填空题Whatnaturalresourcesdidthesouthernparthave?
填空题{{B}} Which game...{{/B}}
{{B}}A{{/B}} Like your motorcycle games big, bold, and
beautiful? All those superlatives and more apply to Motorcross Madness 2, the
sequel to one of the most funny (if not the most realistic) motorcross
simulations ever created. This sequel improves on the original
by offering larger racing environments, more modes of play, and much more
detailed graphics. The environments now have a full complement of trees, cacti,
bushes, and other solid objects to smack into, and some game modes even
introduce highway traffic into the mix. There's nothing like jumping over a
moving semi on your way to the finish line! The new Pro Circuit career mode adds
a lot of replay-ability (and long-term strategy) to the game, and fun
multiplayer modes like tag offer a refreshing break to standard racing when
playing online. On the downside, all the new graphical goodness
requires some advanced computer hardwares. While a 3-D accelerator isn't
required, that's a little like saying your car doesn't need an engine because
you can still push it. With a decent 3-D card, at least a 350 MHz processor, and
plenty of RAM, however, the game really comes to life. Those of you with 3-D
audio cards are also in for a treat, as it becomes possible to tell where other
riders are just by listening. It took time to get used to Motocross Madness 2's
complete over-the-topphysics. Hitting even a minor jump launches the bike
straight up into the air, and bigger hills can leave you staring down at the
treetops for over five seconds. It's a little ridiculous, but once we gained
some familiarity with the tracks it virtually made the game a lot of fun. More
air time means more chances to perform outrageous aerial stunts, from the Tail
Grab to the back-bending Cordova. Unfortunately, it also means unfortunate
encounters with trees which are much harder to avoid. If you buy
sports games based only on their ability to realistically portray the sports
they are simulating, Motocress Madness 2 will disappoint. For those of you who
like big air, big stunts, enormous open environments, and lots of challenging
arcade action, this game is better than its predecessor in every
way.{{B}}B{{/B}} SimCity 3000 is back, and it's bigger than
ever! Maxis pulled out all the stops for this new version of the bestselling
game, adding enough new customized graphics to recreate cities from all over the
world. The new European mid Asian building sets serve up hundreds of new
buildings that match the architecture of these diverse environments. From the
Great Wall to the Berlin Wall, it's in there. Of course, you can still mix and
match—freedom to manage a city as you choose has always been the name of this
game. No addition to the SimCity family would be completely without some new
methods for destroying your creations, and Simcity 3000 Unlimited has four mare
devastating disasters than the old version. You can recreate the movie
Armageddon by unleashing large chunks of flaming space debris, smite your
populace with a buzzing swarm of locusts, destroy seaports and coastal
developments with a whirlpool, or uncork some toxic clouds. The Building
Architect, formerly available as a free download, is now packed on the CD-ROM.
This 3-D architectural program lets users set up the buildings of their dreams,
from dilapidated outhouses to towering skyscrapers to works of modem art that
are intended for pure decoration. Don't worry if you don't foci
like using this powerful tool to create things yourself—the game comes with
dozens of new ways to make your cities unique, and you can always head to the
SimCity Exchange to download imaginative add-ons created by other users. The
infinite expand-ability and infinite replay-ability of this game should keep
would-be mayors completely occupied until they move to the suburbs of The
Sims.{{B}}C{{/B}} Want to live forever? Get a taste for what
it's like with Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption, the first computer
role-playing game based on the tremendously popular dice-and-paper and
live-action RPG from White Wolf Game Studio. Die-hard fans will grumble a bit at
some of the translation concessions from book to hard drive. The vampiric
disciplines in particular are less flexible and occasionally more hassle than
they're worth—sure, you can mm into a wolf, but you can't return to your natural
form until the time limit expires. Still, these limitations don't interfere with
the gameplay, which is fast moving, challenging, and genuinely creepy. Graphics
and sounds are well designed, and along with the plot they evoke the mood of
gothic horror that has made Vampire so popular. The
single-player mode locks you into the story line of Christof, a medieval
crusader who blunders into immortality at the fangs of an ancient Brujah
vampire. Christof's damnation and search for redemption lead him from the Prague
of the Dark Ages to modern New York City. Multiplayer options include local area
network and Internet play as well as the ability to make and run your own
stories for other players. The manual is beautiful and helpful, a rare
combination. Clearly, the designers took their cue from White Wolf, as evidenced
by the clarity of text and carefully chosen illustrations. Though Redemption is
really worth playing, garners should be warned that the save-game feature is
irritating and often beyond the player's control and that the installation
requires at least 720 MB (and up to 1.3 GB!). Despite these flaws, the game is
still wicked fun and merits plenty of praise.· is sold well?
71. ______· requires steep
hardware requirement?
72.
______· is probably frightening?
73. ______· offers
some more ways to destroy what the players have built?
74. ______· seems difficult to save the game?
75.
______· has no easy track for the game?
76. ______· enables players to
construct buildings in different styles?
77. ______· has detailed and interactive environments?
78. ______· enables players to make up
their own stories?
79. ______· will frustrate
those who like to play sports game on computer just as they play in
the reality?
80. ______
填空题Whatkindoffuseisusuallyfixedinathree-pinplug?
