1 . 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Building up your muscles is an easy part—the hard part is burning those layers of fat that cover your muscles. Here are some tips.

In order to work out harder, make a favorite fitness playlist with music that gets you excited, as it can help you go up to 20% longer and burn more calories, according to a study of Brunel University London. The study’s researcher says that music tends to prevent tiredness, and produces feelings of excitement.

Not only does eating good breakfast speed up your metabolism(新陈代谢), but it also nourishes (为……提供营养) your muscles. After eating breakfast, your best way of keeping fat burning going is to “graze”. Set up an eating schedule where you eat five to eight small meals every few hours throughout the day. It provides your body with a constant flow of nourishment to feed your muscles.

Men’s Health suggests choosing hard exercise that involves total body movements in order to help raise your heart rate and leave you out of breath. By including total body movements into your exercise, you’re going to end up burning a lot more calories while challenging yourself at the same time. As the saying goes: No pain, no gain. So, get moving.

Sounds easy enough, right? It’s as simple as drinking a cup of green tea every day. Adding in green tea will push fat burning to another level. And studies have shown that it can increase fat burning and help you lose weight.

While doing your weight training, try something including short, big bursts of cardio(心脏强化锻炼) throughout your exercise. For example, if you’re doing an hour-long exercise, place cardio into it every 15 minutes to help speed up your metabolism.

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4 . Driverless Automobiles-The Car That Parks Itself

Autonomous vehicles are arriving piecemeal, as more and more driving tasks are taken out of human hands. CARS that need no driver are just around the corner according to Google, which has been testing vehicles bristling with aerials and cameras on public roads in America. But Google does not make cars, so it will be up to firms that do to bring the _________ to market. And carmakers are a conservative bunch. Still, slowly and _________ the autonomous car will arrive, with the help of an increasing number of automated driving aids.

Volvo recently _________ one such feature: a car that really does park itself. Some cars already have systems that assist with parking, but these are not completely autonomous. They can _________ an empty parallel-parking space and steer into it while the driver uses the brake. The Volvo system, however, lets the driver get out and use a smartphone application to _________ the vehicle to park, then sends a message to the driver to inform him where it is. The driver can collect the car _________ or use his phone to call it back to where he dropped it off. Autonomous parking could thus be provided at places like shopping centres and airports, which are controlled areas in which automated vehicles can be _________ more easily than on open highways.

In the past, _________ for doing this have relied on car parks being fitted with buried guide wires that a vehicle can follow to an empty bay. That, _________, creates a chicken-and-egg problem: car-park operators will not invest in such infrastructure until there is a(an)__________ number of suitably equipped cars on the road. Drivers, conversely, will not want to buy self-parking cars if there is nowhere to use them. This means, as Mikael Thor, a Volvo safety engineer working on the project, __________, that for autonomous parking to work most of the technology will have to be in the car itself.

The Volvo test car, which looks like a(an) __________ car, therefore uses on-board GPS mapping, cameras with image-recognition software, and radar sensors to find its own way around a car park and __________ pedestrians and non-autonomous vehicles. Mr. Thor says the system is five to ten years from commercial deployment. If it proves a success then infrastructure might __________ it.

Driverless cars would also need to communicate with one another, to __________ safety. That, too, is coming. A number of carmakers are developing wireless networking systems through which vehicles can exchange data, such as their speed, their steering angle and even their weight, to forewarn anti-collision systems and safety devices if an accident looks likely.

1.

A．benefit

B．technology

C．reality

D．priority

2.

A．steadily

B．suddenly

C．surprisingly

D．necessarily

3.

A．delivered

B．transported

C．demonstrated

D．eliminated

4.

A．appoint

B．purchase

C．exchange

D．identify

5.

A．expect

B．instruct

C．advise

D．forbid

6.

A．in person

B．in advance

C．in general

D．in all

7.

A．forced

B．possessed

C．launched

D．managed

8.

A．prices

B．locations

C．designs

D．figures

9.

A．besides

B．though

C．likewise

D．furthermore

10.

A．limited

B．different

C．unsustainable

D．sufficient

11.

A．observes

B．experiences

C．suspects

D．assumes

12.

A．unique

B．original

C．imaginary

D．normal

13.

A．appoint

B．avoid

C．appreciate

D．advocate

14.

