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2022-2023年山东省聊城市大学英语6级大学英语六级真题(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________  一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题) 1.In Sydneys Galleries Victoria, the malls main piazza is covered with a large, flat skylight made of______.2.To make sure that we live now on 80% of our income and invest the other 20%, the author suggests applying to the bank for ______ .3. Facebooks idea to social marketing has problems both in theory and in practice.4.GardeningThe technology of beautyNow, gardening was driven by three main trends: technological change, plant prospecting and fashion. Of these, the most important was technology, whose advances made it possible for the middle classes to enjoy what had once been affordable only to the very rich.The most dramatic example of popularizing technology was surely the invention of the lawnmower. Nothing was more labour-intensive, in the 18th century, than maintaining a large lawn. It would take three men with scythes (大镰刀) a whole day to cut an acre (two-fifths of a hectare) of grass; they would be followed by lawn women whose task was to gather up the cuttings.Just one man went to mowThen, in 1830, Edwin Beard Budding realised that the rotary blade used in the cloth industry to produce an even pile on textiles could be used on grass. The rotary lawnmower meant that suburban homes could afford the neat greensward (草皮) previously available only to the rich.The other technology that transformed Victorian gardening was the development of the art of growing plants under glass. Importing plants from countries as distant as Australia became a commercial possibility once they were sealed in wooden boxes with glass tops. From the 1830s on, Victorian gardens, private and public, used masses of bedding plants. In 1877, 2 million plants were bedded out in Londons parks, often in elaborate geometric designs. Growing them under glass protected them both from frost and from pollution.In the past century, technolog