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更多“When speaking to persuade, you need to think of your speech as a kind of mental dialo”相关的问题
第1题
A.to understand oneself
B.to make oneself understood
C.for one to understand oneself
D.understanding oneself
第2题
A. No repetitions
B. Fluent English
C. Fillers
D. Complete sentences
第3题
When timber has been purchased on a ("per unit of volume") harvested basis, the losses associated with miss cut logs are borne by the ______. If the timber has been purchased on a lump-sum basis, inattention to bucking decisions can create large financial losses to
A. landowner, timber buyer B. timber buyer, landowner C. forest manager, logger
第4题
A. timber buyer, landowner
B. landowner, timber buyer
C. forest manager, logger
第5题
A. timber buyer, landowner
B. landowner, timber buyer
C. forest manager, logger
第6题
第7题
【C1】
A．carried
B．did
C．finished
D．took
第8题
When disconnecting the power cord from the power outlet,always take hold of the plug,and not the wire,and pull flee.Never connect or disconnect the power plug with our hands wet since you may receive an electric shock.
For really dirty clothing use hot water 40℃.
For removal of blood stains use cold water only.
Stain Removal and Bleaching：
Add 1/2 cap per liter of water.
Soak laundry well in solution for at least 20-30 minutes and wash.
Rinse thoroughly.
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第9题
This passage is taken from a famous novel entitled______.
第10题
In his job as sales support associate , Cal helps four busy salespeople at a company that sells flooring , wallpaper ,
and countertop materials for kitchens and bathrooms. The
company , Floors &. More , has four locations , each in a different city.
All the salespeople have cubicles , though they spend most of their time madding sales presentations in people's homes. Cal's job is to process the salespeople's orders. When a
problem - such as a back order - comes up. he puts his paperwork back on the appropriate person' s desk. Cal has anyone suggested that he do so. He sometimes runs out of things to do. When that happens , he waits in a cubicle until something comes up.
In the showroom , the receptionist. Angelica. also has a cubicle. Angelica answers all incoming calls. The phone rings 10 to 20 times per hour. Most calls are for the salespeople. Angelica takes messages (usually just a name and number) for the absent salespeople. If showroom customers have a question. they often must wait until angelica is between phone calls. Sometimes. if a caller isn't someone she knows , she puts the call on hold and answers
a question with the phone resting on her shoulder.
Occasionally customers in the showroom approach Cal with a question. Sometimes he just says , "I' m not a salesperson; I can't help you." At other times. Cal tells them they'll have to wait for Angelica or make an appointment with one of the salespeople. The salespeople , however ， do not have telephones with them when they are out of the
showroom , and Angelica does not schedule appointments for them.
26. What does Cal do as a sales support associate？
A. He sells materials to salespeople.
B. He processes the salespeople' s orders.
C. He makes arrangements with customers.
27. Which of the following is true about Cal？
A. He helps dozens of salespeople.
B. He offers rewards to salespeople.
C. He presents the problem to the appropriate people.
28. Which of the following is NOT Angelica' s job？
A. Answering calls.
B. Leaving messages.
C. scheduling appointments.
29. Customers in the showroom Cal.
A. sometimes inquire
B. always meet
C. never talk to
30. Cal is Angelica's ().
A. external customer
B. internal customer
C.service provider
第11题
Distributed Systems
分布系统
Computer systems are undergoing a revolution. From 1945, when the modern computer era began, until about 1985, computers were large and expensive. Even minicomputers normally cost tens of thousands of dollars each. As a result, most organizations had only a handful of computers, and for lack of a way to connect them, they operated independently from one another.
Starting in the mid 1980s, however, two advances in technology began to change that situation. The first was the development of powerful microprocessors. Initially, these were 8 bit machines, but soon 16, 32, and even 64 bit CPUs became common. Many of these had the computing power of a decent-sized mainframe (i. e. large) computer, but for a fraction of the price.
The amount of improvement that has occurred in computer technology in the past half century is truly staggering and totally unprecedented in other industries. From a machine that cost 10 million dollars and executed 1 instruction per second, we have come to machines that cost 1,000 dollars and execute 10 million instructions per second, a price/ performance gain of 1011. If cars had improved at this rate in the same time period, a Roll Royce would now cost 10 dollars and get a billion miles per gallon. (Unfortunately, it would probably also have a 200 page manual telling how to open the door.) The second development was the invention of high speed computer networks. The local area networks, or LANs, allow dozens, or even hundreds, of machines within a building to be connected in such a way that small amounts of information can be transferred between machines in a millisecond or so. Larger amounts of data can be moved between machines at rates of 10 to 100 million bits/sec and sometimes more. The wide area networks, or WANs, allow millions of machines all over the earth to be connected at speeds varying from 64Kbps (kilobits per second) to gigabits per second for some advanced experimental networks.
The result of these technologies is that it is now not only feasible, but easy, to put together computing systems composed of large numbers of CPUs connected by a high speed network. They are usually called distributed systems, in contrast to the previous centralized systems (or single processor systems) consisting of a single CPU, its memory, peripherals, and some terminals.
