英语六级真题第三套.doc

1、2012年12月英语六级考试真题试卷（第三套）Part I Writing (30minutes)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.”

2、 You should write at least 150words 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 questions 1-7, choose t

3、he 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. In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper TextbooksThey text their friends all day long. At night, they do research for their term papers on l

4、aptops and commune with their parents on Skype. But as they walk the paths of Hamilton College, a poster-perfect liberal arts school in this upstate village, students are still hauling around bulky, old-fashioned textbooks-and loving it.The screen wont go blank, said Faton Begolli, a junior from Bos

5、ton. There cant be a virus. It wouldnt be the same without books. Theyve defined academia (学术) for a thousand years.Though the world of print is receding before a tide of digital books, blogs and other Web sites, a generation of college students growing up with technology appears to be holding fast

6、to traditional textbooks. That loyalty comes at a price. Textbooks are expensive-a years worth can cost $700 to $900-and students frustrations with the expense, as well as the emergence of new technology, have produced a perplexing array of options for obtaining them.Internet retailers like Amazon a

7、nd T are selling new and used books. They have been joined by several Web services that rent textbooks to students by the semester. Some 1500 college bookstores are also offering rentals this fall, up from 300 last year. Here at Hamilton, students this year have a new way to avoid the middleman: a n

8、onprofit Web site, created by the colleges Entrepreneur Club, that lets them sell used books directly to one another.The explosion of outlets and formats-including digital books, which are rapidly becoming more sophisticated-has left some students bewildered. After completing the difficult job of co

9、urse selection, they are forced to weigh cost versus convenience, analyze their own study habits and guess which texts they will want for years to come and which they will not miss.It depends on the course, said Victoria Adesoba, a student at New York University who was standing outside that schools

10、 bookstore, a powder-blue book bag slung over her shoulder Last semester, I rented for psychology, and it was cheaper. But for something like organic chemistry, I need to keep the book. E-textbooks are good, but its tempting to go on Facebook, and it canstrain your eyes.For all the talk that her gen

11、eration is the most technologically knowledgeable in history, paper-and-ink textbooks do not seem destined to disappear anytime soonAccording to the National Association of College Stores, digital books make up just under 3% of, although the association expects that share to grow to 10-15% by 2012 a

12、s more titles are made available as e-books.In two recent studies-one by the association and another by the Student Public Interest Research Groups-three-quarters of the students surveyed said they still preferred a bound book to a digital version.Many students are reluctant to give up the ability t

13、o flip quickly between chapters, write in the margins and highlight passages, although new software applications are beginning to allow students to use e-textbooks that way.Students grew up learning from print books. said Nicole Allen, the textbooks campaign director for the research groups, so as t

14、hey transition to higher education, its not surprising that they prefer a format that they are most accustomed to.Indeed, many Hamilton students grow passionate about the weighty volumes they still carry from dorm room to lecture hall to library, even as they compulsively(克制不住地) check their smartphones for text messages and c-mails.I believe that the codex is one of mankinds best inventio