Many reports have been received from our （)agents in Korea that there are very heavy

mands ______ the captioned garments．

leges, universities and clubs.The benefits are of course enormous.The ability to speak effectively in public promotes self-confidence, clarity of expression, professionalism and conversational ability.Many students recognized that being able to speak in public is a skill essential to their career.Not only will they have to be able to give presentations to clients and colleagues and verbal reports to their managers, they may one day have to give a formal speech to hundreds of people.

ion of the San Joaquin Valley in California-one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. Recently, Peter was promoted to the position of agricultural loan clerk.

In his new position, he has many reports to read-reports from farmers who are applying for loans; status reports from farmers who have received loans; and reports from his employer, the federal government, on new loan programs.

After reading so many reports, Peter wonders,“Why are reports so different？"Some are long, some are short. Some are simple, some are complex. Some are easy to read, some are difficult to read. Some are coherent， some are. not. Some make recommendations, some do not. Why are reports so different？

1.The San Joaquin Valley in California is one of the most().

A.famous industrial areas

B.popular tourist attractions

C.productive agricultural areas

2. What does Peter do in his new position？ ()

A.He reads many reports from several aspects

B.He writes many reports for farmers and banks

C.He is in charge of investment and marketing

3. Why the farmers write reports to Peter？()

A.To make conclusions

B.To apply for loans

C.To do business with him

4. From reading reports, Peter finds that().

A.most of the reports are well written

B.farmers are good at writing reports

C.the reports show great difference

5.What do you think the author will talk later？()

A.The difficulty of the farmers

B.The position of Peter' s supervisor

C.The reasons causing difference of reports

ocuments daily from her Windows 2000 Professional computer. Lilly reports that she receives a dialog box announcing that each print job she sends has printed successfully.

Lilly's default printer is a shared printer that is connected to Windows 2000 Server computer. She wants to have this notification turned off because she prints so many documents.

What should you do？

A．In the server properties of the printer system folder, clear the Notify when remote documents are printed option.

B．In the server properties of the printers system folder, clear the Notify computer, not user, when remote documents are printed option.

C．In the default printer properties, select the Portstab, and clear the Enable bidirectional support option.

D．In the default printer properties, select the Advancedtab, and clear the Advanced printing features option.

Some people believe in the monsters【B1】______Many do not! However, very important【B2】______people do believe there is some truth in the famous monster story: experts from Britains Royal Air Force, scientists from the Boston Academy of Applied Science and specialists from NASA, to【B3】______but a few! Loch Ness is an【B4】______lake in Northern Scotland. It is about twenty-four miles long and one mile wide, and【B5】______1,000 feet, which makes it very difficult for anybody to find and examine the monster. In fact the first【B6】______reports of people seeing the monster date from only about six years before the beginning of the Second World War. Since then there have been other【B7】______and photographs of the monster. Many of these photographs【B8】______silly jokes played on an unsuspecting public later. However, other photographs have amazed the most searching scientific minds. In fact, it seems certain that something does exist in the deep waters of the【B9】______lake. The most amazing photographs show a flipper — the flipper perhaps of a very large animal. From these photos British expert in animal life, Sir Peter Scott, who is also an artist, has【B10】______the picture of what he believes the monster might look like.

【B1】

ic-looking(相貌平平)man in a generic-looking suit slides back and forth before a map of the region，telling us we have nothing to worry about.Only a slight chance of an isolated thunderstorm after midnight.It’s 6:30 p.m.He smiles，tells us to have a great evening and fades away to sports.Less than an hour later，it’s pouring.And I mean pouring.Sheets-of-rain-down-the-windowpanes pouring.It remains one of life’s 1ittle mysteries to me how such well-intentioned and well-trained people using such high-tech equipment can be so wrong，and so often. I’ve often said that if I made that many mistakes in front of so many people，I’d have been out of job 35 years ago.I grew up on the windswept(受大风侵袭的)plains of western New York State.When the m an on the Buffalo station said it was going to snow，it snowed.It never failed. This was October，usually around Halloween(万圣节)。 He then predicted snow for the next six months，and he was never wrong November. December.January.February.March.April.Snow.Even as a kid，I figured Out this wasn’t rocket science.But at least he was always accurate.He had no equipment，no red or blue or green spots floating across his map.In fact，I’ll not sure I remember a map。In those days，we a11 knew where we were.NO map was Required。He got most()f his forecast tips，I suspect，from his bones and how they felt.

