1 . Even when you have confidence in yourself, your goals will sometimes seem out of reach. When that happens, get hold of the people who
When I was younger, I
Early in my
Even now, I
| A．refer to | B．depend on | C．learn from | D．believe in |
| A．quit | B．struggled | C．regretted | D．argued |
| A．responsibilities | B．dreams | C．opportunities | D．doubts |
| A．stopped | B．admitted | C．allowed | D．considered |
| A．tracked | B．recommended | C．accompanied | D．encouraged |
| A．serious | B．possible | C．hard | D．necessary |
| A．request | B．unwillingness | C．inability | D．attempt |
| A．difficulties | B．options | C．aims | D．standards |
| A．career | B．experiment | C．business | D．recovery |
| A．foolishly | B．simply | C．wisely | D．bravely |
| A．original | B．familiar | C．typical | D．positive |
| A．looking into | B．taking down | C．dealing with | D．pointing out |
| A．introduce | B．remind | C．guarantee | D．warn |
| A．experience | B．describe | C．compare | D．limit |
| A．probably | B．fortunately | C．obviously | D．importantly |
Principles of Running
·Do the right amount.
·Keep running.
·Cool down properly.
① A warm-up gets your blood flowing and prepares your body before you exercise.
② Draw up a training plan that suits you. Make sure you are not running too much so that your heart, muscles and bones don’t get hurt.
③ A thirty-minute run will provide relief from aches or tension that you may be suffering due to stress.
④ Jog slowly for ten minutes after a long run, then walk for five minutes. Such kind of exercise relaxes your body.
⑤ There will be times when you want to give up. But hang in there and tell yourself that it will get easier with time.
| A．①④⑤ | B．②④⑤ | C．②⑤④ | D．③⑤④ |
3 . People tend to cut corners and allow trusted workmates to do their work when working as a team. Now researchers have found that the same thing happens when humans work with robots.
Dietlind Cymek at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany and her colleagues designed an experiment to test whether humans would put in less effort when they think that their personal contribution to a task won’t be noticed.
In the experiment, the researchers asked a group of 42 people to examine images of circuit boards (电路板) for errors using a computer that tracked their work. Half of them looked at boards that had already been checked by a robot, and half were told that they were the only ones responsible for quality control.
People working in partnership with the robot caught fewer errors, after they had already seen that the robot had successfully flagged lots of errors.
The researchers say such teamwork could lead to a drop in motivation if individual effort isn’t visible and warn that there could be safety risks if teams of people and robots work on safety-related tasks in the same way.
Kathleen Richardson at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, says it is fine to use robots as long as they are effective, but that they should be considered tools rather than workmates or team members. “It just strikes me that workers think when a tool can do something, they let it,” says Richardson.
This is probably down to poor management style, in which individual work isn’t recognised. “I bet you if there was an motivation behind it, and if the humans could get extra pay for spotting errors in the circuit boards, then they’d put a bit more effort into it,” she adds.
1. What is the experiment mainly about?| A．Workplace safety. | B．Management style. |
| C．Industrial innovation. | D．Working productivity. |
| A．They preferred to work individually. |
| B．They paid less attention to their work. |
| C．They were not appreciative of robots’ effort. |
| D．They worried about being replaced by robots. |
| A．Favorable. | B．Unclear. | C．Uninterested. | D．Doubtful. |
| A．Correct errors. | B．Increase work time. |
| C．Reward hard work. | D．Encourage teamwork. |
4 . Who has no regrets about things done in the past? Wouldn’t it be nice if, somehow, we could go back to change a couple of bad decisions? This sounds like science fiction.
The laws of physics prohibit traveling back in time for many reasons. If we did travel back in time and changed the course of events, we would be altering the course of history. An example often cited is the grandfather’s paradox (悖论): If your grandfather died when he was still a high school student, he wouldn’t have met your grandmother and your father and you wouldn’t exist.
Putting humans or consciousness traveling back in time aside for the moment, is there anything in science even similar? Surprisingly, yes. At the level of quantum particles (量子粒子), there is something called Wheeler’s delayed-choice experiments that show that actions in the present can influence the past. The experiments use something called the wave-particle duality (波粒二象性) of light and of matter. The fact that the physical nature of quantum objects is undetermined until it is measured. In other words, this means that a particle of light or of matter can behave either as a wave (spreading out in space) or as a particle (staying together) depending on the measuring devices. Long and ongoing discussions about the nature of quantum physics are still trying to work out what this actually means. Do our minds determine the nature of physical reality?
