1、考试吧(E)-第一个极力推崇人性化服务的专业考试培训网站！提供历年试题，模拟试题，模拟盘，教程，专业课试题下载，考试培训等。每日更新!考试吧论坛：http:/ 考试吧博客：http:/ 考试吧商城：http:/ 声明：本资料由 考试吧（E） 收集整理，转载请注明出自 http:/ 服务：面向较高学历人群，提供计算机类，外语类，学历类，资格类，会计类，工程类，医学类等七大类考试的全套考试信息服务及考前培训.2007 年 12 月大学英语六级考试真题（A 卷）College English TestBand SixPart Writing (30 minutes) Directions：For t
2、his part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Digital Age. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1.如今数字化产品得到越来越广泛的使用，例如2.数字化产品的使用对人们工作、学习和生活产生的影响The Digital AgePart Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)本题客观选择题共计 7 分，每小题
3、1 分。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 answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the pass
4、age.Seven Ways to Save the WorldForget the old idea that conserving energy is a form of self-denialriding bicycles, dimming the lights, and taking fewer showers. These days conservation is all about efficiency: getting the sameor betterresults from just a fraction of the energy. When a slump in busi
5、ness travel forced Ulrich Romer to cut costs at his family-owned hotel in Germany, he replaced hundreds of the hotels wasteful light bulbs, getting the same light for 80 percent less power. He bought a new water boiler with a digitally controlled pump, and wrapped insulation around the pipes. Spendi
6、ng about 100,000 on these and other improvements, he slashed his 90,000 fuel and power bill by 60,000. As a bonus, the hotels lower energy needs have reduced its annual carbon emissions by more than 200 metric tons. “For us, saving energy has been very, very profitable,” he says. “And most important
7、ly, were not giving up a single comfort for our guests.”Efficiency is also a great way to lower carbon emissions and help slow global warming. But the best argument for efficiency is its costor, more precisely, its profitability. Thats because quickly growing energy demand requires immense investmen
8、t in new supply, not to mention the drain of rising energy prices.No wonder efficiency has moved to the top of the political agenda. On Jan. 10, the European Union unveiled a plan to cut energy use across the continent by 20 percent by 2020. Last March, China imposed a 20 percent increase in energy
9、efficiency by 2020. Even Greorge W. Bush, the Texas oilman, is expected to talk about energy conservation in his State of the Union speech this week.The good news is that the world is full of proven, cheap ways to save energy. Here are the seven that could have the biggest impact:InsulateSpace heati
10、ng and cooling eats up 36 percent of all the worlds energy. Theres virtually no limit to how much of that can be saved, as prototype “zero-energy homes” in Switzerland and Germany have shown. Theres been a surge in new ways of keeping heat in and cold out(or vice versa). The most advanced insulation
11、 follows the law of increasing returns: if you add enough, you can scale down or even eliminate heating and air-conditioning equipment, lowering costs 考试吧(E)-第一个极力推崇人性化服务的专业考试培训网站！提供历年试题，模拟试题，模拟盘，教程，专业课试题下载，考试培训等。每日更新!考试吧论坛：http:/ 考试吧博客：http:/ 考试吧商城：http:/ even before you start saving on utility bil
12、ls. Studies have shown that green workplaces(ones that dont constantly need to have the heat or air-conditioner running)have higher worker productivity and lower sick rates.Change BulbsLighting eats up 20 percent of the worlds electricity, or the equivalent of roughly 600,000 tons of coal a day. For
13、ty percent of that powers old-fashioned incandescent light bulbsa 19th-century technology that wastes most of the power it consumes on unwanted heat.Compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs, not only use 75 to 80 percent less electricity than incandescent bulbs to generate the same amount of light, but th
14、ey also last 10 times longer. Phasing old bulbs out by 2030 would save the output of 650 power plants and avoid the release of 700 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year.Comfort ZoneWater boilers, space heaters and air conditioners have been notoriously inefficient. The heat pump has a
15、ltered that equation. It removes heat from the air outside or the ground below and uses it to supply heat to a building or its water supply. In the summer the system can be reversed to cool buildings as well.Most new residential buildings in Sweden are already heated with ground-source heat pumps. S
16、uch systems consume almost no conventional fuel at all. Several countries have used subsidies to jump-start the market, including Japan, where almost 1 million heat pumps have been installed in the past two years to heat water for showers and hot tubs.Remake FactoriesFrom steel mills to paper factor
