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08年6月英语六级阅读答案

最牛英语口语培训模式：躺在家里练口语，全程外教一对一，三个月畅谈无阻！洛基英语，免费体验全部在线一对一课程：/ielts/xd.html（报名网址）PART TWO SKIMMING & SKANNING1.D Scientist's vision of the world in half a century2.B may not come true3.A humans won't have to donate organs for transplantation4.C live to 100 and more vitality5.C alien life will likely be discovered6.A might survive all catastrophes on earth7.D lost fingers and limbs will be able to regrow8.artificial intelligence9.weapons10.religionPART FOUR READING COMPREHENSION47. causing a reaction48. an emotional debate49. The approval of every victim’s family.50. exploiting a national tragedy51. raise awareness52,B, Their currency has slumped.53,C, They have to spend more money when buying imported goods.54,D, They think of it as a good tourist destination.55,C, They vacation at home rather than abroad.56,A, The dollar's value will not increase in the short term.57,D, They care more about which college their children go to than the children themselves.58,A, They want to increase their children's chances of entering a prestigious college.59,C, Kid' actual abilities are more important than their college background.60,B, Degrees of prestigious universities do not guarantee entry to graduate programs61,D, they overemphasize their qualification in job applications.“成千上万人疯狂下载。

2008.6英语四级真题+详细答案

大学英语四级考试全国统考试卷（2008年6月）1.娱乐活动多种多样2.娱乐活动可能使人们受益，也可能有危害性3.作为大学生，我的看法。

___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) 10% Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose thebest answer from the four choices marked ABCD, for questions 8-10,complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Media Selection for AdvertisementsAfter determining the target audience for a product or service, advertising agencies must select the appropriate media for the advertisement. We discuss here the major types of media used in advertising. We focus our attention on seven types of advertising: television, newspapers, radio, magazines, out-of-home, Internet, and direct mail.TelevisionTelevision is an attractive medium for advertising because it delivers mass audiences to advertisers. When you consider that nearly three out of four Americans have seen the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Y ou can understand the power of television to communicate with a large audience. When advertisers create a brand, for example, they want to impress consumers with the brand and its image. Television provides an ideal vehicle for this type of communication. But television is an expensive medium, and not all advertisers can afford to use it.Television's influence on advertising is fourfold. First, narrowcasting means that television channels are seen by an increasingly narrow segment of the audience. The Golf Channel, for instance, is watched by people who play golf, Home and Garden Television is seen by those interested in household improvement projects. Thus, audiences are smaller and more homogeneous(具有共同特点的) than they have been in the past. Second, there is an increase in the number of television channels available to viewers, and thus advertisers. This has also resulted in an increase in the sheernumber of advertisements to which audiences are exposed. Third, digital recording devices allow audience members more control over which commercials they watch. Fourth, control over programming is being passed from the networks to local cable operators and satellite programmers.NewspapersAfter television, the medium attracting the next largest annual ad revenue is newspapers. The New York Times, which reaches a national audience, accounts for $1 billion in ad revenue annually. It has increased its national circulation(发行量) by 40% and is now available for home delivery in 168 cities. Locally, newspapers are the largest advertising medium.Newspapers are a less expensive advertising medium than television and provide a way for advertisers to communicate a longer, more detailed message to their audience than they can through television. Given new production techniques, advertisements can be printed in newspapers in about 48 hours, meaning newspapers are also a quick way of getting the message out. Newspapers are often the most important form of news for a local community, and they develop a high degree of loyalty from local readers.RadioAdvertising on radio continues to grow. Radio is often used in conjunction with outdoor bill-boards(广告牌) and the Internet to reach even more customers than television. Advertisers are likely to use radio because it is a less expensive medium than television, which means advertisers can afford to repeat their ads often. Internet companies are also turning to radio advertising. Radio provides a way for advertisers to communicate with audience members at all times of the day. Consumers listen to radio on their way to school or work, at work, on the way home, and in the evening hours.Two major changes-satellite and Internet radio-will force radio advertisers to adapt their methods. Both of these radio forms allow listeners to tune in stations that are more distant than the local stations they could receive in the past. As a result, radio will increasingly attract target audiences who live many miles apart.MagazinesNewsweeklies, women's titles, and business magazines have all seen increases in advertising because they attract the high-end market. Magazines are popular with advertisers because of the narrow market that they deliver. A broadcast medium such as network television attracts all types of audience members, but magazine audiences are more homogeneous. If you read Sports Illustrated., for example, you will have much in common with the magazine's other readers. Advertisers see magazines as an efficient way of reaching target audience members.Advertisers using the print media---magazines and newspapers---will need to adapt to two main changes. First, the Internet will bring larger audiences to local newspaper. These audiences will be more diverse and geographically dispersed (分散) than in the past. Second, advertisers will have to understand how to use an increasing number of magazines for their target audiences. Although some magazines will maintain national audiences, a large number of magazines will entertain narrower audiences.Out-of-home advertisingOut-of-home advertising, also called place-based advertising, has become an increasingly effective way of reaching consumers, who are more active than ever before. Many consumers today do not sit at home and watch television. Using billboards, newsstands, and bus shelters for advertising is an effective way of reaching these on-the-go consumers. More consumers travel longer distances to and from work, which also makes out-of-home advertising effective. Technology has changed the nature of the billboard business, making it a more effective medium than in the past. Using digital printing, billboard companies can print a billboard in 2 hours, compared with 6 days previously. This allows advertisers more variety in the types of messages they create because they can change their messages more quickly.InternetAs consumers become more comfortable with online shopping, advertisers will seek to reach this market. As consumers get more of their news and information from the Internet, the ability of television and radio to get the word out to consumers will decrease. The challenge to Internet advertisers is to create ads that audience members remember.Internet advertising will play a more prominent role in organizations' advertising in the near future. Internet audiences tend to be quite homogeneous, but small. Advertisers will have to adjust their methods to reach these audiences and will have to adapt their persuasive strategies to the online medium as well.Direct mailA final advertising medium is direct mail, which uses mailings to consumers to communicate a client's message. Direct mail includes newsletters, postcards and special promotions. Direct mail is an effective way to build relationships with consumers. For many businesses, direct mail is the most effective form of advertising. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2008年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案

2008年6月21日大学英语六级真题及答案Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Passage OneQuestions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.Imagine waking up and finding the value of your assets has been halved. No, you’re not an investor in o ne of those hedge funds that failed completely. With the dollar slumping to a 26-year low against the pound, already-expensive London has become quite unaffordable. A coffee at Starbucks, just as unavoidable in England as it is in the United States, runs about $8.The once all-powerful dollar isn’t doing a Titanic against just the pound. It is sitting at a record low against the euro and at a 30-year low against the Canadian dollar. Even the Argentine peso and Brazilian real are thriving against the dollar.The weak dollar is a source of humiliation, for a nation’s self-esteem rests in part on the strength of its currency. It’s also a potential economic problem, since a declining dollar makes imported food more expensive and exerts upward pressure on interest rates. And yet there are substantial sectors of the vast U.S. economy-from giant companies like Coca-Cola to mom-and-pop restaurant operators in Miami-for which the weak dollar is most excellent news.Many Europeans may view the U.S. as an arrogant superpower that has become hostile to foreigners. But nothing makes people think more warmly of the U.S. than a weak dollar. Through April, the total number of visitors from abroad was up 6.8 percent from last year. Should the trend continue, the number of tourists this year will finally top the 2000 peak? Many Europeans now apparently view the U.S. the way many Americans view Mexico-as a cheap place to vacation, shop and party, all while ignoring the fact that the poorer locals can’t afford to join the merrymaking.The money tourists spend helps decrease our chronic trade deficit. So do exports, which thanks in part to the weak dollar, soared 11 percent between May 2006 and May 2007. For first five months of 2007, the trade deficit actually fell 7 percent from 2006.If you own shares in large American corporations, you’re a winner in the weak-dollar gamble. Last week Coca-Cola’s stick bubbled to a five-year high after it reported a fantastic quarter. Foreign sales accounted for 65 percent of Coke’s beverage business. Other American companies profiting from this trend include McDonald’s and IBM.American tourists, however, shouldn’t expect any relief soon. The dollar lost strength the way many marriages break up- slowly, and then all at once. And currencies don’t turn on a dime. So if you want to avoid the pain inflicted by the increasingly pathetic dollar, cancel that summer vacation to England and look to New England. There, the dollar is still treated with a little respect.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

