| A．grow | B．appear | C．become | D．stay |
2 . James swept the paintbrush across his canvas(画布)．“Yes,” he thought. “It’s almost finished.” James had been busily working for the past week to replicate the photograph that hung on the wall behind Mr. Edgar’s desk of a Spanish courtyard. Mr. Edgar had spoken to James’s class frequently about the enjoyment he felt while in his twenties spending hours in that courtyard painting the people of Barcelona.
Mr. Edgar interrupted the silence with an announcement: “The deadline to enter for the Art Competition is tomorrow, so line up your canvases over here.”
Rushing into action, the class began rapidly moving canvases across the room. James, however, even didn’t lift his paintbrush. “I haven’t finished; I need more time,” he begged. “That’s what Michelangelo said,” Mr. Edgar joked. “Never enough time—it’s the artist’s constant problem. However, deadlines are deadlines.” “This painting must be perfect, whether it’s a masterpiece or not,” said James.
Certainly he wanted to win “Best in Show” again, but it was essential that the painting carried James’s message of gratitude to his art teacher because he had given James confidence and inspired him to perfect his talent.
After the art class, James passed the science lab and saw Mrs. Damon. She greeted James and inquired, “Are you ready for our field trip?” James didn’t respond, which caused Mrs. Damon to ask, “James, is something bothering you?”
James answered, “The art competition deadline is today. Everybody thinks my painting is great, but I know that it’s incomplete. I need more time to perfect my work.”
“Time can create dilemmas, James. Figuring out where to find time is the trick.” Mrs. Damon pointed toward the quotation from Albert Einstein hanging on the wall: “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” The bell rang, and the room was suddenly crowded with students impatiently ready for the field trip.
Throughout the bus ride, James thought about his dilemma. “Should I settle for a painting good enough to win or create a painting great enough for Mr. Edgar? What’s more important? Pleasing myself or pleasing Mr. Edgar?”
When the students stepped off the bus, James’s eyes widened in surprise. Next to the monument stood a tall thin cactus(仙人掌)．On the top was a lone white flower.
“It lives about twenty years before blooming，” Mrs. Damon explained. “You are witnessing the only flower it will ever have.” She paused. “What do you think Einstein would have said about that?”
When no one responded readily, Mrs. Damon answered her own question. “Einstein might have said that time is well spent if you use it for something that matters. So the twenty years the cactus needed to produce the flower was a meaningful use of time—for the cactus.”
Just then, a tiny bird stopped on the cactus for a few seconds before flying off. “What do you think matters for a bird？” Mrs. Damon questioned.
Suddenly, the answer to his problem seemed clear: “It depends on what matters most to you.” James answered the question aloud, “What matters for the bird isn’t the same as what matters for the cactus. I mean, the bird is tiny compared to the giant cactus. Additionally, the bird’s entire life is only a moment in the lifespan of the cactus. While the bird has to move quickly from place to place to grow, the cactus must sit and wait.” Mrs. Damon replied, “Very good observation.”
During the ride back to school, Mrs. Damon asked, “So, James, what did you learn today？” James smiled broadly at Mrs. Damon. “Learn? Let me see. Was Einstein the one who said, ‘Better late than never’?” Mrs. Damon smiled back, “No, but I suppose you’ve decided what matters the most for you.”
1. Which of the following is closest to the meaning of the underlined word “replicate”?| A．create | B．copy |
| C．improve | D．imagine |
| A．he wanted to win the competition again |
| B．many of his teachers expected him to win |
| C．the contest was a requirement of his art class |
| D．many of his classmates were entering for the contest |
| A．think on their own |
| B．attend more class trips |
| C．conduct scientific experiments |
| D．study a famous scientist |
| A．Both wondered whether the product was worth all of the effort. |
| B．Both pursued unrealistic goals that were completely unreachable. |
| C．Both struggled to produce the best product with limited time. |
| D．Both suspected the importance of making an independent decision. |
| A．Getting involved in school activities is important. |
| B．Learning about artistic techniques is essential. |
| C．Determining the importance of something differs according to each individual. |
| D．Completing school projects on time is important for personal success. |
| A．James decided to withdraw his painting from the contest. |
| B．James would finally win the contest with his perfect painting. |
| C．James would still suffer from the dilemma for a long time. |
| D．James would wait for his teachers to give him more time. |
3 . Lights tend to lure(引诱) large numbers of outdoor insects at night. There’s even an old saying that describes this irresistible attraction: like a moth to a flame. But when it comes to attracting insects, not all lights are equal. Which ones are most alluring can be traced to the wavelengths that they give off. Different wavelengths mean different colors of light.
