2012ti1冠军年12月大学英语六级考试真题欧式婚纱
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled 南瓜子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
炒苍术的功效与作用
Part II Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning） 万里未归人（15 minutes）
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on A安静英语nswer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choo the best answer from the four
choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the ntences 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, becau “I live alone mostly, in the middle of nowhere.”
Around the same time, I noticed that tho 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 in their rooms; the future of travel, I’m reliably told, lies in “black-hole resorts,” which charge high prices precily becau you can’t get online in their rooms.
周敦颐怎么读Has it really come to this?
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us em 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 emed so emancipating not long ago. Even In
tel experimented in 2007 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 u the phone or nd e-mail, but simply had the chance to clear their heads and to hear themlves 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 nds 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 cour, and wir 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 miries,” the French philosopher Blai Pascal wrote in the 17th century, “and yet it is itlf the greatest of our miries.” He also famously remarked that all of man’s problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.大连的旅游景点
When telegraphs and trains brought in the idea that convenience was more important than content, Henry David Thoreau reminded us that “the man who hor trots (奔跑), a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.”
Marshall McLuhan, who came clor than most to eing what was coming, warned, “When things come at you very fast, naturally you lo touch with yourlf.”
We have more and more ways to communicate, but less and less to say. Partly becau 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 em to be turning to yoga, or meditation (
沉思), or tai chi (太极)；the 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 obrve 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.