2008年6月英语六级真题及答案解析(标准完整版)

2008年6月英语六级真题及答案Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Will E-books Replace Traditional Books? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1.随着信息技术的发展，电子图书越来越多2.有人认为电子图书会取代传统图书，理由是……3.我的看法Will E-books Replace Traditional Books?Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions:In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.What will the world be like in fifty years?This week some top scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, gave their vision of howthe world will look in 2056,fron gas-powered cars to extraordinary health advances, John Ingham reports on what the world’s finest minds believe our futures will be.For those of us lucky enough to live that long,2056 will be a world of almost perpetual youth, where obesity is a remote memory and robots become our companions.We will be rubbing shoulders with aliens and colonizing outer space. Better still, our descendants might at last live in a world at peace with itself.The prediction is that we will have found a source of inexbaustible, safe, green energy,and that science will have killed off religion. If they are right we will have removed twoof the main causes of war-our dependence on oil and religious prejudice.Will we really, as today’s scientists claim, be able to live for ever or at least cheatthe ageing process so that the average person lives to 150?Of course, all these predictions come with a scientific health warning. Harvard professor Steven Pinker says: “This is an invitation to look foolish, as with the predictions of domed cities and nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners th at were made 50 year ago.”Living longerAnthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina, belives failing organs will be repaired by injecting cells into the body. They will naturally to straightto the injury and help heal it. A system of injections without needles could also slow the ageing process by using the same process to “tune” cells.Bruce Lahn, professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, anticipates theability to produce“unlimited supplies” of transpla ntable human organs without the needed a new organ, such as kidney, the surgeon would contact a commercial organ producer, give him the patient’s immuno-logical profile and would then be sent a kidney with the correct tissue type.These organs would be entirely composed of human cells, grown by introducing them into animal hosts, and alloweing them to deveoop into and organ in place of the animal’s own. But Prof. Lahn believes that farmed brains would be “off limits”.He says: “Very few people would want to have their brains replaced by someone else’s and we probably don’t want to put a human brain ing an animal body.”Richard Miller, a professor at the University of Michigan, thinks scientist could develop“an thentic anti-ageing drugs” by working out how cells in larger animals such as whales and human resist many forms of injuries. He says:“It’s is now routine, in laboratory mammals, to extend lifespan by about 40%. Turning on the same protective systems in people should, by 2056, create the first class of 100-year-olds who are as vigorous and productive as today’s people in their 60s”AliensConlin Pillinger ,professor of planerary sciences at the Open University,says:”I fancy that at least we will be able to show that life didi start to evolve on Mars well as Earth.”Within 50years he hopes scientists will prove that alien life came here in Martian meteorites(陨石).Chris McKay,a planetary scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.believes that in 50 years we may find evidence of alien life in ancient permanent forst of Mars or on other planers.He adds:”There is even a chance we will find alien life forms here on Earth.It mightbe as different as English is to Chinese.Priceton professor Freeman Dyson thinks it “likely” that life form outer space will be discovered defore 2056 because the tools for finding it, such as optical and radio detection and data processing,are improving.He ays:”As soon as the first evidence is found,we will know what to look for and additional discoveries are likely to follow quickly.Such discoveries are likely to have revolutionary consequences for biology, astronomy and philosophy. They may change the way we look at ourselves and our place in the universe.Colonies in spaceRichard Gottprofessor of astrophysics at Princeton,hopes man will set up a self-sufficient colony on Mars,which would be a “life insurance policy against whatever catastrophes,natural or otherwise,might occur on Earth.“The real space race is whether we will colonise off Earth on to other worlds before money for the space programme runs out.”Spinal injuriesEllen Heber-Katz,a professor at the Wistar Institude in Philadelphia,foresees cures for inijuries causing paralysis such as the one that afflicated Superman star Christopher Reeve.She says:”I believe that the day is not far off when we will be able to profescribe drugs that cause severes(断裂的) spinal cords to heal,hearts to regenerate and lost limbs to regrow.“People will come to expect that injured or diseased organs are meant to be repaired from within,inmuch the same way that we fix an appliance or automobile:by replancing thedamaged part with a manufacturer-certified new part.”She predict that within 5 to 10 years fingers and toes will be regrown and limbs will start to be regrown a few years later. Reparies to the nervous system will start with optic nerves and,in time,the spinal cord.”Within 50years whole body replacement will be routine,”Prof.Heber-Katz adds.ObesitySydney Brenner,senior distinguished fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Center in California,won the 2002 Noblel Prize for Medicine and says that if there is a global disaster some humans will survive-and evolition will favour small people with bodies large enough to support the required amount of brain power.”Obesity,”he says.”will have been solved.”RobotsRodney Brooks,professor of robotice at MIT,says the problems of developing artificial intelligence for robots will be at least partly overcome.As a result,”the possibilities for robots working with people wil l open up immensely”EnergyBill Joy,green technology expert in Califomia,says:”The most significant breakthrought would be to have an inexhaustible source of safe,green energy that is substantially cheaper than any existing energy source.”Ideally,such a source would be safe in that it could not be made into weapons and would not make hazardous or toxic waste or carbon dioxide,the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.SocietyGeoffrey Miller,evolutionary psychologist at the Universi ty of New Mexico,says:”The US will follow the UKin realizing that religion is nor a prerequisite (前提)for ordinary human decency.“This,science will kill religion-not by reason challenging faith but by offering a more practical,uniwersal and rewarding m oral frameworkfor human interaction.”He also predicts that “ahsurdly wasteful”displays of wealth will become umfashionable while the importance of close-knit communities and families will become clearer.These there changer,he says,will help make us all”brighe\ter,wiser,happier and kinder”.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

