1.介绍大学;
2.陈述理由;
3.表达期待。
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
My Ideal University
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2 . A parent’s hopes for 2030
When 2010 arrived, my son was only a year old—tiny and
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I hope we finally get
I’m not sure what a warming planet will
The world is always going to be full of
The world of 2030 won’t
A.special | B.generous | C.intelligent | D.dependent |
A.athlete | B.adolescent | C.artist | D.engineer |
A.month | B.century | C.year | D.decade |
A.questions | B.experience | C.danger | D.change |
A.worry | B.sacrifice | C.owe | D.arrange |
A.particular | B.serious | C.optimistic | D.enthusiastic |
A.for sure | B.as usual | C.no longer | D.till now |
A.slow | B.record | C.complete | D.multiply |
A.mean | B.obtain | C.share | D.seek |
A.pick up | B.fight for | C.turn down | D.take part in |
A.finished | B.continued | C.started | D.left |
A.aims | B.examples | C.disagreements | D.results |
A.escape | B.express | C.seek | D.affect |
A.differ from | B.agree with | C.refer to | D.call for |
A.explode | B.admire | C.prove | D.build |
3 . What will future schools look like in 100 years? Imagine future schools in which students are totally engaged in a class. They are concentrating on working together to solve real-world problems. They are self-driven and are coming up with amazing ideas on the spot. They are concerned with each other’s well-being as part of a team. Their concerns reach far beyond the classroom to others all over the globe.
The school of the future will be an amazing melting pot of different peoples coming together to solve real-world problems.
Will they even be called “schools” in the future?
The teacher-student relationship is changing. Teachers are acting more as helpers rather than keepers of all knowledge. Students are driving their own education to the path that they feel best fits them. In the future, employers may not be as concerned with a diploma. They’ll look more at cases and examples of how students contribute to solving real-world problems. They’ll want to know how well they work in a team.
What will problem-solving look like in the future?
Information from the Internet is accessible everywhere and at unimaginable speeds. Kids are connected to news around the world in real time. Imagine someone could put out a request to the global community to help solve an issue in their own community! Classes can adopt an issue and work with other classes around the world in real time to create solutions.
What will information look like in the future?
It’s already everywhere. Users can get flooded by the constant flow of information. The need to understand what is true and what is not is important. The flipped classroom (翻转课堂) has already completely changed lecture-based lessons. It presents interesting content to students before they even come to class. They can access the Internet as many times as they want to review the lessons.
1. What is the key message of the first paragraph?A.The things students will do in the future school. |
B.The situation where students will be in the future. |
C.The attention students will pay to in the classroom. |
D.The methods students will use to study in the classroom. |
A.Respect. | B.Patience. | C.Teamwork. | D.Concern. |
A.Teachers encourage students to develop leadership. |
B.Students are really relaxed with their heavy study. |
C.The employers value students’ diplomas most. |
D.Students have the right to choose the most suitable lessons. |
A.To help students to improve the problem-solving ability. |
B.To provide the lessons for students to study before or after class. |
C.To help students to keep in contact with the outside world. |
D.To help students to understand the most difficult content. |
1. What will happen in 2022?
A.A new space lab will be built. |
B.The first space hotel will open. |
C.Astronauts will live in the space hotel. |
A.Two. | B.Four. | C.Six. |
A.Cook food. | B.Watch movies. | C.Have a video chat. |
A.Relaxing. | B.Dangerous. | C.Expensive. |
1. What will life be like in the future?
A.People will hold online meetings virtually. |
B.More visits are needed to the doctor. |
C.A few people will go to an office. |
A.How tall today's buildings are. |
B.How different the smartphone would be. |
C.How the Internet would change our lives. |
A.Order online. | B.Print at home. | C.Design by ourselves. |
A.What life will be like in 100 years. |
B.Where to go on holiday in the future. |
C.How the 3D technology will help us. |
1. 大学计划;2. 理想的工作;3. 业余生活。
注意:1. 词数100左右;2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;3. 开头语已为你写好。
I often imagine what my life will be like in the future. ...
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Are all changes good?
It is a commonly held belief that as people get older, they become resistant to change. Their complaints that things used to be better in the past or
But is this automatically true? Are the views of an older person on a new development always to be disregarded? This would suggest that every new development must be a good
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8 . A robot with a sense of touch may one day feel “pain”, both its own physical pain and sympathy for the pain of its human companions. Such touchy-feely robots are still far off, but advances in robotic touch-sensing are bringing that possibility closer to reality.
