2021年英语六级考试冲刺练习：阅读篇52英语六级练习

1、2021 英语六级考试冲刺练习：阅读篇 52 英语六级练习20 英语六级考试冲刺练习：阅读篇 52It is doing something better than other people that makes us unique.Yet a surprising number of people still see individuality as a surface thing.They wear bright clothes, dye their hair strange colors and decorate their skin with tattoos （文身 ） to make

2、 some kind of socialstatement. The whole purpose of individuality is ecellence.The people who prehend the simple principle of being unique through performance make our entire polital and econom system work.Those who invent, who improve, who know more about a subject than other people do, and who tak

3、e something that doesn"t work and make it work these people are the very soul of capitalism.Charles Kettering didn"t like the idea ofcranking a car to make it start, so he invented the electr starter.Henry Ford figured out the assembly-line technique and made it possible to mass-produce au

4、tomobiles.Lewis Waterman saw no need to go on dipping a pen into an inkwell, so he put the ink into the pen.George Westinghouse told the world how to s a train, and Elisha Otis, inventor of the elevator, indirectly created the city skyline.These people understood that individualism means working at

5、the of one"s capacity.Fortunately, enough Amerans have been inspired to do something with their uniqueness that we have developed in less than three centuries from a frontier outpost into not only a country of freedom but a country strong enough to protect that freedom.These people prized the n

6、otions ofindividuality and ecellence above all things and thus kept the great machine functioning.The ones with the purple hair and the horrorable jewelry are just along for the ride, trying to be "different" and not knog how to go about it.The student who earns A"s on his report card

7、has grasped the idea and has found the real meaning of individuality.So has the youngster who has designed his own spaceship, who paints ptures of the world around him, or who can name all the states and their capitals.According to the author unique individuals are persons who.A.do something better

8、than other peopleB.know more about a subject than other peopleC.ecel others in workD.all of the abovePeople who regard individuality as a surface thing always do the follog ECEPTA.wearing bright clothes B.coloring their hairC.doing better than others D.decorating their skin with tattoos Whh is NOT T

9、RUE according to the passage?A.Henry Ford invented assembly-line technique.B.Elisha Otis wasthe inventor of the liftC.George Westinghouse created cranks. D.Lewis Waterman put the ink into the pen.It can be inferred from the passage that.A.thereal secret to being unique lies in our ecellent work8.1 f we want to be different we"d gain more profitC the student who earns A"s on the report card has not grasped the real meaning ofindividuality D.all Amerans work miracles In the writer"s opinion who has understood the sense of individuality?B.The youngsterA.The youngster w