英语六级08年6月试题及答案

2008年6月大学英语六级考试A卷（真题+答案） 2008年06月21日19:55 昂立英语评论211条第 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 页感谢昂立英语友情支持Part ⅠWriting (30 minutes)注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上Part ⅡReading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)(15 minute s)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1 For quest ions 1-7,choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D. For questions 8-10,complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.What will the world be like in fifty years?This week some top scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, gav e their vision of how the world will look in 2056,fron gas-powered ca rs to extraordinary health advances, John Ingham reports on what the world’s finest minds believe our futures will be.For those of us lucky enough to live that long,2056 will be a wor ld of almost perpetual youth, where obesity is a remote memory and ro bots become our companions.We will be rubbing shoulders with aliens and colonizing outer spa ce. Better still, our descendants might at last live in a world at pe ace with itself.The prediction is that we will have found a source of inexbaustib le, safe, green energy, and that science will have killed off religio n. If they are right we will have removed two of the main causes of w ar-our dependence on oil and religious prejudice.Will we really, as today’s scientists claim, be able to live for ever or at least cheat the ageing process so that the average person lives to 150?Of course, all these predictions come with a scientific health wa rning. Harvard professor Steven Pinker says: “This is an invitation to look foolish, as with the predictions of domed cities and nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners that were ma de 50 year ago.”Living longerAnthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute in North Car olina, belives failing organs will be repaired by injecting cells int o the body. They will naturally to straight to the injury and help heal it. A system of injections without needles could also slow the age ing process by using the same process to “tune” cells.Bruce Lahn, professor of human genetics at the University of Chic ago, anticipates the ability to produce“unlimited supplies” of tran splantable human organs without the needed a new organ, such as kidne y, the surgeon would contact a commercial organ producer, give him th e patient’s immuno-logical profile and would then be sent a kidney w ith the correct tissue type.These organs would be entirely composed of human cells, grown by introducing them into animal hosts, and alloweing them to deveoop int o and organ in place of the animal’s own. But Prof. Lahn believes th at farmed brains would be “off limits”.He says: “Very few people w ould want to have their brains replaced by someone else’s and we pro bably don’t want to put a human brain ing an animal body.”Richard Miller, a professor at the University of Michigan, thinks scientist could develop“an thentic anti-ageing drugs” by working o ut how cells in larger animals such as whales and human resist many f orms of injuries. He says:“It’s is now routine, in laboratory mamma ls, to extend lifespan by about 40%. Turning on the same protective s ystems in people should, by 2056, create the first class of 100-year-olds who are as vigorous and productive as today’s people in their 6 0s”AliensConlin Pillinger ,professor of planerary sciences at the Open Uni versity,says:”I fancy that at least we will be able to show that lif e didi start to evolve on Mars well as Earth.”Within 50years he hope s scientists will prove that alien life came here in Martian meteorit es(陨石).Chris McKay,a planetary scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center. believes that in 50 years we may find evidence of alien life in ancie nt permanent forst of Mars or on other planers.He adds:”There is even a chance we will find alien life forms he re on Earth.It mightbe as different as English is to Chinese.Priceton professor Freeman Dyson thinks it “likely” that life f orm outer space will be discovered defore 2056 because the tools for finding it, such as optical and radio detection and data processing,a re improving.He ays:”As soon as the first evidence is found,we will know what to look for and additional discoveries are likely to follow quickly.S uch discoveries are likely to have revolutionary consequences for bio logy, astronomy and philosophy. They may change the way we look at ou rselves and our place in the universe.Colonies in spaceRichard Gottprofessor of astrophysics at Princeton,hopes man will set up a self-sufficient colony on Mars,which would be a “life insu rance policy against whatever catastrophes,natural or otherwise,might occur on Earth.“The real space race is whether we will colonise off Earth on to other worlds before money for the space programme r uns out.”Spinal injuriesEllen Heber-Katz,a professor at the Wistar Institude in Philadelp hia,foresees cures for inijuries causing paralysis such as the one th at afflicated Superman star Christopher Reeve.She says:”I believe that the day is not far off when we will be able to profescribe drugs that cause severes(断裂的) spinal cords to heal,hearts to regenerate and lost limbs to regrow.“People will come to expect that injured or diseased organs are meant to be repaired from within,inmuch the same way that we fix an a ppliance or automobile:by replancing the damaged part with a manufact urer-certified new part.”She predict that within 5 to 10 years finge rs and toes will be regrown and limbs will start to be regrown a few years later. Reparies to the nervous system will start with optic ner ves and,in time,the spinal cord.”Within 50years whole body replaceme nt will be routine,”Prof.Heber-Katz adds.ObesitySydney Brenner,senior distinguished fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Ce nter in California,won the 2002 Noblel Prize for Medicine and says th at if there is a global disaster some humans will survive-and evoliti on will favour small people with bodies large enough to support the r equired amount of brain power.”Obesity,”he says.”will have been so lved.”RobotsRodney Brooks,professor of robotice at MIT,says the problems of d eveloping artificial intelligence for robots will be at least partly overcome.As a result,”the possibilities for robots working with peop le will open up immensely”EnergyBill Joy,green technology exp ert in Califomia,says:”The most sig nificant breakthrought would be to have an inexhaustible source of sa fe,green energy that is substantially cheaper than any existing energ y source.”Ideally,such a source would be safe in that it could not be made into weapons and would not make hazardous or toxic waste or carbon di oxide,the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.SocietyGeoffrey Miller,evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico,says:”The US will follow the UKin realizing that religion is nor a prerequisite (前提)for ordinary human decency.“This,science will kill religion-not by reason challenging fai th but by offering a more practical,uniwersal and rewarding moral fra meworkfor human interaction.”He also predicts that “ahsurdly wasteful”displays of wealth w ill become umfashionable while the importance of close-knit communiti es and families will become clearer.These there changer,he says,will help make us all”brighe\ter,w iser,happier and kinder”.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2008年6月英语六级答案（A卷）

.D) 2.B) 3.A) 4.C) 5.C) 6.A ) 7.D) 8.artificial intelligence 9.weapons 10.religion 听⼒听写 I am interested in criminal justice system of our country. It seems to me that something has to be done if we are to survive as a country. I certainly don't know what the answers to our problems are. Things certainly get complicated in a hurry when you get into them. But I wonder something could be done to deal with some of these problems. One thing I am concerned about is our practice of putting offenders in jail who haven't harmed anyone. Why not work out some system whereby they can pay back the debts they owe society instead of incuring another debt by going to prison and of course coming under the influence of hardened criminals. I am also concerned about the short prison sentences people are serving for serious crimes. of course one alternative to this is to restore capital punishment. but I am not sure I would be for that. I am not sure it's right to take an eye for an eye. The alternative to capital punishment is longer sentences. But they would certainly cost the tax payers much money. I also think we must do something about the insanity plea. In my opinion, anyone who takes another person's life intentionally is insane. However, that does not mean that person isn't guilty of the crime, or that he shouldn't pay society the debt he owes. It's said of course that the person may have to spend the rest of his life or a large part of it in prison for acts that he committed while not in full control of his mind. 听⼒听写答案 36. survive 37. complicated 38. offenders 39. whereby 40. incurring 41. influence 42. serving 43. restore 44. The alternative to capital punishment is longer sentences. But they would certainly cost the tax payers much money. 45. that does not mean that person isn't guilty of the crime, or that he shouldn't pay society the debt he owes. 46. a large part of it in prison for acts that he committed while not in full control of his mind. 简答 47. causing a reaction 48. an emotional debate 49. the approval of every victim’s family 50. exploiting a national tragedy 51. raise awareness 快速阅读1. D）2. B）3. A）4. C)5. C)6. A )7. D)8. artificial intelligence9. weapons 10. religion 仔细阅读 47. causing a reaction 48. an emotional debate 49. the approval of every victim’s family 50. exploiting a national tragedy 51. raise awareness 52. B) 53. C) 54. D) 55. C) 56. A) 57. D They care more about which college their children go to than the children themselves 58. A They want to increase their children’s chances of entering a prestigious college 59. C Kids’ actual abilities are more important than their college backgrounds 60. B Degrees of prestigious universities do not guarantee entry to graduate programs. 61. C they experience more job dissatisfactions in job applications 翻译 1.We can say a lot of things about those who are devoted to poems in their whole lives (毕⽣致⼒于诗歌的⼈). They are passionate, impulsive and unique. 2.Mary couldn’t have received my letter, or she should have made a reply/replied it last week. (否则她上周就该回信了). 3.Nancy is supposed to have finished (conducting) her chemistry experiment(做完化学实验) at least two weeks ago. 4.Never once have the old couple quarreled with each other (⽼两⼝相互争吵)since they were married 40 years ago. 5.The prosperity of a nation/country depends largely on (⼀个国家未来的繁荣在很⼤程度上有赖于) the quality of education. 六级作⽂电⼦书是否能够取代传统的书？ 1、随着信息技术的发展，电⼦图书越来越多 2、有⼈认为电⼦图书会取代传统图书，理由是-- 3、我的看法 With the development of the information technology, electric books (e-books) have attracted the attention from all our society. Wherever we go, we can see them, such as in the libraries, in the classroom as well as on the Internet. Just some experts predicted in a rectent TV interview, e-books would possibly dominate the reading the next few decades. Some people claim that the e-books will substitute the traditional ones. For one thing, the e-books can not only bring them great amount of convenience, but also free them from going to the bookstores to selecting traditional books. For another, e-books save them lots of space as well as money. They can just put them in computers and take them whiletraveling. However, traditional books are too heavy and bulk for us to carry. From my perspective, I firmly believe the e-books can not replace the traditional books totally. They will unquestionably co-exist for a long period. Although the e-books offer us lots of favorable consequences, the traditional books can provide us opportunities to take note on them and to be easy for collection. Therefore, the e-books and the traditional books are preferable to different people, and both of them can bring us benefits.。

