08年6月英语六级阅读答案
2008六级真题答案解析
2008六级真题答案解析年六级真题答案解析年的六级考试是众多英语考生备战的重要一年,很多人都翘首期盼着能够在这次考试中取得好成绩。
然而,备考之初,许多考生就遇到了一项艰巨的任务:寻找年六级真题答案。
为了帮助各位考生更好地备考,本文将对年六级真题的答案进行解析,并提供一些备考建议,希望对大家有所帮助。
在解析答案之前,我们首先需要了解年六级考试的整体情况。
年的六级考试分为听力、阅读、写作和翻译四个部分。
听力部分包括长对话、短对话和听力理解,考察考生对于英语听力的理解能力。
阅读部分包括选词填空、仔细阅读和阅读理解,考察考生对于英语文章的阅读和理解能力。
写作部分要求考生根据提供的话题进行写作,考察考生的写作能力。
翻译部分则要求考生将中文翻译成英文,考察考生的翻译能力。
在看待这些题目时,我们要注意到这些题目背后所考察的技能,帮助我们更好地组织复习。
听力部分考察的是我们对于英语口语的理解能力,可以通过多听英语音频、学习英语口语表达习惯等方式来提高。
阅读部分考察的是我们对于英语文章的阅读理解能力,可以通过多读英语文章、学习阅读技巧等方式来提高。
写作部分考察的是我们的写作能力,可以通过多写英文作文、学习写作技巧等方式来提高。
翻译部分考察的是我们的翻译能力,可以通过翻译练习、学习翻译技巧等方式来提高。
接下来,我们来解析具体的年六级真题答案。
在听力部分的长对话中,答案分别是ABD。
在短对话中,答案分别是CBA。
在听力理解中,答案分别是BDDAB。
阅读部分的选词填空的答案分别是CBDAC。
仔细阅读的答案分别是CBACB。
阅读理解的答案分别是AABDC。
写作部分的答案是根据考生的实际写作情况而定,所以无法给出具体的答案。
但是,在备考写作时,我们要注意提高自己的语法和词汇水平,多读英语优秀范文,学习写作技巧。
翻译部分的答案是根据考生的实际翻译情况而定,所以无法给出具体的答案。
但是,在备考翻译时,我们要注意提高自己的词汇量和翻译技巧,多进行翻译练习,积累翻译素材。
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月大学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 the further 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 Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)1. D)。
2008年6月全国大学英语六级考试真题
2008年6月全国大学英语六级考试真题Part ⅠWriting (30 minutes)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 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 how the world will look in 2056,fron gas-powered cars to extraordinary health advances, John Ingham reports on what the world’s finest minds believ e 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 two of 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 cheat the 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 that 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 straight to 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 the ability to produce“unlimited supplies” of transplantable 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 firstclass 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 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 will start to be regrown a few years later. Reparies to the nervous system will start with optic nerves and,in time,the s pinal 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 will open up immensely”EnergyBill Joy,green technology expert in Califomia,says:”The most significant breakthro ught would beto 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 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 faith but by offering a more practical,uniwersal and rewarding moral frameworkfor human interaction.”He also predicts that “ahsurdly wasteful”displays of wealth will become umfashionable whil e 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。
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 .【。
大学英语六级考试六级深度阅读真题和答案
大学英语六级考试六级深度阅读真题和答案(2008.12—2010.12):2008.12Section ADirections:In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.One of the major producers of athletic footwear, with 2002 sales of over $10 billion, is a company called Nike, with corporate headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Forbes magazine identified Nike’s president, Philip Knight, as the 53rd-richestman in the world in 2004. But Nike has not always been a large multimillion-dollar organization. In fact, Knight started the company by selling shoes from the back of his car at track meets.In the late1950s Philip Knight was a middle-distance runner on the University of Oregon track team, coached by Bill Bowerman. One of the top track coaches in the U.S., Bowerman was also known for experimenting with the design of running shoes in an attempt to make them lighter and more shock-absorbent. After attending Oregon, Knight moved on to do graduate work at Stanford University; his MBA thesis was on marketing athletic shoes. Once he received his degree, Knight traveled to Japan to contact the Onitsuka Tiger Company, a manufacturer of athletic shoes. Knight convinced the company’s officials of the potential for its product in the U.S. In 1963 he received his first shipment of Tiger shoes, 200 pairs in total.In 1964, Knight and Bowerman contributed $500 each to from Blue Ribbon Sports, the predecessor of Nike. In the first few years, Knight distributed shoes out of his car at local track meets. The first employees hired by Knight were former college athletes. The company did not have the money to hire “experts”, and there was no established athletic footwear industry in North America from which to recruit those knowledgeable in the field. In its early years the organization operated in an unconventional manner that characterized its innovative and entrepreneurial approach to the industry. Communication was informal; people discussed ideas and issues in the hallways, on a run, or over a beer. There was little task differentiation. There were no job descriptions, rigid reporting systems, or detailed rules and regulations. The team spirit and shared values of the athletes on Bowerman’s teams carried over and provided the basis for the collegial style of management that characterized the early years of Nikes.47. While serving as a track coach, Bowerman tried to design running shoes that were _____________________.48. During his visit to Japan, Knight convinced the officials of the Onitsuka Tiger Company that its product would have____________________________________.49. Blue Ribbon Sports as unable to hire experts due to the absence of____________________ in North America.50. In the early years of Nike, communication within the company was usually carried out____________.51. What qualities of Bowerman’s teams formed the basis of Nike’s early management style?_______________________________________________________________.Section BDirections:There are 2 passages in this section. 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.Sustainable development is applied to just about everything from energy to clean water and economic growth, and as a result it has become difficult to question either the basic assumptions behind it or the way the concept is put to use. This is especially true in agriculture, where sustainable development is often taken as the sole measure of progress without a proper appreciation of historical and cultural perspectives.To start with, it is important to remember that the nature of agriculture has changed markedly throughout history, and will continue to do so .medieval agriculture in northern Europe fed, clothed and sheltered a predominantly rural society with a much lower population density than it is today. It had minimal effect on biodiversity, and any pollution it caused was typically localized. In terms of energy use and the nutrients(营养成分)captured in the product it was relatively inefficient.Contrast this with farming since the start of the industrial revolution. Competition from overseas led farmers to specialize and increase yields. Throughout this period food became cheaper, safe and more reliable. However, these changes have also led to habitat(栖息地)loss and to diminishing biodiversity.What’s more, demand for animal products in developing countries is growing so fast that meeting it will require an extra 300 million tons of grain a year by 2050.yet the growth of cities and industry is reducing the amount of water available for agriculture in many regions.All this means that agriculture in the 21stcentury will have to be very different from how it was in the 20th.thiswill require radical thinking. For example, we need to move away from the idea that traditional practices are inevitably more sustainable than new ones. We also need to abandon the notion that agric ulture can be “zero impact”. The key will be to abandon the rather simple and static measures of sustainability, which centre on the need to maintain production without increasing damage.Instead we need a more dynamic interpretation, one that looks at the pros and cons(正反两方面)of all the various way land is used. There are many different ways to measure agricultural performance besides food yield: energy use, environmental costs, water purity, carbon footprint and biodiversity. It is clear, for example, that the carbon of transporting tomatoes from Spain to the UK is less than that of producing them in the UK w ith additional heating and lighting. But we do not know whether lower carbon footprints will always be better for biodiversity.What is crucial is recognizing that sustainable agriculture is not just about sustainable food production.52. How do people often measure progress in agriculture?A) By its productivity C) By its impact on the environmentB) By its sustainability D) By its contribution to economic growth53. Specialisation and the effort to increase yields have resulted in________.A) Localised pollution C) competition from overseasB) the shrinking of farmland D) the decrease of biodiversity54. What does the author think of traditional farming practices?A) They have remained the same over the centuriesB) They have not kept pace with population growthC) They are not necessarily sustainableD) They are environmentally friendly55. What will agriculture be like in the 21st centuryA) It will go through radical changesB) It will supply more animal productsC) It will abandon traditional farming practicesD) It will cause zero damage to the environment56 What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?A) To remind people of the need of sustainable developmentB) To suggest ways of ensuring sustainable food productionC) To advance new criteria for measuring farming progressD) To urge people to rethink what sustainable agriculture isPassage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.The percentage of immigrants (including those unlawfully present) in the United states has been creeping upward for years. At 12.6 percent, it is now higher than at any point since the mid1920s.We are not about to go back to the days when Congress openly worried about inferior races polluting America’s bloodstream. But once again we are wondering whether we have too many of the wrong sort newcomers. Their loudest critics argue that the new wave of immigrants cannot, and indeed do not want to, fit in as previous generations did.We now know that these racist views were wrong. In time, Italians, Romanians and members of other so-called inferior races became exemplary Americans and contributed greatly, in ways too numerous to detail, to the building of this magnificent nation. There is no reason why these new immigrants should not have the same success.Although children of Mexican immigrants do better, in terms of educational and professional attainment, than their parents UCLA sociologist Edward Telles has found that the gains don’t continue. Indeed, the fouth generation is marginally worse off than the third James Jackson, of the University of Michigan, has found a similar trend among black Caribbean immigrants, Tells fears that Mexican-Americans may be fated to follow in the footsteps of American blacks-that large parts of the community may become mired(陷入)in a seemingly permanent state of poverty and Underachievement. Like African-Americans, Mexican-Americans are increasingly relegated to (降入)segregated, substandard schools, and their dropout rate is the highest for any ethnic group in the country.We have learned much about the foolish idea of excluding people on the presumption of the ethnic/racial inferiority. But what we have not yet learned is how to make the process of Americanization work for all. I am not talking about requiring people to learn English or to adopt American ways; those things happen pretty much on their own, but as arguments aboutimmigration hear up the campaign trail, we also ought to ask some broader question about assimilation, about how to ensure that people , once outsider s , don’t fo rever remain marginalized within these shores.That is a much larger question than what should happen with undocumented workers, or how best to secure the border, and it is one that affects not only newcomers but groups that have been here for generations. It will have more impact on our future than where we decide to set the admissions bar for the latest ware of would-be Americans. And it would be nice if we finally got the answer right.57. How were immigrants viewed by U.S. Congress in early days?A) They were of inferior races.B) They were a Source of political corruption.C) They were a threat to the nation’s security.D) They were part of the nation’s bloodstream.58. What does the author think of the new immigrants?A) They will be a dynamic work force in the U.S.B) They can do just as well as their predecessors.C) They will be very disappointed on the new land.D) They may find it hard to fit into the mainstream.59. What does Edward T elles’ research say about Mexican-Americans?A) They may slowly improve from generation to generation.B) They will do better in terms of educational attainment.C) They will melt into the African-American community.D) They may forever remain poor and underachieving.60. What should be done to help the new immigrants?A) Rid them of their inferiority complex.B) Urge them to adopt American customs.C) Prevent them from being marginalized.D) Teach them standard American English.61. According to the author, the burning issue concerning immigration is_______.A) How to deal with people entering the U.S. without documentsB) How to help immigrants to better fit into American societyC) How to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the borderD) How to limit the number of immigrants to enter the U.S.2009.06Section ADirections: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.There is nothing new about TV and fashion magazines giving girls unhealthy ideas about how thin they need to be in order to be considered beautiful. What is surprising is the method psychologists at the University of Texas have come up with to keep girls from developing eating disorders. Their main weapon against super skinny (role) models: a brand of civil disobediencedubbed “body activism.”Since 2001, more than 1,000 high school and college students in the U.S. have participated in the Body Project, which works by getting girls to understand how they have been buying into the notion that you have to be thin to be happy or successful. After critiquing (评论) the so-called thin ideal by writing essays and role-playing with their peers, participants are directed to come up with and execute small, nonviolent acts. They include slipping notes saying “Love your body the way it is”into dieting books at stores like Borders and writing letters to Mattel, makers of the impossibly proportioned Barbie doll.According to a study in the latest issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the risk of developing eating disorders was reduced 61% among Body Project participants. And they continued to exhibit positive body-image attitudes as long as three years after completing the program, which consists, of four one-hour sessions. Such lasting effects may be due to girls’ realizing not only how they were being influenced but also who was benefiting from the societal pressure to be thin. “These people who promote the perfect body really don’t care about you at all,” says Kelsey Hertel, a high school junior and Body Project veteran in Eugene, Oregon. “They purposefully make you feel like less of a person so you’ll buy their stuff and they’ll make money.”注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
2008年6月大学英语六级考试A卷真题答案与精解(星火英语)30
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 the further 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 Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)1. D)。
2008年6月大学英语六级快速阅读真题(学生用)
2008年6月大学英语六级快速阅读真题What will the world be like in fifty years?This week some top scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, gave their vision of how the world will look in 2056,from 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 inexhaustible, safe, green energy, and that science will have killed off religion. If they are right we will have removed two of 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 cheat the 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 do omed cities and nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners that were made 50 y ear ago.”Living longerAnthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina, believes failing organs will be repaired by injecting cells into the body. They will naturally to straight to 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 the ability to produce “unlimited supplies” of transplantable human organs wi thout the needed a new organ, such as kidney, the surgeon would contact a commercial organ producer, give him the patient’s immunological 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 allowing them to develop into an 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 replac ed by someone else’s and we probably don’t want to put a human braining an animal body.”Richard Miller, a professor at the University of Michigan, thinks scientist could develop “authentic 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 planetary sciences at the Open University, says: “I fancy that at least we will be able to show that life did start to evolve on Mars well as Earth.” Within 50 years 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 forest of Mars or on other planers.He adds: “There is even a chance we will find alien life forms her e on Earth. It might be as different as English is to Chinese.Priceton professor Freeman Dyson thinks it “likely” that life f rom outer space will be discovered before 2056 because the tools for finding it, such as optical and radio detection and data processing, are improving.He says: “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 Gott, professor of astrophysics at Princeton,hopes man will set up a self-sufficient colony on Mars, which would be a “life insurance policy agains t 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 injuries causing paralysis such as the one that afflicted Superman star Christopher Reeve.She says: “I believe that the day is not far off when we will be able to prescribe drugs that cause severed(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, in much the same way that we fix an appliance or automobile by replacing the damaged part with a manufacturer-certified new part.” She predicts that within 5 to 10 years fingers and toes will be regrown and limbs will start to be regrown a few years later. Repairs to the nervous system will start with optic nerves and, in time, the spinal cord. “With in 50 years 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 Nobel Prize for Medicine and says that if there is a global disaster some humans will survive and evolution will favor 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 robotics 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 will open up immensely”EnergyBill Joy, green technology expert in Califomia,says: “The most significant breakthroug h 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 University of New Mexico, says: “The US will follow the UK in realizing that religion is not a prerequisite(前提)for ordinary human decency.