It was said that computers could crash because they were______（able) to make sense of "00"

ews site, the companies have announced. CNN. com will offer daily video clips and ABC will offer on-demand video content, Yahoo officials said in a statement late Sunday. Video will be available for free to Yahoo users and supported by advertising. Yahoo intends to integrate video from both ABC News and CNN. com throughout its new site, both on the front page and within story pages.

Who will offer daily video clips to Yahoo Inc.'s news website？

A．ABC News and CNN. com.

B．Yahoo Inc.'s news reporters.

C．CNN. com.

D．ABC News.

ere the most common 47 rangefrom bad-mouthing(说……的坏话)another worker to kissing a colleagueand drinking too much,according to a study 48 on Tuesday. Most workers attend so-called happy hours to 49 with colleagues, although 15 percent go tohear the latest office gossip and 13 percent go because they feel obligated,said the survey conducted for CareerBuilder. com,an online job site. As to what happens when the after-work drinks flow, 16 percentreported bad-mouthing a colleague, 10 percent shared a secret about acolleague, 8 percent kissed a colleague and 8 percent said they drank too muchand acted 50 .5 percent said they had shared a secret aboutthe company, and 4 percent 51 to singing karaoke. While 21 percent of those who attend say happy hours are good for 52 ,85 percent said attending had not helped themget 53 to someone higher up orget a better position. An equal number of men and women said they attend happy hours withco-workers, with younger workers aged 25 to 34 most likely and workers over 55least 54 to attend. Overall, 21 percent of workers attend happy hours with co-workersand, of those, 55 a quarter go at least once a month. The survey was 56 online by Harris Interactive on behalf ofCareerBuilder. com among 6,987 full-time employees. A．bond B．acknowledged C．nearly D．specially E．anywhere F．mishaps G．obligated H．likely I．conducted J．idly K．unprofessionally L．networking M．released N．confessed O．researched 47__________

Questions36-45 are based on the following passage.

One in five US workers regularly attends after-work drinks with co-workers, where the most common 36_________range from bad-mouthing (说……的坏话. another worker to kissing a colleague and drinking too much,according to a study 37_________on Tuesday.

Most workers attend so-called happy hours to 38_________ with colleagues, although 15 percent go to hear thelatest office gossip and 13 percent go because they feel obligated, said the survey conducted for CareerBuilder. com,an online job site.

As to what happens when the after-work drinks flow,16 percent reported bad-mouthing a colleague,10percent shared a secret about a colleague,8 percent kissed a colleague and 8 percent said they drank too much andacted 39_________ .5 percent said they had shared a secret about the company, and 4 percent 40________ to singing karaoke.While 21 percent of those who attend say happy hours are good for 41_________,85 percent said attending had nothelped them get 42_________ to someone higher up or get a better position.

An equal number of men and women said they attend happy hours with co-workers, with younger workers aged 25 to 34 most likely and workers over 55 least 43_________to attend.

Overall,21 percent of workers attend happy hours with co-workers and, of those,44_________a quarter go at least once a month.

The survey was 45 _________online by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder. com among 6,987 full-time employees.

A. bond

B.acknowledged

C. nearly

D. specially

E. anywhere

F. mishaps

G. obligated

H. likely

I. conducted

J. idly

K. unprofessionally

L. networking

M. released

N. confessed

O. researched

Section A

Questions36-46 are based on the following passage.

One in five US workers regularly attends after-work drinks with co-workers, where the most common 36_________range from bad-mouthing (说……的坏话. another worker to kissing a colleague and drinking too much,according to a study 37 on Tuesday.

Most workers attend so-called happy hours to 38_________ with colleagues, although 15 percent go to hear thelatest office gossip and 13 percent go because they feel obligated, said the survey conducted for CareerBuilder. com,an online job site.

As to what happens when the after-work drinks flow,16 percent reported bad-mouthing a colleague,10percent shared a secret about a colleague,8 percent kissed a colleague and 8 percent said they drank too much andacted 39_________ .5 percent said they had shared a secret about the company, and 4 percent 40________ to singing karaoke.While 21 percent of those who attend say happy hours are good for 41_________,85 percent said attending had nothelped them get 42_________ to someone higher up or get a better position.

An equal number of men and women said they attend happy hours with co-workers, with younger workers aged 25 to 34 most likely and workers over 55 least 43_________to attend.

