5．他在解题中碰了壁之后才恍然大悟他的解题方法错了。(Not until)

4．还要过很长一段时间，普通人才能去太空旅行。(before)

3．随着世博临近，我认为所有市民都有必要提高素质。(it)

2．养成一种爱好对一个人的身心健康有好处。(take up)

1．他对什么事都感到好奇。(curious)

84．______

Asakawa is now doing basic research on using the sense of touch to direct the attention of the blind, as colors do for the sighted. She hopes this kind of research will also be useful for people with normal vision. “ Sighted people don’t use the sense of touch very much,” she laughs. “ What a waste！＂

第Ⅱ卷(共45分)

I. Translation (20%)

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

83．________

In the mid-1990s, she began surfing the Internet, using a combination of software that read out what was on the screen. But there were problems: The system only read English. On-screen fill-out forms stumped the reader, and tables with vertical columns came out as gibberish(无意义的声音). Asakawa decided to develop software specifically designed to handle the coding used for Web pages. She inserted aural cues to help browsing, like using a man’s voice for text and a woman’s for links. In 1997 she put out IBM’s first Home Page Reader in Japanese, then in English followed by nine other languages.

82．_______

At age 11, Asakawa accidentally hit her head into the side of a pool while swimming, damaging her optic (视觉的) nerves. Three years later, she was completely blind. At a vocational school for the blind, Asakawa learned to program in various computer languages. To read code printouts she used a device that translated the code into raised letters sensed with the fingers. It was a struggle, she recalls, “ But it was possible.”

81．______

Accessibility is a serious issue. The Internet is becoming an increasingly important source of information and services. For people who are blind, the Internet lets them do things on their own for which they previously needed a lot of help, like going shopping.

80．　　　　

　　 Asakawa, 45, has spent the past eight years making the Internet a friendly place for people who can’t see. In 1997 her research group at IBM Japan put out one of the world’s first browsers specifically made to read aloud the contents of Web pages. And last July, her team released software that helps Web designers figure out how to make their home pages accessible to people with poor or no eyesight.