[简答题]Memos are an important means of stating and exchanging ideas, reacting to them, clarifying them, and finally agreeing on actions to be taken. Although the telephone is faster than the memo in communication, the memo is safer than the telephone, because very often the person who you want to reach is not there when you dial the phone number.

[填空题]Today email has become a important means of (communicate)______in daily life.

[单项选择]What does President Bush implies without stating out in his talk
A. The Americans are likely to make minor investments.
B. The Americans are not likely to make major investments.
C. The Americans don’t feel secure about the long-term economic performance.
D. The Americans feel secure about the long-term economic performance.

[单项选择]

For years there have been endless articles stating that scientists are on the verge of achieving artificial intelligence, that it is just around the corner. The truth is that it may be just around the corner, but they haven’t yet found the right clock.
Artificial intelligence aims to build machines that can think. One immediate problem is to define thought, which is harder than you might think. The specialists in the field of artificial intelligence complain, with some justification, that anything that their machines do is dismissed as not being thought. For example, computers can now play very, very good chess. They can’t beat the greatest players in the world, but they can beat just about anybody else. If a human being played chess at this level, he or she would certainly be considered smart. Why not a machine The answer is that the machine doesn’t do anything clever in playing chess. It uses its blinding speed to do a brute-force search of all possibl
A. thinks that scientists are about to achieve artificial intelligence
B. doubts whether scientists can ever achieve artificial intelligence
C. does not think that scientists have found real artificial intelligence
D. is sure that scientists have achieved artificial intelligence

[单项选择]In stating that "most compartments remain unidentified, furthermore, giving ample reason for scientific humility" (lines 30-31) the author suggests which of the following
A. Chemists should feel daunted by the limitations of the application of their science.
B. Chemists should recognize that the future of chemistry is not likely to be much more illuminating than its past.
C. Chemists should exercise caution in creating a chemical that may affect contexts other than the one it was developed for.
D. Chemists should work hard to identify as many new chemistries as possible in order to make their science more complete.
E. Chemists should realize the need for collaboration in attempting to create chemicals less harmful to the environment.

[简答题]means of production

[简答题]means of packing

[单项选择]There is nothing in science (stating) that it is good to attempt to save human lives. Saving human lives (seems) to be a (generally held) value in most cultures of the world, but it is not (in some sense) scientifically derived.
A. stating
B. seems
C. generally held
D. in some sense

[多项选择]An important letter

[单项选择]The treasury issued an order stating that ______ land purchased from the government had to be paid for in gold and silver.
A. henceforth
B. moreover
C. whereby
D. however

[填空题]The IM means

[简答题]科学家是否愿意share科研成果。选Important for important to progress

[单项选择]英译汉：“means of conveyance；means of transport”，正确的翻译为：( )。
A. 运输工具；运输方式
B. 运输方式；运输工具
C. 运输工具；转运方式
D. 财产赠与；转运方式

[单项选择]Money is important, but it is more important （）care of one's health
A. of taking 
B. taking
C. to take  
D. than taken

[多项选择]A WHAT IS IMPORTANT WHEN