[单项选择]The modern world only recently reached the Yanomano, a native people of the Amazon basin. Sheltered by thick rainforest, the Yanomano lived a self-contained existence until gold was discovered in their jungle homeland. Miners flocked into the forests, cutting down trees and bringing disease and shot those Yanomano who would not get out of the way. In just seven years from the early 1980s, the population fell by 20 per cent.
Hands Around the World, a native American cultural association, says the Yanomano are believed to be the most culturally intact people in the world. They wear loin cloths, use fire sticks and decorate their bodies with dye from a red berry(桨果). They don’t use the wheel and the only metal they use is what has been traded to them by outsiders. When a Yanomano dies, the body is burned and the remaining bones crushed into a powder and turned into a drink that is later consumed by mourners in memory of the dead.
A Hands Around the World report says that in Sout
A. sheltered in thick rainforest
B. would not leave their jungle homeland
C. lived a self-contained existence
D. would stand in their way

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[单项选择]The modern world only recently reached the Yanomano, a native people of the Amazon basin. Sheltered by thick rainforest, the Yanomano lived a self-contained existence until gold was discovered in their jungle homeland. Miners flocked into the forests, cutting down trees and bringing disease and shot those Yanomano who would not get out of the way. In just seven years from the early 1980s, the population fell by 20 per cent.
Hands Around the World, a native American cultural association, says the Yanomano are believed to be the most culturally intact people in the world. They wear loin cloths, use fire sticks and decorate their bodies with dye from a red berry(桨果). They don’t use the wheel and the only metal they use is what has been traded to them by outsiders. When a Yanomano dies, the body is burned and the remaining bones crushed into a powder and turned into a drink that is later consumed by mourners in memory of the dead.
A Hands Around the World report says that in Sout
A. most primitive people
B. most backward people
C. most advanced people
D. oldest people

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[填空题]Museums in the Modern World
Museums have changed. They are no longer places for the privileged few or for bored vacationers to visit on rainy days. Action and democracy are words used in descriptions of museums now.
At a science museum in Ontario, Canada, you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, you can look at 17th century instruments while listening to their music. At the Modem Museum in Sweden, you can put on costumes provided by the Stockholm Opera. As these examples show, museums are reaching out to new audiences, particularly the young, the poor, and the less educated members of the population. As a result, attendance is increasing.
More and more, museums directors are realizing that people learn best when they can somehow become part of what they are seeing. In many science museums, for example, there are no guided tours. The visitor is encouraged to touch

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[填空题]Of all the great inventions in modern history only two, zippers and the keyboard of a computer, are talked about in the passage.

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[简答题]As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent robots whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. And thanks to the continual miniaturization of electronics and micro-mechanics, there are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone. But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to be able to make at least a few decisions for themselves.
　　Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries.

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In the modern world, it is important to be well-informed. Success in many fields (1) on getting the latest information. There are many means of obtaining information which enable us to (2) what is going on in the world. And we are so accustomed to reading almost every week newspaper reports about new discoveries being made by man that we tend to (3) the progress and benefit of scientific research for granted. We (4) that science must continue to achieve its many miracles which become merely commonplace as soon as they are replaced by greater ones. Astronauts have made journeys through space, a (5) that once upon a time would have been considered as unbelievable. Yet there are few people today who feel anything but a mild interest in the discoveries that are being made by scientists. In
A. make
B. achieve
C. take
D. obtain

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