第二篇 Electronic Mail During the past few years, scientist the world over have suddenly found themselves productively engaged in task they once spent their lives avoiding-writing, any kind of writing but particularly letter writing. Encouraged by electronic mail’s surprisingly high speed, convenience and economy, people who never before touched the stuff are regularly, skillfully, even cheerfully tapping out a great deal of correspondence. Electronic networks, woven into the fabric of scientific communication these days, are the route to colleagues in distant counties, shared data, bulletin boards and electronic journals. Anyone with a personal computer, a modem and the software to link computers over telephone lines can sign on. An estimated five million scientists have done so with more joining every day, most of them communicating through a bundle of interconnected domestic and foreign routes known collectively as the internet, or net. E-mail is staring to edge out the fax, the telephone, overnight mail, and of course, land mail. It shrinks time and distance between scientific collaborators, in par[ because it is conveniently asynchronous (writers can type while their colleagues across time zones sleep; their message will be waiting). If it is not yet speeding discoveries, it is certainly accelerating communication. Jeremy Bernstei, the physicist and science writer, once called E-mail the physicist’s umbilical cord. Lately other people, too, have been discovering its connective virtues. Physicists are using it; college students are using it, everybody is using it, and as a sign that it has come of age, the New Yorker has accelerates its liberating presence with a cartoon--an appreciative dog seated at a keyboard, saying happily, "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog." How is the internet or net explained in the passage
A. Electronic routes used to read home and international journals.
B. Electronic routes used to fax or correspond overnight.
C. Electronic routes waiting for correspondence while one is sleeping.
D. Electronic routes connected among millions of users, home and abroad.
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下列两题基于以下题干: 有钱并不意味着幸福。有一项覆盖面相当广的调查显示,在自认为有钱的被调查者中,只有1/3的人感觉自己是幸福的。 要使上述论证成立,以下哪项必须为真
A. 在不认为自己有钱的被调查者中,感觉自己是幸福的人多于1/3。
B. 在自认为有钱的被调查者中,其余的2/3都感觉自己很不幸福。
C. 许多自认为有钱的人,实际上并不有钱。
D. 上述调查的对象全部是有钱人。
E. 是否幸福的标准是当事人的自我感觉。
21、22两题基于以下题干: 由教育部发布的一则研究表明,市中心的孩子们在阅读技巧上明显落后于在郊区和农村的学生。报告将此种差别归咎于城市学校的过于拥挤。然而我认为,城市孩子较之非城市孩子阅读较差的真正原因是它们不能得到足够的新鲜空气和阳光。 下列哪句最好地描述了上述论点的形式
A. 它抨击了教育部的可信性。
B. 它对教育部研究的方法论提出反对意见。
C. 它试图说明市区的学生和非市区学生的阅读一样好。
D. 它提供了对于差别的另一种解释。
E. 它通过类比讨论问题。
第二篇 Electronic Mail During the past few years, scientist the world over have suddenly found themselves productively engaged in task they once spent their lives avoiding-writing, any kind of writing but particularly letter writing. Encouraged by electronic mail’s surprisingly high speed, convenience and economy, people who never before touched the stuff are regularly, skillfully, even cheerfully tapping out a great deal of correspondence. Electronic networks, woven into the fabric of scientific communication these days, are the route to colleagues in distant counties, shared data, bulletin boards and electronic journals. Anyone with a personal computer, a modem and the software to link computers over telephone lines can sign on. An estimated five million scientists have done so with more joining every day, most of them communicating through a bundle of interconnected domestic and foreign routes known collectively as the internet, or net. E-mail is staring to edge out the fax, the telephone, overnight mail, and of course, land mail. It shrinks time and distance between scientific collaborators, in par[ because it is conveniently asynchronous (writers can type while their colleagues across time zones sleep; their message will be waiting). If it is not yet speeding discoveries, it is certainly accelerating communication. Jeremy Bernstei, the physicist and science writer, once called E-mail the physicist’s umbilical cord. Lately other people, too, have been discovering its connective virtues. Physicists are using it; college students are using it, everybody is using it, and as a sign that it has come of age, the New Yorker has accelerates its liberating presence with a cartoon--an appreciative dog seated at a keyboard, saying happily, "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog." What will happen to fax, land mail, overnight mail, etc. according to the writer
A. Their functions cannot be replaced by E-mail.
B. They will co-exist with E-mail for a long time.
C. Less and less people will use them.
D. They will play a supplementary function to E-mail.
阅读下面这篇短文,短文后列出了7个句子,请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息,请选择A项:如果该句提供的错误信息,请选择B项:如果该句的信息文章中没有提及,请选择C项。 Tanning Parlors Take Heat People who seek a glamorous tan through sun lamps may double their risk of developing Common types of skin cancer, according to a new study that found the risk was highest for those who start at a young age. The study, appearing in the latest issue of Journal of the US National Cancer Institute, concluded that people who use tanning devices were 1.5 to 2.5 times more likely to have common kinds of skin cancer than were people who did not use the devices. The study confirmed what doctors have long suspected-that sun lamp use increases the risk of basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers, said Margaret R. Karagas, first author of the study. Either going to the tanning parlor, or getting an infrequent sunburn can seriously damage the skin, said Dr. James Spencer, vice chairman of the department of dermatology at Mount Hospital, but the small day-to-day exposure is worse for the skin in the long run. Joseph A. Levy, vice president of the International Smart Tan Network, however, said occasional sunburn "is a risk factor in all forms of skin cancer and intermittent sunburn is what the tanning industry is trying to stop. ’ In the study, Karagas and her colleagues interviewed 603 basal cell skin cancer patients and 293 with squamous cell skin cancer. They talked to 540 control subjects who did not have either type of skin cancer. About 1 million Americans are diagnosed annually with skin cancer. Among those skin cancer patients, about 80 percent are with basal cell skin cancer, 16 percent, with squamous cell skin cancer and 4 percent with melanoma-the most serious form of skin cancers. Back to the interviewed patients, 190 reported that they had used tanning devices at some time. In the control groups, only 75 had used such devices. Karagas said a statistical analysis shows that those who used tanning equipment were 2.5 times more likely to get squamous cell skin cancer than those who had not used the devices. For basal cell cancer, the risk was 1.5 times greater. The risk was highest for those who first used the tanning devices before the age of 20, said Karagas. For this group, the squamous cell cancer risk was 3.6 times greater than that of the controls while the basal cell cancer risk was 1.3 times greater. It is implied in Mr. Levy’s argument(Paragraph 5) that frequent exposure to sun lamps is safe.
A. right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned