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 Ebooks 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 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 longer
Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina, belives failing
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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 first class of 100-year-olds who are as
vigorous and productive as today’s people in their 60s”
Aliens
Conlin 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 space
Richard Gottprofessor of astrophysics at Princeton,hopes man will set up a selfsufficient 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 injuries
Ellen Heber-Katz,a professor at the Wistar Institude in Philadelphia,foresees cures for
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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.
Obesity
Sydney 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.”
Robots
Rodney 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”
Energy
Bill 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.
Society
Geoffrey 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 while the importance of close-knit communities and families will become
clearer.
These there changer,he says,will help make us all”brigheter,wiser,happier and
kinder”.
注意:此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。
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
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D)Scientists’vision of the world in halfa century
2. 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 good
3. 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 transplantation
C)animal organs could be transplanted into human bodies
D)organ transplantation won’t be as scary as it is today
4. According to professor Richard Miller of the University of Michigarr, prople will____.
A)life for as long as they wish
B)be relieved from all sufferings
C) life to 100 and more with vitality
D)be able to live longer than whales
5. Priceton professor Freeman Syson thinks that____.
A)scientists will find alien life similar to ours
B)humans will be able to settle on Mars
C)alien life will likely be discovered
D)life will start to evolve on Mars
6. According to Princeton professor Richard Gott,by setting up a self-sufficient colony on
Mars,
Humans_____.
A)Might survie allcatastrophes on earth
B)Might acquire ample natural resources
C)Will be able to travel to Mars freely
D)Will move there to live a better life
7. Ellen Heber-Katz, professor at the Wistar Institue in Philadelpia,predicts that_____.
A)human organs can bu manufactured like appliances
B)people will be as strong and dymamic as supermen
C) human nerves can be replanced by optic fibers
D)lost fingers and limbs will be able to regrow
8. rodney Brooks says that it will be possible for robots to work with humans as a result
or the development of__artificaial intelligence for robots_____
9. The most significant breakthrough predicted by Bill joy will be an inexhaustible green
energy source that can’t be used to make__pollutions___________
10. According to Geoffrey Miller, science will offer a more practical, universal and
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rewarding moral framework in place of _________religion_______
Part III
Listening Comprehension
(35 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At
the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said.
Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there
will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D),
and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2
with a single line through the centre.
注意: 此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答
11. 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.
C) He needs some time to polish his paper.
B) He has to type his paper once more.
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 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.
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