1、BFT（阅读）模拟试卷 19及答案与解析 一、 Part 1 0 Read the article below. Choose the best sentence from the list on the next page to fill each of the gaps. For each gap(1-8)mark one letter(A-H)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. Googles New Music Service Google outstripped its arch-rival, Apple, with
2、 the launch of a subscription music streaming service on Wednesday while simultaneously mounting a threat to other providers such as Spotify. The service, labouring under the full name of Google Play Music All Access, was unveiled at Google I/O, the tech giants annual developer conference in San Fra
3、ncisco. 【 R1】 _ Revealing the music service, Chris Yerga, Googles engineering director, said users would be able to stream from a vast library on any device, using the Android operating system. “This is radio without rules. Its as leanback as you want to, or as interactive as you want to,“ said Yerg
4、a. 【 R2】 _A “listen now“ feature will create a mix of favourite artists or genres based on previously listened-to songs. In the US, All Access will cost $9.99 a month after a 30-day free trial. Spotify Premium, a similar service, costs $9.99.【 R3】 _There was no immediate announcement of pricing in o
5、ther territories. Google has signed licensing deals with music companies including, Sony, Universal and Warner, and millions of songs will be available for the service, which will go live from Wednesday. 【 R4】 _The tech giants have become increasingly interested in subscription services thanks to th
6、e popularity of Spotify, which has more than six million paying subscribers and more than 24 million active users in 28 countries. Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the UK-based BPI, which represents record labels, welcomed the announcement by Google. “【 R5】 _There are more than a million paying subs
7、cribers and millions more enjoying free and ad-supported music.“ he said. The entry of a player with the reach of Google will persuade many more consumers to experience having millions of songs to play instantly on their phone, tablet or PC.“ Googles announcement was greeted with loud applause by de
8、velopers in San Francisco. 【 R6】 _Larry Page, the Google CEO, who has been suffering from a vocal-cords defect, made an unexpectedly long appearance at the conference, where he bemoaned the “negativity“ which he believes is holding back the technology industry. The company revealed that more than 90
9、0 million devices using Android had now been activated, up from 400 million a year ago.【 R7】 _The 900m figure does not include tens of millions of smartphones in China which also use Androids basic software - called “Android Open Source Platform“ - but do not connect to Googles services, and so cann
10、ot contact its “activation“ servers. Google unveiled new tools for developers including the ability to track peoples physical activity when they are carrying an Android device, a move that will usher in a new generation of fitness applications. Brian McClendon, Google s head of maps, said its mappin
11、g service had been rebuilt “from the ground up“. Google Maps will pay greater attention to each individuals personal use of the maps, highlighting places they frequently visit and making suggestions for other venues. The maps will change as they are used. Clicking on a museum will highlight other mu
12、seums in the area, and users photos will also be displayed in the maps. 【 R8】 _ A. Users who sign up by 30 June will get a reduced price of $7.99 per month. B. The announcement comes as Apple considers its own music service. C. And delegates also heard about significant updates to its mapping servic
13、es. D. They began lining up to attend the sold-out Google I/O at 5 a.m. E. Users will be able to search for an artist and add tracks to their library. F. The new functions will be rolled out in the coming months. G. Hugo Barra, vice-president of Android product management, said 48 billion Android ap
14、ps had now been installed worldwide. H. Streaming is the fastest growing part of the 330m digital music sector in Britain. 1 【 R1】 2 【 R2】 3 【 R3】 4 【 R4】 5 【 R5】 6 【 R6】 7 【 R7】 8 【 R8】 二、 Part 2 8 Read the following article and answer questions 9-18 on the next page. Five Painful Facts You Need to
15、 Know 0. First of all, lets set the record straight: Pain is normal. About 75 million U.S. residents endure chronic or recurrent pain. So what is pain and why do so many suffer so long? Pain is felt when electrical signals are sent from nerve endings to your brain, which in turn can release painkill
16、ers called endorphins and generate reactions that range from instant and physical to long-term and emotional. Beyond that, scientific understanding gets painfully fuzzy. Heres whats known: 1. When youre in pain, you know it. But if scientists could fully grasp how pain works and why, they might be a