填空题PresidentKennedydied______yearsbeforethedaythespeechwasmade.
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填空题Note: Answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D and mark it on
ANSWER SHEET 1
. Some choices may be required more than once.
A=BOOK REVIEW 1 B=BOOK REVIEW 2 C=BOOK REVIEW 3 D=BOOK REVIEW 4 Which book review(s) contain(s) the following information?
·Comparison of the significance of two economic books.
1
·Stiglitz"s prestige in the field of economics.
2
·Stiglitz"s criticism of those who exaggerated the power of markets in developing countries.
3
·Policy making should consider local conditions.
4
·The intervention of government is the way to assist globalization.
5
·Stiglitz"s dedication to the development of poor countries.
6
·Stiglitz"s preference of one type of economic policy over another one.
7
·More people joined Stiglitz in criticizing free trade and globalization.
8
·Stiglitz"s points have been supported by what actually happened in the country.
9
·Mainly gives positive comments on Stiglitz and his new book.
10
A
The main point of the book is simple: globalization is not helping many poor countries. Incomes are not rising in much of the world, and adoption of market-based policies such as open capital markets, free trade, and privatization are making developing economies less stable, not more. Instead of a bigger dose of free markets, Stiglitz argues, what"s needed to make globalization work better is more and smarter government intervention. While this has been said before, the ideas carry more weight coming from someone with Stiglitz"s credentials. In some ways, this book has the potential to be the liberal equivalent of Milton Friedman"s 1962 classic Capitalism and Freedom, which helped provide the intellectual foundation for a generation of conservatives. But Globalization and Its Discontents" does not rise to the level of capitalism and freedom. While Stiglitz makes a strong case for government-oriented development policy, be ignores some key arguments in favor of the market. "The book"s main villain is the International Monetary Fund, the Washington organization that lends to troubled countries", Stiglitz" contempt for the IMF is boundless, "It is clear that the IMF has failed in its mission, " he declares. "Many of the policies that the IMF pushed have contributed to global instability. "
B
While parts of this book are disappointingly shallow, Stiglitz"s critique of the market-driven 90"s still resonates, especially when the business page is full of stories about white-collar crime and the stock market seems stuck in a perpetual rut. Even the United States cannot blithely assume that financial markets will work on autopilot. It is testament to the salience of Stiglitz"s arguments that many economists—even some Bush Administration officials—now embrace his view that economic change in the developing world must evolve more with local conditions, not on Washington"s calendar. Without a thorough makeover, globalization could easily become a quagmire. Stiglitz shared a Nobel Prize last year for his work analyzing the imperfections of markets. His main complaint against Rubin and Summers, who served as Treasury Secretaries, and against Fischer, the NO. 2 official and de facto chief executive of the international Monetary Fund, is that they had too much faith that markets could transform poor countries overnight. He labels these three men market fundamentalists, who fought to maintain financial stability with the same urgency that an earlier generation struggled to contain communism. Worse, he suggests, they shilled for Wall Street, conflating the interests of the big banks with the financial health of the world.
C
"Stiglitz, 58, is hardly the first person to accuse the IMF of operating undemocratically and exacerbating Third World poverty. But he is by far the most prominent and his emergence as a critic marks an important shift in the intellectual landscape. Only a few years ago, it was possible for pundits to claim that no mainstream economist, certainly nobody of Stiglitz"s stature, took the criticism of free trade and globalization seriously. Such claims are no longer credible, for Stiglitz is part of a small but growing group of economists, sociologists and political scientists, among them Dani Rodrik of Harvard and Robert Wade of the London School of Economics, who not only take the critics seriously but warn that ignoring their concerns could have dire consequences. " Over the past several years, Stiglitz, a celebrated theorist who was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for his work on asymmetric information, has grown accustomed to being at the center of controversy. From 1997 to 2000, he served as senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank—a title that did not stop him from publicly criticizing the bank"s sister institution, the International Monetary Fund, Stiglitz"s outspokenness, unprecedented for a highranking insider, infuriated top officials at the IMF and US Treasury Department, and eventually led James Wolfensohn, the World Bank"s president, to inform him that he would have to mute his criticism or resign, Stiglitz chose to leave.
D
"Stiglitz" book makes a compelling case that simple-minded economic doctrine, inadequately tailored to the realities of developing countries, can do more harm than good, and that the subtleties of economic theory are actually quite important for sound policy advice. But simplistic political advice—give developing countries more voice and the institutions of global governance will be rendered more legitimate and efficient—is equally problematic. Political reform is as subtle and complex as economic reform. Evidently, the best minds among us have only begun to think about it. " Joseph Stiglitz"s memoirs of his years in Washington, D.C. —first as chair of President Bill Clinton"s Council of Economic Advisers and then as chief economist at the World Bank—have the flavor of a morality play. Our goodhearted but slightly native hero, on leave from Stanford University, sets out for the nation"s capital to serve his country and improve the lot of the developing world. Once there he finds a morass of political opportunism, ideologically motivated decision-making and bureaucratic inertia. Undeterred, he battles valiantly on behalf of impoverished nations against the unrelenting globalisers of the International Monetary Fund.
