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2014届高考英语二轮复习精选：阅读理解 1.On Monday , December 10,2012,Google Doodle(涂鸦) celebrated the 197th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace , She is seen by some as the world’s first computer programmer. Google wrote on their official blog：“We hope today’s doodle inspires people to find out more about Ada, and about the contributions made by women in general to sclence and technology.” Lovelace was born on December 10,1815, Her father was a poet ,and her mother was a mathematician, who arranged for her daughter to be taught in science and math, Ada followed in her mother’s footsteps, eventually becoming a mathematician herself. At 17 ,Lovelace became friends with Babbage ,a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, who Ada learned about four years ago from her mother ,She became interested in his idea to design a computing device(装置),Babbage and lovelace would write letters back and forth to each other about it. In 1843,Lovelace added details to an article describing the machine ,She included step-by-step instructions for how the machine would work. While Babbage aaw the machine as a calculator ,Lovelace predicted a machine that could use symbols and rules to compute more than just math , She even wrote about it making music;“The engine might create complex and scientific pieces of music”. Lovelace imagined that one day it would be possible to use a maching for an unlimited number of tasks , The only limitation would be the creatlvity of the user , The machine was not actually built until 1991,But Lovelace had envisioned it nearly 100 years before that , It was the world’s first computer. Lovelace is one of the few female pioneers of the computer age,Gllgle’s Doodle honors’her by showing her vision from start to finish , It has Lovelace writing her program with a reather pen alongside computers based on her first idea , The iast machine shown; a modem laptop playing music, just as Lovelace had imagined many years ago. 51、Google Doodle celebuated Lovelace’s bi