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What Will Be is an impressive and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights on how information technology will transfo
What Will Be is an impressive and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights on how information technology will transfo
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2010-05-05
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What Will Be is an impressive and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights on how information technology will transform our lives and our world in the new century.
The author, Michael Dertouzos, stands (1)_____ from many of the forecasters and commentators who bombard us daily with (2)_____ of this future. For twenty years he has led one of the world’s (3)_____ research laboratories, whose members have brought the world (4)_____ computers, the Ether Net, and start-up companies.
As a visionary, his (5)_____ have been on the mark: In 1981, he described the (6)_____ of an Information Marketplace as "a twenty-first-century village marketplace where people and computers buy, sell, and freely exchange information and information services." That’s a (7)_____ description of the Internet as we know it today.
Naturally, we do not agree on all the (8)_____ ways the new world will (9)_____ or affect us. This is as it should be. There is plenty of room for (10)_____ ideas and debate concerning the rich and promising setting ahead. What’s more important is that people become (11)_____, and form their own opinions, about the changes (12)_____.
When it (13)_____ to that future world, what we do (14)_____ far outweighs our differences New businesses will be created and new (15)_____ will be made in the (16)_____ areas of activity this book describes. More important, radical changes in hardware, software, and infrastructure will (17)_____ in ways large and small our social lives, our families, our jobs, our health, our environment, our economy, and even the (18)_____ we see for ourselves in the universe. Whoever (19)_____ the coming Information Revolution?—that’s (20)_____ all of us—needs to know What Will Be.
选项
A、lofty
B、supreme
C、alien
D、novel
答案
D
解析
novel"新颖的,新奇的"。该词在概念上与上文中的"new"形成关联。而选项lofty"崇高的,高尚的";supreme"最高的,至上的,极度的,最重要的"和alien"性质不同的,不相容的,外国的"填入后均不符合文意。注意本题中对"novel"的理解。
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考研英语一
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