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13 .It was reported that a canoe was___________. by the cataracts of rain in the upstream of the river. (A)capsized (B) caroused (C) composted (D) conjured)

14.The movie star was dressed so___________. that even famous fashion designers consulted her. (A)imperturbably (B) inscrutably (C) impecuniously (D) impeccably)

15,The victims of the earthquake cannot withstand another_. (A)cataclysm (B) catapult (C) castration (D)cavalcade) n. Cloze Test: 20% (a) If we want to connect language to our brains, we can compare it to eating, Language in the brain should be ___16— as a restaurant. There is a cooking area where food is prepared, and an eating area where it’s consumed. The production of language (the kitchen) is handled primarily by front (anterior) portions of the left hemisphere, and an area in both humans and animals which deals with 17— movement. Comprehension (the eating area) is dealt with mainly by back (posterior) portions, because this is the area which deals with incoming impressions. Traditionally, the anterior production portions are _18— Bi'oca’s area, and the posterior reception portions as Wernicke’s area, after the nineteenth-century neurologists recognized their importance. However, Braca’s area is not a brain “unit” —19— a cover term for a cluster of interconnected areas. At least four subsections can be _20_. First, an area which deals with the muscles controlling speech, mainly _21— of the mouth. Further forward is an area which controls —22— order, that is, the arrangement of things one after the other. Further forward still, another area deals with conditional connections, as in “IF it rains, THEN put up an umbrella.” Further forward still, another handles associations between words. The first three of these are probably important in the brains of other primates, though humans have extended their use: “Language functions have recruited cortical circuits that —23_ for very different purposes in our primate ancestry.” . (C) envisaged (C)configurative (C) referred to 找s (C)and (C)amassed (C) those (C) intermittent (C) dissipated

16.(A, commiserated

18.(A)made up of

19.(A)yet

20.(A)identified

21.(A)ones

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23.(A)scattered (B)dispersed (B) voluntary (B) categorized into (B)but (B) immersed (B)that (B) cardinal (B) degenerated (D) converged) (D) autonomous) (D)accounted to) (D)or) (D) intrigued) (D)them) (D) fortuitous) (b)Though negotiations directly between MITI (the Ministry of International Trade and Industry) and IBM produced agreements to allow _24— to enter Japan, and soon to manufacture there, but only at the -25 that IBM would open its patents to any Japanese firm desiring them, at very favorable royalty rates. Thus the Japanese companies brought together by MITI could enter the race with a strong advantage: they could build computers _26— with IBM’s systems, and the government would finance majority percentages of the research costs needed to build Japanese computers. The work was _27— organized and Toshiba, with its technological agreements with GE, was paired with NEC and that firm’s overseas partner Honeywell. As a result, “—28_, the alliance had 20% of the [Japanese] computer market，” observes one study of the unfolding race. But “Toshiba’s models did not sell well, and by the 1980s, Toshiba, no longer willing to bear the high cost of producing mainframe computers... decided to drop out... and —29 its own efforts into small business computers and minicomputers.”