【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 ple39。s iPhone X notch(V型切口 ) has been widely criticized by tech experts, who have called the design “ odd” and “ ridiculous.” The reason for the peculiar design is to acmodate a front173。facing camera and facial173。recognition technology in a device that Apple advertises as “ all screen.” __③ __ In 2021, the South Korean firm made fun of its rival39。s phones as it launched the Galaxy Note 7, zeroing in on the lack of a headphone jack (which many Apple customers plained about). To go back even further, Samsung released videos on YouTube in 2021 and in a 2021 Superbowl teaser also, mocking Apple smartphones and watches. The new Galaxy Note 8 by Samsung launched well before the Apple iPhone X, and es with two rear cameras with two OIS, a much bigger 173。inch OLED full display with 18： 9 aspect ratio, It also has a much bigger battery than Apple39。s iPhone X— although Samsung doesn39。t like to talk too much about batteries, given the fiasco with the Galaxy Note 7. __④ __ Apple may not be too troubled by the mockery conveyed by the Samsung39。s advertisement: the new iPhone is already sold out, and reports of strong demand around the world have driven the pany39。s stock to new all173。time highs in recent days. And, as they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery(恭維 ): a new trial has been ordered to determine how much Samsung should pay Apple for copying the look of the iPhone. There39。s another irony to this battle: Samsung has a vested(既定的 ) interest in the iPhone X39。s success, given that Samsung supplies the OLED display, NAND flash and the DRAM chips in the iPhone. ( )58. Where should the sentence “ The ad is not Samsung39。s first offence against Apple.” be placed in the passage? A. ① B. ② C. ③ D. ④ ( )59. The underlined word “fiasco” in paragraph 6 means ________． A. privilege B. creativity C. disaster D. suspension ( )60. According to the passage, which of the following statements may the writer be in favor of? A. Samsung39。s latest advertisement is nothing more than a made up story. B. Different versions of the iPhone have always taken the lead in waterproofing. C. Samsung39。s new Galaxy Note 8 copied the look of the Apple iPhone X. D. Samsung is likely to develop better through cooperation with Apple. C Competition is an ideology(意識(shí)形態(tài) ) that spreads all over our society and misleads our thinking. But it means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival. We advocate petition, see it as necessary, and set its laws。 and as a result, we trap ourselves within it— the more we pete, the less we gain. Our educational system both drives and reflects our craze for petition. Grades alone are precise measurement of each student39。s petitiveness。 pupils with the highest marks receive status and credits. And it gets worse as students rise to higher levels of the tournament. Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce petition with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turning into conformists (順從 者 ), students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in rapidly rising tuition. Why are we doing this to ourselves? I wish I had asked myself when I was younger. My path was so tracked that in my 8th173。grade yearbook, one of my friends predicted— accurately— that four years later I would enter Stanford. And I enrolled at Stanford Law School, where I peted even harder for the standard badges(徽章 ) of success. The highest prize in a law student39。s world is unambiguous: the Supreme Court clerkship. I was so close to winning this last petition. If only I got the clerkship, I thought, I would be set for life. But I didn39。t. At the time, I was frustrated. In 2021, after I had built and sold PayPal, I ran into an old friend who had helped me prepare my failed clerkship applications. We hadn39。t spoken in nearly a decade. His first words to me were not “Hi Peter” or “ How are you doing？ ” But rather, “ So, aren39。t you glad you didn39。t get that clerkship？ ” Because if I hadn39。t lost that last petition, we both knew that I never would have left the track laid down since middle school. Had I actually clerked on the Supreme Court, I probably would have spent my entire career taking depositions or drafting other people39。s business deals instead of creating anything new. It39。s hard to say how much would be different, but the_opportunity_costs_were_enormous. Looking back at my ambition to bee a lawyer, it looks less like a plan for the future and more like an excuse for the present. It was a way to explain to anyone who would ask— to my parents, to my peers, and most of all to myself— that there was no need to worry. I was perfectly on track. But it turned out that my biggest problem was taking the track without thinking really hard about where it was going. ( )61. Students pete at school because ________． A. they are assessed by grades B. they are under peer pressure C. they want to find a secure job D. the tuition increases quickly ( )62. We can learn from paragraph 3 that the writer ________． A. didn39。t have a clear plan for future B. did badly in study in the 8th grade C. wasn39。t a capable student in college D. didn39。t want to obtain the clerkship ( )63. The underlined sentence “the opportunity costs were enormous”(in paragraph 4) shows the writer ________. A. is unsure whether his choice is correct B. regrets failing clerkship applications C. is happy about not getting the clerkship D. thinks he could have had a better career ( )64. The writer shares his life story mainly to argue that ________. A. people shouldn39。t support petition B. grades cannot reflect students39。 ability C. failure can be a good thin