Application files are piled highly this month in colleges across the country. (67) Admissions officers are poring essays and recommendation letters, scouring transcripts and standardized test scores.

(68) But anything is missing from many applications: a class ranking, once a major component in admissions decisions.

In the cat-and-mouse maneuvering over admission to prestigious colleges and universities, (69) thousands of high schools have simply stopped providing that information, concluding it could harm the chances of their very better, but not best, students. (70) Canny college officials, in turn have found a tactical way to response. (71) Using broad data that high schools often provide, like a distribution of grade averages for entire senior class, they essentially recreate an applicant's class rank.

(72) The process has left them exasperating.

(73) "If we're looking at your son or daughter and you want us to know that they are among the best in their school with a rank we don't necessarily know, " said Jim Buck, dean of admissions and financial aid at Swarthmore College.

(74) Admissions directors say strategy can backfire. When high schools do not provide enough general information to recreate the class rank calculation, (75) many admissions directors say they have little choice and to do something virtually no one wants them to do: give more weight to scores on the SAT and other standardized exams.

(46)

Why does the writer feel that MP3 files are unlike copies of audio cassettes?

A．Downloaded MP3 files are generally not for private use.

B．The financial losses to the music industry are greater.

C．The price of MP3 is higher than that of audio cassettes.

D．There is a significant difference in quality.

______the paperless management is widely used now, some important files are still kept as hard copies.

A、Although

B、When

C、Because

Please see the suggestions below to ______ that your files are not lost.

A、make sure

B、make out

C、be sure

Academic papersare often part of a university's official file and can neither be re-turned to students nor duplicated.

A．borrowed

B．copied

C．purchased

D．destroyed

GivenaportionofavalidJavaEEwebapplication’sdirectorystructure：MyApp||--Directory1||--File1.html||--META-INF||--File2.html||--WEB-INF|--File3.htmlYouwanttoknowwhetherFile1.html，F(xiàn)ile2.html，and/orFile3.htmlisprotectedfromdirectaccessbyyourwebclient’sbrowsers.Whatstatementistrue？（）

A.Allthreefilesaredirectlyaccessible.

B.OnlyFile1.htmlisdirectlyaccessible.

C.OnlyFile2.htmlisdirectlyaccessible.

D.OnlyFile3.htmlisdirectlyaccessible.

Part B (10 points)

You are going to read a list of headings and a text about happiness. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A—F for each numbered paragraph (41—45). The first and last paragraphs of the text are not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use.

A. Extensive applications of haptic technology.

B. Possibilities rendered by haptic mechanisms.

C. The feasibility of extending our senses and exploring abstract universes.

D. An example of the progress in science of haptics.

E. Bringing the potential of our senses into full play.

F. Will haptics step into a bright future?

"OOOF!" Using your mouse, you heave a data file across the screen—a couple of gigabytes of data weigh a lot. Its rough surface tells you that it is a graphics file. Having tipped this huge pile of data into a hopper that sends it to the right program, you examine a screen image of the forest trail you'll be hiking on your vacation. Then, using a gloved hand, you master its details by running your fingers over its forks and bends, its sharp rises and falls. Later you send an E-mail to your beloved, bending to the deskpad to attach a kiss.

(41)______.

The science of haptics (from the Greek haptesthai, "to touch") is making these fantasies real. A few primitive devices are extending human-machine communication beyond vision and sound. Haptic joysticks and steering wheels for computer games are already giving happy players some of the sensations of piloting a spaceship, driving a racing car or firing weapons. In time, haptic interfaces may allow us to manipulate single molecules, feel clouds and galaxies, even reach into higher dimensions to grasp the subtle structures of mathematics.

(42)______.

Most of our senses tire passive. In hearing and vision, for example, the sound or light is simply received and analyzed. But touch is different: we actively explore and alter reality with our hands, so the same action that gathers information can also change the world—to model a piece of clay or press a button, for example. In providing direct contact between people, touch carries emotional impact. And in providing direct contact with the world, it is the sure sign of reality, as in "pinch me—am I dreaming?"

(43)______.

Some small steps have even been taken towards whole-body haptics. Touch Technology of Nova Scotia, Canada, has built a haptic chair. It looks like a full-length lounge chair in a family den, but its surface is studded with 72 "tactors" -pneumatic piston rods, covered with rounded buttons, that can extend about an inch, and can be driven under computer control in any desired sequence and pattern. It could be programmed to imitate a real massage or to function in time to music. According to the manufacturer, that provides a powerful blending of sensations—a long-term goal of virtual reality.

(44)______.

Even at its present crude level, however, haptics can make tangible what once could not be touched or even pictured. To investigate the world of the very small, researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have developed the nanoManipulator. This adds touch to the technique of scanning probe microscopy, which can image a single atom by monitoring either the electrical current flowing between an extremely fine probe and a surface or the force between them. With the nanoManipulator, researchers can see and manipulate a universe a million times smaller than their own, to study viruses and tiny semiconducting devices. If the force feedback can be made sensitive enough, it may be possible to push molecular keys into specific molecular locks, to custom-design drugs or assemble silicon parts into intricate nanomachines. With other interfaces, there is no reason we shouldn't also be able to touch the very large-clouds, ocean

Youcreatedaresponsefileandwanttocheckitbeforestartinginstallationsinsilentmode.YoustartedinstallationofOraclesoftwareininteractivemodebyprovidingtheresponsefile.Inthemiddleoftheinstallation，yourealizethatthebehavioroftheOracleUniversalInstaller（OUI）isnotconsistentwiththeresponsefile.Whatactionwouldyoutaketodetectthecauseofthisbehavior？（）

A.Comparethecontentsoftheinstall.logfilewiththeresponsefile.

B.RefertothecontentsoftheoraInst.locfiletoverifythestepsperformedbyOUI.

C.ComparethecontentsoftheinstallActions.logfilewiththatoftheresponsefile.

D.RefertothealertlogfileforinformationregardingtheactionsperformedbyOUIduringinstallation.

A．After the artwork is reviewed by lawyers.

B．After all documents are filed.

C．When the artist first gets an idea.

D．The moment the work of art is finished.