聽力原文： Rent-A-Computer lets you rent a computer by the day, month, or year, so that you can have your computer for the exact amount of time that you need it. We carry all brands and models of computers. Whether you need a computer for home, school, or office use, we can help you find the one that best suits your needs. Short-term leasing contracts are available, too. Need help getting your computer set up? All our contracts include initial set up and a free troubleshooting hotline. Do you want to own your own computer? We also sell refurbished computers at a price you can afford. Visit us at the Crystaltown Mall to find out what we can do for you, and take a computer home with you today. We're open Monday through Saturday from 10:30 A.M. until 8:30 P.M.

What does this store do?

A．Rent computers only.

B．Rent computers and office furniture.

C．Rent and sell computers.

D．Rent and repair computers only.

Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.

A few weeks ago, the Food Standards Agency (FSA. in the UK issued a report evaluating nutrient levels in organic versus non-organic foods like fruits, vegetables, meats, eggs, and dairy products. It is a complete, rigorous piece of research. And they found that, in terms of nutritional content, the differences between organic and non-organic foods are negligible.

As the report states, "... organically and conventionally produced crops and livestock products are broadly comparable in their nutrient content." They did in fact find some nutritional differences between organic and non-organic foods, but concluded that it is "unlikely that these differences in nutrient content are relevant to consumer health."

So here they have a nicely delimited (界定的) study of available research with rigorous standards and a fairly worded conclusion, all publicly available to download and read on the FSA website. The reaction, not surprisingly, was spectacular. The British tabloids alternately gloated (幸災(zāi)樂禍) with delight over the comeuppance(贏得的懲罰)of extravagant middle class shopping habits or frivolously attacked the study for insulting the people's common sense. But it was the reaction of the Soil Association, the leading British organic certification organization, which highlighted just how difficult it can be for good science to be understood.

The Soil Association's response, published in papers across the land, entirely disregarded the intent of the study and instead argued that organic food is better for the environment and contains less pesticides than non- organic food. But in the very first paragraph of the report, the team states that they aren't looking at the impact on the environment of organic agriculture or the effect of pesticide use, both of which the FSA has extensively examined in other research. They are specifically looking at nutritional comparison. The Soil Association further argued that the FSA report had ignored studies that showed any benefit of organic food. As Ben Goldacre incisively dissected on his popular blog, Bad Science, the Soil Association's response was logically flawed and entirely beside the point.

The FSA study is good science and by attacking, rather than endorsing it, the organic lobby in the UK has been plainly unscientific. It's hardly the right stance for an organization that carries su.ch widespread support from the well-educated, critical-thinking middle classes who choose to eat organic food. Any of the many other reasons to go organic—whether it is to avoid pesticides, to encourage better livestock practices, or to simply eat better tasting food—are sufficient to continue supporting the efforts of organic farmers. By misrepresenting the science and its intent, the Soil Association has damaged its credibility and objectivity, the very attributes that its organic label—a stamp of approval—is intended to convey.

Which of the following is TRUE according to the finding of FSA?

A．The differences in nutrients between organic and non-organic foods are insignificant.

B．There is significant nutritional difference between organic and non-organic foods.

C．The differences in nutrient content are closely related with consumer health.

D．Organically and conventionally produced crops and livestock products are noticeable in their nutrient content.

YouworkwithaSQLServer2005databasethatprovidesbankinginformationforcustomers.Youwantcustomerstoseebankingreportsthatcombinedatathatisretrievedfromthedatabasewithreal-timeinvestmentinformationthatcomesfromaWebserviceprovidedbyathirdparty.Theinvestmentinformationmustbecurrentwhenthereportsareexecuted.Youneedtocreatetheappropriateobjectsthatsupportthereports.Whatshouldyoudo?（）

A.PublishthedatainthedatabaseasanXMLWebservicebyusingtheFORXMLAUTOclause.

B.Createatabletostorethebankinginformationforeachcustomer.CreateatriggerthatfireswhendataisinsertedintothetablethatjoinswiththedatacomingfromtheWebservice.

