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Technology has come to the marketplace. In many U. S stores the cash【C1】______has been rep

laced by a computer that quickly and easily calculates the cost of items being bought.

Back in the early 1960s, when the laser【C2】______developed, it was viewed by some as a fascinating research tool; others called it a【C3】______toy. Since that time, the laser has proved to be an【C4】______of many uses. In fact, in many places it's becoming a part of【C5】______life. Take, for example, what's happening at some supermarkets. Food-shopping Americans are coming【C6】______with lasers and computers for the first time. But they're hardly【C7】______it, until they get to the checkout line. With scarcely a glance at the items, the clerk【C8】______them across a hole, where a special marking on each item is scanned by a low-powered laser【C9】______inside the machine, connected to a remote computer. It started a few years ago, when food processors【C10】______the time had come to put code markings on every one of their thousands of food products. This would make them【C11】______identifiable to a computer. The scanning laser beam was an【C12】______device for reading these markings, and so the Universal Product Code was born.

【C13】______every package today, every can and bottle, has these unique symbols.【C14】______is the time-consuming stamping of prices on each item. Prices are shown【C15】______the shelf.

This mew technology promises to【C16】______food products moving smoothly on and off supermarket shelves, which will help keep overhead down and prices【C17】______At the end of each business day, the remotely-located computer gives the store manager a total picture of the day's【C18】______--what the needs to restock,【C19】______, and what he can mark down and put on sale.

As for the customer, the most dramatic change is【C20】______checkout lines keep moving.

【C1】

A．recorder

B．register

C．machine

D．teller

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第1题

The fact that reproductions of sandpaintings are now commercially available shows that ___

___.

A．modem technology has helped the mass production of sandpaintings

B．people have come to appreciate the hearing effect of sandpaintings

C．modem people no longer believe in supernatural power

D．people have realized the artistic value of sandpaintings

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第2题

An Interview with American Futurist Peter Schwartz Mr. Yang, presenter of the CCTV English

An Interview with American Futurist Peter Schwartz

Mr. Yang, presenter of the CCTV English Dialogue Programme

Peter Schwartz, chairman of the Global Business Network and senior partner of Monitor Group

Y: To my knowledge, you are a futurist. What makes a futurist？

S: Well, I think it's two things. One is someone who is .just hopelessly fascinated by the future. One is someone thinking about the future, but perhaps more importantly, interested in influencing the future, helping to shape a better future. I think most people in the profession of future studies in one way or another are interested in trying to produce a better future. A futurist, I think, uses serious methodology. We study economics, politics and technology and social changes to try to understand the deeper forces that create the future, it's a rigorous discipline that forces you to think systematically and imaginatively about the future.

Y: So what are you doing and what have you done to change the future？

S: We work with large companies, start-up companies, entrepreneurial companies and even countries. For example, I am going from here to Singapore where I do a great deal of work with the government in Singapore -- the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Defense and Singapore Airlines. So Singapore has adopted some of the messages that I have developed in scenario planning and have been using those to think about and plan the future Singapore.

Y: What are the major forces that would change the future of the world？

S: Well, politics of course, also economic development, especially important in these days, science and technology, and even more important are environmental forces.

Y: But science and technology can create a happy future and can produce disasters, such as nuclear technology and human cloning.

S: You know the history of human kind over, say, the last 500 years, since the scientific revolution, life for human kind has really got much better. We really wouldn't want to go back to the 15th century. The revolutions in science and technology improved healthcare, improved education and transportation, energy and so on. Life is a lot better today because of science and technology. And on the whole I think the progress that has come from science and technology has benefited human kind. Well, it's true that you have got more powerful technology that can do harm. One person or a few people can kill a vast number of people. That is something that is genuinely worrying. However, we have been very fortunate in that we have been very judicious in our use of that technology.

Y: One negative impact of chemical or biological weapons could be the destruction of the environment. Do you think environment also accounts for a good part of our concern about our future？

S: Absolutely. I think most people are very concerned about the consequences of industrial economic development on the environment -- air pollution, water pollution, the loss of species, the loss of habitat. This is really a big issue. However, I am quite optimistic about the future development. First of all, we have now become concerned about it. And if you look at many cities around the world, for example, their water supplies, they are cleaner today than they were 25 or 30 years ago, because we have explored new technology of water purification and of much cleaner automobiles. The automobile today is 95 percent cleaner than the automobile of 20 years ago.

Y: Not the case for developing countries.

S: I think that is true. You know there is an equation and it goes like this the environmental impact is the product of the number of people times the economic statistic times the technology they use. But we are slow in our population growth dramatically on the earth. The UN has lowered its long-term popu

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

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第3题

Impatience has been around for a long time.There is nothing new about people losing th

eir patience while stuck in traffic or waiting in line.But some experts believe that people are less patient today than in the past.

Some analysts suggest that in recent years many people are less patient because of technology.They suggest that “digital technology, from cellphones to emails to Wads, is changing our lives.The instant results we get from this technology have in turn increased our desire for instant satisfaction in other aspects of our lives.”

