单选题{{B}}第二篇{{/B}} Whatever Happens to Old Computers? You have just got a new computer and you are delighted with it. It is doing everything you wanted your new computer to do. But what are you going to do with your old computer? Have you ever wondered what other people do with their old computers? In the past they have often paid high prices for their old computers, but how much do you think these computers are worth now? Few people want to buy a computer that has become out of date or has been replaced by a newer model. Unfortunately, the only thing you can do with a computer that you have had for five or six years is to throw it away with your other garbage! What do many people do when they try to sell their old computers? Foolishly, they take into account its original cost and then reduce the price according to the age of the computer rather like a second-hand car. They are wrong. They forget that new computers are becoming cheaper every day, making old computers almost worthless. In 1985, for example, a good computer cost over US $ 4,000. Ten years later its owner would be lucky to get $ 400. Although old computers are still more useful than old typewriters, you must be careful about buying a second-hand computer. The microchips in a computer may last a long time, but the hard disk will not. It will probably cost more to replace the hard disk with a new one than the computer itself is worth. Moreover, replacing the old processor in a computer is simply not worth the trouble as it will probably be incapable of running newer software. Ultimately, saving and repairing an old computer is like building a car from spare parts. It is far cheaper to buy a new car. One well-known computer magazine recently compiled a list of ten things to do with an old computer. One suggestion was to donate it to charity or give it as one of the small prizes in a competition. The final suggestion was to store it in a safe place and hope that it would become a collector's item in fifteen or twenty years though the article in the magazine admitted that in fifteen or twenty years there may be so many old computers that they will all be worthless. Whatever you decide to do with an old computer will not alter the fact that it will be useless as a piece of technology in several years. The world of computers is quickly changing and eventually all computers will not only be integrated with video telephone and run CD-ROM disks, but will also be able to perform a countless number of tasks which as yet we cannot even imagine. All these uses will require much more advanced and powerful machines that will automatically condemn even the most advanced computer today to the garbage can of the twentieth century.

单选题The powers of the European Commission to regulate competition in the Community are increasing.A. fightB. abolishC. removeD. control

单选题I wrote to that company a week ago, but I didn't receive any reply.A. informationB. answerC. wordD. message

单选题It was a {{U}}fascinating{{/U}} painting，with clever use of color and light．

单选题As a good student, you have to follow the school rules.

单选题The local government decided to Umerge/U the two firms into a big one.

单选题If the weatherman has predicted accurately , tomorrow will be a perfect day for our picnic.

单选题Covering the Cost All by Himself University life is in no way cheap in Canada. It costs Peter Kemp, a computer science major at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver, C $18,000 a year. Amazingly, the 21-year-old is covering the cost by himself. For the past three years, Kemp has done a range of part-time jobs to pay for his tuition (学费) and living expenses. Last semester alone, he worked five jobs for 32-40 hours a week. Life is busy, but Kemp enjoys it. "Doing part-time jobs gives me economic independence," said Kemp, who will begin his senior year this fall. "Having economic independence gives me the ability to take control of my life and make my own decisions," said Kemp. "It has also helped me understand the value of money." Among Kemp"s five jobs last semester, two were on campus. For one, he helped maintain the university"s computer labs. For the other, he worked at the IT service desk to help students and teachers solve their computer problems. He also worked for a small company that develops GPS systems. This job paid him well at C $27 an hours. "These jobs made me put what I"ve learned in university to practical use," Kemp said. "I accomplished creative and imaginative tasks by applying my abilities to the work." Good time management skills help Kemp balance work and study. He"s a top student in his class. And he will be the student association chairman for his department beginning next semester. It"s a position that he has desired for a long time. "It will give me the opportunity to be the voice for my fellow students and make a difference," says Kemp. "I believe one of the key secrets to juggling (应付) everything is to avoid putting off tasks. This can leave you stressed and reduce the quality of your work and health," he said. "I often make a list of the things I need to do each day and rank them by their importance. The list helps me decide what task I should do first and when I should complete it. Remember to ask for help when you think you can"t finish something on time, or can"t finish it by yourself."

单选题In addition to his theory of color, Newton developed a theory of how light travels. This is known as the corpuscular theory of light, meaning that light travels as a series of tiny bits rather than in continuing waves. Newton sent his writings to the Royal Society where they were given to a committee led by Hooke. Since the corpuscular theory was different from his own theory, Hooke attacked the paper. Soon others started to argue, and Hooke was supported by a scientist from Holland, Chritain Huygens. At one time, Newton was so unhappy with the whole affair that he decided never again to publish any of his work. The bitter argument continued over the years that followed. At first, Hooke and Huygens received most of the support. Later, after Newton had changed his mind and let his work on gravity be published, he became so famous that things changed. Now people believed Newton could do nothing wrong, and for a hundred years they followed his theory. Then, in the early part of the 19th century, the experiments of a French scientist, Augustin Fresnel, showed that light could be explained best by a wave theory. So the scientists changed sides again, saying that Newton's ideas had delayed scientific progress for a hundred years. Newton's publishing ofhis work on gravity resulted in thatA. Newton became the best known scientist.B. his corpuscular theory of light was accepted.C. scientists would believe in Newton only.D. most people have supposed Newton till now.

