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大学英语六级考试全国统考试卷 2008年6月(新题型) 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。 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 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，from gas powered cars to extraordinary health advances， John Ingham reports on what the worlds 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 inexhaustible， 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 todays 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 years ago.” Living longer Anthony Atala， director of the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina， believes failing organs will be repaired by injecting ce