Overall,21 percent of workers attend happy hours with co-workers and, of those,44_________a quarter go at least once a month.

The survey was 45 _________online by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder. com among 6,987 full-time employees.

A. bond

B.acknowledged

C. nearly

D. specially

E. anywhere

F. mishaps

G. obligated

H. likely

I. conducted

J. idly

K. unprofessionally

L. networking

M. released

N. confessed

O. researched

36、第(36)题__________。【填大写字母】

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What is the main intention of this information？

A．To guarantee against a faulty product

B．To provide assembly instructions

C．To talk about an upcoming promotion

D．To direct customers to a website

Juniper Networks said that which Yahoo Brasil has deployed its 【S1】______

M-series routers to lay off the groundwork for new premium 【S2】______

services. It's for the first time that Juniper gear has been installed 【S3】______

in the portal's network, the company said.

The project was overseen by Brazilian systems integrator M13, which specializes in complex

technological projects in data, 【S4】______

voice, image communication and infrastructure, security and 【S5】______

converged networks. Financial terms were not disclosed.

"The M-series platform. is the foundation of our long-term strategy to transition to a value-

added services model," Daniel Carvalho,

a marketing manager at Yahoo, said in a statement. Yahoo Brasil 【S6】______

also expects if gains in security and scalability by using Juniper's 【S7】______

network equipment.

Like its counterparts in the United States and in other countries, 【S8】______

Yahoo Brasil offers search, shopping, dating, jobs and news content among other services.

In all, the Sunnyvale, although 【S9】______

Calif. -based Yahoo's network includes 25 worldwide properties available in 13 languages.

Yahoo also recently took steps to enter onto the online music 【S10】______

offering arena with its $160 million purchase

http://www. internetnews. com/bus-news/article. php/3407751 of MusicMatch.

The Yahoo-Juniper deal represents another win for network vendors in Latin America.

But earlier this month, Lucent Technologies notched 【S11】______

two deals.

First, it installed within 80,000 ADSL access ports for a subsidiary of 【S12】______

Telefonica in Argentina. And in Mexico, Maxcom Telecommunications

hired Lucent to increase the network's ability to deliver IP services.

【S1】______

the library, but Nadia rarely shows an interest. Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15 , is addicted to the internet. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer. Nadia checks her e-mail and reads carefully through myyearbook. com, a social networking site, reading messages or posting updates on her mood. She searches for music videos on youtube. com and logs onto gaiaonline. com, a role-playing site where members exchange identities as cartoon characters. But she spends most of her time on quizilla. com or fan fiction. net, reading and commenting on stories written by other users and based on books, television shows or movies. Her mother, Deborah Konyk, would prefer that Nadia read books for a change. But at this point, Ms. Konyk said, "Im just pleased that she reads something anyway. " Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate(狂热的)debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. As teenagers scores on standardized reading tests have declined, some argue that the hours spent surfing the Internet is the enemy of reading—reducing literacy, destroying attention spans and a valuable common culture that exists only through the reading of books. But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount. The web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of his leisure time watching television, to read and write. Even talented book readers like Zachary Sims, 18, of old Greenwich, Conn. , crave the ability to quickly find different points of view on a subject and talk with others online. Some children with dyslexia(诵读困难)or other learning difficulties, like Hunter Gaudet, 16, of Somers, Conn. , have found it far more comfortable to search and read online.

The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means______.

A．Nadia prefers not to be a writer

B．Nadia doesn"t like to buy books

C．Nadia treats reading books as a piece of cake

D．Nadia shows no interest in reading books

WHILE YOU WERE OUT

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 17

To: Jared

From: Diane Conroy

Of: Conroy Janitorial Services

Phone: 784-2194

E - mail: dconroy@ conroyjanitorial.com

Message:

Diane Conroy called to request a postponement of your Wednesday morning meeting. She had an employee call in sick and needs to cover. Would like to reschedule for Thursday same time if possible. Please call back.

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 17

To: Diane Conroy

From: Jared Kelly

Of: Jared Kelly Architects

Phone: 784 - 6245

E-mail: jared.kelly@jkarchitects com

Message:

Jared Kelly called twice to reschedule 'Wednesday s meeting for Thursday. He said Thursday is ok and suggested 10:00 a. m for the meeting. He also mentioned that his company may need cleaning at a contractor s office downtown, so he may book another service from you He will give you more details by Thursday. Please call or e-mail to confirm that you received his message. He will be in the office until 5:00 p.m.