Sensors set in soft, artificial skin that can detect both a gentle touch and a painful strike have been hooked up to a robot that can then signal emotions, Asada reported February 15 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This artificial “pain nervous system,” as Asada calls it, may be a small building block for a machine that could ultimately experience pain. Such a feeling might also allow a robot to “sympathize” with a human companion’s suffering.
Asada, an engineer at Osaka University, and his colleagues have designed touch sensors that reliably pick up a range of touches. In a robot system named Affetto, a realistic looking child’s head, these touch and pain signals can be converted to emotional facial expressions.
A touch-sensitive, soft material, as opposed to a rigid metal surface, allows richer interactions between a machine and the world, says neuroscientist Kingson Man of the University of Southern California. Artificial skin “allows the possibility of engagement in truly intelligent ways”.
Such a system, Asada says, might ultimately lead to robots that can recognize the pain of others, a valuable skill for robots designed to help care for people in need, the elderly, for instance.
But there is an important distinction between a robot that responds in a predictable way to a painful strike and a robot that’s able to compute an internal feeling accurately, says Damasio, a neuroscientist also at the University of Southern California. A robot with sensors that can detect touch and pain is “along the lines of having a robot, for example, that smiles when you talk to it,” Damasio says. ‘It’s a device for communication of the machine to a human.” While that’s an interesting development, “it’s not the same thing” as a robot designed to compute some sort of internal experience, he says.
1. What do we know about the “pain nervous system”?A.It is named Affetto by scientists. | B.It is a set of complicated sensors. |
C.It is able to signal different emotions. | D.It combines sensors and artificial skin. |
A.Delivered. | B.Translated. | C.Attached. | D.Adapted. |
A.Robots can smile when talked to. |
B.Robots can talk to human beings. |
C.Robots can compute internal feelings |
D.Robots can detect pains and respond accordingly. |
A.Machines Become Emotional | B.Robots Inch to Feeling Pain |
C.Human Feelings Can Be Felt | D.New Devices Touch Your Heart |
1. What will happen in 2022?
A.The first space hotel will open. |
B.A new space lab will be built. |
C.Astronauts will live in the space hotel. |
A.Two. | B.Four. | C.Six. |
A.Cook food. | B.Watch movies. | C.Have a video chat. |
A.Expensive. | B.Dangerous. | C.Relaxing. |
10 . The sea could be the food bowl of the future. In Jervis Bay, south of Sydney, seaweed, which is rich in fibre and omega 3, is grown and harvested.
Pia Winberg is a marine scientist who runs Australia's first food-grade fanned seaweed company. Her crop is grown alongside mussels (贻贝)and is used as an additive in pasta (意大利面)and other products.
Seaweed is also raised in large tanks, where it absorbs carbon dioxide waste from a wheat processing factory. The business is small, but could help to reduce the ecological footprint of traditional farming.
“We used ten percent of seaweed instead of wheat in breads and pastas, we've eliminated a million hectares of land, we've eliminated all of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with that, and we've also reduced the pressures on very precious fresh water.” said Pia Winberg.
Spiny sea urchins (多刺海胆虫)are another blue economy resource. They can destroy marine habitats, but a recent competition for environmental start-ups in Australia, saw them not as a pest but a delicacy (美味).
Martina Doblin, CEO of Sydney Institute of Marine Science, said, “By 2050 we will have some ten billion people on the planet, and about half the food they eat will come from the ocean. So, we really do need to pay attention to the way that we manage the blue economy-generating wealth from the ocean but in a sustainable (可持续的)way.”
Farming at sea has its challenges. Infrastructure (基础设施)has to be sound, as do supply chains and biosecurity. But get these things right, and the ocean might just be the next great economic frontier.
1. What is the function of the first paragraph?A.To lead to the main topic. |
B.To describe a new kind of seaweed. |
C.Tell how important the food safety is. |
D.To explain the meaning of blue economy. |
A.Ocean exploration has made little progress so far. |
B.More and more people will die of hunger in the future. |
C.More work is needed for a better use of the natural resources. |
D.Sea farming will be a good way to solve the coming world food problem. |
A.Skeptical. | B.Objective. | C.Tolerant. | D.Negative. |
A.How to Protect the Marine Animals |
B.Measures to Develop Blue Economy |
C.Farming the Sea for the Future of Food |
D.Traditional Farming is Gradually Disappearing |