The best title for the passage would be ________.

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• 1It can be inferred from the passage that both Apple and IBM try to gain a competitive advantage by ________.

  A.copying each other’s technology

  B.incorporating features that make their products distinctive

  C.making their computer more expensive

  D.making their computers run much faster

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• 2Apple 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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• 3Apple 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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• 4According 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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• 5The 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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• 6The word “paradox” (Par

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

  B.contradiction

  C.interpretation

  D.confusion

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• 7According 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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• 8The 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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• 9The 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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• 10We know less about the astronomical universe than we do about any social system because ________.

  A.theories of its origin and history are varied

  B.our knowledge of it is highly insecure

  C.only a very small sample of it has been observed

  D.few scientists are involved in the study of astronomy

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