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Many college students today own personal computer that costanywhere from $1,000 to perhaps %5,000 or more. (26)_________, it is notuncommon for them to purchase (27)_________costing another several hundreddollars. Twenty years ago, computers were (28) ___________, but they were verylarge and extremely expensive. Few, if any,(29) __________ purchased computersfor home use. Over the years, the price of the “guts” of a computer---itsmemory—has declined to less than a thousandth of the price per unit of memorythat prevailed twenty years ago. This is the main reason why computers cost somuch less today than they used to. Moreover, (30) _________improvements havemade it possible to (31) ___________memory circuitry that is small enough tofit into the portable personal computers that many of us own and use.(32)___________, as the price of computation has declined the average consumerand business have spent more on purchasing computers.
(33)___________,improved agricultural technology, hybrid(杂交) seeds,(34)_________animal breeding, and so on have vastlyincreased the amount of output a typical farmer can produce. The prices ofgoods such as meats and grains have fallen sharply relative to the prices ofmost other goods and services. As agricultural prices have fallen, manyhouseholds have decreased their total expenses on food. Even though the (35)______________ofa product purchased generally increases when its price falls, total expenses onit may decline.
Part Ⅲ Reading
Section A
To get a sense of how women have progressed in science , take aquick tour of the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley.This is a storied place, the 36 of some of the most importantdiscoveries in modern science-starting with Ernest Lawrence's invention of thecyclotron(回旋加速器)in 1931.
A generationago, female faces were 37 and, even today, visitors walkingthrough the first floor of LeConte Hall will see a full corridor of exhibits 38 themany distinguished physicists who made history here, 39 all ofthere white males.
But climb up to the third floor and you'll see a 40 display.There, among the photos of current faculty members and students, are portraitsof the 41 head of the department, Marjorie Shapiro and four other womenwhose research 42 everything from the mechanics of the universe to thesmallest particles of matter. A sixth woman was hired just two weeks ago.Although they're still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women areclearly a presence here.
And the real 43 may be in the smaller photos to the right:graduate and undergraduate students,about 20 percent of them female. Every years Berkeley sends its fresh femalephysics PhDs to the country's top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic,but also 44. "I believethings are getting better "she says. "but they're not getting better as 45 as I would like.“
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A)circumstance
B)confidence
C)covers
D)current
E)deals
F)different
G)exposing
H)fast
I)honoring
J)hope
K)presently
L)rare
M)realistic
N)site
O)virtually
This is a storied place, the 36 of some of the mostimportant discoveries in modern science-starting with Ernest Lawrence'sinvention of the cyclotron(回旋加速器)in 1931.