2018年12月大学英语六级阅读模拟试题2篇

　　Passage 1

　　I have never attended a large company's board meeting in my life, but I feel certain that the discussion often takes the following lines. The__1__of producing a new—for example—toothpaste would make 8 Op the decent price for it,so we will market it at £l.20. It is not a bad toothpaste (not specially good either,but not bad), and as people like to try new things it will sell well to start with; but the__2__of novelty soon fades,so sales will__3__. When that starts to happen we will reduce the price to £l.15.And we will turn it into a bargain by printing 5p OFF all over it, whereupon people will rush to buy it even though it still costs about forty-three percent more than its__4__price.

　　Sometimes it is not 5p OFF but lp OFF. What a shame to advertise lp OFF your soap or washing powder or dog food or whatever. Even the poorest old-age pensioner ought to regard this as an insult, but he doesn't.A bargain must not be__5__To be offered a "gift" of one penny is like being invited to dinner and offered one single pea (tastily cooked), and nothing else. Even if it represented a__6__reduction it would be an insult. Still, people say, one has to have washing powder (or whatever) and one might as well buy it a penny cheaper. When I was a boy in Hungary a man was__7__of murdering someone for the sake of one pengo, the equivalent of a shilling,and pleaded__8__. The judge shouted__9__:" To kill a man for a shilling! What can you say in your__10__?" The murderer replied:" A shilling here... a shilling there..." And that's what today's shopper says, too:" A penny here... a penny there..."

　　A.missed B.defense C.real D.cost

　　E.anxiously F.attraction G.fair H.expense

　　I. fall J.angrily K.dismissed L.accused M.guilty

　　N.faulty O.security

　　答案: D F I G A C L M J

　　Passage 2

　　Scientists at Sussex University appear to be on the way to___1___how the mosquito,carrier of diseases such as malaria and yellow fever,homes in on its target.The problem is that they have found that the best way to avoid being bitten is:stop breathing,stop sweating,and keep down the temperature of your immediate surroundings.__2__the first suggestion is impossible and the others very difficult.

　　Scientists have found that there are three___3___stages in a mosquito's assault.Stage one is at fifty feet away,when the insect first smells a man or a animal to___4___.Stage two is thought to come into operation about twenty-five feet from the target,when the insect becomes guided by the carbon dioxide breathed out by the intended victim.Stage three is when the mosquito is only a matter of inches from its___5___the warmth and moisture given off by the victim is the final clue.

　　The researchers then*___6___how repellents interfere with its three-stage attack.They found repellents act more subtly than by just giving off a nasty smell.A Canadian researcher says that repellents appear to___7___mosquitoes first when it is following the carbon dioxide and second during the final approach,where the warmth and moisture are the insect's___8___.

　　Air pervaded by one of the many chemical repellents stops the mosquito reacting to the victim's carbon dioxide,and the repellent seems to affect the tiny hairs with which the insect senses moisture in the air.The sensors are blocked so that the___9___does not know whether it is flying through a moist current,or the sensors are made to send the___10___signals.

　　A.examined B.animal C.wrong D.insect

　　E.bite F.Unfortunately G.inventing H.distinct

　　I.prey J.guide K.checked L.definite

　　M.Unnecessarily N.confuse O.discovering

　　答案: O F H E I A N J D C