30. What should you do after having decided to move your pet by air?

A.  Get enough food and water for it.

B. Make it take up only small place,

C.  Rent an IATA approved carrier in time.    .

D. Set up International Air Transport Association.

31. What's the main idea of the passage?

A.  How to keep your pet safe.     .          B.  How to deal with your pet.     .

C. How to travel with your pet.            D. How to fly your pet.

D

Sometimes life becomes a little dull. What used to be fun and different becomes boring.

That is the time to look for something new.  It is the time for a big idea to get your mind off

everyday life. So why not search for extra-terrestrial (地球外的) intelligence? Or even better,

why not get your computer to do it for you?

Over two million people have joined the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI)

project. Based in California, the SETI project analyzes information taken from a giant radio

telescope based in South America. Its task is to look for signals from outer space that might

prove that life exists on other planets.

Processing this information is far too big a job for one computer. So the SETI project

workers divide the work among volunteers who visit their website, Each computer gets some

information to work out from the SETI network through the Internet. This process is often known

as  " meta-computing" .

It is a wonderful thought. You are sleeping, eating a meal or going out with friends. All

this time, your computer is searching the stars for signs that might show something is out there

trying to get in touch.  Volunteers are proud of being involved in the SETI project.  It shows that

they understand the potential of computing.  They know that it is more than just a way of

working or playing games.

Meta-computing may also be creating intelligence as well as looking for it. This idea is

based on the theory that human intelligence is created by the way in which different parts of the

brain communicate with each other. As the saying goes, "The whole is more than the sum of its

parts .”People who join the SETI project sometimes wonder whether their computer will become

part of a huge network that has learned to think for itself.

32. According to the writer, why may meta-computing be creating intelligence?

A. Because human beings are intelligent.

B. Because a computer works as the brain does..

C. Because of a network of many computers.

D.  Because of the number of computers.

33.In which part of a magazine could we probably find this passage?

A. Science.    B. Communication.  C. Entertainment.    D. Health.

34. What does the under Lined word "it"   in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Extra-terrestrial intelligence    B. Human intelligence.

C. The SETI project.             D. Meta-computing.

35. What does the passage mainly tell us about?

A.A new way to work on the computer.

B.A new way to work and play games.

C.A new way to search for life outside the earth.

D.A new way to make life interesting and different.

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The world welcomes 2015 ! From New Zealand to New York, the world eagerly celebrated

the New Year.  36

The islands of Samoa and Tokelau in the Pacific Ocean and places located near the

International Date Line mark the dawn of the New Year .  As celebrations spread westward,

fireworks lit up the night sky in towns and cities around the world; as revelers(狂欢者)partied

on the streets.

37_In many European countries as well as in Coney Island New York, swimmers braved

freezing water temperatures for a dip in the ocean or lake on January l. In Rome, Italy, divers

jumped off the 59 foot high Cavour bridge into the Tiber River.  Londoners rang in the New Year

with a massive fireworks display with dozens of rockets lighting up the night sky.    38   A

torchlight procession led by men dressed as Vikings kicks off four days of Hogmanay celebrations

in Edinburgh, Scotland. The procession ends with the burning of a Viking long ship.  Hogmanay

is the Scottish word for the last day of the year.  Street festivals are held on each day ending up

with a fireworks display.

In New York, thousands gathered to witness a huge ball with more than 30,000 lights

descend at midnight.__39   It was to attract crowds to celebrate the paper's new headquarters.

The ball has dropped every year since then except during the wartime years of 1942 and 1943.

40   However, now 2,688 crystal(水晶)triangles decorate this lighted ball.

A.  The first ball was made of iron.

B. "Hogmanay" is New Year's eve in Scotland.

C. The Scots' celebration of New Year is also called "Hogmanay".

D. The New York Times was an  organizer  of the New Year's Day celebration.

E. People hope for a better future after a year of diseases, struggles and disasters.

F.  In some parts of the world, the New Year's day celebrations were rather unusual.

G. This tradition was adopted by the New York Times(after which the square is named)

in 1908.