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1、Japanese groups sent assistance supplies to China, _____ with ancient Chinese poetic lines: "Fear not the want of armor, for mine is also yours to wear", _____ a touching message of empathy(共鸣) from a close neighbor.
A.attached; conveying B.being attached; conveying
C.attaching; conveyed D.to attach; conveyed
2、The noise gradually ______ and the whole city was in complete silence.
A. faded out B. gave out
C. ran out D. worked out
3、The exhibition tells us _____we should do something to stop air pollution.
A．where
B．why
C．what
D．which
4、The sun began to rise in the sky, ________ the mountain in golden light.
A.bathed B.bathing
C.to have bathed D.have bathed
5、I’m sorry, but I can’t go with you to the cinema because I have to ______ my sick brother.
A.refer to B.attend to C.lead to D.stick to
6、From her knowledge of Douglas's habits，she feels sure that the attacker last night ___________Douglas.
A. mustn't have been B. can't have been
C. shouldn't have been D. wouldn't have been
7、As you worked late last night, you __________ have come this morning.
A.may not B.can’t C.mustn’t D.needn’t
8、The best books are treasures of good words and golden thoughts, ______ , remembered and cherished, become our constant companions.
A.that B.which C.where D.where
9、To keep their innovation _______ the times, Internet-based companies are sparing no efforts in digging into more core technologies.
A．in tune with
B．in touch with
C．in exchange for
D．in reward for
10、You can take anything from the shelf and read, but please______ the books when you’ve finished with them.
A.put on B.put down
C.put back D.put off
11、The architecture as well as all the art works of The Forbidden City is well ____________ by professional staff.
A. accustomed B. erupted
C. assumed D. preserved
12、________ and out of breath, we reached the top of the mountains and stopped ________ the beautiful scenery.
A．Tiring; to admire
B．Tiring; admiring
C．Tired; admiring
D．Tired;to admire
13、Peter, as well as my other classmates, _____ going to attend a lecture next Sunday.
A.was B.is C.are D.were
14、The survivors _______ on the beach, exhausted on the shocked.
A.lie B.lay C.lain D.laid
15、He’s quite reliable. You can depend on ___________you out.
A. that he will help B. it that helps
C. he helping D. him to help
16、Do you think regular exercise ___________ good health?
A. benefit from B. reach for
C. make for D. go for
17、They have ______money for the Hope Project for the last two years.
A. rose B. raised
C. aroused D. arisen
18、Local governments can foster this sustainable activity by giving_____ to responsible operators, and even high-paying consumers.
A.preference B.substitute C.alternative D.selection
19、Your time should have been made full use of _______ the final exams, but to my regret, it wasn’t.
A.to pass B.passing C.to have passed D.having passed
20、What we learn today in school will ______ whether we can meet our challenges in the future.
A. defend B. consume
C. determine D. consent
21、Many experts stick to the view ______ teacher development is the key to the education quality.
A.which B.what C.that D.where
22、The book is a complete introduction ________ all the best Indian films.
A.in B.on C.to D.about
23、It is said that there are ten foreign students in our school. One is from America, _______ is from Australia and all ______ students are from England.
A. another; the others B. one; another C. another; the other D. one; other’s
24、She looked in the direction of the window, but there was nothing in front _______ the deep darkness.
A.other than B.rather than C.or rather D.or else
25、John invited about 40 people to his wedding, most of _______are family members.
A.who B.which C.whom D.what
26、The news that all teachers were expected to attend camp with their students left me feeling unsettled. For the first time in more than 20 years, I would need to spend three days in the early autumn bush with 120 14-year-olds.
I love spending time with teenagers. But I teach Grade 12 English and am 51 years old. There is a difference between a literary seminar on King Lear, no matter how lively it may be, and late-night party in a campground. Besides, my idea of “outdoors” is biking on the Ottawa bike paths or sitting in the backyard with a cup of tea and a good book.
Eventually, we turn down a long dirt track that dives deep into a forest. I read the schedule and note the impressive minute-by-minute detail for the next 72 hours. I’ve never faced such a structured(高度组织化的) time since, well, when I went to camp in Grade 9. I think of home.
The next morning, I arise early. It is 7 a.m. Time for the polar bear dip. Everyone asks if I am going to swim. I respond with lame excuses and then wander, like a Grade 8 boy at the edges of a middle-school dance. Kids charge in, great plumes(股流) of water rising up around them as they shout with joy. My colleagues link arms, count down and run into the water bravely. Toweling off, the swimmers discuss the water temperature. The regret that I knew I would feel starts to kill me. I will now forever be the guy who did not take part in the polar bear dip. I walk slowly up to the dining hall and decide that from that moment on I will commit fully to camp life. My unwillingness to do anything is replaced with a burning desire to do everything.
