安徽省蚌埠市考研外语学校:_ 班级:_ 姓名:_ 考号:_一、单选题(3题)1.AwithBlikeCinsideDupon2.AjoyBenjoymentCamusementDdelight3.AunpredictableBunforgivableCunlimitedDunlikely二、阅读理解(5题)4.By “chose to become entangled” (Line 4,Paragraph 3), the author implies that _.Athe dispute between the Government and the BBC was unnecessaryBthe Foreign Affairs Committee had mixed up the argumentCit was entirely wrong to carry out such investigationsDthe Intelligence Committee shouldnt mix up with the affair5.Text 4Timothy Berners-Lee might be giving Bill Gates a run for the money, but he passed up his shot at fabulous wealthintentionallyin 1990. Thats when he decided not to patent the technology used to create the most important software innovation in the final decade of the 20th century: the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee wanted to make the world a richer place, not a mass personal wealth. So he gave his brainchild to us all.Berners-Lee regards todays Web as a rebellious adolescent that can never fulfill his original expectations. By 2005, he hopes to begin replacing it with the Semantic Weba smart network that will finally understand human languages and make computers virtually as easy to work with as other humans.As envisioned by Berners-Lee, the new Web would understand not only the meaning of words and concepts but also the logical relationships among them. That has awesome potential. Most knowledge is built on two pillars: semantics and mathematics. In number-crunching, computers already outclass people. Machines that are equally adroit at dealing with language and reason wont just help people uncover new insights; they could blaze new trails on their own.Even with a fairly crude version of this future Web, mining online repositories for nuggets of knowledge would no longer force people to wade through screen after screen of extraneous data. Instead, computers would dispatch intelligent agents, or software messengers, to explore Web sites by the thousands and logically sift out just whats relevant. That alone would provide a major boost in productivity at work and at home. But theres far more.Software agents could also take on many routine business chores, such as helping manufacturers find and negotiate with lowest-cost parts suppliers and handling help-desk questions. The Semantic Web would also be a bottomless trove of eureka insights. Most inventions and scientific breakthroughs, including todays Web, spring from novel combinations of existing knowledge. The Semantic Web would make it possible to evaluate more combinations overnight than a person could juggle in a lifetime. Sure scientists and other people can post ideas on the Web today for others to read. But with machines doing the reading and translating technical terms, related ideas from millions of Web pages could be distilled and summarized. That will lift the ability to assess and integrate information to new heights. The Semantic Web, Berners-Lee predicts, will help more people become more intuitive as well as more analytical. It will foster global collaborations among people with diverse cultural perspectives, so we have a better chance of finding the right solutions to the really big issueslike the environment and climate warming.Had he liked, Berners-Lee could have _.Acreated the most important innovation in the 1990sBaccumulated as much personal wealth as Bill GatesCpatented the technology of Microsoft softwareDgiven his brainchild to us all6.Text 2Were moving into another era, as the toxic effects of the bubble and its grave consequences spread through the financial system. Just a couple of years ago investors dreamed of 20 percent returns forever. Now surveys show that theyre down to a“realistic”8 percent to 10 percent range.But what if the next few years turn out to be below normal expectations? Martin Barners of the Bank Credit Analyst in Montreal expects future stock returns to average just 4 percent to 6 percent. Sound impossible? After a much smaller bubble that burst in the mid-1960s Standard & Poors 5000 stock average returned 6.9 percent a year (with dividends reinvested) for the following 17 years. Few investors are prepared for that.Right now denial seems to be the attitude of choice. Thats typical, says Lori Lucas of Hewitt, the consulting firm. You hate to look at your investments when theyre going down. Hewitt tracks 500,000 401 (k) accounts every day, and finds that savers are keeping their contributions up. But theyre much less inclined to switch their money around.“Its the slot-machine effect,”Lucas says.“People get more interested in playing when they think theyve got a hot machine”and nothings hot today. The average investor feels overwhelmed.Against all common sense, many savers still shut their eyes to the dangers of owning too mu