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　　Build the highway and watch the town grow. At first a few shops appear and maybe a restaurant. Then a hotel opens. Eventually new houses are built. A village is born.

　　This is also how the virtual world has developed. Think of the Internet as the road carrying information between two computers. Think of the World Wide Web as the village. At first it is just a place on the virtual road where travellers meet. More travellers come bringing new kinds of information. New villages are started.

　　Every village has a founder. Tim Berners-Lee is the man who wrote the software programme that led to the foundation of the World Wide Web. How did he get the idea? He tells us on his own web site: “One of the things computers were not able to do was store contacts (互通信息) from different sources. The dream behind the Web is of a common space in which we commu nicate by sharing information.”

　　Tim Berners-Lee could have followed the Microsoft route by forming a company to sell the programmes he invented. Or he could have joined an existing company. But in his view the Web is a language, not a product, Charging a fee for using his programmes would have slowed the growth of the Web. And other companies would make similar products to compete. Instead of one World Wide Web there would be several smaller Webs. Each would use incompatible (不相容的) software. The Web is valuable because it uses a common computer language to reach people and share information. Competing webs would lose this value. Imagine if somebody sent you a bill every time you spoke a word of English.

　　In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee formed the newly formed World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C. More than 200 leading companies and laboratories are represented by W3C. Together they make sure that everyone no matter what their equipment or software is can work equally on the Web.

　　“The Web can help people to understand the way that others live and love. It helps us understand the humanity of people,” he says.

1．Which appeared first, the Web or the Internet?

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A．The Internet.

B．The Web.

C．They appeared at the same time.

D．There is no clue in the passage.

2．What does the underlined part “the virtual world” refer to?

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A．The computer system.

B．Scientific research.

C．All the information on the Web and the Internet.

D．People working on the Web and the Internet.

3．What can be inferred from the sentence “Imagine if somebody sent you a bill every time you spoke a word of English”?

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A．The information on the Web should be shared by all.

B．The Web is where all kinds of information are stored.

C．People can get all kinds of information on the Web.

D．People can communicate on the Web.

4．Which is the main idea of the passage?

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A．How Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web.

B．The advantages of working on the World Wide Web.

C．Why Tim Berners-Lee wanted to found the World Wide Web.

D．How Tim Berners-Lee got the idea of founding the World Wide Web.

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阅读下列短文，从题中所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　The competition among producers of personal computers is essentially a race to get the best, most innovative products to the marketplace. Marketers in this environment frequently have to make a judgement as to their competitors' role when making marketing strategy decisions. If major compettors are changing their products, then a marketer may want to follow suit to remain competitive. Apple Computer, Inc. has introduced two new, faster personal computers, the Mackintosh Ⅱ and Mackintosh SE, in anticipation of the introduction of a new PC by IBM, one of Apple's major competitors.

　　Apple's new computers are much faster and more powerful than its earlier models. The improved Mackintosh is able to run programs that previously were impossible to run on an Apple PC, including IBM-compatible (兼容的) programs. This compatibility feature (特性) illustrates (show) computer manufacturers' (producer) new attitude of giving customers the features they want. Making Apple computers capable of running. IBM software is Apple's effort at making the Machintosh compatible with IBM computers and thus more popular in the office, where Apple hopes to increase sales. Users of the new Apple can also accessories (附件) to make their machines specialize in specific uses, such as engineering and writing.

　　The new computers represent a big improvement over past models, but they also cost much more. Company officials do not think the higher price will slow down buyers who step up to a more powerful computer. Apple wants to stay in the high-price end of the personal computer market to finance research for even faster, more sophisticated computers.

　　Even though Apple and IBM are major competitors, both companies realize that their competitor's computers have certain features that their own models do not. The Apple line has always been popular for its sophisticated color graphics (图形), whereas the IBM machines have always been favored in offices. In the future, there will probably be more compatibility between the two companies' products, which no doubt will require that both Apple and IBM change marketing strategies.

1．According to the passage, Apple Computer, Inc. has introduced the Mackintosh Ⅱ and the Mackintosh SE because ________.

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A．it wants to make its machines specialize in specific uses ________.

B．it wants to stay ahead of IBM in the competitive computer market

C．it expects its major competitor IBM to follow its example

D．IBM is changing its computer models continuously

2．Apple hopes to increase Mackintosh sales chiefly by ________.

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A．improving the color graphics of its new models

B．copying the marketing stategies of IBM

C．giving the customers what they want

D．making its new models capable of running IBM software

3．It can be inferred from the passage that both Apple and IBM try to gain a competitive advantage by ________.

