2008年6月英语六级真题

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2008 年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷

Part Ⅰ Writing (30 minutes)

注意：此部分试题在答题卡 1上。

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) (15minutes)

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

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 wellas

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 oronother

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 arelikelytohave

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 aself-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 injuries

Ellen 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 within5to10years

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 gasblamedfor

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”brighe\ter,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

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 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. C) A real nuisance.

B) A good companion D) A well-trained pet.

14. A) The errors will be corrected soon. C) The computing system is too complex.

B) The woman was mistaken herself. 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.

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. C) Its appealing surroundings.

B) Numerous varieties of food. D) Its rich and colorful history.

20. A) An ancient building. C) An Egyptian museum.

B) A world of antiques. 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 C) 250,000

B) 30,000 D) 300,000

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

23. A) Transferring to another department. C) Thinking about doing a different job.

B) Studying accounting at a university D) Making preparation 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 in the 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 B

Directions:In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear

some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a

question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then

mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 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) Waterscooter operators’ lack of experience.

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2008年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷PartⅠWriting(30minutes)注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。Directions:Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteashortessayentitledWillE-booksReplaceTraditionalBooks?Youshouldwriteatleast150wordsfollowingtheoutlinegivenbelow.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WillE-booksReplaceTradit...

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