[外语类试卷]大学英语六级模拟试卷38及答案与解析.doc

1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 38及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Is It Necessary for a College Student to Own a Mobile Phone? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 1调查显示 80%的大学生拥有手机 2你认为大学生需要手机吗

2、 ? 3你的理由 Is It Necessary for a College Student to Own a Mobile Phone? 二、 Part II 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 attached to the passage. For questions 1-4, mark： Y (

3、for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 2 Cell phone: your next computer One hundred nineteen hours, 41 minutes and 16

4、seconds. Thats the amount of time Adam Rappoport, a high school senior in Philadelphia, has spent talking into his silver Verizon LG phone since he got it as a gift last Christmas. Thats not even the full extent of his habit. He also spends countless additional hours using his phones Internet connec

5、tion to check sports scores, download new ring-tones and send short messages to his friends phones, even in the middle of class. “I know the touch-tone pad on the phone better than I know a keyboard,“ he says. “Im a phone guy.“ In Tokyo, halfway around the world, Satoshi Koiso also closely eyes his

6、mobile phone. Koiso, a college junior, lives in the global capital of fancy new gadgets 20 percent of all phones in Tokyo link to the fastest mobile networks in the world. Tokyoites use their phones to watch TV, read books and magazines and play games. But Koiso also depends on his phone for somethi

7、ng simpler and more profound: an anti-smoking message that pops up on his small screen each morning as part of a program to help students kick cigarettes. Technology revolutions come in two flavors: greatly fast and imperceptibly slow. The fast kind, like the sudden ubiquity of iPods or the prolifer

8、ation(增殖 ) of music-sharing sites on the Net, seem to instantly reshape the cultural lahdscape. The slower upheavals(巨变 ) grind away over the course of decades, subtly transforming the way we live and work. There are 1.5 billion cell phones in the world today, more than three times the number of PCs

9、. Mobile phones are so integral to our lives that its difficult to remember how the life we ever got on without them. Can the cell phone turn into the next computer? As our phones get smarter, smaller and faster, and enable users to connect at high speeds to the Internet, an obvious question arises:

10、 is the mobile handset turning into the next computer? In one sense, it already has. Todays most sophisticated phones have the processing power of a mid-1990s PC while consuming 100 times less electricity. And more and more of todays phones have computer-like features, allowing their owners to send

11、e-mail, browse the Web and even take photos; 84 million phones with digital cameras were shipped last year. Change it into another same question, though, to ask to whether mobile phones will ever eclipse, or replace, the PC, and the issue suddenly becomes Controversial. PC proponents say phones are

12、too small and connect too sluggishly to the Internet to become effective at tasks now performed on the luxuriously large screens and keyboards of todays computers. Fans of the phone respond: just wait. Coming innovations will solve the limitations of the phone. “One day, 2 or 3 billion people will h

13、ave cell phones, and they are all not going to have PCs,“ says Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot and the chief technology officer of PalmOne. “The mobile phone will become their digital life.“ Smart cell phones PalmOne is among the firms racing to trot out the full-featured computer-like phon

14、es that the industry dubs “smart-phones“. Hawkins newest product, the sleek, pocket-size Treo 600, has a tiny keyboard, a built-in digital camera and slots for added memory, etc. Other device makers have introduced their own unique versions of the smart-phone. Nokias N-Gage, launched last fall, with

15、 a new version to hit stores this month, plays videogames. Motorolas upcoming MPx has a nifty “dual-hinge“ design: the handset opens in one direction and looks like a regular phone, but it also flips open along another axis and looks like an e-mail device, with the expanded phone keypad serving as a

16、 small QWERTY keyboard. There axe also smart- phones on the way with video cameras, GPS antennas and access to local Wi-Fi hotspots, the snperfast wireless networks often found in offices, airports and local cafes. Theres not yet a phone that doubles as an electric toothbrush, but that cant be far a

17、way: The smart-phone market constitutes only a slender 5 percent of overall mobile phone sales today, but the figure has been doubling each year, according to the Gartner research firm. In the United States, its the business crowd thats primarily buying these souped-up handsets. “What makes (the sma