At 7 a.m. the next morning, I am the first person on the beach in my bathing suit. I dive into the water. I scream about how good it feels. Toweling off afterward, I talk to anyone within earshot about the temperature of the water.
Later that day, the camp winds down. Something has happened in this camp. To the students, for sure, but also to me. When the last camper leaves, I give the camp director a big hug.
【1】How did the author feel before the camp?
A．Angry.
B．Disappointed.
C．Anxious.
D．Excited.
【2】Why does the author mention the literary seminar in Paragraph2?
A．To stress its liveliness.
B．To explain its topic.
C．To introduce his preference.
D．To show its similarity to camping.
【3】Why does the author decide to devote himself to camping?
A．He is fed up with making excuses.
B．He hates to be regret-stricken.
C．He desires to show off his swimming skills.
D．He is encouraged to do so by his colleagues.
【4】What happened to the author at the end of the camp?
A．He has used up his energy.
B．He misses home very much.
C．He turns into a camp director.
D．He has become a camp lover.
27、Learning a second language is tricky at any age and it only gets tougher the longer you wait to open that dusty French book. Now, in a new study, scientists have pinpointed the exact age at which your chances of reaching fluency in a second language seem to plummet: 10.
The study, published in the journal Cognition, found that it’s “nearly impossible” for language learners to reach native-level fluency if they start learning a second tongue after 10. But that doesn’t seem to be because language skills go downhill. “It turns out you’re still learning fast. It’s just that you run out of time, because your ability to learn starts dropping at around 17 or 18 years old,” says study co-author Joshua Hartshorne, an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College.
Kids may be better than adults at learning new languages for many reasons. Children’s brains are more plastic than those of adults, meaning they’re better able to adapt and respond to new information. “All learning involves the brain changing,” Hartshorne says, “and children’s brains seem to be a lot more skilled at changing.”
Kids may also be more willing to try new things (and to potentially look foolish in the process) than adults are. Their comparatively new grasp on their native tongue may also be advantageous. Unlike adults, who tend to default (默认) to the rules and patterns of their first language, kids may be able to approach a new one with a blank slate (石板).
These findings may seem discouraging, but it was heartening for scientists to learn that the critical period for fluent language acquisition might be longer than they previously thought. Some scientists believed that the brief window closes shortly after birth, while others stretched it only to early adolescence. Compared to those estimates, 17 or 18 — when language learning ability starts to drop off — seems relatively old.
“People fared better when they learned by immersion (沉浸), rather than simply in a classroom. And moving to a place where your desired language is spoken is the best way to learn as an adult. If that’s not an option, you can mimic an immersive environment by finding ways to have conversations with native speakers in their own communities,” Hartshorne says. By doing so, it’s possible to become conversationally proficient — even without the advantage of a child’s brain.
【1】The underlined word “plummet” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to “__________”.
A．decrease
B．rise
C．end
D．vary
【2】What can be inferred from Joshua Hartshorne’s words?
A．Children are too young to grasp a second language.
B．Age 10-18 is the best time to learn a second language.
C．Adults go beyond the critical period for learning a second language.
D．Communicating with native speakers enables you to master all the language skills.
【3】Why adults can’t reach native-level fluency in a second language?
A．Adults are less influenced by their mother tongues.
B．Adults spend more time responding to new information.
C．Adults are only too willing to experience something awkward in the process.
D．Adults prefer an immersive environment to a classroom in learning a second language.
【4】The passage is mainly about __________.
A．the best age to learn a second language
B．the approaches to learning a second language
C．why kids learn a second language more easily than adults
D．whether adults can learn a second language like their younger selves
28、Some events have been added to the 2024 Olympics, with surfing, breakdancing and sport climbing among the recent additions. With them come a group of terms that are foreign to the French language. For some French-language purists, it’s too much to bear to rely on English to praise surfers on their “noseriding”-standing on the front of the board. They’ve decided they need a French solution.
The French government has created a team of language experts devoted to promoting the national language. They will meet periodically over the next couple of years to identify and define new sports terms. The French battle against the influence of other languages isn’t new. In 1994, the Toubon law was passed, forcing the use of French in all government publications, contracts and advertisements. Yet it contained several loopholes, which allow brands and companies to extensively use English. As a result, anglicisms are becoming more obvious.
