大学英语六级阅读理解及答案

Reading Comprehension for CET 6Passage 1In the 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia，One scene shows an American new paper reporter early snapping photos of men looking a sabotaged train。one of the lookers，Chief auda Abu tayi of the howeitat clan，suddenly notices the camera and snatches it。am I in this？He asks，before smashing it open。to the dismayed reporter，Lawrence expains，he thinks these things will steal his virtue。he thinks youre a kind of thief .as soon as colonizers and exploorers began taking cameras into distant lands，Stories began circulating about how indianous peoples saw them asthe ignoreant natves may have had a point。when photography fir St became available，scient ists welcomed it as a more objective way of recording far away societies than early travelers exextsup into the 1950 s and 1960 s，Many ethnographers southight pure pictures of primitive culltures，Routerly deleting modern accoutrements SSSthey paid men and women to re-enact rituals or to pose as members of war or Hu Nt ing parties，often with little regard for veracity。Edward Curtis，the legenary photographer of north American Indians，for example，Got one makah man to pose as a whaler with a spear in 1911these photographs reinforced widely accepted stereotypes that indgenous cultures were isolated，primitives，and unchanging。for instance，National geographic magazines photographs have taught millions of Americans about other cultures。as Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins point out in their 1993 book reading national geographic，The magazine since its founding in 1888 has kept a tratraphicphotos that could un settle or disturb，such as areas of the world torn asurder by war or famine，Are discarded in favor of those that reassesuresthe result，Lutz and Collins say，Is the depiction of an idealized and exotic world relatively free of pain or class conflict。Lutz actually likes national geographic a lot。she read the magazine as a child，And its lush imagery influenced her eventual choice of antop hology as a career。she just thinks that as people lookat the photographs of other culture S，they should be alert to the choice of composition and images。1.the main idea of the passage is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _。aphotographics taken by western exploers reflect more western perception of the indications cultures and the western values。bthere is a complicated relationship between the western explors and the primitive peoples。cpopular magazines such as national geographic should show pictures of the exotic and ideased worlds to maintain high sales。dantopo logists ask the natives to pose for their pictures，compromising the truth fuless of their pictures。2.we can infer from the passage that early travelers to the native lands often _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _。atook pictures with the nativesbgave exggerated accounts of the native landscpictures for pictures from the nativesdgave the natives clocks and western dr sses3.the author mentions the movie Lawrence of Arabia to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _。ahow people in the indianous socieies are portrayed by western。billustrate how people from primitive socies see cameras as tools of black magic that steal their virtues。chow antopologists portray untruthful pictures of native people。dshow the cruel and barbar barian side of the native people。4.“but in some ways，antopological photographs reveal more about the culture that holds the camera than the one that stares back。” in this sentence，the oneculturethat stares back refers to _ _ _ _ _ _ _。a the indianous cultureBthe Western cultureCthe academic cultureDthe news business culture5.with which of the following statements would Catherine Lutz most probaby agree？areporters from the western socieies should routeinely delete modern elements in pictures taken of the indianous socieies。bthe primitive cultures are inferior to the more advanced western culture。cthe western media are not presenting a realistic picture of the far away socieies。dpeople in the western news business should try not to challenge the well-establish white middle-class values。回答： A B A CPassage 2the British medical journal recently featured a strong response to whatwas judged an in appropriately lenient reaction by a medical school to a studesthere is general agreement that there should be zero tolerance of cheating in a profession based on trust and one on which human lives depend . it is rea ssesthe behaviours under question are multi facility in origin。there are familial、religious、And cultural values that are acquired long before medical sch