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大学英语六级考试710分新题型 王长喜英语预测试卷 Wang Changxis Model Test of Forecast for C E T-6 (标准版) 6 Part Ⅰ Writing Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Low-Carbon Lifestyle. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. 1. 目前低碳生活成为一种流行 2. 低碳生活指的是…… 3. 作为大学生的我应该怎么做 Low-Carbon Lifestyle __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) 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. The End of the Cash Era In the spring Adam Smith will replace Sir Edward Elgar as the face on Britains ￡ 20 note. The first economic thinker to be so honored could well be the last. Not because economists are especially undeserving, but because cash, after millennia as one of mankinds most versatile and enduring technologies, looks set over the next 15 years or so finally to melt away into an electronic stream of ones and zeros. If an era is represented by its money, the information age is at hand. Notes and coins are already a small fraction of the money in most rich countries. But going by the number of transactions rather than their value, we still live firmly in a cash society. The European Payments Council estimates that the European Unions 360 billion cash transactions cost at least ~50 billion a year; others put the bill at ￡200 a head. Visa, a huge credit-card alliance, reckons cash accounts for most of the $1.3 trillion spent a year across the world on small-ticket items. Whether queuing to get money out and queuing again to spend it, or breaking a $100 bill with an irate (发怒的) cab d