2008年6月大学英语四级真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)

2008年6月大学英语四级真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. Writing 2. Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) 3. Listening Comprehension 4. Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) 5. Cloze 8. TranslationPart I Writing (30 minutes)1．For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on Recreational Activities according to the outline given below. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese. Recreational Activities 1. 娱乐活动多种多样； 2. 娱乐活动可能使人们受益，也可能有危害性； 3. 作为大学生，我的看法。

正确答案：Recreational Activities With the development of living standards, people are spending more time on various forms of recreational activities ranging from outdoor sports, karaoke, to online games and Internet-surfing. Most recreational activities bring benefits and add color to our life. For instance, sports keep us fit. Karaoke and dancing make us relaxed from work pressure, video or online games may stimulate our imagination and Internet can bring us easy access to information. However, every coin has two sides, so do recreational activities. Online games and Internet is especially a controversial issue. The problems arise when some people stay online night and day, chatting with strangers and getting lost in those meaningless games. So addicted have they become that they are actually neglecting meals and sleeps, which is harmful to their normal life, work and interpersonal relationships. As an undergraduate student, I think we embrace those recreational activities that help us alternate work with rest as well as broaden our visions, which may put us in a favorable position in the future job market. When it comes to those addictive, time-consuming activities, I think to stay far away. In a word, we should keep a balance between recreational activities and study, or we may be taught a painful lesson.Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-7, mark：Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN)if the information is not given in the passage.Media Selection for Advertisements After determining the target audience for a product or service, advertising agencies must select the appropriate media for the advertisement. We discuss here the major types of media used in advertising. We focus our attention on seven types of advertising: television,newspapers, radio, magazines, out-of-home, Internet, and direct mail. Television Television is an attractive medium for advertising because it delivers mass audiences to advertisers. When you consider that nearly three out of four Americans have seen the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ? you can understand the power of television to communicate with a large audience. When advertisers create a brand, for example, they want to impress consumers with the brand and its image. Television provides an ideal vehicle for this type of communication. But television is an expensive medium, and not all advertisers can afford to use it. Television’s influence on advertising is fourfold. First, narrowcasting means that television channels are seen by an increasingly narrow segment of the audience. The Golf Channel, for instance, is watched by people who play golf. Home and Garden Television is seen’by those interested in household improvement projects. Thus, audiences are smaller and more homogeneous (具有共同特点的) than they have been in the past. Second, there is an increase in the number of television channels available to viewers, and thus, advertisers. This has also resulted in an increase in the sheer number of advertisements to which audiences are exposed. Third, digital recording devices allow audience members more control over which commercials they watch. Fourth, control over programming is being passed from the networks to local cable operators and satellite programmers. Newspapers After television, the medium attracting the next largest annual ad revenue is newspapers. The New York Times, which reaches a national audience, accounts for $1 billion in ad revenue annually. It has increased its national circulation (发行量) by 40% and is now available for home delivery in 168 dries. Locally, newspapers are the largest advertising medium. Newspapers are a less expensive advertising medium than television and provide a way for advertisers to communicate a longer, more detailed message to their audience than they can through television. Given new production techniques, advertisements can be printed in newspapers in about 48 hours, meaning newspapers are also a quick way of getting the massage out. Newspapers are often the most important form of news for a local community, and they develop a high degree of loyalty from local readers. Radio Advertising on radio continues to grow. Radio is often used in conjunction with outdoor billboards (广告牌)and the Internet to reach even more customers than television. Advertisers are likely to use radio because it is a less expensive medium than television, which means advertisers can afford to repeat their ads often~ Internet companies are also turning to radio advertising. Radio provides a way for advertisers to communicate with audience members at all times of the day. Consumers listen to radio on their way to school or work, at work, on the way home, and in the evening hours. Two major changes —satellite and Internet radio —will force radio advertisers to adapt their methods. Both of these radio forms allow listeners to tune in stations that are more distant than the local stations they could receive in the past. As a result, radio will increasingly attract target audiences who live many miles apart. Magazines Newsweeklies, women’s rifles, and business magazines have all seen increases in advertising because they attract the high-end market. Magazines are popular with advertisers because of the narrow market that they deliver. A broadcast medium such as network television attracts all types ofaudience members, but magazine audiences are more homogeneous. If you read Sports Illustrated, for example, you have much in common with the magazine’s other readers. Advertisers see magazines as an efficient way of reaching target audience members. Advertisers using the print media —magazines and newspapers —will need to adapt to two main changes. First, the Internet will bring larger audiences to local newspapers. These audiences will be more diverse and geographically dispersed(分散) than in the past. Second, advertisers will have to understand how to use an increasing number of magazines for their target audiences. Although some magazines will maintain national audiences, a large number of magazines will entertain narrower audiences. Out-of-home advertising Out-of-home advertising, also called place-based advertising, has become an increasingly effective way of reaching consumers, who are more active than ever before. Many consumers today do not sit at home and watch television. Using billboards, newsstands, and bus shelters for advertising is an effective way of reaching these on-the-go consumers. More consumers travel longer distances to and from work, which also makes out-of-home advertising effective. Technology has changed the nature of the billboard business, making it a more effective medium than in the past. Using digital printing, billboard companies can print a billboard in 2 hours, compared with 6 days previously. This allows advertisers more variety in the types of messages they create because they can change their messages more quickly. Internet As consumers become more comfortable with online shopping, advertisers will seek to reach this market. As consumers get more of their news and information from the Internet, the ability of television and radio to get the word out to consumers will decrease. The challenge to Internet advertisers is to create ads that audience members remember. Internet advertising will play a more prominent role in organizations’ advertising in the near future. Internet audiences tend to be quite homogeneous, but small. Advertisers will have to adjust their methods to reach these audiences and will have to adapt their persuasive strategies to the online medium as well. Direct mail A final advertising medium is direct mail, which uses mailings to consumers to communicate a client’s message. Direct mail includes newsletters, postcards, and special promotions. Direct mail is an effective way to build relationships with consumers. For many businesses, direct mail is the most effective form of advertising.2．Television is an attractive advertising medium in that______.A．it has large audiencesB．it appeals to housewivesC．it helps build up a company’s reputationD．it is affordable to most advertisers正确答案：A解析：参见“Television”部分的第一段第一句：Television is an attractive medium for advertising because it delivers mass audiences to advertisers(给广告商带来庞大的收视群体)．3．With the increase in the number of TV channels,______.A．the cost of TV advertising has decreasedB．the number of TV viewers has increasedC．advertisers’ interest in other media has decreasedD．the number of TV ads people can see has increased正确答案：D解析：参见“Television”部分的第二段第六、七句：Second，there is an increase in the number of television channels．．．This has resulted in an increase in the sheer number of advirtisements to which audiences are exposed(观众所接触的广告数量的增长)．4．Compared with television, newspapers as an advertising medium______.A．earn a larger annual ad revenueB．convey more detailed messagesC．use more production techniquesD．get messages out more effectively正确答案：B解析：参见“Newspapers”部分的第二段第一句：Newspapers...provide a way for advertisers to communicate a longer，more detailed message to their audiences．．．(将更长更详细的信息转达给观众)．．．5．Advertising on radio continues to grow because______.A．more local radio stations have been set upB．modem technology makes it more entertainingC．it provides easy access to consumersD．it has been revolutionized by Internet radio正确答案：C解析：参见“Radio”部分的第一段最后两句：Radio provides a way for advertisers to communicate with audience members at all times of the day. Consumers listen to radio on their way to school or work，at work．．．即收音机使广告商随时随地可以和听众交流，为消费者提供了“easy access”。

