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1、— Jim ________ what I said annoying though he didn’t say anything.
— So you mean you will have to apologize to him?
A.must find B.might find C.should have found D.must have found
2、The police had to________ force to enter the building because the criminal had locked the gate.
A．employ
B．empty
C．enlarge
D．enlighten
3、We’d better go now, ______ we’ll miss the train.
A. but B. so C. otherwise D. therefore
4、Around this point ______, which is humorous and full of a strong local flavor.
A. the story develops B. does the story develop
C. develops the story D. the story developed
5、What was Jeff's ____ to the news that he was chosen to be chairman of the students' union?
A．reaction
B．impression
C．permission
D．conclusion
6、---Haven’t seen you for ages! Where have you been?
---I went to Ningxia and ________ there for one year, teaching as a volunteer.
A. has stayed B. had stayed
C. stayed D. am staying
7、 — Excuse me, could you please turn down the music a little? It’s too loud.
—___.
A. Oh, it’s my honor to do so
B. Never mind. I like music
C. Sorry. I didn’t know your were studying
D. Thank you. It’s kind of you
8、—Can we make it to the concert with such heavy traffic?
—Absolutely not.The pianist_______for about half an hour when we arrive.
A.will be playing B.has played C.will have played D.has been playing
9、The thought took root in Europe long before people realized ______ diverse language could be.
A.how B.that C.what D.where
10、The doctor gave the late-stage cancer patient more powerful drugs in the ______ hope that he might recover.
A.vain B.fresh C.ambiguous D.unrest
11、In some countries,the president can ______ somebody from death penalty.
A. punish B. inspect
C. charge D. privilege
12、We are so tired. ______ we could take the day off tomorrow!
A. Only if
B. What if
C. If only
D. If so
13、Teachers in primary schools ______ influence the kids fall under should be role models.
A. whose B. who
C. where D. which
14、Ten days are devoted to this training program and ________ it be unsuccessful, it could be repeated later.
A．should
B．could
C．might
D．would
15、The opinion learning is a lifelong process has been expressed by education experts throughout the years.
A. which B. that
C. what D. how
16、His comprehensive surveys have provided the most________statements of how, and on what basis, data are collected.
A.explicit B.ambiguous C.fundamental D.arbitrary
17、The president must have received the result of medical research by the time the disease spread widely, _______?
A.hasn’t he B.mustn’t he C.hadn’t he D.didn’t he
18、Interested in painting, he________ paint with pen and paper after work, gradually cultivating himself into a self-taught painter.
A.would B.must C.might D.should
19、________by many negative reports, some people wrongly regard teenagers as lacking a sense of responsibility and concern for others.
A．Influenced
B．To be influenced
C．Having influenced
D．Being influenced
20、The trip aims to provide the children with a________ of the countryside first-hand.
A．taste
B．reach
C．touch
D．load
21、Driving while talking on the phone increases the likelihood of an accident and is actually more dangerous than driving drunk, U.S. researchers report. This holds true whether the driver is holding a cell phone or using a hands⁃free device.
“As a society, we have agreed on not tolerating the risk associated with drunk driving,”said researcher Frank Drews, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Utah.“This study shows us that somebody who is conversing on a cell phone is exposing him or herself and others to a similar risk — cell phones actually are a higher risk,”he said.
In the study, 40 people followed a pace car along a prescribed course, using a driving simulator （模拟仪）. Some people drove while talking on a cell phone, others drove while drunk（meaning their blood-alcohol limit matched the legal limit of 0.08 percent）, and others drove with no such distractions. The researchers found an increased accident rate when people were conversing on the cell phone. Drivers on cell phones were 5.36 times more likely to get in an accident.
The bottom line: Cell⁃phone use was linked to“a significant increase in the accident rate,” Drews said.
The phone users did even worse than the inebriated, the Utah team found. There were three accidents among those talking on cell phones — all of them involving a rear⁃ending（追尾） of the pace car. In contrast, there were no accidents recorded among participants who were drunk.
In response to safety concerns, some states have declared it illegal to use hand ⁃ held cell phones while driving. But that type of law may not be effective, because the Utah researchers found no difference in driver performance whether the driver was holding the phone or talking on a hands⁃free model.
“We have seen again and again that there is no difference between hands⁃free and hand⁃held devices,”Drews said.“The problem is the conversation. The best solution to the problem is obvious: Don’t talk on the phone while you are driving. ”
【1】Which group of drivers performed worst in the study?
