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1、People have difficulty accepting that their pictures were webcast live to millions of viewers, ______ the fact that some of them were not so graceful.
A．no doubt
B．no denying
C．nothing like
D．not to mention
2、The accident have been caused by a dog running across the road, but we don’t know for sure.
A．might
B．should
C．will
D．must
3、You may not have noticed that problem, but you could never withdraw it ______ regretful about your decision.
A.should you feel B.you should feel
C.had you left D.you had left
4、If Tom ______ one more votes, he could be the monitor of our class now.
A.received B.had received
C.should receive D.would receive
5、In 2016, I wrote a book, After 9/11，about my experiences and _______of over a dozen of my former classmates.
A.that B.those C.the one D.ones
6、---I can’t find Mr. Smith. Where did you meet him this morning?
---It was in his office ____ he worked.
A．where
B．which
C．that
D．the one
7、It wasn't until I ______ took part in the activity that I understood the meaning of it.
A.actively B.personally
C.rarely D.normally
8、It’s true that beauty does not always meet with a single, uniform standard. A person’s cultural background, for example, may influence ______ he or she find attractive in others.
A. that B. which
C. what D. when
9、One of the biggest culture differences I noticed in London was ______ the people of London conducted themselves..
A．that
B．how
C．what
D．why
10、This is the only way that I can think of _______ the problem of water waste in urban areas.
A．settling
B．to settle
C．settle
D．settled
11、The artist is said during the production and thus a pirated video was sold in every part of Kenya.
A. to be cheated B. being cheated
C. to have been cheated D. having been cheated
12、I decided to do a random act of kindness last year. And ______ that the person I would end up helping most would be myself.
A. I little knew B. little did I knew C. little did I know D. little I knew
13、--- Has your wife come back from Africa?
---Yes, but she _____here for only one month before she went on another expedition to Cuba
A. has been B. was C. will be D. would be
14、Due to the reform and openingup, our living conditions, undoubtedly, have improved ________ over the past decades.
A．considerately
B．approximately
C．appropriately
D．considerably
15、You must learn to read people, ______ will be necessary if you work in a team.
A. who B. that C. which D. what
16、At the foot of the mountain is a well-preserved village ______ you can experience the traditional lifestyle.
A. which B. where C. that D. When
17、Contrary to popular belief, the ants, hardworking ________ they are, have their time for play.
A. because B. while C. as D. where
18、When you walk into any department store in Wuxi, chances are that you will see signs with a single digit number and the Chinese character zhe prominently displayed next to products that are on _____.
A. discount B. bargain C. sale D. reduction
19、Raymond’s parents wanted him to have_______ possible education.
A.good B.better C.best D.the best
20、I was surprised by her words， which made me recognize___silly mistakes I had made.
A．what
B．that
C．how
D．which
21、Although it is a business not many are aware of, sidewalk robots are set to become an industry with annual sales of $1 billion within a decade. These four-or six-wheeled autonomous machines, usually the size of a suitcase, are already delivering groceries in America, China and Europe, which puts them ahead of many driverless cars and lorries being developed.
Those bigger vehicles are held back not by technology but regulation. This means having a “safety driver” on board ready to take over if there is a problem, which is hardly labour-saving. For these larger vehicles, regulators want to see safety systems thoroughly proved. In January 2022, Britain’s Law Commission, which reviews lawmaking, recommended that it should not be the person in the driver’s seat who faces prosecution if a vehicle in autonomous mode crashes, but the manufacturer or the body that sought approval for its use.
However, sidewalk robots are getting on with the job. For example, Starship Technologies, based in San Francisco, estimates it has already clocked up more than 2.5 million deliveries with robots in a number of cities, universities and business parks in Europe and America. Amazon is carrying out trials with a similar sort of machine. Kiwibot, a Colombian startup, is making sidewalk deliveries in California. Udelv, a Californian firm, is developing a larger type called Transporter to operate at highway speeds.
