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1. Many Americans fail to lose weight probably because _______.| A．they always exercise alone | B．they are too busy to exercise |
| C．they are under great pressure | D．they don’t get enough exercise |
| A．$500. | B．$800. | C．$900. | D．$1,000. |
| A．A newspaper. | B．A magazine. | C．A website. | D．A textbook. |
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Dear David，
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Best regards
Li Hua
3 . There was a man playing the piano in a bar. He was a good piano player and always performed in this bar. People came in just to hear him play. But one night, a customer told him that he didn’t want to hear him just play the piano any more. He wanted him to sing a song.
The man said, “I don’t sing.”
But the customer was persistent. He told the bar manager, “I’m tired of listening to the piano. I want that man to sing!”
The manager shouted across the room, “If you want to get paid, sing a song. Our customers are asking you to sing!”
So he did. He sang a song. A piano player who had never sung in public did so for the first time. And everyone was surprised by his song Mona Lisa. He got lots of applause that night.
He had such a talent for singing, but he just had been sitting on his talent for the past years! If without such an opportunity, he might have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. However, now he has become one of the best known singers in America.
You, too, have skills and abilities. Maybe your “talent” is not as great as the singer’s above, but it may be better than you think! And with effort, most skills can be improved. So, in your life, you should be brave enough to try doing different things and find out what talents you really have!
1. Which would be the best title for the text?| A．How to Have Great Ability | B．A Nice Song—Mona Lisa |
| C．A Singer in a No-name Bar | D．Find Out Your Real Talent |
| A．Because he wanted to make more money. |
| B．Because the bar manager said he liked his song. |
| C．Because he wanted to show everyone that he had a talent for singing. |
| D．Because the manager asked him to sing at the request of a customer. |
| A．strict. | B．kind. | C．patient. | D．rude. |
| A．He hated singing in a no-name bar. |
| B．He didn’t discover his talent before a customer asked him to sing. |
| C．He became very famous as a pianist and singer in America. |
| D．He lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player. |
4 . All forms of tobacco — cigarettes, pipes, cigars, and smokeless tobacco — are dangerous. It doesn’t help to substitute products that seem like they’re better for you than regular cigarettes, such as filtered or low-tar cigarettes.
The only thing that really helps a person avoid the problems associated with smoking is staying smoke free. This isn’t always easy, especially if everyone around you is smoking and offering you cigarettes. It may help to have your reasons for not smoking ready for times you may feel the pressure, such as “I just don’t like it” or “I want to stay in shape for soccer (or football, basketball or other sport)”．
The good news for people who don’t smoke or who want to quit is that studies show that the number of teens who smoke has dropped evidently. Today, about 23% of high school students smoke.
If you do smoke and want to quit, you have lots of information and support available. Different approaches to quitting work for different people. For some, quitting cold turkey is best. Others find that a slower approach is the way to go. Some people find that it helps to go to a support group especially for teens. These are sometimes sponsored by local hospitals or organizations like the American Cancer Society. The Internet offers a number of good resources to help people quit smoking.
When quitting, it can be helpful to realize that the first few days are the hardest. So don’t give up. Some people find they have a few setbacks before they manage to quit for good.
Staying smoke free will give you a whole lot more of everything — more energy, better performance, better looks, more money in your pocket, and, in the long run, more life to live!
1. What will be the best title of the passage?| A．Staying smoke free | B．Live a long life |
| C．The smoking problems | D．The good news for smokers |
| A．Sports activities. | B．Finding no reasons. |
| C．Cigarettes offered around you. | D．The pressure from your work. |
| A．Walking slowly. | B．Eating cold turkey. |
| C．Staying in hospital. | D．Finding a suitable approach. |
| A．have no cancer | B．be more attractive |
| C．run for a long time | D．get more opportunities |
5 . Camille Mahlknecht, 9, has some big fun planned for this weekend. She and other residents of Agoura Hills, California, plan to pick up trash during their city’s annual cleanup. At the same time, Wissam Raed,12, will be busy volunteering too. Thousands of miles away in Lebanon, Wissam plans to put on a play at an orphanage and bring potted plants to elderly people at a senior citizen center.
Some other children like Nathan White, 10, have personal reasons for volunteering. Nathan’s grandmother died of a heart attack. To help raise money for medical research, Nathan participated in Jump Rope for Heart. He and five other boys took turns jumping rope for two and half hours and collected more than US$1200 in donations for the American Heart Association.
Millions of children around the globe lend a hand to their communities every year. Schools and parents also contribute to the rise in youth service. For example, many schools offer community service activities for students to join. Teachers either combine volunteer work with classroom lessons or make service work a requirement. Parents, on the other hand, encourage their kids to volunteer and do it with them.
Community service is particularly important in this depression time. As the need for monetary support and other aid has increased, many charitable organizations have experienced a significant drop in donations. Camille and other children who volunteer thousands of hours annually can fill in some of the gaps.
According to research, kids who start volunteering are twice as likely to continue doing good deeds when they are adults. So, grab a paintbrush, a trash bag, or whatever you need to help your community. You’ll love how you feel after helping others. Even dirty work can be lots of fun, if it’s for a good cause.
