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To what degree can a computer achieve intelligence?The answer to this question may lie in a newly-developed US computer program called Smarter Child and the Internet.
If you ran into Smarter Child online, you would be surprised at this kid’s huge memory. It can recite many facts. For example, Smarter Child knows every baseball player in every team this season.
He knows every word in the dictionary and the weather in every major city areas across the US. However, if you ask Smarter Child other questions, you get strange answers. A question about Smarter Child’s age returns. “One year, 11 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes, and 47 seconds!” Asking where he lives gets, “In a clean room in a high-tech building in California.”
Smarter Child uses the vast information on the World Wide Web as his memory bank. To answer questions about spelling, for instance, Smarter Child goes to American Heritage Dictionary online. For the weather, he visits www.intellicast.com.
Some scientists believe that by joining the many systems of the Internet, an artificial being with the combined knowledge of, say, Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon and Britney Spears could be born. However, if Smarter Child wants to think and learn on his own like the boy-computer David in the movie A. I. Artificial Intelligence, he must overcome two problems.
The first is that computers find it difficult to read web pages because the files are labeled in different ways. That’s why programmers need to tell Smarter Child where to look for the weather. It would be a much more difficult task to let him find it himself.
Another problem is that while Smarter Child can process information more exactly and faster than any human, he lacks common sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious to any young child.
小题1:From the text we can infer that www.intellicast.com is a website
A.where we people can find Smarter Child
B.which is specially designed to help Smarter Child
C.where weather forecasts are made
D.which is about artificial intelligence
小题2:It is probably most difficult for Smarter Child to          .
A.learn the ability to tell right behaviors from wrong ones.
B.tell us how to spell a difficult word
C.provide us with a famous poem by Shakespeare
D.tell us how the American government is run
小题3:The underlined  “it ” in Paragraph 6 refers to ________.
A.where to look for the weatherB.Smarter Child.
C.a much more difficult taskD.to read web pages
小题4:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.A New Web ChildB.Intelligence Development
C.Smarter ChildD.The Future of Internet

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小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:A
小题4:C
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It is hardly surprising that clothing manufacturers (生产商)follow certain uniform standards for various features(特征)of clothes. What seems strange , however, is that the standard adopted for women is the opposite of the one for men. Take a look at the way your clothes button. Men’s clothes tend to button from the right, and women’s form the left. Considering most of the word’s population-men and women-are right-handed, the men’s standard would appear to make more sense for women. So why do women’s clothes button from the left?
History really seems to matter here. Button first appeared only on the clothes of the rich in the
17th century, when rich women were dressed by servants. For the mostly right-handed servants, having women’s shirts button from the left would be easier. On the other hang, having men’s shirts button form the right made sense, too. Most men dressed themselves, and a sword drawn from the left with the right hang would be less likely to get caught in the shirt.
Today women are seldom dressed by servants, but buttoning form the left is still the standard for them. Is it interesting? Actually, a standard , once set, resists change. At a time when all women’s shirts buttoned form the left, it would have been risky for any single manufacture to offer women’s shirts that buttoned the right. After all, women had grown so used to shirts which buttoned from the left and would have to develop new habits and skills to switch. Besides from the right, since anyone who noticed that would believe they were wearing men’s shirts.
小题1:What is surprising about the standard of the clothing industry?
A.It has been followed by the industry for over 400 years.
B.It is different for men’s clothing and women’s.
C.It woks better with men than with women.
D.It fails to consider right-handed people.
小题2: What do we know about the rich men in the 17th century?
A.They tended to wear clothes without buttons.
B.They were interested in the historical matters.
C.They were mostly dressed by servants.
D.They drew their swords from the left.
小题3:Women’s clothes still button from the left today because        .
A.adopting men’s style is improper for women
B.manufacturers should follow standards
C.modern women dress themselves
D.customs are hard to change
小题4:The passage is mainly developed by          .
A.analyzing cause
B.making comparisons
C.examining differences
D.following the time order

