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1、We were put in a position ____ we had either to accept the fact or fight against our fate.
A．why
B．when
C．which
D．where
2、All over the city, history and modernity come together to make _______ an essential place for tourists to discover.
A. each B. this C. one D. it
3、The man was Confucius, the ____from ancient China and arguably the true father of Chinese thought.
A.philosopher B.physician C.physicist D.psychologist
4、--- Mr. Anderson is popular with his students, for he is kind, strict and knowledgeable.
--- No wonder he has such a good_________.
A. reputation B. tradition
C. preference D. presentation
5、—Do you know the story of Niulang and Zhinu?
—Of course. Their love story was_______ as an example for hundreds of years in China.
A. taken up B. kept up
C. picked up D. held up
6、My sister graduated from university in 2017 and ________ in a bank ever since.
A．worked
B．has been worked
C．has worked
D．had worked
7、—With the machine going on and on, I just can’t focus on my study.
—_______. Let’s go outside and play football instead.
A. I don’t think so B. Please be more patient
C. Same here D. Don’t push me too hard
8、Everything was placed exactly ______ he wanted it for the graduation ceremony.
A．while
B．when
C．where
D．though
9、______ flag-raising ceremony was held at the Golden Bauhinia Square on July 1 to celebrate ______ 17th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China.
A. A; / B. A; the
C. The; the D. /; the
10、— Let’s go and have a good drink tonight.
— ________ Have you got the first prize in the competition?
A. Thanks a lot. B. What for?
C. Yes, I’d like to. D. Why not?
11、— What impressed you most?
—The clear logical ________ of her arguments.
A.acquisition B.submission C.imagination D.presentation
12、The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so it seems as if the sun ______ round the earth.
A．circles
B．be circling
C．is circling
D．were circling
13、 more and more forests destroyed, some birds are ______with the danger of dying out.
A.With; faced B.By; facing C.As; faced D.Within; facing
14、It is a great evening, and definitely _____________ all the hard work.
A. worthy B. worth
C. worthwhile D. worthless
15、The police have appealed for the public to remain calm.
A．vi. 有吸引力
B．vi. 上诉
C．vi. 呼吁；恳求
D．vi. 启发
16、—Two Yangtze Evening Paper, please!
— Only one copy left. Would you like to have ________, sir?
A．one
B．it
C．this
D．them
17、The information on the Internet gets around more rapidly than ____ in the newspaper.
A. it B. one C. that D. those
18、I know what I shall be doing for the next three years but I haven’t thought _______ that.
A. without B. for C. against D. beyond
19、_______was not ______she took off her dark glasses _______I recognized her.
A. It; when; before B. It; until; that
C. That; after; that D. This; when; after
20、Yesterday we went to the library to do some reading， only to find that it ______．
A． had closed B． had been closed
C． will close D． will be closed
21、Being a blogger can be good business. Don’t you believe it? Read on!
Meet Gary Vaynerchuk (GaryVaynerchuk.com)
Gary Vaynerchuk is a New Yorker who gained Internet fame because of a video blog that talked about everything related to wine. Through online video blogging, he built his wine business from a $3-million-dollar a year wine retail store to a $60-million-dollar wine wholesale business. Gary Vaynerchuk has built a multi-million-dollar empire relating to his personal brand.
Meet Rand Fishkind (moz.com)
Rand Fishkind is college dropout (辍学生) who started blogging about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) back in 2004 while working for a family-run web development company. He was also providing SEO consulting services for a few small clients. SEOmoz has left the consulting business since then and focuses on creating awesome SEO software instead. The company makes millions of dollars each month.
Meet Pat Flynn (SmartPassiveIncome.com)
Pat is one of the most inspirational bloggers in the world. After losing his job, he was forced to struggle to support his growing family. He started a website called Smart Passive Income to track his progress with various websites and online money-making- projects. He has since built massive followers and readership thanks to his honesty. Over the last 6 months, Pat has earned on average, around $50,000 per month.