填空题Whatdidthespeakertalkaboutlasttime?
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{{B}} A = Chang Ling B = Ding Ling
C = Emperor Qian kong's Tomb Which
tomb...{{/B}}·was opened to the public as early as 19787
71. ______.·served as a model for the remaining 12 for its good
preservation?
72. ______.·is of higher artistic
quality than most imperial tombs?
73. ______.·is the largest tomb?
74.
______.·is the first imperial tomb to have been excavated in China?
75. ______.·has the inner walls and arched ceilings of
its gateway and halls decorated with four
·celestial guardians?
76. ______.·owns
three coffins within it?
77. ______.·holds the coffin of an emperor which was
placed over a well?
78.
______.·has a large red gate with a significant bronze lion which marks the
entrance to the ground? 79. ______.·was a huge and costly
construction project which began in 1743?
80.
______. Maintaining an imperial tradition that originated from
the Zhou Dynasty (c. 1066- 1221 BC), the Ming emperors selected the location and
design of their tombs while they were still alive. The selection of sites, based
on the prevailing winds and the water level, ensured that only benevolent
spirits were in habiting the area. Of the 16 Ming emperors, 13 chose to be
buried in this serene valley (Shisanling) just north of Beijing.{{B}}
The Sacred Way{{/B}} The road to the tombs, which branches
off the route to the Great Wall, was once a 6.4 km (4 mi) long sacred way,
forbidden to all but the emperor's funeral cortege. The road begins at a
five-arched marble gate, built in 1540. A mile further down stands a three-
arched gateway, the Dahongmen (Great Red Gate). The emperor's
body was carried through the central archway. Only on this one occasion was the
center door opened. Just beyond the gate sits a huge stone tortoise(symbol of
longevity)with a 9.1 m (30 ft) stele mounted on its back. The stele, the largest
such tablet in China, was inscribed by the fourth Ming emperor at the time of
the death of his predecessor, Yang Le, in 1424. This tortoise marks the
beginning of the famous Avenue of the Animals. Lions, camels, elephants, horses,
and two sets of mythical (or at least unrecognizable)beasts, 12 statues in all,
line either side of the road, alternately standing and kneeling and most, these
days, supporting tourists on their backs while being photographed.
Beyond the animal figures stretch a series of 12 stone human statues,
dating from the 15th century: four military men, four civilian officials, and
four obedient retainers, all with stately postures and fixed stares--an honor
guard for the dead emperor. A legend says that an emperor of the later Qing
Dynasty wanted to transport the statues to line the road to his own tomb. One of
the emperor's ministers was told, in a dream, that the statues were eternally
loyal to the Ming emperors and therefore should not be moved. The Qing emperor
took this as a warning that if the statues were disturbed, a deadly wind would
blow down from the Ming Tombs upon the capital and he abandoned the
project.{{B}} Chang Ling{{/B}} Of the 13 tombs, only
two have been excavated, those of Chang (the burial name for Yong Le, 1403 -
1424), and Ding (Emperor Wan Li, 1562- 1620). The Chang Ling tomb is the largest
and best preserved of the tombs; it served as a model for the remaining
12. Visitors enter through a red gate which opens toward a
courtyard. From here they pass under the Gate of Eminent Favors(Lingenmen)into a
second courtyard, in which stands the marble Hall of Eminent Favors
(Lingendian), surrounded by pine trees(another ancient symbol of longevity) .
The roof of the hall is supported by 32 giant tree columns. Beyond this hall is
a third courtyard, where the visitor will see a simple stele with the
inscription Da Ming--Great Ming. This marks the passage to the
sepulcher.{{B}} Ding Ling{{/B}} Also known as the
Underground Palace, this is the first imperial tomb to have been excavated in
China. The work was completed over a period of three years (1956- 1959).
Ding(Emperor Wan Li) was buried here in 1620 with two of his wives in a deep
marble vault located four stories underground(on the hottest of summer days the
vault remains mercifully cool) . The entrance to the grounds is marked by a
large red gate with a magnificent bronze lion. Gigantic marble doors stand at
the entrance to the first of the three burial chambers. (After burial, a
"locking stone", similar to the modem "police" lock, was rolled in front of the
tomb itself. ) Inside are three coffins. Twenty six chests of jewelry and other
artifacts were discovered at the foot of the coffins, and many of these finds
can be viewed in the two exhibition halls constructed above ground.