2008年6月英语六级阅读套题模拟(一)

2008年6月英语六级阅读套题模拟（一）Unit1 Passage 1［1258词教育观点类建议做题时间：12.5分钟］Cheating:"But Everybody's Doing It"Digital DeceptionThe Kansas State University junior was desperate. Already on academic probation after stumbling through a shaky sophomore year while battling a severe disease, he was about to fail the political science for missing two exams. Another F could mean suspension, which would put at risk the college degree he'd always counted on. He couldn't take that chance. Instead, he took a different one.Thanks to a part-time job in the university's information-technology department, the young man - aborn-and-bred Midwesterner who loved reading and played trumpet in his high school band - had access to his professor's online grade book. With a few quick keystrokes, he was able to give himself passing scores for the tests he hadn't taken. He wasn't clever enough, though, to cover his tracks. He was soon caught and suspended - and has been racked (折磨) with guiltever since."There is no excuse or justification for my actions," he wrote to the university's Honor Council in the wake of the spring 2005 episode. (He prefers to remain anonymous.) The reason for his violation, he added, was simple: "I did what I did out of panic."While this student and his professors say the incident resulted from a momentary lapse in judgment, the sad fact is that, in a broader sense, it's hardly an isolated act. There's plenty to suggest that academic cheating is epidemic in the country's high schools and colleges. Consider a few examples: nine business students at the University of Maryland caught receiving text messaged answers on their cell phones during an accounting exam; a Texas teen criminally charged for selling stolen test answers - allegedly swiped via a keystroke-decoding device affixed to a teacher's computer - to fellow students; seven Kansas State students in one class accused of plagiarizing papers off the Internet.Beyond the anecdotes, experts point to a stream of data - much of it from students themselves - that indicates cheating is rampant. A report last June by Rutgers University professor Donald McCabe for The Center for Academic Integrity showed70 percent of students at 60 colleges admitting to some cheating within the previous year; one in four admitted to engaging in serious cheating (copying from another student, using concealed notes, or helping someone else cheat). McCabe's high school findings were similarly grim: Of 18,000 high school students surveyed across the country over the past four years, 70 percent of those in public schools admitted to at least one case of serious test cheating; about six in ten admitted to some form of plagiarism. Just under half of all private school students acknowledged similar lapses.Unit 1 A recent Gallup survey reinforced those findings. Polling one group of 13to 17year olds in 2003 and another in 2004, Gallup reported that 65 percent cited "a great deal" or a "fair amount" of cheating in their schools. About half said they'd cheated on a test themselves at some point. Also in 2004, the Josephson Institute of Ethics - a Los Angeles nonprofit aimed at boosting personal and organizational ethics - released the result of a survey of 24,763 high school students: 62 percent admitted cheating on exams.Cheating isn't new. As long as there have been rules, there have been people intent on breaking them. What's alarming now, says Institute founder Michael Josephson, is howwidespread and rampant the practice has become."People who cheated were in the minority, and they kept it a secret, even from their friends," he says. "Now they are the majority, and they are bold about it. Today, if you ask kids about cheating, you will get such cavalier (骑士) attitudes that the statistics are almost secondary."Kansas State professor Phil Anderson agrees: "Many of our students have the attitude of 'I'll do whatever I have to do to get ahead. It's endemic (普遍的)."Success at Any CostJosephson, Anderson and others concerned with the issue say two factors are behind the erosion in ethics. First, advances in technology - chiefly the Internet and portable digital devices - have made cheating easier. A bigger factor, though, is the way bad behavior across society - ballplayers popping steroids, business executives cooking corporate books, journalists fabricating quotes, even teachers faking test scores to make schools look good - signals that nothing is out of bounds when success is at stake.Says David Callahan, author of The Cheating Culture: "It's the normalization of cheating. Everybody's doing it. And if you don't, you feel like achump."The pressure to succeed that drives some to cheat starts early, says Tomas Rua, a senior at Friends Seminary, a New York City private school."Everything that you do and work for is to maximize your potential," he says. "And many people feel driven to use any recourse that they can to get that grade. There is a lot of hysteria about college, and you start hearing about it in the middle school."Emily Broerman, a senior at North High School in Evansville, Indiana, echoes Rua's comments: "I would say that I see cheating every day. You see a lot of 'Succeed at any cost."Daniel, a student at Turlock High School in California's Central Valley, certainly takes that attitude: "If I want to get the better grade, I'm going to cheat to get it. No question. Anyway, in the real world you do whatever you have to do to get a better job."Daniel says that, like many of his friends, he's lifted material from the Internet and passed it off as his own, received test answers via text messages, and even brought old-fashioned crib sheets in to exams."I have cheated since the seventh grade," he claims. "I am competitive, so I'm always trying to find a better way ofcheating."Turlock principal Dana Trevethan says Daniel's comments capture the brazen (厚颜无耻的) attitude of some students. "He's a good kid, but he's competitive," she says. "And cutthroat should be his middle name."An Honest EffortIt's not all grim. Some schools have banned cell phones, cameras and other gadgets during school hours. Honor codes have been reinvigorated. And teachers are using technology to turn the tables on cheaters.A number of institutions now rely on , a website that lets teachers check students written work for signs of plagiarism (剽窃). John Barrie, the site's founder, says the company gets more than 50,000 papers per day. About one third aren't original.Perhaps most encouraging is the way some kids are taking a stand against cheaters. Megan Schisser, a senior at Robinson Secondary School, is one of them. Last spring, after studying intensely for an advanced history final, she was pleased when she got an A. Unfortunately, some students in her class had copied down the questions and sent them to friends who were to take the test later. So everyone had to retake the exam. Thistime, Megan got a B. She and some friends were so upset, they decided to do something. "Our purpose was to say that there are those of us who are doing the best we can, and we're not cheating," she says. "And it is okay not to cheat."The group formed an honor council, and in November introduced a series of school's closed-circuit TV show. Using the Twisted Sister hit "We're Not Gonna Take It" as their theme, the spots discuss the importance of honor and end with a simple tagline, "Robinson Honor Council: Saving Robinson One Cheater At A Time."It's a message that could play in classrooms across the country.1. The young man from Midwest gave himself passing scores by revising information data.2. It is widely found in America's high schools and colleges that students cheat to get high scores.3. A report last June by professor McCabe showed 30 percent of students at 60 colleges acting honestly in their exam.4. David Callahan says that students who do not cheat in the exam are good.5. The founder of Institute of Ethics thinks that cheatingdoesn t bother until it .6. A student at Friends Seminary says that as early as in the middle school a student may suffer .7. Daniel reckons it right to cheat for better grades since there are so many in the real life.8. Many teachers resort to technology to find out whose written work is and whose is not.9. The most helpful way to prevent students from cheating may lie in .10. Robinson Honor Council uses the school's facilities to advocate .【。

