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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."
B. 88
C. 246
D. a lot of
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
A. The Best Top Contest
B. The Battle of the Brains
C. The Difficult Competition
D. Courage and Wisdom Needed
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试题【阅读理解。 Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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myself. For a 1 , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it 2 from my hand and
crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles, 3 everywhere. I tried to use a broom, 4 with each swipe
they just rolled across the kitchen．
For the next week, every time I was in the 5 , I found a pea-in a corner, or behind a table leg. They
kept 6 . Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and 7 12 frozen peas hidden underneath．
At the time I found those few remaining 8 , I was in a new relationship with a wonderful 9 I"d met
in a support group. After we married, I was reminded 10 those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my 11 had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered(破碎). My wife had died; I was in a
new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble 13 his new surroundings and the 12 of his
mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered．
When life gets you 14 , when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you"ll never
15 , remember that it"s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be 16 , and life will move on. You"ll find all the peas 17 , including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you"ve got them 18
you"ll start to feel whole again．
The life you know can break apart at any time. But you"ll have to 19 , and how fast you collect your
peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, 20 will you pick them up
one by one and put your life back together?
| ( )1. A. drink ( )2. A. moved ( )3. A. rubbed ( )4. A. but ( )5. A. bedroom ( )6. A. getting up ( )7. A. found ( )8. A. presents ( )9. A. man ( )10. A. of ( )11. A. wife ( )12. A. turning to ( )13. A. thank ( )14. A. down ( )15. A. get it ( )16. A. grew ( )17. A. eventually ( )18. A. both ( )19. A. call on ( )20. A. while | B. fruit B. walked B. rolled B. and B. living room B. turning up B. ate B. cans B. child B. for B. life B. leading to B. love B. near B. make it B. bought B. fortunately B. all B. put on B. because | C. vegetable C. ran C. grew C. although C. kitchen C. taking up C. left C. vegetables C. woman C. with C. son C. adjusting to C. help C. close C. take it C. collected C. properly C. either C. bring on C. since | D. meat D. slipped D. existed D. so D. storeroom D. using up D. planted D. peas D. boy D. in D. friend D. adding to D. loss D. wide D. leave it D. frozen D. specially D. each D. move on D. or |
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| After graduation I returned home to my small town in Indiana. I didn"t have a job yet. Mr. Hobbs, a friend of my father"s, owned a small shirt factory in town. Within the past five years it had grown from twenty to eighty workers. Mr. Hobbs was worried that his plant was getting too big and inefficient, so he asked me to come in on a short-term basis as a consultant. I went to the plant and spent about a week looking around and making notes. I was really a mazed at what I saw. Most curious of all, there was no quality control at all. No one inspected the final product of the factory. As a result some of the shirts that were put in boxes for shipment were missing one or two buttons, the collar, and even a sleeve sometimes! The working conditions were poor. The tables where the workers sat were very high and uncomfortable. Except for a half hour at lunchtime, there were no breaks in the day to relieve the boring work. There was no music. The walls of the workrooms were a dull gray color. I was amazed that the workers hadn"t gone on strike. Furthermore, the work flow was irregular. There was one especially absent-minded young man in the assembly (组装) line who sewed on buttons. After a while I recognized him as "Big Jim", who used to sit behind me in math class in high school. He was very slow and all the shifts were held up at his position. Workers beyond him in line on his shift had to wait with nothing to do; therefore, a great deal of time and efficiency were lost as Big Jim daydreamed while he worked. All week I wondered why he wasn"t fired. After I made observations for a week, Mr. Hobbs asked me for an oral report of my findings. | |||
| 1. The shirts from Mr. Hobbs" factory can be described as ____. | |||
| A. of low quality B. of high quality C. fashionable D. unfashionable | |||
| 2. Why did Mr. Hobbs ask the writer to the factory? | |||
| A. The factory was too big. B. The factory was not producing fast enough. C. The factory was not big enough. D. The writer was a college graduate. | |||
| 3. Which is not likely to happen in the factory? | |||
| A. The workers will have more rest in the day. B. Someone will examine the final product. C. New machines will be bought. D. The factory will be repainted. | |||
