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1、大学六级-1178 及答案解析(总分:710.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数:1,分数:103.00)1.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Will E-mail Replace Hand-written Letter? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1. 学多人认为电子邮件将会取代传统书信2. 也有人对此持不同意见
2、3. 你的观点Will E-mail Replace Hand-written Letter?(分数:103.00)_二、Part Reading Compr(总题数:1,分数:70.00)Electric Vehicles Are Charging Up The Automotive IndustryNext time youre filling up the cavernous fuel tank of the gas-gulping family jalopy, imagine getting 230 miles per gallon. Better yet, how about nev
3、er buying another gallon of gas? After years of hope and hype, electron-powered driving finally appears to be on the verge of reality. In the next three years, at least a dozen pure electric or plug-in hybrid cars are slated to hit the market in the U. S. Electricity-driven vehicles from giants such
4、 as General Motors Co. and Nissan Motor Co., as well as start-ups like Fisker Automotive Inc. in Irvine, will provide consumers with a wide variety of choices. These new vehicles promise to combine blinding fuel efficiency, radical new technology and futuristic styling that makes the hybrid Toyota P
5、rius look downright staid.Battery makers and automakers alike are tooling up factories to produce big volumes of electric vehicles. Meanwhile, power utilities and regulators are scrambling to figure out just how big the market will be. “This is happening and its happening soon,“ said Mark Duvall, di
6、rector of electric transportation at the Electric Power Research Institute, an independent, nonprofit research group. “By the end of 2011, consumers will have more choices in vehicles they can plug in than they currently do for hybrids.“The electric vehicles will be arriving at a good time. With gas
7、oline prices creeping up once again and federal regulations calling for huge fuel economy gains in the next half-decade, theres increasing demand for cars that burn less fuel, make less noise and push automotive technology forward. In August, President Obama set a national goal of getting 1 million
8、plug-in vehicles on the road by 2015. It took about twice as long to get a million hybrids rolling on U.S. streets and highways.But any new technology that involves high-voltage, exotic battery chemistries and 3,500-pound objects hurtling forward at high speed is bound to hit some potholes. Early ad
9、opters, experts say, will have to contend with charging infrastructure challenges and some pretty long waiting lists. And did we mention price? Even the least expensive electric or plug-in car will cost more than $ 25,000, and most will come in closer to twice that. “There will be some real challeng
10、es at first,“ said Roland Hwang, vehicle policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “These are going to cost more than conventional cars. The infrastructure is not going to take care of itself. These issues will determine whether this is a trickle or a massive flood.“Restarting electr
11、icsElectric cars are hardly new. In fact, a century ago, around the time of the dawn of the automobile, there were as many electric as gasoline-powered cars. But technological limitations eventually killed those early EVs, and electric cars didnt truly raise their heads again until the late 1990s. T
12、hats when a smattering of electrics, including the much-lamented GM EV1, was made available in California as part of a government-mandated test program. Wildly popular among a select group of enthusiasts, they were officially declared unfeasible and unprofitable by automakers. Today, only a few hund
13、red are still on the road, among them a Toyota RAV4 EV driven by Paul Scott, co-founder of electric vehicle activist group Plug In America.Nobody was happier than Scott when Tesla Motors Inc., a San Carlos, Calif., automaker, last year began selling its all-electric Roadster, a rocket of a two-seate
14、r that noiselessly goes from zero to 60 mph in less than four seconds. True, the Roadster costs $109,000. And it has a waiting list longer than Sunset Boulevard. But to people like Scott, its arrival signaled the coming of a new electric era.“This time electric cars are here to stay,“ said Scott, wh
15、o envisions charging cars using solar power, making them essentially cost-free to operate. Tesla and other nimble start-ups have helped jump-start the industry. Now big automakers are getting their electric programs in gear. Thats no minor development considering the titanic capital costs involved i
16、n developing high-volume-production vehicles.For Ford Motor Co. , better batteries were key. Previous technologies were just too heavy and inefficient, said Nancy Gioia, the automakers director of global electrification. “They werent ready for mass production,“ she said.But in the last couple of yea
17、rs, huge improvements and new battery chemistries “opened the opportunity“ for ambitious product plans, she said. Gioia predicts that as many as a quarter of new vehicles sold by 2020 will be electrics, plug-in hybrids or traditional hybrids.Challenges aheadYet even the fiercest electric advocates a
18、dmit that battery reliability still has room for improvement. Arthur Krieger, a retired police officer in Los Angeles, drives a Prius powered by a relatively small nickel metal hydride battery to assist the gasoline engine. The battery needed replacement after nine years on the road. Thats when Krie
19、ger got a nasty surprise: A new one would cost more than $4,800. “That cost will wipe out the entire cost savings of having a hybrid in the first place,“ Krieger said. The price would be even higher on an all-electric vehicle using the latest chemistry: lithium ion.Already widely used in cell phones
20、, watches and laptops, those batteries have storage, charging and weight characteristics that make them superior to previous technologieswith premium prices to match. A replacement battery for a Tesla Roadster costs $ 30,000, and it can move the car only 200 or so miles before it needs to be recharg
21、ed. Thats a 3.5-hour process on a high-powered charger, 30 hours on regular household current.Then there is the matter of exactly where to re-juice all those electrics. Some experts believe that public charging stations will be the best solution, either those put up by state and local governments or
22、, perhaps, private for-profit companies. At present there is almost no such infrastructure. Building a nationwide network would cost tens of billions of dollars. That means most electric owners will be charging at home initially. Plug-in hybrids, which primarily run on batteries but also have gasoli
23、ne-powered engines to supplement range and power, can get by on standard household current. Theyre ready to roll in five or six hours. All-electric cars, however, can take well over a day to charge unless owners invest thousands of dollars in home electrical upgrades.A rewarding experienceFor those
24、willing (and able) to take the plunge, however, the rewards of owning electrified cars could include the financial kind. Thanks to a provision in last years $700-billion Wall Street bailout legislation, buyers of electric or plug-in hybrid cars can qualify for a tax credit of as much as $7,500. Rout
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