2008年6月21日大学英语六级真题及答案

2008年6月21日大学英语六级真题及答案PartⅠWriting (30 minutes)Will E-books Replace Traditional Books1.随着信息技术的发展，电子图书越来越多2.有人认为电子图书会取代传统图书，理由是……3.我的看法注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上Part ⅡReading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes)Directions In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions onAnswer Sheet 1 For questions 1-7,choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D. Forquestions 8-10,complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.What will the world be like in fifty yearsThis week some top scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, gave their vision of how the world will lookin 2056,fron gas-powered cars to extraordinary health advances, John Ingham reports on what the world’sfinest minds believe our futures will be.For those of us lucky enough to live that long,2056 will be a world of almost perpetual youth, where obesityis a remote memory and robots become our companions.We will be rubbing shoulders with aliens and colonizing outer space. Better still, our descendants might atlast live in a world at peace with itself.The prediction is that we will have found a source of inexbaustible, safe, green energy, and that science willhave killed off religion. If they are right we will have removed two of the main causes of war-ourdependence on oil and religious prejudice.Will we really, as today’s scientists claim, be able to live for ever or at least cheat the ageing process so thatthe average person lives to 150Of course, all these predictions come with a scientific health warning. Harvard professor Steven Pinker says“This is an invitation to look foolish, as with the predictions of domed cities and nuclear-powered vacuumcleaners that were made 50 year ago.”Living longerAnthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina, belives failing organs will berepaired by injecting cells into the body. They will naturally to straight to the injury and help heal it. Asystem of injections without needles could also slow the ageing process by using the same process to “tune”cells.Bruce Lahn, professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, anticipates the ability toproduce“unlimited supplies” of transplantable human organs without the needed a new organ, such askidney, the surgeon would contact a commercial organ producer, give him the patient’s immuno-logicalpro would then be sent a kidney with the correct tissue type.These organs would be entirely composed of human cells, grown by introducing them into animal hosts, andalloweing them to deveoop into and organ in place of the animal’s own. But Prof. Lahn believes thatfarmed brains would be “off limits”.He says “Very few people would want to have their brains replacedby someone else’s and we probably don’t want to put a human brain ing an animal body.”Richard Miller, a professor at the University of Michigan, thinks scientist could develop“an thentic anti-ageing drugs” by working out how cells in larger animals such as whales and human resist many forms ofinjuries. He says“It’s is now routine, in laboratory mammals, to extend lifespan by about 40%. Turningon the same protective systems in people should, by 2056, create the first class of 100-year-olds who are asvigorous and productive as today’s people in their 60s”AliensConlin Pillinger ,professor of planerary sciences at the Open University,says”I fancy that at least we will beable to show that life didi start to evolve on Mars well as Earth.”Within 50years he hopes scientists willprove that alien life came here in Martian meteorites(陨石).Chris McKay,a planetary scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.believes that in 50 years we may findevidence of alien life in ancient permanent forst of Mars or on other planers.He adds”There is even a chance we will find alien life forms here on Earth.It mightbe as different as Englishis to Chinese.Priceton professor Freeman Dyson thinks it “likely” that life form outer space will be discovered defore2056 because the tools for finding it, such as optical and radio detection and data processing,are improving.He ays”As soon as the first evidence is found,we will know what to look for and additional discoveries arelikely to follow quickly.Such discoveries are likely to have revolutionary consequences for biology,astronomy and philosophy. They may change the way we look at ourselves and our place in the universe.Colonies in spaceRichard Gottprofessor of astrophysics at Princeton,hopes man will set up a self-sufficient colony onMars,which would be a “life insurance policy against whatever catastrophes,natural or otherwise,mightoccur on Earth.“The real space race is whether we will colonise off Earth on to other worlds before money for the spaceprogramme runs out.”Spinal injuriesEllen Heber-Katz,a professor at the Wistar Institude in Philadelphia,foresees cures for inijuries causingparalysis such as the one that afflicated Superman star Christopher Reeve.She says”I believe that the day is not far off when we will be able to profescribe drugs that cause severes(断裂的) spinal cords to heal,hearts to regenerate and lost limbs to regrow.“People will come to expect that injured or diseased organs are meant to be repaired from within,inmuchthe same way that we fix an appliance or automobileby replancing the damaged part with a manufacturer-certified new part.”She predict that within 5 to 10 years fingers and toes will be regrown and limbs willstart to be regrown a few years later. Reparies to the nervous system will start with optic nerves and,intime,the spinal cord.”Within 50years whole body replacement will be routine,”Prof.Heber-Katz adds.ObesitySydney Brenner,senior distinguished fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Center in California,won the 2002 NoblelPrize for Medicine and says that if there is a global disaster some humans will survive-and evolition willfavour small people with bodies large enough to support the required amount of brainpower.”Obesity,”he says.”will have been solved.”RobotsRodney Brooks,professor of robotice at MIT,says the problems of developing artificial intelligence for robotswill be at least partly overcome.As a result,”the possibilities for robots working with people will open upimmensely”EnergyBill Joy,green technology expert in Califomia,says”The most significant breakthrought would be to have aninexhaustible source of safe,green energy that is substantially cheaper than any existing energy source.”Ideally,such a source would be safe in that it could not be made into weapons and would not makehazardous or toxic waste or carbon dioxide,the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.SocietyGeoffrey Miller,evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico,says”The US will follow theUKin realizing that religion is nor a prerequisite (前提)for ordinary human decency.“This,science will kill religion-not by reason challenging faith but by offering a more practical,uniwersaland rewarding moral frameworkfor human interaction.”He also predicts that “ahsurdly wasteful”displays of wealth will become umfashionable while theimportance of close-knit communities and families will become clearer.These there changer,he says,will help make us all”brigheter,wiser,happier and kinder”.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2008.6英语四级真题+详细答案

