¡¡¡¡Part B

¡¡¡¡Directions:

¡¡¡¡In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41¡ª45, choose the most suitable one from the list A¡ªG to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)

¡¡¡¡A young man left hometown 22 years ago, and turned out to be a poor correspondent. After a while his letters dried up, and for six years the family had hear nothing from him. Then his sister entered his name in the Google search engine on the Web and, as she says, ¡°There he was on a bowling league in Brazil!¡± Now they¡¯re exchanging catchª²up letters and photos.

¡¡¡¡Who knew Brazilian bowling leagues had Web sites? Google knew, because Google knows everything, or nearly.

¡¡¡¡41)                                                               .

¡¡¡¡Google started in 1998, when two 26-year-olds, Sergei Brin and Larry Page, set up shop in a tiny office. Today they operate out of a building in Mountain View, Calif., and regional offices all over the world. Google has become the best and most successful search engine.

¡¡¡¡If you need a map of a region, Google will oblige. If you rip the rotator cuff in your shoulder, Google finds drawings that show you how it works. 42)                                                            .

¡¡¡¡An epidemiologist or social psychologist studying reactions to a phenomenon like the West Nile virus might well come here often, to learn what people are saying about it.

¡¡¡¡43)                             . A story gets on if enough newspapers run it and give it prominence. Every minute, the computers update the page and compile related stories while dropping others. No human editors decide what¡¯s to be emphasized. It sounds ridiculous, but it¡¯s not bad at all.

¡¡¡¡However Google is boastful. It can¡¯t keep itself from telling you how inconceivably fast it is. Ask it for information on Chinese archaeology and it compiles 29,400 links, adding: ¡°search took 0-14 seconds.¡±

¡¡¡¡44)                             . It needs help distinguishing between Francis Bacon, the 20th-century painter, and Francis Bacon, the 17th-century philosopher. Sometimes Google looks a little foolish.

¡¡¡¡45)                                . A woman wrote to Randy Cohen, the New York Times ethicist, about a friend who had gone out with a doctor and then Googled him when she got home, discovering that he had been involved in several malpractice suits. Cohen was asked whether this was a decent thing to do. He said it was and that he had done it himself. The woman¡¯s Googling, Gohen said, was benign, just like asking her friends about this fellow.

¡¡¡¡Tired or Google? I¡¯m afraid those who are tired of Google are tired of life.

¡¡¡¡A. The name comes from ¡°googol,¡± the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. This means, ¡°a hell of a lot more than there is in the universe.¡± The Google people chose it because they want to organize all the data on the Web.

¡¡¡¡B. This section also provides a rich field for egoª²surfing, or entering your own name to find out what is said about you. Some consider ego-surfing neurotic, and anyone who does it every day probably suffers from an identity problem.

¡¡¡¡C. Another problem is that identical names baffle Google.

¡¡¡¡D. The other day, unable to resist, I found that I¡¯ve been mentioned about 500 times in the various chat rooms that Google monitors. This provided half an hour of innocent pleasure.

¡¡¡¡E. Now that the verb ¡°to Google¡± is embedded in the language, Googling has turned out to be, for some, a moral problem.

¡¡¡¡F. Should you wish to remember an Alex Colville painting, you may well find it among the 181 Colville images available. If you want to recall Churchill¡¯s photo, Banff, or Cary Grant, Google will show them to you, usually in dozens of versions.

¡¡¡¡G. Google¡¯s news report links to 4,500 news sources around the world. On the screen it looks rather like a newspaper page, with pictures and headings, but it changes constantly as newspapers and broadcasters change what they put on the Web.

¡¡¡¡Part C

¡¡¡¡Directions:

¡¡¡¡Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

¡¡¡¡Traditionally, the woman has held a low position in marriage partnerships. While her husband went his way she had to wash, stitch and sew. Today the move is to liberate the woman, which may in the end strengthen the marriage union.

¡¡¡¡Perhaps the greatest obstacle to friendship in marriage is the amount a couple usually see of each other. Friendship in its usual sense is not tested by the strain of daily, yearª²long cohabitation. 46) Couples need to take up separate interests (and friendship) as well as mutually shared ones, if they are not to get used to the more attractive elements of each other¡¯s personalities.

¡¡¡¡47) Married couples are likely to exert themselves for guests¡ªbeing amusing, discussing with passion and point¡ªand then to fall into dull exhausted silence when the guests have gone.

¡¡¡¡As in all friendship, a husband and wife must try to interest each other, and to spend sufficient time sharing absorbing activities to give them continuing common interests. 48) But at the same time they must spend enough time on separate interests with separate people to preserve and develop their separate personalities and keep their relationship fresh.

¡¡¡¡49) For too many highly intelligent working women, home represents chore obligations, because the husband only tolerates her work and does not participate in household chores. For too many highly intelligent working men, home represents dullness and complaints¡ªfrom an overª²dependent wife who will not gather courage to make their own life.

¡¡¡¡In such an atmosphere, the partners grow further and further apart, both love and liking disappearing. 50) For too many couples with children, the children are allowed to command all time and attention, allowing the couple no time to develop liking and friendship, as well as love, allotting exclusive parental roles.