Julie Neveux, linguistics professor at Sorbonne University in Paris, said anglicisms are “sometimes estimated at just under 5% of the present vocabulary, but they are disturbing because they show that we follow an economic and cultural model other than our own.” They are particularly present in sports competitions and events, during which athletes from around the world are used to communicating in English. “Sport was one of the first areas to be globalized,” said sports historian Michael Attali, “This phenomenon has strengthened English as the official language.” Despite their best efforts, no committee has successfully prevented English from infiltrating everyday language. By the time French officials agreed on a translation and its definition, the English version has already spread throughout the nation, “Similar committees have been put in place in the past, but nothing has changed so far,” said Attali.
“There are far fewer anglicisms in French than there are French words in English.” said Neveux, adding these exchanges should not be seen as a threat. “All living languages exist by borrowing from each other. Languages only exist thanks to their impurity.”
【1】What will a team of language experts do?
A．Promote the spread of French in the world.
B．Decide upon some new sports terms.
C．Bring English and French together.
D．Make French much purer.
【2】What’s the result of previous efforts to stop English from infiltrating French?
A．Unimportant.
B．Successful.
C．Fruitless.
D．Unmentioned.
【3】What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．English is more popular than French.
B．All languages should be preserved.
C．The exchanges between two languages can be avoided.
D．Neveux is positive about the impurity of language.
【4】Where can we probably read the passage?
A．In a newspaper.
B．In a travel guide.
C．In a biography.
D．In a fiction novel.
29、 Why do people lie? Many psychologists agree that lying can start from childhood. There are various reasons why children make false statements. They usually tell untruthful stories to cover up the mistakes that they have done in the past. Lying is also a way to avoid receiving punishments from parents. If parents, fail to reprimand their children for making up false stories, then there is a possibility that they will continue to lie during their teenage years.
Teenagers lie because they want to be accepted by their friends. This is the main reason why they create stories that are not true just to become presentable and acceptable to other people. In some instances, teenagers tell untruthful statements to avoid criticisms from their families and friends.
As teenagers grow, lying becomes one of their habits. Their knowledge on making up untruthful stories becomes more developed. People lie in workplaces if they fail to meet the deadlines and if they fail to accomplish and do their tasks efficiently. Some of the common lies made in workplaces are getting sick and having emergencies at home. The danger involved in frequent lying is when it becomes a character. Frequent lying causes the development of the condition known to doctors as pathological lying.
Pathological lying is a mental health condition, which is associated with individuals who have the urge to tell untruthful statements. Patients suffering from it make up stories about everything and anything. These individuals pretend to meet the standards of other people who they want to please. These patients cheat other people because it gives them an unexplained pleasure. One of the best ways of treating pathological liars is to help them tell true statements and stories at all times. This may be hard for them, but as they are accustomed to it, they will start to realize that they will be more accepted by their families and other people if they stop themselves from making up false stories.
【1】What does the underlined word "reprimand' in Paragraph 1 mean?
A.satisfy B.criticize
C.discourage D.praise
【2】Why do Teenagers tell lies according to the passage?
A.Because they want to avoid being punished. B.Because they want to fool other people.
C.Because they want to satisfy others. D.Because they want to attract others' attention.
【3】Why is Pathological lying a disease?
A.Because the patients can't help lying.
B.Because the patients lose interest in everything.
C.Because the patients are critical about themselves.
D.Because the patients have the urge to please others.
【4】What are patients suffering pathological lying most likely to do?
A.They really want to play jokes on others.
B.They often suffer from some other diseases.
C.They usually want to show off themselves by making some statements.
D.They always like making up pleasing stories.
【5】How does the writer explain pathological lying?
A.By showing some typical examples. B.By predicting the future consequences.
C.By analyzing its causes and development. D.By listing a group of phenomena.
30、 Christmas was near a season that we took seriously in our house. But a week or so before the 25th， my father would give each of his children ＄20. This was the 1970s， and ＄20 was quite a bit of money.
But I saw it___. My father trusted me to have the___to spend money wisely. Even better， he gave me the means to get it. On a very basic level， my father was giving me a shopping spree（狂欢） every year. But he was also giving me___over my own fun， trusting my ability to___money and making me feel like a（n）___. He didn't buy me Sherlock Holmes， but he gave me the means to walk into the bookstore and___it for myself， so it felt like a gift from him.