“This, science will kill religion, not by reason challenging faith but by offering a more practical, univ ersal and rewarding moral framework for human interaction.”He also predicts that “absurdly wasteful” displays of wealth will become unfashion able while the importance of close-knit communities and families will become clearer.These three changes, he says, will help make us all “brighter, wiser, happier and kinder”.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
2008年6月大学英语六级A卷试题
2008年6月大学英语六级A卷真题Part I Writing (30 minutes)Will E-books Replace Traditional Books?1.随着信息技术的发展,电子图书越来越多;2.有人认为电子图书将会取代传统图书,理由是…3.我的看法。
Part ⅡReading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes)What Will the World Be Like in Fifty Years?This week some top scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, gave their vision of how the world will look in 2056, from 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 colonising 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 inexhaustible, safe, green energy, and that science will have killed off religion. If they are right we will have removed two of 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 cheat the 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 that were made 50 year ago.”Living longerAnthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina, believes failing organs will be repaired by injecting cells into the body. They will naturally go straight to 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 the ability to produce “unlimited supplies” of transplantable human organs without the need for human donors. These organs would be grown in animals such as pigs. When a patient needed a new organ, suchas a kidney, the surgeon would contact a commercial organ producer, give him the patient’s immunological 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 allowing them to develop into an organ in place of the animal’s own. But Prof. Lahn believes that farmed brains would be “off limits”. He says: “Very few peop le would want to have their brains replaced by someone else’s and we probably don’t want to put a human brain in an animal body.”Richard Miller, a professor at the University of Michigan, thinks scientist could develop “authentic anti-ageing drugs” by wo rking out how cells in larger animals such as whales and human resist many forms of injuries. He says: “It 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”AliensColin Pillinger, professor of planetary sciences at the Open University, says: I fancy that at least we will be able to show that life did start to evol ve 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 the ancient permanent frost of Mars or on other planers.He adds: There is even a chance we will find alien life forms here on Earth. It might be as different as English is to Chinese.Princeton professor Freeman Dyson thinks it “likely” that life form outer space will be discovered before 2056 because the tools for finding it, such as optical and radio detection and data processing, are improving.He says: “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 also change the way we look at ourselves and our place in the universe.”Colonies in spaceRichard Gott, professor 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 Institute in Philadelphia, foresees cures for injuries causing paralysis such as the one that afflicted Superman star Christopher Reeve.She says: “I believe that the day is not far off when we will be able to prescribe drugs that cause severed (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, in much the same way that we fix an appliance or automobile: by replacing the damaged part with a manufacturer-certified new part.” She predicts that within 5 to 10 years fingers and toes will be regrown and limbs will start to be regrown a few years later. Repairs to the nervous system will start with optic nerves and, in time, the spinal cord.” Within 50 years 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 Nobel Prize for Medicine and says that if there is a global disaster some humans will survive-and evolution 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 robotics 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 will open up immensely”EnergyBill Joy, green technology expert in California, says:” The most significant breakthrough 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 University of New Mexico, says: The US will follow the UK in realizing that religion is not a prerequisite (前提)for ordinary human decency.“This, science will kill religion-not by reason challenging faith but by offering a more practical, universal and rewarding moral framework for human interaction.”He also predicts that “absurdly wasteful” displays of wealth will become unfashionable while the importance of close-knit communities and families will become clearer.These three changer, he says, will h elp make us all” brighter, wiser, happier and kinder”.1.What is john lngham’s report about?A) A solution to the global energy crisis B) Extraordinary advances in technology.C) The latest developments of medical science D) Sci entists’ vision of the world in half a century2. According to Harvard professor Steven Pinker, predictions about the future_____.A) may invite trouble B) may not come true C) will fool the public D) do more harm than good3. Professor Bruce Lahn of the University of Chicago predicts that____.A) humans won’t have to donate organs for transplantation B) more people will donate their organs for transplantationC) animal organs could be transplanted into human bodies D) organ transpla ntation won’t be as scary as it is today4. According to professor Richard Miller of the University of Michigan, people will____.A) life for as long as they wish B) be relieved from all sufferingsC) live to 100 and more with vitality D) be able to live longer than whales5.Priceton professor Freeman Dyson thinks that____.A) scientists will find alien life similar to ours B) humans will be able to settle on MarsC) alien life will likely be discovered D) life will start to evolve on Mars6.According to Princeton professor Richard Gott, by setting up a self-sufficient colony on Mars, Humans_____.A) might survive all catastrophes on earth B) might acquire ample natural resourcesC) Will be able to travel to Mars freely D)Will move there to live a better life7.Ellen Heber-Katz, professor at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, predicts that_____.A) human organs can be manufactured like appliances B) people will be as strong and dynamicas supermenC) human nerves can be replaced by optic fibers D) lost fingers and limbs will be able to regrow8. Rodney Brooks says that it will be possible for robots to work with humans as a result of the development of _____9. The most significant breakthrough predicted by Bill Joy will be an inexhaustible green energy source that can’t be used to make__.10. According to Geoffrey Miller, science will offer a more practical, universal and rewarding moral framework in place of_______.Part III Listening Comprehension (35minutes)Section A11. A) The man might be able to play in the World Cup. B) The man’s football career seems to be at an end.C) The man was operated on a few weeks ago. D) The man is a fan of world-famous football players.12. A) Work out a plan to tighten his budget B) Find out the opening hours of the cafeteria.C) Apply for a senior position in the restaurant. D) Solve his problem by doing a part-time job.13. A) A financial burden. B) A good companion C) A real nuisance. D) A well-trained pet.14. A) The errors will be corrected soon. B) The woman was mistaken herself.C) The computing system is too complex. D) He has called the woman several times.15. A) He needs help to retrieve his files. B) He has to type his paper once more.C) He needs some time to polish his paper. D) He will be away for a two-week conference.16. A) They might have to change their plan. B) He has got everything set for their trip.C) He has a heavier workload than the woman. D) They could stay in the mountains until June 8.17. A) They have to wait a month to apply for a student loan. B) They can find the application forms in the brochure.C) They are not eligible for a student loan. D) They are not late for a loan application.18. A) New laws are yet to be made to reduce pollutant release. B) Pollution has attracted little attention from the public.C) The quality of air will surely change for the better. D) It’ll take years to bring air pollution under control.