Sidewalk robots carry a few bags of groceries using a variety of sensors, including cameras, radar and GPS to navigate and avoid obstacles and people. Their progress can be monitored on a phone app, which also unlocks them for goods to be removed. As they are small, move slowly and are “telemonitored” by people in a control room who can take over, authorities seem more willing to give them a green light.
Such robots are becoming more autonomous. Being much further along the road in earning their keep, these delivery robots are helping to pave the way for the time when bigger autonomous vehicles can join them.
【1】What is paragraph 2 mainly about?
A．Problems caused by autonomous cars.
B．Suggestions for producing intelligent robots.
C．Challenges faced by large driverless vehicles.
D．The innovative technology of delivery vehicles.
【2】Why does the author give some examples in paragraph 3?
A．To prove the safety of autonomous machines.
B．To present the development of sidewalk robots.
C．To encourage the public to create more robots.
D．To show the advantages of self-driving technology.
【3】What can we know about sidewalk robots?
A．They are environmentally friendly.
B．They can distinguish traffic lights on the road.
C．They make deliveries faster than ordinary trucks.
D．They make it easy for people to track the delivery process.
【4】Which section of a magazine is this text probably taken from?
A．Sports and music.
B．Business and culture.
C．Science and technology.
D．Nature and geography.
22、 These devices, along with many others, made the list of tech-related items available this holiday season.
Theragun Mini
The Theragun Mini is essentially a massage (按摩) gun that provides up to 2,400 beats per minute to relax muscles after a workout to prevent soreness. The device is designed for quietness and can last around two hours on a full charge; $199.99 at theragun.com.
Lenovo Smart Clock Essential
The Lenovo Smart Clock basically is a digital alarm clock attached to a Google smart speaker, which allows you to adjust settings with only your voice or play music. The simple LED display shows the lime, weather and day of the week, and it has a built-in nightlight. Its battery has a charge life of about half a month with continuous use. Starts at $29.99 at lenovo.com.
Fitbit Versa 3
Fitbit’s newest smartwatch offers built-in GPS tracking for those who prefer to log their exercise outings without the need to carry a phone. If your focus is fitness, the Versa, which has a larges, color touchscreen display, could be considered a less expensive option to Apple’s smartwatch. The Versa’s battery can last up to six days; $229. 95 at fitbit.com.
Amazon Echo Dot and Echo Dot Kids
The fourth generation of Amazon’s smart speaker now has a round shape and comes in two editions: regular and one for kids. It operates the same way as other smart speakers in the Echo line, allowing users to ask the device to play music or give the latest news headlines. The kids version comes with a free subscription to Amazon Kids+, which has access to child-friendly digital books and games. Its battery can last around seven hours on a full charge, starting at $49.99 at amazon.com.
【1】Whose battery can work the longest lime on a full charge?
A．Fitbit Versa 3.
B．Theragun Mini.
C．Lenovo Smart Clock Essential.
D．Amazon Echo Dot and Echo Dot Kids.
【2】What do Theragun Mini and Fitbit Versa 3 have in common?
A．They both offer built-in GPS.
B．They both have color touchscreen.
C．They are both suitable for workout lovers.
D．They both can be bought at the same website.
【3】What can we do with Amazon Echo Dot and Echo Dot Kids?
A．Purchase any digital books.
B．Keep informed of our homework.
C．Download videos from the Internet.
D．Subscribe to Amazon Kids+ for free.
23、 When I was first married to my wife, I lived and worked in Ontario, moving from small town to big city as I pursued my career as a radio broadcaster. We have two sons, both of whom were born in Toronto, but they moved, with us, to Ottawa when they were quite young. They grew up there, and then, chasing their own careers, they also moved. One went to Canada's east coast near a city called Halifax and the other headed to the west coast to Vancouver. We had a dilemma; we were left in the middle.