C.CreateaTransact-SQLstoredprocedurethatusesatemporarytabletostorethebankinginformationforeachcustomer.UpdatethetablewiththevaluesfromtheWebservice.

D.HaveadeveloperinyourcompanycreateanassemblythatcallstheremoteWebservice.CreateaCLRfunctionbyusingtheassembly.CalltheCLRfunctionandcombinetheresultswithbankinginformationinthedatabase.

YouworkwithaSQLServer2005databasethatprovidesbankinginformationforcustomers.Youwantcustomerstoseebankingreportsthatcombinedatathatisretrievedfromthedatabasewithreal-timeinvestmentinformationthatcomesfromaWebserviceprovidedbyathirdparty.Theinvestmentinformationmustbecurrentwhenthereportsareexecuted.Youneedtocreatetheappropriateobjectsthatsupportthereports.Whatshouldyoudo？（）

A.PublishthedatainthedatabaseasanXMLWebservicebyusingtheFORXMLAUTOclause.

B.Createatabletostorethebankinginformationforeachcustomer.CreateatriggerthatfireswhendataisinsertedintothetablethatjoinswiththedatacomingfromtheWebservice.

C.CreateaTransact-SQLstoredprocedurethatusesatemporarytabletostorethebankinginformationforeachcustomer.UpdatethetablewiththevaluesfromtheWebservice.

D.HaveadeveloperinTestKing.comcreateanassemblythatcallstheremoteWebservice.CreateaCLRfunctionbyusingtheassembly.CalltheCLRfunctionandcombinetheresultswithbankinginformationinthedatabase.

聽力原文： Born in North Carolina but raised in Maryland, Toir Amos was the daughter of a preacher. By the age of four, she was singing and playing the piano in the church choir; she began writing her own songs shortly afterward. Amos moved to Los Angeles in her late teens to become a pop singer.

Atlantic Records signed her in 1987, recording an uninspired album called Y Kant Tori Read. The following year, the record was a complete failure, attracting no attention from radio or press and selling very few copies, nevertheless, she didn't lose her record contract. By 1990, Amos had adopted a new approach. Atlantic sponsored a trip to England in 1991, where she played a series of concerts in support on an EP, Me and a Gun. It gained positive reviews throughout the media, and both the EP and the concerts sold well.

Little Earthquakes, Amos first album as a singer and songwriter, was released in late 1991 and sold well in both the U.S. and the U.K. delivered in early 1993, Under the Pink, the follow-up to Little Earthquakes, was a bigger hit, selling over a million copies.

Two years later, she delivered her third album, Boys for Pele, her most ambitious and difficult record to date.

Known for the sexual way that she plays the piano while in concert and for her radical and often rebellious lyrics, Toir has developed a huge fan base and much critical acclaim. She is now happily married, has just recently given birth to a baby girl, and continues to please her millions of fans earning some new ones along the way.

Which of the following was Amos’ first album as a singer and songwriter?

A．Y Kant Tori Read.

B．Little Earthquakes.

C．Under the Pink.

D．Boys for Pele.

Questions are based on the following passage.

Salt is as necessary to life as water. In many areas of Africa people once drank the urine (尿）

of animals because they had no other source of salt. Without salt, human beings die.

The human body demands that the amount of salt in the blood always stay the same. When the body does not get enough salt, it protects itself by letting less salt leave the body in urine and sweat. But it carmot reduce this output to zero. Some salt is always escaping. On a complete saltless diet, like that of some people in Africa, the body steadily loses small amounts of salt through the kidneys (腎) and sweat glands (腺）It then tries to adjust to this loss by speeding its secretion (分泌) of water. (78) In this way, the body attempts to keep the amount of salt in the blood at the necessary level. The result is a slow drying up of body and,inally,death. The person dies of thirst.

