新理念大学英语学习大厅第二版综合教程二unit4E.docx

1、新理念大学英语学习大厅第二版综合教程二unit4E全新版第二版综合B2U4-EPart I Listening Comprehension ( 11 minutes ) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether

2、each statement is true or false. 1.A) TB) F Script: For the last two years, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. 正确答案： B 2.A) TB) F Script: I have spent as long as thirteen weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspapers and groceries. 正确答案： B3.A) TB) F Script: I start t

3、o feel as though Ive become one with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another link in the Net. 正确答案： A4.A) TB) F Script: Once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult. 正确答案： A5.A) TB) F Script: Id reali

4、zed how important daily routine is: dressing for work, sleeping normal hours. 正确答案： B6.A) TB) F Script: I began to understand why long-term unemployment can be so damaging, why life without an externally supported daily plan can lead to higher rates of drug abuse, crime, suicide. 正确答案： A7.A) TB) F S

5、cript: It is the sound of the only lasting disagreement in a household that is otherwise peaceful. 正确答案： A8.A) TB) F Script: But on top of that she has lately started spending some two hours in intense communication with a computer. 正确答案： A9.A) TB) F Script: The party went on as planned. 正确答案： B10.A

6、) TB) F Script: Arguing with a daughter is always like that, so annoying. 正确答案： ASection B Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, yo

7、u are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. The Internet is now playing an (11)_ role in the (12)_ connection and communication. Letters, telephone calls, telexes, faxes,

8、etc. are no longer the only ways to communicate. Instead, one can (13)_ others by e-mail, net chat, BBS, IRC, MAVEN, CU-SeeMe and so on with the help of the (14)_ . For example, during the period of SARS, students in Beijing had to be sent away from school. As a result, their school education was fo

9、rced to be (15)_ . However, a new flavor helped solve the problem. Do you know how? (16)_ the Internet, a new system called Education On-line was being carried out. With their PCs at home, students cruised around their school (17)_ merely by (18)_ the IP addresses. Here, (19)_ lectures, materials, e

10、xercises and homework are (20)_ on-line.Script: The Internet is now playing an essential role in the interpersonal connection and communication. Letters, telephone calls, telexes, faxes, etc. are no longer the only ways to communicate. Instead, one can have contact with others by e-mail, net chat, B

11、BS, IRC, MAVEN, CU-SeeMe and so on with the help of the Internet. For example, during the period of SARS, students in Beijing had to be sent away from school. As a result, their school education was forced to be cut off. However, a new flavor helped solve the problem. Do you know how? Thanks to the

12、Internet, a new system called Education On-line was being carried out. With their PCs at home, students cruised around their school websites merely by inputting the IP addresses. Here, sufficient lectures, materials, exercises and homework are available on-line.Part II Reading Comprehension ( 25 min

13、utes ) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identi

14、fied by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Id never realized how important daily routine is: dressing for work, sleeping normal hours. Id never thought I relied so much on co-workers for company. I began to understand why long-term unemployment can be so 21 , why

15、life without an externally supported daily plan can 22 to higher rates of drug 23 , crime, suicide.To 24 balance to my life, I force myself back into the 25 world. I call people, arrange to meet with the few remaining friends who havent fled New York City. I try to 26 get to the gym, so as to set ap

16、art the weekend from the rest of my week. I 27 interviews for stories, doctors appointments anything to get me 28 the house and connected with others.But sometimes being face to face is too much. I see a friend and her ringing laughter is 29 the noise of conversation in the restaurant, unbearable. I

17、 make my excuses and 30 . I re-enter my apartment and run to the computer as though it were a place of safety.A) runningB) damagingC) fleeD) realE) remainF) abuseG) at leastH) understandingI) intolerableJ) out ofK) in the leastL) arrangeM) restoreN) guideO) lead 21._ 正确答案： B22._ 正确答案： O23._ 正确答案： F2

18、4._ 正确答案： M25._ 正确答案： D26._ 正确答案： G27._ 正确答案： L28._ 正确答案： J29._ 正确答案： I30._ 正确答案： CSection B Directions: There are several passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decid

19、e on the best choice. Passage OneQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.In the 1950s, the pioneers of artificial intelligence (AI) predicted that, by the end of this century, computers would be conversing with us at work and robots would be performing our housework. But as useful as c

20、omputers are, theyre nowhere close to achieving anything remotely resembling these early aspirations for humanlike behavior. Never mind something as complex as conversation: the most powerful computers struggle to reliably recognize the shape of an object, the most elementary of tasks for a ten-mont

21、h-old kid.The problem, the scientists say, is that AI has been trying to separate the highest, most abstract levels of thought, like language and mathematics, and to duplicate them with logical, step-by-step programs. A new movement in AI, on the other hand, takes a closer look at the more roundabou

22、t way in which nature came up with intelligence. Many of these researchers study evolution and natural adaptation instead of formal logic and conventional computer programs. The results of these early efforts are as promising as they are peculiar, and the new nature-based AI movement is slowly but s

23、urely moving to the forefront of the field.Imitating the brains neural network is a huge step in the right direction, says computer scientist and biophysicist Michael Conrad, but it still misses an important aspect of natural intelligence. People tend to treat the brain as if it were made up of colo

24、r-coded transistors, he explains. But its not simply a clever network of switches. There are lots of important things going on inside the brain cells themselves. Right now, the notion that conventional computers and software are fundamentally incapable of matching the processes that take place in th

25、e brain remains controversial. But if it proves true, then the efforts of Conrad and his fellow AI rebels could turn out to be the only game in town.31.The author says that the powerful computers of today _ .A) are capable of reliably recognizing the shape of an objectB) are close to exhibiting huma

26、nlike behaviorC) are not very different in their performance from those of the 1950sD) still cannot communicate with people in a human language 正确答案： D32.The new trend in artificial intelligence research stems from _ . A) the shift of the focus of study on the recognition of the shapes of objectsB)

27、the belief that human intelligence cannot be duplicated with logical, step-by-step programsC) the aspirations of scientists to duplicate the intelligence of a ten-month-old childD) the efforts made by scientists in the study of the similarities between transistors and brain cells 正确答案： B33.Conrad an

28、d his group of AI researchers have been making enormous efforts to_ . A) find a roundabout way to design powerful computersB) build a computer using a clever network of switchesC) find out how intelligence develops in natureD) separate the highest and most abstract levels of thought 正确答案： C34.Whats

29、the authors opinion about the new AI movement?A) It has created a sensation among artificial intelligence researchers.B) Its a breakthrough in duplicating human thought processes.C) Its more like a peculiar game rather than a real scientific effort.D) It may prove to be in the right direction though

30、 nobody is sure of its future prospects. 正确答案： D35.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the phrase “the only game in town” (in Para.4)?A) The only approach to building an artificially intelligent computer.B) The only way for them to win a prize in artificial intelligence research.C) The only area worth studying in computer science.D) The only game they w