Apple is
rolling out something big this year—bigger than any of its smartphones or
gadgets. The imminent launch is their new 16
, a huge circular office building close to their existing one. Some
are already calling it the “spaceship” 17
its science-fiction-like
design and technical complexity. It’ll include offices for the business,
research, and design arms of the company. There’ll also be a 18 for Apple’s product presentations and major
events.
The diameter
of the circle is just about the height of the Empire State Building. The inside
of the ring is about one mile in circumference. Inside the ring lies an immense
courtyard planted with Californian fruit trees. Apple’s founder Steve Jobs
personally 19 the
design process until his death in 2011. The whole project aims to have offices
for 12,000 people. It 20 US$5
billion by the time the construction is finished.
16. (A) politics (B)
consonant (C) headquarters (D) percentage
17. (A) on behalf of (B) in contrast to (C) on account of (D) in favor of
18. (A) theater (B)
subway (C) canyon (D)
journal
19. (A) polluted (B)
managed (C)
emerged (D) adopted
20. (A) has cost (B)
was to cost (C) is going to cost (D)
will have cost
Engineers
have begun installing an advanced new wind power plant off the coast of
Scotland. Hywind, as the new wind farm is called, is going into deeper water
than ever before. What enables it to do so is that the wind turbines used
aren’t planted in the seabed.
21 , they float on top of
the waves.
Hywind is the
first of its kind, considered a trial run of offshore wind farms. The winds out
at sea are often stronger than on shore,
22 better power generation, and there’s plenty of
space there for wind turbines. These new turbines, built by Norwegian state oil
company Statoil, have weights that
23 under the water to keep themselves balanced.
They’re also 24 to
the sea floor by long anchor cables.
The project
is being funded with 25 from
the British government, but Statoil predicts that with more experience, the
cost of building floating wind turbines will go down. If Hywind is a success,
floating wind farms might come to other markets that have the right conditions
for the technology, such as the US or Japan.
21. (A) Instead (B)
Thus (C) Furthermore (D) Still
22. (A) to promise (B) promised (C) promising (D)
but promise
23. (A) blank out (B)
throw up (C) take flight (D)
hang down
24. (A) aroused (B)
secured (C) yielded (D) branded
25. (A) slices (B)
grants (C) filters (D)
gowns
Many races
test the limits of human potential and pit the world’s best athletes against
each other. An event in Wales, however, puts a special twist on this 26
: it tests human runners against some of the animal kingdom’s best
racers—horses.
In 1980, a
bar owner named Gordon Green overheard two men arguing about 27
a man could triumph over a
horse in a marathon. Everyone knows that horses are faster over short
distances, but a human actually has greater endurance than many animals.
Deciding to 28 for
real, Green created the Man vs Horse Marathon, taking place in the hills near
the town of Llanwrtyd Wells.
The race runs
an abbreviated course 29 a
normal marathon, covering only 22 miles instead of 26.2. The results are often
close, but the horse usually wins. Cyclists can also compete and beat the
horses more often than the runners. A human runner first won in 2004, as the
uneven roads and frequent hills can give humans the 30
. Another human won again in 2007, by a whole 11 minutes, but horses
have dominated again for the past ten years.
26. (A) property (B)
technique (C) psychology (D)
formula
27. (A) why (B)
whether (C) that (D) whatever
28. (A) bring it out (B) look it up (C) turn it down (D) test it out
29. (A) owing to (B)
except for (C) compared to (D)
along with
30. (A) advantage (B) standard (C) selection (D)
procedure
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