【正文】 ries are often very of the following ideas is not conveyed in the passage?A.“Remembered story”, pared with written history, is less records of the past plays a most important role in our learning of the human written account of our daily activities helps us to answer some questions there are no written records, there is no know very little about the central Africa 200 years ago because _______ wad nothing worth being written down at that people there ignored the importance of keeping a written records were perhaps destroyed by a fire people there had not known how to write 38.“remembered history” refers to ______ based on a person’s imagination of important happenings passed down from mouth to mouth C songs and dances about the most important B and C 39.“remembered history” is regarded as valuable only when ______ is written down written account is available proves to be are interested in it can be inferred from the passage that we could have learned much more about our past than we do now if our ancestors had ____ a written record of every past event burnt their written records in wars exact stories of the most important happenings more songs and dances Passage3For years, international swimming has been controlled by a small number of powerful , Russia, Germany and Australia have produced some of the sport’s finest players and have won most of the top petitions and the results of this month’s world championships, which are being held in the Australian city of Perth, will not be so easy to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, many new names and nationalities have emerged to take on the world 1996 Olympics should have been an opportunity for the to display its great swimming power, but instead it faced some embarrassing surprises started on the first day of the petitions, when Fred of Belgium set a world record in the petition for 100metres breaststroke(蛙泳).Never before had Belgium produced an Olympic champion other countries also won swimming gold medals for the first time on the opening ’s Michelle Smith delighted her country with the first of her three gold Zealand also celebrated with Danyon Loader’s gold in the men’s 200metres free went on to win the 400 meters later in the late on the second day, the team’s officials and coaches were starting to be Heyns of South Africa had broken the women’s 100metre breaststroke record in the morning petitions before claiming gold in the is hard to predict the results of this month’s championships because ________ from different countries have emerged as new champions names of the players haven’t been heard few countries have won international swimming petitions 1996 Olympics in Atlanta was a success the had to face at the 1996 Olympics was ______ swimming power big success unpleasant failures great deal of embarrassment player of Belgium broke a world record in 100metre breaststroke which ______ had won before had not gained before had won many times never won before many medals have the other countries won on the opening day? can be inferred from the passage that ______ still the only powerful country in swimming been a great swimming power once controlled international had won several world swimming championships Passage4When the steam engine was invented in the eighteenth century, it began one of the greatest revolutions that have ever happened in our invention of the petrol engine at the end of the nineteenth century led to another enormous change in our the puter is almost certainly going to be an invention no less important than these engines as there was a Stone Iron Age and so on, we have been living for centuries in a Paper Age, during which almost all information was kept and sent on paper, and so much of it is wasted after it has been used once that enormous numbers of trees have to be cut down every year to provide us with this now, with the puter, enormous amounts of information can be stored and sent without any paper at all, using small discs or the have made it possible to do very difficult calculations very much faster than any earlier machine also allow one to send information to others anywhere in the world, via the telephone line, and to receive information from can send a very long message more quickly from England to Australia, for example, than from one’s house to someone in the are not only used for writing。they can produce diagrams and pictures, and they can be used for playing now sees them at airports and railway stations, in hotels and restaurants, in fact, almost everywhere where people author seems to say that the invention of the puter is ___ so important as that of the steam and petrol engines least as important as that of the steam and petrol engines important than that of the steam and petrol engines more important than that of the steam and petrol engines to the author the disadvantage of using paper to keep and send information is tha_______ is hard to get enough paper wastes our time damages the environment is too much paper around may infer that the fastest way for puter to send messages is by using _____ telephone line mail of the following functions of the puter is not mentioned in the passage? information office and business work entertainment phone calls title that best express the main idea of the passage is _____ Age Age and Computer Age and Our Past and Our Future四、完型填空(10%)請將答題卡上相應的字母涂黑，做在本試題冊上無效。We arrived in Spain(51)the first time a few weeks ago, and I decided to buy a car because we had sold(52)we had in England before the sales office rang us(53)the car was had tried out a model(54)it before but as I was not yet used(55)in this city, my wife did not want me to collect it on my own,(56)we went together to fetch (57)and signed the told us that there was enough petrol to take us to a garage,(58)we could fill nearest garage to the office was(59)and we got there when I(60)into the