2018年6月英语六级考试阅读真题测试（23）含答案

Directions: 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 centre.

Questions 21 to 23 are based on the following passage:

The Caledonian Market in London is a clearing house of the junk (旧货、废弃 物 ) of the universe. Here, rubbish is a commodity and rubbish picking is a sport. Somebody, somewhere, wanted these things, perhaps just to look at. You learn here the incredible obscurity of human needs and desires. People grope (摸索), with fascinated curiosity, among the turnedout debris (废墟) of thousands of attic rooms. Junk pours in twice a week, year in and year out. The Market is the penultimate (倒数第二的) resting place of banished vases, musical instruments that will not play, sewing machines that will not sew, paralyzed perambulator, epileptic bicycles and numerous other articles from which all morale and hope have long departed. There are stories of fortunes being picked up in the Market. Once seven hundred gold sovereigns were found in a secret drawer of a crazy old bureau. And book buyers have discovered valuable editions of Milton and Dickens and Carlyla. There is nothing one can not buy in the Market.

21. The title below that best expresses the idea of this passage is ____.

A) Why People Buy What They Do

B) Reflections on A Famous Junk Market

C) The Cause for Fascinated Curiosity

D) What Happens to Attic Debris

22. The articles for sale in the Caledonian Market ____.

A) are wanted to look at

B) are collected 100 times a year

C) reveal obscure needs and desires

D) bring fortune to the buyers

23. From the style of this passage one might assume that it was taken from ____.

A) a report on marketing

B) a guide book

C) directions for a stage setting

D) an information essay