jiang
Key Member
- Joined
- Nov 18, 2003
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- China
- Current Location
- China
Dear teachers,
I have four questions to ask.
No.1
With eyes glued to the video screen, they tap on for hours. For the rest of the world, it might be the middle of the night, but here time does not exist. This is a world unto intself. These young computer "hackers" are pursuing a kind of compulsion, a drive so consuming it overshadows nearly every other part of their lives and forms the focal point of their existence. They are compulsive computer programmers. Some of these students have been at the console for thirty hours or more without a break for meals or sleep.
We can learn from the passage that those at the computer center in the middle of the night are_________.
a. students working on a program
b. students deeply fascinated by the computer
The key is ' b'. The reason that 'a' isn't correct is there is a word 'compulsion'. Is that right?
No.2
Just as in that year, when those catastrophes were followed by substantial increases in insurance premiums, insurers are already lobbying for rate relief.
What does 'rate relief' mean?
No.3
For Soviets, clothing is the ______of greatest complaint, housing follows, and food is last.
a. source b. cause
What's the difference between the two?
No.4
I prefer badminton to sauash tennis. It's not so tiring__________.
a. for instance b. for one thing
What's the difference between the two?
No.5
He worked seven days a week, and six of ________until one o'clock at night.
a. those b. them
I think both are correct. 'b' is better. Is that right?
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you in advance.
Jiang
I have four questions to ask.
No.1
With eyes glued to the video screen, they tap on for hours. For the rest of the world, it might be the middle of the night, but here time does not exist. This is a world unto intself. These young computer "hackers" are pursuing a kind of compulsion, a drive so consuming it overshadows nearly every other part of their lives and forms the focal point of their existence. They are compulsive computer programmers. Some of these students have been at the console for thirty hours or more without a break for meals or sleep.
We can learn from the passage that those at the computer center in the middle of the night are_________.
a. students working on a program
b. students deeply fascinated by the computer
The key is ' b'. The reason that 'a' isn't correct is there is a word 'compulsion'. Is that right?
No.2
Just as in that year, when those catastrophes were followed by substantial increases in insurance premiums, insurers are already lobbying for rate relief.
What does 'rate relief' mean?
No.3
For Soviets, clothing is the ______of greatest complaint, housing follows, and food is last.
a. source b. cause
What's the difference between the two?
No.4
I prefer badminton to sauash tennis. It's not so tiring__________.
a. for instance b. for one thing
What's the difference between the two?
No.5
He worked seven days a week, and six of ________until one o'clock at night.
a. those b. them
I think both are correct. 'b' is better. Is that right?
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you in advance.
Jiang