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根据下列材料请回答 31～35 题：第 31 题 What does the recent poll show？

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根据下列材料请回答 31～35 题：第 31 题 What does the recent pol

第 31 题 What does the recent poll show？

根据下列材料请回答 31～35 题：第 31 题 What does the recent pol

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第2题

根据下列文章,请回答 31～35 题。 TapeStore: A New Tape Storage System TapeStore is a ne

根据下列文章,请回答 31～35 题。

TapeStore: A New Tape Storage System

TapeStore is a new kind of tape storage system which can store up to 6,000 computer tapes. No other tape storage system can hold as many computer tapes as TapeStore. The tapes look exactly like video cassettes. Many hundreds of data files can be stored on each tape, up to a maximum of 500 million bytes (字节) of data. If you stored the same amount of information on paper, you would "need nearly 4.5 billion printed pages.

The machine is a tall black box with a mechanical arm. The machine is 2.5 metres high and 3.0 metres wide. This is how it works. Each tape has a code printed on it. You feed the code number into TapeStore, which then looks for the code. As soon as TapeStore locates the code, the arm reaches in and pulls out the tape.

The system is very fast. It takes the mechanical arm about 10 seconds to find the tape it is looking for. The machine then searches the tape to extract (提取) the required file, and this takes less than a minute. A human technician would have to locate and remove the tape by hand, and could take at least an hour to find the right file on the tape.

Some of the world's biggest companies, including banks, insurance companies, airlines, telephone companies, utilities and computer centres, have bought the system. They like it particularly because the system guarantees the security of their data.

TapeStore was originally developed in Canada and is now being marketed worldwide. In Europe alone, 750 have already been installed at a cost of 480,000 dollars each.

第 31 题 TapeStore is better than any other storage system because

A．it can store more video cassettes.

B．it is extremely small.

C．it stores more tapes.

D．it stores data files on the same tape

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第3题

根据下列文章,请回答 31～35 题。 What Is Death？ People in the past did not question the

根据下列文章,请回答 31～35 题。

What Is Death？

People in the past did not question the difference between life and death．They could see that a person died when his heart stopped beatin9．People have learned。 however, that the body does not die immediately when the heart stops beating．they discovered that we remain alive as long as our brain remains active．Toady the difference between life and death is not as easy to see as in the past．Modern medical devices can keep the heart beating and the lungs breathing long after the brain stops．But is this life？

This question has caused much debate among citizens in the United States．Many of them want a law that says a person is dead when the brain dies。A person should be considered dead when brain waves stop even if machines can keep the body alive．Such a law would permit doctors to speed removal(切除)of undiseased(没瘸的)organs for transplant(移植)operations．

The brain is made of thousands of millions of nerve cells．These coils send and receive millions of chemical and electrical messages every day．In this way the brain controls the other body activities．Nerve cell expels say it usually Is easy to tell when the brain has died．They put small electrodes(电极)on a person’s skull(头骨)to measure the electrical signals that pass in and out of the brain．These brain waves are recorded on a television screen or on paper The waves move up and down every time the brain receives messages form. the nerve ceils．The brain is dead when the waves stop moving．

Although there are people who oppose the idea of a law on brain block for various reasons．the idea of brain wave activity as a test of death is slowly being accepted．

第 31 题 People in the past held that the difference between life and death

A．did not exist．

B．was easy to tell．

C．lay in the brain．

D．was open to debate．

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第4题

根据下列文章,请回答 31～35 题。 U.S. Blacks Hard-hit by Cancer Death rates for cancer

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U.S. Blacks Hard-hit by Cancer

Death rates for cancer are falling for .all Americans, but black Americans are still more likely to die of cancer than whites, the American Cancer Society said Monday.

In a special report on cancer and blacks, the organization said blacks are usually diagnosed with cancer later than whites, and they are more likely to die of the disease.

This could be because of unequal (不平等的) access to medical care, because blacks are more likely to have other diseases as well, and perhaps because of differences in the biology (生物学) of the cancer itself, the report added.

