【简答题】What did America must not appear as？ cockboat in the wake of the British man of war

What did the writer think of the watch he bought in the market?

A.He was fond of the watch because it was a Rolex.

B.He found the watch useful though it was very cheap.

C.He didnt like the watch at all.

D.He was indifferent to the watch.

What did the writer think of the watch he bought in the market?

A.He was fond of the watch because it was a Rolex.

B.He found the watch useful though it was very cheap.

C.He didn't like the watch at all.

D.He was indifferent to the watch.

The tiny Isle of Man in the Irish Sea is not known as a vanguard of technology, but this month it was to serve as the test bed for the highly acclaimed third-generation mobile phones. A subsidiary of British Telecom (BT), the British phone company, cobbled together a network and prepared to hand out prototype mobile handsets to about 200 volunteers. But problems arose in the software that keeps track of each call as it moves from one tower's range to another's. BT postponed the trial until late summer, after a similar delay announced a few weeks earlier by NTT DoCoMo in Japan.

What's the big deal? Aren't thousands of mobile calls "handed off" every day from one "cell" to another without a glitch? They are indeed. But third-generation technology, or 3G, is so radically new that it requires a rethinking of just about every aspect of how mobile phones work, from the handset to the transmission masts to the software that runs them. For this reason, 3G are a massive engineering and construction project that will take years to complete and cost hundreds of billions of dollars. The magnitude of this effort has somehow been forgotten in the mad scramble to be first out.

The handover problem is a case in point. When you talk on a conventional mobile phone, your call is beamed as a continuous stream of digital data to the nearest receiver. The technology for handing these calls off from one area to the next was worked out years ago. But a 3G phone is different it bundle up the data into little packets and sends them through the airwaves, one at a time. This creates the impression of an Internet connection's being "always on," which is good news. But keeping rack of these data bundles from one region to the next is a daunting engineering problem -- and, more to the point, a brand-new one. NEC, the Japanese phone company that supplies BT with equipment for its Isle of Man trail, hasn't had time to work it out.

Handset makers also have work to do. The 3G technologies have so many features; only a wonder gizmo could handle all of them, which is why none exists. The phones are not only supposed to work with 3G networks but also with the less sophisticated ( but cheaper and more useful) General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology already being installed on the continent and also with the current mobile phone standard, Global System for Mobile(GSM). Phones for corporate executives are also supposed to adapt to dozens of other standards around the world. Doing all this requires powerful, custom-built computer chips, which are tough to make quickly.

A device that does so many things is bound to guzzle a lot of power. Prototype 3G phones drain so much juice that they've been known to get uncomfortably hot. Batteries that can keep a conventional phone running for days would fizzle in a 3G handset in a matter of minutes. Engineers are searching for alternative, but at the moment the lack of a long-lasting battery is a major hurdle.

None of these problems is insurmountable, but neither will they be resolved quickly. Analysts at Forrester Research in the Netherlands predict that even in 2005, when more than half of Europe's phones will be connected to the Internet, fewer than 15 percent of them will use 3G. That's a measure of this technology's complexity and immaturity.

In eighteenth-century colonial America, flowers and fruit were typically the province of the

botanical artist interested in scientific illustration rather than being the subjects of fine art.

Early in the nineteenth century, however, the Peale family of Philadelphia established the still

life, a pictureconsisting mainly of inanimate

(5) objects, as a valuable part of the artist's repertoire. The fruit paintings by James and Sarah Miriam

Peale are simple arrangements of a few objects, handsomely colored, small in size, and representing little

more than what they are. In contrast were the highly symbolic, complex compositions by Charles Bird

King, with their biting satire and critical social commentary. Each of these strains comminuted into and

(10)well past mid-century. John F. Francis (1808-86) was a part of the Pennsylvania still-life tradition

that arose, at least in part, from the work of the Peales. Most of his still lifes date from around 1850 to

1875. Luncheon Still Life looks like one of the Peales' pieces on a larger scale, kits greater complexity

resulting from the number of objects. It is also

(15)indebted to the luncheon type of still life found in seventeenth-century Dutch painting. The opened

bottles of wine and the glasses of wine partially consumed suggest a number of unseen guests. The

appeal of the fruit and nuts to our sense of taste is heightened by the juicy orange, which has already

been sliced. The arrangement is additive, that is, made up of many different parts, not always

(20)compositionally integrated, with all objects of essentially equal importance. About 1848, Severin

Roesen came to the United States from Germany and settled in New York City, where he began to

paint large, lush still lifes of flowers, fruit, or both, often measuring over four feet across. Still Life

with Fruit and Champagne is typical in its brilliance of color, meticulous rendering of detail,

(25)compact composition, and unabashed abundance. Rich in symbolic overtones, the beautifully

painted objects carry additional meanings ...... butterflies or fallen buds suggest the impermanence of

life, a bird's nest with eggs means fertility, and so on. Above all, Roesen's art expresses the abundance

that America symbolized to many of its citizens.

What does the passage mainly discuss?

A．The artwork of James and Sarah Miriam Peale

B．How Philadelphia became a center for art in the nineteenth century

C．Nineteenth-century still-life paintings in the United States

D．How botanical art inspired the first still-life paintings

What did the East India Company get from British sovereign at its expansion?

A．The qualification of establishing its branches.

B．The permission to build Yale University.

C．Financial as well as military support.

D．The private army to protect its employees.

A、Columbus discovered the Bahamas Islands.

B、Columbus didn’t make landfall in the Bahamas at all.

C、No matter which island of the Bahamas Columbus set food on, it is a sense of national pride for the people of that country.

D、Native Americans hold the story of Columbus in a high regard.

This year is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of writer Edgar /Ulan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe, whose life was【36】and seemingly unhappy, wrote stories and poems of mystery and 【37】, insanity (疯狂) and death. Edgar went to live with the family of a wealthy Richmond businessman named John Allan after both his parents died. John Allan never officially【38】him as a son, but the boy became known as Edgar Allan Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe did something【39】for writers of his time: he used a narrator in a story to【40】what was happening. Edgar Allan Poe is also remembered as the father of modern【41】fiction, stories of an investigator who has to solve murders and other【42】Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, wrote about how Poe【43】other crime writers: "Their main art must trace back to those admirable stories of Monsieur Dupin". Dupin is a【44】that appears in a series of Allan Poe's detective stories.

Allan Poe was born in 1 089 and died in 1 849. Every year on January nineteenth, Poe's birthday, a man dressed in black【45】. His face is covered. He places a bottle of wine and three roses on Poe's grave. No one really wants to know the visitor's identity. They prefer that it remain a mystery, much like Edgar Allan Poe himself.

(36)

A．short

B．long

C．boring

D．narrow

He must have heard of the bad news,______________can be perceived in his expression.

A.as

B.what

C.while

D.that