(山东省聊城市2008年高三年级模拟（四）B篇)
Are you a team person? Are you at your best as part of a small, tightly united group of dedicated workers? If so, the future may hold more for you than you think.
High technology, some predicted, would make team work a thing of the past. That’s happening in those areas of business and data processing where one person and a computer can replace a team of workers.
But, elsewhere, teamwork is very much alive. High technology has led to a new type of teamwork in a number of fields, including advertising, scientific research, engineering design, architecture and ocean exploration. Through computer networking, scientists, engineers and technicians at different locations – often thousands of miles apart – can work on the same project at once. They can exchange ideas, try out different designs and test their results.
Examples? An engineering team can now design and try out a robot system, a new manufacturing process, or an entire factory before it is built. An architectural team can do the same with a building or a bridge. A medical team can simulate (模拟) a dangerous operation before performing it on a patient.
Of course, computer – assisted team effort doesn’t end with investigation and simulation. It now usually continues into actual design, manufacturing and testing. “Computer – aide design (CAD) and computer – aided manufacture (CAM) are breaking down barriers between traditional design and manufacturing functions,” explains Dr. Prakash Rao, an engineering manager at General Electric. “Interdisciplinary (跨学科的) teams and engineers follow a product from concept to production. Everything is interconnected like a network.”
Sometimes a computer – aided effort can extend beyond production. A team that produces robots may use them to explore space and ocean depth. For high – technology team work, the future seems limitless.
61. The underlined part “hold more” most probably means to .
A. maintain more chances B. give more rights
C. make more regulations D. store more information
62. According to the passage, the writer believers that .
A. teamwork requires more use of computers than that of human beings
B. teamwork will be completely replaced by computers
C. the concept of teamwork is still alive and no longer the same as the past
D. high technology would make teamwork a thing of the past
63. The examples given by the writer in Paragraph 4 serve .
A. to prove high technology has a promising future
B. to explain his idea of new type of teamwork is reasonable
C. to show that it tends to be an end to teamwork soon
D. to indicate the computer – assisted team effort just means investigation and simulation.
64. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Many fields of science and technology are now using computers effectively.
B. No details are given in the passage about barriers between traditional desigand manufacturing functions.
C. Experts from different fields have to cooperate to develop a product from concept to production.
D. High technology is nothing but a new type of teamwork plus CAD and CAM.
65. The author’s attitude to towards the introduction of the computer to teamwork is of .
A. objection B. indifference C. support D. doubt
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(山东省聊城市2008年高三年级模拟（四）A篇)
Sixteen years ago, Eileen Doyle’s husband, an engineer, took his four children up for an early morning cup of tea, packed a small case and was never seen or heard of again. Eileen was astonished and in a state of despair. They had been a happy family and, as far as she knew, there had been nothing wrong with their marriage.
Every day of the year a small group of men and women quietly pack a few belongings and without so much as a note or a good—bye close the front door for the last time, leaving their debts, their worries and their confused families behind them.
Last year, more than 1,200 men and nearly as many women were reported missing from home—the highest in 15 years. Many did return home within a year, but others rejected the past completely and are now living a new life somewhere under a different identity.
To those left behind this form of desertion is a terrible blow to their pride and self- confidence. Even the finality of death might be preferable. At least it does not imply rejection or failure. Worse than that, people can be left with an unfinished marriage, not knowing whether they will have to wait seven years before they are free to start a fresh life.
Clinical psychologist Paul Brown believes most departures of this kind to be well planned rather than impulsive(冲动). “It’s typical of the kind of personality which seems able to ignore other people’s pain and difficulties. Running away, like killing yourself, is a highly aggressive act. By creating an absence the people left behind feel guilty, upset and empty.”
56. When her husband left home, Eileen Doyle ______________.
A. could not forgive him for taking the children
B. had been expecting it to happen for some time
C. could not understand why
D. blamed herself for what had happened
57. Most people who leave their families behind them_______.
A. do so without warning B. do so because of their debts
C. come back immediately D. change their names
58. Some people would even prefer the death to the running away of their spouse because .
A. their spouse would feel no pain during the death
B. their spouse death would not be a bit terrible
C. a desertion would not bring a feeling of rejection or failure
D. their spouse’s death would make them feel less painful
59. Usually the man or woman left behind with an unfinished marriage __________.
A. admits responsibility for the situation
B. wishes the person who has left were dead
C. will come back within a year
D. will have no legal marriage life for seven years
60. Paul Brown regards leaving home in such circumstances as _____________.
A. an act of despair B. an act of selfishness
C. the result of a sudden decision D. the result of the enormous sense of guilt
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