六級英語模擬閱讀訓練原文

　　How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growthwhile Japanhas been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes asa devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self-doubt bas yielded io blind pride. "American industry has changed itsstructure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be morequickwitted," according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvard's Kennedy School ofGovernment. ”It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses areimproving their productivity," says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank inWashington D.C. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people willlook back on this period as "a golden age of business management in che United States.”

　　六級英語模擬閱讀訓練題目

　　1. When the economy of European and Asian were deep in difficulties after WWII, the U.S. wasenjoying a period of_______________________.

　　2. Until the 1980s Americans began to realize their_____________was on the decline.

　　3. The loss of U.S. predominance in the world economy caused_______________.

　　4. According to the passage. some findings tended to attribute the causes of America'sindustrial decline to_____________.

　　5. What was the reason for the revival of the U.S. economy in the l990s in the author's opinion?

　　六級英語模擬閱讀訓練答案

　　1.[(economic) prosperity]

　　[定位]第1段最后一句。

　　解析：題干the economy of... were deep in difficulties是原文whose economies

　　the war had destroyed的近義改寫，答案在主句中找。主句說戰后的美國繁榮富

　　裕。題干要求填入名詞，因此只需將prosperous改寫為prosperity即可。

　　2.[industrial competitiveness]

　　[定位]第2段第3句。

　　解析：根據時間狀語1980s查找到解題關鍵句。在20世紀80年代，美國人就發現他們的industrialcompetitiveness逐漸衰落。原文中的found 和fading分別對應題干的realized和on the decline.

　　3.[a crisis of confidence]

　　[定位]第3段第1句。

　　解析：文章第2段主要是用一些具體的例子，描述美國的the retreat from predominance(退出統治地位)，即題干中的loss of U.S. predominance in the world economy，緊接著在第3段總結，說所有這些對美國造成了a crisis of confidence(一場信心危機)，即題干所問的后果。

　　4.[the growing competition from overseas]

　　[定位]第3段最后一句。

　　解析：原文就美國產業衰退的原因引申了一些人的看法，提到某些調查結果中全是關于海外經濟競爭力增長的警告，也就是說這些調查結果傾向于將原因歸結為海外經濟競爭力增長，故答案為the growingcompetition from overseas。

　　5.[A devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle.]

　　[定位]最后一段第3句。

　　解析：該段第3句中this指代上一句提到的90年代美國經濟的穩步增長，對應題干中的the revival of theU.S. economyin the l990s。答案本句中找。obvious一詞表明作者認為這時期美國經濟的繁榮主要是因為A devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle。后面內容是一些名人對于美國經濟的盲目自信，而非作者的觀點。注意避免觀點張冠李戴。