1. What’s the writer’s purpose of writing this passage?| A．To recommend youth service programs to schools. |
| B．To ask charity organizations to serve the community. |
| C．To urge children to take part in volunteering activities. |
| D．To propose alternatives for doing community services. |
| A．Community service is gaining popularity among children. |
| B．Families and schools help to make community service popular. |
| C．Children now depend more on their teachers than on their parents. |
| D．Nathan White had a special reason to raise money for medical research. |
| A．It raises money for school activities. |
| B．It teaches children to take care of the sick. |
| C．It gives charity organizations some needed help. |
| D．It encourages parents and teachers to work together. |
| A．Community service can help prevent juvenile delinquency (青少年犯罪)． |
| B．Children will probably leave school and work as volunteers. |
| C．Organizing sports events for the school is a kind of community service. |
| D．Children who do volunteer work are more likely to grow up to be caring adults. |
6 . Floor sweeping robot, also known as automatic cleaner, intelligent dust collector, robot vacuum cleaner, is a kind of intelligent household appliances, which can automatically clean the floor in the room with a certain amount of artificial intelligence. Brush sweeping and vacuum are generally used to absorb the ground sundries into their own garbage storage box, so as to complete the function of ground cleaning. Generally speaking, robots that complete cleaning, dust collection and floor cleaning are also uniformly classified as floor sweeping robots.
Recently, my family has a new member. It has a foolish name called “JoJo”. It is a “sweeping robot”, with a round, flat body, wearing a silly coat and shining like a scammony. To be honest ,I turned my back on it. It has several functions! It has a powder in its stomach. When it first sweep a lot of dust together, it will eat them all in its body. As long as it is touched gently, it will climb around on the ground and start working hard.
It has a pair of sensitive infrared “eyes”. When encountering obstacles in front, it will drop its head as fast as driving. When it feels that there is garbage around it, it will run towards the garbage and sweep it clean. Every night, when I finish my homework, there is no paper dust on the whole floor. It can also make an appointment and work regularly. After completing the task, it can find its own charger to charge, which is very powerful. Since it came to our home, it has become a good helper for our cleaning. My mother said, “this is the power of science and technology!”
Although its look is completely stupid but it have helped me a lot in cleaning. So I hope scientists can invent many capable robots like JoJo in the future.
1. Where does the sweeping robots put the garbage?| A．The trash-bin in the house. | B．Their own trash box. |
| C．Place them downstairs. | D．Hide it in JoJo’s office. |
| A．Dust collection. | B．Complete cleaning. | C．Wipe things down | D．Floor cleaning |
| A．There’s so much trash all over the place. | B．Its master request. |
| C．It’s programmed to go wrong. | D．There are plenty of dust. |
| A．Ambiguous | B．Positive. | C．Negative. | D．Objective |
Lizard (蜥蜴) Problems
My problems started when I learned that Mrs. Smith would be my fourth-grade teacher. She had a lizard in her classroom, and lizards were on my list of terrifying things.
Worse, Richard was in my class again. He knows I’m afraid of spiders (蜘蛛), and all year he pretended to put them in my hair. If he found out lizards were on my list, I’d be finished.
On the first day of school I tried not to look at the glass container in the corner, but Mrs. Smith pulled out the lizard and set him against her shoulder like a baby. “This is Ripley”, she said.
Richard whispered, “Bet you’re scared of him.” “I am not!” I said. Mrs. Smith looked toward Richard and me. “What’s wrong?” she asked.
“Amy’s scared of Ripley” Richard announced. “No, I’m not.” My chest tightened. “I love lizards. They’re my favorite animals.”
Mrs. Smith smiled. “I was going to ask for a volunteer to feed Ripley at recess (课间休息), but since you’re a lizard lover, how would you like the job?”
She probably thought I was speechless with joy.
Before recess, Mrs. Smith showed me Ripley’s bag of greens. I can handle that, I told myself. I’ll just lift the container lid (盖子), drop in the greens, and run.
As Mrs. Smith led the class out the door, I was frozen in a block of ice. I wanted to cry, but my tears were frozen, too. Ripley sat still watching. I knew he was waiting to jump at me the second I lifted the lid. I just stood there for a long time, staring back at Ripley.
Voices in the hall told me recess was over. I closed my eyes, lifted the lid, threw in the greens, and shut the lid. Mrs. Smith said, “You must be enjoying your job, Amy You didn’t come out for recess at all.”
Richard’s eyes got wide. I’d fooled him. But now I’d have to spend every recess with a lizard.
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After a few weeks, Richard said “Why does Amy always get to feed Ripley? I want a turn.”
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I meant for Richard to put Ripley down inside the container, but Richard set him on the floor and ran outside.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________8 . Born in the Netherlands in 1853, Van Gogh led a simple life in a small town until the age of 16. He then left school and joined a firm of art dealers in the large city of The Hague. He eventually realised that dealing with others’ artwork was not his profession. His true love was to become an artist himself.