17、ies, industry eats up about a third of the worlds energy. The opportunities to save are vast. In Ludwigshafen, German chemicals giant BASF runs an interconnected complex of more than 200 chemical factories, where heat produced by one chemical process is used to power the next. At the Ludwigshafen si
18、te alone, such recycling of heat and energy saves the company 200 million a year and almost half its CO2 emissions. Now BASF is doing the same for new plants in China. “Optimizing（优化） energy efficiency is a decisive competitive advantage,” says BASF CEO Jrgen Hambrecht.Green DrivingA quarter of the
19、worlds energyincluding two thirds of the annual production of oilis used for transportation. Some savings come free of charge: you can boost fuel efficiency by 6 percent simply by keeping your cars tires properly inflated(充气). Gasoline-electric hybrid(混合型的)models like the Toyota Prius improve mileag
20、e by a further 20 percent over conventional models.A Better FridgeMore than half of all residential power goes into running household appliances, producing a fifth of the worlds carbon emissions. And thats true even though manufacturers have already hiked the efficiency of refrigerators and other wh
21、ite goods by as much as 70 percent since the 1980s. According to an lnternational Energy Agency study, if consumers chose those models that would save them the most money over the life of the appliance, theyd cut global residential power consumption(and their utility bills)by 43 percent.Flexible Pay
22、mentWho says you have to pay for all your conservation investments? “Energy service contractors” will pay for retrofitting(翻新改造)in return for a share of the clients annual utility-bill savings. In Beijing, Shenwu Thermal Energy Technology Co. specializes in retrofitting Chinas steel furnaces. Shenwu
23、 puts up the initial investment to install a heat exchanger that preheats the air going into the furnace, slashing the clients fuel costs. Shenwu pockets a cut of those savings, so both Shenwu and the client profit.If saving energy is so easy and profitable, why isnt everyone doing it? It has to do
24、with psychology and a lack of information. Most of us tend to look at todays price tag more than tomorrows potential savings. That holds double for the landlord or developer, who wont actually see a penny of the savings his investment in better insulation or a better 考试吧(E)-第一个极力推崇人性化服务的专业考试培训网站！提供历
25、年试题，模拟试题，模拟盘，教程，专业课试题下载，考试培训等。每日更新!考试吧论坛：http:/ 考试吧博客：http:/ 考试吧商城：http:/ heating system might generate. In many peoples minds, conservation is still associated with self-denial. Many environmentalists still push that view.Smart governments can help push the market in the right direction. The EUs 19
26、94 law on labeling was such a success that it extended the same idea to entire buildings last year. To boost the market value of efficiency, all new buildings are required to have an “energy pass” detailing power and heating consumption. Countries like Japan and Germany have successively tightened b
27、uilding codes, requiring an increase in insulation levels but leaving it up to builders to decide how to meet them.The most powerful incentives, of course, will come from the market itself. Over the past year, sky-high fuel prices have focused minds on efficiency like never before. Ever-increasing p
28、ressure to cut costs has finally forced more companies to do some math on their energy use.Will it be enough? With global demand and emissions rising so fast, we may not have any choice but to try. Efficient technology is here now, proven and cheap. Compared with all other options, its the biggest,
29、easiest and most profitable bang for the buck.1. What is said to be the best way to conserve energy nowadays?A) Raising efficiency.B) Cutting unnecessary costs.C) Finding alternative resources.D) Sacrificing some personal comforts. 2. What does the European Union plan to do?A) Diversify energy suppl
30、y.B) Cut energy consumption.C) Reduce carbon emissions.D) Raise production efficiency.3. If you add enough insulation to your house, you may be able to_.A) improve your work environmentB) cut your utility bills by halfC) get rid of air-conditionersD) enjoy much better health4. How much of the power
31、consumed by incandescent bulbs is converted into light?A) A small portion.B) Some 40 percent.C) Almost half.D) 75 to 80 percent. 5. Some countries have tried to jump-start the market of heat pumps by_.A) upgrading the equipmentB) encouraging investmentsC) implementing high-techD) providing subsidies
