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2012年12月大学英语六级考试全真预测试卷1
Part I Writing （30 minutes）
Directions： For this part， you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese：
给你的外国朋友写一封信，告诉他（她）你已经被美国的一所大学录取，但你苦恼的是自己的听力和口语水平不够，你想寻求他（她）对于如何提高听力和口语的建议。
Part II Reading Comprehension （skimming and Scanning） （15 minutes）
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， mark
Y （for YES） if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage；
N （for NO） if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage；
NG （for NOT GIVEN） if the information is not given in the passage.
For questions 8-10， complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
Robot Cars to Do Battle in Desert Race
When 15 competitors lined up in Nevada last year for the U.S. Defense Department's first million-dollar robot race， hopes were high. The challenge： to drive a vehicle without a human driver or remote control some 150 miles （241 kilometers） through the Mojave Desert.
But those hopes quickly went up in a cloud of dust as most robots barely managed to get off the starting line. The best performer， a modified Humvee built by engineers at Pennsylvania's Carnegie Mellon University， traveled 7 miles （11 kilometers） before breaking down.
To robot devotees（热爱者）， however， it was a minor hiccup.
No surprise， then， that 43 teams showed up to try out for this year's race， dubbed（被称作） the Grand Challenge. For the past week， teams ranging from garage enthusiasts to well-funded university engineers have been fine-tuning their machines at qualifying rounds here at the California Speedway in Fontana， California. （Watch the robots in action in our exclusive video.）
Twenty-three finalists were announced Thursday for Saturday's Grand Challenge. The 175-mile （282-kilometer） course starts and finishes in Primm， Nevada.
The race promises to be even tougher than last year's run. But 18 months is an eternity in the robotics world， and the technology has vastly improved.
Organizers believe several teams have a real shot of finishing the race in less than ten hours to earn the grand prize of two million U.S. dollars.
"When the first team out of the chute（斜道）—Mojavaton， a small team out of Colorado—made it successfully around the 2.2-mile （3.5-kilometer） qualification course， I knew right there and then that we had something special，" said Ron Kurjanowicz， the chief of staff for the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency （DARPA）， which is sponsoring the race.