【正文】 女士說(shuō)Late summer is hurricane season，由此可知B正確。　　17. C 信息明示題。　　14. A 綜合推斷題。答案在全文倒數(shù)第三段末句。s qualifying races，可知題干是錯(cuò)誤的。本文主要介紹有關(guān) robot races 比賽的情況，而不是比賽的優(yōu)點(diǎn)和缺點(diǎn)，故題干表述錯(cuò)誤。Family39。s first duty will then be to his wife, and the wife39。ve only put sunflower seeds into the covers so far. But we are working with plant 56 to find out which flowers would perform best. Maybe we could put roses in next time, said one scientist.[A] Recently　　[B] consumers　　[C] chemicals　　[D] environment　　[E] bine　　[F] transparent　　[G] buy　　[H] panion [I] experts　　[J] forms　　[K] bury　　[L] paper　　[M] paper　　[N] plastic　　[O] Usually　　Section B　　Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.　　Passage One　　Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.　　It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the basis for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.　　Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It not only includes remembering things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed (嗅出)something suspicious in the grain pile.　　Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to pare the memory storage capacity of a puter with that of a human being. The instant access memory of a large puter may hold up to 100,000 words—string of alphabetic or numerical characters—ready for instant use. An average . teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information that the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.　　The use of words is the basis of the advanced problemsolving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person39。t think she has enough money.　　[C] She39。s Kurjanowicz said, the event has succeeded in galvanizing robotics developers and pushing the creation of new technologies.　　The beauty of the Grand Challenge is that it doesn39。re smaller and go a lot more places, he said while tinkering with the robot before another trial run. We39。s global positioning system—are made to resemble the rugged, reallife conditions that the vehicles will have to navigate.　　The vehicles use sensors such as lasers, cameras, and radar to help them avoid obstacles such as rocks and cliffs. The puter39。s Carnegie Mellon University, traveled 7 miles (11 kilometers) before breaking down.　　To robot devotees(熱愛(ài)者), however, it was a miinor hiccup.　　No surprise, then, that 43 teams showed up to try out for this year39。　　N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage。s way.　　A . Congress mandate(訓(xùn)令)requires that onethird of military ground vehicles drive themselves by 2015, but the technology to meet that mandate does not yet exist.　　So the government looked to enterprising teams to develop the technology for driverless vehicles, sweetening its offer with the twomilliondollar purse.　　None of the 23 teams knows what lies ahead for this year39。re up against are just accessorizing conventional vehicles, said team leader Chris . Pedersen, a former actor. Our [vehicle] is a custombuilt, 21stcentury hot rod... plete with hood scoop and exhaust ing off the side.　　Anthony Levandowski, a robotics builder from Berkeley, California, is back with Ghostrider, the only motorcycle robot in the qualifications. Studded with sensors and puters, it toppled (翻倒)over after 3 feet (1 meter) in last year39。s race may be on Stanley, a converted Volkswagen Touareg made by a team at California39。s qualifying races.　　7. TerraMax will finish the race and win the grand prize of two million . dollars.　　8. The obstacles on the Fontana qualification course are made to resemble the ________________.　　9. The only motorcycle robot in the qualifications is ________________.　　10. The only vehicle that didn39。s camera. [C] A movie camera.　　[B] A television camera. [D] The man39。s memory capacity according to the author?　　[A] It can be expanded by language. [C] It may keep all the information in the past.　　[B] It can remember all the bined words. [D] It may change what has been stored in it.　　61. Human beings make themselves different from other animals by _______.　　[A] having the ability to perceive danger　　[B] having a far greater memory capacity　　[C] having the ability to recognize faces and places on sight　　[D] having the ability to draw on past experiences　　Passage Two　　Questions 62 to 66 are based in the following passage.　　Family is of course an elastic word. But when British people say that their society is based on family life, they are thinking of family in its narrow, peculiarly European sense of mother, father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit. Thus, every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family— hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life.　　For both the man and the woman, marriage means leaving one39。s parents, that is, it was the parents39。t black out when they drink?　　The answer to the 77 feet problem, the researchers found, is that giraffes have 78 the researchers call a natural antigravity suit. It 79 out that the skin and other 80 in their legs and