My mother had （a）n___for giving me what I needed， usually___at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25， I___at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my___job but had no new one. But when my mother paid me a visit， I___a good show， telling her I had started my own company.
My mother knew that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn't until she___that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thick with___. She knew how___I needed it. She knew that had she just shown up with groceries， or___to pay my rent， she would have made me feel much___. The cold， hard cash meant she was helping me. And， funnily enough， the___with which she gave the gift felt like she was giving me space to___my life and preserve my dignity （尊严）. My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to make my own___，and the other was giving me a second___when those decisions had cost me dearly.
【1】A.naturally B.negatively C.differently D.originally
【2】A.privilege B.intelligence C.authority D.desire
【3】A.advantage B.doubt C.charge D.concern
【4】A.earn B.allocate C.manage D.raise
【5】A.expert B.grown﹣up C.adventurer D.pioneer
【6】A.read B.edit C.choose D.publish
【7】A.passion B.talent C.plan D.demand
【8】A.even B.merely C.roughly D.right
【9】A.failed B.hesitated C.froze D.fell
【10】A.routine B.creative C.challenging D.previous
【11】A.put away B.put on C.put forward D.put off
【12】A.arrived B.left C.fled D.returned
【13】A.credit B.loans C.receipts D.cash
【14】A.badly B.reluctantly C.briefly D.temporarily
【15】A.attempted B.offered C.promised D.managed
【16】A.better B.more C.less D.worse
【17】A.depth B.length C.distance D.range
【18】A.defend B.equip C.fix D.develop
【19】A.preparations B.adaptations C.contributions D.decisions
【20】A.chance B.visit C.solution D.trial
31、I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to E1 Capitan, a _______ rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew _______ I wanted to climb it. That has been my life’s passion (钟爱) ever since — _______ the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my _______
About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of _______, like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It’s _______ me why visitors started respecting the place less and treated such a _______ home-like place this way.
I tried _______ trash (垃圾) myself, but the job was too big. I would _______ an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so ________ it that I decided something had to ________.
As a rock-climbing guide, I knew ________ about organizing any big event. But in 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a ________. On that day, more than 300 people ________. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was ________ how much we were able to accomplish. I couldn’t believe the ________ we made — the park looked clean!
Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash and ________ 132 miles of roadway.
I often hear people ________ about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by ________ rather than complaining .We need to teach by ________. You can’t blame others unless you start with yourself.
【1】
A．distant
B．hard
C．loose
D．huge
【2】
A．gradually
B．finally
C．immediately
D．recently
【3】
A．painting
B．climbing
C．measuring
D．approaching
【4】
A．home
B．palace
C．garden
D．shelter
【5】
A．dust
B．waste
C．materials
D．resources
【6】
A．against
B．over
C．beyond
D．within
【7】
A．new
B．safe
C．happy
D．beautiful
【8】
A．picking up
B．breaking down
C．throwing away
D．digging out
【9】
A．wait
B．save
C．kill
D．spend
【10】
A．delighted in
B．tired of
C．satisfied with
D．used to
【11】
A．aim
B．stress
C．change
D．depend
【12】
A．nothing
B．anything
C．everything
D．something
【13】
A．concert
B．picnic
C．party
D．cleanup
【14】
A．showed up
B．called back
C．dropped out
D．looked around
【15】
A．puzzling
B．amazing
C．amusing
D．interesting
【16】
A．plan
B．visit
C．difference
D．contact
【17】
A．covered
B．crossed
C．measured
D．designed
【18】
A．argue
B．complain
C．quarrel
D．talk
【19】
A．thinking
B．questioning
C．doing
D．watching
【20】
A．method
B．explanation
C．research
D．example
32、 One day,I was in a charity shop looking at the second hand books.After a few minutes I became _______of a group of women who were poorly_______and spoke in what _______like an eastern European language.As they _______the clothes,a little girl,about three years old,came over to the _________section.Immediately her attention was caught by a toy baby carriage.She spoke to her mother and her mother_________asked the shop assistant how much it cost.3 was the _______.The mum looked down at her child,perhaps _________ what she still had to buy and how much money would have been _______.Then she simply________her head.The child didn't ________as some might.Being told no was not a new __________for her.But she couldn't keep the __________from her face.
It hit me that several days ago,a friend gifted me &100,________that I could do some good deeds with it.At that time I had four pounds totally in my pocket,two &2 coins.I knew it was the ________time to act.A moment later I tapped the mother on the shoulder, pointed to the ________I had left in the baby carriage and said,"Buy her a baby doll too." I didn't hang about to see the end result.________,it's not about being thanked.Then I made my way out of the shop and into the sunshine.
