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The western world has always been divided into two types of people—the cool and the uncool. It is a    11    that starts in school. The cool kids are good at sports. They are popular with the opposite sex. They are good-looking and people want to    12     their style. They can do their homework but they don’t make a big effort. That would not be cool.

The    13     kids are in the other corner of the playground. They are very bright, but they don’t have great    14    skills, not popular with the opposite sex and they are    15    at sports. When they are not programming computers or doing calculus (微積分) , they are watching shows like the “X Files”. They are known as the geeks.

But the geeks are taking over. Make friends with them now or they will put virus in your computer and    16     your maths homework to ruin. Geeks might not be popular at school, yet they do pass their examinations. They   17    good degrees, though they might not be too popular at university.

    The most important   18    of the 21st century, computers and IT, has been at least partly created by geeks. Geek heroes like Bill Gates    19    others to follow their examples. Being a geek is a way of earning good money. And the creation of the Internet gave them a    20     of their own to work and play in, making them a global force.    21   , the effect of the geeks on popular culture has started a new trend. It is now cool to be    22   . Geek culture is becoming an important part of general popular culture, in which what you    23    is more important than what you look like.

But there are also    24   . Geeks were often bullied (欺侮) or laughed at in school. Now a geek may be your    25   . Perhaps it is time for punishment.

11. A. time                   B. division                    C. group                D. part

12. A. show                    B. act                       C. copy                D. represent

13. A. uncool                      B. unimportant             C. clever                      D. strange

14. A. personal              B. attractive                 C. experimental            D. social

15. A. tasteless                B. careless                 C. hopeless                  D. helpless

16. A. introduce             B. bring                      C. prefer                      D. add

17. A. score                 B. lack                  C. take                 D. save

18. A. discovery          B. industry                    C. progress           D. improvement

19. A. excite                B. discourage          C. demand          D. promise

20. A. world                 B. challenge           C. chance             D. heaven

21. A. However            B. Therefore                 C. Still                         D. Besides

22. A. imaginative          B. uncool                     C. attractive         D. cool

23. A. remember               B. understand                C. receive            D. know

24. A. dangers                     B. questions                  C. possibilities               D. wonders

25. A. secretary                    B. trainee               C. friend                    D. boss

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