【正文】 puters are called electronic brains and this is (38) because no puter so far built can (39) with the human brain in all respects. Let us take a look at the (40) of puters in merce and industry. Firstly, clerical work. Computers are very good for (41) repetitive clerical work efficiently. We can take two examples of this. The first is the (42) use of puters in handling payrolls, that is, paying employees. With details about each employee in it, the puter can make necessary (43) and print out a pay slip. (44) .Secondly, the use of puters in information systems.(45) . The main puter store for British Airways Boadicea system has a constant record of the details of every flight. Thirdly, the puter as an aid to design planning. The example has to do with predicting the cost of a design if one were planning to build a road. (46) .This information can be fed into a puter and the puter can be programmed to work out the cheapest route between two points.Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) (25 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. A department store’s inputs include the land upon which the building is located, the labor of the employees, (47) ______ in the form of building, equipment and merchandise, and the management skills of the store managers. On a farm, the operation system is the transformation that occurs when a farmer’s (48) ______ (land, equipment, labor, etc.) are converted into such outputs as corn, wheat or milk. The exact form of the conversion process (49) ______ from industry to industry, but it is an (50) ______phenomenon that exists in every industry. Economists refer to this (51) ______ of resources into goods and services as the production function. For all operation systems, the general goal is to create some kind of valueadded outputs that are worth more to consumers than just the sum of the inputs. To the consumers, the resulting products (52) ______ utility due to the form, the time, or the place of their availability from the conversion process. However, the process is subject to random changes. Unplanned or uncontrollable influences may cause the actual output to differ from planned output. Random fluctuations can arise from external disruption (fire, floods or lightning, for example) or from (53) ______ problems inherent in the conversion process. Inherent variability of equipment, material imperfections, and human errors all affect output quality (54)______. In fact, random variations are the rule rather than the exception in production processes。re trying to run, but either your legs won39。t feel prepared or able to hold up to the scrutiny. It may also mean there is something you39。re being tested maybe you39。t find the classroom. This type of dream can have several variations that have similar meanings. (Maybe your pen won39。re not doing well in school or at work and are afraid you39。t care that we39。re not prepared for something, like a presentation or test (and now everyone is going to know we39。ll wake up around the times that you leave REM sleep when you39。ve tried to figure out just why our brains play these nightly shows for us. Early civilizations thought dream worlds were real, physical worlds that they could enter only from their dream state. Researchers continue to toss around many theories about dreaming. Those theories essentially fall into two categories: ● The idea that dreams are only physiological stimulations ● The idea that dreams are psychologically necessary Physiological theories are based on the idea that we dream in order to exercise various neural connections that some researchers believe affect certain types of learning. Psychological theories are based on the idea that dreaming allows us to sort through problems, events of the day or things that are requiring a lot of our attention. Some of these theorists think dreams might be prophetic. Many researchers and scientists also believe that perhaps it is a bination of the two theories. Dreaming and the Brain When we sleep, we go through five sleep stages. The first stage is a very light sleep from which it is easy to wake up. The second stage moves into a slightly deeper sleep, and stages three and four represent our deepest sleep. Our brain activity throughout these stages is gradually slowing down so that by deep sleep, we experience nothing but delta brain waves the slowest brain waves. About 90 minutes after we go to sleep and after the fourth sleep stage, we begin REM sleep. Rapid eye movement (REM) was discovered in 1953 by University of Chicago researchers Eugene Aserinsky, a graduate student in physiology, and Nathaniel Kleitman, ., chair of physiology. REM sleep is primarily characterized by movements of the eyes and is the fifth stage of sleep.How to Improve Your Dream Recall It is said that five minutes after the end of a dream, we have forgotten 50 percent of the dream39。 3. 你的觀點(diǎn)。 2. 有人認(rèn)為西方的節(jié)日使很多中國的傳統(tǒng)日益淡化。 NG(for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 810, plete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Our dreams bine verbal, visual and emotional stimuli into a sometimes broken, nonsensical but often entertaining story line. We can sometimes even solve problems in our sleep. Or can we? Many experts disagree on exactly what the purpose of our dreams might be. Are they strictly random brain impulses, or are our brains actually working through issues from our daily life while we sleep as a sort of