At the time I was still working and my job was in Ottawa. However, as we began to consider retirement we wondered where we should spend our final years. We couldn't be close to both of our children and there was no telling when they might again relocate. For several reasons we settled on a small town on Vancouver Island. At least we were close to one of them. However, he had his sights set on Hollywood and, when an opportunity presented itself, he left Canada and headed south. I helped him move.
So, there we were, and still are, in our little west coast town. We love our little corner of paradise but we have paid a price. We have not been there for some important events such as the births of two of our grandchildren. We have missed watching each of them grow up; we have missed the normal, noisy households that have young people in them. Our home, while very comfortable, is also very quiet.
Every fall we travel to see the children. We usually fly, first to California to see our son Scott and spend a week or more with him trying to catch up on everything we've missed. Then, usually in November, we make the even longer trip east across Canada to see Travis and our grandchildren, who are now teenagers, actually into their twenties. They seldom come to visit us. The distances are just too great and it is costly.
Fortunately, both our boys are doing well and our grandchildren are growing up straight and tall. We love all of them and we are secure in the knowledge that they love us but the reality is that they don't need us. We have done our jobs and, at least in theory, we can sit back, relax and enjoy the time remaining to us. They have also missed having a set of parents and grandparents around.
Life has been good for our family but we have all paid a price.
【1】What's the dilemma ( Pa. 1) to the author and his wife?
A.The situation where they were not happy about their sons' absence.
B.The fact that they were unwilling to separate from their sons.
C.The fact that they were not yet prepared for retirement at that time.
D.The situation where they couldn't decide which son to live with.
【2】The reason why the author says they have paid a price is that ______.
A.they have lost lots of money because of his retirement
B.they have to pay a large sum of money to their sons
C.they have been absent from their children's life
D.they have to afford very expensive fare to visit their sons
【3】Why do not the authors grandchildren visit them regularly?
A.They are quite occupied with their homework.
B.It's not easy for the kids to visit their grandparents.
C.They don't need their grandparents any more.
D.The weather of winter in Canada is very awful.
【4】What is the best title for the text?
A.A Price to Pay B.Suffering Separation
C.Love Actually D.Hidden Emotions
24、What will higher education look like in 2050? That was the question addressed Tuesday night by Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University.
“We’re at the end of the fourth wave of change in higher education,” Crow began, arguing that research universities followed the initial establishment of higher education, public colleges, and land-grant schools in the timeline of America.
In less than a half-century, he said, global market competition will be at its fastest rates of change ever, with several multitrillion-dollar economies worldwide. According to a recent projection, the nation’s population could reach 435 million, with a large percentage of those residents economically disadvantaged. In addition, climate change will be “meaningfully uncontrollable” in many parts of the world.
The everyday trends seen today, such as declining performance of students at all levels, particularly in math and science, and declining wages and employment among the less educated, will only continue, Crow maintained, and are, to say the least, not contributing to fulfilling the dream of climbing the social ladder mobility, quality of life, sustainable environment, and longer life spans that most Americans share.
“How is it that we can have these great research universities and have negative-trending outcomes?” Crow said in a talk “I hold the universities accountable. … We are part of the problem.”
Among the “things that we do that make the things that we teach less learnable,” Crow said, are the strict separation of disciplines, academic rigidity, and conservatism, the desire of universities to imitate schools at the top of the social ranks, and the lack of the computer system ability that would allow a large number of students to be educated for a small amount of money.
Since 2002, when Crow started being in charge at Arizona State — which he calls the “new American university” — he has led more than three dozen initiatives that aim to make the school “inclusive, scalable, fast, adaptive, challenge-focused, and willing to take risks.”
Among those initiatives were a restructuring of the engineering and life sciences schools to create more linkages between disciplines; the launch of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Sustainability; the start of a Teachers College to address K-12 performance and increase the status of the Education Department at the university; and broadened access, increasing the freshman class size by 42 percent and the enrollment of students living below the poverty line by 500 percent.
