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Read the article quickly and then try to retell the main idea of it in your own words. You have 15 minutes for this task. * * IT showdown kicks off Issue.1001 April 17, 2013 ‘Macho’ comment haunts Obama Group Discussion General Questions Detailed Study IT showdown kicks off Students from China University of Science and Technology compete in the 2013 Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge held in Tsinghua University. file photo Background Information Find out more about supercomputer… A?supercomputer?is a?computer?at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. The term Super Computing was first used in the? New York World?in 1929 to refer to large custom-built tabulators that IBM had made for?Columbia University. Skimming and scanning: Find the answers to the following quesitons as quickly as possible. Instruction 1.What do we know about Xu Chiheng from this article? 2.What is the difference between painting and computer sceience in Ye Wei’s opinion? Ye said that there are always standards in the computer world. That is, every question has only one right answer. But people can judge paintings using different criteria. He is 23 years old and majors in Computer science and technology at Tsinghua University. He is now working on Supercomputer. General Questions 3.Why did Ye seldom go to classes in University ? 4.Where do the students participating in the competition come from? Ye said that the industry is developing so fast that he need to absorb new things all the time. General Questions Besides students from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, students from South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Russia are also participating in the competition. 5. What should we do to ensure the long-term development of Supercomputer according to Hu Leijun? 6.What does Shen Xubang think about the development of China’s supercomputers? In order to ensure the long term development and boom of the supercomputer industry