1、kindsofaudie neeBmake fun of the disorganizedpeopleCaddress differe ntproblemsto differentpeopleDshow sympathyfor your liste ners42.The joke aboutdoctors implies that, in the eyes ofnu rses, theyarealk and pick out en ces which youabouta few can tur nAimpolite to new arrivalsBvery conscious of their
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3、ld bedelivered _Ain well-worded IanguageBas awkwardly as possibleCin exaggerated statementsDas casually as possible45. The best title for the text may beAUse Humor EffectivelyBVarious Kinds of HumorCAdd Humor to SpeechDDiffere nt Humor Strategies2002 Text 2Since the dawn of human ingenuity,people ha
4、ve devised ever more cunning tools tocopewithwork thatis dan gerous, bori ng,burde nsome, orjustplai n n asty.Thatcompulsi on hasresulted in roboticsthescie nee ofconferri ng varioushuma ncapabilitiesonmachi nes. And ifscie ntists haveyet to create themecha ni calvers ionof science ficti on,theybeg
5、un tocome close.As a result,moder nworld isincreas in gly populatedbyin tellige ntgizmos whose presenee we barely noticebut whose uni versal existe nee has removed much huma n labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller termi nals that tha n
6、k uswith mecha ni cal polite ness for the tran sacti on. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robo-drivers. And th anks to the continual miniaturization of electronics and micro-mechanics, there are already robot systems that c an perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimet
7、er accutha n high theirhandsalone.But ifrobots are toreach then ext stage oflaborsav ingutility, theywill have tooperateless huma nsupervisio nand beableto make atleasta fewdecisi onsforthemselvesgoals thatpose arealchalle nge. Whilewitachieveracy far greater precisi onhly skilled physicia ns canwe
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12、till dont knowquitehowwe doit.46. Humaningenu ity wasin itially demon stratedA theuseof machinesto produce scie neeficti onB thewideof machines in manufacturi ngin dustryC theinven ti onof toolsfor difficultof daand dan gerous workD the elites cunning tackli ngn gerous and bori ng work47. The wordgi
13、zmos probably（li ne 1, paragmea nsraph2） mostprogramsexpertsdevicescreatures48.Accord ingto the text, whatis beyondmansability nowis to design arobot that （canfulfill delicate taskslike performingbrain surgeryin teractwith huma nbeingsverballyhave a little comm onsenseresp ondin depe nden tlyto acha
14、 ngingworld49.Besidesreduc ing huma n labor, robotscan alsc）make afew decisi onsfor themselvesdeal withsome errors withhuman interventionimprovefactory en vir onmentscultivatehuma n creativity50.The author uses theexampleof amon key toargue thatrobots areA expectedhuma n brain inin ternalstructureB
15、abletoperceiveabno rmalities immediatelyC farlesstha nfocus ingre leva ntin formatio nD bestused ina con trolled en vir onmentCould the bad old days of economic d ecli ne beabout to return? Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almos t $26 a barrel, up from
16、less than $10last December. This n ear-tripli ng ofoil prices calls up scary memoriesof the 1973 oil shock, whe n prices quadrupled, and 1979-1980, whe n they also almost tripled. Both previous shock s resulted in double-digit in flati on andglobal economic decline. So where are the headlines warnin
17、g of gloom and doomthis time?oilprice was give nano ther pushupthisweekwhe n Iraqsuspendedexports. Stren gthe ningecono mic growth,at thesame timeas win ter gripsn orther nhemisphere, could pushpricehigher stillin the shortterm.Yet there are good reas ons to expectthe econ omic con seque nces now to
18、be less severe tha nin the 1970s. Inmost countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of th eprice of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes acco unt for up to four-fifths of theretail price, so eve n quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on
19、pu mpprices than in the past.Rich econ omies are also less depe ndent on oil tha n they were, and so lesssen sitive to swingsin the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importanee ofheavy, en ergy-i nten sive in dustries have reduced oil con sumpti on. Software
20、, consultancy andmobile telephonesuse far less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP （inconsta nt prices） rich econ omies now usen early 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Econ omic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compare
21、dwith $13 in 1998, this would in crease the oil import bill inrichecono mieby on ly0.25 0.5%ofGDP.is less tha non e-quarterin comelossin 1974or 1980.Onotherhand,oil-import ing emerg ingecono miesto whichheavyhas shifted have become moree nergy-i ntensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed.One more reas on not to los
