Which language feature does the advertisement show？ We strive to send you a vacation faster. Caring more about you. （SkyTeam, Flight Company)

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【C1】______a vacation spot that【C2】______the excitement of a bustling city with the【C3】______of an island paradise? Then consider Auckland, New Zealand. About 11 hours from Southeast Asia, this city is sandwiched【C4】______two harbors on New Zealand' s North Island.

Auckland is becoming more famous all over the world for its【C5】______quality of life. And if you don' t have a lot of【C6】______time, don' t worry. You can【C7】______much of this city in just two days.

Start your first day in downtown Auckland. Go to Queen Street and try【C8】______the Sky Tower.【C9】______328 meters, it' s the tallest structure in【C10】______Southern Hemisphere. Inside the tower, you' ll find a hotel, casino, theater and many restaurants.

The tower' s newest【C11】______is a guided climb up a unique ladder system through the middle of the tower.【C12】______guides take you up to the top for a stunning【C13】______of Auckland. Once on the ground again,【C14】______your way to Victoria Park Market. It' s just a few minutes' walk【C15】______the tower.

Victoria Park Market was【C16】______built in 1905 as an industrial site. But the area was【C17】______in 1981 into an【C18】______-air shopping mall. All the clothes and【C19】______you' ll find here are made locally. So take your time【C20】______through this special market. …

【C1】

A．Looking at

B．Looking after

C．Looking for

D．Looking out

When you make your travel arrangements to Oxford, Ohio, you should make plans to arrive here at least a week before classes begin so you can get to know the university and the area. The university holds a short orientation program for all new foreign students prior to registration for classes, and you will be expected to attend this program.

A valuable service to foreign students traveling to the U.S. is provided by the International Students Service(ISS) in New York. If you send your travel plans to the ISS, someone will meet you at your port of entry to the U.S., help you find a temporary place to stay, help you arrange your travel within the U.S., and provide other assistance. There is no charge for these services. For more information, contact:

International Students Service

356 West 34th Street, Third Floor

New York, New York 10017 USA

When you arrive in Oxford, you should first visit the Office of International Students Service. The director will help you find your place of residence, answer questions, and help in other ways. This office is available to assist you throughout your entire stay here.

You should make plans to arrive at Oxford, Ohio at least【46】before classes begin. If you want more information, you have to contact【47】. International Students Service is in【48】. Services free of charge: meet you at your【49】to the U.S.; help you find【50】; help you arrange your travel within the USA, and provide other assistance.

听力原文：A: Hi, Ellen. How was your vacation?

B: Great! I went to Bangkok.

A: Really? Why did you decide to go them?

B: Well, I have a cousin who lives there. She' s been trying to get me to take a vacation down there for a long time, and so, finally, she talked me into it.

A: I've seen some pictures of Bangkok -the architecture there is really interesting, isn't it?

B: Yes, it' s incredible, especially the Grand Palace. The Buddhist temples, too, are very impressive. And I love the spicy Thai food and tropical fruits there.

A: How was the weather when you were there?

B: That' s about the only thing I didn' t enjoy. It was really hot and sticky. In fact, April is its hottest month, The best time to go is dining the cool season, which lasts from November to February.

A: Did you go to some other places beside Bangkok?

B: Sure. I went to Pattaya. It's a famous resort, only two hour's drive from Bangkok. There's plenty to enjoy: fine sand, blue sky, clear water, colorful night life...

A: Well, it sure sounds like you had a great time.

B: Oh, I sure did. And I plan to go back there next year. I' d like to visit Phakot, the biggest island of Thailand. It's world -famous as a seaside resort.

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A．She did Ellen decide to go to Bangkok.

B．She enjoys the food there.

C．She was persuaded to do so.

D．She has invited by her close friends.

Traveling can be fun mad easy. A vacation trip to another part of the country is especially 【C1】______when the traveling conditions are good. Good traveling conditions【C2】______a comfortable and familiar mode of transportation, knowledge of the【C3】______language and system of money, with the customs and habits of the people in the country, 【C4】______ , and nice travel【C5】______. All of us have had nice trips like this. We have good【C6】______of an enjoyable, relaxing trip.

