1212六級2012年12月英語六級真題

1、2012 年 12 月英語六級試卷（第 1 套）Part IWriting(30 minutes)Direction: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Man andComputer by commenting on the saying, The real danger is nott the computerwill bego think like man, butt man will bego think like the computer. Youshould write

2、east 150 words but no moren 200 words.Man and Computer注意：此部分試題在答題卡 1 上Part IIReading Comprehen(Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes)Directions:his part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer thequestions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from thef

3、our choimarked A) , B) , C) and D) . For questions 8-10, complete the sentenwith the information givenhe passage.Thirst grows for living unpluggedMore people are taking breaks from the connected life amid the stillness and quiet of retreatslike the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pennsylvania.About a

4、 year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing agroup of advertising people on Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow. Soon after Iarrived, the chief executive ofncyd invited us took me aside. Wh

5、at he wasmosterested in. he began, was stillness and quiet.A few months later, I read anPhilippe Starck.erview with the well-known cutting-edge designerWhat allowed him to remain so consistently ahead of the curve? I never read anymagazines or watch TV, he said, perhaps with a little exaggeration. N

6、or do I go tococktail parties, dinners or anything liket. He lived outside conventional ideas, heimpd, because I live alone mostly,he middle of nowhere.Around the same time, I noticedt those who part with $2285 a night to stay in acliff-top room at thet Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California, pay partly f

7、or the privilege ofheir rooms; the future of travel, Im reliably told,s in black-holenoving a TVresorts, which charge high priprecisely because you cant get onlineheir rooms.Has it really come to this?The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.ernet rescue cs in S

8、outh Korea and China try to save kids addicted to the screen.Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom softwaret enablesthem to disable the veryernet connectionst seemed so emancipating not long ago.Evenel experimented in 2007 with conferring four unerrupted hours of quiet time(no pho

9、ne or) every Tuesday morning on 300 engineers and managers. Workerswere not allowed to use the phone or sendtheir heads and to hear themselves think., but simply had the chance to clearThe average American spends at least eight and a half hours a day in front of ascreen. Nicholas Carr notes in his b

10、ook The Shallows. The average American teenagersends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl managed to handle aof 10000 every 24 hours for a month.ageSince luxury is a function of scarcity, the children of tomorrow will long for nothingmorenervals of freedom from all the blinking machin

11、es, streamings andscrolling headlinest leave them feeling empty and too full all at once.The urgency of slowing down-to find the time and space to think-is nothing new, ofcourse, and wiser souls have always reminded ust the more attentionay to themoment, the less time and energy we have to place it

12、in some larger context. Distraction is the only thing t consoles us for our miseries. the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. He also famously remarked t all of mans problems come from his inability to sit quietly in aroom al

13、one.Whenimportantegraphs and trains brought in the ideat convenience was moren content, Henry David Thoreau reminded ust. the man whose horsetrots（奔跑）ain a minute does not carry the most important messages.Marshall McLuhan, who came closern most to seeing what was coming, warned.When things come at

14、you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourselfWe have more and more ways to communicate, but less and less to say. Partlybecause we are so busy communicating. And we are rushing to meet so many deadlinest we hardly registert what we need most are lifelines.So what to do? More and more people

15、I know seem to be turning to yoga, ormediion（沉思）,or tai chi（太極）; these arent New Age fads（時(shí)尚的事物）so much as ways to connect with what could be called the wisdom of old age. Two friends of mineobserve an ernet sabbath（安息日）everyk, turning off their online connectionsfrom Friday night to Monday morning.

16、 Other friends take walks and fs at home.et theirA series of tests in recent years has shown. Mr. Carr pos out,t after spendingtime in quiet rural settings, subjects exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory andgenerally improved cognition. Their brainse both calmer and sharper. Morent, empathy

17、（同感，共鳴）,as well as deep thought. depends (as neuroscientists likeAntonio Damasio have found) on neural prosest are inherently slow.I turn to eccentric measures to try to keep my mind sober and ensuret I havetime to do nothing at all (which is the only time when I can see what I should bethe rest of

18、the time).ngI have yet to use aand I have never Tted or entered. I try notto go online till my days writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japanin part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot.None of this is a matter of asceticism（苦行主義）; it is just pure s

19、elfishness. Nothingmakes me feel bettern being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, orn mere happiness: it is joy, which the monk（僧music. It iually something deeper侶）David Steindhappens.t describes as t kind of happinesst doesnt depend on whatIt is vital, of course, to stayouch with the

20、 world. But it is only by having somedistance from the worldng with it.t you can see it whole, and understand what you should beFor moren 20 years, therefore, I have been going several times a year-often for nolongern three days-to a Benedictine hermitage（修道院）,40 minutes down the road, asippens, fro

21、m thet Ranch Inn. I dontend serviwhen I am there, and I havenever medied, there or anywhere; I just take walks and read and lose myself in thestillness, recallingt it is only by stepbriefly away from my wife andses andfriendst I will have anything useful to bring to them. The last time I was in theh

22、ermitage, three months ago. I happened to meet wi3-year-old boy around his shoulders.youngish-looking man wiYourco, arent you? the man said, androduced himself as Larry; we had met,I gathered, 19 years before, when he had been livingone of the monks.he hermitage as an assistant toWhat are young now?