The__________my friend gave me was an investment in the happiness of the world.Was there any better way to get so much__________for so little money than to ________a toy baby carriage for a little girl?And a baby doll to sit in it.
【1】A.tired B.ashamed C.aware D.afraid
【2】A.raised B.educated C.dressed D.equipped
【3】A.acted B.sounded C.looked D.felt
【4】A.put away B.took off C.looked through D.picked up
【5】A.book B.toy C.food D.clothing
【6】A.calmly B.eagerly C.confidently D.hesitantly
【7】A.answer B.discount C.pay D.result
【8】A.expecting B.calculating C.guessing D.ignoring
【9】A.raised B.borrowed C.lent D.left
【10】A.nodded B.turned C.sank D.shook
【11】A.complain B.care C.regret D.apologize
【12】A.idea B.task C.lesson D.experience
【13】A.anger B.delight C.satisfaction D.disappointment
【14】A.hoping B.finding C.ordering D.warning
【15】A.tough B.free C.right D.wrong
【16】A.coins B.notes C.dolls D.clothes
【17】A.At first B.For example C.After all D.In general
【18】A.advice B.money C.help D.love
【19】A.energy B.pleasure C.knowledge D.attention
【20】A.buy B.book C.make D.prepare
33、Gone are the days when big businesses were looked upon by environmentalists as enemies in the fight against global warming.
Just two weeks after U. S. President Donald Trump pulled his country out of the Paris Climate Agreement, more than 900 American firms put their _______to a “We Are Still In” open letter to the United Nations. Together, they promise to help reduce America’s carbon emissions by 26 percent by 2025, _______the Paris Climate Agreement.
_______, big businesses have been taking climate change seriously for years now. Alongside energy-efficiency measures, the strongest evidence of their _______has been the number of new wind and solar projects that they have been helping to build around the world. IT firms such as Amazon and Google have been using clean energy to power their servers (服务器). Some environmentalists now believe that big businesses could become strong _______behind the worldwide spread of renewable energy. “There used to be little action,” says Marty Spitzer of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), “Now, I see fundamental _______being made.”
More recently, this enthusiasm for environmental protection has _______from corporate headquarters to branches and suppliers, and from developed countries to emerging markets. Take Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, for example. In March 2016, it said that it would require its own operations and those along its _______chain to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by one billion tons by 2030. This is _______to taking 211 million passenger cars off America’s roads for a year. The announcement was ________by the WWF and other conservation organizations, which are helping Walmart’s suppliers work towards this goal. Apple, maker of the iPhone, has said that seven of its biggest global manufacturers have promised to power their Apple-related ________with renewable energy by the end of this year.
According to the WWF, in the United States alone, nearly two dozen of the biggest firms have committed themselves to becoming 100 percent renewable in the near future. Hervé Touati of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a clean-energy research firm, explains the ________behind this trend. Going green improves the companies’ public image and helps attract customers, staff and investors.
Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s biggest brewer (啤酒公司), has lots of young people among its many ________. Many of them take environmental issues seriously. Electricity, used ________in the brewing process, amounts to a tenth of its total costs. Last year, the company set out to increase the role of renewables in generating ________to 100 percent by 2025. “My generation often takes energy and clean air for granted,” said Tony Milikin, the firm’s chief sustainability officer. “The generation coming up now looks at it totally differently.”
【1】
A．posters
B．innovations
C．names
D．donations
【2】
A．for fear of
B．by means of
C．in line with
D．on account of
【3】
A．In fact
B．On average
C．By contrast
D．In addition
【4】
A．assessment
B．commitment
C．argument
D．attachment
【5】
A．predictors
B．features
C．cases
D．forces
【6】
A．changes
B．profits
C．mistakes
D．differences
【7】
A．transferred
B．ranged
C．processed
D．extended
【8】
A．food
B．store
C．supply
D．data
【9】
A．opposite
B．equivalent
C．accustomed
D．second
【10】
A．criticized
B．issued
C．welcomed
D．underlined
【11】
A．content
B．accounts
C．activities
D．production
【12】
A．inspirations
B．motivations
C．destinations
D．functions
【13】
A．manufacturers
B．investors
C．customers
D．administrators
【14】
A．considerably
B．skillfully
C．economically
D．occasionally
【15】
A．heat
B．wind
C．water
D．power
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The Sundance Film Festival 【1】 boycotts all Hollywood films, and we don’t foresee ever including them. The initial idea for our festival was 【2】 back in l978. when it was known as the Utah/US Film Festival. However, it was not well known until 1981. It was then that Robert Redford became its 【3】 and changed the focus to independent films, often made on very modest 【4】 It was given its new name-the Sundance Film Festival-in 1991. Redford has acted in and directed many big Hollywood films, but wanted to 【5】 the public to films made outside of the Hollywood system
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Yet, some people are【1】 They claim that surfing the Internet is a waste of time. They make the 【2】 that children spend too much time chatting and playing games instead of 【3】 on their school work. However, a recent survey conducted in the USA shows that 80 per cent of Internet users 【4】 it mostly to search for answers to questions. The second most common use of the Internet, for 79 per cent of Internet users, is to find out information about hobbies. These statistics prove that gathering information is the 【5】 use for the Internet.