大学英语四级考试全国统考试卷（2008年6月）1.娱乐活动多种多样2.娱乐活动可能使人们受益，也可能有危害性3.作为大学生，我的看法。

___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) 10% Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose thebest answer from the four choices marked ABCD, for questions 8-10,complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Media Selection for AdvertisementsAfter determining the target audience for a product or service, advertising agencies must select the appropriate media for the advertisement. We discuss here the major types of media used in advertising. We focus our attention on seven types of advertising: television, newspapers, radio, magazines, out-of-home, Internet, and direct mail.TelevisionTelevision is an attractive medium for advertising because it delivers mass audiences to advertisers. When you consider that nearly three out of four Americans have seen the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? You can understand the power of television to communicate with a large audience. When advertisers create a brand, for example, they want to impress consumers with the brand and its image. Television provides an ideal vehicle for this type of communication. But television is an expensive medium, and not all advertisers can afford to use it.Television's influence on advertising is fourfold. First, narrowcasting means that television channels are seen by an increasingly narrow segment of the audience. The Golf Channel, for instance, is watched by people who play golf, Home and Garden Television is seen by those interested in household improvement projects. Thus, audiences are smaller and more homogeneous(具有共同特点的) than they have been in the past. Second, there is an increase in the number of television channels available to viewers, and thus advertisers. This has also resulted in an increase in the sheernumber of advertisements to which audiences are exposed. Third, digital recording devices allow audience members more control over which commercials they watch. Fourth, control over programming is being passed from the networks to local cable operators and satellite programmers.NewspapersAfter television, the medium attracting the next largest annual ad revenue is newspapers. The New York Times, which reaches a national audience, accounts for $1 billion in ad revenue annually. It has increased its national circulation(发行量) by 40% and is now available for home delivery in 168 cities. Locally, newspapers are the largest advertising medium.Newspapers are a less expensive advertising medium than television and provide a way for advertisers to communicate a longer, more detailed message to their audience than they can through television. Given new production techniques, advertisements can be printed in newspapers in about 48 hours, meaning newspapers are also a quick way of getting the message out. Newspapers are often the most important form of news for a local community, and they develop a high degree of loyalty from local readers.RadioAdvertising on radio continues to grow. Radio is often used in conjunction with outdoor bill-boards(广告牌) and the Internet to reach even more customers than television. Advertisers are likely to use radio because it is a less expensive medium than television, which means advertisers can afford to repeat their ads often. Internet companies are also turning to radio advertising. Radio provides a way for advertisers to communicate with audience members at all times of the day. Consumers listen to radio on their way to school or work, at work, on the way home, and in the evening hours.Two major changes-satellite and Internet radio-will force radio advertisers to adapt their methods. Both of these radio forms allow listeners to tune in stations that are more distant than the local stations they could receive in the past. As a result, radio will increasingly attract target audiences who live many miles apart.MagazinesNewsweeklies, women's titles, and business magazines have all seen increases in advertising because they attract the high-end market. Magazines are popular with advertisers because of the narrow market that they deliver. A broadcast medium such as network television attracts all types of audience members, but magazine audiences are more homogeneous. If you read Sports Illustrated., for example, you will have much in common with the magazine's other readers. Advertisers see magazines as an efficient way of reaching target audience members.Advertisers using the print media---magazines and newspapers---will need to adapt to two main changes. First, the Internet will bring larger audiences to local newspaper. These audiences will be more diverse and geographically dispersed (分散) than in the past. Second, advertisers will have to understand how to use an increasing number of magazines for their target audiences. Although some magazines will maintain national audiences, a large number of magazines will entertain narrower audiences.2Out-of-home advertisingOut-of-home advertising, also called place-based advertising, has become an increasingly effective way of reaching consumers, who are more active than ever before. Many consumers today do not sit at home and watch television. Using billboards, newsstands, and bus shelters for advertising is an effective way of reaching these on-the-go consumers. More consumers travel longer distances to and from work, which also makes out-of-home advertising effective. Technology has changed the nature of the billboard business, making it a more effective medium than in the past. Using digital printing, billboard companies can print a billboard in 2 hours, compared with 6 days previously. This allows advertisers more variety in the types of messages they create because they can change their messages more quickly.InternetAs consumers become more comfortable with online shopping, advertisers will seek to reach this market. As consumers get more of their news and information from the Internet, the ability of television and radio to get the word out to consumers will decrease. The challenge to Internet advertisers is to create ads that audience members remember.Internet advertising will play a more prominent role in organizations' advertising in the near future. Internet audiences tend to be quite homogeneous, but small. Advertisers will have to adjust their methods to reach these audiences and will have to adapt their persuasive strategies to the online medium as well.Direct mailA final advertising medium is direct mail, which uses mailings to consumers to communicate a client's message. Direct mail includes newsletters, postcards and special promotions. Direct mail is an effective way to build relationships with consumers. For many businesses, direct mail is the most effective form of advertising. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2008年6月----2011年6月英语六级真题答案解析完整版

