Somewhat more sophisticated （intelligent, invasive, advanced, prosperous) designs incorporate a flat surface on which a person can walk, sometimes with the assistance of vine handrails.

We can infer from the first paragraph that______.

A．PLUS loans are specially designed for families in financial difficulty

B．college financial aid officers hold a cautious attitude to PLUS loans

C．the parents have doubts whether the loans can help their children out

D．unsophisticated parents may confront more financial problems

On September 7, 2001, a 68-year-old woman in Strasbourg, France, had her gall bladder (胆囊) removed by surgeons' operating, via computer from New York. It was the first complete telesurgery procedure performed by surgeons nearly 4, 000 miles away from their patient.

In New York, Marescaux teamed up with surgeon Michel Gagner to perform. the historic long-distance operation. A high-speed fiber-optic service provided by France Telecom made the connection between New York and Strasbourg. The two surgeons controlled the instruments using an advanced robotic surgical system, designed by Computer Motion Inc that enabled the procedure to be minimally invasive. The patient was released from the hospital after about 48 hours and regained normal activity the following week. The high-speed fiber-optic connection between New York and France made it possible to overcome a key obstacle to telesurgery time delay. It was crucial that a continuous time delay of less than 200 milliseconds be maintained throughout the operation, between the surgeon's movements in New York and the return video (from Strasbourg) on his screen. The delay problem includes video coding, decoding and signal transmission time.

France Telecom's engineers achieved an average time delay of 150 milliseconds. "I felt as comfortable operating on my patient as if I had been in the room," says Marescaux.

The successful collaboration (合作) among medicine, advanced technology, and telecomm unications is likely to have enormous implications for patient care and doctor training. Highly-skilled surgeons may soon regularly perform. especially difficult operations through long-distance procedures. The computer systems used to control surgical movement can also lead to a breakthrough in teaching surgical techniques to a new generation of physicians. More surgeons-in-training will have the opportunity to observe their teachers in action in telesurgery operating rooms around the world.

Marescaux describes the success of the remotely performed surgical procedure as the beginning of a "third revolution" in surgery within the last decade. The first was the arrival of minimally invasive surgery, enabling procedures to be performed with guidance by a camera, meaning that the abdomen (腹部) and thorax (胸腔) do not have to be opened. The second was the introduction of computer-assisted surgery, where complicated software algorithms (计算法) enhance the safety of the surgeon's movements during a procedure, making them more accurate, while introducing the concept of distance between the surgeon and the patient. It was thus natural to imagine that this distance--currently several meters in the operating room--could potentially be up to several thousand kilometers.

The title that best expresses the main idea is ______.

A．How the Second Revolution in Surgery Comes Out

B．The Telesurgery Revolution

C．A Patient Was Saved

D．Dream Comes True

decide whether the following translations are true or false. the intelligent-design people are trying to mislead people into thinking that the reference to science as an ongoing critical inquiry permits them to teach i.d. crap in the schools. 译文： 智慧设计论者试图误导人们，让人们以为把科学称为不断批判性探索就能为他们在学校教授智慧设计这种无稽之谈大开绿灯。()

Web browser is simply a terminal emulator, designed to display text on a screen. The two essential differences between an ordinary terminal emulator and a Web browser are that the browser knows how to deal with(71), and that it has a mechanism for(72)graphical files. Display text, display graphics, and(73)hyperlinks--there's 99 percent of the(74)value. That's not to say that the manufacturers didn't go all-out to attach a hyperactive efflorescence of useless capabilities onto their browsers. Remember when media channels in the browser were a big deal, instead of the clutter you can't wait to delete from your favorites of bookmarks menu? Remember when client-side Java applets were supposed to become the preferred(75)for application development? Remember frames and all their nasty side effects?