23、 I asked.We sd. No words were nesary.I try to bring my kids here as often as I can, he went on. The child of tomorrow, I realized, may actually be ahead of us,erms of sensing not what is new, but what isessential.注意：此部分試題請?jiān)诖痤}卡 1 上作答。1.What is spel about thet Ranch Inn?A) Its rooms are well furnished

24、 but dimly lit.B) It makes guests feel like fallingo a black hole.in its rooms.C) There is no acs toeviD) It provides all the luxuries its guests can think of.What does the author say the children of tomorrow will need most?Convenience and comfort in everyday life.Time away from all electronic gadge

25、ts.2.C) More activities to fillheir leisure time.D) Greater chanfor individual development.3.What does the French philosopher Blaise Pascal say about distraction?It leads us to lots of mistakes.It renders us unable to concentrate.C) It helps release our exs energy.D) It is our greatest misery in lif

26、e.4.According to Marshall McLuhan, what will happen if things come at us very fast?We will not know what to do with our own lives.We will be busy receiving and sending messages.We will find it difficult to meet our deadlines.We will not notice what is going on around us.5.What does the author say ab

27、out yoga, mediion and tai chi?They help people understand ancient wisdom.They contribute to physical and mental health.They are ways to communicate with nature.D) They keep people from various distractions. What is neuroscientist Antonio Damasios finding?A) Quiet rural settings contribute a lot to l

28、ong life.6.B) Ones braines sharp when it iivated.C) Eccentric measures are needed to keep ones mind sober.D) When people think deeply, their neural proses are slow.7.The author moved from Manhattan to rural Japan partly because he could_.stay away from the noise of the big citylive without modern tr

29、ansporionenjoy the beautiful view of the countrysidepractice asceticism in a local hermitageIn order to see the world whole, the author thinks it nesary to .8.9.The author takes walks and reads and loses himselfhe stillness of the hermitagesot he can bring his wife andses and friends .10.The youngis

30、h-looking man takes his little boy to the hermitage frequently sowhen he grows up he will know .tPart IIIListening Comprehen(35 minutes)Section ADirections：his section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked

31、about what was waid. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choimarked A),B),C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 wisingle lin

32、e through the center.注意：此部分試題請?jiān)诖痤}卡 2 上作答。11. A) She can count on the man for help.B) She has othlans for thiskend.C) She can lend the man a sleng bag.D) She has got cing gear for rent.12. A) The man should keep his words.B) She regrets asking the man for help.C) Karen alwaypports her at work.D) Kare

33、n can take her to the airport13.He cant afford to go traveling yet.His trip to Hawaii was not enjoyable.He usually checks his brakes before a tripHis trip to Hawaii has used up all his money.14.A) There was nothing left except some.The man has to find something else to eat.The woman is going to prep

34、are the dinner.D) Juhas been invited for dinner.15.A) Submit no moren three letters.Present a new letter of reference.Apply to three graduate schools.D) Send Professor SmiA) He declines to joletter.he gardening club.16.B) He is a profesal gardenerown.He prefers to keep his gardening skills to himsel

35、f.He wishes to receive formal training in gardening.17.A) Sculpture is noypical form of modern art.Modern art cannot express peoples true feelings.The recent sculpture exhibit was not wellanized.D) Many people do not apprete modern art.18.A) Bob does nove much chance to win.She will vote for another

36、 candidate.Bob cannot count on her vote.D) She knows the rightfor theitionQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19.Poor management of the hospital.The health hazard at her work place.C) Decis made by the head technin.D) The outdated medical testing procedures.Transfer

37、her to another department.Repair the X-ray equipment.Cut down her workload.Allow her to go on leave for two months.20.21 .A) They are virtually imsible to enforce.Neither is applicable to the womans case.Both of them have been subject to criticism.Their requirements may be difficult to meet.22. A)an

38、ize a mass strike.Compensate for her loss.Try to help her get it back.D) Find her a bettaying job.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23.A) In giving cons.C) In sing your terms.B)he concluding part.D)he preparatory phase.24.A) He behaves in a way contrary to his real

39、ention.B) He presents his arguments in a straightforward way.C) He responds readily to the othartys proals.s clear.D) He uses lots of gestures to help make his po25.A) Both may fail when confronting experienced rivals.B) The honest type is more effectiven the actor type.C) Both can succeed depending

40、 on the specific situation.D) The actor type works betterough negotiations.Section BDirections：his section, you will hear 3 short passages. Atof each passage, you willhear some question. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only onece. After you hear a question, you must choose the best

41、 answer from the four choimarked A),B),C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2wisingle line through the centre.注意：此部分試題請?jiān)诖痤}卡 2 上作答。Passage OneQuestions 26 to 29 are based on the conversation you have just heard.26. A) The shof the cubes used.The size of the objects shown.The