Most of us have also had trips that we would【C7】______to forget. Many conditions can produce a had【C8】______experience. For example, if the four conditions【C9】______above do not【C10】______, we will probably have a had experience, or a difficult【C11】______. Students who travel to【C12】______country to study often have a difficult trip. They usually travel【C13】______, they don' t know the language of the new country【C14】______, they are not familiar with the money system and so on. They often arrive in the new country at a huge 【C15】______airport. From the airport they need to【C16】______their way to the City where their school is. Maybe they need to【C17】______airplanes to take a bus, a train, or a taxi. They need to do all this in a country【C18】______everything is unfamiliar: the language, the money, the people, the cities, and the weather. Later, after the experiences are【C19】______, they can laugh. But at the【C20】______, they feel terrible.

【C1】

A．enjoyable

B．amusing

C．happy

D．favorable

听力原文：W：You wouldn't be interested in working this summer to make some extra money，would you?

M：Not much，1 wouldn't．And this summer I have a vacation plan．

Q：What does the man mean?

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A．He is not very interested in working.

B．He'll work even though he doesn't want to.

C．He doesn't need much money.

D．He could only work part of the summer.

Internet History

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因特网史

??Expanding on the freeway metaphor, with cars, there are various levels of knowledge; learning to drive is easy, and it is all you really need to know about cars. This is like learning to surf the Internet.?In the course of driving,?you learn about highways, shortcuts, and so on, and using the Web is very similar, that is, with practice, you will learn where and how to find things.

??Also, in driving, you can go another step and learn how an engine works and how to do routine maintenance and repairs, such as oil changes and tune-ups. On the Web, the equivalent is to learn how Web pages are put together, which you have already started to do.

??A still deeper level of involvement with cars is learning how to do complex repairs, or to design and build them. Not many people pursue cars to this stage. On the Web, a similar level of involvement is writing software, either building applets^[1]in a language such as Java^[2], or developing more general-purpose tools for others to use in navigating the Web. Again, only a limited number of people aspire to this level.

??Today, the Information Superhighway is in place, but for many people, the mysteries surrounding it involve where to go and how to travel. Like traveling a highway in a foreign country and being unable to read the road signs, navigating the Information Superhighway can be frustrating and time-consuming without the right knowledge and tools.

??Consider that there are many ways to travel sidewalks, roads, and freeways to get to where we want to go. We can take a bicycle, a bus, a car, or a pair of in-line skates. Similarly, there are many ways to use the Internet to send and retrieve information. These include, but are not limited to^[3]: e-mail, file transfer, remote login, and the Web. New methods of using the Internet will probably be conceived and developed in the near future, and existing methods will be improved.

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Internet History

??The history of the Internet is best explained via a timeline. We have included events that were important and required innovation, as well as other interesting and related items. For each item mentioned on the timeline, we provide a brief synopsis. While the timeline begins in 1969, we present some general comments on the 1960s, for background. The history of the Internet is fascinating both for itself and as a case study of technological innovation.

??Essential to the early Internet concept was packet switching^[4], in which data to be transmitted was divided into small packets of information and labeled to identify the sender and recipient. The packets were sent over a network and then reassembled at their destination. If any packet did not arrive or was not intact, the original sender was requested to resend the packet. Prior to packet switching, the less efficient circuit switching method of data transmission was used. In the early 1960s, several papers on packet switching theory were written, laying the groundwork for computer networking as it exists today.

??In 1969, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc., (BBN)^[5]designed a network called the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)^[6]for the United Sates Department of Defense. The military created ARPANET to enable researchers to share "super-computing" power. It was rumored that the military developed the ARPANET in response to the threat of a nuclear attack destroying the country's communication system.

??Initially, only four nodes (or hosts) comprised the ARPANET. They were located at the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Utah, and the Stanford Research Institute. The ARPANET later became known as the Internet.

??In the 1970s, the ARPANET was used primarily by the military, some of the larger companies, such as IBM, and universities (for e-mail). The general population was not yet connected to the system and very few people were on-line at work.

??The use of local area networks (LANs) became more prevalent during the 1970s. Also, the idea of an open architecture was promoted; that is, networks making up the ARPANET could have any design. In later years, this concept had a tremendous impact on the growth of the ARPANET.

