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1、Mother wanted to be a good provider, a role she ______ since her marriage to Father.
A．shoulders
B．shouldered
C．is shouldering
D．has been shouldering
2、The outbreak of the coronavirus globally has led to over thousands of people_____to hospital for treatment, _____ the world to be in deep sorrow.
A．sending; causing
B．sent； having caused
C．being sent; causing
D．to send; to cause
3、--Does the young man _____ there have possession of the company?
--No, The company is _____ his father.
A. standing; in the possession of B. stood; in the possession of
C. standing; in possession of D. stand; in possession of
4、They didn't discover until they happened to enter the back room _________ someone had stolen the priceless painting.
A．that
B．what
C．which
D．when
5、—Where did you knock into your old friend, LiHua?
—It was in the firm ______ his brother is working.
A. where B. that
C. which D. when
6、The exhibition tells us _____we should do something to stop air pollution.
A．where
B．why
C．what
D．which
7、My uncle is a(n) _____ man. If he promises to do something, he is sure to do it.
A. modest B. reliable C. aggressive D. punctual
8、Einstein liked Bose’s paper so much that he ________ his own work and translated in into German.
A．turned around
B．turned down
C．took over
D．set aside
9、Shaw is the only one of the employees here ______ want to accept my advice.
A.that don’t B.who don’t C.who doesn’t D.which does
10、After the accident, the police spent a week finding out the person who ________ it.
A．witnessed
B．stared at
C．proved
D．heard of
11、He began ___________ in magazines in 2001.
A.having articles publishing B.having articles publish
C.having articles published D.having articles to publish
12、It is acknowledged that he is too busily occupied ________ to the show tomorrow.
A．to go
B．going
C．with going
D．in going
13、As soon as he comes back，I’ll tell him when________ and see him.
A.you will come B.will you come
C.you come D.do you come
14、He has lived longer than the doctor expected. They didn’t think he would ________ to November.
A．make for
B．make it
C．make out
D．make up
15、John fell ill because he was caught in the rain yesterday; it is _____ of him to forget to take an umbrella.
A.physical B.electrical C.typical D.practical
16、It ___________ to him that he had an important conference to attend the next morning.
A. happened B. hit
C. struck D. occurred
17、____ her leg the last time, Brenda decided not to go on the school skiing trip this year.
A. Breaking B. Broken
C. To break D. Having broken
18、________things had been tough at times when he was in school, he graduated from college with the highest honor.
A．If
B．While
C．Because
D．As
19、Doctor Li Wenliang is reported to have been one of the first whistleblowers _______ the epidemic situation.
A.mentioning B.to mention C.mentioned D.mention
20、The local government provided ________ for the homeless soon after the flood.
A.possessions B.accommodations C.souvenirs D.groceries
21、Which of the following sentences is correct?
A.We urge effective measures taken immediately.
B.What a tiny spot I was this enormous world!
C.That’s quite difficult as I don’t speak much of the local English dialect yet.
D.There was a newly made platform for Jenny and me to sleep.
22、Though ________ natural resources, the area was well developed.
A．lacking for
B．lacking
C．lacked in
D．lacked of
23、She seems to be always finding fault, ___________ on making life difficult for me.
A.bending B.to be bent C.bent D.being bent
24、With everyone ________ him, he decided to make great contributions to the country.
A．respecting
B．to respect
C．respected
D．to be respected
25、According to the ministry, the emergence of these new professions _______ the rapid development of high-tech industries, which have opened up new job markets.
A. contribute to B. subscribe to
C. owe to D. refer to
26、 Many businesses offer membership cards to clients(客户), promising that they will enjoy discounts, and the more they use the cards, the bigger the discounts will be. This is a common practice to attract and keep regular customers. By providing quality products or services at reasonable prices, businesses can indeed achieve this goal.
However, in recent years, consumers trying to book flights or hotels on certain websites have discovered that prices were actually higher for frequent users than for newcomers. They found that they could pay less by opening up a new account rather than using an old one. Unfortunately, these businesses are using information gathered through big data on clients' preferences and purchasing habits to take advantage of them, which amounts to targeted price discrimination(歧视).
There have been numerous cases of overcharging based on big data on various shopping platforms in recent years. However, since it's difficult to collect sufficient evidence to accuse these businesses, only a small number of consumers have chosen to take them on. Thus, big data, which is supposed to benefit the public, is helping some businesses cheat consumers. Big data itself is not a bad thing, since it is playing an increasingly important role in social life and economic growth. It can serve as a basic resource and tool. But since it is being used to overcharge frequent clients, the public has expressed anger. It's a short-sighted behavior that will eventually drive away customers. Instead, big data should be used to improve businesses' services and products by strengthening supervision （监督）and punishment so that this new technology can play its due role in Internet commerce.
It's urgent to stop the misuse of big data by stepping up supervision. Market and network supervisory authorities need to join hands in this effort. The illegal use of big data should be severely punished. Advanced technology should be more widely used to supervise big data use.
It's all right for businesses to employ certain methods to make big money, but to charge regular clients more than newcomers by taking advantage of information collected through big data analysis is violating regular clients' rights as well as their trust in these businesses. The Law on the Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests clearly states that consumers have the right to know the truth about the commodities and services they buy. Thus, to overcharge regular clients is not only betraying the principle of fairness and sincerity, but also relevant laws. In the long run, it's the businesses that will suffer most.
【1】What do businesses promise by offering membership cards?
A.To provide quality products. B.to collect information.
C.To overcharge clients D.To appeal to regular customers.
【2】What’s the due role of big data in Internet commerce?
A.Benefiting the public. B.Improving businesses' services.
C.Cheating customers. D.Violating regular clients' rights.
【3】Who will suffer most from the misuse of big data according to the text?
A.network supervisory authorities. B.Internet commerce.
C.regular clients. D.Businesses involved.
27、 The freezing Northeast hasn’t been a terribly fun place to spend time this winter, so when the chance came for a weekend to Sarasota, Florid, my bags were packed before you could say “sunshine”. I left for the land of warmth and vitamin C(维生素C), thinking of beaches and orange trees. When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness. Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets (at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon) filled the weekend, but the best part—particularly to my taste, dulled by months or cold-weather root vegetables—was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasota farmers’ market that proved to be more than worth the early wake-up call.
The market, which was founded in 1979, sets up its tents every Saturday from 7:00 am to l p.m, rain or shine, along North Lemon and State streets. Baskets of perfect red strawberries, the red-painted sides of the Java Dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.
Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened(蔓上成熟的) promise, I’ve refused to buy winter tomatoes for years. No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they’re unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless. But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the Brown’s Grove Farm’s stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist. These were the real deal—and at that moment, I realized that the best part of Sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn’t be experiencing again for months.
Delighted as I was by the tomatoes in sight, my happiness deepened when I learned that Brown’s Grove Farm is one of the suppliers for Jack Dusty, a newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, where—luckily for me—I was planning to have dinner that very night. Without even seeing the menu, I knew I’d be ordering every tomato on it.
【1】What did the author think of her winter life in New York?
A.Exciting. B.Boring.
C.Relaxing. D.Annoying.
【2】What made the author’s getting up early worthwhile?
A.Having a swim. B.Breathing in fresh sir.
C.Walking in the morning sun. D.Visiting a local farmer’s market.
【3】What can we learn about tomatoes sold in New York in winter?
A.They are soft. B.They look nice.
C.They taste great. D.They are juicy.
28、China Train Guide
Quick Guide on China Train Travel
If you’re looking for an affordable and comfortable way to get around China, train travel is the way to go. Getting train information and cheap train tickets has never been easier. Online train ticket booking makes it easy for travelers to look through China’s train timetable, compare train fares, and look for ticket availability. Once you’ve found a suitable train, you can book online and pick your tickets up at the train station or get them delivered to your home or hotel. Train tickets can be booked online a minimum of 35 minutes and a maximum of 60 days before departure.
