六级考试真题答案原文

1、Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Man and Computer by commenting on the saying, “The real danger is not t the computer will beg o think like man, but t man will begin to think like the computer.” You should write at least 150 wo

2、rds but no moren 200 words.Man and ComputerPart II Reading Comprehen （Skimming and Scanning） （15 minutes）Directions: his 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 choi marked A), B

3、), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the senten with the information given he passage.Thirst grows for living unpluggedMore people are taking breaks from the connected life amid the stillness and quiet of retreats like the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pennsylvania.About a year ago, I flew to

4、 Singapore to jo he writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.” Soon after I arrived, the chief executive ofncyd invited us took me aside. What he was most eres

5、ted in, he began, was stillness and quiet.A few months later, I read an erview with the well-known cutting-edge design hilippe Starck.What allowed him to remain so consistently ahead of the curve? “I never read any magazines or watch TV,” he said, perhaps wilittle exaggeration. “Norgo to cocktail pa

6、rties, dinners or anything like t.” He lived outside conventional ideas, he impd, because “I live alone mostly, in the middle ofnowhere.”Around the same time, I noticedt those who part with $2,285 a night to stay in a cliff-top room at the t Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California, pay partly for the privi

7、lege of noving a TVheir rooms; the future of travel, Im reliably told,s in “black-hole resorts,” which charge high priprecisely becauseyou 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 South Kor

8、ea and China try to save kids addicted to the screen.Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom software t enables them to disable the very ernet connectionst seemed so emancipating not long ago. Evenel experimented in 2007 with conferring four unerrupted hours of quiet time (no phone

9、or) every Tuesday morning on 300 engineers and managers. Workers were not allowed to use the phone or send, but simply had thechance to clear their heads and to hear themselves think.2012 年 12 月英语六级及详解The average American spendseast eight and a half hours a day in front of a screen, Nicholas Carr no

10、tesin his book The Shallows. The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day,though one girl managed to handle aage of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.Since luxury is a function of scarcity, the children of tomorrow will long for nothing morenervalsof freedom from all the bl

11、inking machines, streamingfeeling empty and too full all at once.s and scrolling headlinest leave themThe urgency of slowing downto find the time and space to thinkis nothing new, of course, and wisersouls have always reminded ust the more attentionay to the moment, the less time and energy wehave t

12、o place it 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 quie

13、tly in aroom alone.Whenegraphs and trains broughthe ideat convenience was more importantn content, HenryDavid Thoreau reminded usmost important messages.”t “the man whose horse trots (奔跑), ain a minute does not carry theMarshall McLuhan, who came closern most to seeing what was coming, warned, “When

14、 things comeat you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.”We have more and more ways to communicate, but less and less to say. Partly because we are so busycommunicating. And we are rushing to meet so many deadlinesmost are lifelines.t we hardly registert what we needSo what to do? More

15、and more people I know seem to be turning to yoga, or mediion (沉思), or taichi (太极)；these arent New Age fads (时尚的事物) so much as ways to connect with what could becalled the wisdom of old age. Two friends of mine observe an “ernet sabbath (安息日)” everyk,turning off their online connections from Friday

16、night to Monday morning. Other friends take walks and“fet” theirs at home.A series of tests in recent years has shown, Mr. Carr pos out,t after spending time in quiet ruralsettings, subjects “exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally improved cognition. Theirbrainse both calmer an

17、d sharper.” Morent, empathy (同感，共鸣)，as well as deep thought,depends (as neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio have found) on neural proslow.”sest are “inherentlyI turn to eccentric measures to try to keep my mind sober and ensuret I have time toothing at all(which is the only time when I can see what

18、 I should beng the rest of the time). I have yet to use aand I have never Tted or entered. I try not to go online till my days writing isfinished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot.None of this is a matter of ascetici

19、sm (苦行主义)；it is just pure selfishness. Nothing makes me feel bettern being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, or music. It iually something deepernmere happiness: it is joy, which the monk (僧侣) David Steindt describes as “t kind of happinesst doesnt depenwhappens.”ouch with the world.

