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12月大学英语六级考试真题
COLLEGE ENGLISH TEST
— Band Six —
注意事项
一、 将自己的校名、 姓名和准考证号写在答题卡 1和答题卡 2上。
二、 试题册、 答题卡 1和答题卡 2均不得带出考场。考试结束, 监考员收卷后考生才可离开。
三、 仔细读懂题目的说明。
四、 在 30分钟内做完答题卡 1上的作文题。30分钟后, 考生按指令启封试题册, 在接着的
15分钟内完成快速阅读理解部分的试题。然后监考员收取答题卡 1, 考生在答题卡 2上
完成其余部分的试题全部答题时间为 125分钟, 不得拖延时间。
五、 考生必须在答题卡上作答, 凡是写在试题册上的答案一律无效。
六、 多项选择题每题只能选一个答案; 如多选, 则该题无分。选定答案后, 用 HB–2B浓度
的铅笔在相应字母的中部划一条横线。
正确方法是: [A] [[BB]] [C] [D]
使用其它符号答题者不给分。划线要有一定粗度, 浓度要盖过字母底色。
七、 如果要改动答案, 必须先用橡皮擦净原来选定的答案, 然后再按规定重新答题。
八、 在考试过程中要注意自己的答案保密。若被她人抄袭, 一经发现, 后果自负。

Part I
Writing
(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 that the computer will begin to
think like man, but that man will begin to think like the computer.” You should write at least 150
words but no more than 200 words.
Man and Computer
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 question 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.
Thirst grows for living unplugged
More 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 Singapore to join the 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 of the agency that had invited us took me aside. What he was most interested in, he
began, was stillness and quiet.
A few months later, I read an interview with the well-known cutting-edge designer Philippe
Starck.
What allowed him to remain so consistently ahead of the curve? ”I never read any magazines
or watch TV,” he said, perhaps with a little exaggeration. ”Nor do I go to cocktail parties, dinners
or anything like that.” He lived outside conventional ideas, he implied, because ”I live alone
mostly, in the middle of nowhere.”
Around the same time, I notice that those who part with $2,285 a night to stay in a cliff-top
room at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California, pay partly for the privilege of not having a TV
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in their rooms; the future of travel, I’m reliably told, lies in ”black-hole resorts,” which charge
high prices precisely because you can’t get online in their rooms.
Has it really come to this?
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Internet
rescue camps in South Korea and China try to save kids addicted to the screen.
Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom software that enables them to
disable the very Internet connections that seemed so emancipating not long ago. Even Intel
experimented in with conferring four uninterrupted hours of quiet time (no phone or e-mail)
every Tuesday morning on 300 engineers and managers. Workers were not allowed to use the
phone or send e-mail, but simply had the chance to clear their heads and to hear themselves think.
The average American spends at least eight and a half hours a day in front of a screen,
Nicholas Carr notes in his book The Shallows. The average American teenager sends or receives
75 text messages a day, though one girl managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours
for a month.
Since luxury is a function of scarcity, the children of tomorrow will long for nothing more
than intervals of freedom from all the blinking machines, streaming videos and scrolling headlines
that 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, of

course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment,
the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. ”Distraction is the only thing
that 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 that all of man’s
problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
When telegraphs and trains brought in the idea that convenience was more important than
content, Henry David Thoreau reminded us that ”the man whose horse trots (赛跑) a mile in a
minute does not carry the most important messages.”
Marshall McLuhan, who came closer than most to seeing what was coming, warned, ”When
things come at 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 busy communicating. And we are rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register
that what we need most are lifelines.
So what to do? More and more people I know seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation (沉
思), or tai chi (太极); these aren’t New Age fads (时尚的事物) so much as ways to connect with
what could be called the wisdom of old age. Two friends of mine observe an ”Internet sabbath (安
息日)” every week, turning off their online connections from Friday night to Monday morning.
Other friends take walks and ”forget” their cellphones at home.
A series of tests in recent years has shown, Mr. Carr points out, that after spending time in
quiet rural settings, subjects ”exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally
improved cognition. Their brains become both calmer and sharper.” More than that, empathy (同
感, 共鸣), as well as deep thought, depends (as neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio have found)
on neural processes that are ”inherently slow.”
I turn to eccentric measures to try to keep my mind sober and ensure that I have time to do
nothing at all (which is the only time when I can see what I should be doing the rest of the time).
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I have yet to use a cellphone and I have never Tweeted or entered Fackbook. I try not to go
online till my day’s writing is finished, 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 asceticism (苦行主义); it is just pure selfishness. Nothing makes
me feel better than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, or music. It is actually
something deeper than mere happiness: it is joy, which the monk (僧侣) David Steindl-Rast
describes as ”that kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.”
It is vital, of course, to stay in touch with the world. But it is only by having some distance
from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.
For more than 20 years, therefore, I have been going several times a year — often for no
longer than three days — to a Benedictine hermitage (修道院), 40 minutes down the road, as it
happens, from the Post Ranch Inn. I don’t attend services when I am there, and I have never
meditated, there or anywhere; I just take walks and read and lose myself in the stillness, recalling
that it is only by stepping briefly away from my wife and bosses and friends that I will have
anything useful to bring to them. The last time I was in the hermitage, three months ago, I
happened to meet with a youngish-looking man with a 3-year-old boy around his shoulders.
