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Part Ⅳ
Short Answer Questions (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part there is a short
passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage
carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the fewest possible words (not
exceeding 10 words).
The communications explosion is on the
scale of the rail, automobile or telephone revolution. Very soon you'll be able
to record your entire life electronically-anything a microphone or a camera can
sense you'll be able to store. In particular, the number of images a person
captures in a lifetime is set to rise exponentially. The thousand images a year
I take of my children on a digital camera are all precious to me. In a
generation's time, my children's children will have total image documentation of
their entire lives - a visual log of tremendous personal value. By then we'll be wrestling with another
question: how we control all the electronic devices connected to the Internet:
trillions of PCs, laptops, palm pilots, cell phones and other gadgets. In
Cambridge, we're already working on millimeter-square computing and sensing
devices that can be linked to the Internet through the radio network. This sort
of connectivity will expand dramatically as microscopic communications devices
become dirt-cheap and multiple. Just imagine what the paint on the wall could
do if it had this sort of communications dust in it: change colour, play music,
show movies or even speak to you.
Falling costs raise other possibilities
too. Because launching space vehicles is about to become very much cheaper, the
number of satellites is likely to go up exponentially. There's lots of space up
there so we could have millions of them. And if you have millions of low-orbit
satellites you can establish a global communications network that completely
does away with towers and masts. If the satellites worked on the cellular
principle so you got spatial reuse of frequencies, system capacity would be amazing.
71.How do you characterize the future
development of communications?
72.What does the word "images"
most probably refer to?
73.What's the tone of this passage?
74.What will be the price of communications
devices like?
75.What will happen to the current towers
and masts of future global communications network?
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed
thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic:"What Do You Think of
Challenge?".
You should write at least 150 words and you
should base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
1.挑战的意义
2.如何迎接挑战
3.我的看法
答案
听力原文
Section A
1.M:I have this camera here that I bought
about 12 months ago. But it suddenly doesn't work.
W:Let me have a look at your sales slip, I
am sorry, sir. Your warranty's expired.
Q:What does the woman mean?
2.W:Jack,it doesn't look like you've
vacuumed the living room or cleaned the bathroom.M:No,I haven't.Ugh.I had the worst day.I am so tired.
Q:What can we learn from the conversation?
3.W:Come along, now. Open your mouth. I
can't give you the injection with your mouth closed, can I?
M:I I I don't want an injection. I hate
needles.
Q:Where is the conversation most probably
taking place?
4.W:I heard you were the only one who has
got an A on the physics test?
M:No. Quite a few of my classmates have. I
don't think the test is difficult.Q:What does the man imply?
5.W: Have you finished the assignment given
by Professor Smith? I don't think you have much difficulty doing that experiment?
M: No, but I didn't expect it would take me
most of the day.
Q: What does the man mean?
6.W: Could you give this note to Alice?
M: Give this to Alice? What do you think I
am? A messenger?
Q: What does the man imply?
7.M: Hey, there will be a program on
Channel 4 at eight you might like. It's about cat.
W: I haven't heard about it. But you are
right, I am interested in it.
Q: What will the woman probably do?
8.W: So you need someone to watch your dogs
while you are away?
M: Will that be a problem for you?
Q: What does the man want to know?
9.M: I am sorry I forgot to return your
history book last night.
W: It doesn't matter because the test isn't
until the coming Monday.
Q: What does the woman imply?
10.M: I spent so much time polishing my
letter application.
W: It's worthwhile to make the effort. You
know just how important it is to give impression.
Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
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