2017年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案 第1套 选词填空
After becoming president of Purdue University in2013, Mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that their students have actually achieved one of higher education’s most important goals: critical thinking skills. Two years before, a nationwide study of college graduates had shown that more than a third had made no 26 gains in such mental abilities during their school years. Mr. Daniels needed to__27__ the high cost of attending Purdue to its students and their families. After all, the percentage of Americans who say a college degree is "very important" has fallen 28 in the last 5-6 years.
Purdue now has a pilot test to asss students' critical thinking skills. Yet like many college teachers around the U.S., the faculty remain __29__ that their work as educators can be measured by "learning 30 _ " such as a graduate's ability to investigate and reason. However, the professors need not worry so much. The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can u __31__ metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication剑圣至宝, and quantitative literacy.
Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly __32__ earlier studies. The organizers of the experiment concluded that far fewer students were achieving high levels on critical thinking than they were doing for written communication or quantitative literacy. And that conclusion is bad only on students nearing graduation.
American universities, despite their global 33__ for excellence in teaching, have only begun to demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning. Knowledge-bad degrees are still important, but employers are still important, but employers are __34__ advanced thinking skills from college graduates. If the intellectual worth of a college degree can be __35__ measured, 海关英语more people will ek higher education—and come out better 补习班辅导班thinkers.
A. accurately B. confirm C. demanding D. doubtful E. drastically F. justify
G. monopolized H. outcome I. predominance J. presuming K. reputation L. significant
M. signify N. simultaneously O. standardized
答案：(26)L. significant
(27)F. justify
(28)E. drastically
(29)D. doubtful
(30)H. outcome
(31)O. standardized
(32)B. confirm
(33)K. reputation
(34)C. demanding
(35)A. accurately
2017年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案 第1套 仔细阅读2篇
Open data sharers are still in the minority in many fields. Although many rearchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science, most are reluctant to post the results of their own labors online.
Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA quence sat the GenBank repository (库) , and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has obrved some500 million objects—but the remain the exception, not the rule. Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databas did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.
But the barriers are disappearing, in part becau journals and funding agencies worldwide are encouraging scientists to make their data public. Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to "shift away from a rearch culture where data is viewed as a
private prerve". Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before. To match the growing demand, rvices are springing up to make it easier to publish rearch products online and enable other rearchers to discover and cite them.
Although calls to share data often concentrate on the moral advantages of sharing自制火锅底料家常做法, the practice is not purely altruistic (利他的). Rearchers who share get plenty of personal benefits, including more connections with colleagues, improved visibility and incread citations. The most successful sharers—tho who data are downloaded and cited the most often---get noticed, and their work国家安全手抄报 gets ud. For example, one of the most popular data ts on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times. Co-author Amy Zanne thinks that urs probably动名词短语 range from climate-change rearchers 东北大秧歌唢呐wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for 女兵的要求information on different grades of timber. "I'd much prefer to have my data u
d by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions," she says. "It's important to allow readers and reviewers to e exactly how you arrive at your results. Publishing data and code allows your science to be reproducible."
Even people who data are less popular can benefit. By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them, scientists become more organized and better disciplined themlves, thus avoiding confusion later on.
46. What do many rearchers generally accept?
A. It is imperative to protect scientists' patents.
B. Repositories are esntial to scientific rearch.
C. Open data sharing is most important to medical science.
D. Open data sharing is conducive to scientific advancement.
47. What is the attitude of most rearchers towards making their own data public?
A. Oppod.
B. Ambiguous.
C. Liberal.
D. Neutral.
48. According to the passage, what might hinder open data sharing?
A. The fear of massive copying.
B. The lack of a rearch culture.
C. The belief that rearch data is private intellectual property.