He devoted much of his time to learning the fundamentals of drawing. Van Gogh believed that to become a great painter, one must first master the ability to draw. It was only after he was comfortable in this area that he began to use oil paints. That is when he developed a style and talent for colour that made him one of the most respected artists of all time.
Van Gogh’s paintings are amazing representations of his view of the world. The colours jump off the canvas (画布), not only because of their brightness but also because of the brush strokes (笔触). Van Gogh avoided light, feathery strokes, which would portray (描写) typical subjects. Instead, he used his brush and oils to make layers that built the painting until it was almost three-dimensional.
Perhaps one of the most memorable examples of Van Gogh’s use of colour and brush style is his painting The Starry Night. The sky swirls (打旋) across the canvas, while the stars shine with unearthly brightness. Each brushstroke creates the image of movement. The Starry Night shows Van Gogh’s great ability to create a powerful image with simple subjects.
Van Gogh spent only the last ten years of his life painting. He is believed to have sold only one of the 900 paintings he created during those years. Yet today Van Gogh is considered one of the greatest artists of all time. His influence is evident; many painters mimic his style and use of colour. His artwork can be found in museums all over the world and is valued in millions of dollars, an evidence for Vincent Van Gogh’s talent.
1. According to the text, Van Gogh learnt how to paint by| A．acquiring basic drawing techniques |
| B．closely observing the world around him |
| C．carefully studying the works of great artists |
| D．reading many books about art |
| A．The images. | B．The mood. |
| C．The themes. | D．The brushwork. |
| A．To praise Van Gogh’s ability. | B．To prove Van Gogh’s respect for nature. |
| C．To show Van Gogh’s style of painting. | D．To indicate Van Gogh’s feelings about his art. |
| A．Tolerate. | B．Judge. | C．Copy. | D．Notice. |
9 . As an assistant manager at a restaurant, I encountered a heart-warming experience. One day, a father and his young son
At some point, the boy, who was probably six or seven,
It
The positive
| A．entered | B．denied | C．noticed | D．checked |
| A．Formally | B．Gradually | C．Immediately | D．Eventually |
| A．expenses | B．ingredients | C．tastes | D．quantities |
| A．wrote | B．drew | C．handed | D．lent |
| A．interesting | B．enjoyable | C．useless | D．impossible |
| A．card | B．boy | C．money | D．menu |
| A．hesitated | B．agreed | C．cried | D．laughed |
| A．came to | B．looked like | C．ended up | D．turned out |
| A．clever | B．cheap | C．safe | D．new |
| A．struggled | B．pretended | C．decided | D．forgotten |
| A．designed | B．broke | C．marked | D．kept |
| A．private | B．regular | C．normal | D．curious |
| A．lesson | B．present | C．envy | D．response |
| A．difference | B．change | C．sense | D．promise |
| A．accept | B．promote | C．tailor | D．dismiss |
10 . Researchers have developed a robotic sensor that combines artificial intelligence techniques to read Braille (盲文) at speeds roughly double that of most human readers. The research team, from the University of Cambridge, used machine learning algorithms (算法) to teach a robotic sensor to quickly slide over lines of Braille text.
The robotic sensor the researchers used has a camera in its “fingertip”, and reads by using a combination of the information from the camera and the sensors. “This is a hard problem for roboticists as there’s a lot of image processing that needs to be done to remove motion blur (模糊), which is time and energy-consuming,” said Parth Potdar from Cambridge’s Department of Engineering.
“There are existing robotic Braille readers, but they only read one letter at a time, which is not how humans read, ” said Potdar. “Existing robotic Braille readers work in a static way: They touch one letter pattern, read it, pull up from the surface, move over, lower onto the next letter pattern, and so on. We want something that’s more realistic and far more efficient. ”
The team developed machine learning algorithms so the robotic reader would be able to “deblur” the images before the sensor attempted to recognise the letters. They trained the algorithms on a set of sharp images of Braille with fake blur applied. After the algorithms had learned to deblur the letters, they used a computer vision model to detect and classify each character.
Once the algorithms were incorporated, the researchers tested their render by sliding it quickly along rows of Braille characters. The robotic Braille render could read 315 words per minute with 87% accuracy, which is twice as fast and about as accurate as n human Braille reader.
“Braille reading speed is a great way to measure the dynamic performance of tactile(能触知的)sensing systems, so our findings could be applicable beyond Braille, for applications like detecting surface textures or slippage in robotic manipulation,” said Potdar.
In the future, the researchers are hoping to scale the technology to the size of a humanoid hand.
1. What is difficult for roboticists to deal with in the reading process?| A．Ridding of motion blur. | B．Teaching a robot to learn. |
| C．Processing robotic sensors. | D．Fixing a camera on the fingertip. |
| A．Still. | B．Fast. | C．Clever. | D．Lazy. |
| A．The good performance of the robot sensor. |
| B．The promising future of their research results. |
| C．The factors in making the tactile sensing systems. |
| D．The way to ensure the accuracy of the technology. |
| A．Technology to be scaled to the size of a humanoid hand |
| B．Robots trained to read Braille at twice the speed of humans |
| C．A great way to measure the performance of sensing systems |
| D．Machine learning algorithms expected to change Braille writing |
