2016年6月英語六級閱讀理解真題及答案解析「卷二」
英語六級閱讀包括一篇選詞填空、一篇段落匹配題、兩篇仔細閱讀.下面是小編整理的2016年英語六級閱讀理解真題及答案解析，歡迎閱讀!
選詞填空 Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on ,Answer Street 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.
The robotics revolution is set to bring humans face to face with an old fear—man-made creations as smart and capable as we are but without a moral compass. As robots take on ever more complex roles, the question naturally 26__________ : Who will be responsible when they do something wrong? Manufacturers? Users? Software writers? The answer depends on the robot.
Robots already save us time, money and energy. In the future, they will improve our health care, social welfare and standard of living. The 27__________ of computational power and engineering advances will 28__________ enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled, 29__________ use of driver less cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving accidents and countless home and service-industry uses for robots, from street cleaning to food preparation.
But there are 30__________ to be problems. Robot cars will crash. A drone (遙控飛行器)operator will 31__________ someone's privacy. A robotic lawn mower will run over a neighbor's cat. Juries sympathetic to the 32__________ of machines will punish entrepreneurs with company-crushing 33__________ and damages. What should governments do to protect people while 34__________ space for innovation?
Big, complicated systems on which much public safety depends, like driver less cars, should be built, 35__________ and sold by manufacturers who take responsibility for ensuring safety and are liable for accidents. Governments should set safety requirements and then let insurer sprice the risk of the robots based on the manufacturer's driving record, not the passenger's.
A. arises
B. ascends
C. bound
D. combination
E. definite
F. eventually
G. interfere
H. invade
I. manifesting
J. penalties
K. preserving
L. programmed
M. proximately
N. victims
O. Widespread
段落匹配 Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Reform and Medical Costs
[A] Americans are deeply concerned about the relentless rise in health care costs and health insurance premiums. They need to know if reform will help solve the problem. The answer is that no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs. The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental (漸進的)gains.
[B] The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee would implement or test many reforms that should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term. As a report in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded, "Pretty much every proposed innovation found in the health policy literature these days is contained in these measures."
[C] Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.
[D] Here are some of the important proposals in the House and Senate bills to try to address those problems, and why it is hard to know how well they will work.
[E] Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals,nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to organize work. This proposal could save Medicare more than $100 billion over the next decade. If private plans demanded similar productivity savings from providers, and refused to let providers shift additional costs to them, the savings could be much larger. Critics say Congress will give in to lobbyists and let inefficient providers off the hook That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong up aygo” rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.
[F] The Senate Finance bill would impose an excise tax(消費稅)on health insurance plans that cost more than $8,000 for an individual or $21,000 for a family. It would most likely cause insurers to redesign plans to fall beneath the threshold. Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it. Economists project that most employers would shift money from expensive health benefits into wages. The House bill has no similar tax. The final legislation should.
[G] Any doctor who has wrestled with multiple forms from different insurers, or patients who have tried to understand their own parade of statements, know that simplification ought to save money. When the health insurance industry was still cooperating in reform efforts, it strade group offered to provide standardized forms for automated processing. It estimated that step would save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade. The bills would lock that pledge into law.
[H] The stimulus package provided money to convert the inefficient, paper-driven medical system to electronic records that can be easily viewed and transmitted. This requires open investments to help doctors convert. In time it should help restrain costs by eliminating redundant tests, preventing drug interactions, and helping doctors find the best treatments.
[I] Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality or effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high. Most agree that the solution is to push doctors to accept fixed payments to care for a particular illness or for a patient's needs over a year. No one knows how to make that happen quickly. The bills in both houses would start pilot projects within Medicare. They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly. For the most part, these experiments rely on incentive payments to get doctors to try them.
[J] Testing innovations do no good unless the good experiments are identified and expanded and the bad ones are dropped. The Senate bill would create an independent commission to monitor the pilot programs and recommend changes in Medicare's payment policies to urge providers to adopt reforms that work. The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.
[K] The bills in both chambers would create health insurance exchanges on which small businesses and individuals could choose from an array of private plans and possibly a public option. All the plans would have to provide standard benefit packages that would be easy to compare. To get access to millions of new customers, insurers would have a strong incentive to sell on the exchange. And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.
