“Li Na’s perseverance and pioneering courage will be recognized with the highest honor in her profession: induction (入门) into the International Tennis Hall of Fame (名人堂).”
“Ne Zha and Monkey King share a lot in common. They are brave fighters, refusing to resign themselves to destiny.”
成功的人物总有一些可贵的品质,读了以上材料,谈谈你的想法。内容包括:
1. 简述李娜(网球运动员)或者哪吒(神话人物)等身上的可贵品质;
2. 结合生活实际谈谈其中某一可贵品质的重要性。
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3 . Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008) is a science-fiction writer. His fictional HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-wrote,
Till now, the book is
Being wrong is just one problem I have with Clarke’s book. Like most future-gazing, it sees tomorrow
I love what technology is doing for the developing world, where electric lighting, washing machines and the Internet have
Mare Demarest, an Oregon-based digital thinker and author, believes technology tells us truths regardless of our nasty tendency to get distracted, to miss the moment, and to
We’re not progressing humanity or changing the world. That’s what ideas do, and machines don’t have ideas. Technology is only the
A.experiences | B.causes | C.eliminates | D.foresees |
A.coining | B.breaking | C.emphasizing | D.parroting |
A.wrong | B.technical | C.readable | D.informative |
A.use | B.sense | C.mention | D.doubt |
A.launched | B.predicted | C.discovered | D.inspected |
A.entirely | B.attentively | C.seriously | D.positively |
A.constructive | B.supervisory | C.minor | D.leading |
A.economy | B.industry | C.reason | D.reflection |
A.achieved | B.assessed | C.traced | D.aided |
A.active | B.essential | C.revolutionary | D.passive |
A.bend | B.store | C.download | D.transfer |
A.create | B.educate | C.understand | D.improve |
A.besides | B.however | C.therefore | D.otherwise |
A.multitask | B.identification | C.judgment | D.flexibility |
A.agent | B.spokesperson | C.signboard | D.illustration |
A.encouraged | B. excuse | C. featured | D. favor | E. approaches | F. defended |
G. access | H. serve | I. regional | J. celebrated | K. lengths |
When Coca-Cola was first sold in 1886, nobody thought it could be improved. Nearly a century later, in 1985, New Coke was introduced to replace the original recipe of Coke in order to rebrand the product amidst falling sales——Coke was losing customers to Pepsi, whose sweeter taste was finding
Something similar is happening with A Bite of China, a
In the first episode of Season Two, a teenager in the countryside collects honey high up in a tree. The scene is stunningly filmed, telling a moving story about the dangerous
Innovation is generally
When scientists accidentally killed
The ocean quahog, a type of deep-sea clam, was dredged (捕捞) alive from the bottom of the North Atlantic near Iceland in 2006 by researchers. They then put it in a fridge-freezer,
The discovery made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. However, by this time, it was too late for Ming the Mollusc(软体动物),
The researchers opened the ancient clam up to judge its age by counting growth rings inside. But the rings were so close together
Dr Paul Butler, from the University’s School of Ocean Sciences, said: “We got it wrong the first time and maybe we were a bit hasty publishing our findings back then. But we are absolutely certain that we’ve got the right age now.” The mollusc was born in 1499 – just seven years after Columbus discovered America and before Henry VIII had even married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon in 1509.
6 . With the pandemic under control, China’s film industry is thriving. And it’s doing so without any help from Hollywood.
The country’s box office
These massive figures prove the movie business in China is well on its way to
But, even before the Covid-19 pandemic, China’s homegrown film industry was growing and depending less and less on Hollywood movies.
As recently as 2017, films produced outside China
The first few months of 2021 suggest that
China first accepted Hollywood films into its country to boost its own film ambitions, hoping the rising
In 2012, China expanded the quota of foreign films allowed into the country to 34 per year. That agreement expired in 2017, and still hasn’t been renewed. With relations between the US and China
If the recent box-office returns are any
A.generated | B.boosted | C.guaranteed | D.posted |
A.for its sake | B.on its own | C.on the increase | D.to some extent |
A.single | B.free | C.depressed | D.overseas |
A.recovery | B.explosion | C.self-reliance | D.globalization |
A.variation | B.allowance | C.making | D.share |
A.obligatory | B.rational | C.compulsory | D.responsible |
A.consisted of | B.composed of | C.made up | D.piled up |
A.fashion | B.trend | C.practice | D.prohibition |
A.postponed | B.ceased | C.prescribed | D.disposed |
A.capability | B.competence | C.capacity | D.volume |
A.however | B.therefore | C.likewise | D.furthermore |
A.tribe | B.expectation | C.tide | D.demand |
A.on edge | B.in short supply | C.out of service | D.on the margins |
A.demonstration | B.contribution | C.indication | D.composition |
A.distinct | B.external | C.disturbing | D.promising |