Psychologist Jennifer Hartstein makes some observations.She explains that “we have become an immediate satisfaction culture, and we expect things to move quickly, efficiently and in the way we want.When that doesn't happen, we tend to become increasingly frustrated and unsatisfied.”

Some believe that e-mail is losing popularity and could soon become outdated.Why？ Because many people who send messages do not have the patience to wait hours, or even minutes, for a response.Also, with e-mails, as with letter writing, introductory and concluding greetings are often expected.But many people consider such formalities(客套)to be boring and time-consuming.They prefer instant messaging.Many people do not take the time to proofread what they put in writing.As a result, letters and e-mails contain numerous grammatical and spelling errors.

The thirst for immediate results is not limited to the digital communications.People seem to be losing their ability to wait in other areas of life.For instance, do you ever find yourself talking too fast, eating too fast, driving too fast, or spending money too fast？ The few moments it takes to wait for an elevator to come, for a traffic light to change, or for a computer to start may seem like too long a time.

16.According to the first paragraph, people ______.

A.were more patient in the past

B.have been patient for a long time

C.used to be patient while stuck in traffic

D.used to be patient while waiting in line

17.Nowadays people lose their patience because（）.

A.their desire for satisfaction has increased

B.they are bored with what they have

C.they have more things to do than before

D.their life has been changed by technology

18.Some believe that e-mail could soon become outdated because ______.

A.it takes a long time to start the computer

B.people value formalities between friends

C.people can hardly wait for a response

D.cellphones are more popular nowadays

19.The pursuit of instant results causes people to ______ .

A.become more impolite

B.have more errors in their writings

C.use voice messages instead of emails

D.lose many of their abilities in life

20.The best title for the passage might be “______”.

A.What Are the Problems Caused by Impatience

B.Are We Less Patient Today

C.What Happened to Technology

D.Has Digital Technology Changed Our Lives

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第4题

Part B Write an essay of about 120 words on Science and Technology Have Come into Our Ho

Part B

Write an essay of about 120 words on Science and Technology Have Come into Our Houses. Refer to the following points:

1. Science and technology have come into our houses

2. Science and technology make people live convenient

3. How to advocate learning science and technology

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第5题

阅读：Telephone, television, radio, and telegraph all help people communicate with each other

Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:

Telephone, television, radio, and telegraph all help people communicate with each other. Because of these devices, ideas and news of events spread quickly all over the world. For example, within seconds, people can know the results of an　election in another country. An international football match comes into the homes of everyone with a television set.News of a disaster such as an earthquake or a　flood can bring help from distant countries within hours, help is on the way. Because of modern technology like the satellites that travel around the world, information travels fast.

How has this speed of communication changed the world？ To many people,the world has become smaller. Of course this does not mean that the world is actually physically smaller. It means that the world seems smaller. Two hundred years ago,communication between the continents took a long time. All news was carried on ships that took weeks or even months to cross the ocean. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,it took six weeks for news from Europe to reach America.This time difference influenced people's actions. For example, one battle, or fight, in the War of 1812 between England and the United States could have been avoided. A peace agreement had already been signed. Peace was made in England, but the news of peace took six weeks to reach America. During these six weeks, the large and serious Battle of New Orleans was fought. Many people lost their lives after a peace treaty had been signed.They would not have died if news had come in time.In the past,communication took much time than it does now.

There was a good reason why the world seemed so much larger than it does today.

31. News spreads fast because of____.

A.modern transportation B.new technology C.the change of the world D.a peace agreement 

32. According to this passage,____is very important to people in a disaster area.

A.fast communication B.modern technology C.latest news D.new ideas 

33. Which of the following statements is true？

A.The world now seems smaller because of faster communication.

B.The world is actually smaller today.

C.The world is changing its size.

D. The distance between England and America has changed since the War of 1812 

34. Two hundred years ago,news between the continents was carried____.

A.by telephone and telegraph B.by land C.by air D.by sea 

35. The New Orleans Battle could have been avoided if the peace agreement had been signed____.

A.by both sides B.in time C.in America D.in England 

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第6题

听力原文：M: Oh, it is terrible! Aboard Aerolineas Argentinas flight 386, 368 passengers we

re given pre-prepared food on their way from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles.

W: Then what happened？

M: A few days after arriving in Los Angeles, one passenger died, and 74 others were seriously ill.

W: And what is the reason for that？

M: According to Dr. Phillips, it was the highest single outbreak of cholera in the United States this century, and the airline passengers were the victims of this new epidemic of cholera, a disease not seen in Latin America since 1895. They were just a few of the more than one million people affected in 20 countries, including at least 10,000 who died in the following three years after 1991.

W: Cholera？ To the best of my understanding, that disease has been dead for some time now.

M: But it has come back. Dr. Phillips says that cholera is by no means the only old infection on the comeback, and it is one of the major infections that are fighting back fiercely against man's attempts to control them.

W: But what are the reasons for the comeback of so many dead diseases？

M: Phillips says a single reason can't explain why a new disease appears or an old one returns, and usually a combination of factors are involved.

W: What kind of specific factors？

M: Dr. Phillips in his book Plagues on Our Doorstep presents some reasons.

