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1、check:a game played on a checkerboard by two players ,each using 12 piecesecology:the relationship between organisms and their environment 生态关系，生态学Reading comprehensionThe purpose of creating chess-playing computers is _A to win the world chess championB to pave the way for further intelligent compu

2、tersC to work out strategies for international warsD to find an accurate yardstick for measuring computer progress2 Today , a chess-playing computer can be programmed to _A give trillions of reponses in a second to each possible move and win the gameB function with complete data and beat the best pl

3、ayersC learn from chess-playing in the early stage and go on to win the gameD evaluate every possible move but may fail to give the right response each time3 For a computer to “think” , it is necessary to _A mange to process as much data as possible in a secondB program it so that it can learn from

4、its experiencesC prepare it for chess-playing firstD enable it to deal with unstructured situations4 The authors attitude towards the Defense Department is_A critical B unconcerned C positive D negative 5 In the authors opinion,_A winning a chess game is an unimportant eventB serious human problems

5、shouldnt be regarded as playing a gameC ecological problems are more urgent to be solvedD there is hope for more intelligent computers1 b 2 c 3 b 4 c 5 dYou Call This a Good Economy这能称之为上佳经验You have to have lived in the 1950s and 1960s to have experienced a good economy. In the period between 1950 a

6、nd 1970 it was the rulerather than the exceptionthat an ordinary family, without higher education, could sustain itself decently on the income of a single breadwinner（养家糊口的人）. In 1955, when I was 19 and living in Brooklyn, N. Y., my father, who had a sixth-grade education, maintained our family of f

7、ive on a wage of $82 a week as a bookbinder. My mother taught us fairness and compassion; my father, discipline and enterprise.The U. S. economy in those years was good. Then where did this good economy go It was inflated away. The price of gold, which I take as proxy for the prices of all goods, wa

8、s $35 an ounce in those years. It is at roughly ten times that price today.There is another answer, though: inflation caused the entire work force to be moved into higher tax groups, thus reducing after-tax purchasing power. That is, my fathers bindery job in1954 paid $82 a week, with $80 after dedu

9、ctions; today, at $ 820 per week the net would be $662.To ordinary people, the economy doesnt look very good at all. After-tax incomes continue to decrease in purchasing power. The jobs offered in the employment ads pay only a little more than the minimum wage, maybe $5 an hour, which, after payroll

10、 deductions, yields $4 an hour. Compare that with minimum-wage jobs of the early 1950s, when 75 cents was worth todays $ before and after taxes.1 Brooklyn: a district of New York city2 inflate:通货膨胀3 proxy: the authority to act for another4 payroll: a list of employees and the wages due to eachReadin

11、g ComprehensionIn the authors opinion, a good economy, to ordinary people can be expressed in terms of _the amount of wageafter-tax incomethe actual purchasing powerthe minimum wage per hourIn the period between 1950 and 1970,_there was not much difference in the living standards between people of h

12、igher and lower educationan ordinary family of five without exception could live on one person incomethe income of an ordinary family was more than enough for buying foodfor an average family the income was sufficient to support all the membersToday a bookbinders wage is ten times that of the 1950s

13、but its income tax rate has increased _ times c. 70 times d. 80 times4 The worsening of a bookbinders livelihood results from _a. his low education and the amount of wageb. the high-taxation and the income deductionsc. the high taxation and cost of livingd. thelow wage and higher prices5 The passage

14、 implies that while the cost of living is getting higher_a. the value of labor actually is shrinkingb. the minimum wage level is increasing likewisec. the income tax rate is rising alongd. the employment ads naturally offer a higher minimum wage6 The authors tone in writing the article is_a. ironica

15、l b. subjective c. high-sounding d. convincing7 the article aims to _.a. help control the rapidly increasing pricesb. give some advice to the policy-makers the younger generation with some basic facts upon the societys attention against inflation1 c 2 b 3 d 4 c 5 a 6 d 7 cAre Experts Always Right专家总

16、是对的吗The world has become so complicated that weve lost confidence in our ability to understand and deal with it. But common sense is useful now as it ever was. No amount of expertise substitutes for an intimate knowledge of a person or a situation. At times you just have to trust your own judgement.

17、It almost cost me my life to learn that. I was reading a book one day, idly scratching the back of my head, when I noticed that, in one particular spot, the scratching echoed inside my head like fingernails on an empty cardboard carton, I rushed off to my doctor.“Got a hole in your head, have you” h

18、e teased. “Its nothingjust one of those little scalp nerves sounding off.”Two years and four doctors later, I was still being told it was nothing. To the fifth doctor. I said, almost in desperation,”But I live in tis body. I know somethings different.”“If you wont take my word for it,Ill take an X-r

19、ay and prove it to you,” he said.Well, there it was, of course, the tumor that had made a hole as big as an eye socket in the back of my skull. After the operation, a young resident paused by my bed. ”Its a good thing youre so smart,” he said.” Most patient die of these tumors because we dont know t

20、heyre there until it is too late.”Im really not so smart. And Im too docile in the face of authority. I should have been more aggressive with those first four doctors. Its hard to question opinions delivered with absolute certainty.Experts always sound so sure. Nevile Chamberlain, the British prime

21、minister, was positive, just before the start of World War II, that there would be “peace for our time.” Producer Irving Thalberg did not hesitate to advise Louis B. Mayer against buying the rights to Gone With the Wind because “no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.” Even Abraham Lincoln surely b

22、elieved it when he said in his Gettysburg Address:” The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here”We should not, therefore, be intimidated by experts. When its an area we really know aboutour bodies, our families, our houseslets listen to what the experts say, then make up our own

23、minds.cardboard carton:a box or container made of a stiff pasteboard of paperscalp: the skin covering the headtumor:肿瘤eye socket: the opening or cavity in which the eye fitsdocile: easily managed or taughtreading comprehension“It” in “deal with it” refers to _a. confidence b. the world c. ability d. complication2. “Expertise” in means_a. common sense b. expert skill or knowledge c. unusual ability to appreciated. personal experience3. We have to trust our own judgement since _a. not all of us have acquired reliable expertiseb. experts often lose their common sensec. experts may sometimes