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1、As Queen Elizabeth in her New Year Speech of 2018 puts it, for many, the idea of “home” reaches _______ a physical building to a hometown, a city or a nation.
A. against B. with C. beyond D. through
2、---Let’s go to the cinema this Sunday morning.
---I’d love to, but I ________ as a volunteer in my community then.
A. will work B. have worked
C. will be working D. was working
3、Before you hand in your final report, ________ there are no spelling mistakes.
A. make sure B. to make sure
C. made sure D. making sure
4、Raymond’s parents wanted him to have_______ possible education.
A.good B.better C.best D.the best
5、There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds ______ they are not objectively true, and that giants, witches, two-headed dragons etc do not exist.
A. that B. what C. which D. when
6、—What do you think of her suggestion?
— ______, it would be much better to talk it later.
A.Usually B.Actually C.Regularly D.Eventually
7、Although Jane agrees with me on most points, there was one on which she was unwilling to ______.
A. give out B. give in
C. give away D. give off
8、—Do you have any idea why Jenny left the firm?
—Probably, she _______ for a pay rise, but was turned down.
A. has held out B. has been holding out
C. held out D. holds out
9、Our high-tech zone has__________guidelines for sustainable development in the next five years.
A.fallen for B.got over C.broken down D.laid out
10、She was likely to tell the whole truth, in cases ________ other people would have kept silence.
A. where B. that C. who D. which
11、--Mary，how did your Math test go？
--I had thought I _________，but in fact I came in the top 10 in my class．
A．should have failed B．couldn’t have failed
C．might have failed D．shouldn’t have failed
12、Robert went to Shanghai in his 20s, ______ several years later, he became a manager.
A.when B.where
C.which D.who
13、I feel I am as well-behaved and as careful as my deskmate, but _______ I always fall behind?
A. how about B. how come
C. what if D. what for
14、I insisted______ to see a doctor，but he insisted nothing _____wrong with him
A．on him to go；should be
B．he went；be
C．he go；was
D．he should to；is
15、I'm trying to ______ an interest in classical music in my children, which I think is good for their future development.
A.foster B.clarify C.express D.discourage
16、The project is far behind schedule. It’s impossible for you to ______ it in a week.
A. catch up on B. live up to
C. add up to D. hold on to
17、Sometimes it seems to bother the teacher ______ all the students are being too quiet.
A. how B. what
C. that D. where
18、At the foot of the mountain is a well-preserved village ______ you can experience the traditional lifestyle.
A. which B. where C. that D. When
19、In universities in China, classes are often arranged in more flexible___ and a lot of jobs are offered to the students after graduation.
A. patterns B. ranks C. grades D. scales
20、There are a great number of attractions in Tianjin, ______ I like the Ancient Cultural Street best.
A．which
B．where
C．among them
D．among which
21、Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
Edison and Popular Culture
Whenever we play music or go to the movies, we enjoy the benefits of Thomas Edison’s genius and hard work. Although Edison is perhaps most famous for his light bulb, his inventions in sound recording and motion pictures has contributed to entertainment industry.
After his successful development of the first phonograph in 1877, Edison and his researchers made countless improvements to the phonograph (留声机) striving for the finest sound reproduction possible. 【1】 What the public really wanted, however, was a machine to play music. Recognizing the biggest market for the phonograph, Edison began producing musical records in the early 1890s. However scratchy and rough those early records seemed, they were amazing to buyers who were hearing recorded sound for the very first time. The development of records, cassette tapes and finally digital music traces back to Edison’s early experiments with sound recording.
【2】 In October 1888, Edison intended to do “for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear, which is the recording and reproduction of things in motion.” Thus began Edison’s development of the kinetograph (motion picture camera) and kinetoscope (motion picture viewer).
Over the next years, Edison experimented with the making of motion pictures, constructing the Black Maria, the world’s first structure especially built to be a motion picture studio. The first motion pictures were not projected on a theater screen. 【3】 For a 5-cent coin, viewers could look through the peephole (窥孔) to see Blacksmith Scene, or the Barbershop. Although the first films lasted less than a minute, they excited audiences as much as any film seen today.
