1 . Every relationship has survived on apologies.
Your past. Your past might contain some mistakes which you aren’t proud of.
Being honest.
Taking me time. Let’s all agree that we need some time alone to figure out our life. Or many people prefer to be alone after a long day just to go through their day and think of times they are thankful for.
| A．Being yourself. |
| B．Apologizing for what you are. |
| C．Don’t feel bad about not lying. |
| D．Always don't say sorry for what makes you happy. |
| E．You need to let them go, because it’s your life and that was your decision. |
| F．Sometimes besides listening to people, we really need to relax and listen to our own thoughts. |
| G．After all, we are humans and take stupid decisions and do dumb things which annoy (使烦恼) the other person. |
2 . Joseph Frederick Engelberger, the father of robotics, was born on July 26, 1925, in Brooklyn. He received his B. S. in physics in 1946, and M. S. in Electric Engineering in 1949 from Columbia University. He worked as an engineer with Manning, Maxwell and Moore, and then he met George Devol at a party in 1956, two years after Devol had designed and patented an industrial robotic arm. However, Manning, Maxwell and Moore was sold and Engelberger’s division was closed that year.
Finding himself jobless but with a business partner and an idea, Engelberger co-founded Unimation with Devol, creating the world’s first robotics company. And the introduction of robotics to the manufacturing process effectively transformed the automotive industry. Over the next two decades, the Japanese took the lead by investing heavily in robots to replace people performing certain tasks. In Japan, Engelberger was widely described as a key player in the post-war ascendancy (支配地位，优势) of Japanese manufacturing quality and efficiency.
After observing the help his aging parents needed, Engelberger saw the robotics automation could be used in the medical field. In 1984, Engelberger founded Transitions Research Corporation (TRC). He introduced the HelpMate and hoped to kick-start a new industry for in-home robots, but he started in 1988 by selling his first HelpMate to Danbury Hospital. The medical robot was successful enough that the hospital ended up purchasing another, and within a decade, well over 100 hospitals worldwide operated HelpMates.
After Engelberger was awarded the Japan Prize in 1997, Senator Joseph Lieberman delivered a speech in the U. S. Senate in praise and recognition of the inventor, calling the HelpMate an example that shows the federal investment in science and technology for patients can lead to new products that employ Americans and make for a better quality of life.
Engelberger liked working. So even after he got into his 80s, he remained active in the promotion and development of robots for use in elder care. He died on December 1, 2015, in Newtown, a little more than four months after celebrating his 90th birthday.
1. Which statement about Engelberger may the author agree with?| A．He was most popular among the Japanese. |
| B．He finished his higher education in his twenties. |
| C．He had great admiration for Devol as an inventor. |
| D．He and Devol invented the first robotic arm together. |
| A．His desire to gain wide acceptance. |
| B．The success of founding Unimation. |
| C．The challenge from other companies. |
| D．His parents’ demanding aid from others. |
| A．Concerned. | B．Doubtful. | C．Positive. | D．Opposed. |
| A．The home of robots — Unimation |
| B．The father of robotics — Engelberger |
| C．The strong personality Engelberger had |
| D．The great contribution Engelberger made to medicine |
3 . Following in the footsteps of Morgan Spurlock, who ate only McDonald’s food for one month in the film Super Size Me, an Australian man has undergone a sugar-heavy diet for 60 days to explore sugar’s effect on his health.
Within three weeks, the formerly healthy Gameau became moody and sluggish (迟钝的). A doctor gave him the shocking diagnosis: He was beginning to develop fatty liver disease. According to the Mayo Clinic, the most severe outcome for fatty liver disease is liver failure.
Gameau reportedly consumed 40 teaspoons of sugar per day, or slightly more than the average teenager worldwide. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), the average American consumes 20 teaspoons of sugar daily. The AHA’s daily recommendations for sugar consumption are 6 teaspoons for women and 9 teaspoons for men.
Doctors called Gameau’s mental functioning “unstable”, and the father-to-be reportedly put on nearly four inches of visceral (内脏的) fat around his waist. He was on the fast track to obesity. Gameau said his diet left him feeling hungry, no matter how much he ate. His final meal, which consisted of a juice, a jam sandwich, a bar, and a handful of other snacks, is similar to an ordinary child’s school lunchbox. Gameau wrote on his blog. “The last meal is for all the people out there, especially parents, who are led to believe they are doing the right and healthy thing for their children. They are making an effort, yet they are horribly cheated by the lack of integrity in marketing and packaging strategies.”
