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1、_____ personality varies from person to person is known to all.
A.What B.That C.Whether D.Which
2、Deep reading is a process in which people critically think______ trying to catch the words on the page．
A.in addition to B．in favor of
C．in reply to D．in search of
3、As we know, a red jacket doesn’t ______ green pants. But when a little girl wore them, they ______ her very well.
A．fit; suited
B．suit; fitted
C．fit; matched
D．match; suited
4、 I would rather I________ with her about it, so I will try to control my feelings tomorrow.
A. didn’t argue B. hadn’t argued
C. wouldn’t argue D. not have argued
5、——Did you get the news of the earthquake in Yun’nan yesterday?
——No．It didn’t occur to me I surfed the Internet this morning．
A．after B．unless
C．until D．when
6、Shirley was wild with joy the result of the examination.
A.to B.at C.by D.as
7、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
8、--- Hello, I ________ to ask if I can book a flight ticket to London tomorrow?
--- Sorry, we’ve already sold out.
A.phone
B.will phone
C.am phoning
D.have phoned
9、________you are looking to continue to be part of a sport you love or looking for new experiences, there is a club for you at every skill level.
A．What
B．Whether
C．If
D．That
10、"The moment _____soon," he thought to himself, waiting nervously.
A.came B.has come C.was coming D.is coming
11、This drug is less likely to cause side effects when ________ late in the day.
A. taking B. taken C. to take D. takes
12、The doctor suggested that I keep away from oily food, because it ________ easily.
A. isn’t digest B. doesn’t digest
C. isn’t to digest D. won’t be digested
13、Lily’s drawing may not be excellent, ______ I know she has done her best.
A. so B. although
C. before D. as
14、To her delight, the sufferer has decided to give up _________.
A．to smoke
B．smoke
C．smoking
D．smoker
15、I expect you ______bored with working at the Post Office by this time next year and_______ for a more interesting job.
A．have become; will have looked
B．found; will have planned
C．will have become; will be looking
D．had found; had been planning
16、 ______ strong and powerful China will certainly benefit ______ whole world.
A. A; a B. The; a
C. The; the D. A; the
17、Mary worked here as a _______ secretary and ended up getting a full-time job with the company.
A.contradictory B.contemporary C.permanent D.temporary
18、It is obvious to the whole world__________the US has played dirty tricks to bully foreign companies like Hua Wei and TikTok in order to either destroy them or take them over.
A.as B.which C.whether D.that
19、______the morning train，he would not have been late for the meeting．
A．Did he catch B．Should he catch
C．Had he caught D．Has he caught
20、---Kevin, you look worried. Anything wrong?
---Well, I a test and I’m waiting for the result．
A. am taking B. took
C. had taken D. take
21、“Whatever normal meant”
A pioneering dance group is proving that you can chase your dreams—even in a wheelchair.
Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. “The only thing that I loved was dance," she told CBS News. That ambition nearly ended one night in 2010. Hill, then a 17-year-old high school senior in Pacific Grove, California, was in a car accident that put her in the hospital for 51 days and left her paralyzed(瘫痪的) from the waist down. For most people, that would have ruined all the hope of dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning. “I wanted to prove to my community—and to myself—that I was still ‘normal’,” she told Teen Vogue. “Whatever normal meant, it definitely took a lot of learning and patience.”
After graduation, Hill wanted to expand her dance network to include women like her. She met people online who had suffered various spinal cord injuries but shared her determination, and she invited them to dance with her. Hoping to reach more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the “Rollettes”. “I want to break down the stereotype of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance, whether you're walking or you're rolling,” she told CBS News. So far, Hill has achieved her childhood dream. But the Rollettes have helped her find more. Every year she holds a dance camp for wheelchair users. She calls it the Rollettes Experience, and in 2019,173 participants from ten countries attended.
For many, it was the first time they'd felt they belonged. Edna Serrano, a member of the Rollettes, says “being part of the Rollettes team has given me the courage and confidence. It's so powerful to have my teammates in my life, because they're my teachers.” The dancers aren't the only ones who feel inspired. One woman saw a YouTube video of the team competing and commented, “You guys are so awesome! I'm in tears because you rock! To be in a wheelchair and still be so beautiful makes me know I can be beautiful too! Thank you! Feel free to find me.”
【1】What happened to Hill when she was 17 years old?
A.She got injured while dancing.
B.She just graduated from college.
C.She survived in a traffic accident.
D.She received treatment for a month.