17、ble to help you more. The American Academy of Pain Medicine defines pain as “an unpleasant sensation and emotional response to that sensation.“ Some pain is the result of an obvious injury. Other times, it is caused by damaged nerves that are not so easy to pinpoint. “Pain is complex and defies our
18、ability to establish a clear definition,“ says Kathryn Weiner, director of the American Academy of Pain Management. “Pain is far more than neural transmission and sensory transduction. Pain is a complex mixture of emotions, culture, experience, spirit and sensation.“ 2. If you have chronic pain, you
19、 know how demoralizing and debilitating it can be, physically and mentally. It can prevent you from doing things and make you irritable for reasons nobody else understands. But thats only half the story. People with chronic backaches have brains as much as 11 percent smaller than those of non-suffer
20、ers, scientists reported in 2004. They dont know why. “It is possible its just the stress of having to live with the condition,“ said study leader A. Vania Apkarian of Northwestern University. “The neurons become overactive or tired of the activity.“ 3. It may not eliminate the phrase “Not tonight,
21、honey .“ but a 2006 study found that migraine sufferers had levels of sexual desire 20 percent higher than those suffering from tension headaches. The finding suggests sexual desire and migraines might be influenced by the same brain chemical, and getting a better handle on the link could lead to be
22、tter treatments, at least for the pain portion of the equation. 4. Any man who has watched a woman having a baby without using drugs would swear that women can tolerate anything. But the truth is, it hurts more than you can imagine. Women have more nerve receptors than men. As an example, women have
23、 34 nerve fibers per square centimeter of facial skin, while men average just 17. And in a 2005 study, women were found to report more pain throughout their lifetimes and, compared to men, they feel pain in more areas of their body and for longer durations. 5. Animal research could offer clues to ev
24、entually relieve human suffering. Take the naked mole rat, a hairless and nearly blind subterranean creature. A study this year found it feels neither the pain of acid nor the sting of chili peppers. If researchers can figure out why, they might be on the road to new sorts of painkilling therapies f
25、or humans. In 2006, scientists found a pathway for the transmission of chronic pain in rats that they hope will translate into better understanding of human chronic pain. Lobsters feel no pain, even when boiled, scientists said in a 2005 report that is just one more salvo in a long-running debate. Q
26、uestions9-13(10 marks) For questions 9-13, choose from the list A-G which best summarizes each part of the article. For each numbered paragraph(1-5), mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet Do not mark any letter twice. A. Women feel more pain B. Chronic pain is common C. Chronic pain shrinks brain
27、s D. Migraines and sex go together E. Pain brings about more stress F. Scientists dont understand pain fully G. Animal research may relieve human pain 9 Paragraph 1_ 10 Paragraph 2_ 11 Paragraph 3_ 12 Paragraph 4_ 13 Paragraph 5_ 13 Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18 wit
28、h an expression from the list below. For each sentence(14-18), mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet. Do not mark any letter twice. A. chronic pain B. brain chemical C. nerve receptors D. a clear definition E. damaged nerves F. painkilling therapies G. an emotional response 14 As scientists dont
29、know much about pain, its hard to provide _ of it. 15 Some pain is the result of_. 16 People suffer both physically and emotionally if they have _. 17 It is found that men have fewer_than women. 18 Study on animals may finally discover some new _ for human beings. 三、 Part 3 18 Read the following art
30、icle from a magazine and answer questions 19-25. For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. Crash-Prone? The Solution Could Be Windows XP; But Does It Make Sense to Upgrade Your Operating System? You can hardly turn on the television or click o
31、n a Web page without seeing a colorful ad for Microsofts new Windows XP operating system, which launched on Oct. 25. So, now that the long-awaited XP is here, what are you going to do about it? Should you upgrade, and if you do, how hard is it and what are the potential drawbacks? The decision is pr
32、etty easy if you really need a whole new Windows PC. They all come with XP preloaded, and in my tests of a few such models, they seemed to work well. Im writing this on my own new personal computer, a Dell that came preloaded with Windows XP, and it worked great right out of the box. The only downsi
33、de is that if youre keeping older printers, scanners and other peripherals, you may have to download new “drivers“ the small programs that allow a PC and a peripheral to interact. XP contains many of the drivers for recent-model printers and the like, sparing you from even digging out the disks that
