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1、Messi says that the secret ________ his success is learning from his failures.
A．about
B．to
C．for
2、Talks between managers and workers ______ over the issue of holiday pay.
A．broke away
B．broke down
C．broke out
D．broke through
3、I bought my mother a present and wished to give her a surprise on her birthday, but my father____the secret.
A. put away B. put off C. gave away D. gave off
4、_______ working experience and ability, I believe Tom is equal to this job.
A. In terms of B. As a result of
C. At the heart of D. In favour of
5、—Is William still drinking?
—No. By next Sunday he for a whole month without drinking.
A．had been
B．has been going
C．will have been
D．will go
6、Do you think regular exercise ___________ good health?
A. benefit from B. reach for
C. make for D. go for
7、The deadline is tomorrow morning; _________ you must finish the work tonight.
A. in a word B. in fact
C. in other words D. by the way
8、The other day, my father drove his car down at ____ I thought was a dangerous speed.
A.as B.that C.which D.what
9、The governments are very________ about setting a new policy and make no decision until they are quite sure it is the right one.
A．particular
B．concerned
C．cautious
D．certain
10、It was a nice house, but _______ too small for a family of live.
A.rarely B.fairly C.rather D.pretty
11、Magic shows are interesting ______ the audience does not discover how the tricks are done.
A．as long as
B．so that
C．as if
D．ever since
12、There were many causes for his failure, but ________, it was because his carelessness and little preparation.
A. as a result B. on the other hand
C. in a nutshell D. on the contrary
13、There is no doubt ________ they did a completely bad job at that very moment.
A. which B. whether C. how D. that
14、— Could you turn the TV down a little bit?
— ________. Is it disturbing you?
A．Take it easy.
B．I’m sorry.
C．Not a bit
D．It depends
15、She found listening to the voicemail friends had left her a great _____ in getting through the tough months.
A.comfort B.compromise C.commitment D.criterion
16、To learn English well, we should find opportunities to hear English _____ as much as we can.
A.speak B.speaking C.spoken D.to speak
17、Actually, the London Olympic Park is built _____ there used to be a poor area called East London.
A. what B. which
C. when D. where
18、Sometimes the best is not available to us, and we just ______ the existing situation.
A.settle for B.substitute for
C.answer for D.make for
19、Her team failed in the competition．She is trying to get to the ____ of why some members gave up midway．
A. bottom B. floor
C. result D. effect
20、The number of people invited_____fifty, but a number of them____absent for different reasons.
A．were; was
B．was; was
C．was; were
D．were; were
21、Just imagine you are browsing through your emails when you suddenly start daydreaming about where you can go for summer vacation. You are thus reminded to compare the cost of several fast food restaurants. Then you suddenly change your mind and decide to seek for some places to hold your birthday party.
It may occur to you that you are actually surfing the Internet in a bit absent-minded manner. There is one word, in fact, “wilfing”, which can explain the phenomenon. According to a survey for an economic column, almost eight in ten Internet users confessed that they had the newly-named habit. The survey of 2800 people implemented by OurGov indicates that over a quarter of online users wilf ---- a rough acronym of What Was I Looking For? ---- for Four days every month.
Kete Cohenmen, CMTV’s resident life trainer and motivator, commented, “Preventing yourself from wilfing takes a blend of delicate planning and strong willpower.” Recently, all manners of websites aiming to attracting our attention emerge. It’s time for online users to set themselves a clear goal and a correspondent time limit to change the current situation.
Shopping online, for example, is most likely to make users wilf amid all the online activities. It is more likely that men admit being wilfers than women. A third of the men surveyed said the habit of wilfing had damaged their relationships. But there is one piece of good news that wilfing is a habit people tend to break out of. Internet users aged 65 or over were four times less likely to wilf than those aged under 23.
