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大学英语6级考试预测试题5 Part Ⅰ Writing Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On the Adaptation of the Classics. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. 1．近来，许多经典名著被改写成各种版本以供大众娱乐 2．这种现象产生的原因 3．我的看法 On the Adaptation of the Classics __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) Trust Me, Im a Robot With robots now emerging from their industrial cages and moving into homes and workplaces, roboticists are concerned about the safety implications beyond the factory floor. To address these concerns, leading robot experts have come together to try to find ways to prevent robots from harming people. Inspired by the Pugwash Conferences—an international group of scientists, academies and activists founded in 1957 to campaign for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons the new group of robo-ethicists met earlier this year in Genoa, Italy, and announced their initial findings in March at the European Robotics Symposium in Palermo, Sicily. Security and safety are the big concerns, says Henrik Christensen, chairman of the European Robotics Network at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Should robots that are strong enough or heavy enough to crush people be allowed into homes? Is system malfunction a justifiable defence for a robotic fighter plane that contravenes (违反) the Geneva Convention and mistakenly fires on innocent civilians? These questions may seem hard to understand but in the next few years they will become increasingly relevant, says Dr. Christensen. According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europes World Robotics Survey, in 2002 the number of domestic and s