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阅读理解： 第二十九篇 Ill Be Bach 我也能成为巴赫 1. The music composed by David cope is about classical music. 2. By developing a computer software,David Cope aimed C to write an opera. 3. What did Cope real ize about a great composer's brai n? D It creates an accurate database. 4. Who is Emmy? B a computer software 5. We can infer from the passage that D Emmy did much more work than a composer. 第十九篇 The Family 家庭 1. Another good title for this passage woul d be_. A) What Makes a Family? 2. A nuclear family is defined as_.A) a married couple with their minor children 3. The information in this passage would most l ikely be found in_.A) an anthropology textbook 4. The informati on in the first paragraph is presented mai nly through _. C) pointing out similarities 5. The word mobi lity 活动性, 灵活性, 迁移率, 机动性 means_. B) readiness to move 第二十篇 Tales of the Terrible Past 讲述可怕的过去 1. This passage is mostly about_. 这篇文章主要讲什么? D) two novels that deal with slavery 2. Beloved is set_.“宠儿”的设置背景是什么? C) in Ohio after the Civil War 3. The writer seems to feel that_. 作者的感觉是什么? B) the books are worthwhile but challenging 4. The writer emphasizes that the two books are simi lar in their_.作者强调两部作品的共同之处是什么? D) portrayal of violence 5. The word appalli ng 令人震惊的, 骇人听闻的 means_. A) terrible the past" in the first paragraph refer to cities that C) want to maintain their traditional image. 2. The difficulty i n constructi ng tall bui ldings in the 19th century lies in B) the lack of a device to carry people upward. 3. When Otis came up wi th the i dea of a l ift, D) most people had doubt about its safety. 4. Which of the fol lowi ng best describes the experience of going in a lift now? B) Uninteresting. 5. Psychologists find the l ift a good place where they can study human behaviour because D) in a lift the bubble of personal space breaks. is mostly about_这篇文章主要讲了什么? C) where three early travel writers went and wrote about 2.Ibn Battutah traveled_. Ibn Battutah 到过哪里旅行? C) throughout the Muslim word 3. The books bf the three writers were popular because_. 三 位作家的作品都很受欢迎，原因是什么?B) they told of strange and exotic locales 4. The overall organization of this passage is through_. 这篇 文章的整体布局是依照什么? A) chronological order 按年代顺序排列的 5. In this passage attest means to_. D) give proof of 第二十七篇 Importance of Services 服务业的重要性 1. The first paragraph intends to tell us that B. services are important. 2. Between 1966 and 1986, the United States created about A. 32.4 million service jobs. 3. Many economists, business and labor leaders and poli ticians believe that A. most of the explosive growth in service employment is not in low-paying jobs. 4. The importance of services can be shown C. by money spent on business services as well as on consumer services. 5. What does the writer of this passage disapprove of regarding services now? C. Their prices. *第十篇 Working Mothers Carefully conductedresearches that have fol lowed the children of working mothers have not been able to show any long-term problems, 2 compared with children whose mothers stayed at home. My personal view is that mothers should be all owed to work if they wish. Whether we like it or not, thereare a number of mothers who just have to work. There are those who have invested such a big part of thei r lives in establishinga career that they cannot afford to see i t lost. Then there are many who must work out of pure economic necessity . Many mothers are not cut out to be f ull- time parents. After a few months at home wi th a much l oved infan, they feel trapped and isolated. There are a number of opti ons when it comes to choosing chil dcare. These range from child mi nders(照顾者) and nannies(保姆) through to Granny(奶奶) or the kind(好心的) lady across the street. In reality , however,many parents don't have any choice; they have to accept anything they can get. Be prepared! No matter how good the childcare may be,some children are going to protest(抗议) wil dly(激烈 的) if they are lef t. This is a perfectly normal stage of child development. Babies separate well in the first six months,but soon after that they start to get a crush(依恋, 压烂) on Mum and close family members . Make sure that in the first week you allow plenty of time to help your chi ld settle i n. All children are different. Some are independent, whi le others are more attached to their mothers. Remember that if you want to do the best for your children, it's not the quanti ty(数量) of time you spend with them，i t's the quality that matters *第七篇 The Difference between Man and Computer 人与电脑的区别 What makes people different from computer programs? What is the missing element(n.元素，成分，要素) that our theories dont yet account for? The answer is simple: People read newspaper stories for a reason: to learn more about what they are interested in. Computers, on the other hand, don't. I n fact, computers don't even have interests; there is nothi ng in particular(尤其, 特别) that they are trying to fi nd out when they read. If a computer program_ is to be a model of story understanding, it should also read for a "purpose". Of course, people have several goals that do not make sense to attribute to computers. One might read a restaurant gui de in order to satisfy hunger or entertainment(n.娱乐，消遣) goals, or to find a good place to go for a business lunch. Computers do not get hungry, and computers do not have busi ness lunches. However, these physiologi cal(adj.生理学的,生理的) and social goals give rise to several intellectual(adj.智力的，聪明的) or cogni tive(adj. 认知的，认识上的) goals. A goal to satisfy hunger gives rise to(引起, 导致) goals to find information about the name of a restaurant which serves the desired type of food, how expensive the restaurant is,the location of the restaurant, etc. These are goals to _ acquire informati on or knowledge, what we are calling learning _ goals. These goals can be held by computers too; a computer might_ "want" to find out the location of a restaurant, and read a gui de in order to do so in the same way as a person might. While such a goal would not arise out of hunger in the case of the computer, it might wel l(很可能) arise out of the "goal" to learn more about restaurants. *第九篇 The First Bicycle 第一辆自行车第一辆自行车 The history of the bicycle goes back more than 200 years. In 1791, Count(伯爵) de Sivrac delighted onlookers(观众) in a park in Paris as he showed off his two-wheeled invention, a machine called the celeriferé. It was basically an enlarged version of a chi ldrens toy which had been in use for many years. Sivrac's "celeriferé" had a wooden frame, made i n the shape of a horse, which was mounted on a wheel at either end.To ri de it, you sat on a small seat, just l ike a modem bicycle,and pushed hard against the ground wi th your legs -there were no pedals(踏板，脚蹬子). It was impossible to steer(驾 驶，操纵，控制) a celeriferé and i t had no brakes(闸，刹车),but despite these problems the invention very much appealed to the fashionable young men of Paris. Soon they were holding races up and down the streets. Minor injuries were common as riders attempted a fi nal burst(爆 发，突发，爆炸) of speed . Controlling the machine was difficult, as the only way to change direction was to pul l up the f ront of the "celerifer é" and turn it round while the front wheel was spinning in the ai r. "Celeriferés" were not popular for long,however,as the combination of no springs(弹簧), no steering and rough roads(起伏路) made ridi ng them very uncomfortable. Even so,the wooden celeriferé was the origin of the modem bicycle.
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