20、 But it is only by having some distance from the worldIt is vital, of course, to stayt you can see it whole, and understand what you should beng with it.For moredaysto an 20 years, therefore, I have been going several times a yearoften for no longern threeBenedictine hermitage (修道院)，40 minutes down

21、the road, as it happens, from thetRanch Inn. Itend serviwhen I am there, and I have never medied, there or anywhere; I justtake walks and read and lose myselfhe stillness, recallingt it is only by stepbriefly away frommy wife andses and friendst I will have anything useful to bring to them. The last

22、 time I washehermitage, three months ago, I happened to meet with a youngish-looking man with a 3-year-old boyaround his shoulders.“Youre Pico, arent you?” the man said, androduced himself as Larry; we had met, I gathered, 19years before, when he had been livinghe hermitage as an assistant to one of

23、 the monks.“What are young now?” 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 actuallybe ahead of us,erms of sensing not what is new, but what is essential.1. What is spel about thet Ranch Inn?A) Its rooms are

24、 well furnished 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.2. What does the author say the children of tomorrow will need most?Convenience and comfort in everyday life.Time away from al

25、l electronic gadgets.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 great

26、est misery in life.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 doe

27、s the author say about 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.They keep people from various distractions.6. What is neuroscientist Antonio Damasios finding?A) Quiet rural settings con

28、tribute a lot to long life.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 city.live

29、 without modern transporion.enjoy the beautiful view of the countryside.practice asceticism in a local hermitage8. In order to see the world whole, the author thinks it nesary to .9. The author takes walks and reads and loses himselfhe stillness of the hermitage sot he can bringhis wife andses and f

30、riends .10. The youngish-looking man takes his littwill know .oy to the hermitage frequently sot when he grows up hePart III Section ADirections:Listening Comprehen（35 minutes）his section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. Atofeach conversation, one or more questions will

31、 be asked about what was said. Both the conversation andthe questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, youmust read the four choimarked A）, B）, C）and D）, and decide which is the best answer. Then markthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 wi1

32、1. A) Ask hiss for a lighter schedule.single line through the centre.B) Trade plawith someone else.Accept the extra work willingly.Look for a more suitable job.12. A) It is unusual for his wife to be at home now.He is uncertain where his wife is at the moment.It is strange for his wife to call him a

33、t work.He does not beve what the woman has told him.13. A) The man is going to send out the memo tomorrow.B) The man will drive the woman to the sion.C) The speakers are traveling by traomorrow morning.D) The woman is concerned with the mans health.14. A) The suite booked was for a different date.Th

34、e room booked was on a different floor.The room booked was not spacious enough.A suite was booked instead of a double room.15. A) The reason for low profits.The companys sales policy.The fierce competition they face.The lack of effective promotion.16. A) Go and get the groceries at once.B) Manage wi

35、th what they have.C) Do some shopon their way home.D) Have the groceries delivered to them.17. A) The hot weather in summer.The problem with the air conditioner.The ridiculous rules of the office.D) The atmospherehe office.18. A) Set a new stone in her ring.Find the priceless jewel she lost.Buy a ri

36、ng with precious diamond.Shop on Oxford Street for a decent gift.Questions 19 to 22 are base19. A) Damaging public facilities.B) Destroying urban wildlife.the conversation you have just heard.C)anising ralshe park.D) Hurting baby animalshe zoo.20. A) He had bribed the park keepers to keep quiet.B) P

37、eople had differing opinions about his behaviour.C) The serious consequenof hisngs were not fully realised.D) His behaviour was thought to have resulted from mental illness.21. A) Brutal.Justifiable.Too harsh.Well-deserved.22. A) Encouraging others to follow his wrong-ng.B) Stealing endangered anima

38、ls from the zoo.C)anising people against the authorities.D) Attacking the park keepers in broad daylight.Questions 23 to 25 are basethe conversation you have just heard.23. A) She has already left school.She works for the handicapped.She is fond of practical courses.She is good at foreign languages.

39、24. A) He iserested in science courses.He attends a boarding school.He speaks French and German.He is the brightest of her three kids.25. A) Comprehensive schoolsot offer quality education.B) Parents decide what schools their children are to attend.C) Public schools are usually bigger in sizen priva

40、te schools.D) Children from lowSection Be famis cant really choose schools.Directions:his section, you will hear 3 short passages. Atof each passage, you will hear somequestions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, youmust choose the best answer fr

41、om the four choimarked A), B), C)andD).Thenmarkthecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 wiPassage Onesingle line through the centre.Questions 26 to 29 are basethe passage you have just heard.26. A) Encourage the students to do creative thinking.Help the students to develop communication skills.Cult

42、ivate the students ability to inspire employees.Focus on teaching the various functions of business.27. A) His teaching career at the Harvard Business School.B) Hisal involvement in business management.His presidency at college and experience overseas.His education and professorship at Babson Colleg

