【正文】 sses last spring. The result: 54,000 fewer students. 　　Collapsing Investments 　　Many families thought they had a surefire plan: even if tuition kept skyrocketing, they had invested enough money along the way to meet the costs. Then a funny thing happened on the way to Wall Street. Those investments collapsed with the stock market. Among the losers last year: the wildly popular 529 plans—federal taxexempt college savings plans offered by individual states, which have attracted billions from families around the country. We hear from many parents that what they had set aside declined in value so much that they now don39。s not that she regrets getting her degree. But they don39。文章第八段第三句指出，Laura LenoxConyngham一年賺兩萬英鎊，為雜志準(zhǔn)備要拍照的食物，所以D正確。s attitude to work and life represents that of many young professionals in Britain 　　[C] Life can get harder for underthirties in Britain 　　[D] elders enjoy extremely high living standards in Britain 1小題、【正確答案】：C2小題、【正確答案】：A3小題、【正確答案】：D4小題、【正確答案】：D5小題、【正確答案】：C【參考解析】： 1. C 語義題。s College London, who carried out much of the work, said the growth of the proportion of people over 50 had reversed the traditional flow of wealth from older to younger generations. 　　Today39。文章第二段和第三段主要論述了現(xiàn)在依然存在自我藥療的原因，即醫(yī)生很難治愈人們不良的生活習(xí)慣造成的亞健康狀態(tài)，所以C正確。t take to sports and easily catch colds 　　3. Paragraphs 2 and 3 explain ________. 　　[A] those good things are not without side effects 　　[B] why clever advertising is so powerful 　　[C] why in modern times selfmedication is still practised 　　[D] why people develop faulty ways of life 　　4. The author tells us in paragraph 4 ________. 　　[A] the reasons for keeping medicines at home 　　[B] people39。之2011年12月大學(xué)英語六級全真預(yù)測試題及答案解析2011年12月英語六級全真預(yù)測試題及答案解析一、閱讀理解第1題：Occasional selfmedication has always been part of normal living. The making and selling of drugs have a long history and are closely linked, like medical practice itself, with the belief in magic. Only during the last hundred years or so has the development of scientific techniques made it possible for some of the causes of symptoms to be understood, so that more accurate diagnosis has bee possible. The doctor is now able to follow up the correct diagnosis of many illnesses with specific treatment of their causes. In many other illnesses, of which the causes remain unknown, it is still limited, like the unqualified prescriber, to the treatment of symptoms. The doctor is trained to decide when to treat symptoms only and when to attack the cause: this is the essential difference between medical prescribing and selfmedication. 　　The advance of technology has brought about much progress in some fields of medicine, including the development of scientific drug therapy. In many countries public health organization is improving and people39。s doubt about taking drugs 　　[C] what kind of medicine people should prepare at home 　　[D] the possible harms selfmedication may do to people 　　5. The best title for the passage would be ________. 　　[A] Medical Practice [B] Clever Advertising 　　[C] SelfMedication [D] SelfTreatment 1小題、【正確答案】：A2小題、【正確答案】：B3小題、【正確答案】：C4小題、【正確答案】：D5小題、【正確答案】：C【參考解析】： 1. A 推斷題。 　 4. D 推斷題。s older middleaged and elderly are being the new winners, she said. They made relatively small contributions in tax but now make relatively big claims on the welfare system. Generations born in the last three to four decades face the prospect of handing over more than a third of their lifetime39。解題的關(guān)鍵在于正確理解句中的reverse一詞，它意為“逆轉(zhuǎn)，徹底轉(zhuǎn)變”，所以被考查句說的是傳統(tǒng)上社會財富是從老一代流向年輕人，而50歲以上人口的增多徹底轉(zhuǎn)變了該現(xiàn)象，即社會財富從年輕人流向老年人，所以C正確。 　　5. C 主旨題。t tell you that the tradeoff is the next ten years of your ine, she says. 　　That39。t have enough to see their students through, says Penn State financial aid director Anna Griswold, who witnessed a 10 percent increase in loan applications last year. Even with a market that may be slowly recovering, it will take time, perhaps several years, for people to recoup(補(bǔ)償)their losses. 　　Nadine Sayegh is among those who didn39。t stopping there. The College Board estimates that they also borrowed $ billion from private lenders in the 20002001 academic year, up from $ billion just five years earlier. 　　For lots of students, the worst of it isn39。t afford the cost and Moyer doubted he could get a loan, given how much he owed already. He said he felt like a failure, O39。ll manage.39。s what we39。s Coffee Break retails for $20. 　　Black amp。擬一個尋游伴的啟事，交代清楚日程安排、費(fèi)用分擔(dān)情況、對對方的要求等，并說明對方和你一起出游的好處。re able to get that data, I think we would petition for fast track status. 　　Dr. Young says an integrase inhibitor has the potential to prevent drug resistance. 　　To ensure our best chance of preventing resistance, we would give this as part of a cocktail therapy, he added. And I think it39。s calculation, she can pay off all her debt when she is ________ if she can get a salary of $120,000 a year right out of law school. 　　6. Students get money from not only federal loans but also ________. 　　7. The college department or association can get payments from the issuer if it sanctions credit cards decorated with ________. 　　8. O39。t know how he had gotten into such a mess. 　　A week later, the 22yearold hanged himself in his bedroom, where his mother found him. O39。s what they rack up on all those plastic cards in their wallets. As of two years ago, according to a study by lender Nellie Mae, more than eight out of ten undergrads had their own credit cards, with the typical student carrying four. That39。t any way to do it differently, she says, and I39。re mortgaging their futures to meet soaring tuition costs and other college expenses. Like Griffith, they39。原文并未提及Laura LenoxConyngham對工作的態(tài)度，而是說她的這種生活方式在倫敦等地很普遍，故B不正確。由文章第六段第二句和第三句可知，這些老人過去在稅收方面的貢獻(xiàn)甚小