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第1题
What will Tim wear on his first day at work?
A.Sportswear.
B.A shirt.
C.A suit.
第2题
What is the title of Tim's first essay?
A.Why study English7
B.Why study art?
C.Why study history?
第3题
A.Tell us what we can do in our spare time.
B.Is it true that men generally have more stress than women?
C.Tell us what we can do when we have too much stress.
D.Do you think today's world is more stressful than the world of 50 years ago?
第4题
Tim Berners-Lee is the man who wrote the software(软件)programme that led to the foundation of the World Wide Web. Britain played an important part in developing the first generation of computers. The parents of Tim Berners-Lee both worked on one of the earliest commercial(商业的)computers and talked about their work at home. As a child he would build models of computers from packaging material. After graduating from Oxford University he went on to the real thing. In the 1980s scientists were already communicating using a primitive version(原始版本)of e-mail. While working at a laboratory in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a programme, which let him store these messages. This gave him another idea: write a programme that will let academics(学术界人士)from across the world share information on a single place. In 1990 he wrote the HTTP(服务程序所用的协议)and HTML(超文本链接标示语言)programmes which form. the basis of the World Wide Web.
The next year his programmes were placed on to the Internet. Everyone was welcome to use them and improve them if they could. Programmers used his codes(编码)to work with different operating systems. New things like web browsers(浏览器)and search engines were developed. Between 1991 and 1994 the number of web pages rose from 10 to 100,000.
In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee formed the newly formed World Wide Web Consortium(协会),or W3C. More than 200 leading companies and laboratories are represented(代表)by W3C. Together they make sure that everyone can share equally on the web. "The Web can help people understand the way that others live and love and are human. It helps us understand the humanity of people, "he says.
1. From the lines we can infer that Tim Berners-Lee is _____.
A. British
B. American
C. Swiss
D. French
2. The main idea of this passage is _____.
A. when the Internet came into being
B. how Tim Berners-Lee formed W3C
C. why computers develop so rapidly
D. how the World Wide Web started
3. Scientists began to communicate using e-mail _____.
A. in 1980
B. after the 1980s
C. before 1990
D. in the 1960s
4. He made up his mind to write a programme that would let people from across the world share information on a single place when _____.
A. he was a child
B. he studied in Oxford University
C. he formed W3C
D. he worked at a lab in Switzerland
5. Which of the following is NOT true? _____
A. The number of web pages rose very rapidly in the 1990s.
B. Tim's programmes were placed on to the Internet in 1990.
C. The World Wide Web will have an effect on the social development.
D. Tim Berners-Lee made a great contribution to the computer science.
第5题
The Father of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, who received one million euros ($1.2 million) cash prize for creating the World Wide Web, says he would never have succeeded if he had charged money for his inventions. "If I had tried to demand tees, ... there would be no World Wide Web," Berners-Lee, 49, said on June 5 at a ceremony for winning the first Millennium Technology Prize, awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. "There would be lots of small webs," the prize committee agreed, citing the importance of Berners-Lee's decision never to commercialize or patent his contributions to the Internet technologies he had developed, and recognizing his revolutionary contribution to humanity's ability to communicate.
His creation spun a generation of youthful millionaires and billionaires, lit the spark for the New Economy and paved the way for massive new industries such as e-commerce. Burners-Lee, who is originally from Britain, has mostly avoided both the fame and the fortune won by many of his Internet colleagues. Despite his prize, he remained modest about his achievements. "I was just taking lots of things that already existed and added a little bit," said Berners-Lee, who now runs the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium from an office at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"Building the Web, I didn't do it all myself," he said. "The really exciting thing about it is that it was done by lots and lots of people, connected with this tremendous spirit." Berners-Lee indeed took concepts that had been well known to engineers since the 1960s, but it was he who saw the value of marrying them. Pekka Tarjanne, chairman of the prize committee, said "no one doubts who the father of file World Wide Web is, except Berners-Lee himself." Finnish President Tarja Halonen presented the biannual (一年两次的)award, subsidized by the government. The cash prize is among the largest of this kind, and Berners-Lee is the first recipient.
