1 . Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs who met every day to play together. Like pairs of dogs you can find in most any neighborhood, these two loved each other and played together so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their respective houses.
One evening, Brownie's family noticed that Brownie hadn't returned home. They went looking for him with no success. Brownie didn't show up the next day, and despite their efforts to find him, by the next week he was still missing. Curiously, Spotty showed up at Brownie's house alone. Barking, whining and generally pestering Brownie's human family. Busy with their own lives, they just ignored the nervous neighbor dog.
Finally, one morning Spotty refused to take "no" for an answer. Ted, Brownie's owner, was steadily harassed by the furious, adamant little dog. Spotty followed Ted about; barking insistently, then darting toward nearby empty lot and back, as if to say, "Follow me! It's urgent!"
Finally, Ted followed the frantic Spotty across the empty lot as Spotty paused to race back and bark encouragingly. The little dog led the man under a tree, past clumps of trees, to a desolate spot a half mile from the house. There Ted found his beloved Brownie alive, one of his hind legs crushed in a steel leg hold trap. Horrified, Ted now wished he'd taken Spotty's earlier appeals seriously. Then Ted noticed something quite remarkable.
Spotty had done more than simply led Brownie's human owner to his trapped friend. In a circle around the injured dog, Ted found an array of dog food and table scraps which were later identified as the remains of every meal Spotty had been fed that week!
Spotty had been visiting Brownie regularly, in a single minded quest to keep his friend alive by sacrificing his own comfort. Spotty had evidently stayed with Brownie to protect him from predators, snuggling with him at night to keep him warm and nuzzling him to keep his spirits up.
Browni’s leg was treated by a veterinarian and he recovered. For many years thereafter, the two families watched the faithful friends playing and chasing each other down that well-worn path between their houses.
1. What's the correct order of the following?① They couldn’t find him everywhere.
② Spotty went to Brownie’s master's house to ask for help.
③ One evening, Brownie was missing.
④ Spotty found Brownie and helped him by giving him food.
⑤ They play together happily again.
| A．③①②④⑤ | B．⑤③①④② | C．③①④②⑤ | D．③①④⑤② |
| A．Spotty took Brownie's food to him every day. | B．There was a natural path between the two houses. |
| C．The legs of Brownie were hurt by the steel trap. | D．Brownie disappeared for more than a week. |
| A．Ted noticed Spotty’s earlier actions. | B．Brownie’s family were thankful to Spotty. |
| C．They asked the police to find Brownie for them. | D．Spotty led Brownie’s owner to feed him. |
2 . Nobody laughed when the UK comedy show Little Britain toured the US. Americans didn’t find the “British stereotypes(刻板印象)”funny. One character was a woman who was sick whenever she saw a foreigner.Another was a loud and rude 15-year-old girl cursing(骂)at her teachers.But back home,British people were laughing,thinking,“Yes!That’s exactly what we’re like!”
A laugh is a laugh in any language,but the reasons for it can be very different.Britons and Americans speak the same language,but humor does not always translate.
Take The Office as an example.This was originally a UK TV series but it was changed for the US.Both the US and UK series are set in a boring workplace in a boring town.But David Brent,the boss of the UK office,is not a nice guy like Michael Scott in the US version. “We had to make Michael Scott a slightly nicer guy,”wrote series creator Ricky Gervais.“He couldn’t be too mean.”
Gervais said British people are different from Americans because“Britons cruelly make fun of people we like or dislike…and of ourselves”. He believes the differences between the American and British senses of humor are because of“our upbringing”.
“Americans are brought up to believe they can be the next president of the United States,”he wrote.“Britons are told,‘It won’t happen for you’.”
Things usually turn out fine at the end of every US Office episode(集). Even if they’re not perfect, the characters “learn a lesson” for the future.
But in David Brent’s office—and in lots of UK comedies—the last scene is often sad. You are often left with the feeling that things just couldn’t get worse. For British people, this seems truer to life and so much funnier.
