问答题计算机具有的功能可以使一个公司的人在全国甚至全世界一起工作。但是，如果明天的计算机不是根据必须使用它们的人们的需要和能力设计的话，那么这种功能将毫无用处。换言之，必须遵循以人为中心的哲学。这就意味着改变汁算机以适应人们的长处——观察、交流和创新，而不是要人们按计算机所提出的不自然的要求去做，那样只会导致犯错误。

问答题The world's long romance with speed may finally be ending. Even if Concorde (协和式 飞机) flies again, its antique nature was revealed as soon as the Paris accident made people scratch their heads and ask quite why these odd aircraft were still flying. Much of the tech nology that surrounded us has, when we look at it afresh, a Jules Verne qualityIsolving problems that once seemed important in ways that are ingenious but not necessarily effi cient or safe. The reorientation of science toward the biological and computer frontiers is now an old story, but the 19th century fascination with motive power has retained a powerful hold on our imaginations and our economies.

问答题Directions: Write an essay of no less than 200 words on the topic given below. Use the space provided on your Answer Sheet II. TOPIC People who claim to have supernatural powers, like Wang Lin, Yan Xin and many others, have come and gone in the past few decades and have always had a large following. What conclusion may be drawn from this phenomenon?

问答题Despite the web, we watch more television than ever. In the chaos of today's media and technology brawl- iPod vs. Zune, Google vs. Yahoo, windows vs. Linux, Intel vs. AMD--we can declare one unlikely winner. Standing tall in a field of new tech wonders, it's a geezer technology that are invented in the 1920s and commercialized in the 1940s, and it's still more powerful than any thing created since. (1) As you try to figure out where consumer infotech is going, and what it means for society, remember this big, central reality: People just want more television. If you doubt it, look at today's biggest news in tech. It continually centers on new ways to bring consumers the thing they crave above all else. (2) Sony flooded the recent Consumer Electronics Show with products that put Intemet video on your TV set, as did almost every other consumer electronics company. At the simultaneous Macworld Expo, Apple chief Steve Jobs introduced Apple TV. which does the same thing. Verizon said it will soon offer live TV on cellphone screens. It will also sell full-length programs for viewing whenever you want. Put it all together, and we have achieved a nirvana that didn't exist even a year ago: unlimited television available 24 / 7 on every screen you own. It's no surprise, of course. (3) Ever since the basic facts of steadily multiplying processor power and bandwidth became apparent, seers have confidently predicted this day. They just as confidently predicted what it would mean: traditional television's demise. Once the World Wide Web appeared in the mid-1990s, the future looked very clear. Boring old TV, the scheduled programs that come to you through a coaxial cable or satellite dish or antenna, would fade away. (4) Which is exactly the opposite of what has happened. Despite many Net Age alternatives, we Americans today watch more boring old TV than ever, which is saying something. How can that be? My theory is the Two-Liter Coke Principle. The Coca--Cola company discovered long ago that if it could get people to bring home bigger bottles of Coke, those people would drink more than they used to. Just getting more Coke in front of them increased their consumption. It seems to be the same with TV. Put more of it in front of people-- over 100 channels in many homes--and people will watch more. Seen from this perspective, the latest announcements of new TV-related technology look simply like additional ways to put more TV in front of American consumers. The supposed threat from the Internet was that we'd cut back on TV as we spent more time on MySpace or in Second Life. We may well spend more time on such new Net attractions, but we're unlikely to take that time away from video viewing. We're more likely to cut back on things we consider less important, like sleep. (5) No one has evaluated TV better than the great New Yorker essayist E. B. White, who in 1938 wrote, "We shall stand or fall by television, of that I am sure." We still don't know which it wilt be, but his assessment looks truer than ever.

问答题Privacy and Liberty

问答题Concentrating on improvements to these secondary roads, and on pedestrian awareness everywhere, would be a better use of limited funds than reversing a sensible change that recognizes reality and improves enforcement.

问答题It is hard to predict how science is going to turn out and if it is really good science it is impossible to predict. If the things to be found are actually new they are by definition unknown in advance. You cannot make choices in this matter. You either have science or you don't, and if you have it you are obliged to accept the surprising and disturbing pieces of information, along with the neat and promptly useful bits.