In cases where there is little or no water to drink, the body tries to do the opposite thing. Again, it must keep the salt level in the blood constant. Because it has little water, it attempts to stop water from leaving the body and to increase its secretion of salt. But, as with the escaping salt, it cannot be completely successful. Some water still leaves and the person eventually dies of thirst. In short, the body's normal needs for salt and for water are both parts of the same important need to keep the salt level in the blood constant.

Some African people once drank animal urine __________ 查看材料

A.when they were going to die

B.because they were thirsty

C.because there was little salt

D.because they were short of water

Salt is as necessary to life as water. In many areas of Africa people once drank the urine (尿) of animals because they had no other source of salt. Without salt, human beings die.

The human body demands that the amount of salt in the blood always stay the same.When the body does not get enough salt, it protects itself by letting less salt leave the body in urine and sweat. But it cannot reduce this output to zero. Some salt is always escaping. On a completely saltless diet, like that of some people in Africa, the body steadily loses small amounts of salt through the kidneys (腎) and sweat glands (腺). It then tries to ad-just to this loss by speeding up its secretion (分泌) of water. In this way, the body attempts to keep the amount of salt in the blood at the necessary level. The result is a slow drying up of body and, finally, death. The person dies of thirst.

In cases where there is little or no water to drink, the body tries to do the opposite thing. Again, it must keep the salt level in the blood constant. Because it has little water, it attempts to stop water from leaving the body and to increase its secretion of salt. But, as with the escaping salt, it cannot be completely successful. Some water still leaves and the person eventually dies of thirst. In short, the body's normal needs for salt and for water are both parts of the same important need to keep the salt level in the blood constant.

Some African people once drank animal urine______.

A．when they were going to die

B．because they were thirsty

C．because there was little salt

D．because they were short of water

You have seen them in movies: scientists who are infallible and coldly objective--little more than animated computers in white lab coats. They take measurements and record results as if the collection of data were the sole object of their lives. The assumption= If one gathers enough facts about something, the relationships between those facts will spontaneously reveal themselves.

Nonsense!

The myth of the infallible scientist evaporates when one thinks of the number of great ideas in science whose originators were correct in general but wrong in detail. The English physicist John Dalton gets credit for modern atomic theory, but his mathematical formulas for calculating atomic weights were incorrect. The Polish astronomer Copernicus, who corrected Ptolemy's ancient concept of an Earth-centered universe, nevertheless was mistaken in the particulars of the planets' orbits.

Luck, too, has played a determining role in scientific discovery. The French chemist Pasteur demonstrated that life does not arise spontaneously from air. But it may have been luck that he happened to use an easy-to-kill yeast and not the hay bacillus that another, long-forgotten, investigator had chosen for the same experiment. We now know that hay bacillus is heat-resistant and grows even after the boiling that killed Pasteur's yeast. If Pasteur had used the hay bacillus, his "proof" would not have materialized.

Gregor Mendel, the founder of modern genetics, epitomizes the humanness of the scientist. Plant hybridization intrigued and puzzled Mendel, an Augustinian monk with some training in mathematics and the natural sciences. He had read in the professional literature that crosses between certain species regularly yielded many hybrids with identical traits; but when hybrids were crossed, all kinds of strange new combinations of traits cropped up. The principle of inheritance, if there was one, was elusive.

Mendel had the basic idea that there might be simple mathematical relationships among plants in different generations. To pursue this hypothesis, he decided to establish experimental plots in the monastery garden at Brunn, raise a number of varieties of peas, interbreed them, count and classify the offspring of each generation, and see whether any reliable mathematical ratios could be deduced.

After many years of meticulously growing, harvesting, and counting pea plants, Mendel thought he had something worth talking about. So, in 1865, he appeared before the Brunn Society for the Study of Natural Science, reported on his research, and postulated what have since come to be called the Mendelian laws. Society members listened politely but, insofar as anybody knows, asked few questions and engaged in little discussion. It may even be that, as he proceeded, a certain suspicion emerged out of the embarrassed silence. After all, Mendel lacked a degree and had published no research. Now, if Pasteur had advanced this idea...