It’s not just Britain and the US that have comic differences. Few foreigners would understand a Chinese cross-talk show,for example.
Cultural differences are no laughing matter. But comic differences can be a window into a culture.
1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?| A．To show that British humor is not funny at all. |
| B．To show that American people don't understand British people. |
| C．To show that Britain and America have different stereotypes. |
| D．To show how humor may mean different things in different cultures. |
| A．Unkind. | B．Great. | C．Average. | D．Ugly-looking. |
| A．David Brent is quite a nice guy. |
| B．Michael Scott is a rather mean guy. |
| C．Episodes in the UK version often end on a hopeless note. |
| D．Episodes in the US version often end in a boring way. |
| A．Britons do not like to make fun of others. |
| B．British comedy often has a moral message. |
| C．American people are brought up to be more positive. |
| D．Jokes are difficult to translate from one language into another. |
| A．They are slight differences that can be ignored. | B．They can partly show cultural differences. |
| C．They show stereotypes of different cultures. | D．They help people communicate with each other. |
3 . Aristotle thought the face was a window onto a person’s mind. Cicero agreed. Two thousand years passed, and facial expressions are still commonly thought to be a universally valid way to judge other people’s feelings, irrespective of age, sex and culture. A raised eyebrow suggests confusion. A smile indicates happiness.
Or do they? An analysis of hundreds of research papers that examined the relationship between facial expressions and underlying ( 潜在的) emotions has uncovered a surprising conclusion: there is no good scientific evidence to suggest that there are such things as recognizable facial expressions for basic emotions which are universal across cultures. Just because a person is not smiling, the researchers found, does not mean that person is unhappy.
This may raise questions about the efforts of information-technology companies to develop artificial-intelligence algorithms (算法) which can recognize facial expressions and work out a person’s underlying emotional state. Microsoft, for example, claims its “Emotion API” is able to detect what people are feeling by examining video footage of them. Another of the study’s authors, however, expressed scepticism. Aleix Martinez, a computer engineer at Ohio State University, said that companies attempting to obtain emotions from images of faces have failed to understand the importance of context.
For a start, facial expression is but one of a number of non-verbal ways, such as body posture, that people use to communicate with each other. Machine recognition of emotion needs to take account of these as well. But context can reach further than that. Dr Martinez mentioned an experiment in which participants were shown a close-up picture of a man’s face, which was bright red with his mouth open in a scream. Based on this alone, most participants said the man was extremely angry. Then the whole picture was shown. It was a football player with his arms outstretched, celebrating a goal. His angry-looking face was, in fact, a show of pure joy.
Given that people cannot guess each other’s emotional states most of the time, Dr Martinez sees no reason computers would be able to. “There are companies right now claiming to be able to do that and apply this to places I find really scary and dangerous, for example, in hiring people,” he says. “Some companies require you to present a video resume, which is analyzed by a machine-learning system. And depending on your facial expressions, they hire you or not, which I find really shocking.”
1. We can learn from the second paragraph that ______.| A．facial expressions are universal across cultures |
| B．it is hard to recognize some facial expressions |
| C．emotions and facial expressions may not be related |
| D．common facial expressions convey similar meanings |
| A．great doubt | B．similar interest |
| C．fierce anger | D．strong support |
| A．facial expression is an important way to communicate |
| B．machine recognition of emotion is not reliable at all |
| C．facial expression is not the only way to detect feelings |
| D．people may misread facial expressions for lack of context |
| A．Facial expressions differ from person to person. |
| B．People with red face must be feeling extremely angry. |
| C．Artificial-intelligence algorithms can always work out a person’s inner emotional state. |
| D．Unbelievable to Dr Martinez is that job offers are decided by a machine-learning system. |
| A．Facial expressions are among the most universal forms of body language. |
| B．Computers can detect people’s mind by analyzing their facial expressions. |
| C．Facial expressions may not be the reliable reflection of a person’s emotions. |
| D．Companies can depend on machine recognition of emotion to hire people. |
4 . At Blossom End Railroad Station, 22-year-old Stanley Vine sat, waiting for his new employer. The surrounding green fields were so unlike the muddy landscape of war-torn France. After four horrible years as an army private (列兵) fighting in Europe, Stanley had returned to England in February 1946. Armed now with some savings and with no prospects for a job in England, he answered a newspaper ad for farm help in Canada. Two months later he was on his way.
