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11___ of the world people clap hands to show that they like or __12___ of the theater, at a concert, or at a football game, people ____13____ hands after they see something they Russia the actors, ___14___, and athletes clap ____15_________ the most countries, however, the performers are happy to receive the don’t clap back to their very long time ago clapping meant the ___16____of what it means people did not like an actor or a performer they were trying to make as much noise as continued to clap until the actor left the some time in history the ___18___of clapping became a pliment instead of an when an audience wants to show great admiration for a performer, they not only clap but they is called a standing standing ovation is the dream of every !Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(35 minutes)(40%)Directions: There are 4 passages in this passage is followed by some questions or unfinished each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following Weizenbaum,professor of puter science at MIT, thinks that the sense of power over the machine ultimately corrupts the puter hacker(黑客)and makes him into a not very desirable sort of hackers are so involved with designing their programs, making it more and more plex and bending it to their hill, that they don’t bother trying to make it understandable to other rarely keep recorders of their programs for the benefit of others, and they take rarely time to understand why a problem science teachers say they can usually pick out the prospective hackers in their courses because these students make their homework assignments more plex than they need to than using the simplest and most direct method, they take joy in adding extra steps just to prove their perhaps those hackers know something that we don’t about the shape of things to e.“ That hacker who had to be literally dragged off his chair at MIT is now a multimillionaire of the puter industry,” says MIT Professor Michael Dertouzos.“ And two former hackers became the founders of the highly successful Apple home puter pany.”When seen in this light, the hacker phenomenon may not be so strange after , as many psychiatrists say, play is really the basis for all human activity, then the hacker games are really the preparation for future Turkle, a professor of sociology at MIT, points out that the puter, because it seems to us to be so “ intelligent”, so “capable”, so “human”, affects the way we think about ourselves and our ideas about what we says that puters and puter toys already play an important role in children’s efforts to develop an identity by allowing them to test ideas about what is alive and what is Passage tells has caused the emergence of puter hackers the strange behavior of the puter hackers the importance of bringing up puter hackers different opinions concerning the hacker phenomenon Weizenbaum believes the hackers’ strange behavior is caused deliberate attempts to make their problems plex and impracticable their inpetence in making new puter programmes their ignorance of the responsibility they should assume their strong desire to control the puter Professor Bertouzos’ opinion, which of the following is true?___ The hackers are likely to be very successful business a few hackers will be successful in their later hackers probably have better insight into the future than other puter industry will certainly make the hackers phrase“to develop an identity”(Line7, )probably cultivate creativity to seek an answer to bee distinguished to form a habit passage tries to convey to its readers the idea the hacker phenomenon is a wele development the puter hackers are the hope of the puter puter hackers could be useful if under proper guidance The hackers may prove indispensable to the puter Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following about 50 million years, one of the mammals that lives in a marine environment, the whale, has developed into the largest of all animals , at least for the last 150 years, trouble has closed in on whales from have been hunted since about the eleventh types of whales have been hunted too , their number has been reduced so greatly that they are in danger of being are worried about the fact that the number of whales is getting smaller and are working to save are reasons why people want to protect the reason is that whales help to keep a balance between plants and have been throwing their wastes into the oceans and seas, and these wastes increase the amount of salt in ocean and increased salt helps some plants and some very small creatures to grow but these plants and small creatures are harmful to , whales are eating large numbers of plants and animals that grow in very salty this way, whales are doing a good job as they keep the ocean water clean enough for the addition, because fish supply necessary food for many people, whales bee our good friends which we want to people are now working to save whales by using the hold meeting to ask fishermen to reduce the number of whales which can be killed in a also work within countries to persuade law makers to make whaling against the law and to make the use of whale products against the law this struggle to save whales is going on in many places in the governments will not let people sell whale products in their governments have changed the law about people believe that since the number of whales is regarded as a serious world problem, the remaining whales will be passage mainly discussed protection of whales the strange behaviors of whales the mysterious life of whales the advantages of too many whales the passage we know that during the last 150 years humans to nature learned how to swim threatened the existence of some marine mammals begun to ha