Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just struck them. 62 that logic, 2006 should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11 still 63 in their minds, Americans watched hurricane Katrina, the most expensive disaster in U.S. history, on 64 TV. Anyone who didn't know it before should have learned that bad things can happen. And they are made 65 worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our 66 to work together before everything goes to hell.

Granted, some amount of delusion（錯(cuò)覺）is probably part of the 67 condition. In A.D. 63, Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake, and the locals immediately went to work 68, in the same spot-until they were buried altogether by a volcano eruption 16 years later. But a 69 of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at 70 themselves from guaranteed threats. We know more than we 71 did about the dangers we face. But it turns 72 that in times of crisis, our greatest enemy is 73 the storm, the quake or the 74 itself. More often it is ourselves.

B ?62. A) To ?????B) By ?????C) On ???????D) For

介詞辨析。通過對前句的分析理解，知道人性的本質(zhì)-只有在遭受了痛苦之后才會重視痛苦，于是后句緊跟的連詞應(yīng)該是表示解釋說明，而to為至于，on為在...上面，for為因果連詞，只有by可以表示通過。???

A ?63. A) fresh ???B) obvious ?C) apparent ???D) evident

詞義辨析。考生初看本題以為考察的是obvious, apparent, evident的詞義辨析，三個(gè)詞都表示明顯的意思，但是根據(jù)文章的意思，此處應(yīng)該是表示記憶猶新的意思，因此只有一個(gè)fresh表示的是新鮮。

C ?64. A) visual ??B) vivid ????C) live ??????D) lively

詞義辨析。本題考察更多的是常識性的問題。Live這個(gè)單詞除了有生活的意思之外，還有現(xiàn)場直播的意思。而剩余的混淆項(xiàng)完全是在誤導(dǎo)學(xué)生，visual為視覺的，vivid為生動活潑的，lively為活潑的意思。

D ?65. A) little ????B) less???? C) more????? D) much

詞義辨析。在比較級前面添加副詞，只能用副詞原級，不能再用比較級。B和C顯然錯(cuò)誤。根據(jù)文章的感情色彩，文章表示的是貶義，在嘲笑人們喜歡做馬后炮的事情，因此用much不用little.

A ?66. A) reluctance B) rejection? C) denial???? D) decline

詞義辨析。Reluctance不情愿，rejection拒絕 denial否定 decline 拒絕。本題一看也仿佛是辨析BCD三個(gè)表示否定的詞義。但是通過分析這個(gè)復(fù)雜句我們看到了前面的一個(gè)關(guān)鍵詞willful blindness. 這個(gè)詞組近年來在歐美屬于流行詞匯，頻繁的出現(xiàn)在各大媒體中。他的英文解釋是Willful blindness is a term used in law to describe a situation in which an individual seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally putting himself in a position where he will be unaware of facts.中文解釋簡單來說就是"裝傻"。而復(fù)雜句可以翻譯成，因?yàn)槿藗兌荚谘b傻事情變得更糟糕，除非真的死到臨頭了，否則人們都會盡最大可能不合作。而這里用reluctance，正好和前面的willful成反義詞對應(yīng)。

D ?67. A) natural?? B) social??? C) world????? D) human

詞義辨析。與其說這個(gè)是考察詞義辨析，不如說是在超越大學(xué)生的理解能力考察一個(gè)固定搭配human condition.看到這個(gè)搭配，學(xué)生的瞬間邏輯推理是人為因素，但是實(shí)際該詞組表示人的生存條件的意思。

C ?68. A) revising? B) refining?? C) rebuilding? D) retrieving

詞義辨析。Revising修訂，refining提煉，rebuilding重建，retrieving重新得到。地震之后要干什么呢？當(dāng)然就是重建了。因此這種題目關(guān)鍵是看句子前面的連詞and.

A ?69. A) review?? B) reminder? C) concept??? D) prospect

詞義辨析。Review回顧，reminder提醒，暗示，concept概念，prospect希望。句子開頭一個(gè)強(qiáng)轉(zhuǎn)折BUT，表示后面要說的和前面的內(nèi)容是相反的意思。同時(shí)，后面有一個(gè)history，通過這個(gè)單詞就知道前面用review。

C ?70. A) preparing? B) protesting C) protecting? D) prevailing

固定搭配。 protect? sb.? from sth 保護(hù)某人免受某事。Prepare準(zhǔn)備，protest抗議，prevail流行，成功。

B ?71. A) never???? B) ever ????C) then?????? D) before

詞義辨析。對于我們所面臨的災(zāi)難，我們比以前知道的更多。本句中did是用助動詞取代實(shí)意動詞know。因此這里的連詞只能用ever表示以前，而before做副詞時(shí)一定放在句末或后跟名詞。

D? 72. A) up?????? B) down???? C) over????? D) out

固定搭配。Turn out that/ turn out to be sth 證明。Turn up出現(xiàn)，turn down拒絕，turn over營業(yè)額/反復(fù)考慮

B? 73. A) merely?? B) rarely??? C) incidentally D) accidentally

詞義辨析。本題涉及兩組詞，一個(gè)是merely和rarely，merely表示僅僅，只不過的意思，rarely表示極少，罕有的意思。而incidentally和accidentally均表示巧合。關(guān)鍵在于區(qū)分merely和rarely就可以得出答案。

A? 74. A) surge???? B) spur??? ??C) surf?????? D) splash

詞義辨析。本題實(shí)際考察的單詞是形近且意思相差很遠(yuǎn)的一些單詞。Surge表示洶涌澎湃，做動詞有急速上升的意思 spur刺激，穿刺 surf海浪，做動詞有沖浪的意思 splash濺。這種考察方法很常見但是對同學(xué)做題來說很容易。

