2017年職稱英語綜合類閱讀判斷練習(xí)五

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　　Bill Gates: Unleashing Your Creativity

　　I’ve always been an optimist and I suppose it is rooted in1 my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place.

　　For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved learning new things and solving problems. So when I sat down at a computer for the first time in seventh grade, I was hooked. It was a clunky old teletype machine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today.2 But it changed my life.

　　When my friend Paul Allen and I started Microsoft 30 years ago，we had a vision of “a computer on every desk and in every home”, which probably sounded a little too optimistic at a time when most computers were the size of refrigerators. But we believed that personal computers would change the world. And they have.

　　And after 30 years, I’m still as inspired by computers as I was back in seventh grade.

　　I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and inventiveness — to help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldn’t solve on their own.

　　Computers have transformed how we learn，giving kids everywhere a window into all of the world’s knowledge. They’re helping us build communities around the things we care about and to stay close to the people who are important to us, no matter where they are.3

　　Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it “tap-dancing to work”4. My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what makes me “tap-dancing to work” is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognize your handwriting or your speech, or one that can store a lifetime’s worth of photos, and they say, “I didn’t know you could do that with a PC5! ”

　　But for all the cool things that a person can do with a PC，there are lots of other ways we can put our creativity and intelligence to work to improve our world6. There are still far too many people in the world whose most basic needs go unmet7. Every year, for example, millions of people die from diseases that are easy to prevent or treat in the developed world.

　　I believe that my own good fortune brings with it a responsibility to give back to the world. My wife, Melinda, and I have committed to8 improving health and education in a way that can help as many people as possible.

　　As a father, I believe that the death of a child in Africa is no less poignant or tragic than9 the death of a child anywhere else, and that it doesn’t take much to make an immense difference in these children’s lives10.

　　I’m still very much an optimist, and I believe that progress on even the world’s toughest problems is possible — and it’s happening every day. We’re seeing new drugs for deadly diseases, new diagnostic tools，and new attention paid to the health problems in the developing world.

　　I’m excited by the possibilities I see for medicine, for education and, of course, for technology. And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, we're going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.

　　詞匯：

　　unleash 解開;放縱;使自由 inspire 鼓舞

　　optimist 樂觀主義者 incredible 難以置信的

　　clunky (clonky) 發(fā)出沉悶金屬聲的 curiosity 好奇心

　　inventiveness 發(fā)明創(chuàng)造的能力 teletype (teletype-writer) 電傳打字機(jī)

　　poignant 令人悲痛的，可憐的 tragic 悲劇的，悲慘的

　　vision 想象;幻想;美景 immense 巨大的

　　注釋：

　　1.be rooted in：扎根于;深深地存在于

　　2.It was a clunky old teletype machine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today.那是一臺(tái)笨重的舊式電傳打字機(jī)，跟我們今天的電腦相比幾乎干不了什么事。本句中，barely意為almost not;compare to在美國(guó)英語中也可以等同于compare with(與……相比)。

　　3.They’re helping us build communities around the things we care about and to stay close to the people who are important to us, no matter where they are.電腦幫助我們就我們所關(guān)心的事情建立一個(gè)交流的場(chǎng)所，并且與那些我們認(rèn)為對(duì)我們有重要意義的人密切相處，不管他們身在何處。care about指不管喜歡或不喜歡的事情都很關(guān)心、介意、在乎、計(jì)較。

　　4.“tap-dancing to work”：“跳著踢踏舞工作”。tap原意是“叩擊、輕敲”;tap dance是“踢踏舞”。這里實(shí)際意思是“(手指)輕輕敲擊鍵盤的工作”。

　　5.PC (personal computer)：個(gè)人計(jì)算機(jī)

　　6.But for all the cool things that a person can do with a PC, there are lots of other ways we can put our creativity and intelligence to work to improve our world.除了我們能用計(jì)算機(jī)做的所有神奇的事情，還有很多其他方式發(fā)揮我們的創(chuàng)造力和智慧，從而使世界更加美好。

　　7.go unmet：得不到滿足。在這里go是系動(dòng)詞，unmet是過去分詞作表語。

　　8.commit to此處意為承諾，保證做某事。

　　9.no less... than：和一樣，不亞于……

　　10. and that it doesn’t take much to make an immense difference in these children’s lives.而且要改善這些孩子們的命運(yùn)，其實(shí)不難。此處it是形式主語，真正的主語是不定式短語to make an immense difference in these children’s lives。

　　練習(xí)：

　　1.A computer was as big as an icebox when Bill Gates was a high school student.