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网络技术(network technology)、近义词(near-synonym)、其他国家(other countries)、非同义词、解决方案。
[单选题]The earthquake that hit the eastern half of the United States two centuries ago is the biggest“mid—plate”one in history.
根据以下资料,回答下面的题目。 Oklahoma is an area often experiencing natural disasters.
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阅读材料,回答下面的题目。The Diminishing Scientific Leadership of the U, S.With the rapid globalization of science itself ( more than 40 percent of scientific Ph.D. students trained in the United States are now foreign nationals, roughly half of whom return to their countries of origin ) , the once undisputed U.S.scientific lead, whether relevant to product lead or not, is diminishing. The competition of foreign students for positions in U.S.graduate schools has also contributed to making scientific training relatively unattractive to U.S.students, because the rapidly increasing supply of students has diminished the relative rewards of this career path. For the best and brightest from low-income countries, a position as a research assistant in the United States is attractive, whereas the best and brightest U.S.students might now see better options in other fields. Science and engineering careers, to the extent that they are opening up to foreign competition ( whether imported or available through better communication ) , also seem to be becoming relatively less attractive to U.S. students. With respect to the role of universities in the innovation process the speculative boom of the 1990s( which, among other things, made it possible to convert scientific findings into cash rather quickly ) was largely unexpected.The boom brought universities and their faculties into much closer contact with private markets as they tried to gain as much of the economic dividends from their discoveries as possible. For a while,the path between discoveries in basic science and new flows of hard cash was considerably shortened. But during the next few decades, this path will likely revert toward its more traditional length and reestablish in a healthy way, the more traditional ( and more independent ) relationship between the basic research done at universities and those entities that translate ideas into products and services.In the intervening years, another new force also greatly facilitated globalization: the rapid growth of the Internet and cheap wide-bandwidth international communication. Today, complex design activities can take place in locations quite removed from manufacturing, other business functions and the consumer. Indeed, there is now ample opportunity for real-time communication between business functions that are quite independent of their specific locations. For example, software are development, with all its changes and complications, can to a considerable extent be done overseas for a U.S.customer.Foreign call centers can respond instantly to questions from thousands of miles away.The result is that low-wage workers in the Far East and in some other countries are coming into even more direct competition with a much wider spectrum of U.S. labor: unskilled in the case of call centers; more highly skilled in the case of programmers.
根据材料,完成下面的题目。Public Relations Public relations is a broad set of planned communications about the company, including publicity releases,designed to promote goodwill and a favorable image. Publicity then is part of public relations when it is initiated by the firm, usually in the51of press releases or press conferences. Since public relations involves communications with stockholders, financial analysts, government officials, and other noncustomer groups, it is usually.52outside the marketing department, perhaps as a staff department or outside consulting firm reporting to top management. Thisorganizational placement can be a 53 because the public relations department or consultant will likely not be in line with marketing efforts. Poor communication and no coordination can be the54. Although the basic purpose of public relations is to provide positive influence55 the public image, this influence generally maybe less than 56 provided by the other components of the public image mix. Publicity nay be in the form of news releases that have57overtones for the company initiate by the public relations department. Publicity on the other 58 should not be divorced from the marketing department,as it can 59 a useful adjunct( 辅助 ) to the regular advertising. 60 , not all publicity is initiated by the firm; some can 61from an unfavorable press as a reaction to certain actions or lack of 62that are controversial or even downright ill-advertised.The 63we wish to emphasize is that a firm is deluding( 自欺 ) itself if it thinks its public relations function,whether within the company or an outside firm, can take 64 of public image and opportunities. Many of these have to do with the way the 65 does business, such as its product quality, the servicing and handling of complaints, etc.请在第__(51)__处填上正确答案。
阅读材料,回答下面的题目: What We Take from and Give to the Sea As long as we have been on earth, we have used the sea around us. We take from the ocean, and we give to it. We take fishes from the ocean-millions of kilograms of fish, every year, to51millions of people. We even52their bones for fertilizer. We take minerals from the ocean. One way to get salt is to53seawater in shallow basin and leave until it evaporates( 蒸发 ). Along with salt, other minerals are left 54 evaporation.Much gold and silver drift dissolved in the waters of the sea, too. But the sea does not give them 55 by simpleevaporation.56gifts from the sea are pearls, sponges( 海绵) and seaweed. Pearls57jewelry. Natural sponges become cleaning aids. Seaweed becomes 58 of many kinds-even candy, and ice cream - as well as medicine. Believe it or not, fresh water is another 59 from the sea. We cannot drink ocean water. Some of its contents may. 60 illness. But ocean water becomes fresh water when the salts are 61 . In the future, we will find ourselves 62 more and more on fresh water from the sea. The sea63us food, fertilizer, minerals, water, and other gifts. What do we give the sea? Garbage. We pollute the ocean 64 we use it as a garbage dump. Huge as it is, the ocean cannot hold all the water that we pour into it. 65 garbage into the ocean is killing off sea life. Yet as the world population grows, we may need the sea and its gifts ,more than ever.请在第___________处填上正确答案.