[L] The final legislation might throw a public plan into the competition, but thanks to the fierce opposition of the insurance industry and Republican critics, it might not save much money. The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.
[M] The president's stimulus package is pumping money into research to compare how well various treatments work. Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate (前列腺)cancer? Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its common competitors? The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.
[N] Critics have charged that this sensible idea would lead to rationing of care. (That would be true only if you believed that patients should have an unrestrained right to treatments proven to be inferior.) As a result, the bills do not require, as they should, that the results of these studies be used to set payment rates in Medicare.
[O] Congress needs to find the courage to allow Medicare to pay preferentially for treatment sproven to be superior. Sometimes the best treatment might be the most expensive. But overall, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.
[P] The House bill would authorize the secretary of health and human services to negotiate drug prices in Medicare and Medicaid. Some authoritative analysts doubt that the secretary would get better deals than private insurers already get. We believe negotiation could work. It does in other countries.
[Q] Missing from these bills is any serious attempt to rein in malpractice costs. Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in "defensive medicine" by performing tests and treatment sprimarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.
注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
36. With a tax imposed on expensive health insurance plans, most employers will likely transfer money from health expenses into wages.
37. Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find it hard to influence lawmakers.
38. It is not easy to curb the rising medical costs in America.
39. Standardization of forms for automatic processing will save a lot of medical expenses.
40. Republicans and the insurance industry are strongly opposed to the creation of a public insurance plan.
41. Conversion of paper to electronic medical records will help eliminate redundant tests and prevent drug interactions.
42. The high cost of medical services and unnecessary tests and treatments have driven up medical expenses.
43. One main factor that has driven up medical expenses is that doctors are compensated for the amount of care rather than its effect.
44. Contrary to analysts' doubts, the author believes drug prices may be lowered through negotiation.
45. Fair competition might create a strong incentive for insurers to charge less.
Section C 仔細閱讀
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A. , B. , C. and D.. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, fanners in developing countries are using raw sewage (下水道污水)to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.
While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.
"There is a large potential for waste water agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.
The report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food. Most of these operations draw irrigation water from local rivers or lakes.Unlike developed cities, however, these areas lack advanced water-treatment facilities, and rivers effectively become sewers (下水道).
When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed. Nearly 2.2 million people die each year because of diarrhea-related (與腹瀉相關的) diseases, according to WHO statistics.More than 80% of those cases can be attributed to contact with contaminated water and a lack of proper sanitation. But Pay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks.
Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.
Agriculture is a water-intensive business, accounting for nearly 70% of global fresh water consumption.
In poor, dry regions, untreated waste water is the only viable irrigation source to keep fannersin business. In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.
Irrigation is the primary agricultural use of human waste in the developing world. But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.
In most cases, the human waste is used on grain crops, which are eventually cooked,minimizing the risk of transmitting water-borne diseases. With fertilizer prices jumping nearly50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.
In cases where sewage mud is used, expensive chemical fertilizer use can be avoided. The mud contains the same critical nutrients.
"Overly strict standards often fail," James Bartram, a WHO water-health expert, said. "We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason."
46. What does the author say about the use of raw sewage for farming?
A. Its risks cannot be overestimated.
B. It should be forbidden altogether.
C. Its benefits outweigh the hazards involved.
D. It is polluting millions of acres of cropland.
47. What is the main problem caused by the use of waste water for irrigation?
A. Rivers and lakes nearby will gradually become contaminated.
B. It will drive producers of chemical fertilizers out of business.
C. Farmers and consumers may be affected by harmful bacteria.
D. It will make the farm produce less competitive on the market.
48. What is environmental scientist Pay Drechsel's attitude towards the use of untreated human waste in agriculture?
A. Favorable.
B. Skeptical.
C. Indifferent.
D. Responsible.
49. What does Pay Drechsel think of the risks involved in using untreated human waste for farming?
A. They have been somewhat exaggerated.
B. They can be dealt with through education.
C. They will be minimized with new technology.
D. They can be addressed by improved sanitation.
50. What do we learn about James Bartram's position on the use of human waste for farming?
A. He echoes Pay Drechsel's opinion on the issue.
B. He challenges Liqa Raschid-Sally's conclusion.
C. He thinks it the only way out of the current food crisis.
D. He deems it indispensable for combating global poverty.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
These days, nobody needs to cook. Families graze on high-cholesterol take-ways and microwaved ready-meals. Cooking is an occasional hobby and a vehicle for celebrity chefs.Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modem house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21st-century home.
