英语六级阅读理解模拟题附解析

　　下面是学习啦小编整理的英语六级阅读理解模拟题附解析，希望对大家有帮助。

　　Flying over a desert area in an airplane, two scientists looked down with trained eyes at treesand bushes. After an hour's 11 one of the scientists wrote in his book, "Look here for 12 metal. "Scientists in another airplane, flying over a mountain region, sent a 13 to other scientists on theground, "Gold possible. " Walking across hilly ground, four scientists reported, "This ground shouldbe searched for metals. " From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist sent back by radio oneword, "Uranium. "

　　None of the scientists had X-ray eyes: they had no 14 powers for looking down below theearth's surface. They were 15 putting to use one of the newest methods of 16 minerals in theground—using trees and plants as 17 that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which thetrees and

　　plants are growing.

　　This newest method of searching for minerals is 18 on the fact that minerals deep in the earthmay 19 the kind of bushes and trees that grow on the surface.

　　At Watson Bar Creek, a brook six thousand feet high in the mountains of British Columbia,Canada, a mineral search group gathered bags of tree seeds. Boxes were filled with small branchesfrom the trees. Roots were dug and put into boxes. Each bag and box was 20 marked. In a scientificlaboratory the parts of the forest trees were burned to ashes and tested. Each small part wasexamined to learn whether there were minerals in it.

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　　II. K 12. L 13. J 14. F 15. E 16. C 17. A 18. N 19. D 20. H