Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest, which took place in Harbin, China. Three-person teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems.

The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty. Then they figured out the requirements of each. They designed ways to test their solutions. And they wrote the needed software systems. Even the winning team from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given limit. Stanford’s team solved five problems and finished in fourteenth place. Stanford was one of twenty-one American universities that took part in the contest this year.

The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Contest. The first final competition was held in 1977 at the Association for Computer Machinery Computer Science Conference. Today, a network of universities holds area competitions that send the winners to the world finals, now organized by IBM.

Contest spokesman Dong Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships. They are also guaranteed an offer of employment or internship(實習(xí)) with IBM. He said, “We have had past world champions that IBM has gone and employed in our Zurich research laboratory and are now working on some of the leading edge materials in science and physics. We have a world finalist from China who’s been working on the Watson Supercomputer that in the near future will be playing Jeopardy(一種超級計算機名稱)against the best Jeopardy players in the world. So this competition is an opportunity to be recognized and to be recruited(招聘) by some of the top technology and research firms around the world.”

1. From the first paragraph we can figure out there were _______ programmers taking part in the contest.

A．3                B．88               C．246              D．a(chǎn) lot of

2. From the last paragraph we know that _______.

A．the winners will be offered a job in IBM

B．this contest provides a chance for the universities

C．this competition is held every four years

D．many big companies are short of programmers

3. What is the best title of this passage?

A．The Best Top Contest

B．The Battle of the Brains

C．The Difficult Competition

D．Courage and Wisdom Needed

 

【答案】

1.D

2.A

3.B

【解析】

試題分析：本文報道了上個月，來自88個國家的103所大學(xué)的學(xué)生參加了國際計算機程序設(shè)計競賽。這項腦力競賽在中國哈爾濱舉行。來自各個學(xué)校的三人組合要求在5個小時內(nèi)解決11個現(xiàn)實生活中的問題。獲得這次世界冠軍的可以獲得表彰和獎學(xué)金。另外，他們還可以在IBM工作或?qū)嵙?xí)。

1.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)有許多程序員參加比賽，故選D。

2.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Contest spokesman Dong Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships. They are also guaranteed an offer of employment or internship(實習(xí)) with IBM.故選A。

3.標(biāo)題歸納題。根據(jù)文章的內(nèi)容可知這是智力大戰(zhàn)，故選B。

考點：新聞報道類短文閱讀。

點評：在閱讀文章時，要注意文章中反復(fù)出現(xiàn)或強調(diào)的信息，尋找與文章主題相關(guān)的信息，找出概括全文的核心詞匯。確認(rèn)選項內(nèi)容是否切中文章的中心論題，也就是要看選項內(nèi)容與作者的寫作目的是否一致。從整篇文章出發(fā)歸納概括出文章的標(biāo)題，要防止本末倒置、主次不分。

 

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