"So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living
A.Heathcliff
B.Catherine
C.ghost
D.one‘s spiritual lift
A.Heathcliff
B.Catherine
C.ghost
D.one‘s spiritual lift
A.not so much as
B.not so as to
C.in order to
D.so long as to
I would gladly have paid () for your dinner.
A.twice as much
B.two times as much
C.twice so much
D.as much as twice
It was not so much the many blows he received the lack of fighting spirit that led to his losing the job. ()
A.for
B.of
C.as
D.like
● Traditional Internet access methods like dial-up were so slow that host computers wereconnected to the dial-up (71) at the customer premise over slow (72) ports. PPP wasdesigned to run directly over these serial links. But with the advent of broadband Internet (73)technologies such as ADSL and cable modems there has been a considerable increase in thebandwidth delivered to the end users. This means that the host computers at the customerpremise connect to the (74) or cable "modem" over a much faster medium such as Ethernet.It also means that multiple (75) can connect to the Internet through the same connection.
A.buffer
B.modem
C.computer
D.server
● Traditional Internet access methods like dial-up were so slow that host computers were connected to the dial-up (71) at the customer premise over slow (72) ports. PPP was designed to run directly over these serial links. But with the advent of broadband Internet (73) technologies such as ADSL and cable modems there has been a considerable increase in the bandwidth delivered to the end users. This means that the host computers at the customer premise connect to the (74) or cable "modem" over a much faster medium such as Ethernet. It also means that multiple (75) can connect to the Internet through the same connection.
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.--SWIFT
Project after project designs a set of algorithms and then plunges into construction of customer-deliverable software on a schedule that demands delivery of the first thing built.
In most projects,the first system built is (71) usable,It may be too slow,too big,awkward to use,or all three.There is no (72) but to start again,smarting but smarter,and build a redesigned version in which these problems are solved.The discard and (73) may be done in one lump,or it may be done piece-by-piece.But all large-system experience shows that it will be done.Where a new system concept or new technology is used,one has to build a system to throw away,for even the best planning is not so omniscient(全知的)as to get it right the first time.
The management question,therefore ,is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away.You will do that.The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a (74),or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers.Seen this way,the answer is much clearer.Delivering that throwaway to customers buys time,but it does so only at the (75) of agony(极大痛苦)for the user,distraction for the builders while they do the redesign,and a bad reputation for the product that best redesign will find hard to live down.
Hence plan to throw one away;you will,anyhow.
71.()
A.almost
B.often
C.usually
D.barely
Currently 94% of Web users use either Internet Explorer or Firefox, but recently some new(71) have been developed that are beginning to attract attention. The browser Opera is becoming very(72) because of its speed, it is currently the world's fastest browser, and because it is much smaller(73) existing browsers (it can almost fit on a single diskette). It can also(74) the last Web page you visited, so the next time you surf, you can start where you left off. And like the big two, you can get it for free; the catch is that you have to watch blinking ads in one comer, or pay $40 for the ad-free (75) of Opera.
A.readers
B.machines
C.techniques
D.browsers
Observe that for the programmer,as for the chef, the urgency of the patron(顾客)may govern the scheduled completion of the task,but it cannot govern the actual completion.An omelette(煎鸡蛋),promised in two minutes,may appear to be progressing nicely.But when it has not set in two minutes,the customer has two choices—waits or eats it raw.Software customers have had (71) choices.
Now I do not think software (72) have less inherent courage and firmness than chefs,nor than other engineering managers.But false (73) to match the patron's desired date is much more common in our discipline than elsewhere in engineering.It is very (74) to make a vigorous,plausible,and job risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method,supported by little data,and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers.
Clearly two solutions are needed.We need to develop and publicize productivity figures,bug-incidence figures,estimating rules,and so on.The whole profession can only profit from (75) such data.Until estimating is on a sounder basis.individual managers will need to stiffen their backbones and defend their estimates with the assurance that their poor hunches are better than wish derived estimates.
(71)
A.no
B.the same
C.other
D.lots of