The money spent on kitchens has risen with their status. In America the kitchen market is now worth $170 billion, five times the country's film industry. In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide. The average budget for a"major" kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering$54,000; even a "minor" improvement cost on average $18,000.
Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson& Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost ￡145,000-155,000—excluding building, plumbing and electrical work. Its big selling point is that nobody else will have it: "You won't see this kitchen anywhere else in the world."
The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design show case for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change. Right into the early 20thcentury, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible. That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.
But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes. One of the pioneers of a radical new way of thinking about the kitchen was Catharine Esther Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe. In American Woman's Home, published in 1869, the Beecher sisters recommended a scientific approach to household management, designed to enhance the efficiency of a woman's work and promote order.
Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American,Christine Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the housewife. Her 1919 work,Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home, was based on detailed observation of a housewife's daily routine. She borrowed the principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied it to domestic tasks on the kitchen floor.
Frederick's central idea, that stove, sink and kitchen table must be placed in such a relation that useless steps are avoided entirely", inspired the first fully fitted kitchen, designed in the1920s by Margarete Schütter-Lihotsky. It was a modernist triumph, and many elements remain central features of today's kitchen.
51. What does the author say about the kitchen of today?
A. It is where housewives display their cooking skills.
B. It is where the family entertains important guests.
C. It has become something odd in a modem house.
D. It is regarded as the center of a modem home.
52. Why does the Georgian-style kitchen sell at a very high price?
A. It is believed to have tremendous artistic value.
B. No duplicate is to be found in any other place.
C. It is manufactured by a famous British company.
D. No other manufacturer can produce anything like it.
53. What does the change in the status of the kitchen reflect?
A. Improved living conditions.
B. Women's elevated status.
C. Technological progress.
D. Social change.
54. What was the Beecher sisters' idea of a kitchen?
A. A place where women could work more efficiently.
B. A place where high technology could be applied.
C. A place of interest to the educated people.
D. A place to experiment with new ideas.
55. What do we learn about today's kitchen?
A. It represents the rapid technological advance in people's daily life.
B. Many of its central features are no different from those of the 1920s.
C. It has been transformed beyond recognition.
D. Many of its functions have changed greatly.
閱讀參考答案
26 [A]空格位于句末，前面是副詞 naturally 和主語 the question,因此應填入不及物動詞，充當句子謂語。由 As 從句中 take on 所用的一般現在時，可知填入的動詞應是第三人稱單數。上文提到人們懼怕機器人缺乏道德界限(without a moral compass),空格后是具體的問題，因此本句應表示問題自然“出現，引起”，故arises 符合要求。另一個第三人稱單數動詞是 ascends“上升;攀登”，與 question 搭配不當。
27[D]由空格前的 the 和空格后的 of 可知此處應填入名詞。介詞 of 后是兩個并列的名詞結構：computational power“計算能力”和 engineering advances“工程學發展”。由此可知名詞中combination“結合體”符合語義邏輯。
28 [F]空格位于助動詞 will 和謂語動詞 enable 之間，故應填入副詞。本句表示某物能夠降低殘疾人的家庭護理費用。副詞中符合語義邏輯的是 eventually“終于，最終”。
29[O]空格在名詞 use 之前，故應填入形空詞或分詞。本句的結構是... use of driverless cars and countless... uses for robots,因此填入的詞與 countless“無數的”語義相關，應指運用得“多”或“廣”，故填入widespread “廣泛的，普遍的”,指機器人最終將普遍運用在無人駕駛汽車、家用和服務業等方面。
30[C]空格處應填入分詞或形容詞，構成 be... to 的搭配。上文提到機器人最終會普遍運用，本句用 but 轉折，提到 problems“問題”，接著下文列舉了具體的問題，因此空格處填入 bound“肯定的，一定的”，指“問題肯定會有”。
31 [H]空格前的 will 表明此處應填入及物動詞原形，與后面的名詞 privacy“隱私”構成搭配。invade“入侵，侵犯”符合要求，指無人機可能會“侵犯”別人的隱私。
32 [N]空格在 the 和 of 之間，故應填入名詞。本句指陪審團對機器的……表示同情，會讓企業家受到懲罰。上文說機器人會發生碰撞，無人機侵犯隱私，機器人割草機軋壓鄰居家的貓。這些都是機器的“受害者”，故victims “受害人，犧牲品”符合語義邏輯。
33 [J]空格前的 company-crushing 是復合形容詞，表示“令公司壓力大的，可摧毀公司的”，故應填入與damages “賠償金”并列的名詞，形式上也是復數，作 punish 的間接賓語。故 penalties“罰金”符合要求。
34 [K]空格前的 while 是連詞，故應填入動名詞形式。由賓語 space“空間”,可知搭配恰當的是preserving“保護，保留”，句子意為：政府在給創新“保留”空間時，應該做些什么來保護人們呢?