A．superlinks

B．links

C．hyperlinks

D．connections

Web browser is simply a terminal emulator, designed to display text on a screen. The two essential differences between an ordinary terminal emulator and a Web browser are that the browser knows how to deal with(71), and that it has a mechanism for(72)graphical files. Display text, display graphics, and(73)hypefiinks, there's 99 percent of the(74)value. That's not to say that the manufacturers didn't go all-out to attach a hyperactive efflorescence of useless capabilities onto their browsers. Remember when media channels in the browser were a big deal, instead of the clutter you can't wait to delete from your favorites of bookmarks menu? Remember when client-side Java applets were supposed to become the preferred(75)for application development? Remember frames and all their nasty side effects?

A．superlinks

B．links

C．hyperlinks

D．connections

Devlin Bootmaker is a company which manufactures and retails a very exclusive luxury brand of boots solely for men.

Devlin Bootmaker was founded fifty-five years ago by Mr. Keith Devlin, a Arizona rancher who found himself wearing out two pairs of boots every year and vowed to make the world better boots. Today his granddaughter still runs the company and actively participates in the design of new boots.

Our factory in Phoenix is state-of-the-art and we are able to handle any sized order. Devlin boots are hand-stitched from the finest leathers. They are well worth the extra cost if you are likely to be using your boots in particularly wet conditions. In addition, the boots are designed for style. with contemporary design details added to the classic upper look and a unique outsole design for each style.

We offer a total satisfaction guarantee on all our products. If you are dissatisfied for any reason, simply send them with your receipt directly to the Returns Department at our order processing facilities in Phoenix, Arizona and you will receive a full refund of the purchase price.

Devlin Bootmaker Returns Department:

9577th Street, Suite C,

Phoenix AZ 85007

Phone:(602)542-1101

What is true about the Devlin boots?

A．It was founded by tailors.

B．It is a family business with a long history.

C．It has been on business for 15 years.

D．It manufactures boots for men and women.

回答{TSE}题： The Old Gate In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. This was partly or __________ (51) reasons hut another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded as undesirable,like people with contagious(52) __________. The Old City of London gates were all (53) __________ by the end of the 18th century. The last of London's gates was removed a century ago, (54) __________by a stoke of luck, it was never destroyed. This gate is, in (55) __________fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the(56) __________between the Old City of London and Westminster. In 1878 the Council of London took the Bar (57) __________, numbered the stones and put the gate in storage (58)__________its design was unfashionable, and it was expensive to (59) __________ and it was blocking the traffic. The Temple Bar Trust was set up in the 1970s with the __________ (60) of returning the gate home, The aim of the trust is the __________ (61) of the nation's architectural heritage. Transporting the gate will __________ (62) physically pulling it down, stone by stone, removing and rebuilding it near St. Paul's Cathedral. Most of the facade of the gate will probably be (63) __________,though there is a good___________ (64) that the basic structure will be sound. The hardest (65)__________of all, however, will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that once stood on top of the gate. {TS}A. sensitive

A. defensive

B. offensive

C. primitive

Why do people replace the term creationism with the term intelligent design nowadays?

A．Because "intelligent design" represents the modified theory of evolution.

B．Because they believe God created different species.

C．Because the term creationism is unscientific.

D．Because the term creationism is too direct.

(work) ______ for three months, the engineer finished a complicated design.

A Web browser is simply a terminal emulator, designed to display text on a screen. The two essential differences between an ordinary terminal emulator and a Web browser are that the browser knows how to deal with(71), and that it has a mechanism for(72)graphical files. Display text, display graphics, and(73)hyperlinks-there's 99 percent of the(74)value. That's not to say that the manufacturers didn't go all-out to attach a hyperactive efflorescence of useless capabilities onto their browsers. Remember when media channels in the browser were a big deal, instead of the clutter you can't wait to delete from your favorites of bookmarks menu? Remember when client-side Java applets were supposed to become the preferred(75)for application development? Remember frames and all their nasty side effects?

(77)

A．superlinks

B．links

C．hyperlinks

D．connections