郑州市2012年高中毕业班考前检测英语试题答案(3)

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A．developing fast                   B．located at a small community
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A．writing on any topic you like    B．adding pictures to your poetry
C．selecting different styles          D．fulfilling your dream as a writer surely
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A．Replying to most questions every day．     B．Upgrading its systems regularly．
C．Giving writers special software to install．   D．Choosing different topics for readers．
66．The passage is mainly intended for those who are interested in ____．
A．entertainment                 B．computer engineering
C．writing                          D．business
D
Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep．He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine, but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle．
Though he was tired, Howe slept badly．He turned and turned．Then he had a dream．He dreamed that he had been caught by terrible savages （ SHS A．） whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine．When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before．The thread kept getting caught around the needle．The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe．They came up towards him with their spears raised．But suddenly the inventor noticed something．There was a hole in the tip of each spear． The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem．
Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle．This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practical sewing machine．
Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way． Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams．So did the great physicist Albert Einstein．Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre．
To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep． Even then, a part of your mind is still working．This unconscious （无意识的） but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day．It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed．It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake．However, the unconscious part acts in a special way．It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first．This is why dreams are sometimes called " secret messages to ourselves"．
67．According to the passage, Elias Howe was ____．
A．the first person who solved problems in his sleep
B．much more hard-working than other inventors
C．the first person to design a sewing machine that really worked
D．the only person who knew the value of dream at the time
68．The problem Howe was trying to solve was ____．
A．what kind of thread to use
B．how to design a needle which would not break
C．where to put the needle
D．how to prevent the thread getting caught around the needle
69．Thomas Edison is spoken of because ____．
A．he also tried to invent a sewing machine
B．he got some of his ideas from dreams
C．he was one of Howe’s best mends
D．he also had difficulty in falling asleep
70．Dreams are sometimes called "secret messages to ourselves" because ____．
A．strange images are used to communicate ideas
B．images which have no meaning are used
C．we can never understand the real meaning
D．only specially trained people can understand them
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Are you cooperative? Are you a good team member? If so, the future may hold more for you than you think．
    71   That' s happening in those areas of business and data processing where one person and a computer can replace a team of workers．
But, elsewhere, teamwork is very much alive．High technology has led to a new type of teamwork in a number of fields, including advertising, scientific research, engineering design, architecture and ocean exploration．
Through computer networking, scientists, engineers and technicians at different locations —often thousands of miles apart —can work on the same project at once．  72  
Examples— An engineering team can now design and try out a robot system ?a new manufacturing process or an entire factory —before it is built．  73   A medical team can simulate （模拟） a dangerous operation before performing it on a patient．
Of course, computer-assisted team effort doesn't end with investigation and simulation．74   "CAD-CAM —computer-aided design and manufacture—is breaking down barriers between traditional design and manufacturing functions," explains Dr．Prakash Rao, an engineering manager at General Electric．"Interdisciplinary （跨学科的） teams and engineers follow a product from concept to production．Everything is interconnected like a network．"
Sometimes, a computer-aided effort can extend beyond production．A team that produces robots may use them to explore space and ocean depths．  75