英语六级阅读理解训练附答案和精讲

　　While it’s _2_ whether stock or bond prices will go up or down in the short term, it’s possibleto foresee _3_ over periods of three years or longer, the academy said. “These findings,which might seem surprising and contradictory, were _4_ made and analyzed by this year’sprize winners,” the academy said.

　　Fama, 74, and Hansen, 60, are _5_ with the University of Chicago. Shiller, 67, is a professor atYale University. Starting in the 1960s, Fama and others showed how difficult it is to predictindividual stock prices in the short run. His findings _6_ the practice of investing, leading to theemergence of index funds. Two decades later, Shiller showed that there is morepredictability in the long run in stock and bond markets, while Hansen developed a _7_method to test theories of asset pricing. “These are three _8_ different kinds of people and thething that unites them all is asset pricing," says David Warsh, who tracks academiceconomists on his Economic Principals blog.

　　The economics award is not a Nobel Prize in the same sense as the medicine, chemistry,physics, literature and peace prizes, which were _9_ by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in1895. Sweden’s central bank added the economics prize in 1968 as a _10_ to Nobel.

　　A) unpredictable B) foundation C) supplementary D) utterly

　　E) fellowship F) movements G) illuminates H) memorial

　　I) inaugurated J) separately K) created L) statistical

　　M) associated N) cooperatively O) revolutionized

　　解题思路

　　1.[B]空格在the和of之间，应为名词，且能与had laid搭配。名词库中foundation符合句意，指出三位经济学家的研究为当前资产价格的判断“奠定了基础”，同时改变人们投资方式。

　　2.[A]空格作句子表语，可为名词、分词或形容词。while提示前后分句语义存在转折，后一分句说“有可能预测”，可知前一分句应该说无法预测，故选用unpredictable。

　　3.[F]空格作foresee的宾语，应为名词。本句主要讲短期股价升跌无法预测，而在较长时期内可以预测。填入空格的词应能表达go up or down的意思，故选用movements“动向”。

　　4.[J]空格应填人副词，修饰动词made。由下文可知，这几位经济学家不存在合作关系，他们是独立做研究的，因此选 separately。

　　5.[M]空格前的are表明此处应填入名词、分词或形容词。本段开头两句介绍了获奖者的工作单位。associated符合句意，be associated with the University of Chicago 意为“来自芝加哥大学”。

　　6.[O]空格填入动词的一般过去时，作句子谓语。该句子是讲“他的研究……投资习惯，导致指数化证券投资基金出现”。revolutionized“使彻底变革;使完全不同”符合上下文语义,表明他对经济学的贡献。

　　7.[L]空格可能是名词、形容词或分词，用于修饰method。句中提到，Hansen研究出用以检验资产价格理论的方法。由此推测，这种方法应该具备实用性和可操作性。statistical符合句意，statistical method意为“统计学方法”。

　　8.[D]句子主系表语齐全,空格应为副词。根据句意“这是三位……不同的人，他们因资产定价走到了一起”，可推断空格处应表达获奖者在其他方面差异很大,utterly “完全”符合句意。

　　9.[K] were... by提示空格应填人动词的过去分词，构成被动语态。诺贝尔医学、化学、物理等奖项，是由诺贝尔“创立”的.created符合句意。

　　10.[H] a提示空格应为单数名词。该句子是讲“经济学奖在1968年由瑞典中央银行设立，用以……诺贝尔”，memorial“纪念物”符合上下文语义。

　　On Saturday, Bexar County Digital Library—a $2.4 million, 4,000-square-foot space located onthe south side of San Antonio—opens to the public. The library, built with $1.9 million in countytax money and $500,000 in private _1_, is stocked with 10,000 e-books, 500 e-readers, 48computers, and 20 iPads and laptops. It has a children’s area, study rooms and a café. Most_2_，it will have no printed material.

　　This isn't the first time a public library has _3_ to go bookless. Considering our _4_ away

　　from print and toward all things digital, the idea of the bookless library no longer seems so _5_.Around the country, a number of public libraries have undergone _6_ transformations to caterto the needs of its visitors, often by moving and _7_ its book collections to make way for digitalspaces that can easily adapt to emerging technologies.

　　Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia offers space for teens to create digital content like podcastsand video games. The District of Columbia Public Library system and the Columbus MetropolitanLibrary System in Ohio are renovating many of their locations to create all-digital areas andopen spaces for _8_ to work together. Arizona State University and the Scottsdale PublicLibrary system are even collaborating to attract small businesses and _9_ to work in librariesacross the state. In New York City, 40 of the 62 Queens Libraries have been renovated in partto increase space for jobseekers who don’t have access to a computer at home. They arefocused on programs and services like resume writing, job search tips and language classes.Public libraries now offer one program a day _10_ in the U.S.

　　A) scrutiny B) importantly C) patrons D) supplementing

　　E) innovative F) radical G) tentative H) attempted

　　I) enterpreneurs J) definitely K) donations L) consolidating

　　M) justified N) drift O) averagely

　　解题思路

　　1.[K]空格需填入名词，作介词in的宾语。此句说明建造图书馆资金的来源，从tax money和private可推断资金来源包括政府和私人捐献两种渠道，故选用donations。

　　2.[B]空格独立于主句之外，并由逗号与主句分隔开来，应为作状语的副词。根据空格前的most和have noprinted material(无印刷材料)可推知，此处进一步介绍数码图书馆的特别之处，故选用importantly,体现出与前文 的递进关系。

　　3.[H]空格位于the first time所后接的从句中，该从句缺少谓语动词，助动词has提示此处应填入动词过去分词。This指代上文提及的数码图书馆，isn’t the first time表明这种模式之前已出现，根据句意此处应选用attempted，表示数码图书馆不是公立图书馆采用无书模式的首次尝试。

　　4.[N] our表明空格处应为名词。由方位词away from和toward推断此处的名词应表示一种“趋势”名词库中的drift“趋势”为本题答案。

　　5.[E]空格位于系动词seems之后，应为表语，而副词so提示此处应为形容词。根据上文提到的This isn’t thefirst time和本句中的no longer可以推断这种数码图书馆“并不新奇”，故此处选用innovative最为适合。

　　6.[F]空格在transformations前面，应为修饰该名词的定语，描述各地公共图书馆发生了怎样的转变。根据空格后提及的make way for digital spaces (为数码区腾出空间)可推知，传统图书馆的转变很大，故选用radical“根本的”。

　　7..[L] and表明填入空格的词与moving为并列关系，应为动词的现在分词形式。by moving... collections是图书馆为数码区腾出空间的方式，故选用consolidating，意为图书馆通过“整合”藏书腾出更多空间。

　　8.[C]空格在介词for和不定式to work together之间，应为名词，构成for sb. to do sth.的结构，词库中的名词patrons符合句意，此处指“读者”。本句是对图书馆一般的描述，与“商业”、“生意”关系不大，故排除entrepreneurs。

　　9.[I] and表明空格应填入与businesses并列的名词。图书馆除向“读者”开放之外，甚至还主动招商(attractsmall businesses)。词库中 entrepreneurs 最符合此处语境。

　　10.[O]句子主谓宾结构完整，故空格应为副词作状语。本段描述各公共图书馆提供的数字化服务，最后一句对全段内容做了小结。averagely符合句意，表明美国的公共图书馆“平均”每天提供一项此类服务。