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1、百度文库专用2008年6月CET6 A卷试题及参考答案（含听力原文及写作范文）Part Writing (30 minutes)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 an
2、swer 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, ron gas-
3、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 r
4、ubbing 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
5、 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 w
6、arning. 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 longerAnthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina, belives failing organs wi
7、ll be repaired by injecting cells into the body. They will naturally to straight to the injury and help heal it. A system of injections without needles could also slow the ageing process by using the same process to “tune” cells.Bruce Lahn, professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, a
8、nticipates the ability to produce “unlimited supplies” of transplantable human organs without the needed a new organ, such as kidney, the surgeon would contact a commercial organ producer, give him the patients immuno-logical profile and would then be sent a kidney with the correct tissue type.These
9、 organs would be entirely composed of human cells, grown by introducing them into animal hosts, and allowing them to develop into and organ in place of the animals own. But Prof. Lahn believes that farmed brains would be “off limits”. He says: “Very few people would want to have their brains replace
10、d by someone elses and we probably dont want to put a human braining an animal body.”Richard Miller, a professor at the University of Michigan, thinks scientist could develop “an then icanti-ageing drugs” by working out how cells in larger animals such as whales and human resist many forms of injuri
11、es. He says: “Its is now routine, in laboratory mammals, to extend lifespan by about 40%. Turning on the same protective systems in people should, by 2056, create the first class of 100-year-olds who are as vigorous and productive as todays people in their 60s”AliensConlin Pillinger ,professor of pl
12、anerary sciences at the Open University, says: fancy that at least we will be able to show that life didi start to evolve on Mars well as Earth.” ithin 50years he hopes scientists will prove that alien life came here in Martian meteorites(陨石).Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASAs Ames Research
13、 Center. believes that in 50 years we may find evidence of alien life in ancient permanent forst of Mars or on other planers.He adds: There is even a chance we will find alien life forms here on Earth. It might be as different as English is to Chinese.Priceton professor Freeman Dyson thinks it “like
14、ly” that life form outer space will be discovered defore 2056 because the tools for finding it, such as optical and radio detection and data processing, are improving.He says: As soon as the first evidence is found, we will know what to look for and additional discoveries are likely to follow quickl
15、y. Such discoveries are likely to have revolutionary consequences for biology, astronomy and philosophy. They may change the way 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-sufficient colony on M
16、ars, which would be a “life insurance policy against whatever catastrophes, natural or otherwise, might occur on Earth.“The real space race is whether we will colonise off Earth on to other worlds before money for the space program me runs out.”Spinal injuriesEllen Heber-Katz,a professor at the Wistar Institude in Philadelphia, foresees cures for inijuries causing paralysis such as the one that afflicated Superman
