For hundreds of years, Africans have preserved their history through storytelling. But some Africans worry that oral traditions will be lost to the Internet connections and social media.
This has led a Nigerian woman named Elizabeth Kperrun to create a mobile phone application as a way to preserve African folk stories. She calls her mobile app AfroTalez, which tells children’s stories that teach moral lessons.
“We can’t teach kids something by telling them, ‘Don’t do this’. I think kids need context to understand. In a story somebody stole something and then something bad happened to them. Alternatively, somebody else did something good and they ended up happy or rich.”
“Hello children. My name is Liz and I’d like to tell you a story about tortoises, elephants, and ...” The voice of “Aunt Liz” narrates the story, while a full-screen animation appears. An arrow signals when it’s time to move on. There are also quizzes on object recognition and counting throughout.
Kperrun asks her older relatives to help her collect stories for the application. The stories come from an ethnic group living in southeast Nigeria and northwest Cameroon. “I want to keep it centered on folk stories, not the ones that Walt Disney has made really popular... It’s fair and respectful to keep certain cultures alive because folk stories are part of the tapestry that keeps cultures together.” Kperrun once said.
Kperrun writes and reads the stories. Her business partner and husband Idamiebi Ilamina-Eremie does the animation (动画).
AfroTalez is available for Android users and can be downloaded for free. So far, AfroTalez has more than 50,000 users. Funding for the app has been a major challenge. Kperrun hopes to use a crowdfunding campaign to help fund the next version of AfroTalez to be released soon.
Kperrun believes technology doesn’t have to destroy or replace traditions. Her goal is to combine them to keep African culture alive. She says “Africa is our home, but we are so eager to become Western that we are forgetting things that are really important and should be passed on of who we are, and I don’t think that’s right.”
1. What caused Elizabeth Kperrun to create the mobile app AfroTalez?| A．Desiring to make money through the Internet. |
| B．Planning to keep technology replacing traditions. |
| C．Dreaming of launching a crowdfunding campaign. |
| D．Worrying about the disappearance of African oral traditions. |
| A．are narrated by Kperrun’s husband |
| B．are familiar to today’s African children |
| C．are as popular as those of Walt Disney’s |
| D．are means to teach children moral lessons |
| A．will destroy African traditions |
| B．is free for Android users |
| C．has released two versions |
| D．faces no financial problems |
| A．Mobile App seeks to preserve African folktales |
| B．African people pass on traditions by storytelling |
| C．It is unwise for a nation to learn from western countries blindly |
| D．Social media lead to the disappearance of African Oral traditions |
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【推荐1】She is widely seen as proof that good looks can last forever. But, at nearly 500 years of age, time is catching up with the Mona Lisa.
The health of the famous picture, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1505, is getting worse by the year, according to the Louvre Museum where it is housed.
“The thin, wooden panel on which the Mona Lisa is painted in oil has changed shape since experts checked it two years ago,” the museum said. Visitors have noticed the changes but repairing the world’s most famous painting is not easy. Experts are not sure about the materials the Italian artist used and their current (现在的) chemical state.
Nearly 6 million people go to see the Mona Lisa every year, many attracted by the mystery of her smile. “It is very interesting that when you’re not looking at her, she seems to be smiling, and then you look at her and she stops,” said Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University. “It’s because direct vision (视觉) is excellent at picking up details, but less suited to looking at shadows. Da Vinci painted the smile in shadows.”
However, the actual history of the Mona Lisa is just as mysterious as the smile. Da Vinci himself loved it so much that he always carried it with him, until it was eventually sold to the king of France, Francis I, in 1519.
In 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre by a former employee, who took it out of the museum hidden under his coat. He said he planned to return it to Italy. The painting was sent back to France two years later. During World War II, French hid the painting in small towns to keep it out of the hands of German forces.
Like many old ladies, the Mona Lisa has some interesting stories to tell.
