1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 84 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 Scientific Attitude. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below: 1. 科学态度的实质 2. 科学态度的方 方面面 3. 结论 Scientific Attitude 二、 Part II Reading Comprehens
2、ion (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 (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the state
3、ment 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 seconds. Thats the amount of time Adam Rappoport, a high school senior in Philadelphia, has spent t
4、alking 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 connection to check sports scores, download new ring-tones and send short messages to his friends phones,
5、 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 mobile phone. Koiso, a college junior, lives in the global capital of fancy new gadgets 20 percent
6、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 something simpler and more profound: an anti-smoking message that pops up on his small screen each morning
7、 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 proliferation(增殖 ) of music-sharing sites on the Net, seem to instantly reshape the cultural landscape. The
8、 slower upheavals 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. Mobile phones are so integral to our lives that its difficult to remember how the life we ever got on
9、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: is the mobile handset turning into the next computer? In one sense, it already has. Todays most sophist
10、icated 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 e-mail, browse the Web and even take photos; 84 million phones with digital cameras were shipped last ye
11、ar. Change it into another same question, though, to ask whether mobile phones will ever eclipse, or replace, the PC, and the issue suddenly becomes controversial. PC proponents say phones are too small and connect too sluggishly to the Internet to become effective at tasks now performed on-the luxu
12、riously 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 have cell phones, and they are all not going to have PCs,“ says Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot and
13、 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 phones that the industry dubs “smart-phones“. Hawkins newest product, the sleek, pocket-size Treo 600, has a ti
14、ny 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 a new version to hit stores this month, plays videogames. Motorolas upcoming MPx has a nifty “dual-hinge“
15、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 small QWERTY keyboard. There are also smart-phones on the way with video cameras, GPS antennas and access
16、to local Wi-Fi hotspots, the superfast 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 away. The smart-phone market constitutes only a slender 5 percent of overall mobile phone sales today, but th
17、e 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 smart-phone ) so much better than the computer is that its always with you, always up and always ready,“ says Je
18、ff 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 services? Mobile-phone watchers say that handsets in the next few years will pack a gigabyte(字节 ) or more of flash m
19、emory, 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 Services“, built around a phones ability to detect its exact location anywhere in the world. With this capability,
20、 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 of the PC? But its not all mobile technologists think the ultimate promise of the mobile phone ends there. Co
21、uld 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 phones will become mobile phones; all networks will be capable of receiving voice and Internet signals at broadban
22、d speeds, and all mobile bills will 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 (fast) T1 line in your pocket. Thats it. Its going to happen,“ Hawkins predicts. The computer wont go away, he
23、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 religions outrage to this kind of prophecy. Laptops allow another kind of mobile computing, they point out, particularly with the
24、 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 set up temporary offices in the local caf or public park. Then theres the matter of simple practicality: mobile p
25、hones 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 screen,“ says Sean Maloney, an executive VP at chipmaker Intel. Yet mobile-phone innovators are working to solve that
26、 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 with simple voice commands. Phones dont have enough processing power for speech recognition yet, but Moores Law t
27、he 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 instead of scrapping it altogether. The problems of the cell phone facing in the future Cell phones arent likely
28、to take the fastest road to this bright future. Innovation in the mobile industry is full of frustration and wrong turns, often because no single company completely controls the device in your pocket. Local carriers sell the phone to customers provide billing and run the phone network; devices maker
29、s 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 no open and single set of protocols(协议 ) for programmers to build around. Software written for one kind of phone w
30、ont 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 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 ma
31、tter 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 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
32、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 anywhere in the world. 8 According to Hawkins, computers will fade to the background because cell phones are _ device
33、s. 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 researching _ for decades. 11 The Internets _ programming isnt suitable for mobile phones. Section A Directions: In this s
34、ection, 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 the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read
35、 the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） Its an unwise decision. （ B） Individual projects are much better. （ C） The decision will definitely be rejected. （ D） Many people try to lose weight nowadays. （ A） He has decided how hes going to spend the prize money.
36、 （ B） He doesnt know how much his rent is going to increase. （ C） Hes already planning to enter next years essay contest. （ D） He has already paid his landlord for next years rent. （ A） He is bored with the tour. （ B） He is facing financial crisis. （ C） He must attend a meeting on Monday. （ D） He di
37、slikes meeting people on Monday. （ A） He thinks the book should include more information. （ B） He doesnt think it necessary to provide the answers. （ C） The answers will be added in a later edition. （ D） The book does include the answers. （ A） Ask her boss to raise her pay. （ B） Look for a more suit
38、able job. （ C） Try to switch hours with someone else. （ D） Do the extra work without complaining. （ A） She lost a finger. （ B） Someone hit her in the nose. （ C） She became a surgical nurse. （ D） She had an operation on her nose. （ A） Attending the party. （ B） Visiting some friends. （ C） Studying for
39、 an exam. （ D） Writing a letter of apology. （ A） Ask Dr. Smith to call the library. （ B） Ask Dr. Smith to alter his decision. （ C） Get Dr. Smiths written permission. （ D） Get the book directly from Dr. Smith. （ A） The employer and employee. （ B） The interviewer and interviewee. （ C） The teacher and
40、student. （ D） The police officer and driver. （ A） She didnt yield to children crossing the road. （ B） She parked illegally near the school. （ C） She exceeded the speed limit. （ D） She is drunk. （ A） The woman gets a ticket. （ B） The man arrests the woman. （ C） The woman is taken to court. （ D） The w
41、oman ran away. （ A） A class assignment. （ B） A journalism class. （ C） The womans job. （ D） The mans work experience. （ A） Choosing journalism as a career. （ B） Peoples reactions to a school play. （ C） How to take good photographs. （ D） The experiences of the director of a school play. （ A） News writ
42、er. （ B） Director of a play. （ C） Photographer. （ D） Newspaper editor. （ A） Make copies of her article. （ B） Write an essay for a literature class. （ C） Take the man to a play. （ D） Introduce the man to her coworkers. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end
43、of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） They were born to be pale. （ B） They did not like traveling in sunny countries. （ C）
44、 They wanted to be different from the peasants. （ D） They thought light color was the color of health. （ A） People without exposure to sunlight. （ B） Wealthy people in Europe centuries ago. （ C） Workers during the Industrial Revolution. （ D） Wealthy people during the Industrial Revolution. （ A） Nobl
45、emen centuries ago did not like traveling. （ B） Heredity is not the only thing that influences our color. （ C） Exposure to sunlight is the only thing that determines skin color. （ D） Having a tan is considered a sign of wealth nowadays in North America. （ A） They can live in meadows. （ B） They can j
46、ump high to get food. （ C） They can live off many different kinds of hosts. （ D） They can survive without eating for many months. （ A） A disease. （ B） A cause of fatal plague. （ C） A substance in a fleas legs. （ D） The substance that a flea lives on. （ A） Rat flea. （ B） Cat flea. （ C） Dog flea. （ D）
47、 Rabbit flea. （ A） Because they thought she was too young. （ B） Because they thought she was small in size. （ C） Because they thought she did not play well enough. （ D） Because they thought she did not show much interest. （ A） That they were both famous actresses. （ B） That they were both popular ai
48、l their lives. （ C） That they were both rich and kind-hearted. （ D） That they were both successful when very young. （ A） 12 （ B） 28 （ C） 31 （ D） 34 （ A） Turning herself into a legend. （ B） Collecting money for the poor. （ C） Doing business and helping others. （ D） Going about research and education
49、work. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing
