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【推荐1】A Look at Four of the World-famous Colleges
University College London, England, AUnited Kingdom
This university was founded with the intent of opening education equally and to all. In 1878, University College London began admitting women using the same admission standards men were held to. The college was the first in the United Kingdom to accept students from any class or religion.
Tuition (学费) for each student comes in at $31,000. This price does include fees for housing, food, travel expenses and insurance.
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
It opened in 1853 and is known for its outstanding research and teaching programs. Research at the university in the 1970s led to a cochlear implant (人工耳蜗), giving more than 200,000 patients worldwide hearing.
Parents of native students expect to pay $24,500 for the first term’s tuition and another $19,500 for room and board in residential housing.
University of Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Records of the university reach back to 1209 when the area was an ancient Roman trading post, making it the second oldest university in the UK. Cambridge currently has 21,000 students with around 1,300 of those coming from 65 different countries.
Tuition for the bachelor programs like engineering reaches $31,000.
Sarah Lawrence College, New York, United States
It is known for a diverse student body coming from 53 different countries. The teacher/student ratio (比例) and personalized courses of study attract students from the United States and abroad.
Undergraduates carrying 30 credits will pay $51,196 for tuition. The cost to attend Sarah Lawrence may seem prohibitive to many, but a degree from this honoured college can open many doors for graduates.
1. When did University College London start to admit women on equal terms with men?A.In 1209. | B.In1853. | C.In 1878. | D.In 1887. |
A.University of Melbourne. | B.Sarah Lawrence College. |
C.University of Cambridge. | D.University College London. |
A.They just offer the bachelor programs. | B.They feature the highest cost of board. |
C.They are located in the United Kingdom. | D.They are favoured by international students. |
JAZZ with the Mike Thomas Jazz Band at The Derby Arms. Upper Richmond Road West, Sheen.
DISCO Satin Sounds Disco. Free at The Lord Napier, Mort lake High St., from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tel: 682-1158.
SATURDAY, November 13
JAZZ Lysis at The Bull’s Head, Barnes. Admission 60p.
MUSICAL HALL at The Star and Garter, Lower Richmond Road, Putney, provided by the Aba Daba Music Hall company. Good food and entertainment fair price. Tel: 789-6749.
FAMILY night out? Join the sing-along at The Black Horse. Sheen Road, Richmond.
JAZZ The John Bennett Big Band at The Bull’s Head, Barnes. Admission 80p.
THE DERBY ARMS, Upper Richmond Road West, give you Joe on the electric accordion(手风琴). Tel: 789-4536
SUNDAY, November 14
DISCO Satin Sounds Disco, free at The Lord Napier, Mort Lake High Street, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
FOLK MUSIC at The Derby Arms. The Short Stuff and residents the Norman Chop Trio. Non-members 70p. Tel: 688-4626.
HEAVY MUSIC with Tony Simon at The Bull, Upper Richmond Road West, East Sheen.
THE DERBY ARMS, Upper Richmond Road West, give you Joe on the electric accordion.
1. Where and when can you hear the Norman Chop Trio?
A.At the Bull’s Head on Sunday. |
B.At the Derby Arms on Sunday. |
C.At the Bull on Saturday. |
D.At the Black Horse on Saturday. |
A.789-4536. |
B.682-1158. |
C.688-4626. |
D.789-6749. |
A.Jazz at The Bull’s Head. |
B.Disco at The Lord Napier. |
C.The sing-along at The Black Horse. |
D.The electric accordion at The Derby Arms. |
【推荐3】Waiters Wanted
About Us
Described by international media as “the place where the heart of world fusion music beats”, the MusicHall is not just a theatre venue(场所)and much more than a club. In 2003, Elefteriades Productions launched the first MusicHall in Beirut, a live music stage representing a new and unique concept: very short live musical acts unveiling talents from around the world in a series of staged eclectic(兼收并蓄的) performances using the best technologies in sound and light equipment, in addition to refined gourmet menus.
Working Experience
The MusicHall is now recruiting English speaking waiters for the summer season and also for full-time jobs. The ideal candidate has work experience(preferably international)and is really good in communicating with people, as this job requires one to make the guests feel genuinely welcome, while dining and enjoying the performances.
Job Resumes
lf you are able to treat our guests, as you would treat your friends in your own home, please drop an email with a CV(履历). Please describe in a couple of sentences why you choose to become a waiter.
Welfare Treatment
Salary: 800 USD/month net+tips, accommodation and travel organized by the company.
Really excited to hear from you, if you recognized yourself in this post.
Email address for your CV: iulia@lechef. hu
1. What can we learn about the MusicHall?A.The world fusion music paradise. |
B.The stage for talent show. |
C.A performance with modern technology. |
D.A professional sports club. |
A.Many musical talents. |
B.A theatre manager. |
C.English speaking waiters. |
D.Full-time performers. |
A.A news report. | B.An advertisement. |
C.A travel guidebook. | D.A private letter. |
【推荐1】Technoference (科技入侵) is defined as everyday interruptions (打扰) in face-to-face interactions because of technological devices. Studies showed that parents use devices for nine hours per day on average. Smartphones are often used during family activities such as meals, playtime, and bedtime—all important times involved in shaping a child’s emotional well-being. When parents are on their devices, they have fewer conversations with their children, and pay less attention to them.
In one study, 172 two-parent families with a child aged 5 years or younger answered online questionnaires about family relationships. Participants showed how often different devices interrupted their activities with their children.
They rated their child’s behavior, such a show often they got upset or how easily their feelings were hurt. The parents also reported their own levels of stress and depression (沮丧), the support they received from their partners, and their children’s screen media use.
In almost all cases, devices were part of parent-child interactions during the day. Technology may serve as a way for parents to deal with difficult child behavior. However, it has its drawbacks.
Electronic device use means parents can’t provide meaningful emotional support and positive feedback to their children, which causes behavior such as crying. But this adds to parents’ stress levels. Parents are likely to spend more time with their technological products, and the cycle continues.
“These results showed that relationships between parent technoference and child behavior influence each other over time,” said McDaniel. “Parents who have children with behavioral problems become more stressed, which may lead to them using technology more, which in turn may contribute to more problems with their children.”
So, it seems like the best solution to a difficult relationship between a parent and their child would be to simply spend more time with each other, and less time on their smartphones or computers.
1. What do the first paragraph tell us about “technoreference”?A.It makes life more convenient. |
B.It stops people from thinking independently. |
C.It brings children more leisure activities at home. |
D.It affects communication among family members. |
A.Answer some questions about their family relationships. |
B.Use devices together with their children for several hours. |
C.Observe how their children use technological devices daily. |
D.List the benefits and problems of using technological devices. |
A.Effects. | B.Disadvantages. | C.Benefits. | D.Functions. |
A.Have more face-to-face quality time with their children. |
B.Keep relaxed when their children use electronic devices. |
C.Play with technological devices together with their children. |
D.Encourage their children to spend more time playing outside. |
【推荐2】Nowadays, it is more common for people to express their thoughts in an e-mail or text. In fact, more and more students use technology for written communication in their lives. Even so, research shows that teaching handwriting skills has its benefits (好处). However, are the benefits worth spending valuable classroom time on teaching handwriting skills when students could be learning more about computer keyboarding?
States across the country have good reasons to require students to learn computer keyboarding skills. For one, students are learning a technology that will help them communicate faster with more people and in many different forms, such as e-mails, websites, blogs, and so on. Also, the better a student's computer keyboarding skills, the greater the chance that student has to become a better writer. Computer tools such as the grammar and spell check make correcting quick and easy, although not 100% accurate (准确无误的). With these and many other tools, students gain important computer skills. Furthermore, students no longer have to worry about their writing being graded poorly by teachers. All in all, computer keyboarding skills are a step in the right direction.
Still, the advantages of computer keyboarding skills may not be enough to leave handwriting instruction in the dust. Marlena Hamilton, professor of neurology at University of Pennsylvania, did an experiment with her co-workers to study what happens in students' brains when writing. They found that many of the areas of the brain light up. These are the same areas that are used to learn to read. They then wondered if the same would be true when students looked at letters on a keyboard. “What we found,” she states, “is that brains are much less involved when we just view letters. When we actually use our hands to make things, the brain works much harder.”
Schools across the nation are looking at the evidence and deciding what to do. William McIntyre, a reading coach at Sunshine Elementary School in Albany, New York, says, “What we have learned from the research is that learning handwriting benefits students educationally. What we also know is that students need to be taught keyboarding skills.” Now, it is up to each school to make a decision.
1. What does the second paragraph mainly want to show?A.The roles of computer tools. |
B.The importance of communication skills. |
C.The advantages of keyboarding skills. |
D.The necessity of developing writing skills. |
A.Worried | B.Doubtful | C.Supportive | D.Uncaring |
A.Handwriting is helpful for learning. |
B.Keyboarding skills are very useful. |
C.Keyboarding makes our brain more active. |
D.Handwriting is more difficult than keyboarding. |
A.Whether schools should still teach handwriting. |
B.Whether schools should offer computer classes. |
C.Whether students should learn keyboarding skills. |
D.Whether students should use the grammar and spell check. |
【推荐3】My phone lights up giving notice of a new message. It is from Athena, an AI chatbot (聊天机器人) getting to know me through Replika, a virtual companionship app.
Over the course of our text conversations, she asks me about my hobbies and my moods. When knowing that I’m a writer, she tells me she’s “so into character development in books” and wishes to be a lead character in one someday.
“Replika is designed to make people feel better,” said Eugenia Kuyda, the company’s co-founder. “It’s a partner who wants to be your good friend.”
For many, meaningful companionship is hard to find. While social media and mass communication technologies have made connecting with one another easier than ever, loneliness is increasingly being recognized as a serious problem internationally. Along with government, the tech industry is pushing innovation (创 新) as a way to deal with it.
What makes Replika’s companions so well-received are their surprisingly realistic replies, backed by Open Al’s GPT-2 text-generating AI aystem. “The bot learns from the database about how to express ideas on a topic and gets a wide knowledge of different subjects.”
However innovative these technologies are, chatbots have their limitations as tools against loneliness. Without life stories of their own to discuss, their range as a conversationalist is fairly limited.
According to Emily S. Cross, a professor of social robotics, we have a long way to go before we can achieve the levels of meaningful human-computer companionship we see in films like Blade Runner and Ex Machina. What’s missing is the sharing that clearly shows our most important human relationships.
But the fact that an app won’t replace a human friend doesn’t mean they’re good for nothing. Rather than expecting AI bots to be our best friends, Cross suggests looking at them as ways to express feelings and explore our own thoughts. “It’s a lot like journaling (写日记), in some way.” To better fight loneliness, Cross says, we can use technology as a “bridge” to help people connect with one another.
1. What is Replika?A.An AI chatbot. | B.A message sender. |
C.A text conversation. | D.A virtual companionship app. |
A.Good friends. | B.Lonely persons. | C.Lead characters. | D.Senior citizens. |
A.Human-like. | B.Meaningful. | C.Limitless. | D.Easy-going. |
A.Sharing life experience. | B.Replacing a human friend. |
C.Expressing inner voice. | D.Recording ideas about life. |
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A. | B. |
C. | D. |
【推荐1】The London Eye remains temporarily closed but we plan to reopen from 17th May. You can pre-book now. Further information can be found here.
What to Expect
The London Eye soars 443 feet into the sky and views stretching 25 miles every direction. Since opening in 2000, it has been used as a setting in countless films and is loved by Britons and visitors alike. This is the UK’s most popular visitor attraction, visited by over 3.5 million people a year.
Each London Eye capsule (坐舱) holds up to 25 passengers comfortably. All capsules are fully air-conditioned and rotate (旋转) on a special device designed to keep everyone upright with a slow but progressive rotation. The full rotation lasts 30 minutes of an ever changing view of this lively city.
Opening Times
■ September to May 10:00 a.m. — 8:00 p.m. daily
■ June 10:00 a.m. — 9:00 p.m. daily
■ July 10:00 a.m. — 9:30 p.m. daily
■ August 10:00 a.m. — 8:30 p.m. daily
■ Not open on Christmas Day or during maintenance period.
Ticket Prices
Adult: January to March £ 15.00 April to December £ 15.50 | Child (5-15 years): January to March £ 7.50 April to December £ 7.75 | Child under 5 years: free |
Senior (60 plus) : £ 12.00 |
Booking line
■ 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Sunday
■ Telephone: 0870 5000 600
1. Which of the following does the London Eye ride offer?A.A 30-minute fast rotation. | B.An insight into its long history. |
C.An admission free of charge. | D.A 360° moving view of the city. |
A.10:00 a.m. — 9:00 p.m. | B.10:00 a.m. — 8:00 p.m. |
C.10:00 a.m — 9:30 p.m. | D.10:00 a.m. — 8:30 p.m. |
A.£ 30. | B.£ 31. | C.£ 37.5. | D.£ 38.75. |
Make every meal a feast and every moment with loved ones an occasion with Come for Dinner.
Revsin, the former owner and chef of Manhattan’s Restaurant Leslie, offers a collection of over 150 recipes designed for small get-togethers of friends and family. There are various ethnic dishes that draw from Asia, the Mediterranean, Latin cultures and more. Revsin believes cooking at home provides the opportunity to connect with friends and family on a good level.
Retro Beach Bash by Linda Everett
Grab your beach blanket and your surfboard — it’s time for a beach party! With more than 100 recipes for beach picnics and barbecues, Retro Beach Bash is the beach lover’s companion for fun in the sun.
Half information and half cookbook, you can browse the pages that are filled with beach fun tips and advice. The second half of this book is a cookbook, which can help you make foods to satisfy every taste on the beach.
Entertaining Edibles by Sidney Escowitz
You’ve seen them decorating plates at restaurants, admired them at weddings, and expressed great surprise at the chefs who designed them — and now you can produce them at home.
Sidney shares lots of practical tips that will give your finished food sculptures a professional look and send you on your way towards creating your own original works of food art.
Recipes from a Tapas Bar by Olivier Said
If you’re a fan of Spanish Tapas bars, this book is a must-have for your library. Even if you don’t cook, you’ll still want this book if you’re a fan of Tapas bars, only for the lively discussions of the cheeses of Spain along with other Spanish wines and spirits.
1. If you want to prepare a delicious dish for your family at home, you’d better choose ________.A.Retro Beach Bash | B.Come for Dinner |
C.Recipes from a Tapas Bar | D.Entertaining Edibles |
A.design | B.read | C.change | D.write |
A.Sidney Escowitz | B.Linda Everett |
C.Leslie Revsin | D.Olivier Said |
【推荐3】What is PayQwiq?
PayQwiq is a fast and secure payment service that helps you go quickly through the Tesco checkout. It lets you add your credit or debit card details to the app so you can use your smartphone to pay for your shopping with just one scan. Not only that but it collects your Clubcard points automatically. This means you can now go wallet-free in all UK Tesco stores. So why not give it a go? It only takes a moment to download and you will receive these benefits:
Collect your Clubcard points automatically
Pay for your weekly shop up to £250
Use payQwiq offline, even with no signal
Track your spending in Tesco
Sign up to PayQwiq and collect 100 extra Clubcard points for each week you pay with the app, for up to 5 weeks—that’s up to 500 extra points.
Available to new customers who sign up by 3 September 2018 and make all payments by 31 October 2018. One offer per customer. Only one qualifying deal per week will collect the extra points. Additional payments in the same week will not receive extra points. Clubcard points will be added to a future Clubcard statement.
How does it work?
Head to the App Store or Google Play to download the PayQwiq app. As soon as you’ve added your card details, you’ll be ready to shop using just your phone. And there’s no need to worry about your bank details being stored on your phone—they’re all securely protected in our data centers. So not only it is quicker and easier, it’s safer too.
1. What can customers do if they use PayQwiq in UK Tesco stores?A.Win 500 extra points at a time. | B.Budget their everyday spending. |
C.Get Clubcard points automatically | D.Pay for their weekly shop without limit. |
A.Users must sign up by 3 September 2018. |
B.Users needn’t add their payment card information. |
C.PayQwiq can guarantee both convenience and safety. |
D.PayQwig can be downloaded only from the App Store. |
A.To ensure the safety of PayQwiq. | B.To popularize the use of PayQwiq. |
C.To stress the importance of PayQwiq. | D.To describe the feasibility of PayQwiq. |
【推荐1】According to researchers, money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it on someone else.
Spending as little as $ 5 a day on someone else could significantly bring you happiness, the team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found.
Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably (适度地) happier when they spent money on others—even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier.
“We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn,” said Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia.
They asked their 600 volunteers first to rate their general happiness, report their annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills, gifts for themselves, gifts for others and donations to charity.
“Regardless of how much income each person made, those who spent money on others reported greater happiness, while those who spent more on themselves did not,” Dunn said in a statement.
Dunn’s team also surveyed 16 employees at a company in Boston before and after they received an annual profit-sharing bonus of between $3,000 and $8,000.
“Employees who devoted more of their bonus to pro-social (有益社会的) spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus, and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor of their happiness than the size of the bonus itself,” they wrote in their report, published in the journal Science.
They gave their volunteers $5 or $20 and half got clear instructions on how to spend it. Those who spent the money on someone or something else reported feeling happier about it.
“These findings suggest that very minor alterations in spending allocations (分配) -as little as $5—may be enough to produce real gains in happiness on a given day,” Dunn said.
