2008年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷Part IWriting(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-booksReplace Traditional Books?You should write at least 150 words following the outlinegiven 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 IIReading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(15minutes)Directions:In this part,you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer thequestions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7,choose the best answer from thefour choices marked [A].[B].[C]and [D].For questions 8-10,complete thesentences 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,JohnIngham 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 perpetualyouth,where obesity is a remote memory and robots become our companions.We will be rubbing shoulders with aliens and colonizing outer space.Better still,ourdescendants 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 ofthe 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 theageing process so that the average person lives to 150?Of course,all these predictions come with a scientific health warning.Harvard professorSteven Pinker says:"This is an invitation to look foolish,as with the predictions of domedcities and nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners that were made 50 year ago."Living longerAnthony Atala,director of the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina,belives failingorgans will be repaired by injecting cells into the body.They will naturally to straight to theinjury and help heal it.A system of injections without needles could also slow the ageingprocess 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 transplantable human organs without the needed anew organ,such as kidney,the surgeon would contact a commercial organ producer,give himthe patient's immuno-logical profile and would then be sent a kidney with the correct tissuetype.These organs would be entirely composed of human cells,grown by introducing theminto 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 peoplewould want to have their brains replaced by someone else's and we probably don't want toput a human brain ing an animal body."Richard Miller,a professor at the University of Michigan,thinks scientist coulddevelop"an thentic anti-ageing drugs"by working out how cells in larger animals such aswhales and human resist many forms of injuries.He says:"It's is now routine,in laboratorymammals,to extend lifespan by about 40%.Turning on the same protective systems in peopleshould,by 2056,create the first class of 100-year-olds who are as vigorous and productive astoday's people in their 60s"AliensConlin Pillinger ,professor of planerary sciences at the Open University,says:"I fancythat at least we will be able to show that life didi start to evolve on Mars well asEarth."Within 50years he hopes scientists will prove that alien life came here in Martianmeteorites(陨石).Chris McKay,a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center.believes that in 50years we may find evidence of alien life in ancient permanent forst of Mars or on otherplaners.He adds:"There is even a chance we will find alien life forms here on Earth.It mightbe asdifferent as English is to Chinese.Priceton professor Freeman Dyson thinks it "likely"that life form outer space will bediscovered defore 2056 because the tools for finding it,such as optical and radio detectionand data processing,are improving.He ays:"As soon as the first evidence is found,we will know what to look for andadditional discoveries are likely to follow quickly.Such discoveries are likely to haverevolutionary consequences for biology,astronomy and philosophy.They may change theway 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-sufficientcolony on Mars,which would be a"life insurance policy against whatever catastrophes,naturalor otherwise,might occur on Earth."The real space race is whether we will colonise off Earth on to other worlds beforemoney for the space programme runs out."Spinal injuriesEllen Heber-Katz,a professor at the Wistar Institude in Philadelphia,foresees cures forinijuries 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 drugsthat cause severes()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 repairedfrom 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 yearsfingers and toes will be regrown and limbs will start to be regrown a few years later.Repariesto the nervous system will start with optic nerves and,in time,the spinal cord."Within 50yearswhole body replacement will be routine,"Prof.Heber-Katz adds.ObesitySydney Brenner,senior distinguished fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Center in California,wonthe 2002 Noblel Prize for Medicine and says that if there is a global disaster some humanswill survive-and evolition will favour small people with bodies large enough to support therequired amount of brain power."Obesity,"he says."will have been solved."RobotsRodney Brooks,professor of robotice at MIT,says the problems of developing artificialintelligence for robots will be at least partly overcome.As a result,"the possibilities for robotsworking with people will open up immensely"EnergyBill Joy,green technology expert in Califomia,says:"The most significant breakthroughtwould be to have an inexhaustible source of safe,green energy that is substantially cheaperthan any existing energy source."Ideally,such a source would be safe in that it could not be made into weapons and wouldnot make hazardous or toxic waste or carbon dioxide,the main greenhouse gas blamed forglobal warmingSocietyGeoffrey Miller,evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico,says:"TheUS will follow the UKin realizing that religion is nor a prerequisite ()for ordinary humandecency."This,science will kill religion-not by reason challenging faith but by offering a morepractical,uniwersal and rewarding moral frameworkfor human interaction."He also predicts that "ahsurdly wasteful"displays of wealth will become umfashionablewhile 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 Ingham's report about?A)A solution to the global energy crisisB)Extraordinary advances in technology.C)The latest developments of medical scienceD)Scientists'vision of the world in halfa century2.According to Harvard professor Steven Pinker,predictions about the futureA)may invite troubleB)may not come trueC)will fool the publicD)do more harm than good3.Professor Bruce Lahn of the University of Chicago predicts thatA)humans won't have to donate organs for transplantationB)more people will donate their organs for transplantationC)animal organs could be transplanted into human bodies