{{B}}Section BDirections: In this section there is one incomplete interview which has four blanks and four choices A,B,C and D,taken from the interview.Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the interview and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.{{/B}}

Where is the boundary between human mind and machine? If the test were reasoning ability, the computer would be our superior. But logic alone does not make a first-class mind. In our complicated world straightforward reasoning doesn't always work. As is known to all, productive thought requires not just the rules of logic but a wealth of experience and background information, plus the ability to generalize and interpret new experiences using that information. A genius like Einstein is produced only after many years of study, which is the period of time needed to lay foundations for a creative mind.

Perhaps A surprisingly the B main obstacles to C realize this dream D is neither technical nor commercial.

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There are still many problems ahead of us, but by this time next year we can see light at the end of the______.

You'd had a couple of stories turned down by the highbrow magazines.

A. It's really family firstB. the real work will start when they walk off the stageC. then it was just a penaltyD. because I'm a pretty street-smart guyYorke: You've talked about finding meaning in suffering. What do you mean by that? McGraw: Everybody at some point is going to have misfortune. I think if we don't learn from that,【D7】______But if you use it, then it becomes tuition. I draw a lot on my personal experiences. It's hard for people to deceive me,【D8】______Yorke: Are there families who come on your show but whom you feel you just can't help? McGrow: I never think that I'm doing eight-minute cures on television. But I think that 50 percent of the solution to any problem lies in defining it first. I can be an emotional compass that points them down the path, but【D9】______. Yorke: What would you say is the greatest value system that you have? McGrow:【D10】______Our family and its properties, needs, values, come before everything else — work, recreation, whatever.

A. Thank you for the lesson in art appreciationB. It leaves me coolC. I can tell the difference between an etching and a lithographA: How can I appreciate modern art?【D4】______ .B: It would help if you followed the four steps of looking at modern art.A: What should I do then?B: Step one is to identify the medium used in the work. Is it a drawing, a painting, an etching or a lithograph?A: I think I can do that.【D5】______.B: Step two is to take an inventory of exactly what you see, the lines, the colors, the shapes and textures. A: Well, I suppose I can do that, too. B: Step three is to think about the interpretation of the piece of art and what the lines, colors, shapes and textures might mean. After analyzing the work from a number of perspectives, you can make a judgment in step four. A:【D6】______ .

The salesman approached the house cautiously when he saw the vicious dog at the door.

Scientists considered that building a dam here might menace animals living in this area.

Joe________away for the last two days but he is due back tomorrow.

Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers. For the parents of such kids, whose own ambition is often inseparately tied to their children's success, it can be a bewildering, painful experience. So it is no wonder some parents find themselves hoping that ambition can be taught like any other subject at school. It's not quite that simple. "Kids can be given the opportunities, but they can't be forced," says Jacquelynne Eccles, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan who led a study examining what motivated first-and seventh-graders in three school districts. Even so, a growing number of educators and psychologists do believe it is possible to unearth ambition in students who don't seem to have much. They say that by instilling confidence, encouraging some risk taking, being accepting of failure and expanding the areas in which children may be successful, both parents and teachers can reignite that innate desire to achieve. Dubbed Brainology, the unorthodox approach uses basic neuroscience to teach kids how the brain works and how it can continue to develop throughout life. The message is that everything is within the kids' control, that their intelligence is malleable . Some experts say our education system, with its strong emphasis on testing and rigid separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for the disappearance of drive in some kids. Some educators say it's important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurricular activities. "The crux of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions," says Michael Nakkula, a Harvard education professor who runs a Boston-area mentoring program called Project IF (Inventing the Future), which works to get low-income underachievers in touch with their aspirations. The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to tell them the notion that classwork is irrelevant is not true, to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. Like any ambitious toddler, they need to understand that they have to learn to walk before they can run.

The judge remained sober despite the lawyer's ludicrous attempt to prove the defendant's innocence.

A. I really can't wait that long.B. The bus stop is not far from here.C. It can take you right there.A: Excuse me. Could you tell me which bus I should take to go to the railway station?B: I think you'd better take the No.16 bus.【D4】______ .A: How often dose this bus go there? B: Every fifteen minutes.A:【D5】______ . Are there any other buses that can take me there?B: The No. 2 bus also goes to the railway station. You may take it. A: Where can I find the bus?B:【D6】______ . Go straight on and you can easily find it.A: Thanks a lot. B: You are welcome.