The broad, tree shaded grounds surrounding the tomb are dotted with stone
picnic tables and seats. Tour groups are usually provided with box lunches which
may be eaten outdoors or in a "picnic room" at the foot of the Great
Wall.{{B}} Emperor Qian Long's Tomb{{/B}} In 1978,
the tomb of the Qing emperor Qian kong( 1736 - 1796), located about 100 km (62.5
mi) east of Beijing, was opened to the public. Known as Yu Ling,
the tomb is on a grander scale and of higher artistic quality than most imperial
tombs. Construction began in 1743 and cost 90 tons of silver. The wood used was
the durable, fragrant, close-grained nanmu. Some logs weighed up to 20
tons. The tomb is, in fact, an underground palace, similar to
the tomb of Ding Ling. Nevertheless, Yu Ling has distinctive architectural
features. Flanking the roadway leading to the tomb are eight pairs of stone
sculptures depicting civil officials, military officers, horses, qilin ( a
mythical 'animal of good omen), elephants, camels, suanni (mythical monsters),
and lions. Each figure was carved from a single stone block. The largest weighs
about 43 tons. The underground palace contains three stone halls
and four pairs of stone gates, all arched. The overhanging eaves, tile gutters,
ridges, and animal-shaped ornaments on the gate comers are in white marble. Each
gate weighs about two tons and contains a Bod-hisattva, each with a different
mien.. The inner walls and arched ceilings of the gateways and halls are
decorated with four celestial guardians(also called Deva kings), seated statues
of gods and Budd has, carvings of potted flowers, and small three-legged tables
to hold incense burners and Buddhist scriptures. The coffin of
Qian Long lies in the innermost recess of the underground palace. It was placed
over a well that never runs dry.
填空题·was opened to me public as early as l978
填空题A=Rotherhithe B=Barnes C=Willesden Green D=King's Cross Which city... · used to have lot of problems such as drugs, street crime, etc. ? (21) · has the unpopular style of architecture? (22) · has the most expensive properties? (23) · offers big out-fashioned houses at lower price? (24) · is located in a quiet residential area? (25) · saw a big increase in price last year? (26) · will build a lot of new facilities? (27) · is estimated to be a good investment? (28) · encourages night-life culture for young people? (29) · creates energetic multi-cultural atmosphere? (30) A Rotherhithe Rotherhithe may be most famous for its congested tunnel but many young buyers are wanning to its riverside charms. It is still much cheaper than its waterside neighbors. The housing stock is predominately 1980s flats, many arranged in cul-de-sacs (死胡同) and closes around Surrey Quays Road. The unpopular architecture has led to the area being called the Milton Keynes of London but properties are spacious and unfashionable style has kept prices down. Paul Mitchell, of estate agents Alex Neil, says, "There is precious little period property, but you will get far more for your money here than a Victorian house with lots of original features down the road in Bermondsey. " Surry Quays shopping center provides all the amenities of a high street but the area is lacking in fun. However, Southwark Council is in talks to develop the "night time economy" which could well lead to an increase in bars and restaurants to cater for the growing number of young professional residents. "It is possible to get a good three-bedroom house in Rotherhithe for 280,000," says Sumine Jordaan-Robinson, of agents Burwood Marsih, "About eight minutes; walk from the Jubilee line which will have you in Bond street in 15 minutes. There are not that many areas in London where that is possible. " B Barnes Barnes sits just across the river from Hammersmith in southwest London, but it could not be more different from the noise and bustle of the opposite bank. It has been called one of the last true London "villages" with happy residents keeping its old school charms quiet from nosey outsiders and potential developers. Being by the river and predominately residential gives Barnes an attractively lazy vibe. It has a traditional village complete with idyllic duck-pond and quaint pub. The high street is about as far from the Pound Shop and Primark ambience of its neighbors as is possible. But buying into Barnes is not cheap. "Family houses are snapped up incredibly quickly," claims Chris Carney, sales negotiator at Boileaus estate agents. "It is very hard to get properties of this size, with outside space so close to London, which is why they are expensive. " Large detached Vicuorian houses on the two main roads, Castlenau and Lonsdale, normally have between five and seven bedrooms, gardens of 120 feet and off street parking. These sell for anything between £ 2 million and £ 5 million. By the village there are rows of immaculate terraced house on a number of streets that run off Church and Station roads, and four bedroom houses of this kind sell for around 2 billion regeneration programme should help the area lose its seedy reputation. The project includes a new Eurostar terminal opening this year and a spruced-up tube station, alongside hundreds of new homes, offices and leisure facilities set to be completed in 2015. Such development has had a predictable effect on house prices. "There are a lot more amenities now, such as supermarkets, cafes and bars and the issue people used to have with safety a few years ago has disappeared. " By the canal basin, new-built flats and luxury ware house conversions form the bulk of property, and at the top end of the market there are stunning penthouses available with views across London. Much of the new development is centered on the back of the station, off York way, and flats are being sold to eager buyers off plan. The older properties are mainly mid-Victorian terraces around Caledonian Road and the streets heading towards Angel, and ex-local authority blocks where it is possible to pick up a two-bedroom refurbished flat for under £ 250,000. Smith adds, "Investment-wise, King's Cross is a good bet. There is a big rental market here and prices will go up. There are still cheaper properties available, one to two bedroom flats in Victorian conversions, or ex-council properties. But people are holding on to them for dear life in the hope they will go up in value. If you find one, it is worth investing in. /
填空题Wheredidriceoriginate?
