【推荐1】阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从各小题的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，使短文连贯完整。

Reshma Kosaraju is a clever girl. And she has a creative ________. When Reshma was 12 years old, her family ________ to Northern California from Chicago. Some years later, the camp fire started. At that time, Reshma was ________ seventeen-year-old girl. And she told TIME for Kids, “I thought ________ one of the biggest fires in the history of California.”

________ Reshma’s school was about 320 kilometers south of the fire, students still had to wear masks (面罩) because of the smoke. “It is a (n)________ experience for me, because I had never experienced this problem before that,” Reshma said. So she hoped ________ with the problem.

Later, Reshma created a useful way to forecast (预测) forest fires with artificial intelligence (人工智能). And ________ 90% of her method is right. Reshma said happily, “I realize that if I can succeed, the results will have a great influence ________ our society. On the one hand, it will help improve the environment. On the other hand, many lives ________.”

1.

A．mind

B．speech

C．minds

D．speeches

2.

A．was moving

B．has moved

C．moved

D．moves

3.

A．a

B．an

C．the

D．/

4.

A．is it

B．was it

C．it is

D．it was

5.

A．Unless

B．Although

C．Until

D．If

6.

A．crowded

B．usual

C．uncrowded

D．unusual

7.

A．deal

B．to deal

C．to start

D．start

8.

A．near

B．wise

C．nearly

D．wisely

9.

A．on

B．in

C．of

D．by

10.

A．will save

B．save

C．were saved

D．will be saved

【推荐2】根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能填入相应空格内的最佳答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。

In China, most families have only one kid. The kids often feel lonely and ______ when their parents aren’t at home. Don’t worry. Lovet can help them. It is a friendly robot which can make lonely ______ feel the love. It was invented by the Japanese in 2018.

Lovet not only looks like a kid, but also has many ______. It can talk, dance and sing. It can also help kids with ______ such as cleaning the desk and making the bed. When kids ______, Lovet becomes a “teacher”. It tells the kids to read ______ if they are in a low voice. When kids work out a problem correctly, Lovet will ______ them and give them a kiss. Kids like the lovely Lovet because it has human’s feelings. When ______ come for a visit, it will hide behind kids — it seems to be shy. That’s because Lovet doesn’t know the strangers.

Why is Lovet so clever? Because scientists ______ a CPU (中央处理器) in is body. The CPU is so powerful that Lovet has the ______ power of an 8-year-old child. No wonder it can do the same thing as kids do.

1.

A．fast

B．surprised

C．quiet

D．bored .

2.

A．parents

B．kids

C．teachers

D．robots

3.

A．abilities

B．hobbies

C．habits

D．messages

4.

A．sports

B．study

C．housework

D．homework

5.

A．learn

B．eat

C．work

D．sleep

6.

A．slowly

B．fast

C．carefully

D．aloud

7.

A．cheat

B．hurt

C．praise

D．check

8.

A．strangers

B．dogs

C．cats

D．friends

9.

A．find

B．put

C．discover

D．mark

10.

A．living

B．listening

C．research

D．brain

【推荐3】What do you think is the most important invention? Is it telephone that helps us ____to people over the world? Is it the ____that lets us travel everywhere we want at high speed to meet others? An Italian writer Umberto Ecos’ answer is quite ____ He thinks the most important invention is right in front of our ____ What he meant is just a simple pair of glasses.
Modern eye glasses were ____about 1,000 years ago. They were not just a convenient (方便的) ____to read. Before glasses were invented, writers, scientists or teachers had to memorize (记住) everything if they couldn’t see properly. If they have a poor eyesight (视力), they couldn’t ____well enough and couldn’t work. Glasses helped people work into their old ____ If old people wanted to remember some information, they could write it down and read it with the help of ____ Eye glasses were probably worn ____the people who designed the first telephones and cars. So eye glasses are one of the world’s greatest inventions.1.

A．visit

B．talk

C．invite

D．decide

2.

A．car

B．camera

C．television

D．robot

3.

A．same

B．beautiful

C．strange

D．different

4.

A．ears

B．nose

C．eyes

D．mouth

5.

A．invented

B．broken

C．found

D．made

6.

A．place

B．road

C．street

D．way

7.

A．walk

B．remember

C．write

D．taste

8.

A．name

B．friend

C．house

D．age

9.

A．computer

B．radio

C．glasses

D．newspaper

10.