问答题百慕大三角被士兵们看做“大西洋的墓地”，但美国海军并不认为它是一个危险区域。

问答题Wiping away doubts that Dolly the sheep clone was a fluke, University of Hawaii researchers announced they've been cloning mice for months, creating a flock of more than 50 duplicate rodents along the way. 71. The success of the Hawaii group transforms adult cloning from a scientific novelty to a well-defined procedure likely to be .reproduced in labs around the world. The mass production of carbon copy mice, in turn, now allows researchers to test variations of the cloning techniques to see what works best. Cloning the genetically engineered mice used in medical studies should also be cheaper than current breeding methods. The Hawaii researchers use essentially the same recipe used to make Dolly: Take an egg. Scoop out the nucleus, which contains the DNA genetic information, and discard. Take a cell of the animal you wish to clone and insert its DNA into the egg. Add chemicals to tell the egg to start developing into an embryo. Incubate the embryo in a test tube for a few days, and then implant it into a foster mother. Wait for the foster mother to give birth to the clone. 72. Where they modified the recipe was the method for moving the DNA from the animal-to-be-cloned into the egg. Most researchers had thought that mice would be particularly difficult to clone, because the DNA in mice embryos switches on very early, possibly as soon as the egg splits into the two-cell stage. Because adult cells have specific, specialized functions, most of the unused DNA has been turned off. Scientists had thought that the implanted DNA would not have enough time to "repro- gram" itself back to the embryonic, unspecialized state. Thus, most cloning research has focused on animals where the DNA switches on later, allowing more time for the reprogramming. 73. In cows, for example, the DNA switch-on occurs when the embryo reaches the eight-cell stage. No one is sure how the ttawaii group got the mouse DNA to reprogram itself more quickly, but some have the suspicion that getting rid of the outer part of the adult cell speeds the process. In addition to various genetic tests, the researchers used a simple color scheme to verify that the DNA of the babies was not contaminated by either the egg donor or the foster mother. The eggs came from black mice, while the foster mothers were all white mice. The baby mice all came out coffee-colored, the color of their identical DNA mother. The researchers have licensed their technology to venture capital company ProBio America Inc. , based in Honolulu. "This technique we are expanding into the large commercial animals, such as cows and sheep, where much of our business is intended to be," says ProBio's Cameron Reynolds.

问答题Some young people like to carry out a research project on their own, while others like to do it in group. Which way do you prefer? Explain why. Your composition should be no less than 200 words on the ANSWER SHEET.

问答题Steve Jobs名言： 1 Stay hungry,stay foolish 2 We live to change the world

问答题TOPIC: The more I learn, the more ignorant I find myself to be.

问答题Part A Directions: Translate the following into English. 我们也不应该忘记，广告给我们的钱袋作出了积极的贡献。没有这笔收入来源，报 纸、商业电台和电视公司就不能生存。我们花很少的钱就能买到一份日报，或者能够欣赏 如此众多的广播节目，完全是由于广告商付了这部分钱。想想看，要是让你付全价，报纸 会有多贵!

问答题都市寸土千金，地价炒得越来越高，今后将更高。拥有一个小小花园的希望，对寻常之辈不啻是一种奢望，一种梦想。 我想，其实谁都有一个小小花园，这便是我们的内心世界。人的智力需要开发，人的内心世界也是需要开发的。人和动物的区别，除了众所周知的诸多方面，恐怕还在于人有内心世界。心不过是人的一个重要脏器．而内心世界是一种景观，它是由外部世界不断地作用于内心渐渐形成的。每个人都无比关注自己及至亲至爱之人心脏的渐损，以至于稍有微疾便惶惶不可终日。但并非每个人都关注自己及至亲至爱之人的内心世界的阴晴。

问答题Directions: There are many reasons for a person planning to do PhD research (for example, new experiences, career preparation, and increased knowledge). Why do you think people should pursue a doctoral degree? Write an essay of no less than 200 words about your opinion on this topic. Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET2.

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问答题The total number of national holidays in China is stipulated by law. Yet people still argue about whether there should be "long holidays" or "short holidays" i.e. greater number of holidays concentrated around a great festival, or holidays scattered over a number of festivals. Which do you subscribe to, and why?

问答题一位奥地利科学家认为，秋天出生的人比春天出生的人更长寿，而且在老年阶段不易得慢性病。马克斯·普兰克人口研究院的科学家们运用奥地利、丹麦和澳大利亚一百多万人的人口普查数据得出结论：人过50以后，出生月份与预期寿命有一定的关联。母亲孕期因季节而变化，一年当中的传染病也不大相同，两者都会对新生儿的健康产生影响，也有可能影响他们老年时的预期寿命。一位科学家说：“春天分娩的母亲在冬天度过妊娠期的最后阶段吃进去的维生素要比夏天少，她停止哺乳，开始让婴儿正常进食。此时正好赶上夏天最热的那几个星期，这段时间婴儿容易感染消化系统疾病。”在奥地利，秋天出生的成人比春天出生的成人多活4个月。南半球的情况有点相似，秋天出生的澳大利亚人比春天出生的澳大利亚人多活4个月。这项研究利用死亡证明和人口普查数据，着重调查20世纪初出生的人。尽管自那以后人们在一年当中不同时期的营养状况已有所改善，但这种季节性差异依然存在。