How to choose train types
When you’re buying China train tickets online, you’ll notice that the journey duration differs depending on which type of train you choose. China train types can be recognized by their letter codes G, D and C trains are high-speed trains, while Z, T and K are slower or overnight trains. China’s high-speed trains run between Chinese provincial capitals and first-tier Chinese cities. G trains (high-speed trains , standing for gāotiě) are China’s bullet trains—the fastest trains with a maximum speed of 400 km／h. Tickets for these trains are the most expensive.
How to buy train tickets
Unless you can read Chinese, there are only two ways to make train reservations in China:
—Online train ticket booking with a travel agency (up to 60 days before departure).
—At the train station／local ticket agency with your passport (up to 58 days before departure).
How to read train tickets
When reading your train ticket, please take note of the Chinese characters and Pinyin printed next t o your departure / arrival city. Directions (North, South, East, and West) appear in Pinyin (Bei, Nan, Dong, and Xi), not English. Please make sure you are going to the correct train station.
【1】What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. It’s difficult to get train information in China.
B. You can get on the train without tickets after booking online.
C. Traveling by train in China is not very expensive.
D. Train tickets online are available at any time within 60 days before you leave.
【2】If Mr. Smith needs to travel from Jinan to Beijing for something urgent, he’d better take ________.
A. G trains B. Z trains C. D trains D. Overnight trains
【3】Who are the intended readers of the passage?
A. Native tourists. B. Travel agencies. C. Businessmen. D. Foreign travelers.
29、A European Union program is letting blind people experience famous paintings for the first time. It uses three dimensional (3-D) printing to re-create famous paintings so that they can be touched.
One painting printed with the new technology is Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss.” It is a popular attraction at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria. The painting shows a man and a woman standing in a field filled with flowers. They are wearing gold robes and have their arms around each other. The man leans down to kiss the woman.
Klimt finished the painting in 1908. Until now, people who have trouble seeing can not enjoy the artwork. But thanks to the reproduction (复制品) they can touch the piece and feel the ridges (隆起) and depressions (凹地). Andreas Reichinger started making 3-D versions of artwork in 2010. He said this reproduction was his most difficult project because the couple’s robes are so detailed (精细的).
Dominika Raditsch is a blind museum visitor. She touched the reproduction. As she moved her hands around it, she said, “Exactly, can you see these? There are so many details.” Raditsch said she can imagine what the original painting looks like when she touches the reproduction. “It’s somehow round. You can feel it. It comes with it. And in many places it’s so smooth. And then I think to myself: it probably shines too!” Raditsch said.
The Belvedere is not the only museum to have 3-D versions of its artwork. Some of the pieces at the Prado, in Madrid, Spain, have reproductions that can be touched. But the piece in Vienna has one special part: it is made with widely available 3-D printing technology. That means one day, blind art fans anywhere in the world could download the source files and print the reproductions themselves.
【1】What is “The Kiss”?
A．A European Union project.
B．A popular painting
C．A 3-D technology.
D．A famous museum.
【2】Why did Reichinger say this reproduction was difficult to finish?
A．The painting was reproduced detailedly.
B．The original artwork was made in 1908.
C．Blind art fans can’t download the source files.
D．The 3-D technology is not available.
【3】What is the best title for the text?
A．A European Union Program for Museum Visitors
B．How to Reproduce the World-famous Paintings
C．A Special Museum for Art Fans in Vienna, Austria
D．3-D Printing Lets the Blind Experience Famous Paintings
30、One fall in the mid-1950s, I took some time off and got a train ticket to visit relatives in Cleveland. I was _________ out of school and had begun working as an office clerk. On my return trip, I noticed a couple across the aisle (通道) — a(n) _________ and a young woman — having a conversation.
