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1、—Do you think it ______ to argue with them?
—The question is not worthy ______.
A．worthwhile; discussing
B．worthwhile; to be discussed
C．worthy; to discuss
D．worth; to be discussed
2、The law ______ equal rights for the students in senior high schools.
A．guarantees
B．confirms
C．suspects
D．overlooks
3、The result of the study indicated that it was the type of fat, ______ is often the case, ________ made the difference.
A． as; that B． which; what
C． that; who D． which; that
4、—Were you caught in the rain during yesterday's travel?
—Good luck．No sooner the hotel than it poured down．
A.I had reached B.had I reached C.did I reach D.I have reached
5、--- Mom, can you give me an extra 200 yuan a month?
--- Son, we have just bought a house, and from now on we need to practise strict .
A. economy B. medicine C. self-control D. patience
6、—Nowadays children have to take art, music and PE classes in their free time ________busy schoolwork.
—No wonder they have more and more pressure.
A．rather than
B．apart from
C．in addition
D．far from
7、—Hi, Tom. The new iPad6 only cost me 150 dollars.
—Really? It was a real ______.
A. change B. bargain
C. trade D. business
8、Why! I have nothing to confess. ______ you want me to say?
A.What is it that B.What it is that
C. How is it that D.How it is that
9、______ theory must be closely connected with practice is a basic rule we should always keep in mind.
A．That
B．When
C．How
D．Why
10、— ______ it snow tomorrow, what would we do?
— In that case, we’ll have to stay at home.
A. Will B. Should C. Might D. Can
11、Jack answered all the questions with ease, ______ a confident smile throughout the interview.
A．wearing
B．withdrawing
C．widening
D．weighing
12、—How about bringing my sister to your birthday party?
—______ The more, the happier.
A．No way!
B．Why not?
C．So what?
D．Have a good time!
13、While staying in the village, James unselfishly shared whatever he had with the villagers without asking for anything ______ .
A. in return B. in common
C. in turn D. in place
14、—Sorry, I made a mistake again.
—______. Practice more and you’ll succeed.
A. Never mind B. Certainly not
C. Not at all D. Don’t mention it
15、His native town has changed beyond _______, so he can hardly find a familiar building.
A. restriction B. reputation
C. recreation D. recognition
16、The coat ________ thin but ________.
A. has worn; has dried easy
B. is worn;. is dried easy
C. wears; dries easily
D. wears; dries easy
17、—Has she recovered?
—No. she has taken a lot of different medicines, but ________ has worked on her illness.
A. nothing B. none
C. neither D. either
18、My sister is quite _____ and plans to get a Ph.D degree within one year.
A. aggressive B. enthusiastic C. considerate D. ambitious
19、Moving to Canada for higher education has been exciting. On the first day of term, there were crowds of people in the dormitory, all where they should go.
A. looked for B. looking for C. were looking for D. had been looking for
20、--- Excuse me, are these seats ________?
--- Sorry sir．The seats are reserved.
A．accessible B．available
C．affordable D．artificial
21、Three years ago when I was still in the University, I also worked at a restaurant.
An old man named Mr. Candido Filio was one of our regular customer at the restaurant. He was one of the most intelligent people I've ever known.
Every Sunday the Philippine Star Newspaper had a special page for word puzzles and among his peers (同龄人), Mr.Filio held the record for solving all the puzzles in less than five minutes. He encouraged me to solve them too, and for months and months, I did my best to beat him but failed.
Then one Sunday, I did it! I was able to complete them before anyone else. Everyone cheered for me. He came up to me with a smile and said, " No one has ever beaten me before. You are the first. I'll have a prize for you tomorrow."
The next day, he gave me a special Scrabble（拼字游戏）set. I would have never been able to afford one like that by myself. Then he said to me, " Kate, what do you think is man's final goal in life? Happiness, isn't it? You are happy and that should be considered as a success. Many people spend a lifetime searching for that. Be thankful that you have found it." I looked at him and knew that my life had changed, probably forever. He must have known that I always felt sad about not having much money.
He encouraged me to learn the game and love words. And true to his words, I was never able to beat him again.
【1】We can learn from the text that Mr.Filio _
A. was generous to young people
B. was good at word puzzles
C. lived quite near the restaurant
D. won a prize from the Philippine Star Newspaper
【2】The author was given a gift because________.
