It can be inferred from the passage that both Apple and IBM try to gain a competitive advantage by ________.

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• 1Apple sells its new computer models at a high price because ________.

  A.they have new features and functions

  B.they are more sophisticated than other models

  C.they have new accessories attached

  D.it wants to accumulate funds for future research

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• 2Apple hopes to increase Mackintosh sales chiefly by ________.

  A.making its new models capable of running IBM software

  B.improving the color graphics of its new models

  C.copying the marketing strategies of IBM

  D.giving the customers what they want

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• 3According to the passage, Apple Computer, Inc, has introduced the Mackintosh II and the Mackintosh SE because ________.

  A.IBM is changing its computer models continuously

  B.it wants to make its machines specialize in specific uses

  C.it wants to stay ahead of IBM in the competitive computer market

  D.it expects its major competitor IBM to follow its example

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• 4The author’s purpose in writing the passage is ________.

  A.to give advice on appropriate conduct for social occasions

  B.to provide ways of how to obtain information about people

  C.to call the reader’s attention to the negative side of people’s characters

  D.to discuss the various aspects of getting to know people

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• 5In developing personal relationships, secrets and deceptions, in the author’s opinion, are ________.

  A.personal matters that should be seriously dealt with

  B.barriers that should be done away with

  C.as significant as disclosures and truthful statements

  D.things people should guard against

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• 6The best title for the passage would be ________.

  A.Apple’s Efforts to Stay Ahead of IBM

  B.Apple’s New Computer Technology

  C.Apple’s New personal Computers

  D.Apple’s Research Activities

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• 7The word “paradox” (Par

  A.1, Line 1) means “________”.A.implication

  B.contradiction

  C.interpretation

  D.confusion

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• 8According to the author, we should reverse our classification of the physical sciences as “hard” and the social sciences as “soft” because ________.

  A.a reverse ordering will help promote the development of the physical sciences

  B.our knowledge of physical systems is more reliable than that of social systems

  C.our understanding of the social systems is approximately correct

  D.we are better able to investigate social phenomena than physical phenomena

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• 9The author believes that our knowledge of social systems is more secure than that of physical systems because ________.

  A.it is not based on personal experience

  B.new discoveries are less likely to occur in social sciences

  C.it is based on a fairly representative quantity of data

  D.the records of social systems are more reliable

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• 10The chances of the physical sciences being subject to great changes are the biggest because ________.

  A.contradictory theories keep emerging all the time

  B.new information is constantly coming in

  C.the direction of their development is difficult to predict

  D.our knowledge of the physical world is inaccurate

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