2022-2023年福建省泉州市大学英语6级大学英语六级真题(含答案)学校:_ 班级:_ 姓名:_ 考号:_一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1.Cell phone: your next computerOne hundred nineteen hours, 41 minutes and 16 seconds. Thats the amount of time Adam Rappoport, a high school senior in Philadelphia, has spent talking 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, 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 gadgets20 percent 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 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 lahdscape. The slower upheavals(巨变) 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 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 sophisticated 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 year. Change it into another same question, though, to ask to 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 luxuriously 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 the chief technology officer of PalmOne. The mobile phone will become their digital life.Smart cell phonesPalmOne 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 tiny 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 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 axe also smart- phones on the way with video cameras, GPS antennas and access to local Wi-Fi hotspots, the snperfast wireless networks often found in offices, airpA.Y B.N C.NG2.David Jablonski and his colleagues divided the Earths surface into two: _ and the extratropics.3.The Science of Lasting HappinessThe day I meet Sonja Lyubomirsky, she keeps getting calls from her Toyota Prius dealer. When she finally picks up, she is excited by the news: she can buy the car she wants in two days. Lyubomirsky wonders if her enthusiasm might come across as materialism, but I understand that she is buying an experience as much as a possession. Two weeks later, in late January, the 40-year-old Lyubomirsky, who smiles often and seems to approach life with zest and good humor, reports that she is totally loving the Prius. But will the feeling wear off soon after the new-car smell, or will it last, making a naturally happy person even more so?The Possibility of Lasting HappinessAn experimental psychologist investigating the possibility of lasting happiness, Lyubomirsky understands far better than