【2】What can we know from the passage?
A.Rollettes invite some teachers to train the members.
B.Rollettes aim to help the competitors all over the world.
C.Hill finally realized her childhood dream as a dance teacher.
D.More people become inspired by Rollettes’ performance online.
【3】Which of the following words can best describe Hill?
A.Talented and humorous. B.Honest and ambitious.
C.Considerate and generous. D.Optimistic and determined.
22、阅读短文, 按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
Many people, some even at a very young age, set the goal of graduating from college. One American woman in Texas waited a long time for her chance to reach that goal.
The woman is 84-year-old Janet Fein. Last week, she received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Fein has had a full life. She has raised five children and then had a career as a secretary until she retired at age 77. But even then, she was not ready to take it easy and rest during a well-earned retirement.
“I didn’t have anything to do in retirement and I didn’t think that playing bingo was up to my speed, ”Fein said. She said she decided to major in sociology.
Fein spent her childhood in the Bronx, New York City, where her family lived in poverty. After graduating early from high school, she started working as a secretary at a dress manufacturer at the age of 16. Following her marriage, she spent 18 years raising her children at home. Throughout her life, Fein held various jobs, including 20 years as a secretary in a Dallas hospital, which she retired from in 2012. She also devoted 20 years to earning an associate degree, which she received in 1995.
Fein, despite her life experiences, had a strong desire to earn a bachelor’s degree. She found joy in reading, writing papers, and learning new things. Taking advantage of a state program, she joined around 2, 000 others aged 65 and older in Texas who attend public university classes for free. Although less than 1% of U. S. college students are in this age group, health experts believe continuing education later in life can help maintain fitness. Despite worsening health conditions, Fein persevered, using a walker and oxygen, and even completing the remaining degree requirements through online classes.
Her college advisor was Sheila Rollerson. She said that Fein never showed signs of giving up even with all of her difficulties. “She was plugging away at her studies and in return she received her bachelor’s degree and respect, ” Rollerson said.
Renee Brown, one of Fein’s caregivers, found inspiration from her. At 53, Brown plans to begin nursing school, encouraged by Fein’s words of confidence and the fulfillment that comes with achievement.
【1】Why did Fein want to study after retiring? (no more than 15 words)
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【2】What does Paragraph 5 mainly talk about? (no more than 5 words)
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【3】Why did Fein take online classes to finish the last part of her degree requirements? (no more than 5 words)
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【4】How do you understand the underlined part in Paragraph 7? (no more than 10 words)
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【5】What can you learn from the story? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)
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23、It seems no one can really agree on the question of “What’s so funny?” So imagine trying to teach a robot how to laugh. But that’s exactly what a team of researchers at Kyoto University in Japan are trying to design an AI that takes its cues through a shared laughter system. The scientists describe their innovative approach to building a funny bone for the Japanese android ‘Erica’ in the latest issue of the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
“We think that one of the important functions of conversational AI is empathy(移情，共鸣),” explained lead author Dr Koji Inoue, an assistant professor at Kyoto University in the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology within the Graduate School of Informatics. “One way a robot can empathize with users is to share their laughter.”
In the shared-laughter model, a human initially laughs and the AI system responds with laughter as an empathetic response. This approach required designing three subsystems—one to detect laughter, a second to decide whether to laugh, and a third to choose the type of appropriate laughter. The type of laughter is also important, because in some cases a polite chuckle may be more appropriate than a loud snort of laughter.
The team tested Erica’s new sense of humor by creating four different short dialogues between a person and Erica with her new shared-laughter system. Then they asked more than 130 people in total to listen to each dialogue within the three different conditions—shared laughter system, no laughter, all laughter—and evaluated the interactions based on human-likeness, naturalness and understanding. The shared-laughter system performed better than either baseline.
“Robots should actually have a distinct character, and we think that they can show this through their conversational behaviors, such as laughing, eye gaze, gestures and speaking style,” Inoue added. “We do not think this is an easy problem at all, and it may well take more than 10 to 20 years before we can finally have a casual chat with a robot like we would with a friend.”
【1】Why does the text raise the question “What’s so funny” at the beginning?
A．To show opinions on funny things.
B．To encourage readers to share their ideas.
C．To emphasize the importance of being funny.
D．To stress the difficulty of teaching a robot to laugh.
【2】Which of the following explains the underlined phrase “a funny bone” in paragraph 1?
A．The distinct character.
B．The type of laughter.
C．The speaking style.