Mendel's assertion that separate and distinct "elements" of inheritance must exist, despite the fact that he couldn't produce any, was close to asking the society to accept something on faith. There was no evidence for Mendel's hypothesis other than his computations; and his wildly unconventional application of algebra to botany made it difficult for his listeners to understand that those computations were the evidence.

Mendel undoubtedly died without knowing that his findings on peas had indeed illuminated a well-nigh universal pattern. Luck had been with him in his choice of which particular traits to study. We now know that groups of genes do not always act independently. Often they are linked, their effect being to transmit a package of traits. Knowing nothing about genes, let alone the phenomenon of linkage, Mendel was spared failure because the traits that he chose to follow were each controlled separately. The probability of making such a happy cho

A．objects to the tendency of scientists to rely on existing data

B．rejects the way in which scientists are portrayed in the media

C．is amused at the accidental nature of some scientific findings

D．opposes the glorification of certain scientists at the expense of others

Which one of the following passages is a legitimate summary of a research article?_______________

A.Feng and Wignell (2011) reviewed recent studies on advertising discourse which showed the trend of using different styles of discourse types and voices from all walks of life in advertisements.They also noted that Appraisal Theory had been used to analyze other semiotic modes beyond language, but most studies of voice limited their scope to voices from specific sources.They addressed the same issue of intertextual voices, but with new frameworks of Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis, to better account for the features of advertising discourse including non-linguistic resources, and investigate how various voices engage with the product in the context of the advertisement (p.565).

B.Advertising discourse has attracted much attention from semioticians because it “tends to use a wide range of semiotic resources”.It is acknowledged that direct propaganda is less and less used in advertisements and advertisers deploy various strategies to enhance their persuasive power while trying to reduce the appearance of their commercial nature.As a result, advertisements have become a “parasite discourse”, or a “hybridized discourse”, drawing on styles from all kinds of discourse types (e.g.science, education, fine art) and voices from all walks of life (e.g.experts, celebrities, children) (Feng & Wignell, 2011: 565).

C.Recent research in Appraisal Theory has gone beyond language to include other semiotic modes (Chen and Qin, 2007; Economou, 2006; Martin, 2001).However, most studies of voice limit their scope to voices from specific sources.For example, Iedema et al.(1994) and Martin and White (2005) study multiple voicing in media discourse, identifying “reporter voice”, “correspondent voice” and “commentator voice” in different media genres; Coffin’s (2000) work reveals the voice options of “recorder”, “interpreter” and “adjudicator” in history discourse; Chen (2010) identifies character voice, editor voice and reader voice in EFL teaching materials.Martin and White (2005) use the termsvoiceandkeyinterchangeably but, in line with the studies just mentioned, as well as the original use of the term in Bakhtin (1981),voiceis used to refer to the resources of dialogic engagement (Feng & Wignell, 2011: 565).

D.Recent studies on advertising discourse showed the trend of using different styles of discourse types and voices from all walks of life in advertisements.Appraisal Theory has been used to analyze other semiotic modes beyond language, but most studies of voice limit their scope to voices from specific sources.The same issue of intertextual voices is addressed in this study, but with new frameworks of Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis to better account for the features of advertising discourse including non-linguistic resources, and investigate how various voices engage with the product in the context of the advertisement (Feng & Wignell, 2011: 565).

Acompanywantstoconsolidate20existingdualprocessorPentiumIIIservers，allrunningawebserverapplicationonWindowsServer2003.Theyareconsideringconsolidatingtoasinglex445runningVMWareESX.WhichTWOofthefollowingquestionswillprovideenoughinformationtodeterminethecorrectprocessorconfiguration？（）

A.DothewebserversrequireSMPcapability？

B.Isthewebcontentstaticordynamicinformation？

C.WhatistheaverageCPUutilizationoftheexistingwebservers？

D.WilltheserversneedaSCSIorFibreChannelstoragesolution？

E.Whataretheexpectedgrowthratesforthewebservers？