2012年12月六级英语真题详解答案及注释.docxVIP

2012 年 12 月英语六级真题及答案详解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 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 ComputerPart IIReading 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 fourchoices 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通畅More people are taking breaks from挣脱 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营销 to the Child of Tomorrow.” Soon after I arrived, the chief executive董事长 of the agency that had invited us took me aside. What he was most interested in, he began, was stillness沉静 and quiet.A few months later, I read an interview with the well-known cutting-edge尖端、前沿 designer Philippe Starck.What allowed him to remain so consistently一贯的 ahead of the curve曲线? “I never read any magazines or watch TV,” he said, perhaps with a little exaggeration夸张. “Nor do I go to cocktail parties鸡尾酒会, dinners or anything like that.” He lived outside conventional ideas传统观念, he implied暗示, because “I live alone mostly, in the middle of nowhere与世隔绝.”Around the same time, I noticed that those who part with $2,285 a night to stay in a cliff-top崖壁顶 room at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California, pay partly在一定程度上 for the privilege特权 of not having a TV in their rooms; the futur