2007年6月23日英语六级完型填空解析

5）关于完型填空的几个解题技巧是我们需要注意的。第一，连词前后的句意思分析，究竟前后句是转折，并列还是因果关系，需要学生特别注意；第二，文章的感情色彩的掌握，本文明显是一篇感情色彩偏于贬义的文章，因此把握好文章的中心是学生在选择之前要做到的。第三，抓住关键词解决问题，文章中有一些关键词的出现，影响学生对题目的本身进行判断，需要正确理解这些关键词。第四，对于常识性的单词一词多意的分析能力。平时多关注生活便可以对一些熟词做到迅速僻义。

6）难得的一点是，今年的六级考试出现的文章主题是不积极向上的，这个的确和我们的惯性思维不太一样，这种批判性的文章确实在历史上很少出现。如果将这个看作是一次趋势的话，那么今后在学习过程中要关注的范围将增加。

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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.