填空题During 1876 and 1889, Mark Twain wrote______ books for which he is most famous.

填空题If we want to get some information about a new country, we could ______.

填空题All my life ____________________(我梦想去意大利).

填空题Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new (36) , but also big headaches. The world contains an unimaginably vast amount of (37) information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly. This makes it possible to do many things that (38) could not be done: (39) business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. Managed well, the data can be used to (40) new sources of economic value, provide fresh (41) into science and hold governments to account. But they are also (42) a host of new problems. Despite the abundance of tools to capture, process and share all this information--sensors, computers, mobile phones and the like--it already exceeds the (43) storage space. Moreover, (44) . The effect is being felt everywhere, from business to science, from government to the arts. Scientists and computer engineers have coined a new term for the phenomenon: "big data". Information is made up of a collection of data and knowledge is made up of different strands of information. It can be inferred that (45) The business of information management--helping organisations to make sense of their increasing data--is growing by leaps and bounds. (46) , the data scientist, who combines the skills of software programmer, statistician and storyteller/artist to extract the elites of gold hidden under mountains of data.

填空题Populations have 3 agents, namely, a birth rate, a death rate, and a growth rate.

填空题What does David R. Smith want to convey when he says "... except when they're magic" in the last paragraph?

填空题Good lubrication prevents machines from ______ (damage).

填空题It is true that the world faces problems of pollution, but it can____________(通过全球的努力加以控制)

填空题A new high-performance contact lens under development will not only correct ordinary vision defects ______ (而且还可以提高正常的夜间视力) as much as five times.

填空题Competition for grades and other pressures are supposed to take the responsibility of ______.

填空题When the bill of fare was brought,______(我惊呆了，价格大大超出了我的预料).

填空题Scientists use ______ to test whether their genetic modification of a plant is successful.

填空题Regular plaque removal, along with ______ ,can help people reverse gingivitis.

填空题This passage is mainly about the development and safety of robots.

填空题Everyone asked me how the story ended, but it was __________________ (对我来说同样是个谜) as to them.

填空题The waltz and tango are obviously out of fashion now. Things like the twist, jerk and hip-hop __________ (才似乎是年轻人真正感兴趣的东西).