Mison Lioyed, from money by money.com, said, “The Internet was intended to make it easier for people to have access to the information they need as quickly and conveniently as possible.” Despite the fact that people log on purposefully, they are now being provided so many choices and are distracted to such a degree that many forget why they are there, and instead, spend hours aimlessly wilfing. It’s critical that people realize the importance of reducing or even eliminating unnecessary online distractions to be on the right track when surfing online, as it can have an effect on people's productivity both at work and at home.
So, are you a wilfer who always found yourself engulfed by the Internet?
【1】The underlined word “acronym” in Para. 2 most probably means ______.
A．a summary of the book “What Was I Looking For?”
B．a word composed of the first letters of the words in a phrase.
C．an expression meaning drawing people’s attention away.
D．a clue that leads to the answer of what people daydream of.
【2】What is an efficient way to help address wilfing according to the passage?
A．Trying to focus on different tasks at the same time.
B．Playing on the Internet all the time.
C．Trying to set a surfing goal and a time limit.
D．Stopping taking a blend of planning and willpower.
【3】It can be concluded from paragraph 4 that ______.
A．one third of Internet users will be wilfers lost on the Internet.
B．men are less likely to be wilfing than women.
C．as you age, you’ll become more and more wilfing.
D．the relationship will be damaged by wilfing between the partners.
【4】What can be called “wilfing” according to the passage?
A．You suddenly decide to look up some information about clothes.
B．You spend hours aimlessly surfing the Internet every day.
C．You are accessing the information you need quickly and conveniently.
D．You are browsing some of your emails which haven’t been checked for months.
22、 A robot with a sense of touch may one day feel “pain”, both its own physical pain and sympathy for the pain of its human companions. Such touchy-feely robots are still far off, but advances in robotic touch-sensing are bringing that possibility closer to reality.
Sensors set in soft, artificial skin that can detect both a gentle touch and a painful strike have been hooked up to a robot that can then signal emotions, Asada reported February 15 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This artificial “pain nervous system”, as Asada calls it, may be a small building block for a machine that could ultimately experience pain.
Asada, an engineer at Osaka University, and his colleagues have designed touch sensors that reliably pick up a range of touches. In a robot system named Affetto, a realistic-looking child’s head, these touch and pain signals can be convertedto emotional facial expressions.
A touch-sensitive, soft material, as opposed to a rigid metal surface, allows richer interactions between a machine and the world, says neuroscientist Kingson Man of the University of Southern California. Artificial skin “allows the possibility of engagement in truly intelligent ways”.
Such a system, Asada says, might ultimately lead to robots that can recognize the pain of others, a valuable skill for robots designed to help care for people in need, the elderly, for instance.
But there is an important distinction between a robot that responds in a predictable way to a painful strike and a robot that’s able to compute an internal feeling accurately, says Damasio, a neuroscientist also at the University of Southern California. A robot with sensors that can detect touch and pain is “like having a robot, for example, that smiles when you talk to it,” Damasio says. “It’s a device for communication of the machine to a human.” While that’s an interesting development, “it’s not the same thing as a robot designed to compute some sort of internal experience,” he says.
【1】What do we know about the “pain nervous system”?
A．It is named Affetto by scientists.
B．It is a set of complicated sensors.
C．It combines sensors and artificial skin.
D．It is able to signal different emotions.
【2】What does the underlined word “converted” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A．Delivered.
B．Translated.
C．Attached.
D．Adapted.
【3】What does Damasio consider as an interesting development?
A．Robots can put up with pain.
B．Robots can talk to human beings.
C．Robots can compute internal feelings
D．Robots can detect pains and respond accordingly.
【4】What can be the best title of the text?
A．Robots Inch to Feeling Pain
B．Machines Become Emotional
C．Human Feelings Can Be Copied
D．Artificial Skins Gain Intelligence
23、 In India, the country with the world’s second-highest number of Covid-19 cases, some hospitals have started to use robots to connect patients with their loved ones, and assist healthcare workers.
Bangalore-based Invento Robotics has designed three robots to carry out tasks including cleaning surfaces, answering patients questions and enabling video consultations (咨询) with doctors.