单选题2. A Sophisticated Device for Sophisticated Communication As wireless communication has become more sophisticated, consumers have more and more choices of ways to communicate and organize their lives at the same time. So, what kind of device do most people want to carry in the future? A Personal Digiml Assistant(PDA) that talks or a cell phone that can handle data? There's evidence that smart cell phones are winning the hearts of consumers. There are certainly lots more cell phones in people's hands. Sales of cell phones still outnumber those of PDAs. The simple reason for this is that users find wireless phones convenient and easy. There's no special knowledge required to use them; everybody already knows how to make phone calls. To maintain their advantage, however cell—phone manufacturers should continue to design their phones primarily for voice communications. Other applications need to complement voice features, not compromise them. There are a number of design criteria that cell phone manufacturers must take into consideration as they are essential to successful market appeal. Cell phone designers need to keep in mind that people buy these devices first to communicate, not to compute, so they need to remain easy to use. Therefore, most importantly, new combination devices need to look like phones. The familiar look of cell phones also makes it easier for technophobes, who fear new gadgets, to accept devices with more complex capabilities. The average phone user prefers a simple keypad, not a stylus for writing on a screen. Small size is also valued. After all, convenience is what has made cell phones so popular in the first place. Given these criteria, however, the appeal of technology is to offer the customer innovation— something new to capture their imagination. So, what are manufacturers adding to cell phones? Anything that requires a lot of typing or a large screen won't work. Word processing, spreadsheets, or even most web surfing isn't practical. Successful smart-phone applications need only to add to the convenience of phones. Making it even easier for the consumer to stay in touch and be productive is the priority. As such, some useful applications could be personal information management programs, such as an address book, calendar, or a" to-do" list, which automatically communicate with the user's home—or office—based PC. Also, phones can be programmed for access to specific Internet data and functions that the user chooses. They can offer phone directory searches and driving directions. More features might include short messaging services, e-mail, and fax.

单选题Shopping for Clothes Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in 1 . He knows what he wants, and his 2 is to find it and buy it. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone"s 3 . For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants. In that 4 the salesman tries to sell the customer something else—he offers the nearest to the article required. Good salesman brings out such a substitute with 5 : "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size. It 6 to be the colour you mentioned." Few men have 7 with this treatment, and the usual response is. "This is the right colour and may be the right size, but I should be 8 my time and yours by trying it on." For a woman, buying clothes is always done in the 9 way. Her shopping is not often 10 on need. She has never fully decided what she wants, and she is only "having a look round". She is always open to persuasion, willing to try 11 any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that 12 thinks suits her. Most women have an excellent sense of value and are always on the look-out for the unexpected 13 . Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another 14 selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a tiresome process, but apparently a(n) 15 one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

单选题Such a database would be extremely costly to {{U}}set up{{/U}}. A. transfer B. destroy C. establish D. update

单选题The ship left New York on her maiden voyage.

单选题Most of the dreadful eruptions of Mount Saint Helens took place in early May.

单选题It is absurd to predict that the sun will not rise tomorrow.

单选题How sleep helps us consolidate memories is still largely a mystery. A recent study from the University of Lǔbeck, in Germany, offers one clue. Subjects were given a list of 46 word pairs to memorize, just before sleep. Then when they reached the deepest stages of sleep, electrical currents were sent through electrodes on their heads to induce very slow brain waves. Such slow waves were induced at random in the brains of one group of subjects, but not another. The next morning, the slow-wave group had better recall of the words. Other types of memory were not improved, and inducing the slow waves later in the night did not have the same effect. Why and how the slow waves improved memory is not yet understood, but they are thought to alter the strengths of chemical connections, or synapses, between specific pairs of nerve cells in the brain. Memories are "stored" in these synapses: changing the strength of the synapses increases the strength of the memories they store. Slow waves functioned in the subjects' brains in the experiment whenA. they were given a list of words before sleep.B. they reached the deepest stages of sleep.C. they were connected to electrical currents.D. they were asked to recall the words the next mornin

单选题Mary called me up very late last night. A. praised me B. visited me C. telephoned me D. waked me

单选题Jensen is a dangerous man, and can be very brutal .

单选题Cosmos 2251 was an ordinary satellite designed to transmit signals across the vast Russian landmass. Launched in 1993, it would appear every 90 minutes or so over the northern skies, relay electronic blips of information among a network of satellites and ground stations like a hockey player passing the puck (冰球运动中当球用的橡胶圆盘), and disappear over the southern horizon. Cosmos was designed toA. play hockey with human players.B. guard the Russian landmass.C. patrol over the Russian sky.D. send information back to stations.

单选题Reading the job ad, he wondered whether he was eligible to apply for it.