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A．incorporating (合并) features that make their products special

B．making their computers more expensive

C．making their computers run much faster

D．copying each other's technology

4．The best title for the passage would be ________.

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A．Apple's New Computer Technology

B．Apple's New Personal Computers

C．Apple's Research Activities

D．Apple's Efforts to Stay Ahead of IBM

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　　The 42,503 Chinese students studying in the United States are enrolled (注册入学) in 994 different universities. The University of Houston in Texas, with 474 students, or more than 1 percent of the total, has the largest number of Chinese students of any US university. One hundred and eighteen universities and colleges have more than 100 Chinese, and the average number of students per university is around 40.

　　Twenty-three per cent of Chinese students are concentrated at the 20 most popular universities. Compared with other Asian countries and regions, Chinese students are quite well dispersed (发布). Only Japan has a lower percentage of students in the top 20 universities.

　　Now York States is the most popular with 3,524 Chinese students (10 per cent). States following in order of popularity with Chinese are, California, Texas, Ohio, and Ⅱ linois, Thirty-eight percent of the Chinese students enrolled in US institutions are concentrated in these five states.

　　Seventy-seven per cent of all Chinese are studying at the graduate level. Eleven per cent are enrolled in undergraduate programs while 4 per cent are listed as non-degree of ESL (English as a Second Language) students.

1．From the first paragraph, we get to know that ________.

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A．the University of Houston is the best University in the United States

B．the University of Houston is the biggest university in the United States

C．there are about 45,000 students in the University of Houston

D．the University of Houston only receives Chinese students

2．The second paragraph means that ________.

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A．only students from China study at the tap universities

B．no other students but Japanese and Chinese students study at the top universities

C．Chinese students often fight against Japanese students

D．famous universities in the United States attract more Chinese students

3．The main idea of the third paragraph is that ________.

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A．New York State is the biggest state in the United States

B．New York State has the most beautiful buildings

C．not every state of the United States attracts Chinese students

D．there are 35 states in the United States

4．If one goes to study in the United States as an ESL student, ________.

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A．he or she must use English as his or her native language

B．he or she must be a Canadian

C．his or her first language is not English

D．he or she must be a Chinese

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　　Are you thinking of writing someone a letter? Call instead. It isn't that expensive, especially when you call during the evening, night, or weekend hours. In fact, you can make a tenminute call anywhere in the continental United States for just $ 2.60.

　　For even greater saving, always dial direct, that is, without an operator's help. Rates on direct calls are lower after five o'clock in the evening and lowest after eleven o'clock at night. Collect, person-to-person, and pay phone calls require the services of an operator, and they cost more than direct calls.

　　Need to call out of the country? Now calls to many overseas places may be dialed direct. Check your telephone direction for overseas area codes.

　　Next time you have good news, or you just want to stay in touch, remember, a phone call means so much more than a letter. This has been a message from Southern Bell Telephone Company.

1．According to this passage, when is a dial telephone call cheapest?

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A．During weekend hours.

B．After 5 in the evening.

C．During working hours.

D．After 11 at night.

2．What type of call requires less money?

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A．A direct dial call.

B．A collect call.

C．A person-to-person call.

D．A call from a pay phone.

3．What should one do in order to make an overseas call?

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A．Dial the operator.

B．Call the Southern Bell Telephone Company.

C．Check the phone book for the overseas operator's number so that he can help you.

D．Check the phone book for overseas area codes so that you can dial direct.

4．This passage is ________.

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阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从题中所给的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　Tony Bennett, the American singer recently touring Britain, can't remember how many times he had sung his standard hit “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” He sang it again to his audience at the London Palladium last night.

　　“I never get tired of singing it,” he said. “I like it too much. It's a great city and it's a good song.”

　　Bennett is to record a TV special with American singer Lena Home while he is here. And a new LP recorded by him in London for Philips titled “Listen Easy” will be published in June.

　　“I like it here,” he added quietly over whiskey. “I would like to live here so many months of the year.”

　　He already keeps a large flat in Grosvenor Square, where he is staying with his actress wife Sandie Grant and their three-year-old daughter Joanna. It has a studio where he likes to paint. Tony plans to have his first exhibition later in the year and he has already sold one picture far $ 4,000．At the end of the year Tony is to star in a musical film which has been specially written for him called “Two Bits,” an informal expression for 50 cents. It's about an Italian immigrant who goes to America, but he becomes a failure.