A．Those phone users.
B．Those who are drunk.
C．Those following a pace car.
D．Those with hearing problems.
【2】What does the underlined phrase“the inebriated”in paragraph 5 refer to?
A．The drunk drivers.
B．The researchers.
C．The cell⁃phone⁃free drivers.
D．The Utah team.
【3】What can be concluded from the last two paragraphs?
A．Driver performance has nothing to do with the use of mobile phones.
B．It is timely to ban the use of hand⁃held phones while driving.
C．The Utah researchers find the traffic safety law works as well as before.
D．Talking on the phone while driving should be avoided.
【4】In which section of a newspaper is this text from?
A．Sports.
B．Economy.
C．Society.
D．Entertainment.
22、 The new year is the moment when people vow to improve their fitness. They join gyms, swear off alcohol and adopt healthier diets. These resolutions usually do not last beyond January.
But some employers try to help their workers stick to their goals by offering “wellness” programmes. One of the longest-running examples began in 1979 at Johnson&Johnson (j&j), an American health-care company. The plan promotes weight loss, smoking quitting and efforts to reduce blood pressure. The firm claims it reduced medical costs by $400 an employee per year, and resulted in fewer workers suffering from heart disease or high blood pressure.
Yet an examination of the data by Martin Cherniack of the University of Connecticut found that in 2005-08, a sharp jump in alcohol use, depression and stress among j&j employees occurred. This coincided with a period when the firm had a target of lifting productivity by 9% a year. So the employees may have been leaner and fitter, but it is possible that workplace pressure to produce more meant greater stress.
All this suggests that employee well-being is a rather more complex topic than can be tackled by a programme devoted to exercise and healthy living. A study by Rand Europe, a research institute, found that obvious bad habits such as smoking and high alcohol use were in fact not associated with lower productivity, while obese workers were no more likely to take time off than anyone else. The biggest productivity problems were associated with lack of sleep, financial concerns and mental-health issues-factors that may well be directly linked to work-related stress.
It seems reasonable for companies to expect some level of economic return from any wellness programme that they provide. But the trade-off should not be too blatant. Making employees fitter so you can work them a lot harder seems rather like drilling your infantry (野战军) on a course before sending them to face the machine guns. A better impact on morale (士气) (and thus productivity) might occur if workers felt that their managers had a genuine interest in their welfare.
【1】What does the author want to tell us by the example of Johnson&Johnson?
A.A healthy lifestyle can contribute to higher productivity.
B.Caring for employees’ physical health is of great importance.
C.A health program is not enough to improve employee well-being.
D.A wellness program benefits both the company and the employees.
【2】What does the study by Rand Europe indicate?
A.Certain living habits help improve motivation.
B.Work-related pressure is to blame for low productivity.
C.Financial concerns have nothing to do with productivity.
D.Obesity is associated with lower attendance in the workplace.
【3】What does the underlined word “blatant” mean?
A.Challenging.
B.Effective.
C.Flexible.
D.Obvious.
【4】What’s the purpose of this text?
A.To recommend a new way of increasing profits.
B.To compare various factors affecting productivity.
C.To question some practice in business management.
D.To urge employers to improve health care programs.
23、 Saving Mr. Banks (2013) ★★★
BBC One, 10:30 p.m.
John Lee Hancock’s film unapologetically tells the Disney side of the twisted making of Mary Poppins. It presents Walt Disney’s (by Tom Hanks) struggle with PL Travers (by Emma Thompson), who wrote the original books, as a kind of Norman Conquest of charm over a brilliant but unhappy writer. The sugar-to-medicine rate is 15 parts to one, but there’s nothing wrong with true sweetness.
The Dark Mirror (1946, b/w) ★ ★ ★
BBC Two, 8:05 p. m.
Olivia de Havilland, one of the last surviving stars of golden-age Hollywood cinema, died last month, so this film makes for a sad rewatch. It’s an old-fashioned thriller in which psychiatrist (精神病医生) Lew Ayres has to decide which identical twin ( both played by de Havilland) has committed a murder. The entire story is somewhat unrealistic but de Havilland fully shows her acting skills. Robert Siodmak directs.
Jonathan Edwards: One Giant Leap ★ ★ ★ ★
BBC Two, 8:30 p.m.