35[L]空格與過去分詞 built 和 sold 并列，故也應是表被動的過去分詞形式。本句指大型復雜系統(systems)應該由廠商創建……并銷售。符合語義邏輯、并與 systems 搭配的是 programmed“規劃”。
36 [F]【譯文】昂貴的醫保計劃會被征稅，因此大多數雇主可能會將用在醫保上的支出轉移到工資上來。
【定位解析】根據題目關鍵詞 tax,health insurance plans, money 和 wages 定位到 F 段。該段倒數第 3 句指出，經濟學家預計，大多數雇主會將用在醫保上的支出轉移到工資上來。題目中的 transfer money是原文 shift money 的同義轉述，expensive health insurance plans 與原文 expensive health benefits 對應，同時題目復現了原文的 wages 一詞，故答案為 F 段。
37[J]【譯文】國會將通過或者否決全部的改革措施，這樣說客就很難對立法者產生影響。
【定位解析】根據題目關鍵詞 Changes，be approved or rejected as a whole 和 lawmakers 査找到 J段最后一句。該句指出，國會只能通過或者否決全部的改革措施，這樣一來，狹隘的利益游說集團將很難迫使立法者順從他們的意愿。本題復現了原詞 changes 及 be approved or rejected as a whole，題目中的influence lawmakers 是對原文 bend lawmakers to their will 的同義轉述，故答案為 J 段。
38 [A]【譯文】美國醫療成本的上漲難以控制。
【定位解析】根據題目關鍵詞 not easy 和 the rising medical costs 可査找到 A 段第 3 句。該句指出，根本就不存在一個方案能夠輕易地控制醫療成本的增加。題目中的 not easy 是對原文 no one has an easy fix的同義轉述，故答案為 A 段。
39 [G]【譯文】標準的自動化處理流程可以幫助節省一大筆醫療開支。
【定位解析】根據題目關鍵詞 standardization of forms for automatic processing 定位至 G 段。該段第 2、3 句提到，其行業集團曾主動為自動化處理流程提供標準化的表格。該舉措能在未來十年里節省上千億美元。題目是對原文這兩句的同義概括，故 G 段為答案。
40 [L]【譯文】共和黨和保險行業強烈反對設立公共醫保計劃。
【定位解析】根據題目關鍵詞 republicans and the insurance industry，strongly opposed 和 public insurance plan 定位到 L 段第 1 句。該句指出，由于保險行業和共和黨批評者的強烈反對，這個計劃可能無法節省太多的錢。題目復現了原詞 insurance industry 和 public plan，而 strongly opposed 是對原文 fierce opposition 的同義轉述，故 L 段為答案。
41 [H]【譯文】把紙質病歷轉換為電子醫療記錄可以幫助篩除不必要的檢查，防止藥物相互作用。
【定位解析】根據題目關鍵詞 electronic records，redundant tests 和 drug interactions 定位到 H段。該段最后一句指出，電子醫療記錄將能篩除不必要的檢查、防止藥物相互作用、幫助醫生確定最佳治療方案，以實現節省成本。題目中的 conversion 對應了原文的 convert，故答案為 H 段。
42 [C]【譯文】醫療服務的成本過高以及不必要的試驗和診療推動醫療費用的上漲。
【定位解析】根據題目關鍵詞 high cost，unnecessary tests and treatments 和 driven up 定位到 C段。本段指出，醫療費增長快的主要原因是醫療服務收費過高以及醫院和醫生會給病人安排多余的診療項目。題目中的 high cost 對應原文的 high prices, unnecessary tests and treatments 是對原文unnecessary care delivered... perform a lot more tests and treatments 的概括，而 driven up 對應文中的 rises,所以答案為 C 段。