Meet Andrew Sullivan (thedishdaily.com)
Andrew started his blog, The Daily Dish, near the end of 2000. By the middle of 2003, he was receiving about 300,000 unique visits per month. Just this year, Andrew made some big changes and decided to work on The Daily Dish full-time. On launch day in 2013, the blog reportedly took in over $330,000, charging $20/month per reader.
【1】After Gary Vaynerchuk started his video blog, ________.
A．he spent most of his time making videos
B．he fell in love with learning about wine
C．his online security has been threatened
D．his wine business really took off
【2】Why would people most probably visit Smart Passive Income?
A．To learn how to find a job online.
B．To learn how to make money online.
C．To read very inspiring real-life stories.
D．To know about the history of various websites.
【3】What can we learn from these bloggers’ experiences?
A．Being a successful blogger is very difficult.
B．The Internet has greatly influenced our life.
C．Successful bloggers can make a great fortune.
D．Everyone can succeed as long as he doesn’t quit.
22、Until recently, voice cloning — or voice banking, as it was then known — was a customized industry which served those at risk of losing the power of speech to cancer or surgery. Synthesizing（合成） a voice was a long and expensive process. It meant recording many phrases, each spoken many times, with different the history of the KidPass blog emotional emphase（s重音）and in different contexts (statement, question, command and so forth), in order to the tips on writing good articles online cover all possible pronunciations.
Not any more. Software exists that can store pieces of recorded speech which is merely five milliseconds long, each marked with a precise pitch（音高）. These can be put together to make new words, and adjusted individually so that they fit harmoniously into their new sonic homes. This is much cheaper than conventional voice banking, and permits novel uses to be developed.
This year Vivo Text plans to release an app that lets users select the emphasis, speed and level of happiness or sadness with which individual words and phrases are produced. Mr. Silbert refers to the emotive quality of the human voice as “the ultimate instrument”. Yet this power also troubles him. Vivo Text licenses its software to Hasbro, an American toymaker keen to sell increasingly interactive playthings. Hasbro is aware, Mr. Silbert notes, that without safeguards a naughty child might, for example, type impolite words on his mother’s smartphone in order to see a younger sibling burst into tears on hearing them spoken by a toy using mum’s voice.
More troubling, when tested against voice-biometrics software like that used by many banks to block unauthorized access to accounts, more than 80% of the fake voices tricked the computer. Alan Black, one of Festvox’s developers, thinks systems that rely on voice-ID software are now “deeply, fundamentally insecure”.
Dr. Saxena and his colleagues asked volunteers if a voice sample belonged to a person whose real speech they had just listened to for about 90 seconds. The volunteers recognized cloned speech as such only half the time (ie, no better than chance). The outcome, according to George Papcun, an expert witness paid to detect fake recordings produced as evidence in court, is the appearance of a technology with “enormous potential value for disinformation”.
As might be expected, countermeasures to recognize such deception （ 欺 骗 ） are being developed.
Nuance Communications, a maker of voice-activated software, is working on algorithms（算法） that detect tiny skips in frequency at the points where slices of speech are stuck together. Adobe, best known as the marker of Photoshop, an image-editing software suite, says that it may add digital watermarks to speech synthesized by a voice-cloning software called VoCo it is developing. Such technology may help computers recognize suspicious speech. Even so, it is easy to imagine the chaos that might be created in a world which makes it easy to put authentic-sounding words into the mouths of opponents — be they colleagues or heads of state.
【1】Paragraphs 1 and 2 are mainly about .
A. significant elements influencing voice cloning
B. possible applications of voice cloning in reality
C. complexities of creating a synthetic copy of a voice
D. differences between traditional and existing voice banking
【2】What’s Hasbro’s attitude towards Vivo Test’s new app?
A. Optimistic. B. Conservative.
C. Unconcerned. D. Subjective.
【3】The experiment carried out by Dr. Saxena and his colleagues shows that volunteers .
