6. What’s the opinion of economists about going to college?

　　A.Huge amounts of money is being wasted on campus socializing.

　　B.It doesn’t pay to run into debt to receive a college education.

　　C.College education is rewarding in spite of the startling costs.

　　D.Going to college doesn’t necessarily bring the expected returns.

　　7. The two Harvard economists note in their study that, for much of the 20th century, ________.

　　A.enrollment kept decreasing in virtually all American colleges and universities

　　B.the labor market preferred high-school to college graduates

　　C.competition for university admissions was far more fierce than today

　　D.the gap between the earnings of college and high-school graduates narrowed

　　8. Students who attend an in-state college or university can ________.

　　A.save more on tuition

　　B.receive a better education

　　C.take more liberal-arts courses

　　D.avoid traveling long distances

　　9. In this consumerist age, most parents ________.

　　A.regard college education as a wise investment

　　B.place a premium on the prestige of the College

　　C.think it crucial to send their children to college

　　D.consider college education a consumer product

　　10. What is the chief consideration when students choose a college today?

　　A.Their employment prospects after graduation.

　　B.A satisfying experience within their budgets.

　　C.Its facilities and learning environment.

　　D.Its ranking among similar institutions.

　　參考答案

　　1.B 2.D 3.B 4.A 5.C 6.C 7.D 8.A 9.D 10.B

　　點評

　　Passage One

　　本文是環保類題材的文章，主要談論由于人類活動(海洋捕撈、近海活動)以及氣候變暖等因素，海龜數量急劇下降。

　　首先根據題干信息，分別將5個題目進行定位。第一、二和五題有著明確的定位信息，而第三、四題的關鍵詞是Elizabeth Griffin和global warming，五道題目分別定位在第一段、第二段首句、第三段、末段和末段結尾句。接下來是理解定位，排除干擾項。52題是推論題，四個選項初看都像是正確答案，但通過理解，發現文章第一段都在談論人們在保護海龜方面付出的努力，而最后一句中all the attention 是對前面的總結，而正確選項B中efforts替換原文中的attention，dying out替換原文中的go extinct，運用同義替換原則。又如第55題，對于global warming的影響，錯誤項BCD中均有提到eggs, hatch, grow, beach等相關核心詞，但由于細節表述有誤，因此需要考生仔細閱讀辨析后排除錯誤答案。

　　而最后一題對應文章末句“Ultimately we must get a handle on those issues as well, or a creature that outlived the dinosaurs (恐龍) will meet its end at the hands of humans, leaving our descendants to wonder how creature so ugly could have won so much affection.” 考生需要在短時間之內分析這個長句的句子結構，理清句子思路。而該句的關鍵是or，如果兩邊成分一致表示“或者”，如果成分不一致，表示“否則”，而這里應該是后者。that outlived the dinosaurs (恐龍)是定語從句修飾a creature, leaving our descendants to wonder是分詞作定語，修飾前面整句話，how引導賓語從句。

　　Passage Two

　　此文是典型的教育類文章，在六級考試中，教育類文章一般會深入探討教育體制和教育弊端。這篇閱讀有一個new idea是即使大學教育是一種高消費，但作者仍鼓勵和支持人們進入大學深造，把大學作為一種投資和商品的結合;這與以往六級閱讀大走“批判路線”有所不同。總體來說，這篇閱讀比上篇閱讀要簡單一些，因為較好定位。文章一共5段，每一段對應一道題。

　　要做好這篇文章需要把握兩點：1. 明確本文中心：即作者對于花錢上大學的態度(肯定or否定);2. 定位到原文后做題時，即使不太確定整句話的意思，但只要注意幾個關鍵詞就大功告成。 如第57題定位于第一段But之后，雖然是個長句，但是主要抓住關鍵families can console themselves with the knowledge that college is an investment that should yield huge dividends，而最重點就是yield huge dividends，可見作者是持肯定態度的，從而排除了ABD這三個持否定態度的答案。又如第58題，考生可能對“labor-market premium to skill”理解不透，不過沒有關系，考場上只要看懂earn這一詞，還有decrease這一詞，就明白這句話談論的是有關收入earning。本篇較為容易的題有59、60、61題，59題靠2個數字就可解答出正確答案，而60、61題基本上答案就是原文中詞匯。

　　09年6月深度閱讀七個核心詞匯分析

　　account

　　n. 賬戶，描述

　　vi. 解釋; 說明(for)