A. Mr.Filio was thankful for her help.
B. Mr. Filio was satisfied with her service
C. she was the first person to beat Mr.Filio
D. she was the new record keeper in the restaurant
【3】After she heard what Mr. Filio said, the author probably felt ．
A. amazed B. excited
C. touched D. inspired
22、Aesha Ash is a Ballet (芭蕾舞) dancer who began the Swan Dreams Project in 2011. It is a program designed to bring ballet to girls of color in her community. Aesha Ash is one of the few women of color to ever grace the stages of New York City Ballet School of American Ballet. She wants to expose her community to more positive images of women of color through the use of ballet. She wants to show the world that beauty and grace are not defined by status or race.
Aesha grew up in the inner city of Rochester, New York, where crime, gun violence and poverty were among the biggest threats to the community. For her, that’s normal. That’s just life in the neighborhood, but what she remembers most is the dance studio.
She started dancing all together at the age of five. A teacher mentioned to her mother that she had some promise in ballet, and that it would be difficult for her, as a woman of color, to enter the ballet world. But the adversity (逆境) she faced was the very thing that pushed her to pursue a career in ballet.
And there’s so much negative stereotyping (刻板印象) and misunderstanding of who they are in the media. Through the use of imagery and her career as a ballet dancer, she challenges stereotypes that exist for women of color, particularly those from inner-city communities.
“It’s important that our girls see that side of themselves because for many kids it’s hard to be what you can’t see. I didn’t see a black ballet dancer before I decided that’s what I wanted to be. It was really important for me to be in my environment displaying that because this is where I’m from. It was always beyond ballet.” Aesha Ash stated.
【1】Why did Aesha start the Swan Dreams Project?
A．To promote the images of females of color by ballet.
B．To expose her community to a world of women of color.
C．To grace the stages of NYC Ballet School of American Ballet.
D．To show the world that beauty and grace are defined by status.
【2】Which of the following best describes the community she grew up in?
A．Comfortable.
B．Primitive.
C．Peaceful.
D．Unsafe.
【3】What made her seek to become a ballet dancer?
A．Her teacher’s encouragement.
B．The hardship she encountered in her life.
C．Stereotypes that exist for women of color.
D．Misunderstanding of who women of color are in the media.
【4】What is the main idea of the text?
A．A program provides chances for girls of color.
B．A woman brings ballet to the girls of color.
C．Ballet changes the life of a woman of color.
D．A woman has changed the negative stereotyping.
23、An artificial intelligence can now predict the location and rate of crime across a city a week in advance with up to 90 percent accuracy. Similar systems have been shown to perpetuate (延长) racist bias (偏见) in policing, and the same could be true in this case, but the researchers who created thisAI claim that it can also be used to expose those biases.
Ishanu Chattopadhyay at the University of Chicago and his colleagues created an AI model that analysed historical crime data from Chicago, Illinois, from 2014 to the end of 2016, then predicted crime levels for the weeks that followed this training period. The model predicted the likelihood of certain crimes occurring across the city, which was divided into squares about 300 metres across, a week in advance with up to 90 percent accuracy. It was also trained and tested on data for seven other major US cities, with a similar level of performance.
Previous efforts to use AIs to predict crime have been controversial because they can perpetuate racial bias. In recent years, Chicago Police Department has tested an algorithm (算法) that created a list of people assumed most at risk of being involved in a shooting, either as a victim or as a criminal. Details of the algorithm and the list were initially kept secret, but when the list was finally released, it turned out that 56 percent of Black men in the city aged between 20 to 29 featured on it.
Chattopadhyay acknowledges that the data used by his model will also be biased, but says that efforts have been taken to reduce the effect of bias and the AI doesn’t identify suspects, only potential sites of crime. “It’s not Minority Report,” he says. Chattopadhyay says the AI’s predictions could be more safely used to inform policy at a high level, rather than being used directly to allocate (分配) police resources. He has released the data and algorithm used in the study publicly so that other researchers can investigate the results.
The researchers also used the data to look for areas where human bias is affecting policing. They analysed the number of arrests following crimes in neighbourhoods in Chicago with different socioeconomic levels. This showed that crimes in wealthier areas resulted in more arrests than they did in poorer areas, suggesting bias in the police response.
【1】What can a new AI show according to researchers?
A．The exposure of some biases.
B．The reasons for racist bias.
C．The similarity with other systems.
D．The truth of the previous cases.
【2】How was the research carried out?
A．By dividing criminals into groups.
B．By following the training period.