_________, I realized the two of them weren’t traveling together after all, but had just met on the train. The woman finally got off at Rochester, New York, leaving the soldier _________. I couldn’t help noticing his good looks out of the corner of my _________.
He asked _________ he could look at the train timetable I was holding, and then if he could _________ next to me so we could chat. He’s a fast mover, I thought. I’ll have to _________ for this one. I invited him to _________ the too-large lunch my aunt had __________ for my trip, and we __________ all the way to my stop in Oneida, and we __________ addresses and he said he would be in __________.
After a week, I still hadn’t heard from him and had begun to think he’d forgotten about me. Then, on Saturday, the phone rang and a __________ voice asked if I would like to see a movie with him that evening. He’d come to Oneida, and we __________ seeing On the Waterfront at the Kallet Theatre.
We had a few more __________ during his Army leave, and then he was __________ overseas. For the next few years, we __________ and he visited me on other holidays. Today we’ve been together more than 55 years, raising three daughters who now have daughters of their own.
Before taking my trip to Cleveland all those years ago, I was warned never to speak to __________ on a train. I’m certainly __________ I didn’t listen.
【1】
A．absent
B．fresh
C．expert
D．anxious
【2】
A．armyman
B．businessman
C．policeman
D．salesman
【3】
A．Immediately
B．Eventually
C．Hurriedly
D．Imaginarily
【4】
A．aside
B．annoyed
C．amazed
D．alone
【5】
A．eye
B．ear
C．shoulder
D．seat
【6】
A．when
B．where
C．if
D．how
【7】
A．sit
B．wait
C．lean
D．bend
【8】
A．set out
B．make out
C．hang out
D．watch out
【9】
A．prepare
B．share
C．deliver
D．order
【10】
A．carried
B．packed
C．allocated
D．stored
【11】
A．argued
B．wept
C．talked
D．ate
【12】
A．found
B．announced
C．exchanged
D．described
【13】
A．need
B．despair
C．pain
D．touch
【14】
A．familiar
B．mature
C．strange
D．particular
【15】
A．gave up
B．added up
C．ended up
D．got up
【16】
A．discussions
B．dates
C．lessons
D．deals
【17】
A．injured
B．attracted
C．assigned
D．employed
【18】
A．separated
B．settled
C．practiced
D．corresponded
【19】
A．strangers
B．officers
C．conductors
D．writers
【20】
A．curious
B．glad
C．aware
D．sorry
31、 Praveen and I had set off into the air at last. The______was just one part of our plan to fly around the world.
When we were flying over a mountain, our plane suddenly began to______and was in flames, but its body with both of us _____fell to the earth. Soon we found that it was an empty ____ with sea water around it.
We______to search a place for shelter since we ______knew when we could be rescued. We went up a hill and began to______a place with fresh water and some fruit trees nearby. Suddenly, we heard a(n) _____cry. I said to Praveen, “What ____ can be calling so strangely?” He said, “It might not be a bird. It may be a huge animal. Who______?” The cry was heard again and we saw a shadow coming closer. “Look out, Praveen!” I said. He was _____and shouted loudly like a ____ man. I was also afraid but I tried to catch the shadowy figure, To our______, it was a sheep. It almost frightened us to death.
We ______a place in between the fruit trees and the fresh water spring for_______a camp. We brought wood, dried grass and leaves from the nearby trees. In case of _____, we could go to the caves nearby. The cliffs could help us in ______the attention of any rescuing party.
Soon after two days, a helicopter _______us and we were rescued. This adventure was simply a brush with death but our _____, fearlessness and knowledge of islands kept us ____. We came to know that this island was called Topo.