Acid rain leads to fish mortality. Many species of fish cannot survive in aquatic environments where the pH is below 5. 0. If the water is too acid, the gill systems of many kinds of fish can be damaged.【C1】______, the acid alters the blood chemistry of all fish. As a result, the fish population in an acidic environment decreases or becomes extinct. Approximately 20 percent of the lakes in Scandinavia are without fish. Moreover, in Nova Scotia the【C2】______ salmon industry may be threatened by the decrease of salmon in rivers and streams. The impact is also considerable in the waters of Ontario and Quebec, where fish populations are【C3】______ the decline. What potential remedies exist for the acid rain issue? The experts disagree. Some say new environmental laws should be【C4】______ to control the emission of pollutants in the atmosphere. Some say that if we had known how serious acid rain was, we would have planned better to prevent it.【C5】______, all agree that if the consumption of fossil fuel were reduced, we would have less of a problem. Another【C6】______ is that special scrubbers could be installed in smokestacks to remove a good【C7】______ of the pollutants before they get into the atmosphere. Other ideas even include breeding more tolerant fish. And research suggests that spreading lime into lakes may be effective in【C8】______ acidity. In conclusion, it is clear that if we truly want to reduce the impact of acid rain, a【C9】______ of remedies and international cooperation must be explored. It is a sad fact that acid rain probably could have been avoided if we【C10】______ what we know now.

Researchers analysed the diet of 16, 000 people in 52 countries and identified three global eating patterns. The typical Western diet, high in fat, salt and meat, accounted for about 30% of heart attack risk in any population. A "prudent" diet high in fruit and vegetables lowered heart risk by a third. An Oriental diet, high in torn, soy and other sauces, made no difference to heart attack risk. People who ate a Western diet had a 35% greater risk of having a heart attack than those who ate little or no fried. The typical Western diet has been widely linked to heart disease. High salt in the diet can raise blood pressure and the wrong type of fat can clog(阻塞)blood vessels. Ellen Mason, a cardiac nurse for the British Heart Foundation, said: "This study shows that it doesn't matter whether you live in Bolton or Bombay, or whether you like to eat British, African Caribbean or Asian foods. The vital thing is to reduce your intake of salty, fried, fatty food to a minimum but increase the amount of fruit and vegetables you eat. "

Why do so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers? The American Society of Newspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question. The organization is deep into a long self-analysis known as the journalism credibility project. Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want. But the sources of distrust go way deeper. Most journalists learn to see the world through a set of standard templates (patterns) into which they plug each day's events.

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A. give presentation B. new innovation C. uploadedPhrases:A. how to help poor people with all sorts of【T9】______B. all the speeches are【T10】______to their websitesC. 【T11】______on a variety of topics TED is a set of conference, held in various cities around the world every year. With speakers— also from various parts of the globe—【T12】______, for everyone to see. TED conferences invite speakers to【T13】______. The different speakers are usually experts in their field and talk about new ideas and recent developments that are important to their work. The speakers are often also well known, with people such as Microsoft giant Bill Gates and world-renowned chimpanzee expert, Jane Goodall, having given talks. There are many talks on environmentalism, for example, and on international development, aid work, and【T14】______.While the talks cover a wide variety of topics, all speakers have a strict time limit—each presentation must last no longer than 18 minutes.

For millions of years before the appearance of the electric light, shift work, all-night cable TV and the Internet, the Earth's creatures evolved on a planet with predictable and reassuring 24-hour rhythms. Our biological clocks are set for this daily cycle. Simply put, our bodies want to sleep at night and be awake during the day. Most women and men need between eight and eight and a half hours of sleep a night to function properly throughout their lives.(Contrary to popular belief, humans don't need less sleep as they age.) But on average, Americans sleep only about seven and a half hours per night, a marked drop from the nine hours they averaged in 1910. What's worse, nearly one third of all Americans get less than six hours of sleep on a typical work night. For most people, that's not nearly enough. Finding ways to get more and better sleep can be a challenge. Scientists have identified more than 80 different sleep disorders. Some sleeping disorders are genetic. But many problems are caused by staying up late and sleeping in, by traveling frequently between time zones or by working nights. Dr. James. F. Jones at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver says that sleep disorders are often diagnosed as other discomforts. About one third of the patients referred to him with possible chronic fatigue syndrome actually have treatable sleep disorders. "Before we do anything else, we look at their sleep," Jones says. Sleep experts say that most people would benefit from a good look at their sleep patterns. "My motto(座右铭)is 'Sleep defensivejy'," says Mary Carskadon of Brown University. She says people need to carve out sufficient time to sleep, even if it means giving up other things. Sleep routines—like going to bed and getting up at the same time every day—are important. Pre-bedtime activities also make a difference. As with Elaner, who used to suffer from sleeplessness, a few lifestyle changes—avoiding stimulants and late meals, exercising hours before bedtime, relaxing with a hot bath—yield better sleep.