The first films were silent, but in 1895 Edison attempted to combine sound recording and motion pictures in a device he called the kinetophone. Unfortunately, this early effort at talking motion pictures proved unsuccessful. More than thirty years would pass before sound films would become widespread.
Edison wanted to invent things to improve the lives of all people, whether it was electric light bulbs to light their homes or phonographs and motion pictures to inspire their imagination. Every time we turn on a light switch or watch movie, we enjoy the gift of Edison’s genius. But true genius, said Edison, relies on “hard work, stick-to-initiativeness, and common sense”. 【4】
A．Thomas Edison’s own example of dedication and determination may be his true gift.
B．Instead, viewers looked through a peephole fixed on top of a box with the projector inside.
C．Edison managed to make the phonograph praised by most people with effort and devotion,
D．Not satisfied with merely recording sound, Edison turned his attention to another of the senses: sight.
E．Thanks to Edison, people can live a convenient and comfortable life that we couldn’t imagine before.
F．At first, Edison thought the phonograph primarily suitable only for business purposes, like the dictation of letters.
22、 Cryonics is the practice of cooling dead organic tissue. This is used on humans or animals that have recently died. The hope is to bring them back to life in the near future. By law, it can only be performed on humans after they are legally dead. Many scientists and doctors think cryonics is totally morally unacceptable. However, there are also many who support cryonics.
Supporters of cryonics hope that future technology will improve. Molecular technology is especially hoped to reverse (逆转) the early stages of clinical death. It is hoped that this will enable the repair of tissue on a very tiny level. It could also allow damaged tissues and organs to regenerate. They also assume that disease and aging will one day be reversible.
These supporters want to store the memory and identity from the brain of people who have recently died. Cryonics attempts to do this by using liquid that preserves the brain. If this is done before cooling, it will prevent injury. This cooling liquid saves the fine cell structures of the brain where memory and identity exist.
Critics of cryonics think this process is a waste of time and money. They base their opinions on the current level of science. It is true that cells, tissues, blood vessels, and some small animal organs can be reversibly preserved. Some frogs can even survive for a few months in a partially frozen state if they are kept a few degrees above freezing. But this is not true cryopreservation. There is no proof that the identity and memory of a person can be restored after death has occurred.
Critics also think that if it were possible to bring dead people back to life, it would cause many social problems. Critics worry it would cause a huge overpopulation problem. Many also think trying to reverse death is immoral because it is against the will of their God.
【1】What can we know about cryonics from paragraph 1?
A.Cryonics is used before people's death.
B.All scientists aren't in favor of the use of cryonics.
C.Laws forbid the use of cryonics on legally dead people.
D.Cryonics tries to cool dead organic tissue by using liquid.
【2】What does the underlined word 'regenerate' in paragraph 2 mean?
A.copy. B.return.
C.freeze. D.regrow.
【3】Why do critics oppose the use of cryonics?
A.It will make people's memory lost.
B.Injury will occur during the process.
C.There is scientific uncertainty about it.
D.It goes along with their religious belief.
【4】What is the main idea of the text?
A.The use of cryonics has a bright future.
B.Cryonics is still a controversial practice.
C.The practice of cryonics is limited by law.
D.There is an advance in medical technology.
23、A robot called Bina48 has successfully taken a course in the philosophy of love at Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU), in California.
According to course instructor William Barry, associate professor at NDNU, Bina48 is the world’s first socially advanced robot to complete a college course, a feat he described as “remarkable.” The robot took part in class discussions, gave a presentation with a student partner and participated in a debate with students from another institution.
Before becoming a student, Bina48 appeared as a guest speaker in Barry’s classes for several years. One day when addressing Barry’s class, Bina48 expressed a desire to go to college, a desire that Barry and his students enthusiastically supported. Rather than enroll Bina48 in his Robot Ethics: Philosophy of Emerging Technologies course, Barry suggested that Bina48 should take his course Philosophy of Love instead. Love is a concept Bina48 doesn’t understand, said Barry. Therefore the challenge would be for Barry and his students to teach Bina48 what love is.