【1】A.trip B.meeting C.task D.visit
【2】A.fly B.burn C.land D.turn
【3】A.safe B.asleep C.free D.strong
【4】A.village B.hill C.cave D.island
【5】A.promised B.happened C.needed D.continued
【6】A.never B.still C.always D.also
【7】A.depend on B.look for C.describe D.imagine
【8】A.warning B.small C.strange D.angry
【9】A.baby B.bird C.sheep D.rescuer
【10】A.cares B.hears C.wants D.knows
【11】A.quiet B.brave C.frightened D.worried
【12】A.stupid B.shy C.mad D.nervous
【13】A.surprise B.excitement C.sadness D.expectation
【14】A.shared B.chose C.saw D.took
【15】A.showing off B.picking out C.giving out D.setting up
【16】A.danger B.injury C.sickness D.failure
【17】A.paying B.keeping C.attracting D.avoiding
【18】A.saved B.caught C.passed D.found
【19】A.chance B.help C.kindness D.courage
【20】A.awake B.busy C.alive D.lucky
32、“You'll never be a successful lawyer. Even if you try, you'll never make it.” The words are still so________that it seems as though they were said yesterday. The voice isn't that of a peer, an enemy or someone I shouldn't respect. It's the voice of my eighth-grade________-Mrs. Smith.
In my________class of the year, I started a conversation with Mrs. Smith. More people became involved and I________the topic of becoming a lawyer. With only 30 seconds of the school year left, the words that________my life rolled out of her mouth________enough for the entire class to hear-“You'll never be a successful lawyer.”
I was so hurt________, and extremely angry, too. All I could think about was to tell everyone what a bad person she was. Once I cooled down and gave it some________, I realized it was the________thing anyone had ever said to me. It was better than encouragement and kind________; it was reality, something that had never occurred to me. It wasn't until that________that I realized becoming a lawyer was going to________a lot of hard work. If I didn't give everything 110% effort, Mrs. Smith might end up being________.
Thus I was________to prove her wrong and prove to myself that I was better than she had made me feel. Once I become that successful lawyer. I will________Mrs. Smith again. Instead of yelling and declaring proudly that I proved her wrong, all I will say is, “Thank you. Mrs. Smith.”
【1】
A．new
B．recent
C．fresh
D．lively
【2】
A．teacher
B．student
C．classmate
D．friend
【3】
A．first
B．last
C．next
D．second
【4】
A．called for
B．brought up
C．carried on
D．gave away
【5】
A．changed
B．improved
C．ruined
D．predicted
【6】
A．cruelly
B．loud
C．properly
D．quickly
【7】
A．at first
B．at least
C．above all
D．in all
【8】
A．idea
B．mind
C．comment
D．thought
【9】
A．easiest
B．funniest
C．best
D．worst
【10】
A．promises
B．services
C．words
D．requests
【11】
A．meeting
B．remark
C．failure
D．moment
【12】
A．put
B．take
C．devote
D．spare
【13】
A．right
B．happy
C．wrong
D．sorry
【14】
A．required
B．expected
C．advised
D．inspired
【15】
A．write
B．ask
C．challenge
D．meet
33、 Events began to unfold on Saturday on the beach when Amy and her husband saw their two sons screaming for help in the sea. The couple tried to rescue the boys，____ they also became caught in the riptide（裂流区）. Several other family members，______ to save the struggling boys, became trapped as well.______ there was no lifeguard there. The ______ was getting more serious. The victims had been struggling to keep their heads ______ water for a while, and became ______ .
Beach goers started ______ the crowd of onlookers to form a human chain. Although several of them couldn't ______ swim themselves, they linked arms and ______ into the sea. Among the onlookers was Simmons, whose husband told the crowd to ______ a chain. As she watched the human chain ______ to the victims, she knew that she could help. “I am a(n) ______ swimmer,” Simmons said “I was ______ I could get them to the human chain.”
Simmons and her husband then ______ surfing boards and swam down the chain until they got close to the struggling swimmers. First, they helped the two boys ______ the human chain. Then, they went back for Amy, who was just starting to lose ______ . When the last ______ was brought back to the beach, the crowd cheered.
Over eighty onlookers formed a human chain to save nine people from a ______ riptide. This courageous rescue proves that anyone ______ be a hero. It is the onlookers' quick action and ______ that saved several lives.