??By 1972, the ARPANET was international, with nodes in Europe at the University College in London, England, and the Royal Radar Establishment in Norway. The number of nodes on the network was up to 23, and the trend would be for that number to double every year from then on. Ray Tomlinson, who worked at BBN, invented e-mail.

??In 1979 user Network (USENET)?was started by using UUCP^[7]to connect Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Newsgroups emerged from this early development.

??In the 1980s, Transmission Control Protocol/lnternet Protocol (TCP/IP)^[8], a set of rules governing how networks making up the ARPANET communicate, was established. For the first time, the term "Internet" was being used to describe the ARPANET. Security became a concern, as viruses appeared and electronic break-ins occurred.

??The 1980s saw the Internet grow beyond being predominantly research oriented to including business applications and supporting a wide range of users. As the Internet became larger, the Domain Name System (DNS) was developed, to allow the network to expand more easily by assigning names to host computers in a distributed fashion.

??The Computer Science Network (CSNET) connected all university computer science departments in the United States. Computer science departments were relatively new, and only a limited number existed in 1980. CSNET joined the ARPANET in 1981. Two years later the United States Defense Communications Agency required that TCP/IP be used for all ARPANET hosts. Since TCP/IP was distributed at no charge, the Internet became what is called an open system. This allowed the Internet to grow quickly, as all connected computers were now "speaking the same language. " Central administration was no longer necessary to run the network.

??In 1985, the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET)^[9]was formed to connect the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) five super-computing centers. This allowed researchers to access the most powerful computers in the world, at a time when large, powerful, and expensive computers were a rarity and generally inaccessible.

??The virus called Internet Worm^[10](created by Robert Morris while he was a computer science graduate student at Cornell University) was released. It infected 10 percent of all Internet hosts. Also in this year, Internet Relay Chat(IRC)^[11]was written by Jarkko Oikarinen.

??NSF took over control of the ARPANET in 1989. This changeover went unnoticed by nearly all users. Also, the number of hosts on the Internet exceeded the 100,000 mark.

??During the 1990s, lots of commercial organizations started getting on-line. This stimulated the growth of the Internet like never before. URLs^[12]appeared on television advertisements and, for the first time, young children went on-line in significant numbers.

??Graphical browsing tools were developed, and the programming language HTML^[13]allowed users all over the world to publish on what was called the World Wide Web. Millions of people went on-line to work, shop, bank, and be entertained. The Internet played a much more significant role in society, as many non-technical users from all walks of life got involved with computers. Computer-literacy and Internet courses sprang up all over the country.

??Gopher^[14]was developed at the University of Minnesota, whose sports team's mascot is the Golden Gopher. Gopher allowed you to "go for" or fetch files on the Internet using a menu based system. Many gophers sprang up all over the country, and all types of information could be located on gopher servers. Gopher is still available and accessible through Web browsers, but its popularity has faded; for the most part, it is only of historical interest.

??In 1991, the World Wide Web (WWW) was created as a simple way to publish information and make it available on the Internet. The interesting nature of the Web caused it to spread, and it became available to the public in 1992. Those who first used the system were immediately impressed.

??Mosaic^[15], a graphical browser for the Web, was released by Marc Andreessen and several other graduate students at the University of Illinois, the location of one of NSF's super-computing centers. Sometimes you will see Mosaic referred to as NCSA^[16]Mosaic, where NCSA stands for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Mosaic was first released under X Windows and graphical UNIX^[17]. To paraphrase a common idiom, each person who used the system loved it and "told five friends," and Mosaic's use spread rapidly.

??The company called Netscape Communication, formed by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark, released in 1994 Netscape Navigator, a Web browser that captured the imagination of everyone who used it. The number of users of this software grew at a phenomenal rate. Netseape made (and still makes) its money largely through advertising on its Web pages. And in the same year, Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang developed their Internet search engine and directory called Yahoo, which is now world-famous. One year later, the Internet programming environment, Java, was released by Sun Microsystems, Inc. This language, originally called Oak, allowed programmers to develop Web pages that were more interactive.

