12月大学英语六级选词填空练习

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2015年12月大学英语六级选词填空练习

　　2015年12月大学英语六级选词填空练习(一)环保类

2015年12月大学英语六级选词填空练习

　　Continued warming of the Earth's oceans over the next century could trigger disruptions (引起毁坏) to marine life on a scale not seen in the last 3 million years, scientists warn in a study released Monday.

　　The changes could (1)_______ extinctions of some of the ocean's keystone species as well as plants that (2)_______ to new territory because of changing environmental conditions, the report says.

　　But the most dramatic disruptions would likely be (3)_______ if the world's nations can bring greenhouse gas emissions under control in the (4)_______ decades, the authors write in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change.

　　"Climate change may rapidly reorganize marine diversity over large oceanic (5)_______," states the report, authored by scientists from the University of Science and Technology in Lille, France, and four other institutions. "The (6)_______ of this reorganization will depend, unsurprisingly, on the magnitude of warming."

　　In the study, the researchers seek to predict future (7)_______ of global warming on marine life by examining how the oceans were affected during times of substantial temperature change in the (8)_______ past. Using fossil data, scientists have been able to reconstruct patterns of extinction and species migration that (9)_______ 3 million years ago during the mid-Pliocene epoch, when the Earth was (10)_______ warmer than today. Similar data exists for the last Ice Age, which reached its peak about 25,000 years ago.

　　A) distant B) reveal C) migrate D) include

　　E) impacts F) relatively G) slightly H) coming

　　I) sufficient J) regions K) feature L) existed

　　M) intensity N) originate O) avoided

　　参考答案：

　　1. D) include 2. C) migrate 3. O) avoided

　　4. H) coming 5. J) regions 6. M) intensity

　　7. E) impacts 8. A) distant 9. L) existed

　　10. G) slightly

　　2015年12月大学英语六级选词填空练习(二)

　　If there was any time for American consumers to feel good, it would be this moment. Job growth is brisk. Paychecks are finally nudging up. And a surprise drop in gas prices has given the average (1) _______ an extra $700 a year.

　　But six years after the end of the Great Recession, Americans are startlingly anxious about their economic (2) _______. They are sitting on their money in a way that suggests that the consumer psychology may have (3) _______ changed, with people less willing to spend than they were during other periods of economic prosperity.

　　Government data released Friday showed that the economy (4) _______ at a 0.7 percent annual rate between January and March, in part because consumers pulled back on (5) _______. The disappointing numbers (6) _______ a steady clip of positive economic news that many analysts had used to suggest that the nation was on the verge of liftoff.

　　Although the United States faces other headwinds (不利因素), the newfound prudence of American consumers has turned into the country's core economic dilemma. Some economists say that the recession caused a psychological (7) _______ deeper than initially appreciated, leaving Americans of all ages less willing to (8) _______ their money back into the economy in the form of vacations, clothing and nights out.

　　It's a sharp contrast to the 1990s, when consumers spent (9) _______ as their wages rose robustly, and the 2000s, when Americans funded more lavish (浪费的) lifestyles with easy (10) _______ to credit cards and home-equity loans.

　　A) illustrated B) access C) spending D) outstanding

　　E) shrank F) prospects G) occupying H) household

　　I) covered J) interrupted K) fundamentally L) freely

　　M) trauma N) inject O) identical

　　参考答案：

　　1. H) household

　　2. F) prospects

　　3. K) fundamentally

　　4. E) shrank

　　5. C) spending

　　6. J) interrupted

　　7. M) trauma