1. The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means the Mona Lisa .| A．is losing its value |
| B．is being damaged after so many years |
| C．is getting more valuable with years passing |
| D．will rot away |
a. It was stolen from the Louvre.
b. Its painter sold it to King Francis I.
c. Its state of health was checked.
d. It was returned to France and housed in the Louvre Museum.
e. It was hidden and protected against German forces.
| A．b-a-d-e-c | B．d-e-c-b-a |
| C．d-a-e-c-b | D．b-c-a-d-e |
| A．The materials the Italian artist used. |
| B．The way she smiles. |
| C．The way da Vinci painted the smile. |
| D．It plays a trick upon the human eye. |
【推荐2】The video blogger Long Yan, who is in his 30s, has produced more than 170 videos, showing the unique charm of destinations in Guizhou Province. He firstly focused on natural scenery but has increasingly paid more attention to deeper exploration of intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产).
Since December of last year, Long has dug into his own pocket and launched his own project, which aims to document 100 examples of intangible cultural heritage across the country in three years. He hopes his efforts can help raise awareness of traditional Chinese culture, contributing to its protection and inheritance (继承).
Long felt he should take immediate action to push forward his project when he learned that a senior performer of Dixi Opera in Anshun — which features wooden masks and functions to show respect to gods and help drive away evil — passed away last year. “Traditional craftsmanship (工匠精神) should not be forgotten, and the devotion and determination of inheritors of intangible cultural heritage is worth remembering,” he says.
To do his part, Long has decided to tell stories about them and help more people witness their contributions to their craft. His first intangible cultural heritage video was about the leaf-vein embroidery (叶脉刺绣) technique practiced in Tongren city, Guizhou. He has already seen positive results from his work. Many of his young followers have shown eagerness for experiencing what he has posted.
1. Why does Long Yan shoot videos of intangible cultural heritage?| A．To raise people’s awareness of traditional Chinese culture. |
| B．To deeply explore the charm of natural scenery in China. |
| C．To make huge profits in the long run. |
| D．To find a way to become famous. |
| A．The respect for gods. | B．The appearance of wooden masks. |
| C．The features of Dixi Opera. | D．The death of a senior performer. |
| A．Long’s first video was out of favour. | B．Long is determined to be a craftsman. |
| C．Long’s work has a positive effect on youths. | D．The leaf-vein embroidery technique has been lost. |
| A．A travel guidance to Guizhou Province. |
| B．An introduction to the leaf-vein embroidery. |
| C．Long’s young followers’ eagerness for traditional culture. |
| D．Long’s efforts to explore traditional culture in Guizhou. |
【推荐3】Njobati, a young woman from Cameroon, faced a challenging journey when she moved from her English-speaking area to a French-speaking area of the country to attend university. The sharp differences between these areas, once part of the British and French empires, made it difficult for her to fit in, which led her to examine her own identity—who she truly was.
Seeking guidance, she turned to her grandfather who also felt disconnected from his own culture. He expressed sadness about what the Nso had lost both culturally and materially, including Ngonnso statue. Ngonnso was the founder of Nso dating back to the 14th Century, whose statue was an important cultural symbol for the Nso. However, it was taken by the Germans in 1902 and has been housed in Berlin’s Ethnological Museum ever since.
Inspired by her grandfather’s desire and saddened by the loss of culture, Njobati made a promise to bring back the statue. She believed it would not only achieve her grandfather’s wish but connect her with her Nso heritage again.
Njobati did many researches about the statue and former unsuccessful attempts. She realized that restitution (归还) was actually about facing the colonial ( 殖民主义的) past. Njobati decided to try differently. To gather support online and offline, Njobati began a grassroots campaign. She organized meetings in community halls and churches, met people one-on-one, and used the power of social media.Through Twitter, she established contact with the Ethnological Museum.
Njobati’s tireless efforts paid off. She was told that a decision about Ngonnso statue was coming, which was an important moment for her.
“Finally, this is happening. Not just for me, but for the Nso people, and for Cameroon,” She cried. “This also lends a hand to other communities that are seeking justice for stolen culture relics.”
1. What made Njobati decide to bring back the Ngonnso statue?| A．Her interest in colonial history. |
| B．Her grandfather’s identity problem. |
| C．Her desire to reconnect with Nso culture. |
| D．Her experience in attending university. |
| A．She did wide and complete researches. |
| B．She turned to her grandfather for guidance. |
| C．She contacted the Ethnological Museum directly. |
| D．She organized meetings and using social media. |
| A．The fight for the statue. | B．The promise she made. |
| C．The grassroots campaign. | D．The return of the statue. |
| A．A fight against colonialism. | B．A cultural fighter. |
| C．A promise for grandpa. | D．A stolen cultural symbol. |
Camford is a very small town; there is only one hotel in it, and it was so full that they had to put many of the candidates two in a room. Theo was one of these, and the man who shared the room with him was a self-confident fellow called Adams, about twenty years younger than Theo, with a loud voice, and a laugh that you could hear all over the hotel. But he was a clever fellow all the same and had a good post in Iscaiot College, Narkover. Well, the Dean, who was the head of the department of the University, and the committee interviewed all the candidates; and as a result of this interview, the number of the candidates was reduced to two, Uncle Theo and Adams. The committee couldn’t decide which of the two to take, so they decided to make their final choice after each of the candidates had given a public lecture in the college lecture-hall. The subject they had to speak on was “The Civilization of the Ancient Summerians”; and the lecture had to be given in three days’ time.
Well, for these three days Uncle Theo never left his room. He worked day and night at that lecture, writing it out and memorizing it, almost without eating or sleeping. Adams didn’t seem to do any preparation at all. You could hear his voice and his laughter where he had a crowd of people around him. He came to his room late at night, asked Uncle Theo how he was getting on with his lecture, and then told him how he had spent the evening playing bridge, or at the music hall. He ate like a horse and slept like a log; and Uncle Theo sat up working at his lecture.
The day of the lecture arrived. They all went into the lecture hall and Theo and Adams took their seats on the platform. And then, Theo discovered, to his horror, that typewritten copy of his speech had disappeared! The Dean said they would call on the candidates on the alphabetical order, Adams first; and the despair in his heart, Theo watched Adams calmly take the stolen speech out of pocket and read it to the professors who were gathered to hear it. And how well he read it! Even Uncle Theo had to admit he couldn’t have read it nearly so eloquently himself, and when Adams finished there was a great burst of applause. Adams bowed and smiled, and sat down.
Now, it was Theo’s turn. But what could he do? He had put everything he knew into the lecture. His mind was too much upset to put the same thoughts in another way. With a burning face he could only repeat, word for word, in a low, dull voice, the lecture that Adams had spoken so eloquently. There was hardly any applause when he sat down.
The Dean and the committee went out to decide who the successful candidate was, but everyone was sure what their decision would be. Adams leaned across to Theo and patted him on the back and said, smilingly, “Hard luck, old fellow, but after all, only one of us could win”
Then the Dean and the committee came back, “Gentlemen”, the Dean said, “the candidate we have chosen is Mr. Hobdell.” Uncle Theo had won! The audience were completely taken by surprise, and the Dean continued, “ I think I ought to tell you how we arrived at the decision. We were all filled with admiration at the learning and eloquence of Mr. Adams. I was greatly impressed. But, you will remember, Mr. Adams read his lecture to us. When Mr. Hobdell’s turn came, he repeated that speech, word by word from memory, though, of course, he couldn’t have seen a line of it before. Now a fine memory is absolutely necessary for this post; and what a memory Mr. Hobdell must have! This is why we decided that Mr. Hobdell was exactly the man we wanted! ”
As they walked out of the room, the Dean came up to Uncle Theo, who was so confused but so happy that he hardly knew whether he was standing on his head or heels; and as he shook Theo’s hand he said, “Congratulations, Mr. Hobdell! But, my fellow, when you are on our staff, you must be more careful and not leave valuable papers lying about!”
1. Which of the followings best describes Uncle Theo?
| A．Good-mannered | B．Modest | C．Childish | D．Bookish |
| A．The applicants had to sit for an examination. |
| B．There was much competition for the post. |
| C．The post requires a lot of teaching experience. |
| D．The post offered quite high salary. |
| A．he was quite familiar with the subject. |
| B．he knew the committee members well. |
| C．he had a well-thought-out plan. |
| D．he had full confidence in himself. |
| A．he felt so angry that he couldn’t see a word. |
| B．he felt so upset that he could not remember anything. |
| C．he had to put the same thoughts in another way. |
| D．he had to repeat the speech, word by word from memory. |
| A．could not help feeling worried. |
| B．could hardly wait to show his joy. |
| C．felt sorry for Theo and tried to cheer him up. |
| D．felt ashamed and tried to chat with Theo. |
| A．he had a better memory than Adams. |
| B．he was more experienced than Adams. |
| C．the committee knew he was exactly the man they wanted. |
| D．the committee knew Adams had copied Theo’s speech. |
【推荐2】A schoolgirl has created a solar-powered backpack that filters (过滤) out air pollution after being inspired by her asthmatic (哮喘的) mother.
Eleanor Woods, 12, from High Burton, Huddersfield, a town in West Yorkshire, northern England, entered the “Backpack to the Future” competition after her mother put the application form in her room. She went on to win the award for her.
The “Backpack to the Future” competition was launched to change perception (认知), encourage more diversity within engineering and to show children how they could combine an interest in fashion with a career in science, technology, engineering or maths.
Powered by green energy from solar power and a dynamo- a machine that changes mechanical energy into electrical energy - the backpack filters polluted air before fanning out cleaner air nearby.
“I have an air filter at home because my mum has mild asthma. My Breathe Better Backpack is all about keeping my friends, family and classmates safe using an air filter. It looks cool and will help get kids outside and fight off colds,” Eleanor said.
The pandemic spurred on (刺激了) Eleanor’s awareness of how pollution affects a person’s health and the spread of diseases. Spending a lot of time with her asthmatic mum over several lockdowns gave the 12-year-old food for thought.
The schoolgirl added: “My generation is really aware of pollution, and we have lessons on it at school along with diseases spreading, and this is another reason I designed this, because it is getting much worse.”
The young designer said she is becoming increasingly aware of the pollution that surrounds her, as she lives on a main road. Eleanor said: “I walk to school, next to the road, and can taste the petrol when buses come through.”
Speaking after winning the competition, Eleanor said the impact of her backpack will be far-reaching. “If just a few people start using it, it could be really good for the planet,” she said.
1. What can we infer from the first three paragraphs?| A．Eleanor’s mother encouraged her to win the competition. |
| B．Eleanor Woods was confident that she would win an award. |
| C．Eleanor’s backpack is both fashionable and environmentally-friendly. |
| D．The competition was intended for people working in fashion-design. |
| A．The process of the invention. | B．The working principle of the backpack. |
| C．The energy source of the backpack. | D．The components of the backpack. |
| A．It can make kids look healthy. | B．It can produce green energy. |
| C．It can help defend against air pollution. | D．It can cure people of asthma. |
| A．Considerate. | B．Professional. |
| C．Generous. | D．Ordinary. |
【推荐3】Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed herself as she did nowhere else.
After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate Aristotie Onassis, Jaqueline’s close friend and former White House Social Secretary Letitis Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing. After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it. Perhaps she hoped to find there some ideas about how to live her own life .She became not less but more interested in reading. For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined. During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books. Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes. She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversation into a book, The Power of Myth. The book went on to become an international best-seller. She dealt too, with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography，Moonwalk.
Jaequeline may be hired for her name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth. Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself. In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind. Her books are the autobiography she never wrote. Her role as First lady, in the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor. However, few knew that she had achieved so much.
1. We can learn from the passage that Jecqueline __________.| A．became fond of reading after working as an editor |
| B．was in charge of publishing 100 books |
| C．promoted her books through social relations |
| D．gained a lot from her career as an editor |
| A．Jscqueline ended up as an editor rather than as First Lady |
| B．Jscqueline’s life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor |
| C．Jscqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady |
| D．Jscqueline’s role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor |
| A．Jscqueline’s two marriages lasted more than 20 years |
| B．Jscqueline’s own publishing firm was set up eventually |
| C．Jscqueline’s views and beliefs were reflected in the books she edited |
| D．Jscqueline’s achievements were widely known |
| A．a brief account of jacqueline’s career as an editor in her last 20 years. |
| B．a brief description of jacqueline’s lifelong experiences. |
| C．an introduction of jacqueline’s life both as First Lady and as editor. |
| D．an analysis of Jscqueline’s social relations in publishing |
【推荐1】Facial recognition technology has been already widely used by governments and some advertising companies. The technology uses machine learning tools to search for faces in an attempt to identify people.
In a recent study, scientists announced they had developed machine learning tools to track the faces of individual wild chimpanzees (黑猩猩). Dan Schofield said that the system was developed to improve the quality of information collected about chimpanzees in the wild over a long period of time.
"For species like chimpanzees, which have complex social lives and live for many years, getting a snapshot of their behavior from short-term field research can tell us only so much," Schofield said.
The researchers wanted to get a more complete understanding of the lives of the chimpanzees by studying them over several generations. But doing this would have required searching through hundreds of hours of video recordings of chimpanzees in the wild.
The researchers recorded the activities of a group of chimpanzees that lived in the West African nation of Guinea. A facial recognition computer model was trained with more than 10 million images of the animals. The model was then used to search for, recognize and track individual chimpanzees. The system was able to identify individual chimpanzees correctly about 92 percent of the time. It successfully identified the animals' sex 96 percent of the time.
The study included an experiment with humans to see how they could perform against the machine learning system in making identification. Humans were able to correctly identify individual chimpanzees about 42 percent of the time. The machine learning tool was much faster in completing the experiment. Human experts took about 55 minutes, while the computer took only several seconds.
The researchers say they are permitting other scientists to use the system for similar projects. They hope the method will be used for other species to record animal behavior and monitor different animal populations in the environment.
1. What can we infer from Schofield's words?| A．Researching chimpanzees needs more information. |
| B．Chimpanzees can live as long as humans. |
| C．Chimpanzees like to get a snapshot too. |
| D．Short-term field research provides more information. |
| A．Recording chimpanzees in the wild. |
| B．Studying chimpanzees over several years. |
| C．Understanding the lives of chimpanzees completely. |
| D．Getting a snapshot of chimpanzees' behavior. |
| A．Humans make more accurate identification. |
| B．The machine learning system is more effective. |
| C．Humans can't identify the animals' sex correctly. |
| D．Machine learning tools take a little more time to identify the animals. |
| A．Facial Recognition for Animals Is Becoming Popular. |
| B．Facial Recognition Is Helping Animals Live in the Wild. |
| C．Facial Recognition Plays a Role in Raising Animals. |
| D．Facial Recognition Is Used to Identify and Track Animals. |
【推荐2】Aberdeen
Lying along the northeast coast, Aberdeen is bordered by Royal Deeside and Cairngorms National Park to the west and wonderful sea views to the east.
In Aberdeen you can feel the richness of the city’s history all around you, from the traditional Doric accent of local residents (居民) to the beautiful granite (花岗岩) buildings along the streets.
Impressive architecture
Aberdeen is well-known all over the globe because of its granite buildings and monuments. To the north of the city center, the stone streets and historic university buildings of Old Aberdeen are steeped (浸透) in history, while to the east — by the harbor — the fishing quarter is packed with tiny cottages and colorful gardens.
At the harbor
This is a city where you can walk from the city center to the harbor in minutes — and you have a high chance of seeing dolphins (海豚) playing in the waters when you get to the harbor.
The sandy beach is a must visit. Walk along the sands before stopping to enjoy an ice cream in the fresh sea air. You might spot people surfing in the water too.
Getting here
Aberdeen has fantastic transport links with the rest of the UK and Europe. Whether flying, taking the train, catching the ferry or driving, reaching the region is straightforward.
Getting around
Aberdeen city has an amazing public transport system, both day and night, although exploring the streets by foot is a great way to experience the atmosphere of this dynamic city. Driving around is easy, but if you don’t have a car, buses and trains will easily take you to your destination.
1. Where does Aberdeen lie?| A．Far off the coast. |
| B．To the west of the sea. |
| C．To the west of Royal Deeside. |
| D．In the heart of Cairngorms National Park. |
| A．Its richness of history and culture. |
| B．Its tiny cottages and colorful gardens. |
| C．Its granite buildings and monuments. |
| D．Its sandy beach and wonderful sea views. |
| A．It’s not easy to get around it by car. |
| B．Dolphins aren't rarely seen in its harbor. |
| C．The best way to enjoy it is taking public transport. |
| D．It has few direct transport links to cities outside the UK. |
【推荐3】Companies that have invested heavily in big data want to know how to make smart investments that will distinguish them from the competition and enable the best possible return before making the decision to go all in. In the past, not all enterprises’ big data plans went as planned. These failures are not usually published, but the big data failure rate is unusually high.
According to Gartner, only 15% of businesses make it past the experimental stage of these projects. Our fear, as leaders of technology companies, is that with so much attention surrounding AI, the pressure is on for us to apply the technology without first setting clear business goals and understanding the differences between AI and ML (machine learning) and how they should be applied, thus risking falling behind the many decision-makers who are adopting the technology.
It’s easy to get caught up in the great expectations of artificial intelligence as it’s promoted, including breakthroughs like deep learning, but those who want to make an outsized influence should instead focus on good old-fashioned machine learning — or “cheap learning”.
The distinction is simple: Cheap learning is about using basic machine learning techniques on straightforward data sets in different parts of a company to produce a large number of small, gradual improvements. Deep learning, on the other hand, is a specific part of machine learning. Deep learning is a collection of advanced machine learning approaches that make business decisions based on highly complex data sets possible.
For tasks of analyzing raw data, such as images and voice recordings, deep learning is best. But when it comes to working on simplified, structured types of data, we’ve found cheap machine learning will do the trick. When you consider that the majority of data flowing through enterprises fall into this second category, it’s clear which tool makes the most sense.
1. What do we know about investment in big data from the first paragraph?| A．It’s risky. | B．It’s safe. | C．It’s secret. | D．It’s fruitful. |
| A．Understanding AI and ML. | B．Wasting too much time on AI. |
| C．Falling behind other companies. | D．Acting with unclear business goals. |
| A．A strong influence. | B．Big breakthroughs. |
| C．Cheap learning. | D．Deep learning. |
| A．Companies should invest in big data. |
| B．Knowing the difference bewteen AI and ML matters. |
| C．Deeping learning or cheap learning depends on the nature of tasks. |
| D．Deep learning is always better than cheap learning. |
【推荐1】While Jennifer was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a monitor（监控器）a few hundred miles away was watching her every move.
Using a web camera equipped in Jennifer's Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her eyes moved from the computer screen and listened for the secret sounds of a possible helper in the room. Her Internet access was locked remotely to prevent Internet searches, and her typing style was analyzed to make sure she was who she said she was: Did she enter her student number at the same speed as she had in the past？ Or was she slowing down？
In the battle against cheating, this is the cutting edge and a key to encourage honesty in the booming field of online education. This technology gives trust to the entire system, to the institution and to online education in general. Only with solid measures against cheating, experts say, can Internet universities show that their exams and diplomas are valid — that students haven't searched the Internet to get the right answers.
Although online classes have existed for more than a decade, the concern over cheating has become sharper in the last year with the growth of "open online courses". Private colleges, public universities and corporations are jumping into the online education field, spending millions of dollars to attract potential students, while also taking steps to help guarantee honesty at a distance.
Aside from the web cameras, a number of other high-tech methods are becoming increasingly popular. Among them are programs that check students’ identities using personal information, such as the telephone numbers they once used.
Other programs can produce unique exams by drawing on a large list of questions and can recognize possible cheaters by analyzing whether difficult test questions are answered at the same speed as easy ones. As in many university classes, term papers are scanned against some large Internet data banks for cheating.