What is the relationship between Diane and Jared？

A．Colleagues

B．Friends

C．Business partners

D．Boss and subordinate

o the Internet's already mind- boggling array of addresses. The Internet's governing body Thursday made a big change to the landscape of the World Wide Web, approving seven new Web site domain names to complement the existing list topped by .com .net, .org and .gov. Out of 44 applications, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) chose .biz, .info, .name, .pro, .museum, .aero. and .coop --and rejected a slew of other options hotly debated by industry players.

The choice of the new domain names, which are expected to become available to businesses and consumers by the middle of next year, culminates a drawn-out process for setting the next stage of growth on the Internet.

"This is a first giant step for domain-kind," said Esther Dyson, chairman of ICANN.

Major companies involved in winning bids to operate the. huge databases holding Web site addresses, also called registries, included VeriSign Inc., which currently enjoys a near-monopoly as the sole registry operator for all domain names not ending in a country suffix, International Business Machines Corp. and Register. com, a fast-growing U.S. reseller of Web site addresses.

Some of the new domain names, like .info and .name, will be open to almost anyone to register starting by the middle of next year.

Others, such as .museum, and .biz, will be restricted to members of companies or relevant fields.

NO DOT WEB, FOR NOW One of the most vied-for domain names, .web, was at the last moment taken out of the "approved" basket because of a controversy over the ownership. Affilias, a consortium of big companies including VeriSign, was wrangling with a small California company, Image Online Design Inc., which said it registered tens of thousands of users for .web in the past several years due to what it claims was a prior agreement.

An impassioned speech by Vint Cerf, an ICANN board member who was later elected new board chairman, on behalf of Image Online, helped sway the board at the last moment, which granted Affilias the .info domain name, considered to be a less popular domain name, instead.

For observers, the climb-down symbolized a small victory for the original spirit of the Internet, represented here by the ponytailed techies and entrepreneurs, over the encroachment of big businesses.

The new domains will likely lead to a price reduction. Domain names typically cost $35 per year. companies who won the new domains will compete head-on with VeriSign Inc., which via its $20 billion acquisition earlier this year of Network Solutions, Inc., owns a near-monopoly on the registration of domain names.

There are more than an estimated 25 million top-level domain names, nearly all of them ending in .com or .net. There is a much smaller list of country-level domain names, which end in country suffixes like .Ch for China or .uk for Britain.

Critics say that the fact that only seven top-level domain name suffixes now exist has directly led to trademark disputes between similar-sounding companies, and rampant speculation by cybersquatters hoping to cash in on valuable names. The new domain names should give alternatives to companies victimized by cybersquatters, said Ken Hansen, an executive with NeuStar Inc., which will introduce the .biz domain name next year.

EMBROILED IN CONTROVERSY ICANN has been embroiled in controversy since it was created in 1998 by the United States government to oversee the domain name system. About half of the board members were chosen on ICANN' s inception, with the other half chosen by constituencies within ICANN. That has led to accusations of nepotism, and over-representation by corporate and big business interests instead of regular Internet users, especially outside of the United States, and calls for ICANN' s

A．.com .net, .org and .gov

B．.biz, .info

C．.name, .pro

D．.museum, .aero. and .coop

o the Internet's already mind-boggling array of addresses. The Internet's governing body Thursday made a big change to the landscape of the World Wide Web, approving seven new Web site domain names to complement the existing list topped by .com .net, .org and .gov. Out of 44 applications, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) chose .biz, .info, .name, .pro, .museum, .aero. and .coop—and rejected a slew of other options hotly debated by industry players.

The choice of the new domain names, which are expected to become available to businesses and consumers by the middle of. next year, culminates a drawn-out process for setting the next stage of growth on the Internet.

"This is a first giant step for domain-kind." said Esther Dyson, chairman of ICANN.

Major companies involved in winning bids to operate the huge databases holding Web site addresses, also called registries, included VeriSign Inc., which currently enjoys a near-monopoly as the sole registry operator for all domain names not ending in a country suffix, International Business Machines Corp. and Register. com, a fast-growing U.S. reseller of Web site addresses.

Some of the new domain names, like .info and .name, will be open to almost anyone to register starting by the middle of next year.