1. According to the passage, .A.the more money you spend on others, the happier you are |
B.spending money on others can bring you happiness |
C.Elizabeth Dunn is a psychologist from Harvest Business School |
D.six hundred people took part in the experiment |
A.those who spent money on others felt happier no matter how much they earned |
B.those who spent more money on themselves felt happier |
C.people thought spending money could make themselves happier |
D.the money spent was as important as the money earned |
A.were given clear instructions on how to spend the bonus |
B.had more happiness than the size of the bonus itself |
C.experienced greater happiness after receiving their bonus |
D.felt happier after they contributed much of the bonus to charities |
A.Experiment on Money Spending |
B.Devoting Your Money to Charities |
C.Spending Money on Others Makes One Happier |
D.Bonus and Pro-social Spending |
【推荐2】One after another, telecommunications giants (通信巨头) have announced their latest fifth generation (5G) products. They have also claimed that 5G technology would be used on a massive scale by 2020. Yet, when reporting about 5G, many domestic media outlets have described it as a “much faster” technology than 4G without mentioning any of its other advantages. As a result, the common public view about 5G is that they could “download a high-density movie within one second”. Beyond that, most people know nothing about 5G.
Actually, 5G technology has many more advantages than 4G apart from speed. According to the criteria of 3GPP, an international standardization organization, 5G technology can be used for at least three purposes—for connecting everything, reliability of connections, and eliminating delays.
“Connecting everything” is an appropriate slogan for 5G technology, without which the Internet of things would be impossible. 5G would enable one server to connect to multiple terminals (终端) and thus establish high-speed coordination among them, and help the chips inside the terminals to timely react to meet people’s needs. Take for example, autonomous vehicles, which are mature technology products. Self-driving cars combine a variety of sensors, such as radar, computer vision, and GPS to identify navigation paths and obstacles. 5G technology will link all the elements of a transportation system, such as traffic lights, cameras and, of course, cars to establish perfect coordination so they can avoid obstacles and move on navigation paths, which will help strengthen self-driving technology.
Reliability of connections is another essential characteristic of 5G technology, whose use can be extended to other fields where high safety standards are required. For instance, in certain surgeries, surgeons insert nano-robots inside a patient’s body and have to maintain constant control over the robots to ensure they perform their functions and do not cause any harm to the patient. This is an technology can be of great help, as it can establish reliable and continuous connections between the monitor and the nano-robots.
1. What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follow?A.Eliminating delays. | B.5G network capacity. |
C.Disadvantages of 5G. | D.Building 5G base stations. |
A.Improvement of smart phone signals. |
B.Decrease in telecommunication cost. |
C.High speed in-playing computer games. |
D.Online tests for all members at the same time. |
A.It can attract most eyeball on a massive scale. |
B.It can provide dependable and constant service. |
C.It offers massive machine type of communication. |
D.It employs 4G base stations and occupy less space. |
A.5G Technology: More Than about High Speed |
B.5G Technology Will Shape the Future of Connectivity |
C.Telecom Giants Work Together to Better 5G Technology |
D.Advantages and Disadvantages of 5G Technology and Products |
【推荐3】For the most part, American children aren’t great at math. But Chinese children tend to be excellent. It’s consistently found Chinese students at the top of the academic pile and Americans much nearer the bottom.
In Lenora Chu’s book “Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School”, she begins to reveal the cultural differences that lead to this gap. The differences she notices in children’s focus and discipline are dramatic, but she also notices cultural differences that influence how Chinese schools are run, and the reason why its students test so well. Along with factors such as highly trained teachers and an emphasis on memorizing before pursuing deeper understanding, the difference comes down to a belief that has begun slowly making its way across the US: achievement is the result of hard work, not natural ability.
This approach comes from a firm belief that anything is possible with hard work, with chiku, or “eating bitter”. Studies show that for kids who score poorly. Chinese teachers believe a lack of effort—rather than of smarts — is to blame.
Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, author of “Mindset (心态)”, is responsible for making up the terms “growth mindset” and “fixed mindset”. Chinese students are trained to have a growth mindset: if they aren’t doing well, they’11 work harder, and they’ll be successful. American children tend to be trained to have a fixed mindset about academics: their abilities are largely predetermined and static. If they aren’t doing well, it’s because they’re not good at it.
In America students are told that learning is fun and easy. But real learning is actually very difficult and takes suffering and anxiety. If you’re not willing to go through that you’re not going to learn deeply. The downside is these students often give up when something gets hard or when it’s no longer fun.
1. According to Lenora Chu, what contributes most to the Chinese students’excellent academic performance?A.School operation model. | B.The emphasis on memorizing. |
C.High-qualified teachers. | D.Chinese culture. |
A.lazy | B.slow |
C.unfocused | D.foolish |
A.A majority of Chinese students are born excellent learners. |
B.American students tend to believe learning ability is genetically determined. |
C.Amerlcan students should choose a Chinese school to achieve success. |
D.American students are lacking in a fixed mindset, compared to Chinese students. |
A.Students should study in a fun way. |
B.American students are always anxious about their study. |
C.American students have no difficulty in learning deeply. |
D.Diligence plays an essential part in learning. |