People designing bugzappers(灭虫灯) will want lights that are the most attractive to insects. But homeowners looking for a porch light or who want to protect their plants will want just the opposite, says Michael Justice. He’s a scientist in Atlanta, Georgia, who took part in the test.
Justice and his colleagues carried out a simple experiment, in which the researchers tested some types of light bulbs. One was the oldfashioned incandescent lamp(白炽灯) that is largely out of date in industrial nations. These bulbs heat up a small wire until it glows(发光)，giving off a broad range of wavelengths. The second type was a fluorescent bulb(荧光灯)．It contains a gas that gives off light in only a narrow range of wavelengths. The halogen light(卤素灯) that they tested takes its name from the type of gases and other materials inside it. These bulbs produce a pattern of wavelengths similar to that of the incandescent bulb. The team also tested a type of bulbs whose glow comes from lightemitting diodes, or LEDs.
The team then compared these lights to the socalled “bug light”. This yellow bulb’s golden light is supposedly harder for some insects to see than bluer or whiter light. These bulbs also advertise the fact that they won’t draw bugs to your house.
The team conducted the test during the summer. They used only one type of bulb each night. At sundown, they put out the test equipment and turned on its light. At dawn the next day they collected any insects that had been drawn to the light and trapped. On nights between April 26 and September 28, they collected more than 8,600 insects and 259 spiders. It’s not clear if the spiders were attracted to the lights or if they were attracted to the insects as a food source, the researchers say.
The total number of hours spent testing each bulb varied slightly, due to the weather and other factors. So the team calculated how many insects of each type were attracted during each hour of test time. Overall, the white incandescent light brought in the largest number of insects, about 8.2 per hour. The LED light bulb attracted 4.5 insects per hour. Indeed, it lured even fewer insects than the yellow bug light.
1. What decides a light’s ability to lure insects most?| A．The brightness of the light. |
| B．The duration of the light. |
| C．The location of the light. |
| D．The color of the light. |
| A．being the brightest |
| B．killing the most insects |
| C．having the longest wavelengths |
| D．being the least attractive to insects |
| A．How some major bulbs function. |
| B．Types of light bulbs people mainly use. |
| C．Types of light bulbs used in Justice’s experiment. |
| D．How Justice and his colleagues did the experiment. |
| A．A fluorescent bulb. |
| B．An incandescent bulb. |
| C．A halogen light bulb. |
| D．A LED light bulb. |
4 . Robots make me nervous—especially the ones which seem to think for themselves.I was embarrassed to admit this till I heard that Bill Gates，the founder of Microsoft，felt the same way.
Gates said in an interview with the social networking and news website Reddit：“I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence.First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent.That should be positive if we manage well.A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern.”
Well，maybe I don’t have to worry about my computer and kitchen equipment yet.After I use them I can always pull the plug.But in the future，machines might find a way to prevent us from switching them off.There’s a terrible thought!
Maybe the problem with computers too clever for us is not that they are evil like some we’ve seen in scifi movies.What could put us in danger is that they might be too efficient.That’s what philosopher Nick Bostrom from Oxford University believes.He says that machines are indifferent to humans and in pursuit of their own goals，the destruction of people might be just additional damage.Bostrom gives us an example：A machine which might have as its only goal to produce as many paperclips as possible might look at human bodies as extra material for paperclips and go after you.Because it is，well，a machine，it would not take pity on you.
It’s a good thing that American writer Isaac Asimov thought about how far robots can go and left us his three rules of robotics.He states that a robot may not hurt a human being or allow the human being to come to harm.
I’m glad my machines at home are “dumb”．All my cleaner wants to take over is the carpet in my living room.Let’s hope they don’t create an appliance which wants to take over the world!
1. The author quoted Bill Gates’ words in Paragraph 2 in order to make the text .| A．betterknown | B．more persuasive |
| C．betterorganized | D．more interesting |
| A．it is much cleverer than us |
| B．it would take over the world |
| C．it would see us just as material |
| D．it has the strong feeling of destroying us |
| A．Optimistic. | B．Sympathetic. |
| C．Disappointed. | D．Regretful. |
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1. A student has to pay at least ________ to see the film “The Legend of Kung Fu”．| A．140 | B．200 |
| C．216 | D．280 |
| A．call 65060838 |
| B．fax 67140497 |
| C．visit www.gangesrestaurant.com |
| D．go to No.66 Gulong Road，Zhangshanying Town |
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| A．Thanks a lot | B．It’s my pleasure |
| C．With pleasure | D．Not really |
| A．had learned | B．has learned |
| C．was learning | D．would learn |
| A．instructed | B．signalled |
| C．urged | D．declared |
| A．so that | B．in that |
| C．even if | D．as if |
| A．in honor of | B．in support of |
| C．in respect of | D．in favor of |