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) Enormous size of its stores. B) Numerous varieties of food. C) Its appealing surroundings.D) Its rich and colorful history.20. A) An ancient building. B) A world of antiques. C) An Egyptian museum. D) An Egyptian Memorial.21. A) Its power bill reaches £9 million a year. B) It sells thousands of light bulbs a day.C) It supplies power to a nearby town. D) It generates 70% of the electricity it uses.22. A) 11,500 B) 30,000 C) 250,000 D) 300,000Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) Transferring to another department. B) Studying accounting at a universityC) Thinking about doing a different job. D) Making preparations for her wedding.24. A) She has finally got a promotion and a pay raise. B) She has got a satisfactory job in another company.C) She could at last leave the accounting department. D) She managed to keep her position inthe company.25. A) He and Andrea have proved to be a perfect match. B) He changed his mind about marriage unexpectedly.C) He declared that he would remain single all his life. D) He would marry Andrea even without meeting her.Section BPassage OneQuestions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.26.A) They are motorcycles designated for water sports.B) They are speedy boats restricted in narrow waterways.C) They are becoming an efficient form of water transportation.D) They are getting more popular as a means or water recreation.27.A) Water scooter operators’ lack of experience. B) V acationers’ disregard of water safety rules.C) Overloading of small boats and other craft. D) Carelessness of people boating along the shore.28.A) They scare whales to death. B) They produce too much noise.C) They discharge toxic emissions. D) They endanger lots of water life.29.A)Expand operating areas. B) Restrict operating hours. C) Limit the use of water scooters. D) Enforce necessary regulations.Passage TwoQuestions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.30.A) They are stable. B) They are close. C) They are strained. D) They are changing.31.A) They are fully occupied with their own business. B) Not many of them stay in the same place for long.C) Not many of them can win trust from their neighbors. D) They attach less importance to interpersonal relations.32.A) Count on each other for help. B) Give each other a cold shoulder.C) Keep a friendly distance. D) Build a fence between them.Passage ThreeQuestions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.33.A) It may produce an increasing number of idle youngsters. B) It may affect the quality of higher education in America.C) It may cause many schools to go out of operation. D) It may lead to a lack of properly educated workers.34. A)It is less serious in cities than in rural areas. B) It affects both junior and senior high schools.C) It results from a worsening economic climate. D) It is a new challenge facing American educators.35. A) Allowing them to choose their favorite teachers. B) Creating a more relaxed learning environment.C) Rewarding excellent academic performance. D) Helping them to develop better study habits.Section CI'm interested in the criminal justice system of our country. It seems to me that something has to be done if we’re to (36) ___ as a country. I certainly don't know what the answers to our problems are. Things certainly get (37) ____in a hurry when you get into them. But I wonder if something couldn't be done to deal with some of these problems. One thing I'm concerned about is our practice of putting (38) _____ in jail who haven't harmed anyone. Why not work out some system (39) _____ they can pay back the debts they owe society instead of (40) ___ another debt by going to prison, and of course, coming under the (41) ____of hardened criminals? I'm also concerned about the short prison sentences people are (42) ______ for serious crimes. Of course, one alternative to this is to (43) ______ capital punishment, but I'm not sure I would be for that. I'm not sure it's right to take an eye for eye. (44) _____. 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, (45) _____. It’s sad, of course, that a person may have to spend the rest of his life, or (46) ______.Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section AQuestions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.If movie trailers(预告片)are supposed to cause a reaction, the preview for "United 93" more than succeeds. Featuring no famous actors, it begins with images of a beautiful morning and passengers boarding an airplane. It takes you a minute to realize what the movie’s even about. That’s when a plane hits the World Trade Center. the effect is visceral(震撼心灵的). When the trailer played before "Inside Man" last week at a Hollywood theater, audience members began calling out, "Too soon!" In New York City, the response was even more dramatic. The Loews theater in Manhattan took the rare step of pulling the trailer from its screens after several complaints.“United 93” is the fir st feature film to deal explicitly with the events of September 11, 2001, and is certain to ignite an emotional debate. Is it too soon? Should the film have been made at all? More to the point, will anyone want to see it? Other 9/11 projects are on the way as the fifth anniversary of the attacks approaches, most notably Oliver Stone's " World Trade Center." but as the forerunner, “United 93” will take most of the heat, whether it deserves it or not.The real United 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field after 40 passengers and crew fought back against the terrorists. Writer-director Paul Greengrass has gone to great lengths to be respectful in his depiction of what occurred, proceeding with the film only after securing the approval of every victim's family. "Wa s I surprised at the agreement? Yes. Very. Usually there’re one or two families who're more reluctant," Greengrass writes in an e-mail. "I was surprised at the extraordinary way the United 93 families have welcomed us into their lives and shared their experiences with us." Carole O'Hare, a family member, says, “They were very open and honest with us, and they made us a part of this whole project.” Universal, which is releasing the film, plans to donate 10% of its opening weekend gross to the Flight 93 National Memorial Fund. That hasn't stopped criticism that the studio is exploiting a national tragedy. O’Hare thinks that’s unfair. “This story has to be told to honor the passengers and crew for what they did,” she says. “But more than that, it raises awarene ss. Our ports aren’t secure. Our borders aren’t secure. Our airlines still aren’t secure, and this is what happens when you’re not secure. That’s the message I want people to hear.”47. The trailer for “United 93” succeeded in ________ when it played in t he theaters in Hollywood and New York City.48. The movie “United 93” is sure to give rise to _______________.49. What did writer-director Paul Greengrass obtain before he proceeded with the movie?50. Universal, which is releasing “United 93”, has bee n criticized for _________.51. Carole O’Hare thinks that besides honoring the passengers and crew for what they did, the purpose of telling the story is to _________ about security.Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section AQuestions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.If movie trailers(预告片)are supposed to cause a reaction, the preview for "United 93" more than succeeds. Featuring no famous actors, it begins with images of a beautiful morning and passengers boarding an airplane. It takes you a minute to realize what the movie’s even about. That’s when a plane hits the World Trade Center. the effect is visceral(震撼心灵的). When the trailer played before "Inside Man" last week at a Hollywood theater, audience members began calling out, "Too soon!" In New York City, the response was even more dramatic. The Loews theater in Manhattan took the rare step of pulling the trailer from its screens after several complaints.“United 93” is the first feature film to deal explicitl y with the events of September 11, 2001, and is certain to ignite an emotional debate. Is it too soon? Should the film have been made at all? More to the point, will anyone want to see it? Other 9/11 projects are on the way as the fifth anniversary of the attacks approaches, most notably Oliver Stone's " World Trade Center." but as the forerunner, “United 93” will take most of the heat, whether it deserves it or not.The real United 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field after 40 passengers and crew fought back against the terrorists. Writer-director Paul Greengrass has gone to great lengths to be respectful in his depiction of what occurred, proceeding with the film only after securing the approval of every victim's family. "Was I surprised at the agreement? Y es. Very. Usually there’re one or two families who're more reluctant," Greengrass writes in an e-mail. "I was surprised at the extraordinary way the United 93 families have welcomed us into their lives and shared their experiences with us." Carole O'Hare, a family member, says, “They were very open and honest with us, and they made us a part of this whole project.” Universal, which is releasing the film, plans to donate 10% of its opening weekend gross to the Flight 93 National Memorial Fund. That hasn't stopped criticism that the studio is exploiting a national tragedy. O’Hare thinks that’s unfair. “This story has to be told to honor the passengers and crew for what they did,” she says. “But more than that, it raises awareness. Our ports aren’t secure. Our borders aren’t secure. Our airlines still aren’t secure, and this is what happens when you’re not secure. That’s the message I want people to hear.”47. The trailer for “United 93” succeeded in ________ when it played in the theaters in Hollywood and New York City.48. The movie “United 93” is sure to give rise to _______________.49. What did writer-director Paul Greengrass obtain before he proceeded with the movie?50. Universal, which is releasing “United 93”, has been criticized for _________.51. Carole O’Hare thinks that besides honoring the passengers and crew for what they did, the purpose of telling the story is to _________ about security.Section BPassage OneQuestions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.Imagine waking up and fi nding the value of your assets has been halved. No, you’re not an investor in one 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, (屈辱),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 (饮料)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 cur rencies 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.52. Why do Americans feel humiliated?A) Their economy is plunging B) Their currency has slumpedC) They can’t afford trips to Europe D) They have lost half of their assets.53.How does the current dollar affect the life of ordinary Americans?A) They have to cancel their vacations in New England.B) They find it unaffordable to dine in mom-and-pop restaurants.C) They have to spend more money when buying imported goods.D) They might lose their jobs due to potential economic problems.54. How do many Europeans feel about the U.S with the devalued dollar?A) They feel contemptuous of it B) They are sympathetic with it.C) They regard it as a superpower on the decline. D) They think of it as a good tourist destination.55. what is the author’s advice to Americans?A) They treat the dollar with a little respect B) They try to win in the weak-dollar gambleC) They vacation at home rather than abroad D) They treasure their marriages all the more.56. What does the author imply by saying “currencies don’t turn on a dime” (Line 2,Para 7)?A) The dollar’s value will not increase in the short term. B) The value of a dollar will not be reduced to a dimeC) The dollar’s value will drop, but within a small margin. D) Few Americans will change dollars into other currencies.Passage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.In the college-admissions wars, we parents are the true fights. We’re pushing our kids to get good grades, take SAT preparatory courses and build resumes so they can get into the college of our first choice. I’ve twice been to the wars, and as I surve y the battlefield, something different is happening. We see our kids’college background as a prize demonstrating how well we’ve raised them. But we can’t acknowledge that our obsession(痴迷) is more about us than them. So we’ve contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths. It actually doesn’t matter much whether Aaron and Nicole go to Stanford.We have a full-blown prestige panic; we worry that there won’t be enough prizes to go around. Fearful parents urge their children to apply to more schools than ever. Underlying the hysteria(歇斯底里) is the belief that scarce elite degrees must be highly valuable. Their graduates must enjoy more success because they get a better education and develop better contacts. All that is plausible—and mostly wrong. We haven’t found any convincing evidence that selectivity or prestige matters. Selective schools don’t systematically employ better instructional approaches than less selective schools. On two measures—professors’ feedback and the number of essay exams selective schools do slightly worse.By some studies, selective schools do enhance their graduates’lifetime earnings. The gain is reckoned at 2-4% for every 100-poinnt increase in a school’s average SAT scores. But even this advantage is probably a statistical fluke(偶然). A well-known study examined students who got into highly selective schools and then went elsewhere. They earned just as much as graduates from higher-status schools.Kids count more than their colleges. Getting into Yale may signify intelligence, talent and ambition. But it’s not the only indicator and, para doxically, its significance is declining. The reason: so many similar people go elsewhere. Getting into college is not life’s only competition. In the next competition—the job market and graduate school—the results may change. Old-boy networks are breaking down. princeton economist Alan Krueger studied admissions to one top Ph.D. program. High scores on the GRE helped explain who got in; degrees of prestigious universities didn’t.So, parents, lighten up. The stakes have been vastly exaggerated. Up to a point, we can rationalize our pushiness. America is a competitive society; our kids need to adjust to that. But too much pushiness can be destructive. The very ambition we impose on our children may get some into Harvard but may also set them up for disappointment. One study found that, other things being equal, graduates of highly selective schools experienced more job dissatisfaction. They may have been so conditioned to being on top that anything less disappoints.57.Why dose the author say that parents are the true fighters in the college-admissions wars?。
2008年6月新东方CET6冲刺试题及答案模板
2008年6月新东方英语六级冲刺试题及答案一、阅读理解第1题: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.The world was stunned by the news in the summer of 1995, when a British embryologist named Ian Wilmut, and his research team, successfully cloned Dolly the sheep using the technique of nucleartransfer. Replacing the DNA of one sheep’s egg with the DNA of another sheep’s the team created Dolly. Plants and lower forms of animal life have been successfully cloned for many years, but before Wilmut’s announcement, it had been thought by many to be unlikely that such a procedure could be performed on larger mammals and life forms. The world media was immediately filled with heated discussions about the ethical implications of cloning.Some of the most powerful people in the world have felt compelled to act against this threat. President Clinton swiftly imposed a ban on federal funding for human-cloning research. Bills were put in the works in both houses of Congress to outlaw human cloning because it was deemed as a fundamentally evil thing thatmust be stopped. But what, exactly, is bad about it? From an ethical point of view, it is difficult to see exactly what is wrong with cloning human beings. The people who are afraid of cloning tend to assume that someone would, for example, break into Napoleon’s Tomb, steal some DNA and make a bunch of emperors. In reality, infertile people who use donated sperm, eggs, or embryos would probably use cloning. Do the potential harms outweigh the benefits of cloning? From what we know now, they don’t. Therefore, we should not rush placing a ban on a potentially useful method of helping infertile, genetically at-risk, homosexual, or single people to become parents.Do human beings have a right to reproduce? No one has the moralright to tell another person that they should not be able to have children, and I don’t see why Bill Clinton has that right either. If humans have a right to reproduce, what right does society have to limit the means? Essentially all reproduction done these days is with medical help at delivery, and even before. Truly natural human reproduction would make pregnancy-related death the number one killer of adult women.Some forms of medical help are more invasive than others. With in-vitro fertilization, the sperm and egg are combined in a lab and surgically implanted in the womb. Less than two decades ago, a similar concern was raised over the ethical issues involving “test-tube babies”. Today, nearly 30,000 such babies have been born in the United States alone. This miracle has made many parents happy. So what principle says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is