??The software giant, Microsoft, in 1995, committed many of its resources to developing its browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Internet applications. Some of the first courses about the Internet were given in the meanwhile. Course development has been difficult, because of the rapidly changing software. In 1998, Netscape Communications released the source code for its Web browser.

??Notes

??[1] applets: 应用程序片段，小应用程序，用Java语言编写的一种应用程序。

??[2] Java: Java语言。美国Sun公司的James Gosling于1990年编制的一种计算机语言，1995年首次公布，Java是在C++语言基础上发展起来，语法上与C++相似的一种面向对象的语言。

??[3] These include, but are not limited to: 这些包括，但不限于……

??[4] packet switching：(数据、信息)包交换法，(报文)分组交换技术(借助编址的报文分组选择路由并发送数据，以使一个信道只在包传送时才被占用的处理方法或技术)。

??[5] Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc.，(BBN)：BBN公司，美国马萨诸塞州的一个公司，早期维护ARPANET网，后来维护因特网的核心网关。

??[6] the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)：阿帕网，ARPA网(高级研究计划局的计算机网络名)。

??[7] UUCP: Unix到Unix的拷贝程序(UNIX to UNIX Copy)。UUCP是Usenet用于数据传输的主要通讯协议之一。

??[8] Transmission Control Protocol/lnternet Protocol (TCP/IP)：传输控制协议/网络协议。

??[9] the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET)：自然科学基金网。

??[10] Internet Worm：因特网虫(1988年美国康奈尔大学的一个学生写的字符串自复制开玩笑程序，一夜之间遍布整个因特网，导致大多数计算机停止运行)。

??[11] Internet Relay Chat(IRC)：因特网交谈服务系统(使用文本实时交谈，可多人参加)。

??[12] URLs (Uniform Resource Locator)：统一资源地址、统一资源定位器(程序)。

??[13] HTML(Hypertext Markup Language)：超文本链接标示语言。

??[14] Gopher：跑腿鼹鼠，是用户在因特网上的个人图书管理员，供用户查询搜索所需的系统资源。

??[15] Mosaic：1993年因特网上出现的第一个图形界面Web浏览器。

??[16] NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Application)：国家超级计算应用中心。

??[17] Unix: 一种多用户的计算机操作系统。

??Choose the best answer:

1 If Johnny can't write, one of the reasons may be conditioning based on speed rather than respect for the creative process. Speed is neither a valid test of nor a proper preparation for competence in writing. It makes for murkiness, glibness, disorganization. It takes the beauty out of the language. It rules out respect for the reflective thought that should precede expression. It runs counter to the word-by-word and line-by-line reworking that enables a piece to be finely knit.

2 This is not to minimize the value of genuine facility. With years of practice, a man may be able to put down words swiftly and expertly. But it is the same kind of swiftness that enables a cellist, after having invested years of efforts, to negotiate an intricate passage from Haydn. Speed writing is for stenographers and court reporters, not for anyone who wants to use language with precision and distinction.

3 Thomas Mann was not ashamed to admit that he would often take a full day to write 500 words, and another day to edit them, out of respect for the most difficult art in the world. Flaubert would ponder a paragraph for hours. Did it say what he wanted it to say—not approximately but exactly? Did the words turn into one another with proper rhythm and grace? Were they artistically and securely fitted together? These questions are relevant not only for the established novelist but for anyone who attaches value to words as a medium of expression and communication.

4 E.B. White, whose respect for the environment of good writing is exceeded by no word-artist of our time, would rather have his fingers cut off than to be guilty of handling words lightly. No sculptor chipping away at a granite block in order to produce a delicate curve or feature has labored more painstakingly than White in fashioning a short paragraph. Obviously, we can't expect our schools to make every Johnny into a White or Flaubert or, a Mann, but it is not unreasonable to expect more of them to provide the conditions that promote clear, careful, competent expression. Certainly the cumulative effort of the school experience should not have to be undone in later years.

According to the passage, competence in writing is ______.

A．an art that takes practice

B．a skill that requires dexterity

C．a technique that is easy to learn

D．a result of the spontaneous flow of words

听力原文：Host: Welcome to our program. There is no doubt that the Internet has been a valuable tool in our business and personal life. On this segment we are going to see how the network is being used to extend the enterprise and improve customer relationships.