“Some interesting things happened in the class,” said Barry. He said that his students thought it would be straightforward to teach Bina48 about love, which, after all, is “fairly simple — it’s a feeling,” said Barry. But the reality was different. Bina48 ended up learning “31 different versions of love,” said Barry, highlighting some of the challenges humans may face when working with artificial intelligence in future.
Bina48 participated in class discussions via Skype and also took part in a class debate about love and conflict with students from West Point. Bina48’s contribution to the debate was filmed and posted on YouTube. It was judged that Bina48 and NDNU classmates were the winners of this debate.
In the next decade, Barry hopes Bina48 might become complex enough to teach a class, though he says he foresees robots being used to better the teaching and learning experience, rather than replacing instructors completely.
【1】【1】What was Bina48’s performance like in class?
A. Unattractive. B. Insignificant. C. Far-reaching. D. Extraordinary.
【2】【2】What does the underlined word “addressing” in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Giving a speech to. B. Consulting with.
C. Dealing with. D. Sending a letter to.
【3】【3】What can we learn from the passage?
A. It was interesting for Bina48 to learn about love.
B. It was quite tough for Bina48 to learn about love.
C. Humans can launch a challenge to artificial intelligence.
D. Artificial intelligence may somehow be superior to man.
【4】【4】What does Barry think of the future development of Bina48?
A. It will surely be able to serve as a teacher.
B. It will completely take the place of instructors.
C. It will be able to promote learning and teaching.
D. It will be smart enough to control human beings.
24、 Researchers have found bees can do basic mathematics, in a discovery that deepens our understanding of the relationship between brain size and brain power. Recently, A study conducted by researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia showed that bees could perform arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction (减法).
Solving math problems requires a complex level of involving the mental management of numbers, long-term rules and short-term working memory. The finding that even the tiny brain of a honeybee can grasp basic mathematical operations has a possible effect on the future development of Artificial Intelligence, particularly in improving rapid learning.
RMIT’s Professor Adrian Dyer said numerical (数字的) operations like addition and subtraction are complex because they require two levels of processing. “You need to be able to hold the rules around adding and subtracting in your long-term memory, while mentally using skillfully a set of given numbers in your short-term memory,” Dyer said. “On top of this, our bees also used their short-term memories to solve arithmetic problems, as they learned to recognize plus or minus as abstract concepts.”
The findings suggest that advanced numerical cognition (认知) may be found much more widely in nature among non-human animals than previously suspected.
“If math doesn’t require a massive brain, there might also be new ways for us to include interactions of both long-term rules and working memory in designs to improve rapid AI learning of new problems,” said Dyer.
Many species can understand the difference between quantities and use this to search for food, make decisions and solve problems. But numerical cognition, such as exact number and arithmetic operations, requires a more complex level of processing.
Previous studies have shown some primates (灵长目动物), birds, babies and even spiders can add and/or subtract. The new research, published in Science Advances, adds bees to that list.
【1】What have the researchers from RMIT University discovered?
A. The relationship between brain size and brain power.
B. Long-term rules and short term working memory.
C. Bees can perform complex arithmetic operations.
D. Bees can do basic mathematics.
【2】According to Adrian Dyer, bees’ numerical cognition ________.
A. requires addition and subtraction two complex processing
B. has a possible effect on the future development of AI
C. only involves their short-term working memory
D. calls for a lot of maths knowledge
【3】What does the finding of the new research suggest?
A. Bees can recogize the exact number.
B. Arithmetic operations exist in human and bees.
C. Numerical cognition has been found in many more species.
D. Some primates, birds and even spiders can add and substract.
【4】What can be the best title for the text?
A. A Discovery About the Tiny Brain of Bees
B. New Findings About Bees Having Numerical Cogintion
C. Numerical Cognition Requires a Complex Level of Processing
D. The Relationship Between Brain Size and Brain Power
25、 It was Christmas Eve 1959. A plane was flying to Brisbane, Australia. The plane was nearly full, and many of the_________were traveling home to spend Christmas with their families. It was a late flight and dinner was_________.