D．The sense of humor.
【3】What is NOT needed in the research of the shared-laughter system?
A．Assessing the interactions based on emotions.
B．Producing a subsystem to decide whether to laugh.
C．Creating brief conversations between a human and Erica.
D．Asking people to listen to the previously created dialogues.
【4】What is Inoue’s attitude towards conversational AI?
A．Indifferent
B．Suspicious
C．Objective
D．Optimistic
24、As part of my research, I collected every digitized number one New York Times bestseller from 1960 to 2014 and ran the Flesch-Kincaid test* on 563 of them. Most books meant for a general audience will fall within the fourth- to eleventh-grade range, as did all of these bestsellers. If you look at the scores over the decades, an unmistakable trend becomes clear: The bestseller list is full of much simpler fiction today than it was 40 or 50 years ago. In the 1960s, the median （中间的，中位数的） book had a grade level of 8. Today the median grade level is 6.
On the upper end, James Michener’s 1988 novel Alaska had a grade-level score of 11.1. Of the books I analyzed, 25 had a grade level of 9 or higher. But just two of these were written after 2000.
On the low end, eight books tied for the lowest score of 4.4. All were written after 2000 by one of three high-volume writers: James Patterson, Janet Evanovich, and Nora Roberts.
There’s no way around it: While prize-winning literary novels such as Jonathan Franzen’s.
The Corrections make the number one spot on occasion, overall, the books we’re reading have become simpler. Does that mean that books-and therefore their readers-are getting “dumber” too?
It is true that today’s bestsellers have much shorter sentences than the bestsellers of the past, a drop from a median of 17 words per sentence in the 1960s to 12 in the 2000s. Also, today’s list is much more often topped by commercial novels than in the past.
It would be easy to associate the New York Times list of reading-level decline with the rise of arguments that the country’s intellect is at an all-time low, but I don’t think this is fair.
Writing doesn’t need to be complicated to be considered powerful or literary. The winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Goldfinch, was also a bestseller and has a reading level of 7.2. While many classics have high scores (The Age of Innocence at 10.4, Oliver Twist at 10.1, The Satanic Verses at 10.1), just as many have surprisingly low scores: To Kill a Mockingbird at 5.9, The Sun Also Rises at 4.2, and The Grapes of Wrath at 4.1. These books are highly respected, but they are also accessible enough to be taught in middle and high school.
It’s logical that our bestselling books are not complex-by definition, popular means they appeal to the masses. For what it’s worth, plenty of successful “literary” writers have welcomed the beauty of “easy” writing.
As one bestselling writer put it,” One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” His name: Jack Kerouac. By the way, Kerouac’s most popular book, On the Road, scores a reading level of 6.6.
*The following is the formula of the Flesch-Kincaid test and the resulting score is the grade level required to understand the text.
【1】What does the writer’s research find?
A．The Flesch-Kincaid test fails to reflect the truth.
B．More novels were written before 2000 than after 2000.
C．The language of best-sellers has been getting simpler.
D．High-volume writers were mostly born between 1960 and 2000.
【2】By “there’s no way around it”, the writer means that what follows is _______.
A．something that we cannot deny
B．something that we think unusual
C．something that is worthy of a prize
D．something that will cause damage
【3】Why does the writer mention the books To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sun Also Rises and The Grapes of Wrath?
A．To illustrate how respected books are usually like.
B．To stress the importance of being complicated to classics.
C．To remind readers that there are too many classics to name.
D．To show that books can be both respected and easy to read.
【4】What does the writer think of the trend of best-sellers that is introduced in the passage?
A．It makes readers dumber.
B．It doesn’t do much harm.
C．It fails to be accepted by writers.
D．It should be paid attention to.
25、Paying Attention: The Attention Economy
Economics is the study of how scarce resources are allocated; whether that is housing, food, or money. However, in an era of endless amounts of information at our fingertips, what is the________? Unlike the first three examples that can be empirically________and measured, our intangible yet extremely valuable attention is the limiting factor: we are in the age of the attention economy.
According the American Psychological Association, attention comes in many forms: love, recognition, obedience, and help. Although________unquantifiable, many derive attention's value from how much time we focus on a particular thing. We face attention’s scarcity every day; while “paying attention” to one thing we ignore others.
The term “attention economy” was coined by Herbert A. Simon, who noted that “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention”, suggesting that multitasking is a________. Later, Micheal Goldhaber warned that the international economy is________from a material-based economy to an attention-based economy: fewer people are involved with manufacturing and emerging careers work with information. Although the “information economy” is a common name for this new state. Goldhaber________this. “Information is not scarce, but attention is”.