Well, let's introduce our guests. Mike Emmi, the Chairman and Executive Officer of Systems & Computer Technology Corporation, or SCT, and Scott Nevins, President and Chief Executive Officer of ClientSoft Incorporated. Gentlmen, welcome to both of you. Scott, let's start with you. I understand that you've been using proprietary technology to help organization maximize their investment and technology. What does all that mean?

Scott Nevins, President & CEO, ClientSoft Inc.: It's a good question. We are a software technology company and we use our produces to build these Web-based applications, e-business applications, to take and leverage the information that an organization has on its mainframe. Without making any changes whatsoever, within a very short period of time, we take that information and translate that into something that's useable for a person like you and I to be able to get that information and understand what the information is all about.

Host: Well, we want to have a closer look at how this works, so we sent our correspondent to MetLife in Warwick, Rhode Island to send back this report.

Correspondent: Yesterday, an independent insurance agent would write up a policy and submit it on paper to the parent company's main office. Then it might take a day or two or three to be processed. Tomorrow, that same agent will point a click through a secure, easy-to-navigate browser that connects to the company's mainframe. for instant and accurate policy transactions. Well, tomorrow is today at MetLife in Warwick, thanks to ClientSoft's Webpack 2000. In the past, MetLife never gave its agents access to its mainframe. because it's not easy to do business with mainframe. The application of Webpack 2000 just changed the whole equation between the parent company and its agents. It significantly improves the ease of doing business. Even for today's computer-savant insurance agents, the language of the computer mainframe. is far from English. ClientSoft takes that computereae and translates it into easy, fill-in-the-blanks Web pages. Not only does ClientSoft make the agent's job easier in the officer, but now combing the portability of cell phones with Internet access of a Lap-top PCm the agent is able to access the company's mainframe, access to powerful information from any remote location, for example, from a customer's house. This revolutionary technology is hoped to change the way the insurance industry operates.

Host: Well, Mike, as I understand, the SCT is focused on making life easier for the customers. What can you tell us about that, Mike?

Mike Emmi, Chairman and Executive officer, SCT: We think the world is changing pretty dramatic- ally and the customers now have the power. Smarter organizations are recognizing that, so they realize that they have to build relationships and develop loyalty with their customers. SCT is helping organizations identify and leverage key relationships using Internet technology. For ex- ample, Campus Pipeline Solutions, one of our integrated enterprise software solutions, provides students, faculty administrations, and staff with access to information they need when and where they want it.

Don't confuse this with a website. Campus Pipeline gives each user their own personalized pipeline that brings together research materials, course materials, online registration and other relevant information the institution or the Internet can provide. For new students on the campus, Pipeline is making college life a lot easier. Campus pipeline is just one example of how SCT is helping organizations use technology to leverage key relationships.

Host: Well, obviously, on the bottom line you're trying to est

A．By extending the enterprise.

B．By using proprietary technology.

C．By improving customer relationships.

听力原文：M: Hi, Ellen. How was your vacation?

W: Great! I went to Bankok.

M: Really? Why did you decide to go there?

W: Well, I have a cousin who lives there. She's been trying to get me to take a vacation down there for a long time, and so finally, she talked me into it. M: I've seen some pictures of Bangkok the architecture there is really interesting, isn't it?

W: Yes, it's incredible, especially the Grand Palace. The Buddhist temples, too, are very impressive. And I love the spicy Thai food and tropical fruits there.

M: How was the weather when you were there?

W: That's about the only thing I didn't enjoy. It was really hot and sticky. In fact, April is its hottest month. The best time to go is during the cool season, which lasts from November to February.

M: Did you go to some other places besides Bangkok?

W: Sure. I went to Pattaya. It's a famous resort, only two hours' drive from Bangkok. There's plenty to enjoy: fine sand, blue sky, clear water, colorful night life...

M: Well, it sure sounds like you had a great time.

W: Oh, I sure did. And I plan to go back ~ere next year. I'd like to visit Phuket, the biggest island of Thailand. It's world-famous as a seaside resort.

Why did Ellen decide to go to Bangkok?

A．She loved the food.

B．She enjoyed the weather there.

C．She was persuaded to do so.

D．She was invited by her close friend.