Others, such as .museum, and .biz, will be restricted to members of companies or relevant fields.

NO DOT WEB, FOR NOW One of the most vied-for domain names, .web, was at the last moment taken out of the "approved" basket because of a controversy over the ownership. Affilias, a consortium of big companies including VeriSign, was wrangling with a small California company, Image Online Design Inc., which said it registered tens of thousands of users for .web in the past several years due to what it claims was a prior agreement.

An impassioned speech by Vint Cerf, an ICANN board member who was later elected new board chairman, on behalf of Image Online, helped sway the board at the last moment, which granted Affilias the .info domain name, considered to be a less popular domain name, instead.

For observers, the climb-down symbolized a small victory for the original spirit of the Internet, represented here by the ponytailed techies and entrepreneurs, over the encroachment of big businesses.

The new domains will likely lead to a price reduction. Domain names typically cost ＄35 per year. companies who won the new domains will compete head-on with VeriSign Inc., which via its ＄20 billion acquisition earlier this year of Network Solutions, Inc., owns a near-monopoly on the registration of domain names.

There are more than an estimated 25 million top-level domain names, nearly all of them ending in .com or .net. There is a much smaller list of country-level domain names, which end in country suffixes like .cn for China or .uk for Britain.

Critics say that the fact that only seven top-level domain name suffixes now exist has directly led to trademark disputes between similar-sounding companies, and rampant speculation by cybersquatters hoping to cash in on valuable names. The new domain names should give alternatives to companies victimized by cybersquatters, said Ken Hansen, an executive with NeuStar Inc., which will introduce the .biz domain name next year.

EMBROILED IN CONTROVERSY ICANN has been embroiled in controversy since it was created in 1998 by the United States government to oversee the domain name system. About half of the board members were chosen on ICANN's inception, with the other half chosen by constituencies within ICANN. That has led to accusations of nepotism, and over-representation by corporate and big business interests instead of regular Internet users, especially outside of the United States, and calls for ICANN's abolishme

A．.com .net, .org and .gov.

B．.biz, .info,

C．.name, .pro

D．.museum, .aero. and .coop

into the world of digital books. Sony Corp is selling the Reader Digital Book for $299, while giant online shopping company Amazon. com offers the Kindle for＄399.

New readers are lighter than the average hardback fiction bestseller, easy on the eyes and let readers carry around as many as 200 titles in hardware that weighs less than a pound. But to some people, there's something missing. "It's, I guess, the feel of holding a book that someone really put a lot of effort into writing, and you kind of lose that a little bit with a digital product," said Katy Farina,21 ,of Montgomery, New Jersey. Farina, a student at the Minneapolis college of Art & Design, was browsing at the Borders bookstore near Madison Square garden. As shoppers lined up at closing time, the subtle, comforting aroma of books permeated the store. “It feels real, whereas (the reader) kind of separates you a little bit from the story” Farina said the story,

Harry Howe, who had picked up Surrender Is Not an Option by former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, said he might use an e-book reader for blog or Web site material that he wanted to read while away from home, but not for reading a novel. "It's just not a physical experience that I'm yet comfortable with," said Howe, 55, who teaches accounting at the State University of New York's Geneseo campus and lives in Rochester. "On the other hand, I didn't grow up reading things on various Web sites." Farina said she would like a reader for traveling because she would not have to transport so many books. This is something that Harper Collins Publishers Worldwide Chief Executive Jane Friedman said is a prime advantage. "To put 10 books on your Sony reader or on your Kindle is a lot better than carrying 10 books," she said. Readers often shy away from using the devices until they discover how pleas- ant reading on them can be, Friedman said.

Neither Sony nor Amazon would say how many machines they have sold, but enough people apparently are interested in trying them out. An Amazon executive at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week said the Kindle sold out on its first day in five and a half hours.

Buying books for the Kindle is as easy as using Amazon to buy regular books, with the price often being a few dollars cheaper because of the absence of a physical product and titles available through a wire- less download.① Sony's e-book Store offers downloads through its own software to a buyer's PC. The volumes are then sent from the PC to a Reader Digital Book through a USB cable. And for people wavering between paper and pixels, Sony does offer a concession--an optional leather cover. "I think it's a shrewd move," said Howe. "How retro is that!"

What does "that"(Line 4,Para. 2) refer to？

A．A book.

B．A lot of effort.

C．The feeling.

D．The writers.