Like money, we all have a thirst for attention to a certain degree. Money is needed for food, water, and shelter. Similarly. attention can be translated to something tangible and necessary fo________. As babies, we cry. laugh, make noises, and want the attention on us—otherwise we are not fed. clothed, or alive. However, money and attention are distinct; money follows attention, whereas the reverse is not necessarily I me, As our economy becomes more reliant on attention, the________of exchange flows from the holders of the old to the holders of the new.
When we go on the internet, we typically have a goal in mind. Once we obtain what we want, we leave the site. However, social media strategically get our attention________. Once we see a user we like, we “________” them on YouTube, “become friend” with them on Facebook, or “follow” them on Instagram. Thereafter, anything they post will appear on our feeds. We can scroll________on social media, and upon finishing a video we will always have a new one to auto-play. However, when we keep attention glued to our phones, we forgo other opportunities.
It is difficult to determine the impact attention-grabbing sites can have on the economy and society as a whole. It is necessary to not only consider the direct effects of exposure to social media, out the crowding out of other activities, known as the________effect.
Many firths fully understand the scarcity of our attention, and are adapting their business models to exploit it. ________, some technology companies use a psychologic theory that rewards increase one's anticipation. As anticipation increases, such reward-seeking actions that technology companies have capitalized on to capture attention turn to ________. Feeling uncertain, we Google; feeling lonely, we go to Facebook. Nothing tells us to do these things. The users trigger themselves,
When looking at social media's societal impact, the experts suggest that it is monumental. As one puts it, behaviour design can seem________, because it’s mostly just clicking on screens. But what happens when you magnify that into an entire global economy? Then it becomes about power.
【1】
A．budget
B．capital
C．scarcity
D．treasure
【2】
A．quantified
B．experimented
C．proven
D．treated
【3】
A．literally
B．theoretically
C．intensely
D．universally
【4】
A．myth
B．rumor
C．cure
D．target
【5】
A．expanded
B．varying
C．spared
D．swinging
【6】
A．advocates
B．dismisses
C．justifies
D．assumes
【7】
A．recognition
B．contact
C．survival
D．assurance
【8】
A．medium
B．value
C．reserve
D．concern
【9】
A．ensured
B．withdrawn
C．escaped
D．hooked
【10】
A．try out
B．put up
C．subscribe to
D．keep to
【11】
A．deliberately
B．virtually
C．sustainably
D．endlessly
【12】
A．substitution
B．dependence
C．maximum
D．hunger
【13】
A．In feet
B．For instance
C．On the whole
D．In addition
【14】
A．profit
B．success
C．procedure
D．instinct
【15】
A．ready-made
B．lightweight
C．self-catering
D．risk-taking
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。
Cold drew many to South Africa and it was gold hut has just restored my faith in this chaotic nation.
As a British living in Cape Town, I recently received the call that my father had passed away. After the funeral in England, my mother gave me a gold ring, worn for decades by Dad and before him, by his own father. I’ve never really been into jewellery, yet when I sipped the ring on my finger it felt somehow right. Consoled (抚慰) in my grief by Dad’s beloved ring, I flew home to South Africa.
All went well until a windy Saturday when I walked on our local beach. As so often in the Cape, it was fiercely windy. When I got home and lit the fire, I looked at my left hand. The ring wasn’t there. Awful emotions washed over me—shock, horror, remorse, anger, powerlessness, guilt—a potential life sentence of guilt. Hoping that it had not been dropped on the beach, I looked everywhere else. Maybe the car? I searched every corner of it but fruitless. Maybe the house? Nothing.
It must have been the beach, an area stretching 200 metres from the car park—the ring, a very small needle in an ocean.
I was out at first light the next day but with no luck, discouraged. My only hope was this—the wind had been so strong that the ring could have been buried. It might just be there, somewhere.
I swore to recover it no matter how much I would pay, so I contacted local metal detector users. Two came to help, one even lending me his gear (设备). “Take as long as you need,” he said. Days of searching passed quickly, we found an old mobile phone, a 50 cent coin and a lot of bottle tops.
With my hopes filing, a third detectionist (探测者), Allan, called to help me.
注意：
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 至少使用5个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:
Three days later, Alan, with his acute gear, arrived.
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Paragraph2:
And there was a greater miracle.
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