I have my simple theories why weather reporting is so inaccurate. WeatherepOrters rarely go outside.Nor can they see outside.MOst 0f them work in windowless buildings.

31.The sentence “It happened again the 0ther night” implies that ().

A.weather reporters are Often fired because they are inaccurate

B.it rains much too 0ften at night in that area of the country

C.inaccuracies in teleVisiOn weather reports are frequent

D.the author Often watches the weather report on teleVisiOn

32.The phrase“fades away to sports”(para.1)means ().

A.he goe s on t0 talk ab0ut sports programs

B.he goes away t0 play sports after work

C.sports programs begin when he disappears

D.sports have to be cancelled because 0f ranin

33.1t began to rain ().

A.at 6:30 p.m.

B.before 7:30 p.m.

C.after 7:30 p.m

D.by midnight

34.What the author intends to say id that weather reports are inaccurate because weaher reporters ().

A.are not well—equipped as expected

B.are not always responsible enough

C.go unpunished for their mistakes

D.do not conduct enough fieldwork

35.According to the author ,the man on the Buffalo station was accurate in predicting weather because ().

A.his pay depended on the tips he got from weather reports

B.what he felt in his bones helped to foresee the weather

C.it was the knowledge he gained from his ancestors

D.he could see snow coming from the windswept plains

Generally, data mining (sometimes called data or knowledge discovery) is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and (1) it into useful information information that can be used to increase revenue, (2) costs, or both. Data mining software is one of a number of analytical tools for analyzing data. It (3) users to analyze data from many different dimensions or angles, categorize it, and summarize the relationships identified. Technically, data mining is the process of finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields in large relational databases.

Although data mining is a (4) new term, the technology is not. Companies have used powerful computers to sift through volumes of supermarket scanner data and analyze market research reports for years. However, continuous innovations in computer processing power, disk storage, and statistical software are dramatically increasing the accuracy of analysis while driving (5) the cost.

A．organizing

B．summarizing

C．composing

D．constituting

of high-speed Web. For decades, Americans have anxiously (1)_____ each war through a new communications (2)_____, from the early silent film of World War I to the 24-hour cable news (3)_____ of the first Persian Gulf War.

Now, (4)_____ bombs exploding in Baghdad, a sudden increase in wartime (5)_____ for online news has become a central test of the (6)_____ of high-speed Internet connections. It is also a good (7)_____ both to attract users to online media (8)_____ and to persuade them to pay for the material they find there, (9)_____ the value of the Cable News Network persuaded millions to (10)_____ to cable during the last war in Iraq.

(11)_____ by a steady rise over the last 18 months in the number of people with high-speed Internet (12)_____, now at more than 70 million in the United States, the Web sites of many of the major news organizations have (13)_____ assembled a novel collage(拼贴) of (14)_____ video, audio reports, photography collections, animated weaponry (15)_____, interactive maps and other new digital reportage.

These Internet services are (16)_____ on the remarkable abundance of sounds and images (17)_____ from video cameras (18)_____ on Baghdad and journalists traveling with troops. And they have found a (19)_____ audience of American office workers (20)_____ their computers during the early combat.

A．notified

B．publicized

C．followed

D．pursued

give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even abroad, and they make many banking services available as well' More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or deposit money in scattered locations, whether or not the local branch bank is open. For many of us the"cashless society"is not on the horizon- it's already here.

While computers offer these conveniences to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do much more than simply ring up sales. They can keep a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep track of their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or return goods to suppliers can then be made. At the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments to be made accordingly. And they also identify preferred customer for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied on by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computer analyzed marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials on hand, and even of the production process itself.

Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more efficient services to consumers through the use of computers.

According to the passage, the credit card enables its owner to ______.

A．withdraw as much money from the bank as he wishes

B．obtain more convenient services than order people do

C．enjoy greater trust from the storekeeper

D．cash money where he wishes to

For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In getting a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend quickly can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are poor readers. Most of us develop poor reading habits at an early age, and never get over them. The main problem lies in language itself—words. Single words have little meaning until they are combined into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. Unfortunately, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He reads one word at a time, often regressing to reread words or passages. Regression, or looking back over what you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which slows down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads.To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called accelerator (加速器), which moves a bar down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate than the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, making word-by-word reading, regression and vocalization virtually impossible. At first, comprehension is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas, you will not only read faster, but your comprehension will improve. Many people have found their reading skills improved a lot after some training.

A、regression

B、reading for ideas only

C、vocalization

D、word-by-word reading