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201X年12月英语六级真题答案

篇一：201X年12月 英语 六级真题及答案 201X年12月大学 英语 六级真题及答案 Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Way to Success by commenting on

Abraham Lincoln's famous remark, \tree, and I will spend, the first four

sharpening the axe.\words.

The Way to Success

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

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, 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 passage. Google's Plan for World's Biggest Online Library: Philanthropy Or Act of Piracy?

In recent years, teams of workers dispatched by Google have been working hard to make digital copies of books. So far, Google has scanned more than 10 million titles from libraries in America and Europe - including half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in

【优质文档】201X年12月英语六级真题答案-优秀word范文

Oxford. The exact method it uses is unclear; the company does not allow outsiders to observe the process.

Why is Google undertaking such a venture? Why is it even interested in all those out-of-print library books, most of which have been gathering dust on forgotten shelves for decades? The company claims its motives are essentially public-spirited. Its overall mission, after all, is to \odd if that information did not include books.

The company likes to present itself as having lofty aspirations.

\of society.\puts it: \exist today, we hope to expand the frontiers of human knowledge.\Dan Clancy, the chief architect of Google Books, does seem genuine in his conviction that this is primarily a philanthropic (慈善的) exercise. \what helps improve Google's search engine is good for Google,\says. \电子数据表) outlining the financial benefits of this, and I have never had to justify the amount I am spending to the company's founders.\

It is easy, talking to Clancy and his colleagues, to be swept along by their missionary passion. But Google's book-scanning project is proving controversial. Several opponents have recently emerged,

ranging from rival tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon to small bodies representing authors and publishers across the world. In broad terms, these opponents have leveled two sets of criticisms at Google. First, they have questioned whether the primary responsibility for digitally archiving the world's books should be allowed to fall to a commercial company. In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books, Robert Danton, the head of Harvard University's library, argued that because such books are a common resource – the possession of us all – only public,

not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them. The second related criticism is that Google's scanning of books is actually illegal. This allegation has led to Google

becoming mired in (陷入) a legal battle whose scope and complexity makes the Jaundice and Jaundice case in Charles

【优质文档】201X年12月英语六级真题答案-优秀word范文

Dickens' Bleak House look straightforward.

At its centre, however, is one simple issue: that of copyright. The inconvenient fact about most books, to which Google has arguably paid insufficient attention, is that they are protected by copyright. Copyright laws differ from country to country, but in general

protection extends for the duration of an author's life and for a substantial period afterwards, thus allowing the author's heirs to

benefit. (In Britain and America, this post-death period is 70 years.) This means, of course, that almost all of the books published in the 20th century are still under copyright – and the last century saw more books published than in all previous

centuries combined. Of the roughly 40 million books in US libraries, for example, an estimated 32 million are in copyright. Of these, some 27 million are out of print.

Outside the US, Google has made sure only to scan books that are out of copyright and thus in the \Bodleian's first edition of Middlemarch, which anyone can read for free on Google Books Search).

But, within the US, the company has scanned both in-copyright and out-of-copyright works. In its defense, Google points out that it

displays only small segments of books that are in copyright– arguing that such displays are \electronic copies of these books without first seeking the permission of copyright holders, Google has committed piracy. \of copyright law has always been that works can be copied only once authors have expressly given their permission,\of the Sheila Land literary agency in London. \

this – it has simply copied all these works without bothering task.\In 201X, the Authors Guild of America, together with a group of US publishers, launched a class action suit (集团诉讼) against Google that, after more than two years of negotiation, ended with an

announcement last October that Google and the claimants had reached an out-of-court settlement. The full details are complicated - the text alone runs to 385 pages– and trying to summarize it is no easy task. \says Bluffed, one of the settlement's most vocal British critics. Broadly, the deal provides a mechanism for Google to comp