Gameau told News.com.au that the experiment’s findings don’t suggest a need to completely cut sugar, but rather a need for more awareness about how much sugar has been added to healthy food.
1. What can we learn about Gameau from Paragraph 2?| A．He became mentally unstable after trying the diet. |
| B．He had complicated personality before he tried the diet. |
| C．He developed liver failure in the end because of the diet. |
| D．He knew the harm of the diet well at the very beginning. |
| A．Men usually consume more sugar than women. |
| B．Teenagers worldwide consume too much sugar. |
| C．Americans consume the most sugar in the world. |
| D．Adults should consume more sugar than teenagers do. |
| A．school children often feel hungry at school |
| B．parents know very well what their children need to eat |
| C．schools attach great importance to children’s diet |
| D．school children aren’t eating healthily at school |
| A．Observation. | B．Trust. | C．Honesty. | D．Patience. |
4 . Children love playing games. That is a well-known fact. Kids learn how to play games at a very early age, and once they find a game they love, they can play for hours and hours on end. In fact, kids’ games are so popular that there is an entire industry devoted to designing and selling them. There seems to be a fun game for kids for every occasion. Christmas and birthdays are often celebrated with the family tradition of gifting a new game.
Old games handed down from generation to generation include such favorites such as hopscotch, red rover, London Bridge and duck-duck-goose; they are always big hits and still played at many schools during recreation time.
In recent years, though, Internet games and gaming systems seem to have taken the kids’ world by storm. Kids’ online games have quickly become a very popular way to pass the time with small children and teens alike. Online games are a great way to have fun, and they can be quite educational as well. Many online games created for specific age groups encourage grade appropriate development and educational skills.
Hundreds of Internet sites offer fun and educational games for kids. Some games need them to use brains, while others involve hands and feet. Many of these sites are created by big names, such as National Geographic, which we can trust. They offer free games that parents know are appropriate for kids. Parents are encouraged to go online and research online games appropriate for their kids’ age before allowing their kids to play these games. Parents want to have the ability to set or monitor their kids’ play time, which is a problem National Geographic is working to solve.
With so many options to choose from, parents and children will find it easy to find fun games and activities on the Internet. And nowadays, being able to use a computer is a very important skill for your little one to learn, so playing on the computer is definitely both educational and fun. Your child is sure to learn new skills about any subject with the right, trusted website.
1. The industry of kids’ games is prosperous probably because ______.| A．there are all kinds of games for children |
| B．children are mostly crazy about games |
| C．people would like to play games together |
| D．parents love to buy gifts for their child |
| A．popular and practical | B．complicated and expensive |
| C．similar and educational | D．funny and instructive |
| A．The news is updated every day. |
| B．There is a large amount of information. |
| C．The games are good for kids’ mental and physical health. |
| D．It can help parents to control kids’ play time. |
| A．supportive | B．objective | C．negative | D．pessimistic |
5 . The Swiss have always had a comfortable relationship with their mountains. But no time in a year seems to show that special connection quite like the beginning of summer. That’s when conservationists(环境保护者) make the difficult journey up those towering heights while bearing large white blankets.
The grand plan? To cover critical sections of the Rhone Glacier - six square miles of ice that is counted as the country’s oldest and most essential glacier v in the UV-resistant (防紫外线的)blankets. While it may seem a gentle gesture, like a mother taking care of a child for the night, the idea isn’t to keep the glacier warm. It’s actually the opposite. The blankets are designed to deflect (使偏斜)the sun’s light, covering the huge glacier up like a freezer bag in the hope of protecting it from the strong heat of the summer sun. And these days, the world’s glaciers need all the help they can get. With the planet getting warmer every year, glaciers have been melting at a rapid rate.
In Switzerland, climate change has increased the Rhone Glacier’s typical summer melt which feeds Europe’s famous Rhône River. As a result, more and more people have taken up protecting the glaciers with blankets. By covering approximately six acres of the glaciers, the blankets, Volken explains, have reduced the ice melt by as much as 70 percent. But it has made the slope (斜坡)we’re on only slightly less slippery. And unless people — the main culprits in climate change — make fundamental changes to address the bigger picture, there won’t be enough blankets in the world to ward off the disastrous consequences of rising sea levels.
