Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international puter programming contest, which took place in Harbin, China. Three-person teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems.
The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty. Then they figured out the requirements of each. They designed ways to test their solutions. And they wrote the needed software systems. Even the winning team from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given limit. Stanford’s team solved five problems and finished in fourteenth place. Stanford was one of twenty-one American universities that took part in the contest this year.
The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Contest. The first final petition was held in 1977 at the Association for Computer Machinery Computer Science Conference. Today, a network of universities holds area petitions that send the winners to the world finals, now organized by IBM.
Contest spokesman Dong Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships. They are also guaranteed an offer of employment or internship(实习) with IBM. He said, “We have had past world champions that IBM has gone and employed in our Zurich research laboratory and are now working on some of the leading edge materials in science and physics. We have a world finalist from China who’s been working on the Watson Superputer that in the near future will be playing Jeopardy(一种超级计算机名称)against the best Jeopardy players in the world. So this petition is an opportunity to be recognized and to be recruited(招聘) by some of the top technology and research firms around the world.”
【小题1】 From the first paragraph we can figure out there were programmers taking part in the contest.A．3B．88C．246D．a lot of【小题2】 From the last paragraph we know that .A．the winners will be offered a job in IBMB．this contest provides a chance for the universitiesC．this petition is held every four yearsD．many big panies are short of programmers【小题3】 What is the best title of this passage?A．The Best Top ContestB．The Battle of the BrainsC．The Difficult CompetitionD．Courage and Wisdom NeededD
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(答案→)D
解析：本文报道了上个月，来自88个国家的103所大学的学生参加了国际计算机程序设计竞赛。这项脑力竞赛在中国哈尔滨举行。来自各个学校的三人组合要求在5个小时内解决11个现实生活中的问题。获得这次世界冠军的可以获得表彰和奖学金。另外，他们还可以在IBM工作或实习。
【小题1】细节理解题。根据有许多程序员参加比赛，故选D。
【小题2】细节理解题。根据Contest spokesman Dong Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships. They are also guaranteed an offer of employment or internship(实习) with IBM.故选A。
【小题3】标题归纳题。根据文章的内容可知这是智力大战，故选B。