回答下面的题目:The First Settlement in North AmericaIt is very difficult to say just when colonization began. Thefirst hundred years after Christopher Columbus journey of discovery in 1492 didnot produce any settlement on the North America continent but rather someSpanish trading posts further south, a great interest in gold and adventure,and some colorful crimes in which the English had their part. John Cahot,originally from Genoa but a citizen of Venice, was established as a trader inBristol, England, when he made a journey in 1497. But his ship,the Matthew,with its crew of eighteen, did no more than see an island prohably off the NewEngland coast) and return home. He and his son made further voyages across thenorth Atlantic which enabled the English crown to claim a "legal"title to North AmericA.But for a long time afterwards the Europeans interestin America was mainly confined to the Spanish activities further south.The first beginning of permanent settlement in North America werenearly a hundred years after Columbus first voyage. The Englishman Sir WalterRaleigh claimed the whole of North America for England, calling it VirginiA.In1585 he sent a small group of people who landed in Roanoke Island,but theystayed only for a year and then went back to England with another expedition,led by Drake,in 1587. A second group who landed in 1587 had all disappearedwhen a further expedition arrived in 1590.The first permanent settlement in North America was in 1607.English capitalists founded two Virginia companies, a southern one based inLondon and a northern one based in Bristol. It was decided to give the name NewEngland to the northern areA.The first settlers in Virginia were little more thanwage slaves to the company. All were men and the experiment was not verysuccessful. Many dieD.Those who survived lived in miserable conditions. By1619 the colony had only a thousand people.We know for sure that colonization began at the end of the15th century,
回答下面的题目: The Supercomputer Network1. Recently ten laboratories run by governments in different parts of the world have become linked. Their computers have been connected so they can "talk" to each other. This may not seem very dramatic news, but it is the beginning of a development that will increase the power of the Internet tremendously.2. The Internet is an interconnected ( 互联 ) system of networks that connects computers round the world and facilitates the transmission and exchange of information. The way that you use the lnternet is by accessing this network. This depends on the power that your system allows you to use. The power of your computer is responsible for how fast you can download ( 下载 ) files, how much data you can store, etc. If your computer is old and slow, accessing the information can be very difficult.3. The new development in information technology has been called "the grid" (网络技术), and it will be a network of computers that are linked together. The "grid" will work in a different way from the Internet, enabling you to get the power of the biggest computers in the world on your computer. Accessing the information will no longer depend on the power of your computer. The idea is that while you accessinformation, you will also have access to the power of the bigger computer stations.4. One advantage of this revolutionary idea is that geographical location will become irrelevant. The "grid" will decide which are the best parts of a worldwide network to do the job you want. This means that you may be accessing a computer in Japan to solve a problem in Alaska.5. The "grid" can be compared to having an efficient personal assistant. You can give your assistant a task and "he" will do it for you. The assistant will do the preliminary research, collect the data, compare them and decide on the best course of action by accessing any of the computer centres in the "grid" that happen to have the relevant information. All you have to do is assign the task, sit back and wait.6. At present, possible applications of the "grid" in scientific research are being explored. While it has taken about fifteen years for Internet use to become widespread, experts believe that the "grid" could be up and running for private individuals far more quickly. Scientists working on "grid" projects are convinced that it will be as widely used as the web in the next ten years.Paragraph 2__________
根据以下资料,回答下面的题目。 According to the first paragraph,one or the warnings given by the scientists is that
根据以下资料,回答下面的题目。Mobile Phones 请在第____处填上正确答案。