[外语类试卷]大学英语六级模拟试卷400及答案与解析.doc
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1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 400及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a resume. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below: 假设你是李明 一名应届毕业生,在报纸上看到一则招聘广告,你想要到登广告的公司供职,请给该公司写一封求职信 ,内容应简要介绍自己的情况以及自己的经历等。 二、 Part II Reading Compreh
2、ension (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 st
3、atement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 Climate Change Scientists predict increasing droughts, floods and extreme weather and say there is growing evidence that human activities are to blame. What Is Climate Chang
4、e? The planets climate is constantly changing. The global average temperature is currently in the region of 15 . Geological and other evidence suggests that, in the past, this average may have been as high as 27 and as low as 7 . But scientists are concerned that the natural fluctuation (波动 ) has be
5、en overtaken by a rapid human-induced warming that has serious implications for the stability of the climate on which much life on the planet depends. What Is the “Greenhouse Effect“? The greenhouse effect refers to the role played by gases which effectively trap energy from the Sun in the Earths at
6、mosphere. Without them, the planet would be too cold to sustain life as we know it. The most important of these gases in the natural greenhouse effect is water vapor, but concentrations of that are changing little and it plays almost no role in modern human-induced greenhouse warming. Other greenhou
7、se gases include carbon dioxide, methane (甲烷 ) and nitrous (含氮的 ) oxide, which arc released by modern industry, agriculture and the burning of fossil fuels. Their concentration in the atmosphere is increasing-the concentration of carbon dioxide has risen by more than 30% since 1800. The majority of
8、climate scientists accept the theory that an increase in these gases will cause a rise in the Earths temperature. What Is the Evidence of Warming? Temperature records go back to the late 19th century and show that the global average temperature increased by about 0.6 in the 20th century. Sea levels
9、have risen 10 20 cm-thought to be caused mainly by the expansion of warming oceans. Most glaciers in temperate regions of the world and along the Antarctic Peninsula are in retreat, and records show Arctic sea-ice has thinned by 40% in recent decades in summer and autumn. There are anomalies (异常 ) h
10、owever-parts of the Antarctic appear to be getting colder, and there are discrepancies between trends in surface temperatures and those in the troposphere(对流层 ) (the lower portion of the atmosphere). How Much Will Temperatures Rise? If nothing is done to reduce emissions, current climate models pred
11、ict a global temperature increase of 1.4 5.8 by 2100. Even if we cut greenhouse gas emissions dramatically now, scientists say the effects would continue because parts of the climate system, particularly large bodies of water and ice, can take hundreds of years to respond to changes in temperature.
12、It also takes greenhouse gases in the atmosphere decades to break down. It is possible that we have already irrevocably(不可撤回地 ) committed the Greenland ice sheet to melting, which would cause an estimated 7m rise in sea level. There are also indications that the west Antarctic ice sheet may have beg
13、un to melt, though scientists caution further research is necessary. How Will the Weather Change? Globally, we can expect more extreme weather events, with heat waves becoming hotter and more frequent. Scientists predict more rainfall overall, but say the risk of drought in inland areas during hot s
14、ummers will increase. More flooding is expected from storms and rising sea levels. There are, however, likely to be very strong regional variations in these patterns, and these are difficult to predict. What Will the Effects Be? The potential impact is huge, with predicted freshwater shortages, swee
15、ping changes in food production conditions, and increases in deaths from floods, storms, heat waves and droughts. Poorer countries, which are least equipped to deal with rapid change, will suffer most. Plant and animal extinctions are predicted as habitats change faster than species can adapt, and t
16、he World Health Organization has warned that the health of millions could be threatened by increases in malaria, water-borne disease and malnutrition. What Dont We Know? We dont know exactly what proportion of the observed warming is caused by human activities or what the knock-on effects of the war
17、ming will be. The precise relationship between concentrations of carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) and temperature rise is not known, which is one reason why there is such uncertainty in projections Of temperature increase. Global warming will cause some changes which will speed up further
18、 warming, such as the release of large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane as permafrost(永久冻结带 ) melts. Other factors may mitigate(减轻 ) warming. It is possible that plants may take more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as their growth speeds up in warmer conditions, though this remains in dou
19、bt. Scientists are not sure how the complex balance between these positive and negative feedback effects will play out. What about the Skeptics? Global warming “skeptics“ fall into three broad camps: - those who maintain temperatures are not rising; - those who accept the climate is changing but sus
20、pect it is largely down to natural variation; - those who accept the theory of human-induced warming but say it is not worth tackling as other global problems are more pressing. Nevertheless, there is a growing scientific consensus (舆论 ) that, even on top of the natural variability of the climate, s
21、omething out of the ordinary is happening and humans are to blame. A scientific report commissioned by the U.S. government has concluded there is “clear evidence“ of climate change caused by human activities. The report, from the federal Climate Change Science Program, said trends seen over the last
22、 50 years “cannot be explained by natural processes alone“. It found that temperatures have increased in the lower atmosphere as well as at the Earths surface. However, scientists involved in the report say better data is badly needed. Observations down the years have suggested that the troposphere,
23、 the lower atmosphere, is not warming up, despite evidence that temperatures at the Earths surface are rising. This goes against generally accepted tenets (原则 ) of atmospheric physics, and has been used by “climate skeptics“ as proof that there is no real warming. The new report, Temperature Trends
24、in the Lower Atmosphere, re-analyses the atmospheric data and concludes that tropospheric temperatures are rising. This means, it says, that the impact of human activities upon the global climate is clear. “The observed patterns of change over the past 50 years cannot be explained by natural process
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