Have you ever wondered ______ there are so many natural disasters across the world in 2010?
A．which it is that B．what is it that
C．how it is that D．why it is that
---- Was the driving pleasant when you vacationed in Mexico last summer?
---- No, it ________ for four days when we arrived, so the roads were very muddy．
A．was running B．had been raining
C．would be raining D．has rained
Any opportunity should be made ______ of _______ your spoken English．
A．use; to practice B．fun; to practice
C．fun; practicing D．use; practicing
----- What about _________job?
----- It’s too difficult ______ job for me?
A．a; the B．the; a C．the ; the D．a; a
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Sometimes life gets a little dull．What used to be fun and different becomes boring．That is the
time to look for something new．It is the time for a big idea to get your mind off everyday life．So why not search for extraterrestrial （地球外的） intelligence? Or even better, why not get your computer to do it for you?
Over two million people have joined the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence（SETI）
project．Based in California, the SETI project analyzes information taken from a giant radio telescope based in South America．Its task is to look for signals from outer space that might prove that life exists on other planets．
Processing this information is far too big a job for one computer．So the SETI project workers
divide the work among volunteers who visit their website．Each computer gets some information to work out from the SETI network through the Internet．This process is often known as “meta-computing”．
It is a wonderful thought．You are sleeping, eating a meal or going out with friends．All this
time, your computer is searching the stars for signs that might show something is out there trying to get in touch．Volunteers are proud of being involved in the SETI project．It shows that they understand the potential of computing．They know that it is more than just a way of working or playing games．
Meta-computing may also be creating intelligence as well as looking for it．This idea is based
on the theory that human intelligence is created by the way in which different parts of the brain communicate with each other．As the saying goes, “The whole is more than the sum of its parts．” People who join the SETI project sometimes wonder whether their computer will become part of a huge network that has learned to think for itself．
1.According to the writer, meta-computing may be creating intelligence __________．
A．because human beings are intelligent
B．because a computer works as the brain does
C．because of a network of many computers
D．because of the number of computers
2.Which of the following shows the order in which the SETI network works?
A．Radio telescope→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers→SETI base
B．Radio telescope→SETI base→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers
C．SETI base→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers→Radio telescope
D．SETI base→Radio telescope→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers
3.The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to________．
A．extra-terrestrial intelligence B．human intelligence
C．the SETI project D．meta-computing
4.The passage mainly tells us about __________．
A．a new way to work on the computer
B．a new way to work and play games
C．a new way to search for life outside the earth
D．a new way to make life interesting and different．
