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he is only l8 years old and blind, Suleyman Gokyigit is among the top computer technicians and programmers
at InteliData Technologies Corp., a large software company with several offices across the United States.
"After our company united with another one last October, two different computer networks were driving
us crazy," recalls Douglas Braun, the InteliData president. "We couldn"t even send e-mail to each other." In
three weeks Mr Gokyigit created the software needed to connect the two networks. "None of the company"s
350 other employees could have done the job in three months," says Mr. Braun. "Suleyman can see into the
heart of the computer."
Mr. Gokyigfi"s gift, as Mr. Braun calls it, is an unusual ability to form an idea of the inside of a machine.
"The computer permits me to reach out into the world and do almost anything I want to do," says Mr. Gokyigit.
The young programmer is at home with hardware as well, thanks partly to a highly developed sense of
touch. Mitzi Nowakowski, an office manager at InteliData, remembers how he easily disconnected and
reconnected their computer systems during a move last year. "Through feel, Suleyman can find the position
of connectors, pins and wires much faster than most other people with sight," he says.
Much of the student programmer"s speed comes from his ability not to be interrupted while at the computer.
When typing, he listens carefully to the synthesizer (合成器). His long, thin fingers fly over the keyboard.
"Nothing seems to shake his attention," says Mrs. Nowakowski, his boss.
Mr. Gokyigit is the only company employee who is available (可找到的) 24 hours a day. "We consider him
our top problem solver." says Mr. Braun.
B. is the best technician in the world
C. has done a hard job in three months
D. has united InteliData Technologies Corp. with another computer company
B. is fond of computer hardware
C. works with computer hardware at home
D. feels comfortable when working with computer hardware
B. his attention on the synthesizer
C. his long, thin fingers
D. his ability not to be interrupted
B. his attention on the synthesizer
C. his long, thin fingers
D. his ability not to be interrupted
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试题【阅读理解。 Sometimes, something that is considered to be negative turns out to be】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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themselves. Others seem perfectly healthy, dressed in business suits. But whenever I saw someone in
a wheelchair, I only saw a disability, not a person.
Then I fainted at Euro Disney due to low blood pressure. This was the first time I had ever fainted,
and my parents said that I must rest for a while after First aid. I agreed to take it easy but, as I stepped
towards the door, I saw my dad pushing a wheelchair in my direction! Feeling the color burn my cheeks,
I asked him to wheel that thing right back to where he found it.
I could not believe this was happening to me. Wheelchairs were fine for other people but not for me,
as my father wheeled me out into the main street, people immediately began to treat me differently.
Little kids ran in front of me, forcing my father to stop the wheelchair suddenly. Bitterness set in as
I was thrown back and forth. "Stupid kids-they have perfectly good legs. Why can"t they watch where
they are going?" I thought. People stared down at me,with pity in their eyes. Then they would look away,
maybe because they thought the sooner they forgot me, the better.
"I am just like you!" I wanted to scream. "The only difference is you"ve got legs, and I have wheels."
People in wheelchairs are not stupid. They see every look and hear each word. Looking out at the faces,
I finally understood: I was once just like them. I treated people in wheelchairs exactly the way they did not
want to be treated. I realized it is some of us with two healthy legs who are truly disabled.
B. looked down upon disabled people
C. imagined herself sitting in a wheelchair
D. saw some healthy people moving around in wheelchairs
B. got ready to move around in it right away
C. refused to accept it right away
D. thought it was ready for his father
B. people often eat their bitter fruit
C. life is so changeable that nobody can foretell
D. one should not do to others what he would not like others do to him
B. The Wheels Are as Good as Two Legs
C. People with Two Legs Are Truly Healthy
D. The Difference between Healthy People and the Disabled
Li Jing had a far more powerful person on her mind. The Senior 2 from Beijing No. 35 High School dreamt
of meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin.
After more than a year of hard work and with a little good luck, Li fulfilled (实现) her dream. On October
11, 2004, the 16-year-old girl joined a team of Chinese journalists who went to the Kremlin (克里姆林宫),
Moscow, to interview Putin.
Li felt nervous before talking with Putin." But his greeting and warm smile put me at ease," she said.
Li admired Putin very much, because of his strong will and style of leadership. "He looks very cool," Li
said. During her interview, Li asked Putin whether he planned to educate his two teenage daughters to be
officials in the future. Putin smiled and answered he hoped they could do whatever job suits their interests
and personalities.
Although Li would only have several minutes, she started working on her interview que8tions last August
after applying for the opportunity. Journalists" work is by no means easy. "You need to do lots of homework
on your interviewee," she said. She read many books about Putin and Russia in her spare time.
Li"s parents encouraged her to be a student journalist. "We fully support her, as long as it does not affect
studies," said her father. Previous in her job for a student magazine, Chinese Young Journalists, she wrote
a letter to President Hu Jintao during the SARS epidemic (流行疫情).
Li has learnt a lot from her experience. She said learning to manage her time and develop the confidence
to speak with important people were not things she could learn in class.
B. the person who is interviewed
C. the person who know how to interview
D. the person who plans to interview a famous people
B. They worry that to be a student journalist will affect her studies.
C. They consider it is quite good for Li Jing on the condition of not striking her study.
D. They neither support it nor object to it.
B. she hates meeting with the NBA hero Yao Ming
C. she wants to meet neither Jay Chou nor Yao Ming
D. She dreams of meeting the powerful Russian leader
B. Li was at easy at the first sight of the president Putin.
C. Li considers Putin a great leader because of his strong will and style of leadership.
D. Li thinks it is impossible to learn in class the confidence to speak with great people.
before an eating-house, and remained regaling (享受) his nose with the smell of the victuals. The master of the
shop told him several times to go away, but the sweeper could not leave savory smell, though unable to purchase
the taste of the food. At last the cook came out of the shop, and taking hold of the sweeper, declared that, as he
had been feeding upon the smell of his victuals, he should not go away without paying half the price of a dinner.