Should we offer food for thought for the future or the past? Unfortunately, these experiments say very little about how we could interfere with the past in events relevant to the human scale. Better to think carefully about decisions than to try to fix them backwards.
1. What’s the purpose of mentioning the paradox?| A．To show it is interesting. |
| B．To explain Wheeler’s tests. |
| C．To demonstrate time is different from what we have known. |
| D．To show it’s impossible to travel back in time. |
| A．Consciousness traveling back in time was tried in the experiments. |
| B．Different measuring devices have the same result. |
| C．More research is needed in the future. |
| D．These experiments can determine the nature of matter. |
| A．We should focus on the present. |
| B．The future food is more nutritious. |
| C．We can change the past from the experiments. |
| D．It is never too late to make up for mistakes. |
| A．Is changing the past wise? |
| B．Can we change the past? |
| C．Do our minds determine the future? |
| D．Do the laws of physics ban traveling back? |
6 . Sportsmen in the running races of the Olympics are great athletes, but even the slow runners of the running world — joggers in the park — have good health. A study out this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology finds that even 5 to 10 minutes a day of slow running is enough to extend life by several years, compared with not running at all.
The new study focused on a group of more than 55, 000 men and women aged 18 to 100. About a quarter of them were runners. Over 15 years, those who ran just 50 minutes a week or fewer at a slow speed were less likely to die from either cardiovascular (心血管的) disease or other causes, compared with those who didn’t run at all.
The study suggests relatively low efforts are necessary to benefit from jogging, but it can be better to exercise more often. “A little bit is good but a little more is probably better,” says Dr. Aaron Baggish. A 2013 study in Denmark suggested that the secret of maximum longevity is up to 2. 5 hours of running a week.
Although running can make you less likely to have cardiovascular disease, it doesn’t entirely take the risk away from you. “There is no question that the healthier you are and the more exercise you do, the longer you’ll live and the better your quality of life will be,” Dr. Baggish says. “But it doesn’t mean you’ll never get sick.”
“Many long-term runners do not run because they want to live longer,” Dr. Baggish notes. “They run because it makes them feel better every day.”
For these runners, the cost of feeling good can be injuries, so Dr. Baggish supports the value of what he calls “active rest.” His belief, not supported by any recent research, is that it’s a good idea to spend 25% of exercise time over the course of a year running at a slow speed or doing other activities like swimming or biking.
1. What does the new study mainly show us?| A．The best way to run. | B．The best time to run. |
| C．The importance of running. | D．The popularity of running. |
| A．It can result from running often. | B．It’s not completely preventable. |
| C．It’s not so serious as most people think. | D．It can be treated by some kind of exercise. |
| A．Staying active all the time. | B．Swimming more, run less. |
| C．Having a big rest after doing sports. | D．Taking a little light exercise. |
| A．Health. | B．Business. | C．Society. | D．Medicine. |
| A. man-made B. giving you pleasure C. the result of an event D. interesting and attractive E. a thing to replace another F. giving useful facts or ideas G. a speech-recognition application |
2. Please find me an alternative for the computer.
3. Television is believed to be more informative than newspapers.
4. In recent years, the artificial lake has become increasingly popular.
5. The job is so rewarding and I don’t even feel tired after a whole day’s work.
是因为在妻子、家人和朋友的不断支持下，他才最终找到了重新生活的意愿。(汉译英)
| A．discussion/dɪˈskʌʃən / victory/ˈvɪktəri/ ability/əˈbɪlɪti/ magical/ˈmædʒɪkl/ |
| B．difficulty/ˈdɪfɪkəlti/ recently/ˈriːsntli/ divide/dɪˈvaɪd/ policy/ˈpɒlɪsi/ |
| C．injury/ˈɪndʒərɪ/ correct/kəˈrekt/ enjoyable/ɪnˈdʒɔɪəbl/ accident/ˈæksɪdənt/ |
| D．describe/dɪˈskraɪb/ gather/ˈɡæðə/ attention/əˈtenʃən/ remind/rɪˈmaɪnd/ |