"In general, black Americans have less hope of surviving five years after diagnosis than whites for all cancer sites and all stages of diagnosis," the report said.

"In describing cancer statistics for black Americans, this report recognizes that many of the differences associated with race may be caused by unfair social and economic differences and unequal access to medical care."

The cancer society said blacks should be encouraged to get check-ups (体格检查) earlier, when cancer is more treatable, and it said more research is needed to see if biological differences play a role.

"The new statistics emphasize the continuing importance of wiping out these unfair social differences through public policy and education efforts," the organization said in a statement.

B．ut it also noted a drop in cancer death rates.

"Cancer death rates in both sexes for all sites combined have dropped greatly among black Americans since 1992, as have incidence rates (发生率)," said the report.

第 31 题 Black Americans are more likely to die of cancer than

A．people in other countries.

B．white Americans.

C．all other Americans.

D．their ancestors.

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第5题

根据下列文章,请回答 31～35 题。 Text 3 In Anglo-America there are three major ethnic gro

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Text 3

In Anglo-America there are three major ethnic groups. The first is the original Indian population, who today represents a minority group. The second is the descendants of European colonists who emigrated to the two countries before the end of the nineteenth century. These majority populations normally speak English, are highly-educated, and most of them are culturally homogeneous(同类的)in broad cultural values. A third group is made up of ethnic minorities, from Asia, Latin America, Africa, or parts of Europe who have either linguistic, religious, racial, or other cultural attributes that distinguish them from the majority population.

The United States has a varied ethnic minority pattern, without the dominance of one minority group in a specific geographical area. The largest ethnic group in America is the blacks, totaling an estimated 26 million in 1980, or 12 percent of the population. Unlike the French, the black population of the United States is not culturally and geographically isolated in one area. Slightly more than half of American blacks live in the South, and 49 percent reside in the East and the West. The black American speaks English, has a tendency to share the characteristics of competition,materialism,and individualism with other United States citizens, and has no distinctive religion.

The Spanish-speaking minority in America is reluctant to adopt the values of the dominant cultural group. There is increasingly a demand for bilingual (双语的)education to allow Spanish speaking children to use English in their educational programs. The existence of a large and growing minority population such as the Spanish-speaking Americans, who are increasingly committed to their own food and newspapers in Latin, is one of the issues facing Anglo-America in the future.The old concept of a melting pot is being replaced by the concept of a plural society.

第 31 题 From the context, we know that "attributes"(Para.1)means

A．similarities of ethnic groups.

B．qualifies belonging to ethnic minorities.

C．differences between ethnic minorities.

D．relationships among ethnic groups.

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第6题

根据下列文章,请回答 31～35 题。 A Desert Between Paul and Clara Paul had long promised

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A Desert Between Paul and Clara

Paul had long promised to marry Clara．But at thirty-three he met and married Alice．Clara was driven mad．

Paul was taken to court．The judge ordered him to pay Clara$600 because of the broken promise．Paul had to borrow the money from a moneylender．He agreed to pay back$5 a month—or twenty years．His wages at the time were$1 6 a month．Paul and Alice were poor but not unhappy．They had little enough food，certainly, even before the children began to arrive．Each month Paul paid$5 to the moneylender．He worked hard，never taking a holiday．In time，there were seven mouths to feed．

Illness was always with them．It grew serious when the oldest child was eight．The years of hunger weakened the family, because each month Paul paid$5．The details of the sickness were ugly, but the’ result was this：after twelve years of family life，Paul was alone in the world．

He lived alone．except for memories．Work was not now a god for him：it was a painkillers．Each month he paid，and in time the twenty years ended．From that moment his wages were his own．

0ne day, it was a h0“daV——he went to the seaside．He sat down on a seat by the sea．A middle-aged woman came and sat down near him．They recognized each other at Once．

The woman said，“The$600 has been in the bank since the day it was paid to me．It is now$6，000，and l have kept it for you．Will you let me share it with you？”

“N0，”said Paul，gently．“Each thousand is a lost life in a desert between US．It can never bring any happiness．”