【1】A. but B. and C. since D. while
【2】A. managing B. attempting C. failing D. refusing
【3】A. Eventually B. Fortunately C. Hopefully D. Unluckily
【4】A. atmosphere B. environment C. situation D. position
【5】A. above B. beneath C. into D. toward
【6】A. disappointed B. confused C. thrilled D. exhausted
【7】A. appealing for B. calling out C. taking on D. turning down
【8】A. also B. even C. still D. already
【9】A. jumped B. fled C. marched D. dived
【10】A. cast B. form C. elect D. apply
【11】A. stretch B. rush C. climb D. roll
【12】A. clumsy B. awful C. superb D. common
【13】A. persuaded B. convinced C. concerned D. informed
【14】A. ignored B. spotted C. abandoned D. grabbed
【15】A. reach B. separate C. fasten D. cut
【16】A. strength B. consciousness C. memory D. awareness
【17】A. onlooker B. lifeguard C. victim D. rider
【18】A. calm B. mil C. poisonous D. dangerous
【19】A. must B. should C. can D. shall
【20】A. caution. B. skill C. competence D. bravery
34、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Knowledge is free on the Internet at a small but 【1】 number of colleges and universities. About 160 schools around the world now put free course materials on the web to the 【2】. Recent additions in the United States 【3】 projects at Yale, Johns Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures on YouTube. Free videos from other schools are 【4】 at the Apple iTunes store.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became an early 【5】 with its Open Course Ware project, first 【6】 in 2001. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published at ocw.mit.edu. Many exams even include the answers. Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1,800 undergraduate and graduate courses. These 【7】 from Physics to Political Science. Visitors can learn the same things as MIT students learn. But as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not an MIT education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not provide 【8】 with teachers. Still, MIT says that the site has had forty million visits by thirty-one million visitors from almost every country. Sixty percent of the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada. Students and educators use the site, including students at MIT. But the largest number of visitors, about half, are self-learners.
Some professors have become well-known around the world as a result of 【9】 online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at MIT, is 【10】 popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures. MIT Open Course Ware now includes materials for high school. The aim is to improve education in Science, Technology, Math and Engineering.
35、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, becoming the first known case of human-animal 【1】, the zoo's chief veterinarian said on Sunday.
Nadia, the 4-year-old Malayan tiger that tested positive, was 【2】 for the COVID-19 disease after 【3】 a dry cough along with three other tigers and three lions, the Wildlife Conservation Society, which manages the zoo, said in a statement.
All of the cats are expected to recover, it said. But officials believe this is a unique case because Nadia became sick after 【4】 to an asymptomatic zoo employee, Paul Calle, chief veterinarian at the Bronx Zoo, told Reuters.
Calle said they did not know which employee infected the tiger. "This is the first time that we have discovered that a person infects the animal and the animal gets sick," Calle said, adding that they planned to share the findings with other zoos and institutions. " I guess 【5】 we will all have a better understanding as a result.
While the other tigers and lions were also 【6】 symptoms, the zoo decided to test only Nadia because she was the sickest and had started to lose her appetite already, and they did not want to 【7】 all the cats to anesthesia(麻醉), Calle said.
Nadia 【8】 X-rays, an ultrasound(超声波) and blood tests to try to figure out what was making her sick . They decided to test for COVID-19 【9】 the surge in cases in New York City, the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States.The first tiger at the zoo, which has been shut since mid-March, began showing 【10】 of illness on March 27, according to the US Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories.
36、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high【1】 — as Christie’s becomes the first auction house to offer a work of art created by an algorithm. This portrait, however, is not the product of a human mind. It was created by an【2】 intelligence, an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses. And when it went under the【3】 in the Prints & Multiples sale at Christie’s on 23-25 October, Portrait of Edmond Belamy sold for an【4】 $432,500, signaling the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage.