W: What are they？

M: First, international travel and commerce. The cholera aboard flight 386 and mosquitoes living in imported tires are examples of these. Second, technology and industry. For example, the technology in Britain's processing industry was a likely contributor to the emergence of mad cow disease. Third, the breakdown of public health measures. Declining health resources have resulted in the erosion of once highly-valued health services.

W: Well, that's just unbelievable!

(26)

A．A flight to Los Angeles.

B．A book written by a doctor.

C．A disease on the comeback and its reasons.

D．Man's effort to control disease.

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第7题

A week goes by without some advances in technology, which would have seemed incredible now

adays. And we can expect the rate of change to accelerate rather than slow down within our lifetime. The developments in technology are bound to have a dramatic effect on the future of work. By 2010, new technology will have revolutionized communications. People will be transmitting more messages along telephone lines that previously would have been sent by post. Not only postmen but also clerks and secretaries will vanish in a paper-free society. All the routine tasks they perform. will be carried on a tiny silicon chip so that they will be as obsolete as the horse and cart after the invention of the motor car. One change will make thousands, if not millions, redundant.

Even people in traditional professions, where expert knowledge has been the key, are unlikely to escape the effects of new technology. Instead of going to a solicitor, you might go to a computer which is programmed with all the most up-to-date legal information. Doctors, too, will find that an electronic competitor will be able to carry out a much quicker and more accurate diagnosis and recommend more efficient courses of treatment. In education, teachers will be largely replaced by teaching machines far more knowledgeable than any human being. Most learning will take place in the home via video conferencing. Children will still go to school though ,until another place is created where they can make friends and develop social skills.

What can we do to avoid the threat of unemployment？ We shouldn't hide our heads in the sand. Unions will try to stop change but they will be fighting a losing battle. People should get computer literate as this just might save them from professional extinction. After all, there will be a few jobs left in law, education and medicine for those few individuals who are capable of writing and programming the software of the future. Strangely enough, there will still be jobs like rubbish collection and cleaning as it is tough to programme tasks which are largely unpredictable.

According to the passage, the rate of change in technology ______.

A．will slow down

B．will come to a stop

C．will speed up

D．can not be predicted

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第8题

听力原文：W: Why don't you begin by telling something about yourself？M: What would you like

听力原文：W: Why don't you begin by telling something about yourself？

M: What would you like to know？

W: The usual, you know, something about your background, experience and anything personal that you feel is important.

M: Well, I was born in a city in the southwest and went to school there, right up through college. My father is a lawyer, and my mother is a doctor.

W: Sounds as if you come from a very professional family.

M: That's right. One of my uncles teaches computers in a university and has influenced me a lot.

W: What made you decide to come to the east coast and get into the computer business here？

M: Well, after I finished my engineering degree, I began to specialize in computer software technology and I even had my own company for a while. But I think the cities on the east coast are developing more rapidly and offer a more promising future. So I finally decided to leave my hometown, even though it meant tuming down some job offers there.

W: Sounds impressive. Why don't you have your credentials and references sent to me.'？ I'll show them to the manager. We'll get back to you in a week.

M: Thank you very much.

(20)

A．After he moved to a city in the southwest.

B．Before he finished high school.

C．After he graduated from college.

D．Before he had his own company.

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第9题

Supermarket's New Strategy One supermarket in Tokyo has managed to solve the problems of s

Supermarket's New Strategy

One supermarket in Tokyo has managed to solve the problems of shoplifting, mistakes by cashiers, and long lines of customers waiting at the cash registers. It is Japan's advanced computer technology that has come (51) with the answers.

Shoppers at an OK supermarket on the outskirts of the city now push a cart (52) a plastic card chained to it and buy from glass cases where the goods are on display. The plastic card has a magnetic number imprinted on it. Each customer carries his or her own card, which is (53) at the exit. While shopping, the customer pushes the card into a slot beside whichever items are wanted and pushes a button or two. The glass covered vending machines are connected to a computer that (54) the price of every item in the store. Prices of every purchase are added up automatically. (55) she has finished shopping, the customer hands her card to a cashier who (56) it into the register. A second later the (57) pops out.

Shoplifting is physically impossible. Once you touch a commodity the computer remembers it no matter how you hide it or (58) you eat it on the spot.

A cashier at the OK supermarket is now able to work 15 times faster than her (59) at a conventional supermarket. Only two cashiers, (60) , are required at the store, which (61) 2,500 separate items. One man is enough to keep the vending machine filled, because whenever the stock for a certain commodity is (62) to run out, a red lamp in the computer-room (63) him.

But there are disadvantages too: a customer cannot (64) his or her mind about a purchase. Once touched, the item cannot be put back. The customer must (65) a cashier with it first and get a refund later. There are also no fresh vegetables or fish on sale—everything is prepackaged.

(51)

A．together

B．up

C．along

D．on

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第10题

Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is mixture of different kin

ds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.

Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones ;in form. rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.

Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp dichotomies(一分为二). This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference, in appearance between them and their white counterparts.

The passage mainly discuss ______.

A．two different societies

B．the necessity of social change

C．certain factors that determine the ease with which social changes occur

D．certain factors that promote social change

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