C．By training the model in big cities.
D．By looking into the past information.
【3】What is Chattopadhyay’s attitude towards the research?
A．Negative.
B．Positive.
C．Neutral.
D．Indifferent.
【4】What would happen after the new AI model was put into use?
A．Crimes in wealthier areas would drop.
B．Crimes in poorer areas would remain the same.
C．Disadvantages caused by bias would decrease.
D．Crime data would be further investigated.
24、The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing--Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5bn，but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service，which doesn't have any physical product at all.What WhatsApp offered Facebook was an intricate（复杂的）and finely detailed web of its users' friendships and social lives.
Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities，but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through. Even without knowing what was in the messages，the knowledge of who sent them and to whom was enormously revealing and still could be.What political journalist，what party whip，would not want to know the makeup of the WhatsApp groups in which Theresa May's enemies are currently plotting？It may be that the value of Whole Foods to Amazon is not so much the 460 shops it owns，but the records of which customers have purchased what.
Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power. But it is clumsy. For one thing, it is very slow compared to the pace of change within the digital economy. By the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace，to be replaced by new abuses of power. But there is a deeper conceptual problem，too. Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don't pay for them.The users of their services are not their customers.That would be the people who buy advertising from them---and Facebook and Google，the two virtual giants，dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.
The product they're selling is data，and we，the users，convert our lives to data for the benefit of the digital giants. Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids（蚜虫）for the honeydew they produce when they feed，so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield. Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed；Gmail keeps the spammers（垃圾邮件发送者）out of our inboxes. It doesn't feel like a human or democratic relationship，even if both sides benefit.
【1】According to Paragraph 1，Facebook acquired WhatsApp for its________ .
A．digital products
B．user information
C．physical assets
D．quality service
【2】According to the author，competition law ________ .
A．should serve the new market powers
B．may worsen the economic imbalance
C．should not provide just one legal solution
D．cannot keep pace with the changing market
【3】Competition law as presently interpreted can hardly protect Facebook users because ________ .
A．they are not defined as customers
B．they are not financially reliable
C．the services are generally digital
D．the services are paid for by advertisers
【4】The ants analogy（类比）is used to illustrate ________ .
A．a win-win business model between digital giants
B．a typical competition pattern among digital giants
C．the benefits provided for digital giants' customers
D．the relationship between digital giants and their users
25、Marion Sheppard had always been a keen dancer. However, she found her vision began to ________ in her 40s and the doctor said it would only get worse. She cried and felt ________, locking herself in her apartment.
Then after several months, Sheppard ________ herself to step out to attend a social event for people with visual impairments (损伤). Terror ________ her when she found people there barely moved. They all just sat there, ________ and physically withdrawn. Deep down, she was ________: “That is not the way I want to live”. Her immediate ________ was that she must do something to change that.
Sheppard asked at a Manhattan community center run by Visions, an organization for the visually impaired, if she could teach line dancing there, but was ________. They said it would be too ________ for the students. However, she insisted and ________ convinced the directors at Visions to let her teach line dancing on a volunteer basis. Her classes ________ to be very popular, attracting more students than expected. But what she ________ was more than dance steps. With constant encouragement, she also helped them ________ confidence and independence despite their disability. Just as Sheppard says, “We may be blind, but we’re doing our thing.”
Sheppard’s ________ for maintaining both physical and spiritual health, no matter what difficulty life may throw at you, is ________: “Just keep it moving unless life ceases.”
【1】
A．expand
B．appear
C．decline
D．refresh
【2】
A．surprised
B．depressed
C．embarrassed
D．relieved
【3】
A．allowed
B．forced
C．promised
D．invited
【4】
A．seized
B．bothered
C．spotted
D．shaped
【5】
A．humble
B．energetic
C．proud
D．still
【6】
A．suspecting
B．hesitating
C．complaining
D．protesting
【7】
A．reaction
B．excuse
C．ambition
D．assumption
【8】
A．watched over
B．sent for
C．turned down
D．taken in
【9】
A．pricey
B．risky
C．strange
D．childish
【10】
A．slightly
B．definitely
C．frequently
D．eventually
【11】
A．proved
B．remained
C．seemed
D．happened
【12】
A．claimed
B．observed
C．instructed
D．preserved
【13】
A．share
B．admire
C．assess
D．restore
【14】
A．tip
B．comment
C．requirement
D．clue
【15】
A．relevant
B．simple
C．novel
D．possible
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