Relevance serves as a bridge between details/ideas and the claim/topic.

Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: ●summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then ●comment on whether our brains will get lazy in a world run by intelligent machines. You can support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. With intelligent machines to do the thinking, will our brains get lazy？ Changing technology stimulates the brain and increases intelligence. But that may only be true if the technology challenges us. In a world run by intelligent machines, our lives could get a lot simpler. Would that make us less intelligent？ Artificial intelligence is taking over many human jobs. For instance, planes are being flown much of the time by automatic pilots. And the complex problem of controlling air traffic around large modern airports is also achieved by artificial intelligence that operates well beyond the capacity of mere human air traffic controllers. As machines get smarter, they will do more of our thinking for us and make life easier. In the future, the electronic assistant will develop to the point that it serves similar functions as a real living butler, fulfilling requests such as: “Organize a dinner party for six on Thursday, Jeeves, and invite the usual guests.” At that point, our long struggle with challenging technologies is at an end. Like Be Wooster, we can take it easy knowing that the hard work of planning and organizing is being done by a better brain-the electronic assistant. Starved of mental effort, our brains will regress.

A.accuracy

B.clarity

C.precision

D.relevance

A.Relevance:hightolow

B.Relevance:lowtohigh

C.Alphabetical

D.Date

E.FirstAuthor

Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.

Many people seem to think that science fiction is typified by the Bug-eyed Monster, embodying every feature that most people find repulsive. This is unfortunate because it degrades a worthwhile literary endeavor. Instead, the basic interest of science fiction lies in the relation between man and his technology and between man and the universe. Science fiction is a literature of change and a literature of the future, and the aspects of human life that it considers make it well worth reading and studying for no other literary form. does quite the same things. What is science fiction？ To begin, the following definition should be helpful: science fiction is a literary subgenre which postulates(以……为前提) a change (for human beings) from conditions as we know them and follows the implications of these changes to a conclusion.

The first point that science fiction is a literary sub genre--is a very important one, but one which is often overlooked or ignored in most discussions of science fiction. Specifically, science fiction is either a short story or a novel. There are only a few dramas which could be called science fiction, the body of poetry that might be labeled science fiction is only slightly larger. To say that science fiction is a subgenre of prose fiction is to say that it has all the basic characteristics and serves the same basic functions in much the same way as prose fiction in general, that is, it shares a great deal with all other novels and short stories.

Everything that can be said about prose fiction, in general, applies to science fiction. Every piece of science fiction, whether short story or novel, must have a narrator, a story, a plot, the themes of science fiction are concerned with interpreting man's nature and experience in relation to the world around him. Themes in science fiction are constructed and presented in exactly the same ways that themes are dealt with in any other kind of fiction. They are the result to a particular combination of a narrator, story, plot, character, setting, and language. In short, the reasons for reading and enjoying science fiction, and the ways of studying and analyzing it, are basically the same as they would be for any other story or novel.

From the first paragraph, we can infer that science fiction has been most popular in the 20th century because ______.

A．with the growth of literacy, the size of the reading public has increased

B．competition from television has created a demand for more exciting fiction

C．science fiction is easier to understand than other kinds of fiction

D．the increased importance of technology has given science fiction an increased relevance

A.relevance

B.comparability

C.prudence

D.understandability

A、have relevance to

B、have nothing to do with

C、have relevance with

D、have no relation to

A.可靠性

B.可比性

C.相关性

D.可理解性

A、Going concern

B、Faithful representation

C、Accruals

D、Relevance

A、Relevance, agreement, and acceptability.

B、Relevance, acceptability, and sufficiency.

C、Agreement, relevance, and sufficiency.

D、Acceptability, agreement, and sufficiency.

A、There are four principal qualitative characteristics of financial statements: understandability, relevance, reliability and comparability.

B、There are four qualitative characteristics of financial statements: understandability, relevance, reliability and comparability.

C、There are four principal qualitative characteristics of the statement of cash flows: understandability, relevance, reliability and comparability.

D、None of the above.