Universities must start, Crow noted, “by becoming self-reflective architects, figuring out what we have and what we actually need instead of what legend tells us we have to be.” Research universities today have “run their course,” he added. “Now is the time for variety.”
During a discussion afterward, Crow clarified and expanded on some of his points. He discussed, for example, the school’s distance-learning program. “Nearly 40 percent of undergraduates are taking at least one course online,” he said, which helps the school to keep costs down while advancing interactive learning technologies.
He said that Arizona State is working to increase the transfer and completion rates of community-college students, of whom only about 15 percent, historically, complete their later degrees. “We’ve built a system that will allow them to track into universities,” particularly where “culturally complex barriers” beyond finances limit even the most gifted students.
【1】The fourth wave of change in America’s higher education refers to _______.
A. public colleges
B. land-grant schools
C. research universities
D. initial higher education
【2】Which is NOT part of the American dream most people share?
A. People enjoy a quality life.
B. People live longer and longer.
C. The freedom to move around.
D. An environment that is sustainable.
【3】Which is an initiative adopted by Crow at Arizona State University?
A. Restructuring the teachers College.
B. Launching the School of Life Sciences.
C. Ignoring the linkages between disciplines.
D. Enrolling more students from poor families.
【4】Which one is similar to the underlined word “architect” in meaning?
A. The author of the guidebook is an architect by profession.
B. If you want to refurnish the house, consult the architect.
C. Deng Xiaoping is one of the architects of the PRC.
D. Tom is considered one of the best landscape architect here.
【5】With the distance-learning program, Arizona State University is able to ______.
A. enroll 40% of its students online
B. keep costs down without a loss of quality
C. provide an even greater number of courses
D. attract the most gifted students all over the world
25、I had three items in a checkout line. A woman and two teenage boys ahead of me had maybe a half-dozen. The customer at the ________, a delicate, white-haired woman, had already begun to ________ her goods and was holding out cash to ________ them.
Then came the ________ . Sometimes it’s a customer with multiple coupons (优惠券), or someone who forgot to ________ a piece of fruit, or someone ________ change. Fair enough. Almost no one complained about it.
But today, it was something else. For whatever reason, this woman didn’t have enough ________. So she began the process of choosing which items to ________ and which to hand back to the cashier for re-shelving. She paused over each one before keeping or giving it up.
We waited. The ________ seemed to be longer.
The process went on and on. Finally, the woman turned back to us as she left, embarrassed and ________. We waved off her chagrin (懊恼). It could happen to anyone. We were ________ sympathetic.
But I had no idea just how sympathetic the trio (三人小组) ahead of me were until their turn came. The woman with the teens asked the cashier to add all the left-behind items to her ________ as quickly as possible. Then the two boys ran through the exit with the small bag of ________.
When they returned, it was clear that their ________ had been accomplished. All it took to witness this flash of ________ was waiting a little longer in a checkout line.
【1】
A．register
B．reception
C．store
D．entrance
【2】
A．order
B．bag
C．buy
D．classify
【3】
A．sort out
B．pay back
C．take out
D．pay for
【4】
A．manager
B．news
C．problem
D．accident
【5】
A．taste
B．pick
C．weigh
D．wash
【6】
A．searching for
B．dealing with
C．drawing out
D．picking out
【7】
A．coupons
B．food
C．cards
D．money
【8】
A．borrow
B．keep
C．abandon
D．mark
【9】
A．line
B．discussion
C．walk
D．distance
【10】
A．confused
B．annoyed
C．regretful
D．apologetic
【11】
A．suddenly
B．honestly
C．patiently
D．luckily
【12】
A．credit
B．burden
C．address
D．bill
【13】
A．toys
B．groceries
C．books
D．clothes
【14】
A．mission
B．homework
C．dream
D．goal
【15】
A．insight
B．inspiration
C．kindness
D．hope
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1. 申请报名。
2. 为什么想参加这个活动。
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