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This could mean the public would reject future Microsoft products. The public would lose trust in the company. Some people say this will not happen. They say Microsoft sent out several thousand copies of their new product to computer experts to test several months before it was released. Problems that these testers found were
immediately corrected. Microsoft representatives are working to solve all the other problems buyers find when
they try the new system. Computer industry experts say that if there are no major problems Microsoft can
expect to earn about 7 thousand million dollars from Windows 95 in the first two years. The experts say this
could be just a beginning for Microsoft and the whole computer industry. The experts say Windows 95 can
help the user do many different and difficult tasks. They say this means the sale of more powerful computers
and other computer products will increase as people learn about the new Microsoft product. Other companies
say Windows 95 is not a big improvement. The Apple Computer Company says its Mackintosh Operating System has been able to do many of the same things since 1989. For example, it has been able to let users work two
different programs at the same time. The Amega Computer also has offered this for almost ten years. And IBM
says the operating system it developed about 7 years ago is very similar.
B. is doubtful about what Microsoft Company has promised
C. shows no opinion of his own
D. is advertising Windows 95 for Microsoft Company
B. threat (威胁) other computer companies
C. help sell other products produced by Microsoft Company
D. bring about changes in other fields
B. Windows 95 will bring about a great change in the whole computer industry
C. other companies don"t think highly of Windows 95
D. Windows 95 will help sell more powerful computers
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试题【阅读理解。 Critics say Microsoft Windows 95 must be able to do what the company h】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly
believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main
market is. In Mollie"s opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which
is what every writer should be doing."If you aren"t telling a story, you"re a very dead writer indeed," she says.
With the chief function of a writer being to entertain (让人愉快), Mollie is indeed an entertainer."I have this
great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language," she says. "This love goes back
to early childhood. I"ve told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like
to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said
I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said "Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you"ll be a writer."So finally
I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine
that I would be a writer."
This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third
person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollie"s ambition (理想) and her
struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地) brought thoughts of the
time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields-sadly now covered with
modern houses."I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my
childhood. I"ll never go back," she said."Never.""When I set one of my books in Scotland," she said,"I can
recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at
work. And that"s important, because children now know so much so early that romance can"t exist for them,
as it did for us."
B. It should be attractive to young readers.
C. It should be based on original ideas.
D. It should not include too much conversation.
B. Being short of writing skills.
C. The weakness of description.
D. The absence of a story.
B. She didn"t enjoy writing stories.
C. She didn"t have any particular ambitions.
D. She didn"t respect her teacher"s views.
B. better informed
C. less eager to learn
D. less interested in reality
B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter"s books.
C. To introduce Mollie Hunter"s work to a wider audience.
D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter"s existing readers.
the National Gallery of Art (美术馆); Paris has the Luvre; London, the British Museum. Florida International
University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for
its drawings and paintings. FIU has opened what it says is the first computer art museum in the United States.
You don"[t have to visit the University to see the art. You just need a computer linked to a telephone. You can
call the telephone number of a university computer and connect your own computer to it. All of the art is stored
in the school computer. It is computer art, produced electronically by artists on their own computers. In only a
few minutes, your computer can receive and copy all the pictures and drawings.
Robert Shostak is director of the new computer museum. He says he starts the museum because computer
artists had no place to show their works.
A computer artist can only record his pictures electronically and send the records, or floppy discs, to others
to see on their computers. He can also put his pictures on paper. But to print good pictures on paper, the
computer artist needs an expensive laser printer.
Robert Shostak says the electronic museum is mostly for art or computer students at schools and universities. Many of the pictures in the museum are made by students. Mr Shostak said the FIU museum will make
computer art more fun for computer artists because more people can see it. He says artists enjoy their work
much more if they have an audience. And the great number of home computers in America could mean a huge
audience for the electronic museum.
B. an electronic art museum in Miami, U.S.A.
C. art exhibitions in Florida International University
D. latest development of computer art
B. a computer and a printer
C. pictures and drawings on paper
D. a computer connected to the museum by telephone line
B. Robert Shostak wanted to help computer artists
C. art students needed a place to show their works
D. computer scientists wanted to do something about art
B. computer owners
C. exhibits in the museum
D. those who will enjoy art
difficult.
If I have learned anything in my 16 ears, it is that 1 is very important, 2 when you disagree. With
any relationship, you need to let other people know how you"re 3 . When you"re mad at your parents, or
anyone else, not talking to them doesn"t 4 anything.
Communication 5 the concerns (所关注的事) of another. It means that you can"t 6 come home
from school, go up to your room and ignore (不理睬) everyone. 7 you just say "Hi", and see how their
day was for five minutes, it is better than nothing.
When 8 with parents, you always have to make them feel good about how they are doing 9 parents.
If you are 10 to make them see something as you see it, tell that you"ll listen to what they have to say, but
ask them 11 to listen to you. Shouting or walking away only makes the situation 12 .
