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1、年英语六级真题答案年英语六级真题答案【篇一：2008年6月英语六级真题及答案解析(标准完整版)】=txtpart iwriting(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

2、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 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 f

3、rom 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-pow

4、ered 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 r

5、ubbing 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 wil

6、l 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 heal

7、th 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 org

8、ans 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 chic

9、ago, 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

10、. 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

11、 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 for

12、ms 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 ,

13、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 nas

14、a?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

15、 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

16、 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-sufficie

17、nt 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 professo

18、r 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 r

19、egenerate 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

20、 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 opticnerves and,in time,the spinal cord.”within 50years whole body replacement will be routine,”prof.heber-katz adds. obesity sydney brenner,senior distinguished fel

21、low 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 sol

22、ved.” 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:

23、”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 dioxid

24、e,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 challe

25、nging 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 sa

26、ys,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 d)scientists?vision of the world in halfa century 2. a

27、ccording 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 peo

28、ple 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

29、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

30、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, professo

31、r 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 possibl

32、e 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 sec