第 31 题 Paul was ordered to pay Clara$600 because

A．he had borrowed$600 from her．

B．he had broken his word to marry her．

C．he had promised to give her$600．

D．he had spent a lot of her money．

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第7题

根据下列文章,请回答 31～35 题。 Will Quality Eat up the US Lead in Software？ If US sof

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Will Quality Eat up the US Lead in Software？

If US software companies don't pay more attention to quality, they could kiss their business good-bye. Both India and Brazil are developing a world-class software industry. Their weapon is quality and one of their jobs is to attract the top US quality specialists whose voices are not listened to in their country.

Already, of the world's 12 software houses that have earned the highest rating in the world, seven are in India. That's largely because they have used new methodologies rejected by American software specialists. For example, for decades, quality specialists, W. Edwards Doming and J. M. Juran had urged US software companies to change their attitudes to quality. But their quality call mainly fell on deaf ears in the US - but not in Japan. By the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was grabbing market share with better, cheaper products. They used Deming's and Juran's ideas to bring down the cost of good quality to as little as 5% of total production costs. In US factories, the cost of quality then was 10 times as high: 50%. In software, it still is.

Watts S. Humphrey spent 27 years at IBM heading up software production and then quality assurance. But his advice was seldom paid attention to. He retired frorn IBM in1986. In 1987, he-worked out a system for assessing and improving software quality. It has proved its value time and again. For example, in 1990 the cost of quality at Raytheon Electronics Systems was almost 60% of total software production costs. It fell to 15% in1996 and has since further dropped to below 10%.

Like Deming and Juran, Humphrey seems to be winning more praises overseas than at home. The Indian government and several companies have just founded the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute at the Software Technology Park in Chennai, India.

Let's hope that US lead in software will not be eaten up by its quality problems.

第 31 题 Which country has more highest-rating software companies in the world？

A．Germany.

B．The US.

C．Brazil.

D．India.

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第8题

根据下列文章,请回答 31～35 题。 Medical Education in 18th centurycolonial America。thos

根据下列文章,请回答 31～35 题。

Medical Education

in 18th centurycolonial America。those who wanted to become physicians either learned aspersonal students from established professionals or went abroad to study in thetraditional schools of London。Paris，and Edinburgh．Medicine was first taught formallyby specialists at the University of Pennsylvania。beginning in 1765，and in 1767 atKing’s College(now Columbia University)，the first institution in the coloniesto give the degree of doctor of medicine．Following the American Revolution，theColumbia medical faculty(formerly of King’s College)was combined with theCollege of Physicians and Surgeons，chartered in l 809，which survives as adivision of Columbia University．

In 1893 the JohnsHopkins Medicaid School required all applicants to have a college degree andwas the first to afford its students the opportunity to further their trainingin an attached teaching hospital．The growth of medical schools attached withestablished institutions of learning went together with the development ofproprietary(私营的) schools of medicine run for personal profit，most of which hadlow standards and poor facilities．In 1910 Abraham Flexner, the Americaneducation reformer wrote Medical Education in the United States and Canada，exposingthe poor conditions of most proprietary schools．Subsequently, the AmericanMedical Association(AMA)and the Association of American MedicalColleges(AAMC)laid．down standards for course content，qualifications of teachers，laboratoryfacilities，connection with teaching hospitals，and licensing of medicalpractitioners(开业医师)that survive to this day．

By the late 1980sthe U.S．and Canada had 1424．very medical colleges recognized by the Liaison(联络)Committeeon Medical Education to offer the M．D．degree；during the 1987—88 academicyear,47，262 men and 25，686 women entered these colleges and an estimated 11，752men and 5，958 women were graduated．Graduates。after a year of internship(实习期)。receivelicenses to practice if they pass an examination given either by a state boardor by the National Board of Medical Examiners．

第 31 题 In 18th—centuryAmerica．Higher institutions of learning that taught medicine

A．didnot exist．

B．were few in number．

C．werebetter than those in Europe

D．wereknown for their teaching hospitals．

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