A．with

B．by

C．from

D．for

【推荐1】Choose the best answer and complete the passage (选择最恰当的选项完成短文)

What’s in your face?

Your face might be the most unique (特别的) part of your physical appearance. ________ has something about their face that’s a little different. And that difference makes facial recognition (面部识别) possible.

This technology can be seen in many films. In the science-fiction classic: A Space Odyssey, a powerful AI-controlled computer called HAL 9000 is able to “________” the emotions of human astronauts by scanning (扫描) their faces. And in the 1987 action classic: Robocop, a half-robot police officer identifies (识别) a criminal by scanning his ________ and finding it in a computer.

Today, facial recognition tech has become reality. It is mainly used as a ________ method to identify criminals. In 2018, facial recognition technology was used to identify and catch criminals who were attending concerts by Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung. And if you have a recent model of Apple’s iPhone, you probably already known that you can unlock the phone with your face. But those are ________ a few of the things we can use facial recognition for. The possibilities, it seems, are endless.

Take Grab for example. Grab is a ride-hailing (叫车服务) company in southeast Asia that uses facial recognition technology to protect passengers from danger. The technology works by scanning the faces of both the driver and the passenger, allowing passengers to make sure that they have been matched up with the ________ driver.

Facial recognition is more common than you might realize.

1.

A．Someone

B．Anyone

C．Everyone

D．No one

2.

A．read

B．draw

C．show

D．speak

3.

A．information

B．figure

C．photo

D．apartment

4.

A．amusement

B．science

C．politics

D．safety

5.

A．still

B．just

C．nearly

D．hardly

6.

A．careful

B．correct

C．close

D．confident

【推荐2】Now people can pay by scanning(扫描）their faces while shopping. Is it _______ to pay by scanning other parts of our bodies? Amazon has a new technology that scans _______.

The technology can tell if the person is the right one by scanning his or her hand. The scanner examines things such as finger prints. It then sends a picture to a certain center which can decide who the person is.

In September 2019, Amazon made a payment system for a US supermarket. People can pay _______ by scanning their hands under a machine. Their hand scan is connected to their bank cards, so they can pay successfully. It's quite convenient, especially for _______ people. With this new technology, people _______take their cards with them. They just scan their hands.

1.

A．possible

B．important

C．strange

2.

A．eyes

B．faces

C．hands

3.

A．usually

B．simply

C．really

4.

A．old

B．poor

C．smart

5.

A．mustn't

B．can't

C．needn't

【推荐3】We are now living in the 21st century. Is your classroom living in the 21st century, too？Tony is a student in Grade 8 at an American middle school. He was surprised when he saw his modern_________ on his first day of school.

In   Tony's   classroom,   there   are   many   new   electronics （电子设备） like   iPads. This   term   they   will_________the electronics to take notes, watch videos and do projects and homework. "It's_________," said Tony. "I like to use an iPad to work on math or other projects_________my team members. "

The school uses new technology（技术）in classrooms to _________students see, hear, touch and sometimes experience（体验）their tasks, “Technology is_________common（普遍）in most of our classrooms now, " the head teacher said. "We are trying to use technology to_________the world to kids. It can bring the outside world_________. "

Science teacher Mr Miller agrees. "It is a_________way for students to know the outside world, " he said. Mr. Miller now regards（认为）himself as a guide（向导） of learning instead of（取代）as a__________. "If they have a question for me, I will try to teach them__________to find the answers rather than tell them what the answers are, " he said.

Dale, __________student, loves technology. He was not really interested in class before, __________now he likes the classes very much. "It helps me use__________ I know about technology at school." Dale said. "Most importantly, I__________       the classroom. This, of course, will help my studies. "

1.

A．dormitory

B．playground

C．library

D．classroom

2.

A．allow

B．use

C．want

D．help

3.

A．boring

B．sad

C．amazing

D．surprised

4.

A．on

B．by

C．at

D．with

5.

A．teach

B．help

C．want

D．ask

6.

A．enough

B．useful

C．quite

D．good

7.

A．open up

B．look up

C．put up

D．call up

8.

A．on

B．out

C．into

D．in

9.

A．wrong

B．slow

C．quick

D．bad

10.

A．student

B．teacher

C．member

D．friend

11.

A．why

B．what

C．when

D．how

12.

A．another

B．other

C．others

D．the other

13.

A．but

B．and

C．or

D．so

14.

A．how

B．what

C．which

D．who

15.

A．stand

B．hate

C．enjoy

D．dislike