32、6. German chemicals giant BASF saves 200 million a year by_.A) recycling heat and energyB) setting up factories in ChinaC) using the newest technologyD) reducing the CO2 emissions of its plants 7. Global residential power consumption can be cut by 43 percent if_.考试吧(E)-第一个极力推崇人性化服务的专业考试培训网站！提供历年试题，模
33、拟试题，模拟盘，教程，专业课试题下载，考试培训等。每日更新!考试吧论坛：http:/ 考试吧博客：http:/ 考试吧商城：http:/ A) we increase the insulation of walls and water pipesB) we choose simpler models of electrical appliancesC) we cut down on the use of refrigerators and other white goodsD) we choose the most efficient models of refigerators and ot
34、her white goods 8. Energy service contractors profit by taking a part of clients _.9. Many environmentalists maintain the view that conservation has much to do with _.10. The strongest incentives for energy conservation will derive from_.Part Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)本题 Section A traditio
35、nally-minded bosses are often unsympathetic to family needs. In Denmark most new fathers only take two weeks of paternity leave（父亲的陪产假）even though they are allowed 34 days. As much as if not more so than women, fathers struggle to be taken seriously when they request flexible arrangements. Though Wi
36、lfried-Fritz Maring, 54, a data-bank and Internet specialist with German firm FIZ Karlsruhe, feels that the time he spends with his daughter outweighs any disadvantages, he admits, “With my decision to work from home I dismissed any opportunity for promotion. ”Mind-sets（思维定势）are changing gradually.
37、When Maring had a daughter, the company equipped him with a home office and allowed him to choose a job that could be performed from there. Danish telecom company TDC initiated an internal campaign last year to encourage dads to take paternity leave: 97 percent now do. “When an employee goes on pate
38、rnity leave and is with his kids, he gets a new kind of training: in how to keep cool under stress,” says spokesperson Christine Elberg Holm. For a new generation of dads, kids may come before the companybut its a shift that benefits both. 47. Unlike women, men often get little support or informatio
39、n from _. 48. Besides supporting the family, men were also expected to _. 49. Like women, men hope that their desire for a flexible schedule will be _. 50. When Maring was on paternity leave, he was allowed by his company to work _. 51. Christine Holm believes paternity leave provides a new kind of
40、training for men in that it can help them cope with_. Section B 本题共计 15 分，每小题 1.5 分。Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D).You should decide on the best ch
41、oice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage OneQuestions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage. Like most people, Ive long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people use to see how smart or
42、 talented I am. Recently, however, was disappointed to see that it also decides how Im treated as a person. Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to people, I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they
43、d never say or do to their most casual acquaintances. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then beckoned (示意) me back with his finger 考试吧(E)-第一个极力推崇人性化服务的专业考试培训网站！提供历年试题，模拟试题，模拟盘，教程，专业课试题下载，考试培训等。每日更新!考试吧论坛：http:/ 考试吧博客：http:/ 考试吧商城：http:/ a minute later, complaining he was ready
44、 to order and asking where Id been. I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon (勤杂工) by plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved inferior treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in coll
45、ege. Customers would joke that one day Id be sitting at their table, waiting to be served. Once I graduated I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world workedcordially. I soon found
46、 out differently. I sat several feet away from an advertising sales representative with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately evident. Perhaps it was because money was involved, but people used
47、a tone with Kristen that they never used with me. My job title made people treat me with courtesy. So it was a shock to return to the restaurant industry. Its no secret that theres a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips.
48、 The service industry, by definition, exists to cater to others needs. Still, it seemed that many of my customers didnt get the difference between server and servant. Im now applying to graduate school, which means someday Ill return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want. I think Ill take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose only job
