文档介绍:最具影响力的外语网络媒体领先的外语门户网站,为用户创造最大价值 1 2008 年6 月大学英语六级 A 卷真题 Part I Writing (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. 有人认为电子图书将会取代传统图书,理由是… 3. 我的看法。 Part Ⅱ prehension(Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes) 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 world ’s finest minds believe our futures will be. For those of us lucky enough to live that long, 2056 will bea world of almost perpetual youth, where obesity isa remote memory and robots e panions. We will be rubbing shoulders with aliens and colonising outer space. Better still, our descendants might at last live ina 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 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 e 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, believes ans will be repaired by injecting cells into the body. They will naturally go straight to the injury and help heal system of injections without needles could also slow the ageing process by using the same process to“ tune ” cells. Bruce Lahn, professor of human ics at the University of Chicago, anticipates the ability to produce “ unlimited supplies ” of transplantable ans without the need for human donors. ans would be