reduce welfare for the poor. Congress maintains subsidies for rich farmersas we cut back on nutritional support for the needy. Drug companies have been given hundreds ofbillions of dollars as we limit Medicaid benefits. The banks that brought on the global fi
18、nancialcrisis got billions while a tiny bit went to the homeowners and victims of the same bankspredatory（掠夺性的）lending practices. This last decision was particularly foolish. There werealternatives to throwing money at the banks and hoping it would circulate through increasedlending.I Our divisions
19、are deep. Economic and geographic segregation has immunized those at the topfrom the problems of those down below. Like the kings of ancient times they have come toperceive their privileged positions essentially as a natural right.J Our economy, our democracy and our society have paid for these gros
20、s inequalities. The truetest of an economy is not how much wealth its princes can accumulate in tax havens（庇护所）, buthow well off the typical citizen is. But average incomes are lower than they were a quarter-centuryago. Growth has gone to the very, very top, whose share has almost increased four tim
21、es since1980. Money that was meant to have trickled（流淌）down has instead evaporated in the agreeableclimate of the Cayman Islands.K With almost a quarter of American children younger than 5 living in poverty, and withAmerica doing so little for its poor, the deprivations of one generation are being v
22、isited upon thenext. Of course, no country has ever come close to providing complete equality of opportunity.But why is America one of the advanced countries where the life prospects of the young are mostsharply determined by the income and education of their parents?L Among the most bitter stories
23、in The Great Divide were those that portrayed the frustrations ofthe young, who long to enter our shrinking middle class. Soaring tuitions and declining incomeshave resulted in larger debt burdens. Those with only a high school diploma have seen theirincomes decline by 13 percent over the past 35 ye
24、ars.M Where justice is concerned, there is also a huge divide. In the eyes of the rest of the world anda significant part of its own population, mass imprisonment has come to define Americaacountry, it bears repeating, with about 5 percent of the worlds population but around a fourth ofthe world s p
25、risoners.N Justice has become a commodity, affordable to only a few. While Wall Street executives usedtheir expensive lawyers to ensure that their ranks were not held accountable for the misdeeds thatthe crisis in 2008 so graphically revealed, the banks abused our legal system to foreclose（取消赎回权）on
26、mortgages and eject tenants, some of whom did not even owe money.O More than a half-century ago, America led the way in advocating for the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948. Today, access to health careis among the most universally accepted rights, at least
27、in the advanced countries. America, despitethe implementation of the Affordable Care Act, is the exception. In the relief that many felt whenthe Supreme Court did not overturn the Affordable Care Act, the implications of the decision forMedicaid were not fully appreciated. Obamacares objective 一to e
28、nsure that all Americans haveaccess to health care has been blocked: 24 states have not implemented the expanded Medicaidprogram, which was the means by which Obamacare was supposed to deliver on its promise tosome of the poorest.P We need not just a new war on poverty but a war to protect the middl
29、e class. Solutions to theseproblems do not have to be novel. Far from it. Making markets act like markets would be a goodplace to start. We must end the rent-seeking society we have gravitated toward, in which thewealthy obtain profits by manipulating the system.Q The problem of inequality is not so
30、 much a matter of technical economics. Its really aproblem of practical politics. Inequality is not just about the top marginal tax rate but also aboutour childrens access to food and the right to justice for all. If we spent more on education, healthand infrastructure（基础设施）, we would strengthen our
31、 economy, now and in the future.46. In theory, free competition is supposed to reduce the margin of profits to the minimum.47. The United States is now characterized by a great division between the rich and the poor.48. America lacked the incentive to care for the majority of its citizens as it foun
32、d no rival for itseconomic model.49. The wealthy top have come to take privileges for granted.50. Many examples show the basic laws of imperial capitalism no longer apply in present-dayAmerica.51. The author suggests a return to the true spirit of the market.52. A quarter of the worlds prisoner population is in America.53. Government regulation in