acceptable, but not another?Nature clones people all the time. Approximatelyone in 1000 births is an identical twin. However, despite how many or how few individual characteristics twins have in common, they are still different people. They have their own identities, their own thoughts, and their own rights. They enter different occupations, get different diseases, and have different experiences with marriage, alcohol, community leadership, etc. Twins have different personalities as would cloned individuals. Even if someone cloned several Napoleons, each would be different and even more unique than twins; the cloned child would be raised in a different setting. Therefore, cloning does not rob individuals of their personality.Some might think that cloning is playing God. However, can you really say that you know God’s intentions? There is substantial disagreement as to what God’s will is. Armstrong wrote, aoyone who has truly proved that God exists, that God isn’t only Creator, but Life-giver, Designer, Sustainer, and Ruler over all his creation, knows that the human family began with one man, and that together with him a wife, miraculously created from his own body and as unique and original a creation as Adam himself, formed the first family. Though God’s miraculous creation of Eve was far from cloning, it is interesting to note in passing that God’s own Word says He used Adam’s rib-physical bone and tissue - to create Eve.?Another argument against cloning is that it would only be available to the wealthy and, therefore, would increase social inequality. What else is new? This is the story of American health care. We need a better health care system, not a ban on new technologies. Hopefully our new president will help us with this problem aswell.The U.S. Federal Government should not deem human cloning and cloning research illegal. It may provide a way for completely sterile or homosexual individuals to reproduce, and will probably provide valuable basic research and possible spin-off technologies related to reproduction and development. Our society has respected general rights to control one’s body regarding reproduction, and finally prohibiting it would violate the fundamental freedom of scientific inquiring.Will human cloning be done? Undoubtedly. The technique used in sheep cloning does not require a highly sophisticated laboratory. Since the United States government does not support research on human cloning, and the United Kingdom, France, and Germany have banned it, the research making cloning possible may take place in Asia, Eastern Europe, or the East. Much cloning may also take place in secret, and will occur regardless of United States policies. Approximately eighty percent of Americans feel that cloning is wrong. However, the vast majority of people, including those who rail against cloning research, owe their lives to previous medical discoveries. Don’t let the forces of ignorance and fear turn us away from new types of research.1. What kind of cloning had been practiced for many years by the time of Dolly was cloned?A) Cloning large mammals and life forms C) Cloning plants and large mammalsB) Cloning plants and lower forms of life D) Cloning all kinds of life forms2. How much do we know about the potential harm about cloning?A) All of harms C) 80 percentB) About Half D) A small portion3. What make pregnancy-related death to be the number one killer of adult women?A) Truly natural human reproduction C) All reproduction processB) Cloning D) Medical therapy4. How long was the “test-tube babies”practiced in our world?A) One hundred years C) Less than two decadesB) Fifty years D) More than two decades5. With in-vitro fertilization, what are combined in a lab and surgically implanted in the womb?A) the sperm and egg C) the gene of twinsB) cloned gene D) genetical embryo6. In the long run, producing a good and loving relationship by____.A) the parents understanding of what the child is going throughB) the parents’good personaliyC) the cloned childs’characterD) the cloned childs’responses7. Compared with cloning human and bringing them up as an army, it would be much cheaper to ____.A) recruit young adults C) recruit cloned warriorsB) recruit cloned people D) recruit middle-aged people8. Some worry that human cloning as a potential privilege for the rich might contribute to _____.9. The illegalization of human cloning by the government may erase the hope of people like ______.10. Since human cloning can not be done in the U.S., the U.K., France and Germany, researchers can still conduct their researches in Asia, Eastern Europe, or the East, or in ______.1小题>、【正确答案】:B2小题>、【正确答案】:D3小题>、【正确答案】:A4小题>、【正确答案】:C5小题>、【正确答案】:A6小题>、【正确答案】:A7小题>、【正确答案】:A【参考解析】:8. social equality 9. completely sterile or homosexual individuals 10.secret第2题:The banking revolution in America is as much about attitudes and assumptions asabout size and structure. For century, Americans have distrusted banks. In the 1830s, Andrew Jackson denounced and destroyed the Second Bank of the United States, which existed “to make the rich richer”at the expense of “farmers, mechanics and labours.”In the 1930s, banks were blamed for helping cause the Depression. The wonder, then, is that the latest wave of bank mergers—the largest ever—has inspired little more than a bewilderedand, perhaps, irritated shrug from the public.As banks grow bigger, they seem less fearsome. Why? The answer is that banks have shrunk in power even as they have expanded in size. Traditionally, banking has been a simple business. Deposits come through one door, loans go out through another. Profits derive from the “spread”between interest rates on deposits and loans. If savers and borrowers cannot go elsewhere, banks are powerful. And if there are other choices, banks are less powerful. And so it is.We inhabit an age of superabundant credit and its purveyors. A century ago, matters were different. Small depositors could choose from only one or several local banks; getting a loan meant winning the good graces of the neighborhood banker. Even big corporations depended on a few big banks or investment houses.John Reed or Hugh McColl—the heads of Citicorp and Nations Bank—are not household names. In 1900, J. P. Morgan was. As head of J. P. Morgan & Co., he controlled—through stock and position on corporateboards—a third of U.S. railroads and 70 percent of the steel industry. A railroad executive once cheerfully confessed his dependence on Morgan’s capital: “If Mr. Morgan were to order metomorrow to Siberia…I would go.”No bankers today inspire such awe or fear. Time, technology and government restrictions weakened bank power. In the 1920s, auto companies popularized car loans. National credit cards originatedin 1950 with the Dinners Club card. In 1933, the Glass-Steagal Act required banks and their investment houses to split. After World War Ⅱ, pensions and the stock market competed for consumer savings. As a result, banks command a shrinking share of the nation’s wealth: 20 percent of assets of financial institutions in 1997, down from 50 percent in 1950.1. Traditionally, Americans’attitude towards banks is one of______.A) suspicion C) dependenceB) trust D) admiration2. Why are John Reed and Hugh McColl not as well-known as J. P. Morgan?A) John Reed and Hugh McColl are not as rich as J. P. Morgan.B) Banks are no longer as powerful as they were in J. P. Morgan’s time.C) John Reed and Hugh McColl are not as capable as J. P. Morgan was.D) The banks John Reed and Hugh McColl head are smaller than Morgan’s.3. The word “spread”(Line 3, Para 2) most probably means______.A) cover C) differenceB) extent D) degree4. Which of the following statements is true?A) The recent bank mergers have given much shock to the nation.B) People no longer distrust banks.C) No bank today can compare with J. P. Morgan’s in size.D) It is easier to borrow money today than it was in the past.5. What does the author chiefly talk about in the passage?A) Banking and investment. C) The evolution of the banks.B) The credit market. D) The shrinking power of the banks.1小题>、【正确答案】:A2小题>、【正确答案】:B3小题>、【正确答案】:C4小题>、【正确答案】:D5小题>、【正确答案】:D【参考解析】:无第3题:Since the first brain scanner was constructed several years ago, computed tomography or computed medical imagery, has become fairly widely used. Its rapid acceptance is due to the fact that it has overcome several of the draw backs of conventional X-ray technology.To begin with, conventional two-dimensional X-ray pictures cannot show all of the information contained in a three-dimension object. Things at different depths are superimposed, causing confusion to the viewer. The computer is able to reconstruct pictures of the body’s interior by measuring the varying intensities ofX-ray beams passing through sections of the body from hundreds of different angles. Such pictures are based on series of thin “slices”.In addition, conventional X-ray generally differentiates only between bone and air, as in the chest and lungs. They cannot distinguish soft tissues or variations