When the old car rumbled toward the tiny station, Stanley rose to his feet, trying to make the most of his five foot, four inch frame. The farmer, Alphonse Lapine, shook his head and complained, “You’re a skinny thing.” On the way to his dairy farm, Alphonse explained that he had a wife and seven kids. “Money’s tight. You’ll get room and board. You’ll get up at dawn for milking, and then help me around the farm until evening milking time again. Ten dollars a week. Sundays off.” Stanley nodded. He had never been on a farm before, but he took the job.
From the beginning Stanley was treated horribly by the whole family. They made fun of the way he dressed and talked. The humourless farmer frequently lost his temper, criticizing Stanley for the slightest mistake. The oldest son, 13-year-old Armand, constantly played nasty tricks on him. But the kind-hearted Stanley never responded.
Stanley never became part of the Lapine family. After work, they ignored him. He spent his nights alone in a tiny bedroom. However, each evening before retiring, he lovingly cared for the farmer’s horses, eagerly awaiting him at the field gate. He called them his gentle giants.
Early one November morning Alphonse Lapine discovered that Stanley had disappeared, after only six months as his farmhand. In fact no one in the community ever heard of him again. That is, until one evening, almost 20 years later, when Armand, opened an American sports magazine and came across a shocking headline, “Millionaire jockey, Stanley Vine, ex-British soldier and 5-time horse riding champion, began life in North America as a farmhand in Canada.”
1. Stanley Vine decided to go to Canada because ________.| A．he wanted to escape from war-torn France |
| B．he wanted to serve in the Canadian army |
| C．he couldn’t find a job in England |
| D．he loved working as a farmhand |
| A．Stanley joined the French army when he was 18 years old. |
| B．On the farm Stanley had to milk the cows 14 times a week. |
| C．The Lapine family were rich but cruel to Stanley. |
| D．Stanley read about the job offer in a newspaper. |
| A．When Stanley first met his employer, he tried to impress him but failed. |
| B．Stanley had never worked on a farm, so he made a lot of mistakes. |
| C．Stanley’s weekly salary was not enough for him to live on. |
| D．Stanley left the farm by train, without telling anyone why he did so. |
| A．Hitch-hiking to different towns. | B．Caring for the farmer’s horses. |
| C．Wandering around the farm alone. | D．Preparing meals on the farm. |
| A．He didn’t know Stanley had been a British soldier. |
| B．He had no idea Stanley had always been a wealthy man. |
| C．He didn’t know his father paid Stanley so little money. |
| D．He didn’t expect Stanley to become such a success. |
It is most important that you read this carefully before first using the wok. Until you become familiar with the product, we advise that you can keep this handy and refer to it when required.
IMPORTANT SAFEGUARDS:
* In order to prevent the risk of electric shock, DO NOT IMMERSE （浸泡）the cord or the probe in water or any other liquid.
* Whenever the wok is used near children, it is essential that close supervision takes place.
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* DO NOT USE THE Quik-Fry™ WOK OUTDOORS.
