Now eighty and still working as chief technology officer of 3D Systems. Chuck Hull is enjoying some minor (33)________ 31 years after he first printed a small black eye-wash cup using a new method of manufacturing known as 3D printing.

At the time, he was working for a company that used UV light to put thin layers of plastic coats on tabletops and (34)________. He had an idea that if he could place thousands of thin layers of plastic on top of each other and then cut their shape using light, he would be able to form three dimensional objects. After a year, he (35)________ a system where light was shone into a bottle of photopolymer - a material which changes from liquid to plastic-like solid when light shines on it - and traces the shape of one level of the object. Subsequent layers are then printed until it is (36)________.

After patenting the invention, he set up 3D Systems, (37)________ getting $6m (£3.5m) from a Canadian investor. The first (38)________ product came out in 1988 and proved a hit among car manufacturers, in the aerospace sector and for companies designing medical equipment. The possibilities appear endless - from home-printed food and medicine to (39)________ that pictures of objects be able to be taken in shops and then recreated using plans downloaded from the Internet Although deliberate in his responses, there is one moment when the (40)________ spoken Chuck Hull tells of his surprise about what exactly his creation was capable of achieving.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A （15分）

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Words to Turn a Conversation Around

It's not what you say, but it's how you say it - isn't it? According to a language expert, we may have this wrong. "We are pushed and pulled around by language far more than we (41)________," says Elizabeth Stoke, professor of social interaction at Loughborough University. Stoke and her colleagues have (42)________ thousands of hours of recorded conversations, from customer services to mediation(调解) hotlines and police crisis (43)________. They discovered that certain words or phrases have the power to change the course of a conversation.

Some of these words are surprising, and (44)________ what we've been taught to believe. For example, in a study of conversations between doctors and patients, evidence showed that doctors who (45)________ options rather than recommended best solutions, got a better response, despite the suggestion from hospital guidelines to talk about the best interests of the patient. But, from conversation experts such as Stoke to FBI negotiators and communication coaches, we're learning which words are likely to (46)________ or persuade us.

Stoke found that people who had already responded (47)________ when asked if they would like to attend mediation seemed to change their minds when the mediator used the phrase. "Would you be willing to come for a meeting?" "As soon as the word 'willing' was used, people would say: 'Oh, yes, definitely'-they would actually (48)________ the sentence to agree." Stoke found it had the same effect in different settings: with business-to-business cold callers; with doctors trying to (49)________ people to go to a weight-loss class. She also looked at phrases such as "Would you like to" and "Would you be interested in". "Sometimes they (50) ________, but 'willing' was the one that got people to agree more rapidly and with more enthusiasm."

"'Hello' is a really important word that can change the (51)________ of a conversation," Stoke says. "It's about how you respond to people who are what we call 'first movers' - people who say something