______ Paul first saw the face of the man wanted by the police.
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第2题
M: I first became interested in do-it-yourself several years ago. You see, my son Paul is disabled. He's in a wheelchair and I just had to make alterations to the house.
W: Have you had any experience of this kind of work?
M: No. I got a few books from the library but they didn't help very much. Then I decided to go to evening classes so that I could learn basic carpentry and electrics.
W: What sort of changes did you make to the house?
M: First of all, practical things to help Paul. Just imagine the problems a disabled person would have in your house. We need a large house with wide corridors so that Paul could get from one room to another. We didn't have much money and we had to buy this one. It's over ninety years old and it was in a very bad state of repair.
W: Where did you begin?
M: The electrics. I completely rewired the house so that Paul could reach all the switches.
W: What else did you do?
M: By the time I'd altered everything for Paul, do-it-yourself had become a hobby. I really enjoyed doing things with my hands.
W: What are you working on now?
M: I've just finished the kitchen. Now I'm building an extension so that Paul will have a large room on the ground floor where he can work.
W: There's a $10,000 prize for the Do-it-yourself competition. How are you going to spend it?
M: I'm hoping to start my own business so that I can convert ordinary houses for disabled people. I think I've become an expert on the subject.
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A.He likes to do things with his own hands.
B.He wants to make things easier for Paul.
C.His house was in a very bad shape when he bought it.
D.He wants to save money.
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We are born liking sweet tastes and disliking bitter ones.【C6】______ we learn other fondnesses and aversions. Psychologist Paul of the University of Pennsylvania assumed that we【C7】______ these things from our parents. But when he 【C8】______ the first survey on food preferences within families, he was【C9】______ to find he was wrong. Parents were proved to have no【C10】______ effect on their children's likes and dislikes or desire to try new foods.【C11】______ he concluded that cultural background is the single most powerful influence on our tastes because it 【C12】______ us to certain combinations of foods and flavors. Americans are familiar with salmon poached or broiled and【C13】______ with lemon, while the Japanese eat it raw and garnished with ginger.
But in a recent interview, Paul was quick to point to the 【C14】______ in his theory: "There's a lot of【C15】______ in tastes within nationalities." To be sure, not all Japanese like【C16】______ salmon, and many Americans have 【C17】______ their cultural bias against raw fish and now enjoy it. Individual food【C18】______ , Paul believes, "are【C19】______ .If you get sick on something once, you're not【C20】______ to eat it again."
【C1】
A.while
B.and
C.or
D.when
第4题
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1995 in the United States.
A 19【M2】 photo shows Bill as a rapt young teenager,
watched his friend Paul Allen type at a computer terminal. 【M1】______
Allen became a co-founder of Microsoft. As for a child, Gates 【M2】______
had neat hair and an eager, pleasant smile. He entered Harvard
and dropped out to found Microsoft in 19【M9】Microsoft's first 【M3】______
product was a version of the programming language BASIC, for
the Altair 8800, arguably the world's first personal computer.
BASIC, invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964,
was someone else's idea. Such was the Alter. 【M4】______
By 1980, IBM had decided to build personal computers
and needed a PC operating system. So they fired Microsoft to 【M5】______
build its operating system. Microsoft bought Q-DOS from a
company called Seattle Computer Products and retailed them 【M6】______
for the PC.
The PC was released in August 1981 and was following 【M7】______
into the market by huge flocks of honking, beeping clones.
Apple released the Macintosh in 1984: a sophisticated
computer was now available to the masses. In May 1990,
Microsoft finally perfected it's own version of Apple windows 【M8】______
3.0, another huge hit.
By the early 1990s, electronic mail and the Internet were
big. Technologists forecast an Internet centered view of computing
called "mirror worlds". The World Wide Web was emerged in 【M9】______
1994, marking browsers unnecessary, and Netscape was founded 【M10】______
that same year.