Twenty-five years ago, medals for British athletes were very rare indeed. The 1995 World Athletics Championships brought just one gold for the UK, for triple-jumper Jonathan Edwards, whose world record leap (跳) of 18. 29 m stood for two decades. This film tells a story of pressure, faith and positive thinking.
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) ★ ★ ★ ★
ITV4, 9:55 p.m.
In the famous college experiment of the title, a psychology professor set up a make-believe prison and randomly assigned students to be either prisoners or guards to study the effects of unearned authority. The frightening results are captured (捕获) in Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s recreation. Ezra Miller plays a prisoner abused by the guards, while Billy Crudup is excellent as the unknowable professor.
【1】Who is Olivia de Havilland?
A．A detective.
B．A murder.
C．An actor.
D．A psychiatrist.
【2】Which film can inspire the audience?
A．Saving Mr. Banks.
B．The Dark Mirror.
C．The Stanford Prison Experiment.
D．Jonathan Edwards: One Giant Leap.
【3】What do the four films have in common?
A．They are night programs.
B．They are all rated 4-star films.
C．They are films by the same director.
D．They are shown on the same channel.
24、 War is expensive and it is bloody. That is why America's Department of Defence wants to replace a third of its armed vehicles and weaponry with robots by2015. Such a change would save money, as robots can be much cheaper to replace than people. Just as importantly for the generals, it would make waging war less prey to the politics of body bags. Nobody mourns a robot.
The US military already routinely uses robotic aero planes known as unmanned aerial vehicles ( UAVs ). In November 2001 two missiles fared from a remote-controlled Predator UAV killed Mohammad Atef, al-Qaeda's chief of military operations and one of Osama bin Laden's most important associates, as he drove his car near Kabul. But whereas UAVs and their ground-based equivalents, such as the machinegun-toting Sword robots, are usually controlled by distant human operators, the Pentagon would like to give these robots increasing amounts of autonomy, including the ability to decide when to use lethal force.
To achieve this, Ronald Arkin of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, is developing a set of rules of engagement for battlefield robots to ensure that their use of lethal force follows the rules of ethics. In other words, he is trying to create an artificial conscience. Dr Arkin believes that there is another reason for putting robots into battle, which is that they have the potential to act more humanely than people. Stress does not affect a robot's judgment in the way it affects a soldier's.
His approach is to create what he calls a "multidimensional mathematical decision-space of possible behavior actions". Based on inputs ranging from radar data and current position to mission status and intelligence feeds, the system would divide the set of all possible actions into those that are ethical and those that are not. If, for example, the drone from which the fatal attack on Atef was launched had sensed that his car was overtaking a school bus, it might then have held fire.
There are comparisons to be drawn between Dr Arkin's work and the famous Three Laws of Robotics drawn up in the 1950s by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer ,to govern robot behaviour. But whereas Asimov's laws were intended to prevent robots from harming people in any circumstances, Dr Arkin's are supposed to ensure only that they are not unethically killed.
This is an admirable goal in theory, but even if ethics can be neatly encoded into software, pitfalls remain. Although a completely rational robot might be unfazed by the chaos and confusion of the battlefield, it could still make mistakes. Surveillance and intelligence data can be wrong, and conditions and situations on the battlefield can change.
【1】America’s military force wants to replace people with robots NOT because ________.
A.war cost a lot and it is bloody
B.people show sympathy for a person not a robot
C.. the armed vehicles and weapons are too expensive
D.the general would receive less criticism from the masses
【2】Which of the following statements is True?
A.Atef was killed by two missiles fired from a remote-controlled manned aerial vehicle.
B.The department of force already uses UAVs with relatively high autonomy.
C.The study done by Dr. Arkin is similar to Three Laws of Robotics.
D.In Arkin’s opinion, a soldier’s judgment can be affected but robot’s won’t.
【3】What’s the main idea of this article?
A.Ronald Arkin is developing a set of rules to increase autonomy.
B.Ronald Arkin is making efforts to create an artificial conscience.
C.Atef was precisely bombed by a remote-controlled Predator UVA.
D.There are comparisons between Dr. Arkin’s work and Three Laws of Robotics.
【4】What’s the author’s attitude about Arkin’s approach?
A.His approach is an admirable goal and it can be realized.
B.Robot would fight without any mistakes in the battlefield.
C.Dr. Arkin’s approach is ethical and faultless.
D.Robots are not substitute for people in the battlefield.