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、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.
On a broiling afternoon when the men were away at work and all the women napped, I moved through majestic depths of silences, silences so immense I could hear the corn 【1】. Under these silences there was a / an orchestra of natural music playing notes no city child would ever hear. A certain cackle from the henhouse meant we had gained an egg. The creak of a porch swing told of a momentary breeze blowing across my grandmother’s yard. As I 【2】 along a mossy bank to surprise a frog, a 【3】splash told me the quarry had spotted me and slipped into the stream. Wandering among the sleeping houses, I learned that tin roofs crackle under the power of the sun, and when I tired and came back to my grandmother’s house, I padded into her dark cool living room, lay 【4】 on the floor, and listened to the hypnotic beat of her pendulum clock on the wall ticking the meaningless hours away.
I was enjoying the luxuries of a rustic nineteenth-century boyhood, but for the women Morrisonville life had few 【5】. Their lives were hard, endless, dirty labor.
For baths, laundry, and dishwashing, they hauled buckets of water from a spring at the foot of a hill. To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves. They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on washboards until knuckles were 【6】, and wrung it out by hand. Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top.
They scrubbed floors on hands and knees, thrashed rugs with carpet beaters, killed and plucked their own chickens, baked bread and parties, grew and conned their won vegetables, patched the family’s clothing on treadle-operated sewing machines, 【7】before the men to start the stove for breakfast and pack lunch pails, polished the chimneys of kerosene lamps, and even found time to tend the flowers that grew around every house. By the end of a summer day a Morrisonville woman had toiled like a serf.
At sundown the men drifted back from the fields exhausted and 【8】. They scrubbed themselves in enamel basins and, when supper was eaten, climbed up onto the porch to watch the night arrive. Presently the women 【9】 them, and the twilight music of Morrisonville began.
The swing creaking , rocking chairs 【10】 on the porch planks, voices murmuring approval of the sagacity of Uncle Irvey as he quietly observed for probably the ten-thousandth time in his life, “A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.”
38、假定你晨光中学的李津。你校的英文社团正在举办“How can we reduce garbage pollution”的征文活动。请根据以下提示，用英文写一篇短文投稿。
(1)介绍垃圾污染的现状；
(2)提出减少垃圾污染的措施(不少于两点)；
(3)谈谈你对减少垃圾污染的看法。 注意:
(1)词数不少于 100；
(2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
How can we reduce garbage pollution
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39、假定你是李华，你的美国笔友 Jeff 发来邮件，说他想在暑期来中国旅行，体验中国文化和饮食， 请你用英语给他回一封邮件。内容包括：
1. 推荐旅游城市；
2. 推荐原因；
3. 祝他旅途愉快。
注意：1. 词数 80 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
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40、假如你校打算为留学生举办“穿汉服，学书法”的中国传统文化体验活动，请根据以下内容以学生会的名义用英语写一则通知。
1. 时间：7月30日下午3点；
2. 地点：留学生服务中心；
3. 内容：体验穿汉服、学写毛笔字、展示作品、交流体会、拍照留念等；
4. 要求：7月24日前到学生会找李华报名，并告知自己的服装尺码。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 通知的格式已为你写好，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：汉服Han-style clothes（Hanfu）; 书法、毛笔字（calligraphy）
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41、假如你是李华，你的美国笔友Tom发来邮件抱怨父母给他定了很多家规，如晚上10点前回家，不得与父母顶嘴等。请你给他写封回信，要点包括：1. 家规的重要性；2. 你对他家的家规的看法；3. 你家的家规。注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Tom,
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