43[I]【譯文】導致醫療成本增加的一個主要因素是醫生是按提供診療的次數而非診療的效果收費。
【定位解析】根據題目關鍵詞 main factor, the amount of care 和 effect 定位至 I 段第 1 句。該句指出，醫生的收入取決于提供服務的次數而非服務的質量或者效果，這是醫療成本如此之高的主要原因。題目中main factor 與文中的 primary reason 同義，the amount 對應原文的 the quantity，而 effect 對應文中的 effectiveness，故答案為 I 段。
44[P]【譯文】與一些分析人士的懷疑態度不同，作者認為能通過談判降低藥品價格。
【定位解析】根據題目關鍵詞 analysts' doubts 和 negotiation 定位至 P 段。該段第 2、3 句指出，一些權威的分析人士質疑部長能達成比私人保險公司更好的協議，但是作者表示相信談判能取得成效。題目中的analysts' doubts 是對原文 analysts doubt that the secretary... already get 的概括，故正確答案為 P段。
45 [k]【譯文】公平競爭會促使保險公司降低產品定價。
【定位解析】根據題目關鍵詞 a strong incentive 和 insurers 定位到 K 段。該段最后一句指出，這種正面交鋒會促使醫保公司降低自家保險產品的定價。題目中的 charge less 是對原文 lower their prices 的同義轉述，故 K 段為正確答案。
46 [C]【定位】根據題目關鍵詞 the use of raw sewage for farming 可知是問有關污水在農業上使用的信息，考查的是考生對整體篇章的理解能力，定位到全文。
【解析】C 項“其利大于弊”是對第 2 段“那些健康危險遠不及社會效益和經濟貢獻重要”的同義轉換，符合文意。
【干擾項排除】A 項“其風險不能被高估”和 B 項“應完全禁止”在原文中無法找到依據;D 項“正使許多農田受到污染”，以原詞 cropland 作干擾，但原文說的是用未經處理的污水對大約 4900 萬英畝農田進行灌溉和施肥，文中只是說這種做法有健康風險，不能直接得出結論“這些農田被這些污水污染了”，因此 D 項屬過度推測。
47 [C]【定位】根據題目關鍵詞 the use of waste water for irrigation 可定位至第 5 段。
【解析】本題詢問污水灌溉導致的主要問題,C 項“農民和消費者都可能受到有害細菌的影響”是對第 5 段首句的概括，符合文意。
【干擾項排除】A 項“附近的河流和湖泊都將逐漸受到污染”屬過度推斷，原文第 4 段第 2 句僅僅提到農田的灌溉水主要源于當地的河流或湖泊;原文雖有提及人們用人類排泄物代替化學肥料，但無法證明 B 項“利用污水灌溉會使化肥產商倒閉”;D 項“利用污水灌溉會減少農產品在市場上的競爭力”屬于無中生有。
48[A]【定位】根據題干中的人名 Pay Drechsel 定位至第 5 段末句。
【解析】本題考查的是 Pay Drechsel 對將未經處理的人類排泄物用于農業的態度，原文第 5 段末句提到他認為使用未經處理的人類排泄物灌溉農田所帶來的社會和經濟效益比其帶來的健康危害重要。說明他支持這一做法，A 項“贊同的”符合題意。
【干擾項排除】詢問觀點態度的題目宜采用直選法，考生需準確感知人物觀點。B 項“懷疑的”、C 項“冷漠的”以及 D 項“負責的”在文中皆無依據證明。
49 [B]【定位】根據題干中的人名 Pay Drechsel 及 the risks 定位至第 6 段。
【解析】本題考查的是 Pay Drechsel 對未經處理的人類排泄物用于農業帶來的風險的看法，第六段開頭提到這個問題可以通過教育農民和消費者來解決,B 項的 dealt with 是原句 addressed 的同義轉述，B 項“可通過教育規避其風險”是正確答案。
【干擾項排除】A 項“其風險有些被夸大”、C 項“利用新科技可使其風險最小化”和 D 項“其風險可通過改進衛生條件來規避”都不是 Pay Drechsel 對風險的看法。
