3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The buzzwords (时髦术语) “brittle college students” have gone viral on the Internet recently among mounting concerns over     1    serious decline in the physical health of Chinese college students. The words refer to the new generation of college students generally     2     (suffer) from many physical problems. “Brittle,” which     3     (apparent) means tender and fragile (脆弱), has been used by netizens jokingly     4     (describe) how easily college students can get injured and sick.

Such comments have caused heated discussions over the declining physical     5     (fit) of contemporary college students,    6     is confirmed by the astonishing record of visits to one hospital in the city of Zhengzhou, north-central Henan Province. It is reported that Zhengzhou Central Hospital     7     (receıve) some 1,700 young people aged between 18 and 25 in its emergency department in September alone.

“These young people were mainly diagnosed (诊断) with trauma, abdominal pain, chest tightness, hyperventilation, acute alcoholism, and cholecystitis. Most cases were caused by     8     (regular) daily routine, staying up late and unhealthy diet,” said Cheng Xiaodan, deputy director of the hospital’s emergency department.

A report pointed out that unhealthy lifestyle is common     9     college students. Many participants said they had experienced health     10     (issue) such as poor skin condition, lack of sleep, and emotional problems.

4 . Laughter comes in many forms, from a polite and quiet laugh to a great hearty laugh. Scientists are now developing an AI system to recreate different laughs in proper social contexts. The team behind the laughing robot Erica said that the system could improve natural conversations between people and an AI robot. “We think that one of the important functions of conversational AI is empathy(共情),” said Dr Koji Inoue, the lead author of the research. “So we decided that one way a robot can empathize with its users is to share their laughter.”

The team have set out to teach their AI system the art of conversational laughter. They gathered training data from more than 80 daily dialogues between male subjects and the robot that was initially operated by four actresses remotely. The dialogue data was grouped into social laughs (where polite or embarrassed laughter isn’t involved) and laughter of joy. Based on the audio files, the algorithm(算法) learned the basic characteristics of social laughs, which tend to be softer, and merry laughs, with the aim of mirroring these inappropriate situations.

“Our biggest obstructor in the work was identifying the actual cases of shared laughter because as you know, most laughter is actually not shared at all,” said Inoue. “We had to carefully decide exactly which laughs we could use for our analysis and we couldn’t just assume that any laugh can be responded to. It was really not easy work.” The team said laughter could help create robots with their own distinct character although it could take more than 20 years before it would be possible to have a casual chat with a robot like we would with a friend.

“One of the things we’d keep in mind is that a laughing robot or algorithm will never be able to understand you or the meaning of laughter,” points out Prof. Sandra Wachter of the Oxford Internet Institute. “But with their development, they might get very good at tricking you into believing they understand what’s going on.”

1. Why did Inoue’s team develop the AI system?

A．To better understand human empathy.

B．To promote the social skills of robots.

C．To explore the differences between laughs.

D．To assist robots in identifying people's moods.

2. What can robot Erica probably do at present?

A．Repeat the details of the 80 dialogues

B．Distinguish people by hearing their laughs

C．Recreate a scene played by the four actresses

D．Master the features of laughs provided by data.

3. What does the underlined word “obstructor” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Potential.

B．Barrier.

C．Alternative.

D．Division.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Are AI systems going beyond human ability?

B．Can conversational AI really understand us?

C．Laughing robots are round the conner.

D．Robots become laughing masters.

5 . 词性转换
1. minor adj. 较小的；次要的；轻微的→________________n. 少数；少数民族
2. electric adj. 电的；用电的；电动的→________________adj. 与电有关的→________________n. 电
3. swell vi. (swelled, swollen) 膨胀；肿胀→________________adj. （身体部位）肿起的；肿胀的
4. bleed vi. (bled，bled)流血；失血→________________n. 流血；失血
5. desperate adj. 绝望的；孤注一掷的；非常需要的→________________adv. 绝望地；孤注一掷地→________________n. 绝望
6. practice n. & v. 练习；实践→________________adj. 切实可行的；实际的；实践的
7. tight adj. 牢固的；紧身的；绷紧的；严密的；（经济）紧张的 adv. 紧紧地；牢固地→________________adv. 紧紧地；牢固地；紧密地→________________vt. （使）变紧；（使）加紧

7 . have＋宾语＋宾语补足语
我们开始帮忙摘桃子，然后让人把它们送到农民家里。
We began to help pick peaches and then ________________ the farmers’ houses.

8 . A man was driving when he found a lady needed help. So he stopped. When he was coming up to her, she was worried _________ nobody had stopped for hours. Besides, he didn’t look safe as his appearance was so ugly and _________. He could see how scared she was, so he tried to calm her, “I am here to help you. Don’t worry. My name is Bryan Anderson.”

The car _________, so he had to crawl (爬) under the car to repair it. When the job was done, she asked how much she should   _________ him for his help. Bryan smiled, “If you really want to pay me back, the next time you see someone who needs help, _________ the person help. And think of me.”

Several days later in a small _________, the lady saw a waitress nearly eight months pregnant (怀孕的). The waitress gave her a friendly smile although she was _________ after spending the whole day on her feet. Then the lady _________ Bryan. The lady paid for her meal with a $100 bill. When the waitress got change and came back, the lady had gone. She _______ a note on the napkin (餐巾纸), “You don’t owe me __________. Somebody once helped me, just like now I’m helping you. If you really want to pay me back, don’t let this chain of __________ end.” The waitress found four more $100 bills under the napkin.

That night the waitress came home earlier, wondering how the lady could know how much she and her husband needed money when the   __________ would soon arrive. She knew her husband worried about that, so she was very __________ to tell him the news. Then she kissed him and __________, “Now everything will be all right. I love you, Bryan Anderson.”   

The help you give to others shall always get back to you, so please don’t __________ to offer a helping hand whenever someone needs help.

1.

A．so

B．if

C．as

D．though

2.

A．frightening

B．shocking

C．surprising

D．interesting

3.

A．put down

B．broke down

C．got down

D．turned down

4.

A．spend

B．cost

C．take

D．pay

5.

A．offer

B．supply

C．support

D．provide

6.

A．hospital

B．supermarket

C．church

D．restaurant

7.

A．excited

B．tired

C．upset

D．satisfied

8.

A．met

B．called

C．remembered

D．found

9.

A．left

B．wrote

C．took

D．threw

10.

A．nothing

B．anything

C．something

D．everything

11.

A．love

B．determination

C．interest

D．doubt

12.

A．trouble

B．baby

C．customer

D．bill

13.

A．proud

B．unwilling

C．glad

D．angry

14.

A．replied

B．said

C．shouted

D．sighed

15.

A．forget

B．pretend

C．try

D．mind

9 . The project ______(aim) at improving teenagers' eyesight has been carried out. (所给词的适当形式填空)

10 . After his graduation from college, he worked in a small town ________ (locate) 30 miles south of Chicago. （所给词的适当形式填空）