英語六級閱讀專項練習題原文

　　Apparently our intellectual seasonal cycles are completely different from our criminaltendencies. Professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, made extensivestudies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings,make the highest scores on examinations, and propose the most changes to patents. In allinstances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On theother hand, Professor Huntington's studies indicated that June is the peak month for suicidesand admissions to mental hospitals. June is also a peak month for marriages!

　　Possibly soaring thermometers and high humidity bring on our strange and terrifying summeractions, but police officials are not sure. "There is,of course, no proof of a connection betweenhurnidity and murder."they say. "Why murder's high time should come in the summertime wereally don't know."

　　英語六級閱讀專項練習題

　　1.A surprising link between changes in the season and crime patterns impliesthat__________________.

　　2.According to the passage, murder occurs most frequently in the monthsof_____________________.

　　3.According to the passage, a winter midnight is most probably the timefor_____________________________.

　　4.What unusual thing is found in May?

　　5.What are our intellectual seasonal cycles according to Professor Huntingcon?

　　英語六級閱讀專項練習題答案

　　1.[crime has its own eycles/crime exhibits some regularities]

　　[定位]根據link between changes in the season and crime patterns定位于第1段。

　　解析：本題實質上是問文章的主題。原文第1句是主題句，隨后的第3句用That is to say引出另一種方式來點明主題，故答案可以從這兩句得出。

　　2.[July and August]

　　[定位]根據murder定位于第2段。

　　解析：第2段第3句中的peaking與題目中的most frequently表意一致，因此答案為peaking之后的兩個月份。

　　3.[burglary/robbery]

　　[定位]根據winter midnight鎖定第3段第3句。

　　解析：第3段第3句中的December, January， or February正是題干中的winter;且題干中midnight是該句中的between 6p.m.and 2 a.m.的一個時間點。題干中的most probably也對應該句中的most likely，故可推斷答題關鍵在于該句中的be robbed，而由題干中的for可知此空需填入名詞，與for -起構成介賓短語，故答案為rob的名詞形式robbery。此外，第3段第1句中的burglary為robbery的同義詞，在該段中作為同一種犯罪行為而被提及，故也可為答案。

　　4.[More dog bites occur in this month./There are more dog bites in May.]

　　[定位]根據May鎖定第3段最后兩句。

　　解析：第3段的倒數第2句提到5月份有一項奇怪的統計數據，題干中的unusual thing正對應此句，而隨后的一句是對這一句的具體說明，即本題的答案。

　　5.[Peaks in both spring and autumn separated by a summer low]

　　[定位]根據Professor Huntington鎖定第4段。

　　解析：解題的關鍵詞是第4段第3句中的in a1l instances，意為“所有的研究”，實指上文提到的關于intellectual seasonal cycles的所有研究，故可推斷下文提及的正是這些研究得出的總結，只需簡單改寫即為本題答案。