小丽和小华玩掷硬币游戏，她们同时抛掷两枚硬币，并规定：如果朝上的一面相同，则小丽获胜；如果朝上的一面不同，则小华获胜．你认为这个游戏公平吗？为什么？
答：这个游戏是公平的．
∵在游戏中，同时抛掷两枚硬币，可以出现4种结果：正正、正反、反正、反反，
∴这四种结果中有2种是朝上的一面相同、有2种是朝上的一面不同的，
∴P（小丽获胜）=P（小华获胜）=
=2 4
，1 2
∴这个游戏是公平的．
第五部分任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空只能填1个单词。 A long story about people is usually called a novel. It can be about any kind of man, woman, or child. It can be about kings, or Chicago newsboys, or housewives. The French writer, Victor Hugo, wrote his novel Les Miserables about a poor man who stole a loaf of bread. The American writer, Ernest Hemingway, wrote A Farewell to Arms about a young American with the Italian Army in World War One. A novel can tell the story of any kind of action, over any period of time. The modern Irish writer, James, Joyce, covers less than twenty- four hours in Ulysses. Yet, Joyce takes a thousand pages to tell all that happens from the time one man gets up in the morning until he goes to bed early the next morning. A German writer, Herman Hesse, uses only one hundred and fifty pages in his novel Demian to cover a boy’s life from the age of ten until he becomes a young man. A novel does not just tell the things that people do. It also tells why they do them. The Badge of Courage, by the American novelist, Stephen Crane, tells about a young soldier in the War between the states who runs away the first time he is in battle. The book shows why he acted as he did. It describes his mental suffering until he overcomes his fears. People buy novels because they enjoy reading about other people. The novel satisfies the human desire to know and understand our fellow creatures. The 76._________ of the novel
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