2006年六级阅读解析.doc

2006年6月大学英语六级考试真题（阅读部分） Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension （35 minutes） Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked ［A］ , ［B］ , ［C］ and ［D］ . You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. In 1854 my great-grandfather, Morris Marable, was sold on an auction block in Georgia for $500. For his white slave master, the sale was just 揵usiness as usual? But to Morris Marable and his heirs, slavery was a crime against our humanity. This pattern oe f human rights violations against enslaved African-Americans continued under racial segregation for nearly another century. The fundamental problem of American democracy in the 21st century is the problem of 搒tructural racism? the deep patterns of socio-economic inequality and accumulated disadvantage that are coded by race, and constantly justified in public speeches by both racist stereotypes and white indifference. Do Americans have the capacity and vision to remove these structural barriers that deny democratic rights and opportunities to millions of their fellow citizens? This country has previously witnessed two great struggles to achieve a truly multicultural democracy. The first Reconstruction（1865-1877） ended slavery and briefly gave black men voting rights, but gave no meaningful compensation for two centuries of unpaid labor. The promise of “40 acres and a mule（骡子） ” was for most blacks a dream deferred（尚未实现的）. The Second Construction （1954-1968）, or the modern civil rights movement, ended legal segregation in public accommodations and gave blacks voting rights. But these successes paradoxically obscure the tremendous human costs of historically accumulate disadvantage that remain central to black Americans’ lives.