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【题目】七选五

Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest. The Battle of the Brains took place in Harbin, China. 【1】

Jerry Cain, coach of Stanford University Team, California, says “One of the programming problems was trying to figure out how to break a chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible. 2

The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty. 3 They designed ways to test their solutions. And they wrote needed software systems. Even the winning team from Shanhai Jiaotong University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given time limit. Stanford’s team solved five problems and finished in 14th place. Stanford was one of twenty-one American universities that took part in the contest this year.

4 . It began in 1970 at Texas A and M University. The contest quickly became popular in the United States and Canada. It developed and grew as more and more schools took part in local and area contests.

The first final competition was held in 1977 at the Association for Computer Machinery Computer Science Conference. Today, a network of universities holds area competitions that send the winners to the world finals, now organized by IBM. Contest spokesman Doug Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships. 5

A. The competitors show great interest in IBM.

B. Thenthey figured out the requirements of each.

C. And that’s probably the simplest of all of them.

D. This competition is an opportunity to be recognized by famous universities from the world.

E. Three-person teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems.

F. The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

G. They are also guaranteed an offer of employment with IBM.

【答案】

【1】E

【2】C

【3】B

【4】F

【5】G

【解析】

试题分析:

【1】E 根据前一句The Battle of the Brains took place in Harbin, China.可知脑力比赛在中国哈尔滨进行。接着应该叙述比赛的规则。选项中只有E项属于规则。故E正确。

【2】C 本段之前内容都在叙述其中的一个问题:把巧克力块分成尽可能多的小块。这与第一段最后real world problems相比就是最简单的问题。故C项符合上下文串联。

【3】B 根据第一句The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty.学生首先按照困难的顺序把问题列出来。然后再列出每个问题的具体要求。故B之前。

【4】F 本段介绍的是全世界脑力比赛的历史,选项中只有F项内容属于这一方面的内容。故F项符合上下文串联。

【5】G 根据前句Contest spokesman Doug Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships.得知赢得比赛的人会获得奖品和奖学金。接下来这句应该还是叙述获胜者的奖品。故G项正确。

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