The poor fellow said that he neither could nor would pay, and that he would ask the first person who should
pass, whether it was an unreasonable and unjust demand.
The case was referred to a policeman, who happened to pass at that moment. He said to the sweeper:"As you
have been feasting one of your senses with the odor (气味) of this man"s meat, it is but just you should make
him some recompense; therefore you shall, in your turn, regale one of his senses, which seems to be more
insatiable than your appetite. How much money do you have?"
"I have but two pence in all the world, sir, and I must buy me some bread."
"Never mind," answered the officer. "Take your two pence between your hands; now rattle them loudly."
The sweeper did so, and the officer, turning to the cook, said, "Now, sir, I think he has paid you: the smell
of your victuals regaled his nostrils; the sound of his money has tickled your ears."
This decision gave more satisfaction to the bystanders than to the cook, but it was the only payment he could
obtain.
B. he was hungry and he wanted to have dinner
C. he was hungry but he had no enough money to buy a meal
D. he wanted to smell if the food was delicious
B. not fair
C. logical
D. proper
B. kind
C. clever
D. stupid
B. the master of the shop and the cook were cool-hearted
C. the cook was cruel
D. the sweeper got what he wanted
Thursday has become our day to go out and make a positive 2 .
My girls shouted "McDonald"s, McDonald"s" as we 3 along a busy Houston road. Suddenly I 4
that almost every crossing I passed through was 5 by a panhandler (乞丐). And then it hit me! All
these panhandlers must be hungry, too. Perfect! After we ate, I ordered a(n) 6 15 lunches and we set
out to deliver them. We would pull 7 a panhandler, make a contribution, and tell him or her that we
hoped things got better. Then we"d say, "Oh, 8 , here"s lunch."
We handed our final contribution to a small woman and then immediately 9 back in the opposite
direction for home. 10 , the light caught us again and we were stopped at the same crossing where this
small woman stood. I was 11 and didn"t know quite how to behave.
She made her way to our car, "No one has ever done 12 like this for me before," she said with 13 .
Feeling uneasy, and wanting to move the conversation along, I asked, "So, 14 do you think you"ll eat
your lunch?"
She just looked at me with her huge, tired brown eyes and said, "Oh honey, I"m not going to eat this
lunch." I was 15 , but before I could say anything, she continued, "You see, I have a little girl and she just
loves McDonald"s, but I don"t have the money. But you know 16 tonight if she is going to have
McDonald"s!"
I don"t know if the kids 17 the tears in my eyes. So many times I had questioned whether our acts of
kindness were too 18 or insignificant to really affect change. 19 in that moment, I recognized the 20
of Mother Teresa"s words:"We cannot do great things-only small things with great love."
( )1. A. tradition ( )2. A. decision ( )3. A. walked ( )4. A. reminded ( )5. A. crowded ( )6. A. additional ( )7. A. close ( )8. A. in fact ( )9. A. faced ( )10. A. Unfortunately ( )11. A. excited ( )12. A. something ( )13. A. amazement ( )14. A. what ( )15. A. shocked ( )16. A. whether ( )17. A. realized ( )18. A. many ( )19. A. Therefore ( )20. A. promise | B. ceremony B. choice B. ran B. realized B. occupied B. expensive B. across B. to tell the truth B. headed B. Luckily B. embarrassed B. everything B. fear B. how B. confused B. if B. felt B. small B. Although B. oath | C. custom C. contribution C. wandered C. understood C. discovered C. cheap C. alongside C. generally speaking C. turned C. Unexpectedly C. frightened C. anything C. sorrow C. where C. pleased C. what C. noticed C. big C. Meanwhile C. truth | D. habit D. plan D. drove D. thought D. laid D. special D. throughout D. by the way D. looked D. Hopefully D. annoyed D. nothing D. amusement D. when D. worried D. that D. recognized D. simple D. Yet D. spirit |
阅读理解。 | |||
The most frightening words in the English language are, "Our computer is down." You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, "I"m sorry, I can"t sell you a ticket.Our computer is down." "If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket." "I can"t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so." I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people do?" "We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not." "So when it goes down, you go down with it." "That"s good, sir." "How long will the computer be down?" I wanted to know. "I have no idea. Sometimes it"s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There"s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it"s down it won"t answer us." After the girl told me they had no backup (备用) computer, I said. "Let"s forget the computer. What about your planes? They"re still flying, aren"t they?" "I couldn"t tell without asking the computer." "Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he"s flying to Washington," I suggested. "I wouldn"t know what gate to send you to.Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn"t take you if you didn"t have a ticket." "Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?" "I wouldn"t know," she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only it knows. It can"t tell me." By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage. | |||
1. The best title for the article is _____. | |||
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A. When the Computer Is Down B. The Most Frightening Words C. The Computer of the Airport D. Asking the Computer | |||
2. What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer? | |||
[ ] | |||
A. She could sell a ticket. B. She could write out a ticket. C. She could answer the passengers" questions. D. She could do nothing. | |||
3. Why do you think they had not a backup computer? | |||
[ ] | |||
A. Because it was easy down B. Because it was very expensive. C. Because it was not advanced enough. D. Because it was not as big as the main computer. | |||
4. The last paragraph suggests that _____. | |||
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A. a modern computer won"t be down. B. computers can take the place of humans C. sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people D. there will be great changes in computers |