| 4. Big Jim may get fired mainly because ____. | |||
| A. he was slow B. he wasted much time C. he was absent-minded D. the work flow was irregular | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| A jobless man applied for the position of "office boy" at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. "You are employed," he said. "Give me your e-mail address and I"ll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start." The man replied, "But I don"t have a computer, neither an e-mail." "I"m sorry," said the HR manager. "If you don"t have an e-mail, that means you do not exist. And whoever doesn"t exist cannot have the job." The man left with no hope at all. He didn"t know what to do, with only ten dollars in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy 10kg tomatoes. He then sold the tomatoes from door to door. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home happily with 60 dollars. The man realized that he can survive in this way, and started to go every day earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles. Five years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US. He started to plan his family"s future and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded the broker asked him his e-mail. The man replied, "I don"t have an e-mail." The broker answered curiously, "You don"t have an e-mail, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail?" The man thought for a while and replied, "Yes, I"d be an office boy at Microsoft!" | |||
| 1.Why can"t the man have the job at Microsoft? | |||
| A. Because he was lazy. B. Because he didn"t pass the test. C. Because he didn"t have an e-mail. D. Because he didn"t have a computer. | |||
| 2.The underlined word "triple" can be replaced by ______. | |||
| A. become large B. become 3 times C. increase quickly D. decrease quickly | |||
| 3. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE? | |||
| A. The man is one of the biggest food retailers in the world. B. The man didn"t give up though he failed the interview. C. He started his career by selling tomatoes in the supermarket. D. Those who have e-mails can work at Microsoft. | |||
| 4. The man can be described as _______. | |||
| A. helpful and considerate B. positive and generous C. smart and hardworking D. stubborn and unselfish | |||
| 5. Which proverb can best describe the story? | |||
| A. Misfortune may be an actual blessing. B. Where there is a will, there is a way. C. Accidents will happen. D. No pains , no gains. | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The advertisement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theatre box in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00.Since I work from 9:00 to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theatre was during my 45-minute lunch break. Unfortunately, the theatre is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday. I stood at the bus stop for 15 minutes waiting for the bus. By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip.So I gave up and went back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again next day. On Thursday, my luck changed. I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly 20 minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi, it was expensive, but I felt it would be worth it to hear the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, but felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line. The reason, however, I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets. | |||
| 1.The man learned that there would be a concert last Friday. | |||
| A. from his friends B. from one of his work-mates C. over the radio D. from the newspaper | |||
| 2. He tried to go to the theatre every day but managed to get there only _______. | |||
| A. once B. twice C. three times D. four times | |||
| 3.The underlined word "relieved" may best be replaced by ___________. | |||
A. surprise | |||
| 完形填空。 | |||
| My husband and I were cleaning windows together yesterday. We have the double-hung 1 that you can pull forward and flip (翻转), allowing us to 2 the inside and the outside surfaces. My husband was 3 one window-and it popped out of its frame! Well, our 4 is for sale and the last thing we needed was for something to 5 . He was so 6 and tried with all his strength to get it 7 together, using a few less than pleasant words (I am sorry to say). After twenty minutes he still could not get it 8 . That"s when my 23-year- old 9 told his dad to 10 for a minute and he would try to fix it with me. It"s amazing how you can see things more clearly and do things more 11 when you are 12 . He and I fixed the window in three minutes! I called my husband in to see! He couldn"t 13 it! I know this isn"t really a gift 14 , in a way, it was. My son 15 my husband, to leave to cool down, and 16 him from the worry for a moment. And my son fixing it with me was a 17 to me, because I saw him as a man 18 the kid he always seems to be in my 19 . Calm is good. Breathe through difficult times and maybe even take a break from stressful times. Return with a clear mind and things will usually 20 much better! | |||