A．object to

B．stick to

C．adapt to

D．apply to

15.

A．escape

B．exclude

C．enhance

D．engage

6 . The New Technology and Travel Revolution

Technological advances have changed the way we travel, and these new developments promise an even more _______ and exciting experience. Do you want to know what it has _______ for us in the not-too-distant future?

Today, nobody _______ that technology and travel are the perfect combination. This _______ force also plays a crucial role in the way we travel. According to a Google Travel study, it is so _______ that 74% of travelers plan their trips on the Internet, while only 13% still use travel agencies to prepare them.

The cell phone has become our tour guide, travel agency, best restaurant locator, map, and more. It’s _______ during the entire purchase journey. In fact, according to TripAdvisor, 45% of users use their smartphones for everything having to do with their vacations.

This is why there’s a need to _______ corporate services and communications to these devices. KLM, for example, has already created an information service for passengers using Facebook Messenger. This system, once someone has made a _______, sends the user information regarding their ticket through Facebook Messenger as well as their boarding pass or updates about the _______ of their flight. This way, the user has all the relevant information about their trip in the palm of their hand using an app that they already use, ________ the need to download anything else.

Augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) have also entered the travel world, and the truth is that it’s a trend ________ all the possibilities they can offer. More and more companies use it to show users a cabin on a cruise ship or transport them, for a few seconds, to the Great Wall of China.

In addition, we’re all familiar with Siri and Alexa, the ________ assistants that meet all our needs: what’s the weather like today in my city, turn the radio on, open my email, and more. Hotels are now starting to ________ this “help” thanks to the arrival of virtual assistants that are ________ designed for this environment. IBM recently ________ Watson Assistant, an AI-powered virtual assistant that creates an interactive and personalized experience for consumers. This is the open technology that firms can employ and adapt to their needs. This way, the virtual assistant won’t be called Watson but instead, have the name that the hotel chooses.

1.

A．relative

B．extensive

C．interactive

D．positive

2.

A．in trouble

B．in store

C．in a box

D．in the middle

3.

A．doubts

B．greets

C．concludes

D．reasons

4.

A．individual

B．joint

C．separate

D．independent

5.

A．innovative

B．peculiar

C．prevalent

D．initial

6.

A．from all sides

B．side by side

C．on your side

D．by our side

7.

A．place

B．devote

C．direct

D．adapt

8.

A．recognition

B．reservation

C．support

D．revision

9.

A．status

B．statue

C．environment

D．stair

10.

A．regulating

B．restoring

C．eliminating

D．storing

11.

A．instead of

B．due to

C．contrary to

D．along with

12.

A．visual

B．digital

C．actual

D．virtual

13.

A．enlist

B．participate

C．attach

D．resemble

14.

A．specifically

B．generally

C．specially

D．equally

15.

A．altered

B．performed

C．launched

D．imposed

9 . DECISION-MAKING IN MANAGEMENT

At work, the core function of the management is to make decisions on business operations and growth. _______ it is managing the workforce, servicing clients, _______ production, or hiring new employees, we see plenty of decision-making skills examples in everyday operations. Let’s understand the importance of decision-making better by looking at some examples of decision-making in management:

DECISION-MAKING IN HUMAN RESOURCES

Imagine you are the CEO of an e-commerce start-up. Your work is expanding and you need to hire the right resources to help you _______ the vision of creating a leading online retail platform.

You would need to hire people who are experienced and adept in their _______ such as software development, marketing, operations, procurement, and logistics.

Since the business is an online start-up, you won’t need to hire _______ who work on the premises exclusively. You can also get talented location-independent workers _______ of delivering the required technical support and services online.

By ensuring an optimal mix of on-site and _______ workers, you can easily carry out the functions in a cost-effective way. Emails and chat communications as well as video interactions can keep the team spirit going. This will also give you the _______ of hiring talents that might be scattered over different geographic locations and can come together digitally to create _______ solutions.

DECISION-MAKING IN MARKETING

At some point or the other in their journeys, most companies undergo rebranding. Usually, businesses are small ________ , with only local or regional reach and branding, but as they start ________ , the need for rebranding surfaces.

Quite often, logos, the company’s official mascots, and even names are changed to assert a new identity, capability, and vision. Rebranding activities are strong examples of decision-making skills that ________ company values, products, target audiences, cultural and social sensibilities, and business aspirations.

