【正文】 can literature. C) Hemingway was the only author to write about the war. D) American literature was slow to reflect the war. 33. A) During the 1930s. B) In 1929. C) Not until the late 1930s. D) In the early 1920s. 34. A) War. B) Courage. C) Depression. D) Sun. 35. A) He was not affected at all. B) He was greatly affected and wrote some firstclass works dealing with it. C) It had little and indirect influence on Hemingway’s writing. D) He didn’t publish stories during the Great Depression. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or wirte down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. We have been discussing how a puter works. Now let us turn to another (36) : What are the uses of a puter? Many laymen have an (37) picture of what puters are capable of Sometimes 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。t going anywhere as if you were on a treadmill (踏車). According to some, this dream means you have too much on your plate. You39。re trying to run, but either your legs won39。ve just gained a new perspective on things. It may also mean you are strong willed and feel like no one and nothing can defeat you. If you are having problems maintaining your flight, someone or something may be standing in the way of you having control. If you are afraid while flying, you may have challenges that you don39。t feel prepared or able to hold up to the scrutiny. It may also mean there is something you39。t think you39。re being tested maybe you39。t finish writing your answers.) What experts say this may mean is that you39。t find the classroom. This type of dream can have several variations that have similar meanings. (Maybe your pen won39。t control the situation. ● Being chased The everpopular chase dream can be extremely frightening. What it usually symbolizes is that you39。re not doing well in school or at work and are afraid you39。re fortable with who we are. ● Falling You39。t care that we39。re naked but no one notices, then the interpretation is that whatever we39。re not prepared for something, like a presentation or test (and now everyone is going to know we39。re at school, work or some social event, and we suddenly realize we forgot to put on clothes! Experts say this means: ◆ We39。ll wake up around the times that you leave REM sleep when you39。ve forgotten 90 percent of its content. Why is that? We don39。ve tried to figure out just why our brains play these nightly shows for us. Early civilizations thought dream worlds