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英语六级阅读理解是英语六级考试中的重点部分，而随着时代的发展，英语六级中的阅读题型也在不断更替改变，下面是小编为大家整理的英语六级阅读寒假练习题，希望可以为大家带来帮助。
2017年大学英语六级阅读寒假练习题汇总
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An Apple for the Teacher
American schoolchildren occasionally present anapple to the teacher.
Obviously the custom containsan element of bribery 1 — you offer sweet fruit
toauthority figures to “sweeten” 2 their disposition3. In school children's
case, the apple is offered tomake their grades more favorable. Therefore,
theapple has more or less acquired a corrosive4 reputation and maybe for this
reason, in slangEnglish “to applepolish” means“to flatter or fawn” and an
applepolisher is a flatterer.
But the custom might also be explained as a fair payment for the teacher's
instruction. In theearly days of public education, school teachers were not
always salaried. Often they would bepaid in goods and services, offered by
either the school, or the pupils or the parents. . ..Therefore, the occasional
gift of an apple for the teacher in today's classroom should be awelcome
reminder of the era when education was one -to-one and when teaching
meantenlightening the students rather than identifying their rankings.
Caps and Gowns
For students, the most exciting moment may be the graduation ceremony 5:
parents, relativesand friends are invited to the ceremony; all the graduates are
wearing black square flat capsand gowns. They all await the president to
announce in the end,“Now, please move yourtassels from right to left. ”
The caps and gowns worn by high school and college graduates today are
survivors of theeveryday dress worn by members of the academic community in
medieval Europe. Themajority of scholars in the Middle Ages6 were churchmen, or
soon to become so, and theirdress was often strictly regulated by the
universities where they taught and studied. Thestandard clerical dress
throughout Europe was the long black cope. The original preferencefor black was
changed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, as such colors as red,
violetand purple came into fashion; but by the Renaissance black was back, as
the color blacksymbolized simple and plain, or austere way of life in the
sixteenth century. With fewexceptions, modern universities keep that ceremonial
austerity.
The origin of the square flat cap, or mortarboard7 , is obscure, though it
probably derives fromthe medieval biretta . Such a tufted square cap is
considered the badge of the 024 mastership, and is later adopted by
undergraduates and schoolboys. The term mortarboard does notappear in English
until the 1850 s. The tassel that graduates transfer from one side to anotheras
a signal of their elevation is an outgrowth of the medieval tuft. The tuft still
appears onthe modern biretta, worn by bishops throughout the Church of Rome
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阅读自测
Ⅰ. True o r false :
1. Nowadays, American pupils always offer an apple to the teacher in order
to get a bettergrade.
2. In the early days of public education, schoolteachers were paid in
money.
3. In America, the caps and gowns are only adopted by college graduates
during graduationceremonies.
4. Before the Renaissance, the standard clerical dress was black.
5. The biretta was considered the mark of scholarship.
6. That the graduates move the tassel from one side to the other is a
signal of elevation.
Ⅱ. Questions :
1. According to the passage, when you say somebody is an apple polisher,
what do you reallymean by saying that?
2. For students, when is the most exciting moment?
3. After graduation, which side should you put your tassel, right or
left?
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发表于 2017-1-25 18:02:54