2023年四六级选词填空练习

2023年3月英语四级真题第1套

It's a fantasy that goes back centuries: a message in a bottle, carried ashore from far-off lands. Authors,

artists and children ___26___ have dreamed of such a gift from the sea.

This time, though, it's not a bottle that washes ashore. It's eggs—thousands of little toy eggs.

That's what happened on the German island of Langegoog this week.

Lying just off the North Sea coast, it found itself ___27___ by an invasion of colored plastic eggs-much

to the ___28___ of local children, because the eggs contained toys.

Police ___29___ the eggs came from a freighter that lost part of its cargo during an unusually ___30___

storm, the worst to hit Germany's northeastern coast since 2006.

At any rate, what was lost has now been found by many of the community's littlest residents.

"The surprise eggs have found their way to freedom," said Mayor Uwe Garrels. However, the joy of the

moment ___31___ off soon.

"At first I thought this was a wonder, because everything was so ___32___, but then we realized that this

is a huge ___33___ in the end," said the mayor. He also noted the plastic bags and other materials that have

washed ashore on the island can cause serious problems for ___34___.

Still, all these little eggs contained an extra treat with their toys. They ___35___ notes from afar.

There was just one problem for the German children who received them: They were written in Russian.

A) wore

B) wildlife

C) suspect

D) struck

E) similar

F) quantity

G) overthrown

H) mess

I) intense

J) human

K) effective

L) delight

M) colorful

N) bore

O) alike

2023年3月英语六级真题第1套

Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the

Earth. We have learned to worry about asteroids (小行星) and super volcanoes, but the more likely

___26___, according to Nick Bostrom, a professor of philosophy at Oxford, is that we humans will

destroy ourselves.

Professor Bostrom, who directs Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, has argued over the course of

several papers that human ___27___ risks are poorly understood and, worse still, ___28___

underestimated by society. Some of these existential risks are fairly well known, especially the natural

ones. But others are ___29___ or even exotic. Most worrying to Bostrom is the subset of existential risks

that ___30___ from human technology, a subset that he expects to grow in number and potency over the

next century.

Despite his concerns about the risks ___31___ to humans by technological progress, Bostrom is no

luddite (科技进步反对者). In fact, he is a longtime ___32___ of trans-humanism-the effort to improve

the human condition, and even human nature itself, through technological means. In the long run he sees

technology as a bridge, a bridge we humans must cross with great care, in order to reach new and better

modes of being. In his work, Bostrom uses the tools of philosophy and mathematics, in ___33___,

probability theory, to try and determine how we as a ___34___ might achieve this safe passage. What

follows is my conversation with Bostrom about some of the most interesting and worrying existential

risks that humanity might ___35___ in the decades and centuries to come, and about what we can do to

make sure we outlast them.

A) advocate

B) arise

C) emphasized

D) encounter

E) essential

F) evaporation

G) extinction

H) obscure

I) particular

J) posed

K) scenario

L) severely

N) species

M) shrewdly

O) variety

2022年12月英语六级真题第1套

During the summer, when I was a visiting poet at a residency out of state, an angry, confused woman

wandered into my class and said: "I have three guns and I want to use them." We all ___26___. It wasn't clear

if she had the guns, but we each know that, when we teach in America, we are already in danger.

I was dizzy with fear. The woman, who later turned out to be a schizophrenic (精神分裂症患者) without

___27___ to her medications, was, by some force, wrestled out and ___28___ away, then put in a hospital for

observation, in a step that was actually safer for everyone than any one of us pressing charges. My class went

on; we talked about poems. But despite the fact that the rest of our days on campus passed ___29___, I was

rattled. I couldn't shake the sense that in this country we always live at ___30___ risk.

A few months later, crisis ___31___ again. While my husband was locking his bike to drop off our

3-year-old daughter for her preschool-aged day camp, a different woman approached. Swiftly and for no

___32___ reason, she bent down, picked up our daughter, and began to carry her down the street. It was so

fast and confusing that my daughter ___33___ cried. My husband, in a burst of speed, chased the woman and

reclaimed our daughter. The woman, clearly confused, retreated into the public library. A ___34___ of

homeless people who generally know the other homeless in the area said they did not recognize the woman.

