1 . 选词填空

architect, convert, frontier, lotus, mimic, superb

1. Hawking's theory on the origin of the universe pushed him to the ________ of the scientific field.
2. The young lady is studying classic ________, hoping to become a famous ________ .
3. I am delighted to see that your skill at table tennis is ________ .
4. It’s unnecessary to ________ anybody. Just be yourself and you are unique.
5. They want to ________ useless rail lines, and after the ________，they can be used for cycle routes.
6. The French painter, Monet, liked painting ________.

2 . 用方框内短语的适当形式填空

for instance; make assumptions; to sum up; be rude to; grow up; in reality; in secret; regard...as...

1. We thought he was serious but ________he was joking.
2. Various measures have been taken in Germany schools to fight against the coronavirus, ________, opening the windows every twenty minutes.
3. The little girl prepared a gift for her father ________, hoping to give him a surprise.
4. ________, protecting animals is of great urgency and it is vital for us to take steps to protect them.
5. I don’t understand his motive, and I don’t want to ________.
6. Meanwhile, I will ________it ________my duty to help keep our environment clean and healthy.
7. You ________your sister, for which you should make an apology to her.
8. When children ________, their ideas will be out of harmony with their parents’.

3 . 选词填空

assumed        streamed       persist     consist       deprived        stuck        conduct

1. To our astonishment, that young man shamed himself and his family by breaking codes of ________ in the community.
2. From my perspective, true education does not ________ in simply being taught facts, instead, it aims to develop students’ ability in lifelong learning.
3. The busy schedule of the newly-promoted sales manager ________ him of opportunities to have meals with his family.
4. With more and more variety shows emerging, such programs have been popular with contemporary urban youth since it was ________ online in 2017.
5. Some volunteers just ________ that what they valued and enjoyed would also be cherished by others.

4 . 选词填空

was accustomed to	Compared	for lack of	depend on	a wide variety of
ashamed	lost sight of	is back on his feet	in trouble	felt like going

1. Peter________after an operation.
2. As for you, you ought to be________of yourself.
3. It was so dark that he________everything.
4. They went to the bar because they________to have some beer.
5. He________the cold weather because he had lived there for 20 years.
6. ________with the old one, the new building looks more beautiful.
7. The young tree died________water.
8. Since you are an adult,you had better not________your parents any longer.
9. The small shop sells________goods.
10. When I was________, I always turned to her for help.

5 . Directions: Complete the following sentences by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. compliment               B. emphasis                     C. undergo                     D. obsess E. alternate                     F. perspective               G. supply                     H. issue I. suspect                     J. reverse                            K. proceed

1. He said British troops would stay on in Afghanistan for the time being, but promised increased ________ on training the Afghan military and police to take over responsibility security.
2. Searching through a variety of sources will give them a wider ________ on their subject.
3. Yet his manner made it clear that he was simply stating a fact, not flattering with a ________.
4. I think no matter what diets we follow or what slimming products we ________ ourselves with, at the end of the day there's no magic trick to shape up for the summer.
5. The wedding license bureau had told Cheryl that no one there had the power to ________ an emergency license by phone, but maybe she could try to reach a judge.
6. To survive, he says, companies must ________ a transplant of corporate DNA, and few survive the surgery.
7. A lawyer from the district attorney's office presents a case against the ________.
8. The teacher should encourage the child to ________ as far as he can, and when he is stuck, ask for help.
9. The building projects are behind schedule and construction materials in desperately short ________.
10. While Apple may face enormous competition, the company is known for taking ________ routes.

6 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

involve              thanks to              available break down              overcome              comfort

1. As long as you don’t lose heart, you’ll find a way to ________ the difficulty.
2. ________ the work of John Snow, we now know how to prevent cholera.
3. A smile can help us get through difficult situations and ________ barriers.
4. A good teacher is able to ________ her students when they are upset.
5. Mr. Leach is on holiday and is not ________ for the moment.
6. It is beneficial for teenagers to ________ themselves in social activities after school.

7 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. range       B. novel        C. interest       D. unlikely     E. benefit       F. experiencing G. available     H. necessarily     I. initiative       J. generated       K. partnership

Google gives $1M grant to Press Association to develop robot journalists

New consumers of the future could be reading stories pieced together by advanced data-analyzing robots rather than human journalists, if Google has its way.

On Thursday, the Press Association, the U.K.’s national news agency, announced that it received €706,000 from the tech giant for its Reporters and Data an Robots (RADAR)     1    .

A collaboration between the Press Association and data-driven news start-up Urbs Media, RADAR aims to set up an artificial intelligene-fueled, news service that will generate tens of thousands of news stories a month using publicly     2     data.

Everyone from big-name news organizations to hyper-local outlets and bloggers could     3     from the program. Press Association editor-in-chief Peter Clifton claimed, “this is a hugely exciting development, and we believe our     4     with Urbs Media can be a genuine game-changer for media outlets across the U. K. and Ireland.”

According to the Press Association, RADAR won’t     5     mark the end of the flesh-and-blood journalists, but will rather enable the AI to produce a volume of stories that would be impossible to match manually.

The envisioned work-flow would begin with human journalists identifying open data sets and “creating detailed story templates across a(n)     6     of topics including crime, health and employment.” The robotic reporter would then take over and scan the data, use language generation software to craft together story text and automatically locate relevant photos and video. Press Association clients would then be able to use a special distribution platform to identify news stories of     7     to their audience.

Content automation isn’t a totally     8     concept in the news industry however. AP estimated that it can free up 20 per cent of journalists’ time, allowing them to focus on more complex, qualitative tasks.

Shockingly, not all journalists are sold on the AI infiltration. A study found that journalists from leading news organizations had several reservations when shown an automatically     9     sports story. “I would never, ever, ever have written a story like that,” one BBC journalist said, while a CNN reporter thought the story was repetitive and lacked variation.

Nevertheless, it looks like AI in journalism is here to stay. At a time when many media outlets are     10     commercial pressure, RADAR will provide the news ecosystem with a cost-effective way to provide insightful local stories.

8 . 选词填空：

adapt；adopt

1. When you go to a new country, you must ________ yourself to new customs.
2. The young couple had no children of their own, so they ________ the suggestion that they should ________ an orphan. After a few months, the orphan ________ to his new life.

9 . 选词填空：although，though，as
1. ________ he worked very hard, he didn’t finish the task on time.
2. I don’t really like the author, ________ I have to admit that his books are very interesting.
3. Hot ________ it was, we had a sound sleep because we were so tired after a long journey.

10 . 选择填空：join in，join，attend，take part in
1. She will never forget the day when he ________ the Party.
2. Would you like to ________ the sports meeting to be held next week?
3. That year, I ________ a seminar where we were asked to create a project that would touch the world.
4. Come and ________ our heated discussion.