failed and so were killed . One man, 15_______name was Hippomenes, wanted to marry the princess very much .so he asked the Goddness of Love 16_____help . The Goddness agreed to help and gave them three golden apples. During the race. Hipponmenes17________(throw) the apples in front of the princess one after another 18______she was running past him. Atlanta stopped to pick 19______up and because of that she ran too slowly and Hippomenes won the race. In the end, Atlanta married him and they

lived20____(happy) ever after. Unit 3 The computer, which was used to simplify difficult sums, began as a calculating machine in France in 1642.

Then

it

developed machine.

into1_______analytical

After being programmed by an operator2________used cards with holes, it could produce an answer quicker than any person. Later, Alan Turing wrote a book about 3______a computer could be make to work as a “universal machine”. From then 4______, the computer grew rapidly

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both in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s, it 5_______(grow) as large as a room and this reality worried the designers. However, with its memory improved, the computer 6_______(make)smaller. First, the memory was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. As a result, , the shape

of

the

computer7_________(total) changed from a large machine to a PC and then a laptop. Connected by a network ,the computer was able to share

8_______knowledge with

others through the World Wide Web. Since

the

1970s

many

new

9_______(apply) of the computer have been found in communication, finance,

trade

and

many

10______areas. The computer has become a devoted friend and helper of the human race.

The story is about an android called Andy, 11______is good at playing

football.

Andy

works

12_______a striker in the football team and he can run very fast. Last year their team went to Seattle, and

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took part in a football

13_______(compete). They won the second place. 14_____Andy was not happy with the result, because he thinks that the team who won the first place 15________(cheat). As they had a new kind of program 16______(develop) just before the match. So he wants to tell his programmer and coach to improve his 17_______( intelligent)so that they can create 18________even better

system.

They

can

be

programmed with all possible moves and even make 19______new moves