Such situations are common decision-making examples.

CONCLUSION

We just ________ some of the usual decision-making and problem-solving examples that are a part of most people’s professional lives. There could be more complex decisions that we would require to take in the ________ of our careers. Sometimes these can be individual decisions such as hiring or firing an employee or ________ decisions such as opening a new office.

1.

A．Either

B．Whether

C．If

D．Neither

2.

A．pressing down

B．breaking up

C．ramping up

D．backing down

3.

A．realize

B．release

C．boycott

D．estimate

4.

A．courts

B．lives

C．fields

D．shoes

5.

A．trainers

B．servants

C．employers

D．employees

6.

A．sure

B．capable

C．jealous

D．conscious

7.

A．relative

B．relevant

C．remote

D．sensational

8.

A．equality

B．flexibility

C．capability

D．punctuality

9.

A．challenging

B．rigid

C．conservative

D．path-breaking

10.

A．eventually

B．temporarily

C．initially

D．consequently

11.

A．expanding

B．exposing

C．pulling

D．increasing

12.

A．take into account

B．take in

C．take over

D．take on

13.

A．went after

B．went out

C．went by

D．went through

14.

A．struggle

B．course

C．seed

D．mess

15.

A．rough

B．permitted

C．personal

D．organizational

10 . Visual Symbols and the Blind

From several recent studies, it has become clear that blind people can appreciate the use of outlines and perspectives to describe the arrangement of objects and other surfaces in space. But pictures are more than literal representations.

This fact was drawn to my attention dramatically when a blind woman in one of my investigations decided on her own initiative to draw a wheel as it was spinning. To show this motion, she traced a curve inside the circle(Fig. 1). I was surprised. Lines of motion, such as the one she used, are a very recent invention in the history of illustration.

When I asked several other blind study subjects to draw a spinning wheel, one particularly clever interpretation appeared repeatedly: several subjects showed the wheel’s spokes(把柄)as curved lines. When asked about these curves, they all described them as metaphorical ways of suggesting motion. Majority rule would argue that this device somehow indicated motion very well. But was it a better indicator than, say, broken or wavy lines—or any other kind of line, for that matter? The answer was not clear. So I decided to test whether various lines of motion were liable ways of showing movement or if they were merely specific marks. Moreover, I wanted to discover whether there were differences in how the blind and the sighted interpreted lines of motion.

To search out these answers, I created raised—line drawings of five different wheels, depicting spokes with lines that curved, bent, waved, dotted and extended beyond the perimeter of the wheel. I then asked eighteen blind volunteers to feel the wheels and assign one of the following motions to each wheel: shaky, spinning fast, spinning steadily, jerking or braking. My control group consisted of eighteen sighted undergraduates from the University of Toronto.

All but one of the blind subjects assigned distinctive motions to each wheel. Most guessed that the curved spokes indicated that the wheel was spinning steadily; the wavy spokes, they thought, suggested that the wheel was shaky; and the bent spokes were taken as a sign that the wheel was jerking. Subjects assumed that the spokes extending beyond the wheel’s perimeter signified that the wheel had its brakes on and that dotted spokes indicated the wheel was spinning quickly.

In addition, the favoured description for the sighted was the favoured description for the blind in every instance. What is more, the consensus among the sighted was barely higher than that among the blind. Because motion devices are unfamiliar to the blind, the task I gave them involved some problem solving. Evidently, however, the blind not only figured out meanings for each line of motion, but as a group they generally came up with the same meaning at least as frequently as did sighted subjects.

1. The author makes the point that blind people___________.

A．can draw accurately	B．may be interested in studying art
C．can recognise conventions such as perspective	D．can draw outlines of different objects and surfaces

2. The author was surprised because the blind woman___________.

A．drew a circle on her own initiative	B．was the first person to use lines of motion
C．included a symbol representing movement	D．did not understand what a wheel looked like

3. From the experiment described, the author found that the blind subjects___________.

A．got better results than the sighted undergraduates

B．worked together well as a group in solving problems

C．could control the movement of wheels very accurately

D．had good understanding of symbols representing movement

4. The following diagram suggests that the wheel is___________.

A．steadily spinning

B．rapidly spinning

C．shaky

D．jerking