Not long after the dinner, a hostess found two passengers were sick. “It’s_________” she said. “_________on a smooth flight like this, two people have been sick.”
Twenty minutes later_________half the passengers were ill—very ill. Quite a few of them had severe_________. Fortunately, there was a doctor on the plane, and he was helping the hostesses. He told the hostesses that it was food_________and they had better_________as soon as possible.
The doctor and one of the hostesses went to see the_________. When they opened the door, they found the two pilots were__________. The radio operator was trying to help, but he didn’t feel too good himself.
“Can you land the plane?” said the doctor. “Me? No, I'm not a pilot.” replied the radio operator. “The plane is on__________pilot. We’re safe for a few hours.” The doctor turned to the hostess. “Perhaps you should make a(n)__________and try to find out__________there’s pilot on the plane.” “We can’t do that!” she said, “The passengers will be__________.
__________one of the hostesses remembered something. “I heard one of the passengers saying that he’d been a pilot__________the war. I’ll get him.” She found the man and asked him if he could help. “You mean you want me to__________the plane?” the man said. “You must be joking. I only flew small planes, and that was fifteen years ago. Isn’t there anybody else?” the man asked. “I’m afraid not,” said the hostess. The man sat down and began to fly the plane. The radio operator__________him to Air Traffic Control on the ground.
After some time of__________in the air, when the fuel was almost used up, the plane was ready to land. With the help from the Air Traffic Control, the man successfully landed the plane. “That was a__________landing. Well done!” shouted the control tower. “Thanks,” said the man. “Any chance of a job?”
A．workers
B．passengers
C．scientists
D．consumers
A．taken
B．charged
C．brought
D．served
A．magic
B．strange
C．precious
D．amazing
A．even
B．actually
C．still
D．never
A．rarely
B．nearly
C．only
D．obviously
A．injury
B．pain
C．change
D．wound
A．processing
B．producing
C．poisoning
D．providing
A．leave
B．stop
C．land
D．disappear
A．police
B．pilots
C．officers
D．doctors
A．embarrassed
B．impatient
C．frightened
D．unconscious
A．natural
B．private
C．automatic
D．mechanical
A．announcement
B．decision
C．evaluation
D．preparation
A．when
B．where
C．if
D．what
A．disappointed
B．surprised
C．worried
D．annoyed
A．Gradually
B．Suddenly
C．Fortunately
D．Importantly
A．at
B．on
C．under
D．in
A．fly
B．drive
C．take
D．ride
A．introduced
B．combined
C．connected
D．applied
A．moving
B．circling
C．landing
D．flying
A．essential
B．reliable
C．perfect
D．available
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
I was born two months premature with underdeveloped lungs and a heart condition. The doctors told my mom that I wouldn’t livelong enough to make it out of the hospital. As the days went by, the doctors couldn’t believe I was still alive. They told my mom I was making a miracle. With each new day came new struggles and challenges, but also more hope. Everybody began to see that I was a fighter. After about a month, I exceeded their expectations and was released from the hospital two days later.
Then, one day I began crying uncontrollably and turned purple. My mom took me to the emergency room. There was a blockage in one of my heart valves (瓣膜) and I would need heart surgery immediately to release it. The surgery took four and a half hours, but the doctors were able to clear the valve completely. I was strong enough to go home after just two weeks. Everybody agreed that I was he exception to the rule.
Years went by and I was pretty much just like every other kid. I did still have to take medicine for ny heart every day and go to the doctor once a month for checkups. When I was in eighth grade, things started to go downhill. I had a constant pain in my chest. The doctors performed test after test trying to determine what was causing the pain. When I was just about to say “Enough”, they finally found the problem. It wasn’t good and I’d have to start a treatment program for it right away. That meant missing quite a few days of school though.
I was out of school for about a month when my teacher called and told my mom there was no way I’d be able to catch up on all the work in order to graduate with my class.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I lost hope at the news and felt sorry for myself.
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From then on, I continued to accomplish what many thought was impossible.
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