填空题With unfamiliar human beings, when we acknowledge their humanness, we must avoid staring at them, and yet we must also avoid ignoring them. To make them into people rather than objects, we use a deliberate and polite inattention. We look at them long enough to, make it quite clear that we see them, and then we immediately look away. (66) The important thing in such an exchange is that we do not catch the eye of one whom we are recognizing as a person. We look at him without locking glances, and then we immediately look away. Recognition is not permitted. (67) If you pass someone in the street, you may eye the oncoming person until you are about eight feet apart, then you must look away as you pass. Before the eight-foot distance is reached, each will signal in which direction he will pass. This is done with a brief look in that direction. Each will veer slightly and the passing is done smoothly. (68) To strengthen this signal, you look directly at the other's face before looking away. (69) It becomes impossible to discover just what they are doing. Are they looking at you too long, too intently? Are they looking at you at all? The person wearing the glasses feels protected and assumes that he can stare without being noticed in his staring. However, this is a self-deception. To the other person, dark glasses seem to indicate that the wearer is always staring at him. We often use this look-away technique when we meet famous people. We want to assure them we are respecting their privacy and that we would not dream of staring at them. The same is true of the crippled or physically handicapped. We look brief and then look away before the stare can be said to be a stare. (70) Of course, the opposite is also true. If we wish to put a person down, we may do so by staring longer than is acceptably polite. Instead of dropping our gazes when we lock glances, we continue to stare. The person who disapproves of interracial marriages or dating will stare rudely at the interracial couple. If he dislikes long hair, short dresses, or beards, he may show it with a longer-than-acceptable stare. A. There are different formulas for the exchange of glances depending on where the meeting takes place. B. In the subway or bus where long rides in very close circumstances are a necessity, we may be bard put to find some way of not staring. We sneak glances, but look away before our eyes can lock. If we look with an unfocused glance that misses the eyes and settles on the head, the mouth, the body for any place but the eyes is an acceptable looking spot for the unfocused glance. C. Actually in this way we are saying, in body language, "I know you are there," and a moment later we add, "But I would not dream of intruding on your privacy." D. It is the technique we use for any unusual situation where too long a stare would be embarrassing. When we see an interracial couple, we also use this technique. We might use it when we see a man with an unusual beard, with extra longhair, with outlandish clothes, or a girl with a minimal miniskirt may attract this look-and-away. E. For this passing encounter Dr. Erving Goffman in behavior in public places says that the quick look and the lowering of the eyes is body language for, "I trust you. I am not afraid of you." F. Sometimes the rules are hard to follow, particularly if one of the two people wears dark glasses.
填空题How does Casey feel when he has trouble operating a machine?
填空题From her vantage point she watched the main doors swing open and the first arrivals pour in. Those who had been at the head of the line paused momentarily on entry, looked around curiously, then quickly moved forward as others behind pressed in. Within moments the central public area of the big branch bank was filled with a chattering, noisy crowd. The building, relatively quiet less than a minute earlier, had become a Babel. Edwina saw a tall heavy-set black man wave some dollar bills and announce loudly, "I want to put my money in the bank." (66) It seemed as if the report about everyone having come to open an account had been accurate after all. Edwina could see the big man leaning back expansively, who was still holding his dollar bills. His voice cut across the noise of other conversations and she heard him proclaim, "I'm in no hurts. There's something I'd like you to explain. ' Two other desks were quickly manned by other clerks. With equal speed, long wide lines of people loaned in front of them. Normally, three members of staff were ample to handle new account business, but obviously inadequate now. Edwina could see Tottenhoe on the far side of the bank and called him on the intercom. She instructed, "Use more desks for new accounts and take all the staff you can spare to man then. " (67) Tottenhoe grumbled in reply, "You realize we can't possibly process all these people today, and however many we do will tie us tip completely." "I've got an idea, "Edwina said, "that's what someone has in mind. Just hurry the processing all you can." (68) First, an application form called for details of residence, employment, social security, and family matters. A specimen signature was obtained. Then proof of identity was needed. After that, the new accounts clerk would take all documents to an officer of the bank for approval and initialing. Finally, a savings passbook was made out or a temporary checkbook issued. Therefore the most new accounts that any bank employee could open in an hour were five, so the three clerks presently working might handle a sum of ninety in one business day, if they kept going at top speed, which was unlikely. (69) Still the noise within the bank increased. It had become an uproar. A further problem was that the growing mass of arrivals in the central public area of the bank was preventing access to tellers' counters by other customers. Edwina could see a few of them outside, regarding of the milling scene with consternation. While she watched, several gave up and walked away. Inside the bank some of the newcomers were engaging tellers in conversation and the tellers, having nothing else to do because of the melee, chatted back. Two assistant managers had gone to the central floor area and were trying to conduct the flood of people so as to clear some space at counters. They were having small success. (70) She decided it was time for her own intervention. Edwina left the platform and a failed--off staff area and, with difficulty, made her way through the milling crowd to the main front door. A. Yet she knew however much they hurried it would still take ten to fifteen minutes to open any single new account. It always did. The paperwork required that time. B. But still no hostility was evident. Everyone in the now jam--packed bank who was spoken to by members of the staff answered politely and with a smile. It seemed, Edwina thought, as if all who were here had been briefed to be on best behavior. C. A security guard directed him, "Over there for new accounts. "The guard pointed to a desk where a clerk—a young girl—sat waiting. She appeared nervous. The big man walked toward hers smiled reassuringly, and sat down. Immediately a press of others moved into a ragged line behind him, waiting for their turn. D. Even leaning closer to the intercom, it was hard to hear above the noise. E. Even tripling the present complement of clerks would permit very few more than two hundred and fifty accounts to he opened in a day, yet already, in the first few minutes of business, the bank was crammed with at least four hundred people, with still more flooding in, and the line outside, which Edwina rose to checks appeared as long as ever. F. Obviously someone had alerted the press in advance, which explained the presence of the TV camera crew outside. Edwina hoped to know who had done it.