今年六級詞匯考察的重點(diǎn)在完型填空中,其中考察的單詞詞義辨析題目在12題中就占據(jù)了11道題目,可見詞匯的功底和核心都匯集于完型當(dāng)中考察了。

這次六級的完型填空的文章選自2006年8月20日TIME上的一篇文章《Why We Don't Prepare》中的第五和第六段。"全真七子"始終改變不了偷懶的壞習(xí)慣，因此我們也可以告訴自己，其實(shí)準(zhǔn)備六級考試的完型填空，今后多看英文雜志就好了。。。

即便是這么簡單的題目中，我們還是需要發(fā)掘出題者的根本思維方式。在這次的新題型的考察中我們驚奇的發(fā)現(xiàn)了幾個(gè)特點(diǎn)：

1）完型填空12道題目的48個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，僅僅有5個(gè)選項(xiàng)的單詞是六級大綱的詞匯，分別是decline，rebuild，retrieve，surge和surf，占據(jù)了選項(xiàng)的10%，而剩余的90%的單詞都是四級的大綱詞匯。這充分說明了六級考試始終還是四級的繼承與發(fā)揚(yáng)，離不開對于四級的依賴。因此六級的詞匯量和四級并沒有太大擴(kuò)充。六級考試實(shí)際上不過還是考四級那點(diǎn)東西。

2）本次完型填空總共有198個(gè)詞，符合六級考試大綱要求。但是在198個(gè)單詞中，除去12個(gè)選項(xiàng)單詞，剩余的186個(gè)詞只有breakthrough, hurricane, willful, delusion, eruption這5個(gè)單詞不是四級大綱中的單詞，而且文章中還給出了delusion的意思。這再次印證了六級單詞的考察量與四級區(qū)別并不大。

3）本次完型填空中，總共分為兩大段共11句話，其中長難句占據(jù)了9句話，這是一個(gè)很大的比重，因此我們在重視單詞的學(xué)習(xí)時(shí)，不能忽視的一點(diǎn)就是對于長難句的拆解分析能力。

4）長難句中再次考察了語法上的一大難點(diǎn)：比較結(jié)構(gòu)。這個(gè)東西極端的混淆學(xué)生對于長難句的理解和文章意義的分析。作為理解中的難點(diǎn)，比較結(jié)構(gòu)應(yīng)當(dāng)成為我們今后在語法學(xué)習(xí)中的重點(diǎn)。

5）關(guān)于完型填空的幾個(gè)解題技巧是我們需要注意的。第一，連詞前后的句意思分析，究竟前后句是轉(zhuǎn)折，并列還是因果關(guān)系，需要學(xué)生特別注意；第二，文章的感情色彩的掌握，本文明顯是一篇感情色彩偏于貶義的文章，因此把握好文章的中心是學(xué)生在選擇之前要做到的。第三，抓住關(guān)鍵詞解決問題，文章中有一些關(guān)鍵詞的出現(xiàn)，影響學(xué)生對題目的本身進(jìn)行判斷，需要正確理解這些關(guān)鍵詞。第四，對于常識性的單詞一詞多意的分析能力。平時(shí)多關(guān)注生活便可以對一些熟詞做到迅速僻義

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Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Wildfires, Earthquakes ... Why We Don't Prepare
By AMANDA RIPLEY/ BOULDER
Posted Sunday, Aug. 20, 2006
Every July the country's leading disaster scientists and emergency planners gather in Boulder, Colo., for an invitation-only workshop. Picture 440 people obsessed with the tragic and the safe, people who get excited about earthquake shake maps and righteous about flood insurance. It's a spirited but wonky crowd that is growing more melancholy every year.
After 9/11, the people at the Boulder conference decried the nation's myopic focus on terrorism. They lamented the decline of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). And they warned to the point of cliché that a major hurricane would destroy New Orleans. It was a convention of prophets without any disciples.
This year, perhaps to make the farce explicit, the event organizers, from the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, introduced a parlor game. They placed a ballot box next to the water pitchers and asked everyone to vote: What will be the next mega-disaster? A tsunami, an earthquake, a pandemic flu? And where will it strike? It was an amusing diversion, although not a hard question for this lot.
Because the real challenge in the U.S. today is not predicting catastrophes. That we can do. The challenge that apparently lies beyond our grasp is to prepare for them. Dennis Mileti ran the Natural Hazards Center for 10 years, and is the country's leading expert on how to warn people so that they will pay attention. Today he is semi retired, but he comes back to the workshop each year to preach his gospel. This July, standing before the crowd in a Hawaiian shirt, Mileti was direct: How many citizens must die? How many people do you need to see pounding through their roofs? Like most people there, Mileti was heartbroken by Katrina, and he knows he'll be heartbroken again. We know exactly--exactly--where the major disasters will occur, he told me later. But individuals under-perceive risk.
f, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just smacked them across the face. Well, then, by that logic, 2006 should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, still fresh in their minds, Americans watched Katrina, the most expensive disaster in U.S. history, on live TV. Anyone who didn't know it before should have learned that bad things can happen. And they are made much worse by our own lack of ambition--our willful blindness to risk as much as our reluctance to work together before everything goes to hell.
Granted, some amount of delusion is probably part of the human condition. In A.D. 63, Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake, and the locals immediately went to work rebuilding, in the same spot--until they were buried altogether by a volcano 16 years later. But a review of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly, mysteriously bad at protecting themselves from guaranteed threats. We know more than we ever did about the dangers we face. But it turns out that in times of crisis, our greatest enemy is rarely the storm, the quake or the surge itself. More often, it is ourselves.

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