Michael, an American professional basketball player, is considered by many to be the greatest player in basketball history. The 6 feet 6 inches shooting guard first became known as an (61) individual scorer, but as he matured as a player he (62) a more team-oriented approach to the game. Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to six National Basketball Association (NBA) championships. His widespread (63) fans helped make basketball one of the world’s most popular (64) sports. Michael Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York, the fourth of five children born to the family. Long before his basketball (65) emerged, young Michael liked to play baseball with his father. As a teenager, Jordan became (66) in North Carolina for his baseball skills, and he was named most (67) player after his team won the state championship. When Jordan joined the NBA in 1984, basketball’s popularity was already (68) . But observers believe that Jordan was the (69) force that kept basketball’s appeal fresh. The Bulls’ (70) of the NBA under Jordan’s leadership captured the imagination of many people, and his athletic skills, and (71) drive created new basketball fans as few other players have. Jordan’s popularity has spread well (72) scoring titles, championships, and other aspects of the NBA. He has become one of the most-recognized individuals in the world. Jordan has been especially (73) in the sportswear industry, (74) Nike’s introduction of the famous line of Air Jordan basketball shoes in 1984. The partnership between Jordan and Nike became (75) successful that, before the 1997-98 season, Nike created a separate business unit known as the JORDAN brand to market footwear and apparel that Jordan himself helped design.
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According to new research of Prof. Randolf Menzel from the Free University in Berlin, the popular image of bees as the ultimate hard workers was inaccurate. "Although we see bees buzzing around tirelessly in spring and summer, the common belief in a bee’s busy nature is based on a misconception," he said. People only really see bees when they’re out flying, or they look at a colony of bees and see thousands of them buzzing around. They don’t get to pick them out as individuals. The professor, who this month won a German Zoological Society award for his work on bees, added that bees compensated for their apparent laziness with high intelligence, advanced memory skills and an ability to learn quickly. The suggestion that bees were not pulling their weight met with skepticism from British beekeepers. Glyn Davies, the President of the British Beekeepers Association, said that bees were not lazy but efficient. "At any particular stage in its life, a bee has a specific job to do. If they are unable to do that job, they conserve their energy by doing nothing. Each bee has a unit of life energy and the faster it works, the faster it dies. They are being very wise and perhaps humans should try to follow their example instead of running about like headless chickens. " The idea of the busy bee is several thousand years old. One current author who has nothing but admiration for the bee is Paul Theroux, the novelist and part-time beekeeper. "I have never seen a bee sleeping. My bees never stop working. " he said, Mr. Theroux, who keeps 85 hives each containing 30000 bees in Hawaii, added that Prof. Menzel’s research could have been affected by his national origins. "Perhaps in comparison to the German rate of work, the bee does look lazy," he said. Few people think that the busy bee idea will go away, despite the efforts of Prof. Menzel. It performs too many useful functions in our culture. In fact, the worship of hees seems to be undergoing a renaissance. IBM recently ran a series of ads drawing on the " waggle dance" of bees, telling businessmen to "make your business waggle. \ It could be inferred from paragraph 3 that the Germans ______.
A. are easily affected by their national characters
B. are extremely busy and hard working
C. share many things in common with bees
D. tend to look down upon lazy people
Curt Dunnam bought a Chevrolet Blazer with one of the most popular new features in high-end cars: the OnStar personal security system. The heavily advertised communications and tracking feature is used nationwide by more than two million drivers, who simply push a button to connect, via a built-in cellphone, to a member of the OnStar staff. A Global Positioning System, or G. P. S. , helps the employee give verbal directions to the driver or locate the car after an accident. The company can even send a signal to unlock car doors for locked-out owners, or honk the horn to help people find their cars in an endless plain of parking spaces. The biggest selling point for the system is its use in thwarting car thieves. Once an owner reports to the police that a car has been stolen, the company can track it to help intercept the thieves, a service it performs about 400 times each month. But for Mr. Dunnam, the more he learned about his car’s security features, the less secure he felt. He has enough technical knowledge to worry that someone else-law enforcement officers, or hackers-could listen in on his phone calls, or gain control over his automotive systems without his knowledge or consent. "While I don’t believe G. M. intentionally designed this system to facilitate such activities, they sure have made it easy," he said. Mr. Dunnam said he had become even more concerned because of a federal appeals court case involving a criminal investigation, in which federal authorities had demanded that a company attach a wiretap to tracking services like those installed in his car. The suit did not reveal which company was involved. A three-judge panel in San Francisco rejected the request, but not on privacy grounds; the panel said the wiretap would interfere with the operation of the safety services. OnStar has said that its equipment was not involved in that case. An OnStar spokeswoman, Geri Lama, suggested that Mr. Dunnam’s worries were overblown. The signals that the company sends to unlock car doors or track location-based information can be triggered only with a secure exchange of specific identifying data, which ought to deter all but the most determined hackers, she said. Mr. Dunnam felt dissatisfied with OnStar because ______.
A. his demand for better service was rejected
B. his personal information might be revealed
C. OnStar posed potential danger to driving safety
D. OnStar had been developed to facilitate police work
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