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Cooking Methods:
| Cooking Method | Heat Required | Food Preparation | Action Required | Time |
| Stir Frying | very high | cut into uniform cubes or small shreds | use tossing motion in a small amount of oil | 2-3 minutes |
| Braising | very high | as for stir frying | add liquid after stir frying, then simmer until cooked | 5-10 minutes |
| Deep Frying | high | wipe moisture from food | cook only a few pieces at a time | <5 minutes |
| Shallow Frying | high | pre-cook food | as for deep frying, but only 2 tbsp of oil | <5 minutes |
1. This passage is most probably from _______,
| A．a customer review of the wok |
| B．an instruction booklet for the wok |
| C．an advertisement for the electronic wok |
| D．a cooking book designed for customers |
| A．you don't need to attend it when cooking |
| B．its solid base makes it very easy to clean |
| C．its inner surface prevents food from sticking to it |
| D．you can follow the instruments to repair it by yourself |
| A．Using it to deep dry food. |
| B．Touching the plastic knob on the top. |
| C．Keeping the cord and probe always dry. |
| D．Leaving the electrical parts covered in liquid. |
| A．Food doesn't have to be cut into pieces in "Braising" method. |
| B．No preparation needs to be done the first time the wok is used. |
| C．The tall sides make the wok ideal cookware for "Deep Frying". |
| D．The "Shallow Frying" method requires food to be dry and cooked. |
| A．use the wok outside your house |
| B．cover the wok to prevent splattering |
| C．remove the lid when repairing the wok |
| D．keep close eyes on the wok when it is in use |
6 . 2019 Spring
Evaluation Schedule
For Learn To Skate
MT. KENT ICE CENTER* 900 MOON AVENUE* LEVARD CITY, RI 02916
(103)561-4363 www.mtkent.org
WHO: Skaters of all ages and abilities
Any Preschool & Kindergarten-aged child who has never taken lessons at the Mt. Kent Ice Center needs to make an appointment to be evaluated. Anyone first grade or above does not need an evaluation.
The online registration feature does not apply to the registration for evaluation.
EVALUATIONS: Evaluations help to determine both readiness and class placement. Upon completion of the evaluation, it is recommended that you register for classes with a coach in the ice center office.
A variety of days and times for the evaluations are also listed online and at the Ice Center.
Evaluation registration may be done in person or by phone at 103-561-4363.
| EVALUATION DATES AND TIME | |||
| DAY | EVALUATION DATES | TIME | EVALUATION FEE |
| Saturday | March 9, 2019 | 12:00 p.m. | $5.00 |
| Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 p.m. | $5.00 |
| Monday | March 11, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. | $5.00 |
| Wednesday | March 13, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. | $5.00 |
| Thursday | March 14, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. | $5.00 |
Additional days and times may be added — to be determined by Management
REFUND POLICY: Refund requests must be made a minimum of 7 days before the scheduled appointment. See www.mtkent.org for details.
EVALUATION REGISTRATION :
In person — Stop by the Mt. Kent Recreation Center, ground floor, Monday through Saturday 9:00-11:00 a.m., Sunday l:00-4:00 p.m.
By phone — Call the Ice Center at (103)561-4363 to schedule your skating evaluation appointment.
QUESTIONS: Please call the Mt. Kent Ice Center staff at (103)561-4363
KentALERT — A FREE notification (通知) service (phone, text, e-mail). In the event of an emergency and to provide you with updates about cancellations and recreation department programs and events. Please visit www.mtkent.org, browse Services at the top of the page. Under Information Technology Office, click KentALERT. All recreation participants should sign up, and at minimum select the “Cancellation category.”
1. What is the function of the evaluation?| A．To help the applicants register for related classes at the Ice Center. |
| B．To judge the applicants' readiness and put them in right classes. |
| C．To help these applicants find information related online. |
| D．To make sure the applicants will get refunded later. |
| A．at 1:00 p.m. on Monday |
| B．at 4:00 p.m. on Friday |
| C．at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday |
| D．at 11 a.m. on Sunday |
| A．Refunds should be claimed within seven days after the registration. |
| B．Any kindergarten-aged child must make an appointment to be evaluated. |
| C．You can go to www.mtkent.org to complete the registration for evaluation. |
| D．You will be informed of any cancellations after signing up for KentALERT. |
| A．recommend an ice center |
| B．advertise a skating programme |
| C．introduce an evaluation schedule |
| D．tell readers about a notification service |
| A．A newspaper. |
| B．A travel guide. |
| C．A health magazine. |
| D．An activity schedule. |
7 . Some people say that friendship is the only channel through which human beings can ever experience the value of life. In our daily life, it is likely that you share some common interests with others — they may like the same sport, go to the same school or like the same kind of music as you do. Since you often meet them, they become your acquaintances. Although some people develop many acquaintances, only a few become their good friends in their lifetime because there are differences between acquaintances and friends.