42、number of times of repeating the pros.D) The weight of the boxes moving across the stage.27. A) Boys enjoy playing with cubes moren girls.Girls tend to get excited more easilyGirls seem to start reasoning earrn boys.n boys.D) Boys pay more attention to moving objectsn girls.28.A) It is a breakthroug

43、hhe study of the nerve system.It may stimulate scientists to make further studies.Its result helps understand babies language ability.Its findings are quite contrary to previous research.The two sides of their brain develop simultaneously.They are better able to adapt to the surroundings.Their bones

44、 mature earr.They talk at an earr age.29.Passage TwoQuestions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.30.A) The new security plan for the municipal building.B) The blueprfor the development of the city.The controversy over the new office regulations.The citys general budget for the com

45、ing year.31 .A) Whether the security checks were really nesary.B) How to cope with the huge crowds of visitors to the municipal buildingC) Whether the security checks would creaong queues at peak hours.D) How to traA) Irrelevant.he newly recruited security guards.32.B) Straightforward.C) Ridiculous.

46、D)al.Passage ThreeQuestions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.A) He used to work as a miner in Nevada.He works hard to support his five kids.He considers himself a blessed man.D) He once taugha local high school34 . A) To be nearer to Zacs school.To look after her grandchildren.T

47、o cut their living expenses.D) To help with the household chores.35. A) Skeptical.B) Optimistic.C) Indifferent.D) Realistic.Section CDirections：his section, you will hearsage three times. When the passage is read for thetime, you should listen carfully for its general idea. When the passage is readf

48、or the second time, you are required to fillhe bls numbered from 36 to 43with the exact words you have just heard. For bls numbered from 44 to 46 youare requied to fillhe missing information. For these bls, you can either usethe exact words you have just heard or write down the main pos in your ownw

49、ords. Finally ,when the passage is read for the third time, you should check whatyou have written.注意：此部分試題請?jiān)诖痤}卡 2 上作答。Mountain climbing ising popular sport, but it is also a (36) dangerousone. People can fall; they may alsoe ill. One of the most common dangers toclimbers is altitude sickness, which

50、can affect even very (37) climbers.Altitude sicknesually begins when a climber goes above 8000 or 9000 feet. Thehigher one climbs, the less oxygen there is in the air. When people dont get enoughoxygen, they often begin to (38) for air. They may also feel (39) andlight-headed. Besides these symptoms

51、 of altitude sickness, otherch as headache and(40) may also occur. At heights of over 18000 feet, people may be climbing in a(41) daze（judgment.）. This se of mind can have an (42) effect on theirA few (43) can help most climbers avoid altitude sickness. Theis not togo too high too fast. If you climb

52、 to 10000 feet, stay att height for a day or two. (44). Or if you do climb higher sooner, come back down to a lower height when you sleep. Also, drink plenty of liquids and avoid tobacco and alcohol. (45) . You breathe less when you sleep, so youget less oxygen.The most important warning is this: if

53、 you have severe symptoms and they dont goaway, go down! (46) .Part IVReading Comprehen(Reading in Depth)(25 minutes)Section ADirections:his section, there is a short passage with 5 questions orplete sements.Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete sementshefewestsible words

54、. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.A key pros inersonaleraction ist of sol comparison, int wewoevaluate ourselvestypes of comparison.erms of how we compare to others. In particular,ngage, we decide whether we are superior or inferior t

55、o others oncertain dimens, such as attractiveness,elligence, popularity, etc. Here, theimportant aspect is to compare with an appropriate reference group. For exle,modest joggers should not compare their performance with Olympic standard marathon（）runners. Second, we judge the extent to which we are

56、 the same as or differentfrom others. At certain stages of life, espelly adolescence, the prere to be seen assimilar to peers is immense. Thus, wearing the right brand of clothes or shoes may be ofthe utmost importance. We also need to know whether our thoughts, befs and ideasare in line with those

57、of other people. This is part of the pros of self-validationwherebymploy self-disclosures to seek support for our self-concept.People who do not have acs to a good listener may not only be denied theopportunity to heighten their self-awareness, but they are also denied valuable feedbackas to the val

58、idity and acceptability of their inner thoughts and feelings. By discussingthese with others, we receive feedback as to whether these are experienwhich othershave as well, or whether they are less common. Furthermore, by gauging the reactions toour self-disclosures we learn what types are acceptable

59、 or unacceptable with particularpeople and in specific situations. On occas it is the feart certain disclosures maybe unacceptable to family or friendst motivates an individual to seek profesalhelp. Counsellors will be familiar with cnt sements such as: I just couldnt talkabout this to my husband. ,

60、 I really cant let my mother know my true feelings.Another aspect of sol comparison in the counseling context relates to a techniqueknown as normalizing. This is the pros whereby helpers provide rearance tocntst what they are experiencing is not abnormal or atypical（型的）, but is anormal reaction shar