2008年6月21日大学英语六级真题(附答案).docVIP

2008年6月21日大学英语六级真题 2008年6月21日大学英语六级真题及答案 ? PartWriting (30 minutes) Will E-books Replace Traditional Books? 　　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 ? 注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上 ? Part ?? 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