　　“In many ways it's very colse to my life the way the story has been written,” said Bennett. “My father, an Italian, was ill and died when I was nine. He always wanted me to sing, but he never lived long enough to be a part of my success.”

　　The film is to be made by Italy's top director Vittoria De Sica.

1．The phrase “standard hit” most nearly means ________.

[　　]

A．Bennett's favourite song but it's not very popular

B．a song that is always popular

C．a song which makes him standard

D．a song which is like a heavy blow to his audience

2．What was he doing when Tony Bennett was interviewed?

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3．Tony Bennett's hobby is ________.

[　　]

4．Tony Bennett's father ________.

[　　]

A．was born in Italy and died in America

B．was a part of Bennett's achievement

C．liked his son's singing

D．was glad that his son became famous

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　“Most episodes (片段) of absent - mindednessforgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a roomare caused by a simple lack of attention,” says Schacter. “You're supposed to remember something, but you haven't encoded it deeply.”

　　“Encoding”, Schacter explains, “is a special way of paying attention to an event that has a major effect on remembering it later. Failure to encode properly can create annoying situations. If you put your mobile phone in a pocket, for example, and don't pay attention to what you did because you're involved in a conversation, you'll probably forget that the phone is in the jacket now hanging in your wardrobe (衣柜).” “Your memory itself isn't failing you,” says Schacter. “Rather, you didn't give your memory system the information it needed.”

　　Lack of interest can also lead to absent - mindedness. “A man who can recite sports statistics (数据) from 30 years ago,” says Zelinski, “may not remember to drop a letter in the mailbox.” Women have slightly better memories than men, possibly because they pay more attention to their environment. And memory depends on just that.

　　“Reminders can help prevent absent - mindedness,” says Schacter. “But be sure the reminder is clear and available,” he says. If you want to remember to take medicine with lunch, put it on the kitchen tabledon't leave it in the medicine chest and write yourself a note that you keep in a pocket.

　　Another common episode of absent - mindedness: walking into a room and wondering why you're there. Most likely, you were thinking about something else. “Everyone does this from time to time,” says Zelinski. The best thing to do is to return to where you were before entering the room, and you'll likely remember.

1．Why does the writer think that encoding is important?

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A．It helps us understand our memory system better.

B．It enables us to remember something from our memory.

C．It expands our memory ability greatly.

D．It slows down the process of losing our memory.

2．Why do women have better memories than men?

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A．They have a wider variety of interests.

B．They are more dependent on the environment.

C．They pay more attention to things they like.

D．They are more interested in what's happening around them.

3．Why can a note in the pocket hardly serve as a reminder?

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A．Because it will easily get lost.

B．Because it's not clear enough for you to read.

C．Because it's out of your sight.

D．Because it might get mixed up with other things.

4．What do we learn from the last paragraph?

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A．If we pay more attention to one thing, we might forget another.

B．Memory depends to a certain extent on the environment.

C．Doing something again helps improve our memory.

D．If we keep forgetting things, we'd better rerurn to where we were.

5．What is the passage mainly about?

[　　]

A．The process of gradual memory loss.

B．The causes of absent - mindedness.

C．The influence of the environment on memory.

D．A way of encoding and remembering.

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　Whatever our differences as human beings are we all think we're more like the rest of the animal world than we realize. It is said that we share 40 per cent of our genetic (遗传的) structure with the simple worm.

　　But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human genome (染色体组).

　　To help them do this, they turned to the worm. The nematode (线虫类的) worm is one of the earliest creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent and spends its entire life digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and what can be done to make it better.

　　What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of the cells in the human body is programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded in our genetic make - up.

　　Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go wrong or are not obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and diseases like AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell death.

1．Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has ________.

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A．found that human beings are similar to the worm

B．got the fact we share 40 per cent of our genetic structure with the simple worm

C．found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human body

D．proved that cell death is programmed

2．People might be seriously ill if the cells in their body ________.

[　　]

A．grow without being instructed

B．die regularly

C．fail to follow people's instructions

D．develop in the human body

3．The underlined word “they” (paragraph 5) refers to ________.

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4．What is the subject discussed in the text?

[　　]

A．The theory of programmed cell deaths.

B．A great scientistSir John Sulston.

C．The programmed human life.

D．Dangerous diseases.

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　　He was just 12 years old when he died. But he brought courage and hope to people around the world.

　　Nkosi Johnson, who died last June, is remembered today as an AIDS fighter. This young boy challenged his government's AIDS policies and united millions of South Africans in the fight against the disease.

　　Johnson was the longest surviving person born HIV positive (艾滋病病素携带者). He survived (continue to live) with this deadly disease for 12 years before it claimed his life.

