Ⅲ.补全句子

　　1．我完全同意你的观点，不过明天可能有雨。

　　I can_not_agree_with_your_idea_more,_but there might be a rain tomorrow.

　　2．年轻人发觉解决那个问题很难。

　　The youth found_it_hard_to work the problem out.

　　3．不论你在哪里，都必须礼貌待人。

　　Wherever_you_are,_you must be polite to others.

　　4．约翰还没来得及阻止她，她就跑出去了。

　　Before_John_stopped_her,_she ran out.

　　5．上周和女朋友分手以后，Jack昨天又被老板解雇了。

　　Having_broken_up with his girlfriend last week, Jack was fired by his boss yesterday.

　　[话题语篇高考练]

　　Ⅳ.阅读理解

　　A

　　In 1957, Max Vernon Mathews wrote the first computer program called Music, which enabled a computer to create sound and play it back. He was then working as an engineer at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. It enabled a large IBM computer to play a seventeen­second piece of music he had written.

　　The computer was so slow that it took an hour to play the seventeen­second piece of music. So Mathews moved the work to a tape player to play the music at a normal speed. He later said that the sound quality of the musical notes was not great, but the technical importance of the music was huge.

　　The science­fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke visited Bell Laboratories in the 1960s. He heard a computer "sing" the song Daisy Bell on devices (设备) and learned about the programs developed by Mathews and other engineers. Clarke noted this technology in his book 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was later made into a movie.

　　Mathews continued creating other versions of the Music program. He became interested in how computers could help musicians outside recording studios. The Groove program he developed was the first computer program made for live performances.

　　He also developed an electronic device he called the Radio Baton, which looks like two drum sticks. It enables the user to control the speed and sound levels of orchestral music (管弦乐) played on a computer by moving the two sticks on a special electronic surface.

Mathews said he believed modern musicians were not making full use of the power of computer music. He said a violin always sounds like a violin. But with his Music, the way a violin sounds is unlimited. He did not want computer sounds to replace live music, but he hoped computers would one day be considered serious instruments.