The woman was so clearly unwell that when she was taken into custody she was incoherent. Heartbreakingly,

she called our daughter by the name of someone else's child. Each part of the episode was haunting as it was

___35___.

A) access

B) apparent

C) barely

D) dedication

E) escorted

F) froze

G) incredible

H) indignant

I) network

J) overriding

K) peacefully

L) presumably

N) struck

M) stifled

O) terrifying

2022年12月英语六级真题第2套

The task of the global strategist of a business is to build a platform of capabilities derived from the

resources, experiences and innovations of units operating in multiple locations, to transplant those capabilities

wherever ___26___, and then to systematically upgrade and renew them-ahead of the competition.

Apple is an outstanding case of a company whose unique capabilities give it a worldwide ___27___

advantage, particularly with respect to its ability to build platforms from a product base that integrates

functional and ___28___ design. Apple has been able to leverage and exploit its California-based design and

marketing advantages successfully throughout the world. IKEA is another such case. The do-it-yourself

furniture and houseware company first developed a compelling set of capabilities to design, manufacture and

___29___ furniture at low cost and sell it in a novel way in Sweden. Later, IKEA successfully ___30___ this

formula in many other countries.

By contrast, Telefónica, a Spanish telecommunications company that is now the world's fifth largest

telecom by ___31___, first developed its special advantage abroad. In 1989 and 1990, Telefónica had the

opportunity to enter Chile and Argentina, countries that shared many institutional and cultural characteristics

with its home country but that were ___32___ more rapid market reform. Throughout the 1990s, Telefónica

took what it learned in Chile and Argentina about reconstructing former state-owned telecoms to other Latin

American countries that were privatizing their state telecoms and deregulating their telecom markets.

These examples might lead the reader to believe that creating a global advantage is an easy task. But

many other ___33___ of expensive failed experiments suggest that creating a lasting global advantage

actually requires a great deal of ___34___ and operational finesse (技巧). Our research suggests that global

winners typically create and sustain their international presence through a systematic process of ___35___,

renewing and enhancing their core capabilities.

A) aesthetic

B) appropriate

C) clusters

D) competitive

E) exploiting

F) fiscal

G) instances

H) rehabilitated

I) reproduced

J) revenues

K) safeguarding

L) ship

M) strategic

N) transcend

O) undergoing

2022年12月英语六级真题第3套

American colleges and universities are using 64 percent less coal than they did a decade ago, burning

700,000 tons last year, down from 2 million tons in 2008, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

said in a report ___26___ yesterday.

All 57 schools that were burning coal in 2008 are using less now, and 20 have ___27___ coal completely,

EIA found.

Most universities have turned to natural gas as a ___28___, with state funding backing the fuel switch.

While academic institutions use less than 0.1 percent of U.S. coal burned for power, campus coal use has

a history dating back to the 1800s when ___29___ to power was scarce.

Many universities still operate their own power plants. The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of

1978 encouraged more electricity generation by allowing institutions to sell ___30___ power to utilities.

But EIA noted many coal-fired universities have signed onto the American College and University

Presidents Climate Commitment, which was launched in 2007.

About 665 schools are part of the program, which aims to ___31___ greenhouse gas emissions. Thirty

percent of the participants have pledged to be carbon ___32___ within 20 years.

The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, which also leads campaigns for universities to withdraw their

___33___ in coal and other fossil fuels, lists 22 schools that have pledged to move "beyond coal," including

Clemson University, Indiana University, Ohio University, Penn State University, the University of Louisville

and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

The largest coal use ___34___ at colleges were in Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee and Indiana. Indiana's

universities alone cut coal ___35___ by 81 percent between 2008 and 2015.

During the same period, Michigan made an 80 percent cut and Tennessee cut back by 94 percent at state

institutions.

A) abandoned

B) access

C) consumption

D) contrive

E) duplications

F) investments

G) mobilized

H) negligent

I) neutral

J) reductions

K) released

L) replacement

N) surplus

M) slash

O) void