”You’re Pico, aren’t you?” the man said, and introduced himself as Larry; we had met, I
gathered, 19 years before, when he had been living in the hermitage as an assistant to one of the
monks.
”What are you doing now?” I asked.
We smiled. No words were necessary.
”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, in terms of sensing not what is new, but what is essential.
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What is special about the Post Ranch Inn?
A) Its rooms are well furnished but dimly lit.
B) It makes guests feel like falling into a black hole.
C) There is no access to television in its rooms.
D) It provides all the luxuries its guests can think of.
2.
What does the author say the children of tomorrow will need most?
A) Convenience and comfort in everyday life.
B) Time away from all electronic gadgets.
C) More activities to fill in their leisure time.
D) Greater chances for individual development.
3.
4.
What does the French philosopher Blaise Pascal say about distraction?
A) It leads us to lots of mistakes.
C) It helps release our excess energy.
D) It is our greatest misery in life.
B) It renders us unable to concentrate.
According to Marshall McLuhan, what will happen if things come at us very fast?
A) We will not know what to do with our own lives.
B) We will be busy receiving and sending messages.
C) We will find it difficult to meet our deadlines.
D) We will not notice what is going on around us.
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5.
6.
7.
What does the author say about yoga, meditation and tai chi?
A) They help people understand ancient wisdom.
B) They contribute to physical and mental health.
C) They are ways to communicate with nature.
D) They keep people from various distractions.
What is neuroscientist Antonio Damasio’s finding?
A) Quiet rural settings contribute a lot to long life.
B) One’s brain becomes sharp when it is activated.
C) Eccentric measures are needed to keep one’s mind sober.
D) When people think deeply, their neural processes are slow.
The author moved from Manhattan to rural Japan partly because he could _____.
A) stay away from the noise of the big city
B) live without modern transportation
C) enjoy the beautiful view of the countryside
D) practice asceticism in a local hermitage
8.
9.
In order to see the world whole, the author thinks it necessary to __________.
The author takes walks and reads and loses himself in the stillness of the hermitage so that he
can bring his wife and bosses and friends __________.
10. The youngish-looking man takes his little boy to the hermitage frequently so that when he
grows up he will know __________.
Part III
Listening Comprehension
(35 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the
end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. 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 choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is
the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through
the centre.
11. A) She can count on the man for help.
B) She can lend the man a sleeping bag.
C) She has other plans for this weekend.
D) She has got camping gear for rent.
12. A) The man should keep his words.
B) Karen can take her to the airport.
C) Karen always supports her at work.
D) She regrets asking the man for help.
13. A) His trip to Hawaii has used up all his money.
B) He usually checks his brakes before a trip.
C) His trip to Hawaii was not enjoyable.
D) He can’t afford to go traveling yet.
14. A) There was nothing left except some pie. C) The man has to find something else to eat.
B) The woman is going to prepare the dinner. D) Julie has been invited for dinner.
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15. A) Send Professor Smith a letter.
B) Apply to three graduate schools.
C) Present a new letter of reference.
D) Submit no more than three letters.
16. A) He is a professional gardener in town.
B) He declines to join the gardening club.
C) He prefers to keep his gardening skills to himself.
D) He wishes to receive formal training in gardening.
17. A) Many people do not appreciate modern art.
B) The recent sculpture exhibit was not well organized.
C) Modern art cannot express people’s true feelings.
D) Sculpture is not a typical form of modern art.
18. A) Bob cannot count on her voice.
B) She will vote for another candidate.
C) Bob does not have much chance to win.
D) She knows the right person for the position.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19. A) Poor management of the hospital.
C) Decisions made by the head technician.
B) The outdated medical testing procedures. D) The health hazard at her work place.
20. A) Cut down her workload.
B) Repair the x-ray equipment.
C) Transfer her to another department.
D) Allow her to go on leave for two months.
21. A) They are virtually impossible to enforce. C) Their requirements may be difficult to meet.
B) Neither is applicable to the woman’s ease. D) Both of them have been subject to criticism.
22. A) Organize a mass strike.
B) Try to help her get it back.
C) Compensate for her loss.
D) Find her a better paying job.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. A) In the preparatory phase.
B) In the concluding part.
C) In stating your terms.
D) In giving concessions.
24. A) He uses lots of gestures to help make his points clear.
B) He presents his arguments in a straightforward way.
C) He responds readily to the other party’s proposals.
D) He behaves in a way contrary to his real intention.
25. A) Both can succeed depending on the specific situation.
B) The honest type is more effective than the actor type.
C) Both may fail when confronting experienced rivals.
D) The actor type works better in tough negotiations.
Section B
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Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will
hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear
a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then
mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. A) The weight of the boxes moving across the stage.
B) The number of times of repeating the process.
C) The size of the objects shown.
D) The shape of the cubes used.
27. A) Girls seem to start reasoning earlier than boys.
B) Boys enjoy playing with cubes more than girls.
C) Girls tend to get excited more easily than boys.
D) Boys pay more attention to moving objects than girls.
28.