2023年12月英语六级阅读模拟题及详解答案

2023年12月英语六级阅读模拟题及详解答案

2023年12月英语六级阅读模拟题及详解答案

TofullyunderstandtheconceptofthePaperlessOffice,one

mustunderstandwhatitconceptuallywassupposedtomean,as

wellaswhatithasevolvedintoasitscurrentform.Earlyforms

ofthepaperlessofficewouldhaveconcentratedaroundword

processingdocumentsandtheabilitytocreate,storeandmanage

theirexistenceelectronically.However,youwerelimitedin

scopeastowhatyoucoulddotomanagethesedocuments.Mostof

themanagementrevolvedaroundviewingandperhapssharingit

withotherusersintheorganization.Therewerenoautomated

programsthathandledworkflow,scanning,taggingand

managementofthesedocumentseffectively.Scannerswere(ata

cost-effectiveprice)tooexpensivefortheaverageofficeto

acquirebasedonthereturnoninvestment.Atthecorporate

level,therewasnodirectionastohandleworkflowandto

analyzewherepapercamefromandwhereithadtogointernally

andiftherewasaprocessinplace,thetoolswerenotmature

enoughorexistingtohandleit.

Inthelastfewyears,technologyhasfinallybeencatching

uptotheneedsandrequirementsoftheoffice

environment.Scannersthatpreviouslycosttensofthousandsof

dollarsnowcanbeacquiredforhundreds.Digital

千里之行，始于足下。

copiers/printersnowincorporatehighspeedscanningandOCR

capability,evenatthelowestlevels.Thetechnologyinitiative

hasnowbeentransferredtotheITandMISdepartmentsof

corporationsaswellaslawfirms.Clearly,thetoolsnecessary

totransformpaper-fulltoapaperlessofficearenowwidely

available.Whatthen,isstoppingthewidespreadadoptionofthe

conceptofthepaperlessoffice?Culturalissuesareprobably

oneofthelargestobstructionstotheimplementationofthe

conceptofthepaperlessoffice.Plainly,peoplefeel

comfortabledoingwhattheyknowhowtodobest(shufflepaper

around)andmodifyingtheirhabitsrequiresafocusthatmakes

themfeelthattheyare,infact,doingthingsbetterandmore

efficiently.Implementingapaperlessofficeenvironmentthat

introducesprocessesthataremoredifficultand

technologicallychallengingthanthepreviousenvironmentis

doomedtofailfromthestart,Keepallprocessessimple,introdu

cetechnologythatiseasytolearnanduse,anddocumentthe

workflow.

1.Whatdidtheearlyformsofpaperlessofficelackfor

efficientmanagement?

2.Scannersusednottobeconsideredworthwhilewhena

companyconsidersits.

3.Itisimpliedthattheconceptofthepaperlessoffice

isnowadoptedonascale.

4.Itisfoundthatmostpeoplerefusetheconceptofthe

paperlessofficeduetofactor.

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5.Whatdoestheauthorthinkabouttheprocessesofthe

paperlessofficeenvironmentincomparisonwiththepaper-full

officeenvironment?

答案：

1.[Automatedprograms.]

[定位]依据efficientmanagement查找到首段第5句。

解析：首段主要叙述早期无纸化办公的特点，其中第5句There

werenoautomatedprogramsthathandled...management...

effectively.表明automatedprograms对高效管理至关重要，而早

前的无纸化办公缺少的恰巧就是这个。因此automatedprograms为

本题答案。

2.[returnoninvestment]

[定位]依据Scanners查找到首段第6句。

解析：原文该句中的basedon...用于表达要从哪个因素动身考

虑扫描仪是否值得购买，从该句可知returnoninvestment就是要

考虑的因素，为本题答案。

3.[small]

[定位]依据theconceptofthepaperlessoffice和aolopted

查找到第2段第6句。

解析：原文该句表明无纸化办公的概念未能被“广泛”采纳，换

句话说，这个概念只在“小范围”内被采纳，即onasmallscale,

千里之行，始于足下。

因此small为本题答案。

4.[cultural]

[定位]依据refuse查找到第2段第7句。

解析：原文该句表明文化方面的.问题是无纸化办公难以实施的

最大阻碍，可见本题答案应为“文化”因素，即cultural。

5.[Moredifficultandtechnologicallychallenging.]

[定位]依据processes和paperlessofficeenvironment查找

到第2段倒数第2句。

解析：原文该句比较了paperlessofficeenvironment和the

previousenvir