1. Why was Jennifer watched in an online exam?| A．To correct her typing mistakes. |
| B．To find her secrets in the room. |
| C．To keep her from dishonest deeds. |
| D．To prevent her from slowing down. |
| A．sharpening tool | B．advanced technique |
| C．effective rule | D．dividing line |
| A．By scanning the Internet test questions. |
| B．By checking the question answering speed. |
| C．By producing a large number of questions. |
| D．By giving difficult test questions. |
【推荐2】In November 2020, Stephanie Morton announced her retirement. The then 29-year-old athlete’s exit was a blow for the Australian Olympic program. “This decision wasn't made lightly. Eight months ago, I had such an idea, and thankfully I had the support of the Australian Cycling Team throughout the whole process, along with my family and close friends,” said Morton
Born in Adelaide, Morton stood out as an athlete throughout her childhood even though in a different sport. She grew up in a badminton-mad family. Her father coached the South Australian team, and her mother was its manager. It just so happened that when Morton was 15, her uncle suggested she test her power output on an exercise bike. “I always say cycling picked me. I didn't pick cycling,” Morton said.
Morton joined the national program midway through the reign of Anna Meares, who won a medal at every Olympics between 2004 and 2016.It was an unusual relationship-- Meares was Morton's coach, teammate and competitor.
In 2010, Morton took on the role as Tandem Pilot for the cyclist Felicity Johnson, with the combination winning three world titles across 2011 and 2012, followed by one gold medal at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. In 2014, Morton beat Meares for the first time at the national track championships. The same year, Morton won one gold medal and one silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. But it was after the 2016 Rio Olympics, a disappointing overall campaign for the Australian track team, that Morton really began to shine. Two silver medals at the 2017 World Champions were followed by three gold medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Compared with the pandemics global deaths, the retirement of an athlete might seem insignificant. For Morton, the next stage of her life now begins. The cyclist has studied criminal justice part-time throughout her cycling career and has previously shown an intention to join the police. Morton said, “I want to be an active and positive role model.”
1. What do we know about Morton’s decision of retirement?| A．It gave her friends a big surprise. |
| B．It was made after careful consideration. |
| C．It met with relief from her team. |
| D．It was made mainly because of her injuries. |
| A．had strong desire to be a cyclist |
| B．received strict training in ball games |
| C．showed much possibility as an athlete |
| D．tried different sports and decided on cycling |
| A．After the 2016 Rio Olympics |
| B．In 2014 when she first beat Meares |
| C．At the London 2012 Paralympic Games |
| D．At the 2018 Commonwealth Games |
| A．She is in trouble. | B．She likes following suit. |
| C．She has a clear life goal. | D．She is under extra pressure. |
【推荐3】Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in Seattle, I used Tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students. I put a small set of Tinkertoys in front of each student, and said: “Make something out of the Tinkertoys. You have 45 minutes today — and 45minutes each day for the rest of the week.”
A few students hesitated to start. They waited to see what the rest of the class would do. Several others checked the instructions and made something according to one of the model plans provided. Another group built something out of their own imaginations.
Once I had a boy who worked experimentally with Tinkertoys in his free time. His constructions filled a shelf in the art classroom and a good part of his bedroom at home. I was delighted at presence of such a student. Here was an exceptionally(异常地)creative mind at work. His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant in class whose creativity would infect other students.
Encouraging this kind of thinking has a downside. I ran the risk of losing those students who had a different style of thinking. Without fall one would declare, “But I’m just not creative.”
“Do you dream at night when you’re asleep?”
“Oh, sure.”
“So tell me one of your most interesting dreams.” The student would tell something wildly imaginative. Flying in the sky or in a time machine or growing three heads. “That’s pretty creative. Who does that for you?”
“Nobody. I do it.”
“Really — at night, when you’re asleep?”
“Sure.”
“Try doing in the daytime, in class, okay?”
1. The teacher used Tinkertoys in class in order to ?| A．make the lessons more exciting | B．know more about the students |
| C．raise the students’ interest in art | D．teach the students about toy design |
| A．He liked to help his teacher. | B．He preferred to study alone. |
| C．He was active in class. | D．He was imaginative. |
| A．To help them to see their creativity. | B．To find out about their sleeping habits. |
| C．To help them to improve their memory. | D．To find out about their ways of thinking. |