填空题Does the publisher of Douglas Starr's excellent Blood—An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce actually expect to sell many copies? Whoever chose the title is certain to scare off the squeamish, and the subtitle, which makes the effort sound like a dry, dense survey text, has really done this book a disservice. In fact, the brave and curious will enjoy a brightly written, intriguing, and disquieting book, with some important lessons for public health. 66. ______ The book begins with a historical view on centuries of lore about blood—in particular, the belief that blood carried the evil humors of disease and required occasional draining. As recently as the Revolutionary War, Bloodletting was widely applied to treat fevers. The idea of using one person's blood to heal another is only about 75 years old although rogue scientists had experimented with transfusing animal blood at least as early as the 1600s. The first transfusion experiments involved stitching a donor's vein (in early cases the physician's) to a patient's vein. 67. ______ Sabotaged by notions about the" purity" of their groups' blood, Japan and Germany lagged well behind the Allies in transfusion science. Once they realized they were losing injured troops the Allies had learned to save, they tried to catch up, conducting horrible and unproductive experiments such as draining blood from POWs and injecting them with horse blood or polymers. 68. ______ During the early to mid-1980s, Start says, 10,000 American hemophiliacs and 12,000 others contracted HIV from transfusions and receipt of blood products. Blood banks both here and abroad moved slowly to acknowledge the threat of the virus and in some cases even acted with criminal negligence, allowing the distribution of blood they knew was tainted. This is not new material. But Starr's insights add a dimension to a story first explored in the late Randy Shilts's And the Bond Played On. 69. ______ Is the blood supply safe now? Screening procedures and technology have gotten much more advanced. Yet it's disturbing to read Starr's contention that a person receiving multiple transfusions today has about a 1 in 90,000 chance of contracting HIV—far higher than the" one in a million" figure that blood bankers once blithely and falsely quoted. Moreover, new pathogens threaten to emerge and spread through the increasingly high-speed, global blood-product network faster than science can stop them. This prompts Starr to argue that today's blood stores are" simultaneously safer and more threatening" than when distribution was less sophisticated. 70. ______ A. The massive wartime blood drives laid the groundwork for modern blood-banking, which has saved countless lives. Unfortunately, these developments also set the stage for a great modern tragedy—the spread of AIDS through the international blood supply. B. There is so much drama, power, resonance, and important information in this book that it would be a shame if the squeamish were scared off. Perhaps the key lesson is this: The public health must always be guarded against the pressures and pitfalls of competitive markets and human fallibility. C. In his chronicle of a resource, Starr covers an enormous amount of ground. He gives us an account of mankind's attitudes over a 400-year period towards this "precious, mysterious, and hazardous material" ; of medicine's efforts to understand, control, and develop blood's life-saving properties; and of the multibillion-dollar industry that benefits from it. He describes disparate institutions that use blood, from the military and the pharmaceutical industry to blood banks. The culmination is a rich examination of how something as horrifying as distributing blood tainted with the HIV virus could have occurred. D. The book's most interesting section considers the huge strides transfusion science took during World War Ⅱ. Medicine benefited significantly from the initiative to collect and supply blood to the Allied troops and from new trauma procedures developed to administer it. It was then that scientists learned to separate blood into useful elements, such as freeze-dried plasma and clotting factors, paving the way for both battlefield miracles and dramatic improvement in the lives of hemophiliacs. E. Starr's tale ends with a warning about the safety of today's blood supply. F. Start obtained memos and other evidence used in Japanese, French, and Canadian criminal trials over the tainted-blood distribution. (American blood banks enjoyed legal protections that made U.S. trials more complex and provided less closure for those harmed.) His account of the French situation is particularly poignant. Starr explains that in postwar France, donating blood was viewed as a sacred and patriotic act. Prison populations were urged to give blood as a way to connect more with society. Unfortunately, the French came to believe that such benevolence somehow offered a magical protection to the blood itself and that it would be unseemly to question volunteer donors about their medical history or sexual or drug practices. Combined with other factors, including greed and hubris, this led to tragedy. Some blood banks were collecting blood from high-risk groups as late as 1990, well into the crisis. And France, along with Canada, Japan, and even Britain, stalled approval and distribution of safer, American heat-treated plasma products when they became available, in part because they were giving their domestic companies time to catch up with scientific advances.
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填空题A good many technical people become angry when you call a computer a giant brain. They insist that computer does only what thinking humans have planned to have it do.
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There is a popular anecdote about a computer programmer who, just for a good fun, spent days setting up the machine to destroy itself, then watched delightedly as the computer dutifully proceeded to commit suicide. If that machine could have thought, would it not have got the better of him?
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Apparently, neurons are elementary memory units, capable of storing the same kind of information "bits" that a machine can store. The completely materialistic view is that neurons, along with an extraordinary network of nerve-communication lines, comprise all there is to the brain. But such an explanation fails to account for how the brain originates thought.
