The National Geographic Channel has unearthed a time capsule (时光宝盒)? buried by late Apple chairman and co-founder Steve Jobs thirty years ago.

???? The time capsule was buried in Aspen .Colorado .in 1983, shortly after Jobs attended the International Design Conference being held in that city. Organizers called the device the Aspen Time Tube and contributed items like Rubik's cubes(魔方) and some iconic music. Jobs added his own items to the capsule ,including the " Lisa"? ( also known as an "Apple" )"mouse he used for his presentation at the conference. '

??? Younger readers may not recognize the name but the Lisa Apple mouse was one of the first commercial mice released to consumers. The mouse was specially designed for the Apple? Lisa computer. It's also the first personal computer to offer users a graphical user interface(图形用户界面)

??? Initially ,the plan was to dig up the time capsule in the year2000,but organizers forgot its exact location. Recently .they brought in researchers working with the National Geographic Channel show Diggers to find the device. Eventually they came across the 13-foot-long.1. 5-foot-diameter tube. inside they found a lot of 1980s artifacts(人工制品）that are still being catalogued.

??? “When the end came off .literally things just poured out .”noted Diggers host Tim Saylor "There must be literally thousands of things in there.”

??? “They had the foresight to put a bunch of stuff in? plastic bags." Saylor said .“I could see at least a dozen plastic bags and other items. But I know for sure there got to be photographs in there. People had hand-written things on the back of the photographs ,so there will be some really interesting things inside.”

??? Among the artifacts researchers expect to discover inside :a Steve Jobs speech in which the Apple visionary outlines his predictions? for future technologies. We should know more about the researchers ,discoveries once the Diggers program airs this fall.

1.Which of the following is true about the Lisa mouse?

A .The mouse was the first? commercial one for consumers

B. The mouse was created only for the Apple Lisa computer

C. The mouse was buried in Aspen ,Colotado for two decades.

D. The mouse was invented after the International Design Conference

2.Why wasn't the time capsule dug up in 2000?

A. Because it was not the time set by Steve Jobs.

B. Because it could not be accurately located.

C. Because organizers forgot its precise shape .

D. Because the local government didn't? approve.

3.From the passage we can infer that_______.

A. there were some special photographs found-inside the time capsule

B. a Steve Jobs speech with future predictions was found inside the cap

C. Steve Jobs? predictions for future technologies have come true

D. more about the capsule will be discovered in the Diggers program

4.The best title for the passage might be _______.

A. The "Lost" Steve Jobs Time Capsule

B. The Mystery of Steve Jobs Speech Solved

C. Steve Jobs' 1983 Time Capsule Recovered

D. Co-founder & Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs

Belinda 刚收到一则消息，说一家英国公司有兴趣买她的时装设计公司，在与该公司会面前，她必须运用一些电脑软件来完成她的一些任务，首先，请阅读下列关于电脑软件的信息：

A．   Dreamweaver: Dreamweaver is the industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain websites and applications. Instead of spending hours writing the code required for a webpage, the designer can build the table, insert pictures and text as well as create web forms, by selecting the item they want and pasting it directly on the page. Dreamweaver automatically writes the code, and let the designer view it exactly as it will appear on a Web page.

B．   Excel: Excel is spreadsheet applications useful for management of data and performing calculations, such as totaling a column of numbers or generating a more sophisticated formula to calculate some statistical measure on a list of numbers. Excel also allows this data to be presented in a graphical form using its report’s function.

C．   Gimp: Gimp is a freely available, open-source image-editing and graphics creation software application similar to Photoshop. It can be used to colour, correct and sharpen pictures; make great looking reproduction of not-so-great looking photographs; and create a huge range of different graphics and logos.

D．  Firefox: Firefox is an increasingly popular web browser, a program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web. In addition to displaying images and text, Firefox is able to present a range of different multimedia information including sound and video. After only 3 years Firefox is already the second most popular browser in the world after Microsoft Internet Explorer.

E．   WordPerfect: WordPerfect is a word processor software package that allows you to create, save and print letters, papers, and other documents. It has many writing tools and advanced features that allow you to change or edit your work, create tables, insert images, modify the text size, style and colour and do spelling and grammar checks.

F．   Outlook: Microsoft Outlook Express is an email and news client bundled with operating systems and the Internet Explorer web browser by Microsoft, and also available as a no-charge download for the “classic” Apple Macintosh operating system（although not for the newer Macintosh computers, where it has been replaced by Microsoft Entourage, which costs money as part of Microsoft Office）

请阅读下列关于任务的信息，然后匹配任务与完成任务所需要的软件：

76.     Letter of introduction: Belinda must draft/prepare a letter introducing her company to the possible buyer. In the letter she will also include pictures of sample designs she has produced over the past two years and a table listing sales figures and profits for the same period.

77.     Company accounts: Belinda must present the interested buyer with the full details of the company’s economic performance over the past 2 years as well as sales and profit estimates for the next 6 months. She is required to calculate and display her total sales to all retailers, all revenue earned from those sales, employee payment and other operating cost and finally overall profits.

78.     Image updates: She wants to improve the quality of pictures of her current fashion designs so she can send them as part of the letter of introduction and also post them on the web. In addition she wants to design a new company logo that will appear on all her business letters and on her website.

79.     Update the company website: In order to present a more professional image to the buyer Belinda will update her company’s website. She wants to add the new logo to all the website’s pages and create new pages displaying the new and improved pictures of her designs.

80.     Check website: finally she wants to check the website to make sure the changes she has made look good and that they don’t take too long to download and view over the Internet.

When we talk about robots, we tend to think of the robots we see on television or in the movies. These robots could catch criminals, tell jokes and do many other things. Actually, nowadays we have robots in many different fields for different purposes, so don’t let the following falsehoods stop you from buying a robot.

     1. Robots are too expensive. I could never afford one.

     False. Robots are more affordable today than ever before. The wide use of robots has led to a large decrease in robot prices over the last several years. The typical robot costs as little as 20,000 dollars. Moreover, the benefits of robots are much more than the cost. Robots are designed to increase production and profits, but at the same time, they will minimize waste and accidents.

     2. Programming and operating a robot is complicated. It can only be performed by a professional robot expert.

     False. You can learn to operate and program a robot with a short-term training. If you are familiar with computers, learning to operate robot software is easy. Many soft-ware programs are designed with a graphical user interface (图形用户界面) and some use Windows.

     3. Robots will eventually replace all human workers.

     False. While robots are changing the workplace by handling boring and dangerous jobs, they don’t decrease the need for human workers. Instead, they are creating skilled, higher-paying jobs. Human workers are still very useful when it comes to doing complex jobs. At the very least, many robotic systems need knowledgeable operators to oversee (监督) the work and deal with problems.

69. Robots are becoming affordable because ___________.

   A. they are very useful in many fields

B. they are designed to increase profits

C. more and more robots are being used nowadays

   D. the production of robots has decreased

70. The underlined word "minimize" in the passage probably means ________.

A. to cut down       B. to get through

C. to go up     D. to seem important

71. The main purpose of the text is to ___________.

A. give advice on robots’ prices    B. provide facts about robots

C. introduce how to operate a robot      D. clarify falsehoods on robots