你的胃痛并不令人驚奇，畢竟你吃得太多了。

 It’s not surprising you’ve got stomachache. _____ ______ you have eaten too much.

他們彼此毫無共同點(diǎn)。

They have nothing in ________ with one another.

在我電腦的幫助下我可以及時(shí)完成的我工作。

______ _____ ______ my computer, I could finish my job in time.

在某種程度上，你所說的有道理。

___ ___ ____, what you said is reasonable.

As a computer exhibition Bill gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: “If GM had kept up with technology like computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon.”

  In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors announced a news release stating: if GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1.       For no reason your car would crash twice a day.

2.       Every time they repaired the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.

3.       Sometimes your car would die on the free way for no reason and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.

4.       Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought “Car95” or Car NT”. But then you would have to buy more seats.

5.       If you try to get your car to a mechanic, you’d make a long distance call, be put on hold for three or four hours, when you finally got the mechanic, you’d be told how to fix it yourself, and mechanic would hang up before you even tried his or her suggestions.

6.       People would get excited about the “ new” features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely they had been available in other cars for many years.

7.       The airbag system would say: “Are you sure?” before going off.

8.       Every time GM introduced a new model car, buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

9.       Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes.

10.   If you couldn’t afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends and then copy it.

11.   You’d press the “start” button to shut off the engine.

46. The purpose of writing this article is ______.         

A. to state the advantages of Microsoft in making cars

B to inform that Microsoft will make cars in the future.

C. To compare cars made by GM with those made by Microsoft

D. To make fun of the disadvantages of Microsoft’s products

47. It can be inferred from the passage that the airbag system of the new car _____.   

A. would be safer than the old one

B. would become useless in case of an accident

C. would not surprise the driver by going off suddenly

D. would remind the driver of the danger ahead of time

48 What does the writer really mean by saying “You’d press the “start” button to shut off the engine”?            

A. The design of Microsoft is very funny and strange.

B. It is better to control the engine like a computer.

C. The engine control system requires to be improved.

D. It is impossible to shut off the engine by pressing the “start” button.

49. The best title of this passage would be ______.        

A. Characteristics of the New Cars   B. GM Should Learn from Microsoft

C. If Microsoft Built Cars                D. New Cars to be Made in the future

As a computer exhibition Bill gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: “If GM had kept up with technology like computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon.”

  In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors announced a news release stating: if GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1.       For no reason your car would crash twice a day.

2.       Every time they repaired the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.

3.       Sometimes your car would die on the free way for no reason and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.

4.       Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought “Car95” or Car NT”. But then you would have to buy more seats.

5.       If you try to get your car to a mechanic, you’d make a long distance call, be put on hold for three or four hours, when you finally got the mechanic, you’d be told how to fix it yourself, and mechanic would hang up before you even tried his or her suggestions.

6.       People would get excited about the “ new” features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely they had been available in other cars for many years.

7.       The airbag system would say: “Are you sure?” before going off.

8.       Every time GM introduced a new model car, buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

9.       Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes.

10.   If you couldn’t afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends and then copy it.

11.   You’d press the “start” button to shut off the engine.

46. The purpose of writing this article is ______.         

A. to state the advantages of Microsoft in making cars

B to inform that Microsoft will make cars in the future.

C. To compare cars made by GM with those made by Microsoft

D. To make fun of the disadvantages of Microsoft’s products

47. It can be inferred from the passage that the airbag system of the new car _____.   

A. would be safer than the old one

B. would become useless in case of an accident

C. would not surprise the driver by going off suddenly

D. would remind the driver of the danger ahead of time

48 What does the writer really mean by saying “You’d press the “start” button to shut off the engine”?            

A. The design of Microsoft is very funny and strange.

B. It is better to control the engine like a computer.

C. The engine control system requires to be improved.

D. It is impossible to shut off the engine by pressing the “start” button.

49. The best title of this passage would be ______.        

A. Characteristics of the New Cars   B. GM Should Learn from Microsoft

C. If Microsoft Built Cars                D. New Cars to be Made in the future

As for daily life, I think that we will be able to  26  most of our shopping by  27  and this will be taken to our homes, so  28  there won’t be any  29  to go out to the  30  .I’m sure that most of our homes will have a video  31  so we will be able to  32  the person we are talking to. We will also be  33  holovision which will give you three dimensional( 三維的  ) life size picture  34  your screen--this will replace television.  35  important technology, there will be no more road accidents. Cars will be guided by computers so people will not have to do any more driving.

I think most of our food will be in the form of pills and liquids which will have all the vitamins and protein(蛋白質(zhì) )  36  we need for a balanced diet. Only when we go out for social  37  will we eat the same food as today, but we will  38  be eating meat.

About once a year our bodies will go into a health center for a service in much the same way as a car  39  be repaired. So, for example, our veins( 靜脈  ) will be cleaned out, our blood made pure, our muscles built up and so on. Any part that is  40  could be replaced by a new plastic part. We will all be much  41  by then anyway, because there will be more   42  for us to use for exercise. Also a safe medicine will have been discovered which will allow people to lose or put on  43  as they need. One exciting development will be the possibility of being deep frozen  44 

A period of time and then  45  some years later. I would be interested in that myself.

_______, I am determined not to play computer games and ______myself in doing something meaningful.

   A. From now on; employ   B. From now on; bury 

   C. Since now on; devote    D. From today on; explore

______ how much the trip will cost and see if you can afford it.

  A. See    B. Calculate    C. Count    D. Work at

Coughing and sneezing _____ the coming of a bad cold.