This is an 13 : one night, Sophie went to a street party with her friends. She knew she had to be home by
14 , but she didn"t feel she could jus 15 to go home. That would be rude. 16 , the had been nice enough
to make her along with them. Needless to say, she was late getting home. Her parents were 17 at first, but
when Sophie explained why she was late, they weren"t as mad and let the incident go. Communication was the
key factor here. If Sophie"s parents had not been willing to 18 , Sophie would have been in a lot of trouble.
Communication isn"t a(n) 19 way deal, it goes both ways. Just remember, if you get into a 20 like
Sophie"s, tell the other person how you feel-listening is a key factor in communication.
| ( )1. A. discussion ( )2. A. especially ( )3. A. recovering ( )4. A. mean ( )5. A. begins with ( )6. A. yet ( )7. A. Ever since ( )8. A. agreeing ( )9. A. for ( )10. A. managing ( )11. A. specially ( )12. A. worse ( )13. A. experience ( )14. A. supper ( )15. A. cheat ( )16. A. after all ( )17. A. mad ( )18. A. obey ( )19. A. new ( )20. A. position | B. transportation B. highly B. feeling B. hold B. ends up with B. just B. Once B. arguing B. through B. trying B. entirely B. better B. example B. noon B. threaten B. at first B. anxious B. listen B. unique B. stage | C. communication C. luckily C. enjoying C. solve C. starts C. rather C. Even if C. going C. like C. encouraging C. politely C. harder C. operation C. midnight C. need C. at once C. natural C. scold C. honorable C. view | D. dependence D. strangely D. hating D. shock D. ends up in D. even D. Even so D. dealing D. as D. affording D. rudely D. narrower D. outline D. morning D. ask D. in all D. mild D. tolerate D. double D. situation |
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| One of the more common and destructive mental tendencies I"ve seen is that of focusing on what we want instead of what we have. We want this or that. If we don"t get what we want, we keep thinking about all that we don"t have and we remain dissatisfied. If we do get what we want, we simply recreate the same thinking in our new circumstances. So, despite getting what we want, we still remain unhappy. Happiness can"t be found when we are yearning (向往,渴望) for new desires. Luckily, there is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have. Rather than wishing you were able to take a vacation to Hawaii, think of how much fun you have had close to home. The list of possibilities is endless! Each time you notice yourself falling into the "I wish life were different" trap, back off and start over. Take a breath and remember all that you have to be grateful. When you focus not on what you want, but on what you have, you end up getting more of what you want anyway. If you focus on the good qualities of your spouse (配偶), she"ll be more loving. If you are grateful for your job rather than complaining about it, you"ll do a better job, be more productive, and probably end up getting a raise anyway. If you focus on ways to enjoy yourself around home rather than waiting to enjoy yourself in Hawaii, you"ll end up having more fun. If you ever do get to Hawaii, you"ll be in the habit of enjoying yourself. And, if by some chance you don"t, you have a great life anyway. Make a note of yourself to start thinking more about what you have than what you want. If you do, your life will start appearing much better than before. For perhaps the first time in your life, you"ll know what it means to feel satisfied. | |||
| 1. Why did the author say that focusing on what we want is destructive? | |||
| A. If we don"t get what we want, we remain dissatisfied. B. If we do get what we want, we simply recreate the same thinking. C. If we desire what we want, we would be unhappy. D. All of the above | |||
| 2. How do you understand the underlined expression "I wish life were different" in the second paragraph? | |||
| A. Focusing on what you want. B. Focusing on what you have. C. Focusing on ways to enjoy yourself around home. D. Focusing on being able to take a vacation. | |||
| 3. The passage implies that ______. | |||
| A. getting what we want, we would be happy B. if we focus on what we have, we would have a better life C. it is more fun than you have had close to home D. focusing on what you want, you end up getting more of what you have anyway | |||
| 4. Which is NOT mentioned in the passage? | |||
| A. If we focus on what we want, we may remain dissatisfied and unhappy. B. Changing our thinking from what we want to what we have would make you happy. C. Focus on the good qualities of your wife, she"ll be more loving. D. It is more fun to around home than taking a vacation to Hawaii. | |||
| 阅读理解。 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 | |||
| Facebook (a social networking service) makes it far too easy to make new friends-Unfortunately, reality is not like that. 1 The difference here is that we don"t get to choose our families; friends, on the other hand, are picked, selected and developed through our life. It is quite funny how your best friends know exactly what your are thinking without even telling them. 2 This friend"s sixth sense is something that takes time to develop through many long-lasting experiences that your go through. I was once asked: which one would be the worst thing, to lose all your loved ones or to lose all your friends? 3 I believe that I couldn"t live a day if I had lost all my friends. Respect, loyalty (忠诚), and support are few of the qualities that will form a good friendship. There are many others for sure, but it is enough for you to get these. 4 The ability to trust someone and therefore, be trusted, can be only built with a lot of effort and time. I hate that ugly Facebook"s message "Add to your friends?" It is like a friends was something that you could simply add to your "portfolio (文件夹)" without feeling. 5 | |||
| A. My answer was certainly the latter. B. This is definitely not the way to make friends. C. This is not something that happens overnight. D. Life without friends is just like soup without salt. E. We need friends to help us when we meet with difficulties. F. Trust is also one of the major features of a good relationship. G. Friends sometimes are just as important to us as our families. |