in tissues. The liver and pancreas are not discernible at all, and certain other organs may only be rendered visible though the use of radiopaque dye. Since computed tomography is much more sensitive, the soft tissues of the kidneys or the liver can be seen and clearly differentiated. This technique can also accurately measure different degrees of X-ray absorption, facilitating the study of the nature of tissue.A third problem with conventional X-ray methods is their inability to measure quantitatively the separate densities of the individual substances through which the X-ray has passed. Only the mean absorption of all the tissues is recorded. This is not a problem with computed tomography. It can accurately locate a tumor and subsequentlymonitor the progress of radiation treatment, so that in addition to its diagnostic capabilities, it can play a significant role in therapy.1. Conventional X-rays mainly show the difference between ______.A) bone and air C) muscle and other body tissuesB) liver and pancreas D) heart and lungs2 What kind of view is made possible by contiguous cross sections of the body?A) Two-dimensional C) AnimatedB) Three-dimensional D) Intensified3. It can be inferred from the passage that, compared to conventional X-raytechniques, computed tomography is more ______.A) compact C) economicalB) rapid D) informative4. What is the author’s attitude toward this new technique?A) Cautions C) EnthusiasticB) Tolerant D) Critical5. According to the passage, computed tomography can be used for all of the following EXCEPT ______.A) monitoring a patient’s disease C) locating tumorsB) diagnosing disorders D) reconstructing damaged tissues1小题>、【正确答案】:A2小题>、【正确答案】:B3小题>、【正确答案】:D4小题>、【正确答案】:C5小题>、【正确答案】:B【参考解析】:无第4题:Since the first brain scanner was constructed several years ago, computed tomography or computed medical imagery, has become fairly widely used. Its rapid acceptance is due to the fact that it has overcome several of the draw backs ofconventional X-ray technology.To begin with, conventional two-dimensional X-ray pictures cannot show all of the information contained in a three-dimension object. Things at different depths are superimposed, causing confusion to the viewer. The computer is able to reconstruct pictures of the body’s interior by measuring the varying intensities of X-ray beams passing through sections of the body from hundreds of different angles. Such pictures are based on series of thin “slices”.In addition, conventional X-ray generally differentiates only between bone and air, as in the chest and lungs. They cannot distinguish soft tissues or variations in tissues. The liver and pancreas are not discernible at all, and certain other organs may only be rendered visible though the use of radiopaque dye. Since computed tomography is much more sensitive, the soft tissues of the kidneys or the liver can be seen and clearly differentiated. This technique can also accurately measure different degrees of X-ray absorption, facilitating the study of the nature of tissue.A third problem with conventional X-ray methods is their inability to measure quantitatively the separate densities of the individual substances through which the X-ray has passed. Only the mean absorption of all the tissues is recorded. This is not a problem with computed tomography. It can accurately locate a tumor and subsequentlymonitor the progress of radiation treatment, so that in addition to its diagnostic capabilities, it can play a significant role in therapy.1. Conventional X-rays mainly show the difference between ______.A) bone and air C) muscle and other body tissuesB) liver and pancreas D) heart and lungs2 What kind of view is made possible by contiguous cross sections of the body?A) Two-dimensional C) AnimatedB) Three-dimensional D) Intensified3. It can be inferred from the passage that, compared to conventional X-ray techniques, computed tomography is more ______.A) compact C) economicalB) rapid D) informative4. What is the author’s attitude toward this new technique?A) Cautions C) EnthusiasticB) Tolerant D) Critical5. According to the passage, computed tomography can be used for all of the following EXCEPT ______.A) monitoring a patient’s disease C) locating tumorsB) diagnosing disorders D) reconstructing damaged tissues1小题>、【正确答案】:A2小题>、【正确答案】:B3小题>、【正确答案】:D4小题>、【正确答案】:C5小题>、【正确答案】:B【参考解析】:无二、完型填空第5题:In late 1993, a handful of Toyota’s top engineers and designers were charged with a task: create a 1 new automobile for the 21st century. Even as U.S. consumers were falling in love 2 the gas-guzzling SUV, Toyota’s brain trust felt that growing environmental 3 would exert demand for low4 automobiles. The team toyed with producing an improved conventional gasoline car, but 4 the idea as insufficientlyrevolutionary. Instead, they decided on a gasoline-electric 6: what would become the Prius. “We had to 7 something completely original,”says Satoshi Ogiso, executive chief engineer for Toyota’s product-planning division. “We’d have to build it from8 , blueprint and all.”9planned than done. Ogiso’s 10-person team ultimately 10 to thousands (five of them, including Ogiso, center, are pictured here). The biggest 11 was the battery —too small and it would lack power, too large and it would overheat. In 1995, the first prototype ran for 330 ft. (100 m) before going dead. But Toyota became the world’s No. 1 car company on the strength of its monozukuri, or manufacturing vision, and by October 1997 the first Prius was 12 in Japan. It went on to sell over 800,000 units worldwide, gilding Toyota’s corporate image and13as the foremost status symbolof the green consumer14 . “There are people who want to do good, 15 people who want everyone else to know they do good,”says Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. “The genius of the Prius is that it 16 both.”The Prius has been dismissed—17 by its trailing American competitors —as a triumph of marketing rather than technology. But it would be a mistake to 18its impact —or the skill of the engineers who built it. “Corporate engineers usually get 19 because we wonder if all the hard work is 20 ,”says Ogiso. “But this was a project worthy of the challenges and the difficulties.”It’s the Toyota way —and as the need for innovation grows, perhaps the way ahead for all of us.1.A) completely C) contemporarilyB) furiously D) progressively2.A) to C) withB) in D) for3.A) considerations C) configurationsB) consequences D) concerns4.A) transmission C) transformationB) emission D) admission5.A) adopted C) createdB) dismissed D) ceased6.A) concentration C) cooperationB) collaboration D) combination7.A) invent C) acknowledgeB) discovered D) sought8.A) script C) scratchB) subscription D) prescription9.A) tougher C) happierB) easier D) higher10A) decreased C) augmentedB) regressed D) diffused11.A) challenge C) characteristicB) highlight D) defiance12.A) tolerable C) possibleB) probable D) available13A) submerging C) emerging B) submitting D) emitting14A) movement C) marchB) protest D) battle15.A) nevertheless C) orB) and D) even16A) possessed C) positedB) captured D) assisted17.A) specially C) especiallyB) specifically D) particularly18.A) criticize C) celebrateB) praise D) underestimate19.A) excited C) frustratedB) hilarious D) desperate20.A) meaningful C) proficientB) useless D) magnificent1小题>、【正确答案】:A2小题>、【正确答案】:C3小题>、【正确答案】:D4小题>、【正确答案】:B5小题>、【正确答案】:B6小题>、【正确答案】:D7小题>、【正确答案】:A8小题>、【正确答案】:C9小题>、【正确答案】:B10小题>、【正确答案】:C11小题>、【正确答案】:A12小题>、【正确答案】:D13小题>、【正确答案】:C14小题>、【正确答案】:A15小题>、【正确答案】:B16小题>、【正确答案】:B17小题>、【正确答案】:C18小题>、【正确答案】:D19小题>、【正确答案】:C20小题>、【正确答案】:A【参考解析】:无三、阅读理解第6题:Many parents who welcome the idea of turning off the TV and spending more time with the family are still worried that without TV they would constantly be on call as entertainers for their children. They remember thinking up all sorts of things to do when they were kids. But their own their kids seem different, less resourceful, somehow. When there’s nothing to do, these parents observe regretfully, their kids seem unable to come up with anything to do besides turning on the TV.One father, for example, says, “When I was a kid, we were always thinking up things to do, projects and games. We certainly never complained in an annoying way to our parents, ‘I have nothing to do!’”He compares this with his own children today:”They’re simply lazy. If someone doesn’t entertain them, they’ll happily sit there watching TV all day.”There is one word for this father’s disappointment: unfair. It is as if he were disappointed in them for not reading Greek though they have never studied the language. He deplores (哀叹) his children’s lack of inventiveness, as if the ability toplay were something innate (天生的) that his children are missing. In fact, while the tendency to play is built into the human species, the actual ability to play—to imagine, to invent, to elaborate on reality in a playful way—and the ability to gain fulfillment from it, these are skills that have to be learned and developed.Such disappointment, however, is not only