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1、英语六级难度快速阅读【模拟题】石涛 2011-11-0514:45:29Reading Comprehension (Skimming andScanning)(15 minutes)Directions: In thispart, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer thequestions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from thechoices marked A), B)
2、, C) and D). For questions 8 to10, complete the sentenceswith the information given in the passage.How to Be a LeaderAt a moment when we are waiting to seewhether we have elected a President or a leader, it is worth examining thedifferences between the two. For not every president is a l
3、eader, but everytime we elect a President we hope for one, especially in times of doubt andcrisis. In easy times we are ambivalent----the leader, after all, makes demands,challenges the status quo, shakes things up.Leadership is as much a question of timing asanything else. The leader mu
4、st appear on the scene at a moment when people arelooking for leadership ,as Churchill did in 1940, as Rooseveltdid in 1933, as Lenin in 1917. And when he comes, he must offer a simple,eloquent message.Great leaders are almost always greatsimplifiers, who cut through argument, debate and
5、 doubt to offer a solutioneverybody can understand and remember. Churchill warned the British to expect"blood, toil, tears and sweat", FDR told Americans that "theonly thing we have to fear is fear itself "; Lenin promised the war-wearyRussians peace, land and bread. Straightforward but
6、potent messages.It also helps for a leader to be able to dosomething most of us can't: FDR overcame polio; Mao swam the Yangtse Riverat the age of 72. We don't want our leaders to be "just like us." Wewant them to be like us but better, special, more so. Yet if they are toodifferent, we
7、reject them. Adlai Stevenson was too cerebral. Nelson Rockfeller,too rich.A leader must know how to use power (that' swhat leadership is about) but he also has to have way of showing that he does.He has to be able to project firmness-no physical clumsiness (like Ford), no
