关于标底价格的编制原则,说法正确的是()。
A. 标底作为招标人的期望价格,应力求与市场的实际变化相吻合
B. 一个工程可以编制多个标底
C. 招标人能压低标底价格
D. 标底由直接工程费、间接费组成
Next year, at last, the first set of printed tables should emerge from a calculating "difference engine" built to Babbage's design. Babbage will have been vindicated. But the realization of his dream will also underscore the extent to which he was a man born ahead of his time.
The effort to prove that Babbage's designs were logically and practically sound began in 1985, when a team of researchers at the Science Museum in London set out to build a difference engine in time for the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth in 1992. The team, led by the museum's curator of computing, Doron Swade, constructed a monstrous device of bronze, iron and steel. It was 11 feet long, seven feet tall, weighed three tons, cost around $500,000 and took a year to piece together. And it worked perfectly, cranking out successive values of seventh-order polynomial equations to 31 significant figures. But it was incomplete. To save money, an entire section of the machine, the printer, was omitted.
To Babbage, the printer was a vital part of design. Even if the engine produced the correct answers, there was still the risk that a transcription or typesetting error would result in the finished mathematical tables being inaccurate. The only way to guarantee error-free tables was to automate the printing process as well. So his plans included specifications for a printer almost as complicated as the calculating engine itself, with adjustable margins, two separate fonts, and the ability to print in two, three or four columns.
In January, after years of searching for a sponsor for the printer, the Science Museum announced that a backer had been found. Nathan Myhrvold, the chief technology officer at Microsoft, agreed to pay for its construction (which is expected to cost $373,000 with one Proviso: that the Science Museum team would build him an identical calculating engine and printer to decorate his new home on Lake Washington, near Seattle). Construction of the printer will begin—in full view of the public—at the Science Museum later this month. The full machine will be completed next year.
It is a nice irony that Babbage's plans should be realized only thanks to an infusion of cash from a man who got rich in the computer revolution that Babbage helped to foment. More striking still, even using 20th-century manufacturing technology the engine will have cost over $830,000 to build. Allowing for inflation, this is roughly a third of what it might have cost to build in Babbage's day, in contrast to the cost of electronic-computer technology, which halves in price every 18 months. That suggests that, even had Babbage succeeded, a Victorian computer revolution based on mechanical technology would not necessarily have followed.
Babbage wished to build a mechanical engine because ______.
A. he was very disappointed at the mathematical tables available at the time
B. he wanted to be the first man to invent a computing machine
C. be intended to make the mathematical tables flawless
D. he thought he was doing a significant work
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
When executives at Google went looking for Wall Street investment bankers to underwrite the company's massive initial public offering, they laid down strict terms of engagement: bring us new ideas on how to sell the deal to investors and save the usual political gamesmanship. But with such a huge payday at stake—an estimated $100 million in fees for handling the offering—would you expect all the big firms to play by the Google rules? Of course not. Just ask Goldman Sachs.
To win a chunk of the Google business, Goldman, the nation's premier investment bank, set free its CEO, Hank Paulson, to pull some strings. Paulson is one of Wall Street's best "call men", who can wave a Palm PDA full of connections when it's crunch time to bring home a deal. But News week has learned that Paulson tried to sidestep Google's orders by reaching out to one of Google's largest investors, Kleiner Perkins, the powerful venture-capital firm that was an early Google backer. The move helped doom Goldman's efforts to win the lead underwriting spot, which went instead to Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley.
Paulson thought his best shot was John Doerr, one of Kleiner's top partners. Bad move. When word of Paulson's misstep got back to Google's top executives, Goldman was quickly bumped from the top of the short list. "The people at Google were such enthusiasts about the rules," said one executive who works at a rival Wall Street firm. "When they heard about this, they went ape." None of the parties involved—Google, Goldman Sachs or Doerr—would comment.
The two winners, CSFB and Morgan Stanley, managed to keep a low profile. John Mack, CSFB's famously well-connected chief executive, purposely stayed out of the bidding process for fear that he might tip the scales to another player, people with knowledge of the matter say. Meanwhile, new rules for Wall Street research analysts appear to have prevented Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley's top Internet analyst, from playing a direct role, even though she and Doerr have done business together for years.
Goldman, meanwhile, can't blame its loss just on Paulson. People close to the deal say bankers for the firm bragged to Google about the Goldman name, and didn't generate enough ideas about how to sell shares to investors through an auction. "Their lack of marketing wit may have hurt them more than Paulson," said the executive from a rival firm. Sometimes, it really does pay to play by the rules.
What can be inferred from the first paragraph?
A. Google followed the rules of Wall Street.
B. Goldman Sachs disobeyed Google's rules.
C. Goldman Sachs followed Google's rules.
D. Big firms in Wall Street are afraid of Google.
A.删除和插入B.查询和检索C.统计和修改D.检索和更新
A. 删除和插入
B. 查询和检索
C. 统计和修改
D. 检索和更新