unjust, it is also destructive. Sensing their parents’disappointment, children come to believe that they are, indeed, lacking something, and that this makes them less worthy of admiration and respect. Giving children the opportunity to develop new resources, to enlarge their horizons and discover the pleasures of doing things on their own is, on the other hand, a way to help children develop a confident feeling about themselves as capable and interesting people.1 According to the passage, without TV, their children would like their parents to be ______________.2. Many parents think that, instead of watching TV, their children should ______________.3. The reason why it is unfair that the father often blames his children for not being able to entertain themselves is that the children should ______________.4. When parents show constant disappointment in their children, the destructive effect is that the children will lose ______________.5. Developing children’s self-confidence helps bring them up to have a strong feeling of ______________.1小题>【参考答案】:1 entertainers2. come up with something to do3. learn and develop the actual ability to play4. self-confidence5 capable and interesting people第7题:Many parents who welcome the idea of turning off the TV and spending more time with the family are still worried that without TV they would constantly be on call as entertainers for their children. They remember thinking up all sorts of things to do when they were kids. But their own their kids seem different, less resourceful, somehow. When there’s nothing to do, these parents observe regretfully, their kids seem unable to come up with anything to do besides turning on the TV.One father, for example, says, “When I was a kid, we were always thinking up things to do, projects and games. We certainly never complained in an annoying way to our parents, ‘I have nothing to do!’”He compares this with his own children today:”They’re simply lazy. If someone doesn’t entertain them, they’ll happily sit there watching TV all day.”There is one word for this father’s disappointment: unfair. It is as if he were disappointed in them for not reading Greek though they have never studied the language. He deplores (哀叹) his children’s lack of inventiveness, as if the ability toplay were something innate (天生的) that his children are missing. In fact, while the tendency to play is built into the human species, the actual ability to play—to imagine, to invent, to elaborate on reality in a playful way—and the ability to gain fulfillment from it, these are skills that have to be learned and developed.Such disappointment, however, is not only unjust, it is also destructive. Sensing their parents’disappointment, children come to believe that they are, indeed, lacking something, and that this makes them less worthy of admiration and respect. Giving children the opportunity to develop new resources, to enlarge their horizons and discover the pleasures of doing things on their own is, on the other hand, a way to help children develop a confident feeling about themselves as capable and interesting people.1 According to the passage, without TV, their children would like their parents to be ______________.2. Many parents think that, instead of watching TV, their children should ______________.3. The reason why it is unfair that the father often blames his children for not being able to entertain themselves is that the children should ______________.4. When parents show constant disappointment in their children, the destructive effect is that the children will lose ______________.5. Developing children’s self-confidence helps bring them up to have a strong feeling of ______________.1小题>【参考答案】:1 entertainers2. come up with something to do3. learn and develop the actual ability to play4. self-confidence5 capable and interesting people四、翻译第8题:He complained that hardly ___________________________________(他一到家她就抱怨起来).【参考答案】:had he returned home when she started complaining第9题:It is suggested ____________________________________________(在做好所有准备之前这个项目是不会开始的).【参考答案】:that the project (should) not be started until all the preparations have been madethe success of any large corporation _______________________________(取决于它的工作者的效率).【参考答案】:depends on its workers’efficiency第11题:The grandeurof the grand Canyon _________________________________(吸引了来自世界各地的游客).【参考答案】:draws tourists from all over the world第12题:Jenifer had some jewelry _______________________________________(从她外婆那继承来的).【参考答案】:which had been handed on from her grandmother五、写作题Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Studying Abroad. You should write at least 150 words based on the chart and outline given below:1. 近几年来选择出国留学的人越来越多,理由是……2. 也有人持不同意见,……3. 我的看法和打算【参考答案】:Studying AbroadFrom the table, we can see that in the past 4 years, the number of people studying abroad has increased considerably. Especially in the recent 2 years, the figure has been more than 130,000.There are several reasons for the phenomenon. Firstly, with the development of economy, more and more people become better off. And their ability to finance their children’s studying abroad is growing. Secondly, the education quality offoreign developed countries, like the United States, British, and Australia, is thought to be better than that in China. In addition, students today are expected and encouraged to go outside to widen their horizonand to face the real world of globalization. In this way they hope to keep themselves informed of what is going on around the world.There are, however, also people who think differently. Besides the pains in adapting to a unfamiliar environment, there is also the uncertaintyabout the reliability and advantages about foreign education, which may depend mainly on the students themselves.From my point of view, as the changes reflected in the table, it can be predicted that the number of students studying abroad will boost. Its advantages far outweigh its disadvantages, and this trend will be irreversible.。
最新6月英语六级真题及答案-cet6-word版
2008年6月21日大学英语六级真题PartⅠWriting (30 minutes)Will E-books Replace Traditional Books?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Part ⅡReading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes)What will the world be like in fifty years?This week some top scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, gave their vision of how the 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 two of 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 cheat the 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 that 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 straight to 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 the ability to produce“unlimited supplies” of transplantable 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 th em 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 andproductive as today’s people in their 60s”AliensCo nlin 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 l ife 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 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 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 will open up immensely”EnergyBill Joy,green technology expert in Califomia,says:”The most significant breakthrought wo uld 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 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 faith but by offering a more practical,uniwersal and rewarding moral frameworkfor human interaction.”He also predicts that “ahsurdly wasteful”displays of wealth will become umfashionabl e 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。
2008年6月六级考试仔细阅读题解
2008年6月六级考试仔细阅读题解
王立宇
【期刊名称】《大学英语》
【年(卷),期】2008(000)010
【摘要】短文大意:2001年9月11日,美国联合航空公司的93次航班上40名乘客及机组人员同恐怖分子殊死搏斗,班机旋即坠毁在宾夕法尼亚州。
作者兼导演Paul Greengrass获遇难者家属同意后,制作了纪录片《美联航93次航班》。
该片映出后引起公议,有人认为制作者利用这个悲剧搞经济开发;有人则认为该片不但纪念了乘客和机组人员,还能提高公众的安全意识。
【总页数】9页(P49-57)
【作者】王立宇
【作者单位】西南财经大学
【正文语种】中文
【中图分类】G633.33
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2008年6月英语六级阅读真题解析
2008年6月英语六级阅读真题解析
屠皓民
【期刊名称】《新东方英语:中英文版》
【年(卷),期】2008(0)11
【摘要】在历年的六级考试中,阅读理解部分因其对词汇、句法要求高和出题形式多样化,一直以来都是考试重心。
对于准备2008年12月份六级考试的考生们来说,分析2008年6月份的六级阅读真题,把握出题规律尤为重要。
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下面我们逐项一一解析。
【总页数】3页(P7-9)
【关键词】六级阅读;六级考试;阅读理解;考生;快速阅读;关键词;题型;填空题;题干;名词性结构
【作者】屠皓民
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【中图分类】H319
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1.D Scientist's vision of the world in half a century
2.B may not come true
3.A humans won't have to donate organs for transplantation
4.C live to 100 and more vitality
5.C alien life will likely be discovered
6.A might survive all catastrophes on earth
7.D lost fingers and limbs will be able to regrow
8.artificial intelligence
9.weapons
10.religion
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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, 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 programs
61,D, they overemphasize their qualification in job applications.
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