Section IV Writing
( 40 minutes )
You should write your responses to both parts on ANSWER SHEET 2.
Part A
66. Write a note to explain why you were absent from the night class.
Part B
67. For this part, you are required to write a composition based on the following table of The Brain and the Computer. Your composition should be no less than 150 words.
The Brain and the Compute
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Brain |
Computer |
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Size |
one tenth of a cubic foot |
hundreds of cubic feet of space |
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Electrical energy used |
25 watts of electrical power |
100,000 watts of electrical power |
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Structure of cells |
directly connected to many other cells |
unconnected cells like a cell of pigeonholes (鸽巢分类架) |
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Capacity |
between 10 billion and 100 billion items of information |
a few billion items of immediately accessible information, nothinking capacity |
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