25、Philipp Kessler and his wife Karin in Austria quit their jobs and planned their around-the-world adventure, but then the pandemic hit the world. They had to quickly_________their plans as borders started closing. “_________taking the train from Russia over Mongolia to China and_________more of Asia, we had to start in Europe. You can’t always_________your plans,” Phillip said.
After travelling across Europe, the_________found themselves in Mexico, where every day became a(n)_________for Philipp to immerse(使……沉浸于)himself in the Spanish language and culture. He began each day_________Spanish grammar and vocabulary and taking chances to put everything he learned into_________.
Everyday_________, like grocery shopping, taking a bus or getting a haircut, became__________experiences for Philipp. When a local market vendor(小贩)__________him about the fruits that he’d never seen before, Philipp realized how rewarding it was to connect with__________in their language. He also__________the barbershop so that he could tell the hairdresser__________what he would like his hair to look like. Philipp said, “People are happy to see you at least__________to speak their language.”
Philipp added, “My Spanish was__________when, recently, we decided to take the second class bus from Oaxaca to Puebla. At the bus station, there was no information about our__________. I had to ask... In Mexico, you often have to ask for information because you don’t always__________it on the Internet.”
After the__________, Philipp has shared advice on learning foreign languages: Whether travelling abroad or at home, find chances to have__________with others in the language you’re learning.
【1】
A．make
B．change
C．postpone
D．share
【2】
A．Due to
B．Instead of
C．Apart from
D．As for
【3】
A．mentioning
B．describing
C．rescuing
D．exploring
【4】
A．stick to
B．turn off
C．check out
D．cut down
【5】
A．employees
B．crowd
C．guides
D．pair
【6】
A．opportunity
B．tendency
C．decision
D．agreement
【7】
A．creating
B．resisting
C．studying
D．canceling
【8】
A．trouble
B．practice
C．doubt
D．order
【9】
A．traditions
B．recipes
C．recreations
D．tasks
【10】
A．energy-consuming
B．eye-opening
C．time-saving
D．heart-breaking
【11】
A．asked
B．challenged
C．taught
D．warned
【12】
A．translators
B．visitors
C．locals
D．experts
【13】
A．established
B．frequented
C．sponsored
D．monitored
【14】
A．randomly
B．honestly
C．exactly
D．virtually
【15】
A．try
B．continue
C．pretend
D．promise
【16】
A．elegant
B．embarrassing
C．helpful
D．complex
【17】
A．exchange
B．performance
C．stay
D．departure
【18】
A．advertise
B．record
C．post
D．find
【19】
A．experience
B．lecture
C．test
D．disaster
【20】
A．conversations
B．bargains
C．contests
D．quarrels
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。
Grandfather was a wise and honorable man. His house was not far from ours, and I would visit him often going home after school.
No matter how rotten I had been, I could tell Grandpa anything. My secrets were safe. Whenever there was a problem, he gave me the tools to fix it. I knew I would always find the best answer from him. He always understood. He loved me.
I remember a time when a bunch of us were playing baseball in the field behind Mrs. Ferguson’s house. I hit one pitch just right and slam! It was a home run that soared high and away, and ended up breaking Old Lady Ferguson’s kitchen window! We all ran! Walking home, my best friend, Tom, asked, “How will she ever know who did it? She’s blinder than a bat!” He had a point.
I was afraid that Mrs. Ferguson would stay mad at me, so I ran. I didn’t know what she would do. I tried to calm down. However, my stomach was in knots. On the way home. I imagined that she was a mean witch (女巫) chasing me, and the further way I ran, the larger she grew... until finally she towered over the whole town, seeing my every move with an evil eye. Thoughts rushed through my mind. Would Mrs. Ferguson stay mad at me? Would she call police? Worse still, would she tell my parents I couldn’t even imagine the disappointment on Mom and Dad’s face. They were hoping I would act honestly and in a responsible way
I decided to stop by Grandpa’s. I felt ashamed. I wanted to hide. I wanted to knock my head against a tree a thousand times and make the world just go away —as if punishing myself could undo things.
“I would tell everything to Grandpa,” a voice inside me said.
“I was wrong.” I told him, with my head down. He must have known something was up by the expression on my face. He knew we had been warned many times about the dangers of playing where we shouldn’t.
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
Para 1: But he just listened while I continued talking.
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Para 2: Grandpa smiled when he knew I had figured it out.
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