34、 came with them. But if you have older equipment, you may have to download new drivers, because the original software that came with the hardware might not work with Windows XP. Its harder to decide what to do about XP if you have a PC that doesnt need replacing. If youre happy with the way things a
35、re working, dont upgrade. Its never a trivial thing to change operating systems, and you shouldnt do it without a reason. However, there are two big limitations in prior versions of Windows that XP does fix, and that might make an upgrade worthwhile. These are stability that is, the ability not to c
36、rash, or at least to do so rarely and compatibility. Windows 98 and Windows ME, the previous consumer versions, had wide compatibility with consumer software and peripherals, but lousy stability. Windows 2000, the prior business version, had great stability, but limited compatibility with consumer s
37、oftware and add-on hardware. Windows XP is designed to combine the stability of Windows 2000(with which it shares underlying code)with the compatibility of Windows 98 and Windows ME, and in my experience, it does a good job at that. So if you need more reliability or compatibility than your current
38、version of Windows supplies, an upgrade may be in order. But theres a catch. Microsoft says that an XP upgrade will really be sensible only if your PC is two years old or less built after 1999. And you need at least a 300MHz processor and 128 megabytes of memory, though I recommend at least 192MB, a
39、nd 256MB is even better. Also, youll need a roomy hard disk Windows XP alone will suck up 1.5 gigabytes. So there are only a limited number of PCs for which upgrading makes sense, and you may have to invest in beefing yours up first. Not only that, but you must have Windows 98, Windows ME or Windows
40、 2000 on your current system to upgrade. If you have Windows 95 and somehow still have a new enough machine to qualify, you have to buy a very expensive, “full“ version of Windows XP, basically wipe out your whole hard disk and start from scratch with XP, losing all your installed programs and setti
41、ngs. If youre good to go, you next have to decide which upgrade version of XP is right for you the $99 Home Edition or the $199 Professional. The differences between them are surprisingly small, and 95 percent of home and small-business users will be fine with the home version. Buy the pro version o
42、nly if you are running more than a modest network or need special security features. Note that if you have Windows 2000, or NT 4.0, you can upgrade only to Windows XP Professional, not the Home Edition. If you have Windows 98 or ME, you can choose either flavor of XP. In my tests, which included fiv
43、e PCs running all the main older versions; the Windows XP upgrades, both home and pro, went very smoothly. The process took about an hour in each case, and the installation software was friendly and clear in its instructions and progress reports. 19 The writer wrote the article on a computer_. （ A）
44、that often crashes （ B） that needs replacing （ C） preloaded with Windows XP （ D） limited in stability and compatibility 20 You may have to download new “drivers“ if you have a whole new Windows PC _. （ A） but recent-model peripherals （ B） but older peripherals （ C） but older software （ D） but old di
45、sks 21 Prior versions of Windows are inferior to Windows XP in that _. （ A） the former is weaker in either stability or compatibility （ B） the former is weaker in both stability and compatibility （ C） the former is more expensive （ D） the former is less colorful 22 Microsoft recommends an XP upgrade
46、 for_. （ A） all personal computers without XP （ B） PCs built within the past two years （ C） old personal computers （ D） PCs which often crash 23 Which of the following is the most expensive to upgrade? （ A） Windows 2000. （ B） Windows 98. （ C） Windows 95. （ D） Windows ME. 24 Windows XP Home Edition i
47、s appropriate for _. （ A） all the main older versions of Windows （ B） Windows 98 or ME （ C） Windows 2000 （ D） NT 4.0 25 The writers own experience with the Windows XP upgrades was generally _. （ A） discouraging （ B） pleasant （ C） nasty （ D） odd 四、 Part 4 25 Read the following text and decide which a
48、nswer best fits each space. For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet. Nuclear Age The Oyster Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey opened when the Beatles were still together, and since 1969 its single 645-MW boiling-water reactor has provided enough energy to power 600,000
49、 homes annually. But the oldest nuclear plant in the U.S. will be retired a little【 C1】 _Last year its owner, Exelon. announced that it would【 C2】_Oyster Creek in 2019, 10 years ahead of schedule. The reason: the【 C3】_plant costs too much to keep running【 C4】 _. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has focused new attention on the【 C5】_future of the American at