　　At first, Johnson was expected to live for nine months when his foster mother, Gail Johnson, took him in at the age of two. She now runs Nkosi's Haven across town from her house in Melville. The Haven is home to 20 children living with HIV or AIDS, and 11 of their mothers.

　　Johnson attracted the world's attention and stole the hearts of thousands of people across the world at the 13^th International AIDS Conference in Durban in July 2000．He stood in front of a large audience including South African President Thabo Mbeki. He told them that he wanted AZT, a drug used to treat AIDS patients, to be given to HIV - positive pregnant (怀孕的) women to prevent the disease being passed on to their unborn babies. He received a loud cheer at the end of his speech.

　　Johnson's speech was broadcast live across the world. With views beyond his age and even a sense of humor, Johnson soon became an international sign of the fight against AIDS and HIV.

1．The underlined words “claimed his life” (paragraph 3 ) means ________.

[　　]

A．did harm to Johnson's health

B．helped Johnson to survive

C．caused the death of Johnson

D．made Johnson weak

2．The AIDS child gave the speech in order to ________.

[　　]

A．steal the hearts of thousands of people

B．be an AIDS fighter

C．get more help from the world

D．fight against the government

3．From the passage we can infer that ________.

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A．the government's AIDS policies have to be improved

B．the government did nothing to help those with HIV positive

C．the boy's speech changed the government's policies

D．no one lived longer than the boy

4．The best title for this passage is ________.

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A．The Sad Story of an AIDS Child

B．The Courage of an AIDS Child

C．AIDS, a Deadly Disease

D．A Hero in South Africa

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　Are you doing all you can to recycle your rubbish? It only takes a minute to recycle and help reduce waste in your home as well as the costs of waste management. Here are some ideas to get you started.

　　A　　Never throw away vegetable matter. Start a compost (混合肥料) bin in your garden. You'll be amazed how much this can reduce the bulk (体积) of your rubbish and it's great for the garden too.

　　B　　Don't throw used containers in the rubbish. Get into the habit of sorting them into recycling categories (class or group of things) glass, aluminum (铝), plastics and paper.

　　C　　Glass containers can be placed in the bottle banks at supermarket car parks throughout the city. Look for the big green bins. Or you can leave your bottles out for collection on Monday morning.

　　D　　Aluminum cans can earn you cash so don't just throw them awaysave them and save money. Ring your council to find out when they collect.

　　E　　Paper is easily recycled. Weekly collections are common in most areas. Make sure you place recyclable paper in the black bins provided. Ask the council offices if you don't already have a bin. But remember, waxed paper is not accepted.

　　F　　Most plastic bottles and containers can be recycled. Look on the bottom of the container for the identification (识别) code.

1．The following four pictures are mentioned in ________.

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2．You can make money by saving ________.

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3．Which of the following statements is true to the facts about waste management?

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A．All paper can be recycled.

B．The recycling code is found on the side of plastic bottles.

C．All plastic containers can't be recycled.

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　　“Most people in Britain or America spend four hours every day staring at a piece of furniture,” said a spokesman. “Television eats up half the time you are not working or sleepingten years of an average life. All those things you want to dowhen are you going to do them? TV takes away your real life.”

　　A study of 20,000 British children published in 1999 compared TV viewing habits with social attitudes. Children who watched over four hours TV per day were more likely to agree with statements like “I am not worth much as a person,” and “there is nothing I can do about the world's problems.”

　　White Dot organizes an annual (每年的) “TV turn off week”, which will start from April 23 this year. The group said that last year over 5 million people in Britain and the United States supported the event, mainly concerned parents and teachers.

　　This year they want more people to join in. That's why a spokesman, David Burke, went into the enemy camp. In a TV programme shown in Britain in late March he put the case against television. Next day, the TV critics were unanimous (一致同意的). Mr Burke had made his points with force, wisdom and style. Give this man his own TV series!

1．From the passage we can infer that ________.

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A．David will have his own TV series

B．more people might join in the “TV turn off week” this year

C．the children who watch a lot of TV feel proud of themselves

D．parents and teachers are against the “TV turn off week”

2．“The enemy camp” in the last paragraph means ________.

[　　]

A．those who are against watching TV

B．those who enjoy watching TV

C．schools

D．the TV station

3．The underlined word “concerned” in this passage means ________.

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4．White Dot organizes an annual “TV turn off week”, hoping that people will ________.

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A．have a long life

B．work more

C．sleep more

D．have time to do something else