We（）here for twenty years by the end of next month.

A.will work

B.will have worked

C.has worked

D.would work

What Will Be is an impressive and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights on how information technology will transform. our lives and our world in the new century.

The author, Michael Dertouzos, stands (1)_____ from many of the forecasters and commentators who bombard us daily with (2)_____ of this future. For twenty years he has led one of the world's (3)_____ research laboratories, whose members have brought the world (4)_____ computers, the Ether Net, and start-up companies.

As a visionary, his (5)_____ have been on the mark: In 1981, he described the (6)_____ of an Information Marketplace as "a twenty-first-century village marketplace where people and computers buy, sell, and freely exchange information and information services." That's a (7)_____ description of the Internet as we know it today.

Naturally, we do not agree on all the (8)_____ ways the new world will (9)_____ or affect us. This is as it should be. There is plenty of room for (10)_____ ideas and debate concerning the rich and promising setting ahead. What's more important is that people become (11)_____, and form. their own opinions, about the changes (12)_____.

When it (13)_____ to that future world, what we do (14)_____ far outweighs our differences New businesses will be created and new (15)_____ will be made in the (16)_____ areas of activity this book describes. More important, radical changes in hardware, software, and infrastructure will (17)_____ in ways large and small our social lives, our families, our jobs, our health, our environment, our economy, and even the (18)_____ we see for ourselves in the universe. Whoever (19)_____ the coming Information Revolution?—that's (20)_____ all of us—needs to know What Will Be.

A．beyond

B．behind

C．apart

D．out

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

听力原文： Today, air travel is much satyr than driving a car on a busy motorway. But there is the danger that grows every year. From the moment the airplane takes off to the moment it lands, every movement is watched on radar screens. Air traffic controllers tell the pilot exactly when to turn, when to climb and when to come down. The air traffic controllers around the busy airport may handle 1,000 planes a day. Any plane that flies near the airport comes under the orders of the controllers there. Even a small mistake on their part could cause a disaster.

Recently, such a disaster almost happened. Two large jets were flying towards the airport. One was carrying 69 passengers and. had come from Toronto: the other was carrying 176 passengers from Chicago. An air traffic controller noticed on his radar screen that the two planes were too close to each other. He ordered one to turn to the right to climb, but.he made a mistake. He ordered the wrong plane to do this. So, instead of turning away from the second plane, the first plane tarried towards it. 15 seconds later, it flew directly in front of the second plane. They avoided each other by the smallest part of a second. The distance between them was less than that of a large swimming pool. This is an example of the danger that grows every year.

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A．Crowded air traffic.

B．The large size of airplanes.

C．Mistakes by air traffic controllers.

D．Bad weather.

For the last fifteen or twenty years the fashion

in criticism or appreciation of the arts have been to 【1】______

to deny the existence of any valid criteria and to

make the words "good" or "bad" irrelevant,

immaterial, and inapplicable. There is no such a

thing, we are told, like a set of standards first 【2】______

acquired through experience and knowledge and

late imposed on the subject under discussion. This 【3】______

has been a popular approach, for it relieves the critic

of the responsibility of judgment and the public by the 【4】______

necessity of knowledge. It pleases those resentful of

disciplines, it flatters the empty-minded by calling

him open-minded, it comforts the confused. Under 【5】______

the banner of democracy and the kind of quality

which our forefathers did not mean, it says, in effect,

"Who are you to tell us what is good or bad?" This

is same cry used so long and so effectively by the 【6】______

the producers of mass media who insist that it is the

public, not they, who decide what it wants to hear and 【7】______

to see, and that for a critic to say that this program is

bad and that program is good is pure a reflection of 【8】______

personal taste. Nobody recently bas expressed this

philosophy most succinctly than Dr. Frank Stanton , 【9】______

the highly intelligent president of CBS television. At

a hearing before the Federal Communications

Commission, this phrase escaped from him under 【10】______

questioning: "One man's mediocrity is another

man's goed program".

【M1】

听力原文： If a contemporary Rip Van Winkle had slept for forty years and awakened today, he would have to go back to school before he could understand a daily newspaper or a magazine. Many new words have been added to the English language in the past forty years; and since Shakespeare's time the number of words in the language has increased more than five times, from about 140,000 to somewhere between 700,000 and 800,000. Most of these new words have not come from borrowing, but from the natural growth of language-adaptation of elements already in the language.

The language has always changed, but the rate of change has been uneven. The most important of these periods occurred during the two hundred and fifty years after 1066, the year the Norman conquered England. Before the conquest, the inhabitants of England spoke Anglo-Saxon, a complex Germanic language. The Normans were Norsemen who, after generations of raiding, had settled in northern France in the tenth century and by 1066 were speaking a form. of French. After their conquest of England they instituted Norman French as the dominant language--the language of the upper classes, of law, of government, and of such commerce as there was.

Why did a contemporary Rip Van Winkle have to get educated to read the English newspaper?

A．Because many new words have been added to English.

B．Because he was illiterate before he went to sleep years ago.

C．Because after the accident, he lost his memory.

D．Because he was a Hungarian and couldn't read English.