And those dreamy white blankets covering the Rhône Glacier? “It will slow things down for a year or two,” Jean-Pierre Guignard, who visited the glacier decades ago when it was much bigger, tells Metro, a British newspaper. “But one day people will have to take away the blankets because the ice underneath will be gone.”
1. Why do conservationists climb up the mountains in early summer?| A．To keep the glaciers warm enough. |
| B．To do some research on the glaciers. |
| C．To appreciate the beauty of the glaciers. |
| D．To stop the glaciers from melting too fast. |
| A．have played a great role in protecting the glaciers |
| B．are in great need during summer in Switzerland |
| C．can help protect the glaciers in the long run |
| D．will probably cause sea levels to rise |
| A．Researchers. | B．Monitors. | C．Offenders. | D．Protectors. |
| A．Contradictory. | B．Negative. | C．Uncertain | D．Optimistic. |
6 . Reviewing photos fresh from the printer and discussing new ideas in the meeting room, I express my creative side by translating real-world trends and topics into the print in the SHSID, the school magazine of Shanghai High School International Division.
I was first interested in visuals and design because of their power to communicate ideas. Throughout my three and a half years in the design department of the SHSID, I’ve faced the ongoing challenge of translating ideas into visuals that are not only appealing, but also informative.
In the early days of my participation as a freshman designer, every issue of the magazine came with frustration from struggling over the difficulties of Photoshop to seeing my designs changed completely by the editors working above me. However, after constant experiments and many long months of practicing, I finally started to understand the key elements of the position. Two years later, I was offered the job of creative director.
The newly earned position came with unique challenges. Unlike a normal art piece or design, spread, designing a bimonthly (双月刊), 52-page magazine is really challenging. The finished product must contain not only my ideas, but also those of other department directors and the 20 members of my team. Through waves of differing opinions over the years, I’ve learned much about negotiation, leadership, and compromise.
Applying these lessons still produces a sense of accomplishment: the feeling of joy as repostsof our video projects fill everyone’s news feeds; the satisfaction as fellow designers come up with ideas of inspiration; the excitement whenever others offer the magazine praise. These moments make the long nights of frozen computer screens and staying up late completely worth it.
By the September/October 2017 issue, the magazine had achieved all that I’d hoped for. Through authentic and catching photo spreads, illustrations (插画) and articles, we’ve done everything from communicating ideas on shifting pop culture identity to building a greater appreciation for Chinese culture in our school community.
1. What does the author do now?| A．A director. | B．An editor. | C．A photographer. | D．A designer. |
| A．He couldn’t use some software well. |
| B．He couldn’t stand others changing his design. |
| C．He didn’t do many experiments and practice. |
| D．He didn’t get the key factors of his position. |
| A．negotiate with other department directors |
| B．combine his ideas with other directors |
| C．compromise on the ideas |
| D．widely cooperate with others |
| A．Annoyed. | B．Confused. | C．Satisfied. | D．Inspired. |
7 . The music industry is highly competitive. It requires you to improve your musical skills continuously for a higher level of artistry.
Music marketing strategies involve one or more marketing techniques. Examples include giving free promotional (促销的) singles, putting advertisements on different media, and getting email addresses at concerts so audience members can get updates about the artist.
In many cases, music marketing strategies are limited by the artist’s funds. Many beginning artists don’t have the money to promote their work heavily and have to rely on techniques that are free or low-cost.
| A．The artist already has a product ready to go |
| B．Music marketing strategies differ from regular ones |
| C．Musical talent alone, however, is not necessarily enough |
| D．No two musicians have to use the same techniques when marketing |
| E．An artist doesn’t need to promote all of his/her songs at the same time |
| F．That’s why most beginning artists dream of being “discovered” by an agency |
| G．Technology makes it cheaper and easier for artists to promote their work themselves |
8 . While driving home after work, Jane Hodgson noticed a car pulled over at the side of the road and a crowd beginning to gather around someone who was lying on the ground.
Jane, who had completed a first aid at work course, pulled over to see if she could offer any help — and it turned out to be lucky for the young injured girl that she did.
Describing the scene she came across, Jane says: “The onlookers were ashen-faced and looking lost. They were so shocked that they hadn’t even thought to call for an ambulance yet.”