50 [A]【定位】根據題干中的人名 James Bartram 定位至最后一段的最后一句。
【解析】本題考查的是 James Bartram 對人類排泄物用于農業的觀點，原文最后他說稍加處理或沒有經過處理的排泄物用于農業是有充分理由的，可見他認為將人類排泄物用于農業有其存在的合理性。而從原文第 5 段可知，Pay Drechsel 認為盡管這種做法有危害，但是它帶來的社會和經濟效益比其危害更重要。因此 A 項“在這個問題上他和 Pay Drechsel 的觀點一致”為正確答案。
【干擾項排除】原文第 3 段提到 Liqa Raschid-Sally 認為污水灌溉利弊共存，James Bartram 也只是承認了有其存在的合理性而已，因此 B 項“他挑戰 Iiqa Raschid-Sally 的結論”錯誤。C 項“他認為這是擺脫當前糧食危機的唯一方法”和 D 項“他認為這是戰勝全球貧困所必需都不是 James Bartram 的觀點，故排除。
51 [D]【定位】根據題目關鍵詞 the kitchen of today 定位至第 1 段末句。
【解析】第 1 段末句提到廚房已成為現代家居的核心，D 項的 the center of a modem home 是原句 the heart of the modern house 的同義轉述，表明 D 項“現在廚房被認為是現代家居的核心”為答案。
【干擾項排除】原文第 1 句提到現代人們無須下廚，因此 A 項“廚房是主婦展示廚藝的場所”與原文意思剛好相反;B 項“廚房是款待重要賓客的場所”在原文中沒有提及;原文提到廚房已成為現代家居的核心的現象很奇怪，而不是說廚房本身奇怪，故排除 C 項。
52 [B]【定位】根據題目關鍵詞 the Georgian-style kitchen 定位至第 3 段。
【解析】本題考查的是喬治王時代風格的廚房定價高的原因，第 3 段末句提到其主要賣點在于絕無僅有，你不會在世界其他地方見到這種廚房。B 項“不可能在世界其他地方找到復制品”為答案。
【干擾項排除】A 項“據說有極高的藝術價值”在原文中并未提及;C 項“由一家著名的英國公司制造”在文中雖有提及，但不是定價高的原因;D 項“其他的制造商都無法制造類似的廚房”屬于易混淆項，但是原文說的是它的賣點在其他人買不到相同的，至于說制造商能否仿制，我們無法得知。
53 [D]【定位】根據題干中 the change in the status of the kitchen 定位至第 4 段第 1 句。
【解析】本題考查的是廚房地位的變化反映了什么，原文第 4 段第 1 句講到廚房曾經只屬于仆人，而今演變為現代家庭的設計展示間，這講述了一個世紀的社會變革,D 項正確。
【干擾項排除】A 項“生活水平提高了”、B 項“女性地位的提高”和 C 項“技術進步”在原文都沒有直接提及，屬于主觀臆測，故均排除。
54 [A]【定位】根據題干中的人名 Beecher sisters 定位至第 5 段末句。
【解析】本題考查比徹姊妹對廚房的看法，第 5 段末句講到比徹姐妹推介了一種家庭管理的科學方法，旨在提高婦女的工作效率,A 項是對原文意思的高度概括，故為答案。
【干擾項排除】B 項“認為廚房是可以應用高科技的場所”無中生有;C 項“認為廚房是知識分子感興趣的場所”，這一信息雖在第 5 段首句有提到，但并不是比徹姊妹的看法，而是作者的觀點;第 5 段第 2 句提到該姊妹中的一人以激進的新方式對廚房進行思考，她思考的是怎樣提高家務效率，而不是試驗新想法，因此 D項“認為廚房是實驗新想法的場所”錯誤。
55 [B]【定位】根據題干可知本題考查的是對文章的整體感知理解能力，定位到全文。
【解析】原文提到 20 世紀 20 年代由瑪格麗特設計的第一個配備齊全的廚房中，許多元素依然是今日廚房的中心特色，說明現代廚房的許多核心特色和 20 世紀 20 年代都具有相似性，因此 B 項“現代廚房的許多核心特色和 20 世紀 20 年代相比并無差別”正確。
【干擾項排除】A 項“現代廚房象征人們日常生活中快速的技術進步”和 C 項“現代廚房變得面目全非”在原文中均無提及。D 項“現代廚房的許多功能有很大改變”與原文最后一段末句意思剛好相反
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