根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest. The Battle of the Brains took place in Harbin, China.    1    

Jerry Cain, coach of Stanford University Team, California, says “One of the programming problems was trying to figure out how to break an arbitrary chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible.    2    ”

The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty.  3  They designed ways to test their solutions. And they wrote needed software systems. Even the winning team form Shanghai Jiaotong University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given time limit. Stanford’s team solved five problems and finished in 14th place. Stanford was one of twenty-one American universities that took part in the contest this year.

    4    It began in 1970 at Texas A and M University. The contest quickly became popular in the United States and Canada. It developed and grew as more and more schools took part in local and area contests.

The first final competition was held in 1977 at the Association for Computer Machinery Computer Science Conference. Today, a network of universities holds area competitions that send the winners to the world finals, now organized by IBM. Contest spokesman Doug Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships.    5   

A．The competitors show great interest in IBM.

B．Then they figured out the requirements of each.

C．And that’s probably the simplest of all of them.

D．This competition is an opportunity to be recognized by famous universities from the world.

E．Three-person teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems.

F．The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

G．They are also guaranteed and offer of employment with IBM.

英语课上，老师要求同桌同学相互修改作文。假设以下小作文为你同桌所写，请你对其进行修改。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（/）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：

1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

3．必须按答题要求做题，否则不给分。

Music is one of the arts. It is like the speaking language, but it uses sounds. Who invented music? Who sing the first song? No one knows exactly the answers of these questions. But we know that music play an important part in almost everyone’s life. Baby and young children love to hear people singing to them. When they are a little old, they like to sing the songs they have heard. When children go to the school, their world of music grows. In the middle grades students take music lessons. When they reach high school, we become interested in listening pop music. Music has meaning for everyone. It can make people happy but it can make them sad.

假如你是李华，你的笔友Ram听说你的家乡海南岛成为国际旅游岛，对此特别感兴趣，专门来信询问你对于建设国际旅游岛的看法。请根据以下要点回一封信，并在回信中增加至少一个要点。

要点。

1．吸引更多游客，带动旅游业发展。

2．增加就业机会，提高居民生活水平。

3．交通更便利，环境更优美。

4．……

注意：

1．词数100左右

2．开头已经给出，但不计入总词数

3．回信必须包含以上所有内容

参考词汇：

海南国际旅游岛的建立the construction of Hainan International Tourism Island

交通  transport

Dear Ram,

Thank you for your concern about the construction of Hainan International Tourism Island.

                                                                       Yours,  

                                                                       Li Hua 

从A、B、C、D四个选项中， 找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。

1．Complete

       A．president            B．honest                 C．recently               D．expensive

2．among

       A．official               B．worry                 C．remove               D．mostly

3．performed

       A．practiced            B．advanced            C．judged                D．operated

4．orange

       A．celebrate             B．operate               C．candle                D．average

5．Whole

       A．write                  B．whisper              C．wheel                 D．wheat

Brussels, the capital city of Belgium, is _____home to the European Union, _____ organization of European nations．

A．the; an          B．a’ an            C．\; an            D．\ ;the

The boss ____department his brother worked called at the hospital yesterday afternoon, for his brother was injured．

A．in which        B．whose        C．which         D．in whose

To help myself get to sleep, I have tried several ways but it seems that _______works．

A．nothing            B．none          C．neither          D．all

---Mary 1ooks down today．What is up？

---Well，_________happened between Mary and me is none of your business．

A．wherever               B．whoever         C．whatever           D．no matter what

Was it in the beautiful park _________was located by the sea ______you first met your new

English teacher?

A．where; that          B．which; which        C．that; that           D．which; where

Scientists generally agree that Earth’s climate will warm up over the next 50 to 100 years  _________ it has warmed in the 20 000 years since Ice Age．

A．as long as　          B．as much as?         C．as soon as            D．as well as