The professor will be much pleased ______ your term paper.

A . appreciate B . appreciated C . appreciating D . being appreciated

W: Oh, there's only one textbook. M: Yeah, surely there's only one textbook, but one with 880 pages. What does the man complain about？ A．Too much reading. B．Only one textbook. C．A very heavy textbook. D．a mean professor.

A．The price can be negotiated with the dealer. B．Depends on the current retail price. C．Depends on the wholesale price. D．The price can be found on the company webpage.

A．alter B．alternate C．substitute D．exchange

A．that the municipal authorities have done B．how those the municipal authorities have done C．how what the municipal authorities have done D．that how the municipal authorities have done

A．monitor B．manifest C．articulate D．anticipate

A:monitor B:manifest C:articulate D:anticipate

A．sinking B．indifferent C．taxing D．slouching

A．$5, 000, 000. B．$10, 000, 000. C．$25, 000, 000. D．$30, 000, 000.

Which of the following is true about the quiz？ A．It will be given at a later time. B．It won't be ready until Friday. C．It will be short and easy.

A．shrink B．delay C．disperse D．sink

Telecities will supersede megacities for several reasons, including the drive toward clean air, reducing pollution, energy conservation, more jobs based on services, and coping with the high cost of urban property. Now we must add the need to cope with terrorist threats in a high-technology world. Western mind-sets were clearly jolted in the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and attacks in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and else where. But the risks posed by twentieth-century patterns of urbanization and architecture have ye to register fully with political figures and leaders of industry. The Pentagon, for example, has been rebuilt in situation rather than distributed to multiple locations and connected by secure landlines and broadband wireless systems. Likewise, the reconstruction of the World Trade Center complex still represents a massive concentration of humanity and infrastructure. This is a remarkably shortsighted and dangerous vision of the future. The security risks, economic expenses, and environmental hazards of over-centralization are everywhere, and they do not stop with skyscrapers and large governmental structures. There are risks also at seaports and airports, in food and water supplies, at nuclear power plants and hydroelectric turbines at major dams, in transportation systems, and in information and communications systems. This vulnerability applies not only to terrorist threats but also to human error, such as system-wide blackouts in North America in August 2003 and in Italy in September 2003, and natural disasters such as typhoons, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. Leaders and planners are only slowly becoming aware that overcentralized facilities are the most vulnerable to attack or catastrophic destruction. There is also growing awareness that new broadband electronic systems now allow governments and corporations to safeguard their key assets and people in new and innovative ways. So far, corporations have been quickest to adjust to these new realities, and some governments have begun to adjust as well. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage？ A．The telecity is a TV manufacturing city. B．The telecity is a city of the speed and bandwidth of networks. C．Singapore is closer to New York than Arkadelphia, Arkansas is in telecity age. D．Singapore is actually closer to New York than Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

A．sinking B．indifferent C．taxing D．slouching

A．￡68.00 B．￡80.00 C．￡12.00 D．￡65.00

In partnering with the private Global Technology Organization, the UN Office for Projects Services wants to reduce the gap separating nations with good technology from those without. "There are more Web sites originating here in New York than in all of Africa," said Reinhart Helmke, executive director of the UN agency. "There are more Web sites originating in Finland than in all of Latin America and the Caribbean." Helmke said the digital divide would be better described as a digital chasm. He said the global economy cannot be sustained if some countries are left out. Neysan Rassekh, founder and president of Global Technology Organization, vowed to tackle the problem "country by country, town by town, citizen by citizen." The initiative carries no funding, however. The UN projects office, as a self-financing agency with a limited budget, will provide only management know-how. Rassekh's group, which organized the University of Pennsylvania group, plans to solicit(恳求) cash and equipment donations. For the Mali project, the university paid airfare and other expenses through fees that students pay to receive academic credit. Eliminating the global divide won't be easy. Persuading foreign governments to buy computers instead of food can be tough, even though technology can reduce poverty and hunger in the long run, said Hafidh Chaibi, who promotes global access through the World of Knowledge Foundation in Orlando, Fla. Ernest Wilson, an international development specialist at the University of Maryland, said his research found information technology growing by 18 percent a year in developing countries, compared with 23 percent in industrialized nations. That means the gap continues to grow despite improvements through programs from the United Nations, the World Bank, the Markle Foundation and other organizations. The UN announcement came as world leaders met at the UN Millennium Summit to discuss such challenges as peace, disarmament and access to new technology. Over four weeks in May and June, the University of Pennsylvania volunteers set up four computer centers in Mall and trained 120 residents, mostly students and educators who could then teach others. Organizers are also setting up a Web site to help residents obtain information on education and health. The UN agency and its private partner plan to replicate that effort in 10 to 12 countries a year. The "digital divide" as is used in the first passage refers to ______. A．the gap in technology and wealth between poor and rich countries B．inadequate training which technicians in poorer countries have received C．the availability of computer and Internet technologies to different nations D．the difference in the number of Web sites created to poor and rich countries