Of the eight the company has so far used? the most popular model is Mitra. Using facial-recognition (面部识别) technology, the robot can remember the names and faces of patients it has contacted. Mitra can travel around a hospital independently, helping patients connect with family and doctors via its cameras and a video screen.
“Mitra can be the nurse’s or doctor’s assistant, take readings and vitals, remind them of medicines,” says Balaji Viswanathan, CEO of Invento Robotics.
He says the human-like robot interacts with patients and gains their trust. “It may sound funny but we are using robots to bring humanity (Aft) to hospitals,” he tells CNN Business.
Yatharth Hospital in the city of Noida, northern India? has deployed two Mitra robots --one at its entrance to screen patients and the other in the ICU (intensive care unit).
“Inside our ICU, Mitra helps patients connect with their families through video and gives the patient’s family a look inside,” hospital director Kapil Tyagi tells CNN Business.
“Patients get happy and positive whenever the robot visits them. They are often taking photos with Mitra,” he says.
Viswanathan says Invento uses “best in class security“ for video feeds between doctors, patients and their families. For in-depth telemedicine consultations? a booth is built around the robot to give patients privacy.
【1】What does the underlined phrase “carry out” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A．Change.
B．Judge.
C．Perform.
D．Design.
【2】What can we learn from Balaji Viswanathan’s words?
A．Mitra is very funny.
B．Mitra is quite helpful.
C．Mitra can act like humans.
D．Mitra has the latest technology.
【3】How do patients feel about the human-like robots?
A．Satisfied.
B．Lost.
C．Proud.
D．Worried.
【4】Which can be the best title of the text?
A．How Can Robots Help Patients in India
B．Robots Are Welcomed by Hospitals in India
C．Robots Have Brought About Changes in India
D．Robots Join in the Fight Against Covid-19 in India
24、Many people have participated into lots of virtual meetings these years. Some research shows this adjustment might not impact workplace productivity to any great degree. A new study, though, suggests otherwise.
In the study, 602 participants were randomly paired and asked to come up with creative uses for a product. They were also randomly selected to work together either in person or virtually. The pairs were then ranked by assessing their total number of ideas, as well as those concepts’ degree of novelty, and asked to submit their best idea. Among the groups, virtual pairs came up with significantly fewer ideas, suggesting that something about face-to-face interaction generates more creative ideas. The findings could stiffen employers’ resolve to urge or require their employees to come back to the office.
“We ran this experiment based on feedback from companies that it was harder to innovate with remote workers,” said lead researcher Melanie Brucks. “Unlike other forms of virtual communication, like phone calls or e-mail, videoconferencing copies the in-person experience quite well, so I was surprised when we found meaningful differences between in-person and video interaction for idea generation. ”
When random objects were placed in both the virtual and physical rooms, the virtual pairs of participants spent more time looking directly at each other rather than letting their look wander about the room and taking in the entire scene. Eyeing one’s whole environment and noticing the random objects were associated with increased idea generation. On platforms, the screen occupies our interactions. Our look wavers less. “Looking away might come across as rude, ” said Brucks,“so we have to look at the screen because that is the defined context of the interaction, the same way we wouldn’t walk to another room while talking to someone in person. ”
Like most educators, Brucks has primarily taught virtually in the past three years, and she did notice some benefits of the approach as well. Her students were more likely to take turns speaking and her shyer students spoke up more often, rid of the anxiety that comes from addressing a large classroom. Brucks found that one solution to improving virtual idea generation might be to simply turn off the camera, for her students felt “freer” and more creative when asked to do so. And this may be sound advice for the workplace.
Virtual teamwork can’t replace face-to-face teamwork. Idea selection proficiency (能力) is only valuable if you have strong options to select from, and face-to-face teams are the best means to generate winning options. Perhaps the workplace will find a compromise—a sweet spot in the middle that balances working from both home and office.
【1】What does the underlined word “stiffen” in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?
A．Shake.