【M1】
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【C1】
A.from
B.with
C.over
D.in
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听力原文: Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955. He co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen, his high school friend and partner in computer-language development since 1967.
Fascinated by computers by the age of 12, Gates was involved with various programming projects throughout high school. While attending Harvard in 1975, Gates teamed with Allen to develop a version of the BASIC computer-programming language for the Altair, the first personal computer. As a result of this work on BASIC, Gates decided to drop out of Harvard in 1977 to work at Microsoft full-time, pursuing his vision of "a computer on every desk and in every home," the idea behind the company. In the early 1980s, Gates led Microsoft's evolution from a developer of programming languages to a diversified software company producing operating systems and applications software as well as programming tools. This transition began in 1981 with Microsoft's introduction of MS-DOS, the operating system for International Business Machines Corporation's new Personal Computer. Gates persuaded other computer manufacturers to standardize on MSDOS, fueling software compatibility and computer industry growth in the 1980s. Gates also pushed Microsoft to introduce application software, such as Microsoft Word word-processing software for the IBM PC. In a key strategic move, Gates agreed to develop application software for the Apple Macintosh prior to the release of the first Mac in 1984. This was the beginning of strong position for Microsoft in applications that take advantage of the graphical user interface.
Much of Gates' success rests on his ability to translate technical visions into market strategy, and to blend creativity with technical acumen. He is one of the few founding CEOs from the technical side of the PC industry who has also survived and thrived on the business side.
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A.At the age of 20.
B.By the age of 12.
C.When he was at high school.
D.When he studied in Harvard University.
第7题
The aim of controlled scientific experiments is ______.
A.to explain why things happen
B.to explain how things happen
C.to describe self-evident principles
D.to support Aristotelian science
第8题
听力原文: In science the meaning of the word "explain" suffers with civilization's every step in search of reality. Science cannot really explain electricity, magnetism, and gravitation; their effects can be measured and predicted, but of their nature is no more known to the modem scientists than to Thales who first looked into the nature of the electrification of amber, a hard yellowish-brown gum. Most contemporary physicists reject the notion that man can ever discover what these mysterious forces "really" are. Electricity, Bertrand Russell says, "is not a thing, like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave. When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to tell." Until recently scientists would have disapproved of such an idea. Aristotle, for example, whose natural science dominated western thought for two thousand years, believe that man could arrive at an understanding of reality by reasoning from self-evident principles. He felt, for example, that it is a self-evident principle that everything in the universe has its proper place, hence one can deduce that objects fall to the ground because that's where they belong, and smoke goes up because that's where it belongs. The goal of Aristotelian science was to explain why things happen. Modem science was born when Galileo began trying to explain how things happen and thus originated the method of controlled experiment that now forms the basis of scientific investigation.
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A.To explain why things happen.
B.To explain how things happen.
C.To describe self-evident principles.
D.To support Aristotelian science.
第9题
听力原文: When John Milton, writer of Paradise Lost, entered Cambridge University in 1625, he was already skilled in Latin after seven years of studying it as his second language at St. Paul's school, London. Like all English boys who prepared for college in grammar school, he had learned not only to read Latin but also to speak and write it fluently and correctly. His pronunciation of Latin was English, however, and seemed to have sounded strange to his friends when he later visited Italy.
Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way. They memorized rules to make learning by heart easier. They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English. As they increased their skill, they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original. The schoolmaster was always at hand to encourage them.
After several years of study, the boys began to write compositions in imitation of the Latin writers they read. And as they began to read Latin poems, they began to write poems in Latin. Because Milton was already a poet at ten, his poems were much better than those painfully put together by other boys. During the seven years Milton spent at the university, he made constant use of his command of Latin. He wrote some excellent Latin poems which he published among his works in 1645.
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A.How John Milton Wrote Paradise Lost.
B.How John Milton Became a Poet.
C.How John Milton Studied Latin.
D.How John Milton Became Famous.