今年的六级考试刚刚过去，但热度不减。很多人都在拿着这套六级试卷进行分析研究，毕竟每次六级考试真题都是被大家奉为至宝，因其特殊的作用与价值，能带给即将参加六级考试的人们很多启发。今年的选词填空部分也受到了关注，这部分题属于阅读理解，难度不小，下面大家就来试做看看吧!

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single through the center. You may not use any of the word in the bank more than once.

Let’s all stop judging people who talk to themselves. New research says that those who can’t seem to keep their inner monologues (独白) in are actually more likely to stay on task, remain ___26___ better and show improved perception capabilities. Not bad, really, for some extra muttering.

According to a series of experiments published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by professors Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swignley, the act of using verbal clues to ___27___ mental pictures helps people function quicker.

In one experiment, they showed pictures of various objects to twenty ___28___ and asked them to find just one of those, a banana. Half were ___29___ to repeat out loud what they were looking for and the other half kept their lips ___30___ . Those who talked to themselves found the banana slightly faster than those who didn’t, the researchers say. In other experiments, Lupyan and Swignley found that ___31___ the name of a common product when on the hunt for it helped quicken someone’s pace, but talking about uncommon items showed no advantage and slowed you down.

Common research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps children learn, although doing so when you’ve ___32___ matured is not a great sign of ___33___The two professors hope to refute that idea, ___34___ that just as when kids walk themselves through a process, adults can benefit from using language not just to communicate, but also to help “augment thinking”.

Of course, you are still encouraged to keep the talking at library tones and, whatever you do, keep the information you share simple, like a grocery list. At any ___35___ , there’s still such a thing as too much information.

A) Apparently

B) Arrogance

C) Brilliance

D) Claiming

E) Dedicated

F) Focused

G) Incur

H) Instructed

I) Obscurely

J) Sealed

K) spectators

L) Trigger

M) Uttering

N) Volume

O) Volunteers

参考答案

26. F) focused

27. L) trigger

28. O) volunteers

29. H) instructed

30. J) sealed

31. M) uttering

32. A) apparently

33. C) brilliance

34. D) claiming

35. N) volume

做完了这套选词填空题，大家觉得难度如何。有没有给你带来一些启发，六级考试的各个题型都要有十分的重视，没有一道题是不经过深思熟虑就放到试卷里的。今年这篇选词填空题，大家可以根据答案，再仔细研究，反复琢磨。读懂弄透，让自己对这种题型产生感觉方能找到攻克它的窍门。