It is said that true friendship begins when someone knows what you are really like, but still likes you anyway. A true friend shows loyalty from the very beginning of the relationship. A friend will go through challenges to help you without expecting anything in return. A “friend” today may probably become a “true friend” tomorrow when they get involved in unexpected circumstances together with you — for example, when you are going through a difficult experience and your friend is there to help you out. However, some acquaintances might leave you when you badly need their help. At this time, you can experience what true friendship is.
In our life, some people seem to go through life with plenty of friends. They may be funny or they may have a bright and pleasant personality. For these people, wherever they go, people seem to like them and welcome their company. But when they go through challenging life experiences, some of their friends are not there to help them. Therefore we can say some of their friends are not real friends and their friendship is just skin-deep.
However, others seem to go through life with no friends at all. They like to be alone, to travel by themselves or to do their own things. It’s a pity that few of these people find success in life because they have no friends. They lack the best gift in life — friendship.
1. According to the passage, which of the following statements about acquaintances is TRUE?| A．They have all of the same interests as you do. |
| B．You seldom meet them in your life. |
| C．They are sure to become your good friends. |
| D．Not all of them can become your friends. |
| A．go to the same school as your friend |
| B．get into trouble |
| C．enjoy the same kind of music as your friend |
| D．see your friend often |
| A．it doesn’t matter whether one has friends or not |
| B．people with bright personality are easy to have friends |
| C．people without friends are always unhappy |
| D．it’s easier to lose a friend than to get one |
| A．Very deep. | B．Not deep at all. |
| C．As precious as skin. | D．Hidden under the skin. |
| A．Interested. | B．Angry. |
| C．Hopeful. | D．Regretful. |
8 . Kincaid looked at his watch: eight-seventeen. The truck started on the second try, and he backed out, shifted gears, and moved slowly down the alley under hazy sun. Through the streets of Bellingham he went, heading south on Washington 11, running along the coast of Puget Sound for a few miles, then following the highway as it swung east a little before meeting U.S Route 20.
Turning into the sun, he began the long, winding drive through the Cascades. He liked this country and felt impressed，stopping now and then to make notes about interesting possibilities for future expeditions or to shoot what he called “memory snapshots.” The purpose of these causal photographs was to remind him of places he might want to visit again and approach more seriously. In later afternoon he turned north at Spokane, picking up U.S Route 2, which would take him halfway across the northern United States to Duluth, Minnesota.
He wished for the thousandth time in his life that he had a dog, a golden retriever, maybe, for travels like this and to keep him company at home. But he was frequently away; overseas much of the time and it would not be fair to the animal. Still, he thought about it anyway. In a few years he would be getting too old for the hard fieldwork. “I must get a dog then.” He said to himself.
Drives like this always put him into a sentimental mood. The dog was part of it. Robert Kincaid was alone as it’s possible to be – an only child, parents both dead, distant relatives who had lost track of him and he of them, no close friends.
He thought about Marian. She had left him nine years ago after five years of marriage. He was fifty–two now, that would make her just under forty. Marian had dreams of becoming a musician, a folksinger. She knew all of the Weavers’ songs and sang them pretty well in the coffeehouse of Seattle. When he was home in the old days, he drove her to the shows and sat in the audience while she sang.
His long absences – two or three months sometimes – were hard on the marriage. He knew that. She was aware of what he did when they decided to get married, and both of them had a vague (not clear) sense that it could all be handled somehow. It couldn’t when he came from photographing a story in Iceland and, she was gone. The note read, “Robert, it didn’t work out, I left you the Harmony guitar. Stay in touch.”