18、rt-phone ) so much better than the computer is that its always with you, always up and always ready,“ says Jeff Hackett of Gordon Feinblatt, an 80-member law firm in Baltimore, Maryland, that recently started giving its, lawyers Treo 600s of laptops. Can the cell phone provide location-based service

19、s? Mobile-phone watchers say that handsets in the next few years will pack a gigabyte(字节 ) or more of flash memory, turning the phone into a huge photo album or music player and giving stand-alone iPods a run for their money. For several years the industry has also talked about “location-based servi

20、ces“, built around a phones ability to detect its exact location anywhere in the world. With this capability, phones will soon be able to provide precise driving directions, serve up discounts for stores as you walk by them and expand dating services. Can the cell phone perform many of the function

21、of the PC? But its not all mobile technologists think the ultimate promise of the mobile Phone ends there. Could your phone one day actually perform many of the functions of the PC, like word processing and Web browsing? PalmOnes Hawkins thinks so. Within the next few decades, he predicts, all phone

22、s will become mobile phones; all networks will be capable of receiving voice and Internet signals at broadband speeds, and all mobile bills wilt shrink to only a few dollars as the phone companies pay off their investments in the new networks. “You are going to have the equivalent of a persistent(fa

23、st) T1 line in your pocket. Thats it. Its going to happen,“ Hawkins predicts. The computer wont go away, be says, but it might fade to the background, since people prefer portability and devices that turn on instantly instead of having to boot up. Defenders of the PC react with religious outrage to

24、this kind of prophecy(预言 ). Laptops allow another kind of mobile computing, they point out, particularly with the emergence of thousands of Wi-Fi networks around the world over the past four years. By the end of this year half of all laptops shipped will be Wi-Fi-equipped, allowing laptop owners to

25、set up temporary offices in the local caf or public park. Then theres the matter of simple practicality: mobile phones are small and getting smaller. Humans are not. “Hundreds of millions of people are not going to replace the full screen, mouse and keyboard experience with staring at a little scree

26、n,“ says Sean Maloney, an executive VP at chipmaker Intel. Yet mobile-phone innovators are working to solve that tricky problem, too. Scientists are continuing decades of research into speech-recognition systems and have recently introduced the technology into PDAs. Users can control these gadgets w

27、ith simple voice commands. Phones dont have enough processing power for speech recognition yet, but Moores Law the inevitability of annual improvements in computing power will help phones get there soon, provided that battery life can keep up. Other innovators are working on improving the keyboard i

28、nstead of scrapping it altogether. The problems of the cell phone facing in the future Cell phones arent likely to take the fastest road to this bright future. Innovation in the mo- bile industry is full of frustration and wrong turns, often because no single company completely controls the device i

29、n your pocket. Local carriers sell the phone to customers, provide billing and run the phone network; devices makers like Sony, Nokia and Samsung design the phone itself, and outsource the actual manufacturing to factories in China. Another challenge is that, unlike the internet, the phone world has

30、 no open and single set of protocols(协议 ) for programmers to build around. Software written for one kind of phone wont work on all the others. The uncoordinated, noncommercial programming that led to the quick evolution of the Internet hasnt taken hold in the world of mobile phones. 2 Adam Rappoport

31、 has the same familiarity with a keyboard as well as the touch-tone pad on the phone. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 No matter how slow technology revolutions are, they can change our lifestyles. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 The mobile handset has completely turned into the next computer. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG

32、5 As a smart phone, Treo 600 has GPS antennas and access to local Wi-Fi hotspots. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 A survey shows that the sale rate of smart phones has grown _ each year. 7 The cell phone industry says that future cell phones can provide _ based on its ability to detect its exact location an

33、y where in the world. 8 According to Hawkins, computers will fade to the background because cell phones are_ devices. 9 Laptops equipped with _ can allow their owners to temporarily deal with office work in some public places. 10 To solve the size problem of cell phones, scientists have been researc

34、hing _ for decades. 11 The Internets _ programming isnt suitable for mobile phones. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and

35、 the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） She hates it but she needs the money. （ B） She was reluctant at first but she has become used to it. （

36、C） She didnt like it, but tolerates it because the salary is good. （ D） She didnt like it at first, but now has become more patient with it. （ A） Write Daisy a note of apology. （ B） Return Daisys notes in a few days. （ C） Apologize when Daisy is less angry. （ D） Let her talk to Daisy about the situa

37、tion. （ A） He doesnt like to prepare food for the club members. （ B） He isnt careful when hes preparing food. （ C） He often fills the kitchen with tomato and chocolate. （ D） He cooks for the club members quite often. （ A） Its too late for the man to find a tutor. （ B） She hasnt prepared for the midt

38、erm exam either. （ C） The man shouldnt hire the same tutor that she had. （ D） The man should hire a tutor before the midterm exam. （ A） Living space in the dorm is quite crowded. （ B） He wants to live in the dorm to save expenses. （ C） There are only a few apartments available off campus. （ D） There

39、 are both advantages and disadvantages to live off campus. （ A） Cancel her travel plans. （ B） Continue trying to get a ticket. （ C） Cancel her reservation on the plane ticket. （ D） Try to change her reservations to a different time. （ A） She hasnt prepared the course outline yet. （ B） The man can ge

40、t the course outline after class. （ C） There arent any copies of the course outline left. （ D） Shell distribute the course outline during the next class. （ A） Ask her boss to raise her pay. （ B） Look for a more suitable job. （ C） Try to switch hours with someone else. （ D） Do the extra work without

41、complaining. （ A） Water. （ B） Crops. （ C） Money. （ D） Trees. （ A） It would have a bad effect on the local people. （ B） The local people do not want to sell any land. （ C） The government doesnt allow land to be sold. （ D） There isnt enough money available to buy land. （ A） Two local people. （ B） A lo

42、cal person and a reservation worker. （ C） Two reservation workers. （ D） A reporter and a reservation worker. （ A） The size of the cafeteria. （ B） The food served in the cafeteria. （ C） The cost of meals in the cafeteria. （ D） Career opportunities in cafeterias. （ A） Inform students of the disadvanta

43、ges of frying food. （ B） Find other students who will work in the cafeteria. （ C） Ask students to try a new dish he has made. （ D） Collect students opinions about meals. （ A） Use less sauce on the food. （ B） Serve some less expensive food. （ C） Make some of the meals less fattening. （ D） Stop servin

44、g hamburgers and fried chicken. （ A） Very doubtful. （ B） Quite annoyed. （ C） Somewhat curious. （ D） Indifferent. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only onc

45、e. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Eliminating the original vegetation from the building site. （ B） Marking the houses in an area similar to one another. （ C） Deciding where a house will be built. （ D） Surrounding a building

46、 with wild flowers and plants. （ A） They are changed to make the site more interesting. （ B） They are expanded to limit the amount of construction. （ C） They are integrated into the design of the building. （ D） They are removed for construction. （ A） Because many architects studied with Wright. （ B）

47、 Because Wright started the practice of “land-scraping“. （ C） Because Wright used elements of envelope building. （ D） Because most of the houses Wright built were made of stone. （ A） Because they want to earn high salary. （ B） Because schools do not teach students how to choose jobs. （ C） Because th

48、ere has been severe competition in the job market. （ D） Because they have no working experience. （ A） The job must not ruin your talents. （ B） The job must be able to shape your personality. （ C） The job must set a pattern of life. （ D） The job must suit your interest. （ A） Earning a Living （ B） Cor

49、rect Attitude on Job-hunting （ C） How to Choose a Job? （ D） What Can. a Good Job offer? （ A） Training given to music therapists. （ B） How music prevents disease. （ C） Studies on the benefits of music. （ D） How musicians create music. （ A） To replace physical therapy. （ B） To control brain seizures. （ C） To prevent heart disease. （ D） To relieve tension. （ A） Music they like can relieve depression but distract attention. （ B） Music they like can reduce stress and improve c