The prize committee outlined the award to be given for "an outstanding innovation that directly promotes people's quality of life, is based on human values and encourages sustainable economic development." "Isn't this like a definition of the World Wide Web'?" Tarjanne asked. Berners-lee first proposed the Web in 1989 while developing ways to control computers remotely at European Laboratory for Particle Physics, the European nuclear research lab near Geneva. He never got the project formally approved, but his boss suggested he quietly tinker (摆弄) with it anyway. He fleshed out the core communication protocols (草案) needed for transmitting Web pages. By Christmas Day in 1990, he finished the first browser, called simply "World Wide Web." Although his inventions have under- gone rapid changes since then, the underlying technology is precisely the same.
His recent project -- which experts say is potentially as revolutionary as the World Wide Web itself -- is called the Semantic Web. The project is an attempt to standardize how information is stored on the Internet. "It is an exciting new development that we're making," he said. In his acceptance speech, Berners-Lee focused on technology as an evolving process that was just in the beginning. "All sorts of things, too long for me to list here, are still out there waiting to be done.... There are so many new things to make, limited only by our imagination," he said. "And I think it's important for anybody who's going through school or college wondering what to do, to remember that now."
For years, the British scientist's colleagues have said that if computer science was a pure science, Mr. Berners-Lee would have merited a Nobel Prize for his invention. He did receive a knighthood this year, but for the most part his name remains unknown to the masses who use his creation every day. "His picture belongs up on a wall with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell," sai
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第6题
A.The increase in tuition and fees.
B.The ever-rising living expenses.
C.Changed immigration policies.
D.Universities tightened budgets
第8题
【R1】
A. GET MOVIN
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B. FOLLOW YOUR INTEREST.
C. EXPLORE OTHER PERSPECTIVES.
D. REDUCE SCREEN TIM
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E. ALLOW FOR MORE FLEXIBILITY. BRAINSTORMING IN A GROUP BECAME POPULAR IN 1953 WITH THE PUBLICATION OF A BUSINESS BOOK, APPLIED IMAGINATIO
N. BUT IT"S BEEN PROVEN NOT TO WORK SINCE 1958, WHEN YALE RESEARCHERS FOUND THAT THE TECHNIQUE ACTUALLY REDUCED A TEAM"S CREATIVE OUTPUT: THE SAME NUMBER OF PEOPLE GENERATE MORE AND BETTER IDEAS SEPARATELY THAN TOGETHER. IN FACT, ACCORDING TO UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PROFESSOR MICHAEL MUMFORD, HALF OF THE COMMONLY USED TECHNIQUES INTENDED TO SPUR CREATIVITY DON"T WORK, OR EVEN HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT. AS FOR MOST COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE CREATIVITY TRAINING, MUMFORD DOESN"T MINCE WORDS: IT"S "GARBAG
E. " WHETHER FOR ADULTS OR KIDS, THE WORST OF THESE PROGRAMS FOCUS SOLELY ON IMAGINATION EXERCISES, EXPRESSION OF FEELINGS, OR IMAGERY. THEY PANDER TO AN EASY, UNCHALLENGING NOTION THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LET YOUR NATURAL CREATIVITY OUT OF ITS SHELL. HOWEVER, THERE ARE SOME TECHNIQUES THAT DO BOOST THE CREATIVE PROCESS. 【R1】______ ALMOST EVERY DIMENSION OF COGNITION IMPROVES FROM 30 MINUTES OF AEROBIC EXERCISE, AND CREATIVITY IS NO EXCEPTIO
