Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest, which took place in Harbin, China. Three-person teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems.

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

The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Contest. 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 Dong Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships. They are also guaranteed an offer of employment or internship(实习) with IBM. He said, “We have had past world champions that IBM has gone and employed in our Zurich research laboratory and are now working on some of the leading edge materials in science and physics. We have a world finalist from China who’s been working on the Watson Supercomputer that in the near future will be playing Jeopardy(一种超级计算机名称)against the best Jeopardy players in the world. So this competition is an opportunity to be recognized and to be recruited(招聘) by some of the top technology and research firms around the world.”

1. From the first paragraph we can figure out there were _______ programmers taking part in the contest.

A．3                B．88               C．246              D．a lot of

2. From the last paragraph we know that _______.

A．the winners will be offered a job in IBM

B．this contest provides a chance for the universities

C．this competition is held every four years

D．many big companies are short of programmers

3. What is the best title of this passage?

A．The Best Top Contest

B．The Battle of the Brains

C．The Difficult Competition

D．Courage and Wisdom Needed

单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1 分，共计10分）

1. The people who witnessed the accident gave a very clear a       of what happened, which helped the police a lot. 1. ___________

2.We are free to have our own beliefs, but it’s very important to learn to respect other people’s r      . 2. ___________

3.He didn’t say anything about the idea. O       , he doesn’t agree to it.      3. ___________

4.It can help us to reduce our pressure from study if we can b       ourselveswell between study and play. 4. ___________

5. In order to cooperate well, we should know each other’s s     and weaknesses. 5. ___________

6. Christopher, u      his brother who is shy and quiet, likes parties and adventures. 6. ___________

7. These kind of movies are not meant for children because they are far too     (暴力) and bloody. 7. ___________

8. He was luck enough to be _______ (授予) a scholarship to study in Harvard. 8. ___________

9. This classroom is just ________(稍微) larger than that. 9. ___________

10. The visitors to our school were deeply ________(留下印象)by the students’wonderful performance in the activity. 10. __________

单句改错（共10小题，每小题1 分，共计10分）

1. Dad is coming back from abroad. What presents do you think will he bring to us?   1. __________

2. He mustn’t have gone far, because his coat is still here on his chair.              2. __________

3.According to a widely accepted theory, the universe began with a “Big Bang” that threw matters in all directions. 3. ___________

4.We are advised to wear sunglasses to prevent our eyes from the strong sunlight.    4. ___________

5.We won’t have Jim get away with cheating in the exam. 5. ___________

6.I have told him about the get-together but if he will come I don’t know. 6. ___________

7.He told us that it would be a great chance to build our bodies and we would have a wonderful time in it.  7. __________

8. Dressed in a bright red dress, she was easy to be picked out in the big crowd.       8. __________

9.She said that she might not come, so it is no point waiting for her here.            9. __________

10. After they moved in, she decided to change the curtains because they did not fit the wall and the furniture.  10. __________

书面表达（共计10分）

根据下面漫画写一篇短文，叙述淘气的孩子Tom捉弄他父亲的经过。字数100左右。第一句话和最后一句话已给出。

下列词语供选用：

cactus仙人掌  prickly 多刺的  switch off 关掉

Tom is a naughty boy. _____________________________________________________________

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________________________________________________. You can imagine his father’s pain, and great anger when he realized what happened!

In most western countries, on April Fool’s Day，people often play _____  trick on each other; children especially have great  _______  fun.

A．a；a             B．the；the          C．不填；a          D．a；不填

The old photos buried at the bottom of the suitcase________  me of those happy old days we had spent together.

A．repeated          B．reminded         C．informed          D．remembered

The building was named Ford Hall________ a man named James Ford.

A．in place of                             B．in celebration of

C．in memory of                          D．in favor of

It’s nearly eight o’clock. I must hang up and get down to work. My boss________ be here at any moment.

A．should            B．must             C．could             D．would

When I talked about the thing, I felt Jane watching me uncomfortably，looking____ she wished to speak.

A．as though                             B．even though

C．so that                                D．in case

 Though I haven’t seen Maria for ages, I could ____ her in the crowd at the station.

A．stare             B．realize            C．spot              D．know