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• 1The 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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• 2It 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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• 3Apple 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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• 4Apple 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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• 5According 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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• 6According 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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• 7The 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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• 8The 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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• 9We 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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• 10What has made the procedure for licensing nuclear power plants a bad dream、

  A.The inefficiency of the Nuclear Regulation commission.

  B.The enormous cost of construction and operation.

  C.The length of time it takes to make investigations.

  D.The objection of the opponents of nuclear power.

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