A. identified cloned speech in about 45 seconds
B. preferred a real speech to a voice sample
C. proved only a little harder to fool than software
D. found it hard to use the software to record their voices
【4】What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Investments should be increased to advance voice cloning.
B. Long-term measures should be taken to popularize the idea of voice cloning.
C. Disagreements among firms about the way to treat voice cloning are getting serious.
D. Problems of voice cloning are unavoidable despite the efforts that have been made.
23、Why are people taking pictures of their faces.their hobbies and their food? Why do we capture every single moment? I can't really give you an answer, because honestly, I am one of those people who take photographs of everything.
The special thing about photography Is that we can capture moments anywhere and anytime.All we need for this is our smartphone - something that rarely leaves our side.
Compared to other forms of visual (视觉的) art, you don't need any special talent for it.Every single one of us can get started with this wonderful hobby no matter if your goal is to sell your photographs or just to keep them for your own viewing pleasure.
Every picture you lake is a personal story.There is no painting without context (背景).However, unlike a painting, you don't need to spend hours of your time on it It is a way to express yourself, with little to no skill involved.
If you prefer to share your pictures with the world, you can also get immediate feedback (即时反馈) Camera phones allow us to upload our pictures in a few seconds Pictures connect and show the people around us what is going on in our life night now.
The most amazing hing for me is without question the ability to capture every single moment in my life with just a single click of a button (按钮) Thus enables me to remember every experience as it happens.It's crazy how the emotions of one single picture can throw you back in time.We can connect to our past no matter where we are and preserve those memories that are most meaningful to us.
Photography is also an amazing tool to appreciate the world around us and to stay in the moment - There is more to this hobby than “just taking pictures” .It is a way to express your feelings, your drives (渴望) and also yourself.Photography is art, and it allows each of us to become an artist Embrace your artsy (有艺术气息的) side, and take a picture of your next adventure! You won't regret it, I promise.
【1】What is the main idea of paragraphs 3 and 4?
A．Tips to take great photos
B．Difference between visual art forms.
C．The role of photography in society
D．The author's opinion on photography
【2】What does photography mean to the author?
A．A hobby that helps her kill time.
B．A way to record every experience in life
C．A way to make friends with strangers.
D．A great form to show her taste in art
【3】What is the author's main purpose in writing this article?
A．To explain why she wants to study photography
B．To tell readers how she preserves memories
C．To encourage readers to start taking photos
D．To help readers find the beauty in everyday life
24、“Image is everything.” An entire industry has been built upon the assumption that image is everything, but when it comes down to it, an appealing image is not enough. If there is no substance(事实) behind the image, the product, service or person will fail eventually.
First of all, one should consider how important image is in the selling of products and services. Advertising agencies have raised the art of creating an image to a state of near perfection. Public concept of that product or service is certainly managed by the images created by the advertising agencies. But if the product or service does not live up to the image that was created, the customer will be very dissatisfied and possibly ask for their money back. For example, the Arthur Andersen accounting firm had spent decades building up an image of trustworthiness. But the recent scandal (丑闻) showed that behind that image, it cheated in business practices. Despite the previous positive image, the firm is being accused of criminal actions and it will probably not survive as a business unit. Although the image had been nearly perfect, the reality behind the image has led to the downfall of the world famous accounting firm.
Similarly, personal advisers can build up a public image for politicians and movie stars. Putting out positive news releases, making sure that only the best photographs are published, and ensuring that the person is seen in all the right places can build up a very positive image in the view of the general commons. But once again, history is filled with examples of both politicians and movie stars that fell from grace like the story of the Hollywood actor giving in to the pressures of fame and fortune. With people, just as with products and services, image is certainly important, but without positive substance behind the image, failure is close.
To summarize, it is clear that an appealing image is extremely important to success, whether that image is related to selling a product or service or to the “selling” of a person. But image is only half of the equation. What lies behind that image is every bit as important as the image itself —— the person or product must deliver on that image or there is little chance for long-term success.
【1】The downfall of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm is due to ________.
A. its previous images
B. its dishonesty in business
C. its bad management
D. its poor service
【2】Why did some famous people fall from grace?___________
A. Their images were not well built up
B. They felt much pressure from the public.
C. They failed to live up to their images
D. They paid little attention to fame and fortune.
【3】The structure of the passage is ________.
A: Argument P: Point C: Conclusion
25、Zainab Amjad, a 24-year-old girl, is working on an oil rig (钻井架) as an engineer in Iraq, where companies _________ deep into the ground to look for oil.
Most of her women colleagues work in an office._________, Amjad chose to work in the oil fields. It is not a _________ job for women from conservative communities.
Petrochemical programs in the country's engineering schools are for students with the best _________. Amjad was in the top 5 percent of her graduating class at Basra University in 2018. She is part of a new generation of Iraqi women who are going against tribal _________. “ Many times many locals _________, ‘Sure, we'll see you out there,’ telling me I wouldn't be able to make it,” said Amjad, “But this only _________ me harder.”
Amjad hopes to help _________ a labor rights group for Iraqi _________ engineers in the future. In this war-tom country, women are more than likely to be __________, under-educated, employed in low-wage or unpaid work, and subject to __________ for getting married or having children.
Not only does Amjad face __________ within the industry, she also faces ongoing protests by local tribes (部落) and violence toward oil workers. But the woman is willing to __________ difficulties, such as poor services and high unemployment. Amjad said she has little __________ to even consider these difficulties, for even at night she is often working. “The drilling never __________.” she said.
【1】
A．dive
B．drill
C．drag
D．draw
【2】
A．Similarly
B．Consequently
C．Instead
D．Otherwise
【3】
A．usual
B．legal
C．well-paid
D．complex
【4】
A．grades
B．habit
C．actions
D．character
【5】
A．conflicts
B．arrangements
C．traditions
D．responsibilities
【6】
A．laughed
B．reminded
C．warned
D．complained
【7】
A．punished
B．pushed
C．depressed
D．denied
【8】
A．estimate
B．enquire
C．entitle
D．establish
【9】
A．female
B．male
C．excellent
D．hopeless
【10】
A．cautious
B．lucky
C．poor
D．respectable
【11】
A．abuse
B．dismissal
C．fine
D．charge
【12】
A．priority
B．prospect
C．investigation
D．inequality
【13】
A．come across
B．run into
C．find out
D．take on
【14】
A．ability
B．courage
C．time
D．determination
【15】
A．appears
B．stops
C．operates
D．loses
26、阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
To pollute or not to pollute That is the question. In order to survive, we all need to cause pollution. Factories that process the food we eat, clothes we wear, and cars we drive have to cause pollution. The environment has the ability to absorb our waste or the pollution, but its absorption ability has its limits. If the pollution level is higher than what the environment can cope with, then that's the time when pollution is bad. If the pollution level becomes too high, human health can be affected badly. Then, the productivity level of the sick people is low and the economy suffers. The economy suffers not only because of the lost productivity of the people, but also because the government must pay for the damage the pollution has done to its people. This is the reason why the government prefers taxation policy. Imposing（征收）a tax on firms that pollute the environment can be considered a good strategy, as long as the tax covers all the external costs or the cost of the damage the firm has created during production. Taxation, if enforced（执行）really well, can make firms create a technology that may reduce pollution, if they find out that it will be cheaper than continuously paying the tax. The disadvantage of this policy, however, lies in the possibility that some big firms will find the tax cheap and then they will just produce more and pollute the environment more. If other small firms find the tax expensive, thus closing down, their production will be eaten up by those firms which can afford the tax. Therefore, it is important that lawmakers in each country, when deciding to impose a tax on pollutant emissions, first review and analyze very carefully the real cost of the damage.（307words）
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