Roman soldiers in some places built
long rows of signal towers. When they had a message to send, the soldiers
shouted it from tower to tower. If there were enough towers and enough soldiers
with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.
In Africa, people learned to send messages by beating on a series of large
drums (鼓). Each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. The drum
beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. Though
the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of
miles.
In the eighteenth century, a French engineer found a new
way to send short messages. In this way, a person held a flag in each hand and
the arms were moved to various positions representing different letters of the
alphabet (字母表). It was like spelling out wor
A. fine weather
B. high tower
C. the spelling system
D. arm movements
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[单项选择] Passage Five
Roman soldiers in some places built
long rows of signal towers. When they had a message to send, the soldiers
shouted it from tower to tower. If there were enough towers and enough soldiers
with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.
In Africa, people learned to send messages by beating on a series of large
drums (鼓). Each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. The drum
beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. Though
the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of
miles.
In the eighteenth century, a French engineer found a new
way to send short messages. In this way, a person held a flag in each hand and
the arms were moved to various positions representing different letters of the
alphabet (字母表). It was like spelling out wor
A. Telephone was invented by a French engineer.
B. Roman soldiers sent the important message by spelling out the words.
C. African soldiers shouted from tower to tower to pass message.
D. Only by using telephone could people send speech sounds quickly.
[单项选择] Passage Five
Some 23 million additional U.S. residents are
expected to become more regular users of the U.S. health care system in the next
several years, thanks to the passage of health care reform.Digitizing medical
data has been promoted as one way to help the already burdened system manage the
surge in patients. But putting people’s health information in databases and
online is going to do more than simply reduce redundancies. It is already
shifting the very way we seek and receive health care.
"The
social dynamics of care are changing," says John Gomez, vice president of
Eclipsys, a medical information technology company. Most patients might not yet
be willing to share their latest CT scan images over Facebook, he notes, but
many parents post their babies’ ultrasound images, and countless patients
nowadays use social networking sites t
A. The Future of Your Medical Data.
B. Challenges Against Doctors and Hospitals.
C. Benefits of the U. S. Health Care Reform.
D. How to Access and Share Your Health Information.
[填空题]Paragraph Five
Some people worry about the violence in TV programs and their effect on young people. Others consider that these same programs are an opportunity for us to release our stronger emotion, our feelings of anger or anxiety. Most people would agree though, that extreme violence should be kept away from children.
[单项选择] Passage Five
Some weeks ago, riding in a cab from
Boston to Cambridge, my driver turned and asked me what I did for a living.
"Teach English," I said. "Is that so" The young man continued. "I was an
English major." But then, instead of chatting idly about Joyce or dropping the
subject altogether, this driver caught me short. "You guys," he said, turning
back so that his furry face pressed into the glass partition, "ought to be
shot." I think he meant it.
The guilty party in this present
state of affairs is not really the academic discipline. It is not the fault of
English and philosophy and biology that engineering and accounting and computer
science afford students better job opportunities and increased flexibility in
career choice. Literature and an understanding of, say, man’s evolutionary past
are as important as ever. They simply are n
A. To help graduates of history major become successful businessmen
B. To provide liberal arts graduates with a method of meeting effectively the challenge in employment.
C. To extend their knowledge learnt in the college.
D. To moderate the tension between liberal arts and vocational faculties
[单项选择]Roman soldiers in some places built long rows of signal towers. When they had a message to send, the soldiers shouted it from tower to tower. If there were enough towers and enough soldiers with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.
In Africa, people learned to send messages by beating on a series of large drums (鼓). Each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. The drum beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. Though the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of miles.
In the eighteenth century, a French engineer found a new way to send short messages. In this way, a person held a flag in each hand and the arms were moved to various positions representing different letters of the alphabet (字母表). It was like spelling out words with flags and arms.
Over a long period of time, people sent messages by all these different ways. However, not until the telephone was invented i
A. in a special way
B. over a very short distance
C. by a musical instrument
D. at a rather slow speed
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