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Computers can already do a lot of surprising things, which include predicting the weather. The machine is able to make forecasts by absorbing vast quantities of data, but this, as well as most of the other tasks now performed by the thinking machines, is routine, requiring thinking of a very low order. Let us see what happens when we go beyond this step.
A great many outstanding men are preoccupied with computers that do nonnumerical work: that is, machines that go on from there after all the figures are in. These men want to see, for example, whether lifeless devices can exercise judgment, make choices, give birth to ideas, and play games intelligently. At the far limit of possibility, they wish to know whether, at least on paper, machines can reproduce themselves. In other words, are we really certain that a machine can do only what its programmer wills it to do? Already there are in existence a number of machines that approach these powers. The simplest type is the computer that understands logic.
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Boolean algebra caught the eye of two Harvard students some years ago, and they built a machine called the Logical Truth Calculator. It created quite a stir in Cambridge, because it worked extremely well at solving rather simple logical problems. Soon more complicated machines were developed—machines that could play games. The mechanical game-players fall into a number of classes. The simplest has a dictionary of rules in its memory, including all possible moves to be made in answer to an opponent. A second class plays only according to a strict formula, and can never lose.
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Dr. Claude Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories, and his colleague, E. F. Moore, once built a machine to play the game known as Hex, using an analog computer working on electrical voltages. "It beat them about 70 per cent of the time. It frequently surprised its designer," Shannon comments, "by selecting odd-looking moves which, on analysis, proved sound!"
A. To me the controversy boils down to a definition of the word "think". There is no area in physiology that is less understood than the human brain. Practically all that is known is that the brain contains some ten billion tiny cells called neurons.
B. Probably the clearest difference between man and machine is a quantitative one. The brain has roughly a million times as many parts as the best computer. On the other hand, the difference may lie in a spiritual factor, embraced by religion. At any rate, a machine cannot exercise free will or originate anything—not yet. Whether it ever will is still an open argument.
C. A third category applies the principles of approximations, choosing the probable best move by "thinking" over all imaginable moves and testing each against a certain standard. The games these machines can play include checkers, chess, bridge, poker, and many other card games. They can"t always win, because an approximately right move isn"t necessarily the best one, but few human opponents can do better.
D. The mathematics of logic, upon which such machines work, was originated a century ago by an obscure Englishman named George Boole. Boolean algebra, as it is now called, has proved to be of great service to telephone engineers in designing automatic switching apparatus.
E. But complexity is not the only requirement: the billions of parts would all have to work together to produce reliable results. Considering how far from perfect most human brains are, there isn"t much threat from a synthetic one.
F. Yet one authority states categorically, "A machine can handle information: it can calculate, conclude, and choose, it can perform reasonable operations with information. A machine, therefore, can think." Famed mathematician Norbert Wiener, of MIT, foresees a machine that can learn will "in no way be obliged to make such decisions as we should have made, or will be acceptable to us." Evidently, he thinks machines can think.
填空题places an emphasis on something that can hardly be learnt at school? 71. ______ is particularly helpful for those who fear changes? 72. ______ tells readers it doesn't follow that those who don't have good academic achievement will not make a fortune? 73. ______ is not written by a single writer? 74. ______ tells a very simple story but it contains some messages? 75. ______ seems not to express ideas straightforward? 76. ______ is written by the one who also wrote a lot of other works with other writers? 77. ______ is probably full of facts? 78. ______ is not only statistical but also interesting? 79. ______ is not related to finance? 80. ______ A Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that aI1 can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze. Sniff and Scurry are mice--non-analytical and non-judgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "little people", mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image. Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they' ve found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out. Dr. Johnson, co-author of The One Minute Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups, schools, military organizations-any place where you find people who may fear or resist change. And although more analytical and skeptical readers may find the tale a little too simplistic, its beauty is that it sums up all natural history in just 94 pages: things change. They always have changed and always will change. And while there's no single way to deal with change, the consequence of pretending change won' t happen is always the same: the cheese runs out. B Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs) pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad" (that "the poor and the middle class work for money, " but "the rich have money work for them"). Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. Rich. Dad, Poor Dad, written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays out the philosophy behind his relationship with money. Although Kiyosaki can take a frustratingly long time to make his points, his book nonetheless compellingly advocates for the type of "financial literacy" that's never taught in schools. Based on the principle that income-generating assets always provide healthier bottom-line results than even the best of traditional jobs, it explains how those assets might be acquired so that the jobs can eventually be shed. C What do you do after you' ve written the No. 1 best-seller The Millionaire Next Door? Survey 1, 371 more millionaires and write The Millionaire Mind. Dr. Stanley's extremely timely tome is a mixture of entertaining elements. It resembles Regis Philbin' s hit show (and CD-ROM game) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, only you have to pose real-life questions, instead of quizzing about trivia. Are you a gambling, divorce-prone, conspicuously consuming "Income-Statement Affluent" Jacuzzi fool soon to be parted from his or her money, or a frugal, loyal, resole your shoes and buy your own groceries type like one of Stanley's "Balance-Sheet Affluent" millionaires? "Cheap dates " millionaires are 4.9 times likelier to play with their grandkids than shop at Brooks Brothers. "If you asked the average American what it takes to be a millionaire, " he writes, "they'd probably cite a number of predictable factors., inheritance, luck, stock market investments Topping his list would be a high IQ, high SAT scores and grade point average, along with attendance at a top college. " No way, says Stanley, backing it up with data he compiled with help from the University of Georgia and Harvard geodemographer Jon Robbin. Robbin may wish he'd majored in socializing at LSU, instead, because the numbers show the average millionaire had a lowly 2.92 GPA, SAT scores between 1100 and 1190, and teachers who told them they were mediocre students but personable people. "Discipline 101 and Tenacity 102" made them rich. Stanley got straight C's in English and writing, but he had money-minded drive. He urges you to pattern your life according to Yale professor Robert Sternberg's Successful Intelligence, because Stanley' s statistics bear out Sternberg' s theories on what makes minds succeed-and it isn't IQ. Besides offering insights into millionaires' pinchpenny ways, pleasing quips ("big brain, no bucks"), and 46 statistical charts with catchy titles, Stanley's book booms with humanpotential pep talk and bristles with anecdotes--for example, about a bus driver who made $ 3 million, a doctor (reporting that his training gave him zero people skills) who lost $1.5 million, and a loser scholar in the bottom 10 percent on six GRE tests who grew up to be Martin Luther King Jr. Read it and you' 11 feel like a million bucks.
