He would venture far out into places seldom visited by human beings.
M: Well, (23) it's a rather simple project at the beginning. It would consist of only one production line, but we could expand it afterwards.
W: How much is the financial investment?
M: Including loans? I would say in the area of two million US dollars.
W: I see.
M: How much would you like to invest in this project?
W: (24) As a general practice we lay out 51 percent of the overall investment. This includes, of course, capital, factory, buildings and equipments, things like that.
M: That seems reasonable. Now let's come to the time frame. How long does the venture run?
W: How long would you want?
M: As it's a small venture, I would suggest 5 years to start with.
W: The contract is renewable and can be extended if both sides agreed.
M: How long do the board members serve?
W: I would say Five years.
M: (25) The chairman would be the legal representative.
W: Yes. A management office would be brought forth and would be responsible for the day to day running of the joint venture. So far as the management is concerned, you might appoint the manager and the chief engineer of the project. And we might appoint their deputies.
M: Ok, sounds good.
(20)
A.The production cost.
B.The financial outlay.
C.The bank loans.
D.The production line.
He said that he would write to us but so far we ______ from him.
A.didn't hear
B.haven't heard
C.should not hear
D.hadn't heard.
A、as well as
B、as soon as
C、as far as
D、as long as
He believed she would make a teacher far superior ______the average.
A. over
B. beyond
C. than
D. to
In early 1994, when MarkAndreessen was just 23 years old, he arrived in Silicon Valley with an ideathat would change the world. As a student at the University of Illinois, he andhis friends had developed a program called Mosaic, which allowed people toshare information on the worldwide web. Before Mosaic, the web had been usedmainly by scientists and other technical people, who were happy just to sendand receive text. But with Mosaic, Andreessen and his friends had developed aprogram, which could send images over the web as well. Mosaic was an overnightsuccess. It was put on the university’s network at the beginning of 1993. Andby the end of the year, it had over a million users. Soon after, Andreessenwent to seek his fortune in Silicon Valley. Once he got there, he started tohave meetings with a man called Jim Clark, who was one of the Valley’s mostfamous entrepreneurs. In 1994, nobody was making any real money from theInternet, which was still very slow and hard to use. But Andreessen had seen an opportunity thatwould make him and Clark rich within two years. He suggested they should createa new computer program that would do the same job as Mosaic but would be mucheasier to use. Clark listened carefully to Andreessen, whose ideas andenthusiasm impressed him greatly. Eventually, Clark agreed to invest threemillion dollars of his own money in the project, and to raise an extra fifteenmillion from venture capitalists, who were always keen to listen to Clark’s newideas.
Q 19 What do we learn about Mosaic?
Q 20 What did Andreessen do upon arriving in Silicon Valley?
Q 21Why were venture capitalists willing to join in Clark’sinvestment?
A、as well as
B、as soon as
C、as far as
D、as long as
Frisen is quick to emphasize that his research is basic and that treatments are years off. But the findings so far hint at extraordinary potential. Two years ago he identified neural stem cells in the adult humanbrain. And he's now researching the mechanisms by which these ceils grow into different types of brain cells. Rather than growing brain tissue in a petri dish and implanting it in, say, the forebrain of a Parkinson's patient, doctors might someday stimulate the spontaneous growth of new neural ceils merely by administering a drug. "It sounds like science fiction," Frisen says, "but we can already do it in mice." In 2007 he will publish the results of his recent experiments, lie's isolated a protein in the mouse brain that inhibits the generation of nerve cells. Using other chemicals, he's been able to block the action of this inhibitor, which in turn leads to the production of new brain cells.
Frisen honed his analytical mind at the dinner table in Goteborg, in southwest Sweden. His mother was a mathematics professor and his father was an ophthalmologist. Frisen went to medical school intending to be a brain surgeon or perhaps a psychiatrist, but ended up spending all his free time in the lab. In 1998 he got seed money from a Swedish venture capitalist to set up his own company, NeuroNova, to commercialize his work. A private foundation tried to lure him to Texas, but Swedish businessman Marcus Storch persuaded him to stay by funding a IS-year professorship at Karolinska, covering his salary and the running costs of his 15-person lab. "Jonas Frisen stood out from all candidates by far," says Storch, who*Ic Tobias Foundation sponsors stem-cell research. "He is something of a king in Sweden." Two years ago two more venture capitalists helped the company expand by hiring a CEO and setting up a separate lab.
Since most researchers are interested in stem cells taken from embryos, the practice has attracted considerable controversy in the past few years. Frisen has benefited indirectly from research restrictions in the United States, which have driven funds and brain-power to Singapore, the United Kingdom and Sweden. The Bush Administration currently forbids U. S. -funded work on all but 78 approved stem-cell cultures, many of which are located outside the country. In just one sign of the times, the U. S. -based Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation recently announced grants totaling $ 20 million for stem cell research--the largest award yet given to the field by a medical charity--to research institutes in Sweden and elsewhere, but not in the United States.
Since Frisen doesn't work with embryonic stem cells, he's unwittingly become a champion of the radical right, which argues that scientists ought to concentrate solely on adult stem cells. He happens to disagree. "It would be overoptimistic or outright stupid." he says. "To really understand adult cells, we need to master how embryonic stem cells work." But what really gets Frisen going is when people ask him when they can expect a drug for Parkinson's and other diseases. "I say
A.weakened.
B.demolished.
C.vitalized.
D.enlivened.
The author was surprised to hear the calls to prayer because ______.
A.he was far away from the city, yet he could hear them clearly
B.he did not think there would be any calls
C.the calls came from the mosques
D.the calls were no different over loud-speakers
A.as well
B.as possible
C.so far
D.if so
W: Oh, really! I would never have troubled him so much, had I know he was so busy.
What is the relationship between the speakers?
A.They are classmates.
B.They are teacher and student.
C.They are strangers.
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