2017.12英语六级真题及答案解析：阅读passage two（物联网）

来源：文都教育

2017年12月大学英语六级考试刚刚结束，文都四六级老师及时为考生提供了大学英语六级真题中仔细阅读Passage two的参考答案及解析，这篇文章主要讲到了物联网时代对商业和社会的影响，希望能及时为大家答疑解惑。

英语六级答案：阅读Passage two

51. 答案 D)   The rapid technological progress in a very short period of time.  

52. 答案 B)   The popularization of smart homes.

53. 答案 B)   Gain automatic control of their businesses.

54. 答案 A)   How to turn it to profitable use.

55. 答案 A)   It is feasible with a connection to the Internet.

英语六级真题答案解析：阅读Passage two

51. 解析：题干问iPhone 6s的例子是想说明什么？这是一道典型的例证题，按照解题规律，例子所证明的观点应该是在前一句，our world now moves so fast...主要说明时代进步的如此之快，而这个快是指的哪方面呢，当然是技术，这在第三句也有明确的点名。

52. 解析：What can we expect to see by the year 2020? 根据题干定位到第三段首句by 2020 which incidentally is also the moment that Millennials（千禧一代） are expected to make up 75 percent of our overall workforce，到2020年千禧一代会占据总劳动力的75%，所以答案选B。

53. 解析：What will business owners do when they become aware of the benefits of the Internet of Things?当企业主意识到物联网的好处之后，他们会做什么？定位句在第四段：business owners begin to wake up to the massive savings that technology can deliver through connected sensors and new forms of automation coupled with intelligent energy and facilities management.企业主开始意识到新的自动化形式和智能设施的重要性，因此他们有可能会将企业变得更加自动化，答案选择B。

54. 解析：定位到第七段The biggest and most exciting challenge of this technology is how to creatively leverage this ever-growing amount data do deliver cost savings, improvements and tangible benefits to both businesses and citizens of these smart cities.挑战在于如何创造性的利用这些数据去节省成本，将其转化成实际的利益，所以答案选择A.

55. 解析：最后一题定位到倒数第二段：it wasn’t too long ago that the idea of working from anywhere and at anytime was some form of a distant utopian（乌托邦式的）dream, and yet now we can perform almost any office-based task from any location in the world as long as we have access to the internet. 不久之前我们还认为随时随地工作是一种遥远的乌托邦式想法，但是现在只要能连上网络，就可以实现。所以答案选择A。该选项有一个考点词汇feasible“可行的，可实现的”，需要重点掌握。

这篇阅读理解的话题很符合网络时代的背景，提到iPhone 6s，the Internet of Things物联网， Millennials千禧一代， laptop笔记本电脑，smartphone智能手机，devices设备, sensors 传感器等信息时代的常见名词概念，应当是一篇考生比较熟悉的话题，方便展开深入理解。