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Sitting on the peaceful coast of Galapagos Islands. Ecuador, watching the sun move quietly into the sea, you shouldn’t forget that Charles Darwin (1809-1882) arrived here in 1835. He stayed on the islands for five weeks, observing various animals. This finally inspired (启发) his famous work, On the Origin of Species. You can certainly follow Darwin’s footsteps and enjoy a trip from four to seven days to the islands.
The most well-known animals of the Galapagos is the giant tortoise(巨型海龟),which can be seen moving slowly around the highlands of Santa Cruz, the second largest island in the archipelago (群岛). Some of these creatures are so old that they might have been in their youth by Darwin himself.
Despite strict control over activities and timing, your stay on the Galapagos will be remembered as a chain of incomparable pictures; diving with sea lions that swim and play within inches of you; feeling small sharks touch your feet as you swim; and most magically, seeing a whale and her baby surface with a great breath of air.
Travelling between the islands and observing the wildlife that so inspired Darwin, so you will feel as though you are getting a special view of an untouched world. At night you will sleep on board the ship, leaving the wildlife in complete occupation of the islands, which are as undisturbed now as they have been since the beginning of time.
小题1:What do we know about Danwin’s visit to the islands?
A.He studied different creatures on the islands
B.He completed his famous book on the islands
C.He was touched by the geography of the islands
D.He was attracted by well-know animals of the islands
小题2:which of the following plays a role in making the islands “a paradise for wildlife”?
A.Animals on the islands feed on grass。
B.Local government forbids killing wildlife.
C.People cannot visit the islands as they wish.
D.tourists are not allowed to touch the animals。
小题3:Your stay on the islands will be most impressive mainly because of         .
A.The beautiful sea views
B.Darwin’s inspiring trip
C.a closer view of animals
D.various daring activities
小题4:which of the following would be the best title for the passage ?
A.A Unique Attraction for wildlife Lovers
B.Calapagos as a Paradise for Aentures
C.Charles Darwin as a symbol of Calapagos
D.A successful Example of wildlife protection

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The national assistance system for poor college students is getting more effective as proved by fewer phone calls to the hotline of the National Center for Student Assistance Administration.
"Poor college students and their parents are getting more satisfied with the national assistance system," said Ma Wenhua, deputy director of the administration, on Saturday. Over the past three years, the hotline received 8,488 calls. Statistics show 62 percent of the calls were made to ask about the funding policy, while 38 percent (3,200 calls) complained local colleges had failed to abide by the rules to support the students.
Complaints were seen a year-on-year decrease from 2006 to 2008. Ma said some poor families might still overlook what they should do to get support for their child. To ensure education equality, the government has introduced a set of favorable policies to help poor students, such as scholarships, grants(助学金), student loans, tuition waivers(学费全免) and the work-study programs under which poor students are helped out in libraries, teachers" offices or service departments to earn money.
Statistics show the government spent 29.3 billion yuan last year to aid college students, up 7.6 percent from the previous year. Around 40 million persons of college students received the national aid.
The Ministry of Education of the government would ensure that no students drop out of colleges or universities because of poverty.
Among the 20 million students in the country"s public and private universities and colleges last year, about 20 percent came from poor backgrounds, official figures show.
小题1:The national assistance system is set up ___.
A.for parents and students to complain
B.to help poor college students
C.for poor students to get free education
D.to help students find jobs
小题2:The underlined phrase "abide by" in the second paragraph probably means ____.
A.followB.breakC.bearD.agree to
小题3:From the passage, we know that ____.
A.students will drop out of university because of poverty
B.Chinese poor college students are more satisfied with national assistance system
C.more and more parents are complaining about their local colleges
D.college students are suffering from great economic pressure