N. THE TYPE OF EXERCISE DOESN"T MATTER, AND THE BOOST LASTS FOR AT LEAST TWO HOURS AFTERWAR
D. HOWEVER, THERE"S A CATCH: THIS IS THE CASE ONLY FOR THE PHYSI-CALLY FIT. FOR THOSE WHO RARELY EXERCISE, THE FATIGUE FROM AEROBIC ACTIVITY COUNTERACTS THE SHORT-TERM BENEFITS. 【R2】______ THOSE WHO STUDY MULTI-TASKING REPORT THAT YOU CAN"T WORK ON TWO PROJECTS SIMULTANEOUSLY, BUT THE DYNAMIC IS DIFFERENT WHEN YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE CREATIVE PROJECT TO COMPLET
E. IN THAT SITUATION, MORE PROJECTS GET COMPLETED ON TIME WHEN YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO SWITCH BETWEEN THEM IF SOLUTIONS DON"T COME IMMEDIATELY. THIS CORROBORATES SURVEYS SHOWING THAT PROFESSORS WHO SET PAPERS ASIDE TO BREW ULTIMATELY PUBLISH MORE PAPERS. SIMILARLY, PREEMINENT MATHEMATICIANS USUALLY WORK ON MORE THAN ONE PROOF AT A TIM
E. 【R3】______ ACCORDING TO UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PROFESSOR ELIZABETH VANDEWATER, FOR EVERY HOUR A KID REGULARLY WATCHES TELEVISION, HIS OVERALL TIME IN CREATIVE ACTIVITIES—FROM FANTASY PLAY TO ARTS PROJECTS—DROPS AS MUCH AS 11 PERCENT. WITH KIDS SPENDING ABOUT THREE HOURS IN FRONT OF TELEVISIONS EACH DAY, THAT COULD BE A ONE-THIRD REDUCTION IN CREATIVE TIME—LESS TIME TO DEVELOP A SENSE OF CREATIVE SELF-EFFICACY THROUGH PLAY. 【R4】______ FIVE EXPERIMENTS BY NORTHWESTERN"S ADAM GALINSKY SHOWED THAT THOSE WHO HAVE LIVED ABROAD OUTPERFORM. OTHERS ON CREATIVITY TASKS. CREATIVITY IS ALSO HIGHER ON AVERAGE FOR FIRST OR SECOND-GENERATION IMMIGRANTS AND BILINGUALS. THE THEORY IS THAT CROSS-CULTURAL EXPERIENCES FORCE PEOPLE TO ADAPT AND BE MORE FLEXIBL
E. JUST STUDYING ANOTHER CULTURE CAN HELP. IN GALINSKY"S LAB, PEOPLE WERE MORE CREATIVE AFTER WATCHING A SLIDE SHOW ABOUT CHINA: A 45-MINUTE SESSION INCREASED CREATIVITY SCORES FOR A WEE
K. 【R5】______ RENA SUBOTNIK, A RESEARCHER WITH THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, HAS STUDIED CHILDREN"S PROGRESSION INTO ADULT CREATIVE CAREERS. KIDS DO BEST WHEN THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DEVELOP DEEP PASSIONS AND PURSUE THEM WHOLEHEARTEDLY—AT THE EXPENSE OF WELL-ROUNDED-NESS. "KIDS WHO HAVE DEEP IDENTIFICATION WITH A FIELD HAVE BETTER DISCIPLINE AND HANDLE SETBACKS BETTER," SHE NOTE
D. BY CONTRAST, KIDS GIVEN SUPERFICIAL EXPOSURE TO MANY ACTIVITIES DON"T HAVE THE SAME CENTEREDNESS TO OVERCOME PERIODS OF DIFFICULTY. IF YOU WANT TO INCREASE INNOVATION WITHIN AN ORGANIZATION, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS TO DO IS TEAR OUT THE SUGGESTION BOX, ADVISES ISAAC GETZ, PROFESSOR AT ESCP EUROPE BUSINESS SCHOOL IN PARIS. FORMALIZED SUGGESTION PROTOCOLS, WHETHER A BOX ON THE WALL, AN E-MAILED FORM, OR AN INTERNAL WEB SITE, ACTUALLY STIFLE INNOVATION BECAUSE EMPLOYEES FEEL THAT THEIR IDEAS GO INTO A BLACK HOLE OF BUREAUCRACY. INSTEAD, EMPLOYEES NEED TO BE ABLE TO PUT THEIR OWN IDEAS INTO PRACTIC
E. ONE OF THE REASONS THAT TOYOTA"S MANUFACTURING PLANT IN GEORGETOWN, KY. , IS SO SUCCESSFUL IS THAT IT IMPLEMENTS UP TO 99 PERCENT OF EMPLOYEES" IDEAS.
第9题
A.The man told Tim to come at six.
B.The roommate would meet Tim at six.
C.Tim gave his roommate a message.
D.The man told the roommate to give Tim the message.