2008年6月英语六级A卷完整答案Part 1 Writing范文一Recent decades have seen the rapid development of information technology, and thereby E-books have wound their way into our daily life. Because of the wide and quick popularity of E-books, there has been an increasing controversy over the question of whether E-books will replace traditional books or not.Many people hold the idea that it will not take long for E-books to replace traditional books because E-books have quite a few advantages over traditional ones. First, E-books are more accessible to readers, because the readers just need to log onto the internet and read online. Second, thanks to the advanced technology, the cost of E-books is much lower, so it takes readers far less money to buyE-books. Last but not the least, reading E-books has developed into part of our daily life, which is particularly appealing to young users, who are the body part of the users of electronic products.As far as I’m concerned, it is not likely for E-books to replace traditional books for lots of reasons. For example, long time of reading E-books will do more harm to our eyes, and readers will find themselves more accessible to printed materials because computers and the internet haven’t yet been popularized to every corner of our life.范文二E-books, or electronic books, have the same information and need the same reading experience as the traditional books, which you actually hold in your hands. E-books have so many benefits that they will replace traditional books.E-books can be created on a shoestring budget while the authors of traditional books will have to overcome a tough sales target before they even consider making a profit on the book. E-books are quicker to create because they could be written and published in as little as a week while the time span between starting a traditional book and writing it could take around a year or two. E-books are easier to target a wide market because they may be sold on the Internet to anyone with a credit card and an Internet connection in any place in the world, while with a traditional book it may be difficult to expand to new markets, since it will involve further significant costs on distribution and marketing.To conclude, E-books are a very valuable tool that could be used as a profit centre, as a publishing tool or as a marketing tool. They have many advantages over the traditional books. E-books will replace traditional books.Part 2 Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)1. D) Scientists’ vision of the world in half a century.2. B) may not come true3. A) humans won’t have to donate organs for transplantation4. C) live to 100 and more with vitality5. C) alien life will likely be discovered6. A ) might survive all catastrophes on earth7. D) lost fingers and limbs will be able to regrow8. artificial intelligence9. weapons10. religionPart 3 Listening ComprehensionSection A11. D) The man is a fan of world-famous football players.12. D) Solve his problem by doing a part-time job.13. C) A real nuisance.14. A) The errors will be corrected soon.15. B) He has to type his paper once more.16. A) They might have to change their plan.17. D) They are not late for a loan application.18. C) The quality of air will surely change for the better.19. B) Numerous varieties of food.20. B) A world of antiques.21. D) It generates 70% of the electricity it uses.22. B) 30,00023. C) Thinking about doing a different job.24. A) She has finally got a promotion and a pay raise.25. B) He changed his mind about marriage unexpectedly.Section BPassage 126. D) They are getting more popular as a means of water recreation.27. A) Water scooter operators lack of experience.28. B) They produce too much noise.29. D) Enforce necessary regulations.Passage 230. D) They are changing.31. B) Not many of them stay in the same place for long.32. C) Keep a friendly distance.Passage 333. D) It may lead to a lack of properly educated workers.34. B) It affects both junior and senior high schools.35. C) Rewarding excellent academic performance.Section C36. survive37. complicated38. offenders39. whereby 40. incurring41. influence42. serving43. restore44. The alternative to capital punishment is longer sentences. But they would certainly cost the tax payers much money.45. that does not mean that person isn't guilty of the crime, or that he shouldn't pay society the debt he owes.46. a large part of it in prison for acts that he committed while not in full control of his mind.Part 4 Reading in DepthSection A47. causing a reaction48. an emotional debate49. The approval of every victim’s family50. exploiting a national tragedy51. raise awarenessSection BPassage 152. B) Their currency has slumped.53. C) They have to spend more money when buying imported goods.54. D) They think of it as a good tourist destination.55. C) They vacation at home rather than abroad.56. A) The dollar’s value will not increase in the short term.Passage 257. D) They care more about which college their children go to than the children themselves.58. A) They want to increase their children’s chances of entering a prestigious college.59. C) Kid’s actual abilities are more important than their college backgrounds.60. B) Degrees of prestigious universities do not guarantee entry to graduate programs.61. C) they experience more job dissatisfaction after graduationPart 5 Cloze62. A) soar63. D) route64. A) Of65. A) import66. A) offering67. C) announced68. D) Consistently69. A) quotas70. C) barely71. D) abolished72. C) initiative73. B) but74. D) version75. A) because76. B) automatic77. D) dismissed 78. C) about79. C) professionals80. A) prospect81. B) clearlyPart 6 Translation82. We can say a lot of things about those who are devoted to poems in their whole lives (毕生致力于诗歌的人): they are passionate, impulsive and unique.83. Mary couldn’t have received my letter, or she should have made a reply last week. (否则她上周就该回信了).84. Nancy is supposed to have finished her chemistry experiment(做完化学实验) at least two weeks ago.85. Never once has the old couple quarreled with each other (老两口相互争吵)since they were married 40 years ago.86. The prosperity of a nation depends largely on (一个国家未来的繁荣在很大程度上有赖于) the quality of education.2009年6月大学英语六级考试答案详解PartⅠWritingShould Parents Send Their Kids to Art Classes?Following the wave of English learning in the last century, the new millennium is witnessing another development of extracurricular education as more and more parents send their children to various art classes.A heated debate has, however, arisen over the credit of this practice.Those who support the art classes argue that children can broaden their horizon, expand their interests, hone their communicative skills as well as cultivate their artistic sensitivity and creativity, which is supposedly stifled by academic studies. Another strong argument for art classes is that considering the growing demand for “all-around”, “multiple-skilled talents” in our increasingly competitive society, one or more artistic skills are certainly as useful as a fluency with a second language when it comes to make an impressive resume or outshine in an interview. Excellency at a musical instrument can even earn bonus points in the university entrance examinations. No wonder many parents and students consider it a worthy investment despite the great expenses of such classes.These arguments meet vehement attack from those who believe that the art classes actually deprive the students of what little spare time they have and the freedom to develop themselves in the way they desire. Already exhausted from dealing with the heavy workload at school, students need desperately some time and space to rest apart from discovering their own interests instead of going to some art classes against their will just because their parents deem it fashionable or favorable for their future. Moreover, art classes can be so expensive that it may turn out a financial burden in the long run.So should we send students to art classes? Yes, and no. the answer depends on the family’s richness, the child’s time and capacity, and of course, above all, his interest. As far as I’m concerned, it is unwise to jump on the bandwagon in a haste and parents need to think twice before making the final decision.Part ⅡReading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)文章分析：本文的话题是在家办公：宽带互联网的普及以及通信技术的发展使远程办公成为现实，给企业带来了不少好处，例如可以省去办公场所的日常开支，员工的工作效率可以提高，因为不用上下班把时间浪费在路上，还可以灵活安排办公时间和私人时间。

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（4）built over the decades to track the ships of enemies过去几十年为了跟踪潜在敌舰而建造的 potential enemies过去几十年为了跟踪潜在敌舰而建造的此部分作定语，限定its （此部分作定语，限定its global network of system）。 underwater listening system）。经过该句子的分析，经过该句子的分析，相信大家对短语限定名词的情况会有更好的认识。在翻译时要注意but在句子中理解为only but在句子中理解为only，更好的认识。在翻译时要注意but在句子中理解为only，翻译为但是句子不通顺。译为但是句子不通顺。参考翻译：冷战后，海军开始与民间分享并部分公开其过参考翻译：冷战后，去几十年中为追踪潜在敌船而建立的水下监听系统网络，去几十年中为追踪潜在敌船而建立的水下监听系统网络，追踪鲸鱼仅仅是向民用科学家开放的一个令人兴奋的新世界的例子而已。界的例子而已。
插入语
插入语一般是对句子的某个成分的解释或补充说明，前后有逗号与其他句子成分分开，充说明，前后有逗号与其他句子成分分开，比较容易识别。比较容易识别。技巧：技巧：处理插入语的基本办法是先略去不
直接跳过两个逗号之间的内容，读，直接跳过两个逗号之间的内容，使插入语结构前后意思顺畅。
Work, for most American and Chinese women aged 55 and under, involves responsibility for a household, a child or children, and a job outside the home as well. 结构：句子的主语和谓语之间有一插入语，结构：句子的主语和谓语之间有一插入语，放在这里起强调作用，里起强调作用，即强调只是对于中国和美国妇女来而不是其他国家的妇女。而且对年龄作了限定。说，而不是其他国家的妇女。而且对年龄作了限定。翻译：对于55 55岁或以下的大多数美国和中国妇女来翻译：对于55岁或以下的大多数美国和中国妇女来说，要做的工作包括料理家务和照料一个或多个孩以及一份在家庭以外的工作。子，以及一份在家庭以外的工作。

历年英语六级真题之2008年6月英语六级考试真题详解(A卷)

历年英语六级真题之2008年6月英语六级考试真题详解(A卷)2008年6月大学英语六级考试真题详解（A卷）Part ⅠWriting范文：Will E-books Replace Traditional Books?Recent decades have seen the rapid development of information technology. As a result, many electric inventions, including E-books, have found their way into our everyday life and have gained increasing popularity among common people.It’s no wonder that some people hold the idea that E-books will replace traditional books sooner or later because E-books have various advantages over the traditional ones. To start with, all the E-books can be downloaded from the internet directly, most of which are free of charge, while the traditional books in bookstores are much more expensive. What’s more, E-books can be stored more easily in our computers and are more convenient for people to carry around. Last but not the least, reading E-books has become a fashion in our life, which is particularly appealing to our young people.As far as I am concerned, nowadays traditional books are still the leading means of reading. ⑾However, with thefurther development of information technology and with the popularity of computer and internet, E-books will surely take the place of traditional books in the near future.Part ⅡReading Comprehension (Skimming andScanning)1. D）。