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Forget famous goal celebration such as “The Robot” by Peter Crouch and “The Dive” by Juergen Klinsmann, here comes the South African “Diski dance”. The Diski dance, which is performed through heading and kicking an imaginary ball, may be a goal celebration to watch in the following matches.
South Africa’s Siphiwe Tshabalala and his teammates performed this different dance when they celebrated his goal against Mexico in the opening World Cup game on Friday. The dance is already popular on YouTube and many soccer fans may want to learn the moves.
Even South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has learnt the Diski dance which could be better than Cameroon Roger Milla’s corner flag dance celebration in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. US actor John Travolta performed the dance shortly after landing his Boeing 707 at Lanseria airport, north of Johannesburg, on Wednesday morning.
Goal celebrations are now part of the biggest sporting event and players plan them in advance just in case they find the back of the net. In football, a goal celebration is the practice of celebrating the scoring of a goal. The celebration may be performed by the goal-scorer, his or her teammates, the manager or coaches and the supporters of the team.
The Robot goal celebration was so popular that England fans were surprised when Crouch, an English international footballer, said that he wouldn’t be doing it any more unless England won the World Cup.
The word Diski is the word used by the local people for soccer and may also describe the local style of football which focuses on dribbling(带球) and other tricks.
小题1:Besides “Diski dance”, how many types of goal celebrations are mentioned in the passage?
A.2.B.3. C.4. D.5.
小题2:The underlined part “find the back of the net” in Paragraph 4 means                  .
A.score a goalB.win the matchC.take a restD.take part in a match
小题3:What do we learn about the word “Diski”?
A.It has become the most popular sports word in the world now.
B.It was used to show how people were good at dribbling.
C.It was used to describe a football which was imagined by footballers.
D.It was probably mainly used in South Africa before the South Africa World Cup.
小题4:What can we infer from the passage?
A.All the footballers should have their own goal celebrations.
B.Goal celebrations play an important role in football games.
C.Famous goal celebrations all appeared in the World Cup games.
D.Footballers often don’t plan their goal celebrations ahead of time.

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Beijing has started a battle to get rid of "Chinglish" (Chinese English). The "Language Mandarins" of Beijing have decided that Chinglish is a disease for China"s modernizing claim and must be obliterated before the city hosts the Olympic Games in 2008.
A road sign on the Avenue of Eternal Peace (Chang"an Street) ,for example, advises: "To Take Notice of Safe; The Slippery Are Very Crafty", a warning that the sidewalk was slippery(滑). Another sign in a Beijing park reads: "Little grass is smiling slightly, please walk on sidewalk. "
Li Honghai, the city official in charge of the battle, said," Linguistic perfection (语言美) is becoming increasingly important with the rise in the number of the foreigners flowing into the city."
However, not everyone shares the disdain (蔑视) of the Beijing government for the mixed language. "The choice of words is pretty much. One can either choose the verbs, adverbs, nouns or whatever one likes," explained one Hong Kong linguist on an Internet website.
So many examples exist that several Internet sites have been set up to collect Chinglish phrases. Many come from English instructions on packages such as a candle marked with "Keep this candle out of children" and a model boat—curiously named Posh Sailboat—which means, "Please don"t place it in dusty play."
If the battle against Chinglish is successful, Chinese will also turn their attention to the English-language versions of newspapers, which play an even more important role in teaching right English.
小题1:The underlined word "obliterated" refers to           .
A.removedB.exploited
C.translatedD.beautified
小题2:From the passage, we know that           .
A.everyone shares the disdain for the mixed language
B.all the people don"t share the disdain for the mixed language
C.Chinglish usually communicates in many cases
D.several Internet sites have been set up to clear the Chinghsh phrases
小题3:We can infer that the English-language version of newspapers           .
A.should be in duty to teach normal English
B.should report the above battle
C.should be paid more attention to
D.should collect more Chinglish phrases
小题4:Which of the following signs is Chinglish?
A.Watch your step. Slippery sidewalk.B.Keep off the grass, please.C.Tourists do not enter.D.No smoking, please.

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