43、e.28. A) Development of their raw brainer.B) Exure to the liberal arts and humanities.Improvement of their ability in capital management.Knowledge of up-to-date information technology.29. A) Reports on business andernment corruption.B) His contact withernment and business circles.Discoveries of chea

44、ting among MBA students.The increasing influence of the mass media.Passage TwoQuestions 30 to 32 are basethe passage you have just heard.30. A) They have better options for their kidsn colleges.B) The unreasonably high tuition istheir means.C) The quality of higher education may not be worth the tui

45、tion.D) They thinkt their kids should pay for their own education.31. A) They do too many extracurricular activities.They tend to select less demanding courses.They take part-time jobs to support themselves.They think few of the courses worth studying.32. A) Its sles are not represenive enough.B) It

46、s significanhould not be underestimated.Its findings come as a surprise to many parents.Its criteria for academic progress are questionable.Passage ThreeQuestions 33 to 35 are basethe passage you have just heard.33. A) A newly married couple.A business acquaance.Someone good at cooking.Someone you b

47、arely know.34. A) Obtain nesary information about your guests.Collect a couple of unusual or exotic recipes.Buy the best meat and the freshest fruit.Try to improve your cooking skills.35. A) Losing weight.Entertaining guests.Making friends.Cooking meals.Section CDirections:his section, you will hear

48、sage three times. When the passage is read for thetime,you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you arerequired to fillhe bls numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blsnumbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill

49、he missing information. For these bls, you caneither use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main pos in your own words. Finally,when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.People with disabilities comprise a large but diverse segment of the

50、population. It is (36) t over35 million Americans have physical, mental, or other disabilities. (37) half of these disabilities are“developmental,” i.e., they occur prior to the individuals twenty-second birthday, often from (38) conditions, and are severe enough to affect three or more areas of dev

51、elopment, such as (39) ,communication and employment. Most other disabilities are considered (40) , i.e., caused byoutside for.Before the 20th century, only a small (41) of people with disabilitiervived for long. Medicaltreatment for such conditions as stroke or spinal cord (42) was unavailable. Peo

52、ple whosedisabilities should not have inherently affected their life span were often so mistreatedt they (43). Advancements in medicine and sol servihave created aclimate in which t is available. Civilve historically been(44) . Unfortunay, these basics are often alllibertiedeniech as the right to vo

53、te, marry, get an education, and gain employmenthe basis of disability.(45) . Disabled people formed grassroots coalitions to advocate their rights toegration and meaningful equality ofopportunity. (46) . In the mid-1970s, critical legislation mandated（规定）acs to education, public transporion, and pu

54、blic facilities, and prohibited employment discriminationby federal agencies or employers receiving federal funds.Part Section ADirections:Reading Comprehen（Reading in Depth） （25 minutes）his section, there is a short passage with 5 questions orplete sements. Read thepassage carefully. Then answer th

55、e questions or complete the sements in the fewest Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 54 are basethe following passage.sible words.A key pros inersonaleraction ist of sol comparison,hatvaluate ourselves interms of how we compare to others. In particular,ngagewo types of compa

56、rison., we decidewhether we are superior or inferior to others on certain dimens, such as attractiveness,elligence,popularity, etc. Here, the important aspect is to compare win appropriate reference group. For exle,modest joggers should not compare their performance with Olympic standard marathon ()

57、 runners.Second, we judge the extent to which we are the same as or different from others. At certain stages of life,espelly adolescence, the prere to be seen as similar to peers is immense. Thus, wearing the rightbrand of clothes or shoes may be of the utmost importance. We also need to know whethe

58、r our thoughts,befs and ideas are in line with those of other people. This is part of the prowherebymploy self-disclosures to seek support for our self-concept.s of self-validationPeople whoove acs to a good listener may not only be denied the opportunity to heighten their self-awareness, but they a

59、re also denied valuable feedback as to the validity and acceptability of theirinner thoughts and feelings. By discussing these with others, we receive feedback as to whether these areexperienwhich others have as well, or whether they are less common. Furthermore, by gauging thereactions to our self-

60、disclosures we learn what types are acceptable or unacceptable with particular peopleand in specific situations. On occas it is the feart certain disclosures may be unacceptable to familyor friendst motivates an individual to seek profesal help. Counsellors will be familiar with cntsementch as: “I j