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The World Cup This summer’s World Cup competition will see teams competing to play the world’s best foot- ball. But the football they play will not all be of the same kind. The fans expect different styles of play from Brazil, Germany, or Italy. What makes Brazilian football Brazilian Our style of playing football contrasts with the Europeans because of a combination of qualities of surprise, accuracy and good judgment. This style has won Brazil five world cups. Yet many Brazilian fans only count four of these victories. In 1994, the team abandoned this style for modern, scientific training and tactics. The team won the cup, but in a boring way. The Italians think differently. "To many Italians, the score 0-0 has a glorious quality, suggesting perfection," says the British A. Accuracy. B. Surprise. C. Good judgment. D. Ruthless efficiency. [单项选择]第三篇The World’s Best-Selling Medicine
Since ancient times, people all over the world have used willow to stop pain. The willow tree contains salicylic acid (水杨酸). This stops pain, but there is one problem. Salicylic acid also hurts the stomach. In 1853, a French scientist made a mixture from willow that did not hurt the stomach. However, his mixture was difficult to make, and he did not try to produce or sell it.
In 1897, in Germany, Felix Hoffmann also made a mixture with salicylic acid. He tried it himself first and then gave it to his father because his father was old and in a lot of pain. His father’s pain went away, and the mixture did not hurt his stomach.
Hoffmann worked for Bayer, a German company. He showed his new drug to his manager, who tested the drug and found that it worked well. Bayer decided to make the drug. They called it aspirin and put the Bayer name on every pill.
Aspirin was an immediate success. Almost everyone has pain of some kind, so aspirin answered a tru
A. It didn’t work well. B. It was hard to make. C. It hurt the stomach. D. It was not cost-effective. [单项选择]第三篇 Almost Human
Scientists are racing to build the world’s first thinking robot .This is not science fiction：some say they will have made it by the year 2020.Carol Packer repots．
Machines that walk，speak and feel are no longer science fiction．Kismet is the name of an android(机器人)which scientists have built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)．Kismet is different from the tradition。al robot because it can show human emotions．Its eyes．Ears and lips move to show when it feels happy．sad or bored．Kismet is one of the first of a new generation of androids—robots that 100k like human beings—which can imitate human feelings．Cog，another android invented by the MIT, imitates the action of a mother Howere, scientists admit that so far Cog has the mental ability of a two．year．old．
The optimists(乐观主义者)say that by the year 2020 we will have created humanoids(机器人)with brains similar to those of an adult human being．These robots will be designed to
A. it thinks for itself． B. it is not 1ike science fiction． C. it Can 100k after two-year—olds． D. it seems to have human feelings 我来回答: 提交
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