【正文】 nt generations. 　　Anthea Tinker, professor of social gerontology(老人學(xué))at King39。 第2題：The age of gilded youth is over. Today39。 　　5. C 主旨題。 　　4. D 推斷題。 　　3 C 推斷題。由文章可知，做廣告的目的是要吸引顧客買(mǎi)他們的藥品。選項(xiàng)A、B、D 文章中都有提及，但從整體看來(lái)，文章的主線是介紹selfmedication(自我藥療)，其中第一段提及了過(guò)去的情況，第二段介紹現(xiàn)狀，由此推斷此現(xiàn)象存在已久，所以A正確。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。 worse because they may cause poisoning, and worse of all because symptoms of some serious underlying cause may be masked and therefore medical help may not be sought. 　　1. The first paragraph is intended to ________. 　　[A] suggest that selfmedication has a long history 　　[B] define what diagnosis means exactly 　　[C] praise doctors for their expertise 　　[D] tell the symptoms from the causes 　　2. Advertisements are aimed at people suffering from mild plaints because ________. 　　[A] they often watch ads on TV 　　[B] they are more likely to buy the drugs advertised 　　[C] they generally lead a sedentary life 　　[D] they don39。 worse because the taker may bee dependent on them。s health。之2010年12月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)六級(jí)全真預(yù)測(cè)試題二及答案解析2010年12月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)六級(jí)全真預(yù)測(cè)試題二及答案解析一、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 nutritional standards have risen. Parallel with such beneficial trends have two adverse effects. One is the use of highpressure advertising by the pharmaceutical industry, which has tended to influence both patients and doctors and has led to the overuse of drugs generally. The other is the emergence of the sedentary society with its faulty ways of life: lack of exercise, overeating, unsuitable eating, insufficient sleep, excessive smoking and drinking. People with disorders arising from faulty habits such as these, as well as from unhappy human relationships, often resort to selfmedication and so add the taking of pharmaceuticals to the list. Advertisers go to great lengths to catch this market. 　　Clever advertising, aimed at chronic sufferers who will try anything because doctors have not been able to cure them, can induce such faith in a preparation, particularly if steeply priced, that it will produce—by suggestion—a very real effect in some people. Advertisements are also aimed at people suffering from mild plaints such as simple colds and coughs, which clear up by themselves within a short time. 　　These are the main reasons why laxatives, indigestion remedies, painkillers, tonics, vitamin and iron tablets and many other preparations are found in quantity in many households. It is doubtful whether taking these things ever improves a person39。 it may even make it worse. Worse because the preparation may contain unsuitable ingredients。 worse because they might be taken in excess。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。本題看似考查第一段的主旨，實(shí)則要結(jié)合全文才能得出答案。 　　2. B 推斷題。從第三段最后一句可知一般只是得了輕微的感冒、咳嗽的人會(huì)根據(jù)廣告自己買(mǎi)藥治病，故選B。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。由文章第四段中幾個(gè)帶有worse的并列句可以推知，自我藥療對(duì)人們有潛在的危害，所以D正確。全文是圍繞自我藥療(selfmedication)展開(kāi)論述的，介紹了它的歷史、現(xiàn)狀以及危害等，所以C正確。s underthirties are the first generation for a century who can expect a lower living standard than their parents. 　　Research into the lifestyles and prospects of people who were born since 1970 shows that they are likely to face a lifetime of longer working hours, lower job security and higher taxes than the previous generation. 　　When they leave work late in the evening, they will be more likely to return to a small rented flat than to a house of their own. When, eventually, they retire, their pensions are far lower in real terms than those of their immediate forebears. 　　These findings are revealed in a study of the way the ageing of Britain39。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。s earnings to care for them. 　　The surging number of older people, many living alone, has also increased demand for property and pushed up house prices. While previous generations found it easy to raise a mortgage, today39。s rese