After speaking to the emergency services, Jane started finding out what had happened and what injuries the young girl called Jenny had. The girl had been hit by a car and gone over the handlebars of her bike, landing on her head and shoulder. Her shoulder and arm were twisted (扭曲) underneath her.
“She hadn’t been wearing a helmet (头盔) when she got knocked down, and I thought that she should not be moved as I couldn’t be sure about a spinal injury (脊椎损伤), but after looking her over and checking the circulation in her injured arm I did feel fairly confident that she had escaped relatively unhurt.
“As we were waiting for an ambulance, the amount of pain the girl was in was increasing. To distract (分散注意力) her and minimize the risk of her going into shock I kept her talking. She held my hand tightly when the pain got too much and this helped. I told her I could handle it — we laughed about that,” describes Jane.
Later, a doctor from the local hospital’s ICU stopped at the scene too. The ICU doctor decided that Jenny should lie on her back, making her much more comfortable until the emergency services arrived.
Thinking back, Jane says: “For me, knowing that in a small way I helped that girl through what was a frightening experience is all the reward I need. I felt great to know I’d made a difference and I’d do it again.”
1. We can learn from the text that Jane Hodgson _____.| A．is an ICU doctor | B．is a first⁃aid trainer |
| C．works in a local hospital | D．has learned some first aid |
| A．Jenny had a spinal injury |
| B．Jenny didn’t have serious injuries |
| C．Jenny couldn’t remember what had happened |
| D．Jenny lost her helmet when she was knocked down |
| A．Jenny refused to talk | B．Jenny went into shock |
| C．Jane was a little impatient | D．Jane kept giving Jenny confidence |
| A．Strict but caring. | B．Tough and generous. |
| C．Proud but determined. | D．Warm-hearted and helpful. |
9 . Mass communication is a very broad field which includes advertising, mass promotion, political campaigns, public relations, mass education and even the way you interact with other people. It covers just about everything you do in your daily life. Some characteristics of mass communication are: communication, information overload, group effort and feedback. There are some more that are less often mentioned but are just as important as the ones that have been listed above.
The most basic feature of communication is interaction. Interaction takes the form of communication where you can interpret what someone is trying to say. For example, when a person says “How are you?” and you respond in a loud voice or in a concerned manner, it’s considered interaction.
Another characteristic of mass communication that you’ll come across is a large number of receivers. When communicating with a group of people, it is important to keep in mind that each receiver will bring different characteristics to the table when communicating. Different receivers will take up different topics and bring a different set of characteristics to the table. In some cases, you will need to communicate with many different types of receiver in order for your communication ideas to be fully expressed and taken into full effect. You should therefore consider the characteristics of your receivers when planning your communication strategies.
New media is also impacting communication. Each type of new medium has diverse different ways in which it can deliver messages. You can make use of several types of communication in many cases and reach a wide range of target audiences. For example, you can use the Internet in order to communicate with your audience. As a result, the amount of information also in turn becomes too much for the human mind to process in a timely and effective manner. This overload is not only unsound, but it also tends to make people impatient, which finally takes the form of arguments and other types of exchanges that are based on facts, assumptions or personal experiences. However, although you may have to deal with some constraints, the Internet is still a very powerful tool that should not be ignored.
1. What role does the example given by the author in the second paragraph play?| A．Explain the importance of politeness. |
| B．Explain the concept of interaction. |
| C．Explain the characteristics of communication. |
| D．Explain what body language is. |
| A．Because communicators have many different characteristics on the dinner table. |
| B．So that your ideas can be accurately expressed and play a role. |
| C．In order to better improve your communication strategy. |
| D．Because the receivers have different views on different topics. |
| A．Because there are too many types of communication. |
| B．Because people have different experiences. |
| C．Because the new media is not perfect. |
| D．Because overloaded information is boring. |
| A．Uncaring. | B．Indifferent. |
| C．Objective. | D．Subjective. |
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1. From Advertisement 1, we can suppose _____.| A．gas and water bills are included in the rent | B．the flats have furniture in them |
| C．the flats are far from Indiana University | D．cats and dogs are not permitted in the flats |
| A．see the flats on Monday or Saturday |
| B．call for an appointment if they want to see the flats from nine to five Monday through Saturday |
| C．call for an appointment if they want to see the flats on Sunday or in the evening |
| D．see the flats before five o’clock during weekdays |
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| C．the family you have chosen | D．your own parents |