He didn’t stay in touch. Neither did she. He signed the divorce papers when they arrived a year later and caught a plane for Australia the next day. She had asked for nothing except her freedom.
1. Which statement is true according to the passage?| A．Kincaid’s parents were dead and he only kept in touch with some distant relatives. |
| B．Kincaid would have had a dog if he hadn’t been away from home too much. |
| C．Kincaid used to have a golden retriever. |
| D．Kincaid needed a dog in doing his hard fieldwork. |
| A．To write “memory snapshots”. |
| B．To remind himself of places he might want to visit again. |
| C．To avoid forgetting the way back. |
| D．To shoot beautiful scenery along the road. |
| A．She died after five years of marriage. |
| B．She was older than Kincaid. |
| C．She could sing very well and earned big money. |
| D．She was not a professional pop singer. |
| A．Marian knew what would happen before she married Kincaid. |
| B．Kincaid thought his absence would be a problem when he married Marian. |
| C．It turned out that Marian could not stand Kincaid’s absence and left him. |
| D．After Marian left him, they still kept in touch with each other. |
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1. Who will probably be one of the remote editors?| A．An American, with a university degree, who worked 3 years for a translation company. |
| B．A Chinese, with a university degree, who worked 5 years for a newspaper. |
| C．An Englishman, with a graduate degree, who worked 3 years for a newspaper. |
| D．A Frenchman without a university degree, who has a high level of computer knowledge. |
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| B．The ability to write interesting stories. |
| C．In-depth knowledge of computers. |
| D．A university degree in a foreign country. |
| A．People who get the job need to work late. |
| B．One can apply for the job throughout the year. |
| C．Communication is very important for one to get the job. |
| D．One can apply for the job through the website. |
| MEMORANDUM (备忘录) To: All members of the sales department From: Annette Derringer Re: Year-end party Date: November 26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is just a quick note to let you all know the arrangements for next month’s year-end party. As you know, the party will be held at the Green Vale Country Club, which we have reserved between 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on the evening of December 21st. I’ve received replies from almost all of you confirming attendance, but if you haven’t let me know yet, please do so in the next day or two. Tickets for all employees have been covered by the company. The Green Vale manager has asked me to explain one or two things to those of you who have not been there before. Basically, there is sufficient parking space for only 100 vehicles, so they would like to ask those of you planning to drive, try to car-pool as much as possible. Also, the number of lockers available is small, so guests should try to keep belongings to a minimum. Thanks in advance, Annette |
| To: Annette Derringer aderringer@belway.com From: Kyle Berwick Date: Nov 28 Subject: Year-end party ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annette, This is to let you know that I will be able to attend the year-end party at the Green Vale Country Club on the 21st although I don’t think I will be able to arrive before 8:30. I was wondering if it would also be possible to bring a couple of guests. I know it is a bit of a last minute request, but my brother and his wife are planning to visit us at that time, and I know they’d love to see the Green Vale. If it is not a problem, then can you let me know how much I should pay for their tickets? Also, assuming this is OK, I was planning to drive down in a single car, to reduce the need for parking and also to allow us to keep our belongings in the car. I have a couple of days off before the party, but I’ll be in my office until the 17th, so could you get back to me before then? Thanks a lot, Kyle |
1. What’s the main purpose of the memorandum?
| A．To explain the arrangement for an event. |
| B．To encourage people to travel by car. |
| C．To ask for help arranging a party. |
| D．To thank people for attending the party. |
| A．ask the price of movie tickets | B．explain why he cannot come to the party |
| C．request directions to a hotel | D．ask if he may bring guests to the party |
| A．Payment for extra guests. | B．Storage of personal items. |
| C．Parking restrictions . | D．Timing for the evening. |
| A．The manager of the Green Vale doesn’t hope they go there by car. |
| B．Annette takes charge of the arrangement of year-end party. |
| C．They can take as many belongings as they can with them when going to the Green Vale. |
| D．Kyle Berwick won’t bring the guests to go to the party if he has to pay the tickets. |