There is only one fly in the ointment[1]: software. Distributed systems need radically different software than centralized systems do. In particular, the necessary operating systems are only beginning to emerge. The first few steps have been taken, but there is still a long way to go. Nevertheless, enough is already known about these distributed operating systems that we can present the basic ideas.
What Is a Distributed System？
Various definitions of distributed systems have been given in literature, none of them satisfactory and none of them in agreement with any of the others. For our purposes it is sufficient to give a loose characterization.
A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the users of the system as a single computer.
This definition has two aspects. The first one deals with hardware: the machines are autonomous. The second one deals with software: the users think of the system as a single computer. Both are essential.
Rather than going further with definitions, it is probably more helpful to give several examples of distributed systems. As a first example, consider a network of workstations in a university or company department. In addition to each user's personal workstation, there might be a pool of processors in the machine room that are not assigned to specific users but are allocated dynamically as needed. Such a system might have a single file system, with all files accessible from all machines in the same way and using the same path name. Furthermore, when a user typed a command, the system could look for the best place to execute that command, possibly on the user's own workstation, possibly on an idle workstation belonging to someone else, and possibly on one of the unassigned processors in the machine room. If the system as a whole looked and acted like a classical single processor timesharing system, it would qualify as a distributed system.
As a second example, consider a factory full of robots, each containing a powerful computer for handling vision, planning, communication, and other tasks. When a robot on the assembly line notices that a part it is supposed to install is defective, it asks another robot in the parts department to bring it a replacement. If all the robots act like peripheral devices attached to the same central computer and the system can be programmed that way, it too counts as a distributed system.
As a final example, think about a large bank with hundreds of branch offices all over the world. Each office has a master computer to store local accounts and handle local transactions. In addition, each computer has the ability to talk to all other branch computers and with a central computer at headquarters. If transactions can be done without regard to where a customer or account is, and the users do not notice any difference between this system and the old centralized mainframe that it replaced, it too would be considered a distributed system.
Advantages of Distributed Systems over Centralized Systems
The real driving force behind the trend toward decentralization is economics. A quarter of a century ago, computer pundit and gadfly Herb Grosch stated what later came to be known as Grosch's law: the computing power of a CPU is proportional to the square of its price. By paying twice as much, you could get four times the performance. This observation fit the mainframe technology of its time quite well, and led most organizations to buy the largest single machine they could afford.
With microprocessor technology, Grosch's law no longer holds. For a few hundred dollars you can get a CPU chip that can execute more instructions per second than one of the largest 1980s mainframes. If you are willing to pay twice as much, you get the same CPU, but running at a somewhat higher clock speed. As a result, the most cost effective solution is frequently to harness a large number of cheap CPUs together in a system. Thus, the leading reason for the trend toward distributed systems is that these systems potentially have a much better price/performance ratio than a single large centralized system would have. In effect, a distributed system gives more bang for the buck[2].
A slight variation on this theme is the observation that a collection of microprocessors cannot only give a better price/performance ratio than a single mainframe, but may yield an absolute performance that no mainframe can achieve at any price. For example, with current technology it is possible to build a system from 10,000 modern CPU chips, each of which runs at 50 MIPS (Millions of Instructions Per Second), for a total performance of 500,000MIPS. For a single processor (i. e. CPU) to achieve this, it would have to execute an instruction in 0. 002 nsec (2 picosec). No existing machine even comes close to this, and both theoretical and engineering considerations make it unlikely that any machine ever will. Theoretically, Einstein's theory of relativity dictates that nothing can travel faster than light, which can cover only 0.6 mm in 2 picosec. Practically, a computer of that speed fully contained a 0.6 mm cube would generate so much heat that it would melt instantly. Thus, whether the goal is normal performance at low cost or extremely high performance at greater cost, distributed systems have much to offer.
As an aside, some authors make a distinction between distributed systems, which are designed to allow many users to work together, and parallel systems, whose only goal is to achieve maximum speedup on a single problem, as our 500,000 MIPS machine might. We believe that this distinction is difficult to maintain because the design spectrum is really a continuum. We prefer to use the term "distributed system" in the broadest sense to denote any system in which multiple interconnected CPUs work together.
A next reason for building a distributed system is that some applications are inherently distributed. A supermarket chain might have many stores, each of which gets goods delivered locally (possibly from local farms), makes local sales, and makes local decisions about which vegetables are so old or rotten that they must be thrown out. It therefore makes sense to keep track of inventory at each store on a local computer rather than centrally at corporate headquarters. After all, most queries and updates will be done locally. Nevertheless, from time to time, top management may want to find out how many rutabagas it currently owns. One way to accomplish this goal is to make the complete system look like a single computer to the application programs, but implement decentrally, with one computer per store as we have described. This would then be a commercial distributed system.
Notes
[1] There is only one fly in the ointment. 美中不足。
[2] gives more bang for the buck: buck，俚语，表示—美元。这句的意思是“小钱办大事”。
