20186月英语六级真题与答案解析(三套).docx

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2018 年 6 月英语六级真题和答案
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Passage 1
At some 2300 miles
in
length,
the
Mississippi
is
the
longest
river
in
the
United
States.
At some 1000 miles,
the Mackenzie
is
the longest
river
in
Canada. But these
waterways seem minute in comparison to the world
’s 2 lengthiest rivers: the Nile
and the Amazon.
The
Nile
which
begins
in
central
Africa
and flows
over 4100 miles
north
into the
Mediterranean hosted one of the world
’s great ancient civilizations along its
shores. Calm and peaceful for most of the year, the Nile used to flood annually,
thereby
creating,
irrigating
and carrying
new topsoil
to
the nearby
farmland
on which
ancient Egypt depended for livelihood. As a means of transportation, the river
carried various vessels up and down its length.
A journey through the unobstructed
part of this waterway today would pass by
the splendid
valley
of
the
Kings,
where the
tombs of
many of these
ancient
monarchs
have stood for over 3000 years. Great civilizations and intensive settlement are
hardly associated with the Amazon, yet this 4000 mile-long south American river
carries about 20% of the world
’s fresh water more than the Mississippi, Nile and
Yangtze combined. Other statistics are equally astonishing. The Amazon is so wide
at some points that
from its
center
neither
shore
can be seen. Each second,
the
Amazon
pours some 55 million gallons of water into the Atlantic.
There, at its mouth
stands
one
island
larger
than
Switzerland.
Most
important
of
all,
the
Amazon
irrigates the largest tropical rain forest on earth.
Passage 1
What can be found in the valley of the Kings?
In what way is the Amazon different from other big rivers?
What does the speaker say about the Ama