B．Revise.
C．Challenge.
D．Strengthen.
【2】At first, lead researcher Melanie Brucks might think that ________.
A．videoconferencing can’t compare with in-person communication
B．participants should make eye contact in an online meeting
C．the feedback from companies seems questionable
D．creative ideas may emerge from casual thoughts
【3】What can we learn about Brucks’ class?
A．Her students relieved anxiety by speaking up.
B．Her students progressed in focusing attention.
C．Her students took advantage of virtual learning.
D．Her students displayed talent for public speaking.
【4】Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A．Interacting Virtually Impacts Working Participation
B．Maintaining Teamwork Improves Idea Generation
C．Grouping Randomly Increases Productivity
D．Brainstorming Online Limits Creativity
25、 It was a winter night and I was in a foreign country. _________ I knew everything here well, I might still need other people to help me with emergencies. I took a midnight _________ from the capital to the city where I lived. I was trying not to fall asleep as I would be home towards 2 am, but _________ enough I fell asleep and _________ my eyes only when the train _________ the station where I was due to get off. The controllers told me to town at the next _________ and wait for the train to my city at 4 am. I got off at the station but it looked like it would be _________ to wait there alone for the next train.
One of the controllers _________ there got off with me, saying he felt it was not safe to leave me there _________. He invited me to get into his car because it was __________ outside. I was a bit doubtful, but I decided to __________ him. He offered me a short __________ around the town and at about 4 am he __________ me back to the station.
Up to now, I've always remembered him with deep __________. What I could do was just passing on the __________ in my life.
A．Since
B．As
C．Though
D．When
A．bus
B．train
C．car
D．plane
A．funnily
B．hardly
C．hurriedly
D．shyly
A．closed
B．opened
C．torn
D．harmed
A．passed
B．arrived
C．got
D．over
A．town
B．city
C．country
D．station
A．dangerous
B．crazy
C．useless
D．boring
A．living
B．standing
C．knowing
D．helping
A．bitter
B．calm
C．alone
D．delighted
A．freezing
B．cool
C．wet
D．dark
A．kick
B．respect
C．thank
D．trust
A．talk
B．leave
C．meal
D．ride
A．sent
B．started
C．gave
D．paid
A．thought
B．look
C．gratitude
D．words
A．memory
B．kindness
C．stranger
D．respect
26、阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
Gifts for Jace
I’ll never forget the day that one of my students shyly raised his hand and said that he had never received a gift. My shocked fifth-graders were discussing a reading story about a boy who was not going to be getting anything for his birthday because money was tight that year. Even though this class was very pen during reading discussions, Tace’s honesty surprised even me. What was even more eye-opening was the fact that this sweet, fifth-grade boy had gone ten years and never experienced the joy and surprise of receiving a present.
I searched my mind for a reason that he might be saying this. Did he want attention from his peers? No, that was definitely not his style. Was he exaggerating (夸大)？Again, he was not the type. Then I remembered his story. His mother was out of the picture and he lived alone with his dad. His father had a hard time holding down a job, and coming to think of it, I didn’t see his father at registration or parent-teacher conferences. Even though on the outside Jace was a bit untidy, he always came to school with a smile and sincere enthusiasm for learning.
A couple of weeks after Jace’s comment, he was absent from school due to the fact that he had moved away. This happened to be the day I was sending home the annual note about the classroom Christmas gift exchange. Traditionally, each boy was to bring a gift for a boy in the three-dollar range and the same was true for each girl.
As we were discussing the specifics, a girl raised her hand and sincerely suggested that we do away with our traditional policy, and each buy a gift for Jace instead. The enthusiasm grew as the students discussed the kinds of things they knew Jace would like. We took a quick vote and consistently agreed to go ahead with this wonderful idea.
注意：
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 至少使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4. 续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:
Days before our Christmas vacation, the gifts began to pour in.
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Paragraph 2:
As I drove down his road, I saw a light flashing, signaling which home was his.
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