From a distance, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy looks almost plausible. Up close, however, the paintwork becomes a grid of mechanical-looking dots, the man’s face a golden blur with black holes for eyes. Look into those eyes. They show no sign of feeling or life. Did a computer make this?
The answer is yes. The first artwork【5】 by AI to be sold at Christie’s, its【6】 price would seem to suggest that in future we will get computers to make art for us. Robot van Gogh will harmlessly cut its ear off and robot Picasso will be a genius.
Is this the future AI art visionaries such as the French collective Obvious, which programmed this “painter” by getting it to compare its own work with 15,000 pre-20th century portraits, have in mind? Or are they just, God forbid, making a fast buck from deceivable art collectors? Because believing the algorithm that knocked this up to be in any meaningful way an “artist” is like thinking your voice-interaction programme is out to get you. Dream on. Computers would need to replicate human consciousness before they could replicate the funny thing humans do called “art”.
Art is a way in which human 【7】 expresses itself, and is equally true of the earliest cave art, Rembrandt’s portraits and Duchamp’s urinal. And that is what is missing from Portrait of Edmond Bellamy. Art is a way humans communicate ideas, perceptions and feelings to each other. It has no 【8】 outside the human passion to communicate. So in what meaningful sense can an AI replica of certain【9】 traits of old master paintings be called art?
For a robot to really make art, it would need an autonomous mind that was emotional as well as【10】. No AI developer has yet claimed to be anywhere near achieving that and if they ever do, their creation will probably have better things to do than paint portraits — like destroy humanity.
Maybe afterwards robots will invent their own kind of art, but it won’t be some poor pastiche of human genius.
It will be beyond anything we organics could imagine.
37、阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。
Wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic p【1】 the spread of the deadly virus. But it is also i【2】. For one, we can no longer unlock our phones using facial recognition since a good part of our face is c【3】.
F【4】, tech companies are working to solve the problem. Apple, for example, offered a new way to unlock your iPhone and iPad with its l【5】 software update, iOS13.5, w【6】 was released on May 20.
Even though the update still won’t recognize your masked face, it makes the whole process f【7】. While the old system wouldn’t allow access t【8】 the passcode screen before three failed face scan attempts, iOS13.5 will send you straight to the passcode screen when you swipe up.
It might only s【9】 you a few seconds, but those few seconds “benefit public health by eliminating the temptation for people to r【10】 their masks in order to unlock their device”.
38、假如你是校学生会主席李华，为提升同学环保意识， 你校准备于下周六开展“垃圾分类助推活动”，请代表学校写一则书面通知，向留学生介绍活动的具体安排， 内容包括：
1、活动意义
2、具体安排
3、报名方式
提示词：垃圾分类 garbage sorting
注意：词数100左右；
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39、假设你是李华，某中学学生杂志英语习作专栏正在开展主题为“Why should we learn English?”的征文活动。请你根据所给要点写一篇征文稿。
1）提高学习语言的能力；2）有助于了解异国文化；3）能够结识更多的朋友。
Why should we learn English?
English is an international language，so it is
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40、假定你是李华，你班计划到绵阳仙海湖（the Xianhai Lake）观看端午节的龙舟赛。请给外教史密斯先生写封电子邮件，邀请他一同前往，内容包括：
1. 集合时间和地点：5月30日上午8:00， 学校大门口。
2. 交通方式：骑自行车
3. 向他简介龙舟赛。（由纪念诗人屈原演变成一项颇受欢迎的活动）
4. 恳请他参与。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mr. Smith,
The Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional holiday celebrated in China, is coming soon.
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Yours,
Li Hua
41、假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Eric希望参加你校组织的古筝兴趣班。请根据以下要点，用英语给他回一封电子邮件。
1. 古筝兴趣班成立的宗旨；
2. 古筝兴趣班的每周活动安排；
3. 愿意提供帮助。
注意： 1、词数100左右；
2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3、开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数。 参考词汇：兴趣班 Interest Class
Dear Eric,
How’s everything going?
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Yours,
Li Hua
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