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66. __________. Demand theory is based on a simply
generalization about customer behavior that has been observed for centuries,
that almost people would regard as "common sense". Generally speaking, if a good
or service becomes more expensive, consumers are less likely to buy it. So, the
price of oil more than doubled in 1999, the demand for oil would fall. How much
did the demand for oil fall would depend on the elasticity of the demand for
oil. Economists describe the demand for oil response as relatively inelastic.
So, the fall was not large.67. __________. A substantial
rise in the price of oil would affect the demand for oil tankers and coal in
1999.68. __________. The use of coal is the same as oil.
When file price of oil rises, fewer people will use oil and more people will use
coal. In Economics, coal is a substitute good of oil, the price of oil rises,
and the demand for oil falls, the demand for coal increases. As the demand for
coal is related to the demand for oil, therefore, a constriction in the demand
for oil will mean that the demand for coal will shift to a rise. The increase in
demand is shown by demand rising from oil to coal. So, the demand for coal
increased in 1999.69. __________. Because the price of oil
rose in 1999, refiner had to face a squeeze on profit margins. This made the
costs of refining petrol increase. The costs of production increase will lead
decrease on the supply for petrol. As the supply for petrol is related to the
supply for oil, therefore, an extension in the supply for oil will mean that the
supply for petrol will shift to a fall. This decrease in supply is shown by
supply falling from Qs0 to Qs1 So, the supply for petrol
decreased in 1999.70. __________. Because the price of oil
rose in 1999, the supply for oil would raise. Nylon is joint of oil. So, the
supply for oil raises the supply for nylon increases. As the supply for nylon is
related to the supply for oil, therefore, an extension in the supply for oil
will mean that the supply for nylon will shift to a rise. So the supply for
nylon increased in 1999.A. The graph shows how the crude oil price has
changed between 1994 and 1998. In general, the crude oil price rose up to the
peak until 1997, at which point there was a sharp reduction in the crude oil
price. Finally, we can summarize that the overall price, if crude oil dropped
from over$10 per barrel to almost $7 per barrel between 1994 and 1998. Market
forces affected this.B. In 1999 the price of oil more than doubled. Discuss
the effects of a substantial rise in the price of oil on the supply and demand
for oil and other related products. This affected not only the demand and supply
for oil, but also other related products.C. Because the price of oil
rose in 1999, producing oil could get more profit. Therefore, some producers
would switch from providing nuclear power to providing oil. This meant that more
producers would produce oil. Oil becomes more attractive than nuclear power;
this will lead decrease on the supply for nuclear power. As the supply for
nuclear power is related to the supply for oil, therefore an extension in the
supply for oil will mean that the supply will shift to a fall. So, the supply
for nuclear power decreased in 1999.D. Supply theory tells us that
profit enable producers to use less suitable resources to increase their supply
of product. In 1999, the price of oil more than doubled, this meant that the oil
producers could get more profit, so the supply would rise. This type of movement
is known as an extension which leads to supply rising. How much did the supply
for oil raise would depend on the elasticity of the supply for oil. The rule is
that the steeper the curve, the more elastic the supply and vice versa. So, the
supply for oil is elastic.E. A substantial rise in the price of oil
would affect the supply for nuclear power, petrol and nylon.F. We know
that oil tankers are used to transport oil. If the price of oil rises, fewer
people buy oil. Therefore, less oil tankers are used to transport oil. In
Economics, oil tankers are complementary goods of oil, the price of oil rises,
and the demand for oil falls, the demand for oil tankers decrease. As the demand
for oil tankers is related to the demand for oil, therefore, a constriction in
the demand for oil will mean that the demand for oil tankers will shift to a
fall. So the demand for oil tankers decreased in 1999.
