Technologists aren’ t usually known for their sense of humor, but last week Scott McNealy, chief executive of Sun Microsystems, was working hard to come up with the Quip of the Day. For four contentious hours, he and another casualty of the software wars, Netscape’s Jim Barksdale, took turns before the Senate Judiciary committee slamming their nemesis, Bill Gates. They called him a predator, a monopolist, the "most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age!. Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, driving 90 percent of the computers across the land, are the railroads of our dawning Information Age. No one person should be allowed to control them, they argued. Cyberspace should be open to all,
Gates insisted it still was. He’s no monopolist, he told the senators. Windows is vulnerable. So is his company. "Technology is ever-changing," Gates retorted. Who knows what new wave will come along and sweep even mighty Microsoft into the
A. is a necessity
B. is a dispensable tool
C. is an indispensable tool
D. is nothing but a videogame player
Technologists aren’ t usually known for their sense of humor, but last week Scott McNealy, chief executive of Sun Microsystems, was working hard to come up with the Quip of the Day. For four contentious hours, he and another casualty of the software wars, Netscape’s Jim Barksdale, took turns before the Senate Judiciary committee slamming their nemesis, Bill Gates. They called him a predator, a monopolist, the "most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age!. Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, driving 90 percent of the computers across the land, are the railroads of our dawning Information Age. No one person should be allowed to control them, they argued. Cyberspace should be open to all,
Gates insisted it still was. He’s no monopolist, he told the senators. Windows is vulnerable. So is his company. "Technology is ever-changing," Gates retorted. Who knows what new wave will come along and sweep even mighty Microsoft into the
A. monopolizing the software market
B. monopolizing the hardware market
C. 90 percent of the computers using Windows
D. his most dangerous and powerful industry of our age
The Singapore underground train system, known as the MRT, offers a speedy and easy way to get about our city. You’ll need small change to buy an individual ticket. Alternatively, buy a special ticket designed with the tourist in mind. Costing S $6 ,it offers S $5.50 worth of rides; the extra 50 cents is for keeping the ticket as a souvenir(纪念品). Tourist tickets feature one of three designs: the Chinese Gardens, the Victoria Memorial Hall or a night skyline of Singapore.
You gain entry to the trains by inserting your ticket into the barrier machine (检票闸机). Wait for the ticket to reappear and put it away safely: you’ll need it again. After your trip, you insert your ticket into the barrier in order to leave. Please note that each ticket is time coded on entry, and you are advised not to spend more than half an hour in addition to travel time, because tickets can expire (失效).
Moving stairs that take you to the platform and train destinations are m
| As if they didn’t have their hands full
with Iraq and terrorism, U. S. intelligence agencies are being drawn into the
debate over whether the United States is imminently threatened by a deadly
outbreak of bird influenza and whether the Bush administration has adequately
prepared for such an epidemic. Over the last two weeks, the administration has
held bird flu briefings classified "Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented
Information" for members of both houses of Congress. A counterterrorism official
indicated that the intelligence community is also studying whether it would be
possible for terrorists to somehow exploit the avian flu virus and use it
against the United States, though there is no evidence that terrorists have in
any way tried to do so. The World Health Organization is warning that if a
pandemic (a disease for which ther A. They believe the outbreak of bird flu is the terrorists’ trick. B. They take the federal attitude to the bird flu outbreak seriously. C. They participate in the debate with reluctance. D. They’re ill-informed because it’s a top secret. [单项选择]In ______, we usually don’t hear the sounding of [ r] after vowels like "bird".
A. Scotland B. Ireland C. the whole of the western counties of England D. area around New York City 我来回答: 提交
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