2008年6月英语六级真题及答案解析(标准完整版)

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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

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 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 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 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

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”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

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