2013.6 英语六级简答题答案解析（新东方）
先纵观一下简答题部分。以下就两套最新考题做答案解析和考点点评，希望对6月参加考试的考生以及下一轮备考同学有所帮助。
简答题(一)讲的是"音乐家的培养"问题
Highly proficient musicianship is hard won. Although it's often assumed musical ability us inherited, there's abundant evidence that this isn't the case. While it seems that at birth virtually everyone has perfect pitch, the reasons that one child is better than another are motivation and practice.(47)
Highly musical children were
infants and more encouraged to join in song games as kids than less musical ones, long before any musical ability could have been evident. Studies of classical musicians prove that the best ones practiced considerably more from childhood onwards than ordinary orchestral players, and this is because their parents were at them to put in the hours from a very young age.The same was true of children selected for entry to specialist music schools, compared with those who were rejected. The chosen children had parents who had very actively supervised music lessons and daily practice from young ages, giving up substantial periods of leisure time to take the children to lessons and concerts.(48)
The singer Michael Jackson's story, although unusually brutal and extreme, is illumination when considering musical prodigy(天才). Accounts suggest that he was subjected to cruel beatings and emotional torture ,and that he was humiliated (羞辱) constantly by his father, What sets Jackson's family apart is that his father used his reign of terror to train his children as musicians and dancers.(49)
On top of his extra ability Michael also had more drive. This may have been the result of being the closest of his brothers and sisters to his mother. "He seemed different to me from the other children - special," Michael's mother said of him. She may not have realized that treating her son as special may have been part of the reason be became like that.(50)
(51)All in all, if you want to bring up a Mozart or Bach, the key factor is how hard you are prepared to crack the whip. Thankfully, most of us will probably settle
the recorder and some ill-executed pieces of music-on the piano from our children.47. According to the author, a child's musical ability has much to do with their_______ .
48.In order to develop the musical ability of their children, many parents will accompany them during their practice sacrificing a lot of their own______ .
49. Because of their father's pressure and strict training, Michael Jackson and some of his brothers and sisters eventually became ______.
50. Michael's extra drive for music was partly due to the fact that he was___by his mother.
51.To bring up a great musician like Mozart or Bach, willingness to be strict with your
child is _______.
【参考答案】：
47. motivation and practice
48. leisure time
49. musicians and dancers
50. treated as special
51.the key factor
简答题(二)讲的是上世纪70年代的美国石油危机
Oil is the substance that lubricates the world's economy. Because so many of our modern technologies and services depend on oil, nations, corporations, and institutions that control the trade in oil exercise extraordinary power. (47)The "energy crisis" of 1973-1974 in the United States demonstrated how the price of oil can affect U.S. government policies and the energy-using habits of the nation.(48)
By 1973, domestic U.S. sources of oil.
the nation was importing more of its oil, depending on a constant flow from abroad to keep cars on the road and machines running. In addition, at that time a greater percentage of homes and electrical plants were run on petroleum than today. Then, in 1973，the predominantly Arab nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) resolved to stop selling oil to the United States. The move was prompted by OPEC's desire to raise prices by restricting supply and by its opposition to U.S. support of Israel in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War. The embargo (禁运) created panic in the West and caused oil prices to shoot up.(49) Short-term oil shortages drove American consumers to wait in long lines at gas pumps.In response to the embargo, the U.S. government enforced a series of policies designed to reduce reliance on foreign oil. (50)These included developing additional domestic sources (such as those on Alaska's North Slope), resuming extraction at sites that had been shut down because of cost inefficiency, capping the price that domestic producers could charge for oil, and beginning to import oil from a greater diversity of nations. The government also established a stockpile (贮存) of oil as a short-term buffer (缓冲) against future shortages. (51)Stored underground in large salt caves in Louisiana, this stockpile is called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and currently contains over 600 million barrels of oil, roughly equivalent to one month's supply.
47.We learn from the passage that in today's world, whoever monopolizes the oil market will be able to _______.
48.Oil prices may exert influence not only on American government policies but on how energy________.
49.Besides the sharp increase in oil prices, OPEC's 1973 oil embargo caused _______.
50.Over the years before the OPEC's embargo America had depended heavily on _______.
51.As a measure to counter future shortages, the American government decided to _______ in caves underground.
【参考答案】：
47. exercise extraordinary power
48. is used in the nation
49. panic in the West
50. foreign oil
51. establish a stockpile of oil
纵观两篇考题，历年的考点规律依旧非常明显，上课讲过的顺序原则，答案几乎照抄原则尽显无疑。当然，每年都有1-2题考查大家的综合能力，比如简答一的50和简答二的48，都需要同学进行一定程度的改写，但是相信，经过上海新东方学校培训的学员，处理今年这些题目拿到4题的分数是相当容易的。
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