1 . 选用方框中的适当单词.

A. reduce   B. identity   C. blogger   D. theft   E. guidelines F. rude   G. surrounded   H. achievements   I. individual J. measures

1. The police asked him to show his ________ (身份) card before he entered the room.
2. Follow these simple ________ for a healthy diet.
3. As a ________ and writer, I spend a lot of time on the computer.
4. Police are investigating the ________ of computers from the company’s offices.
5. Even though he looks like a gentleman, he is often ________ to his wife in fact.
6. The house was ________ by high walls.
7. A teacher can’t give ________ attention to each pupil if his class is large.
8. The first group, the Romans, came in the first century. Some of their great ________ included building towns and roads.
9. It was foggy, so the driver had to ________ speed to forty kilometres an hour.
10. Relevant departments are taking effective ________ to prevent the river from being polluted.

2 . 从方框内所给短语选择最佳选项

A. is obsessed with        B. highlight the importance of          C. barrier to D. put aside             E. vary from             F. is of great value G. wander around        H. at a glance        I. at hand        J. at some point

1. She wants to ________ her pocket money for holidays.
2. A lack of education is a ________ many good jobs.
3. Weddings may be a universal celebration, but wedding traditions ________ one country to another.
4. He________ so ________ the football game that he can’t focus on what his father is saying.
5. The government has made various attempts lately to ________ protecting the environment.
6. I don’t want to ________ downtown at this time of night.
7. It is very convenient to have a dictionary ________ when reading.
8. The policeman saw ________ what had happened.

3 . 根据句意，从已给的七个单词中选出五个单词，并且用单词的适当形式填空。

benefit     extinction     apply   react     absolute     guideline     appreciate

1. It is difficult to go across the desert, but not ________ impossible.
2. The ________ of new scientific discoveries to industrial production methods usually ncreases efficiency and make big profits.
3. What was his ________ to the plan? If he couldn’t agree to it, we’d have to make a change.
4. I’d ________ it if you could take part in our event.
5. The fall in prices of costs will be ________ to the development of small businesses.

5 . 选词填空

ease,bleed,choke,delay,victim,practical,urgent,technique,ambulance,sprain

It is necessary for us to grasp some basic and     1     first aid     2     because incidents may happen in our daily life.You may see someone     3     on food or     4    ;someone may get burnt by a variety of things;someone may get a     5     ankle.In all these     6     situations,first aid should be performed without     7     before the     8     arrives.First aid can     9     the pain and discomfort of the     10     and sometimes may even save lives.

6 . 选词填空

severe, break out, blame, suspect, cast a shadow, thanks to, once and for all

As we all know, cholera is a     1     disease which once     2     over people all over the world every time it     3    . At first, people     4     it was due to bad air.     5     John Snow, the truth was found out that the polluted water was     6    . Since the cause was known, cholera was defeated     7    .

7 . 用besides，except或except for代替下列句中的apart from
1. The road was empty apart from a few cars. ________
2. Will there be anyone else we know at the party apart from Will and Janet? ________
3. You can have any one of the cakes apart from this one. ________

8 . 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.

9 . 从方框中选择恰当的单词填入句子中，注意使用其正确形式。

establish       pick out       breathe       award       strike       admire       opportunity       shelter be curious about       apart from       make preparations for       fight for       be regarded as

1. Yesterday we went to the park, where we ________ the fresh air and enjoyed ourselves.
2. The mid-exam is coming. All the students are ________ it.
3. I think they are ________ because they’re brave to put out fires and save people’s lives.
4. Beethoven ________ one of the most famous musicians in the world.
5. Children always like to ask their parents questions because they ________ everything around them.
6. In 1969, Tu Youyou ________ a team to find a cure for malaria.
7. Mo Yan ________ a Nobel Prize the Nobel Prize in literature in 2012, which made one of the Chinese people’s long-held dreams come true.
8. A terrible hurricane ________ the small town last week.
9. There will be more ________ for you to improve yourself by taking the job.
10. All of a sudden, it began to rain heavily and we hurried to seek ________.
11. ________ the cost, we need to think about how much time the job will take.
12. There were so many cars in the parking lot that I had difficulty in ________ mine.
13. Once we set a goal, we should try our best to ________ it.

10 . 选词填空

reflect on          lay eyes on          speak volumes about          go about          give rise to        breathe life into in one's own right                  through trial and error               on closer inspection               be down to

1. As is often the case, stress and tiredness often ________ a lack of concentration
2. Despite the threat of war, people ________ their business as usual.
3. His success ________ his determination and persistence.
4. My grandmother learned to use the computer ________ .
5. We welcome people who can ________ our team.
6. He proved to be an outstanding leader ________ by working hard.
7. Even since I first ________ you, I can't think about anybody else.
8. At first sight, I thought the painting was authentic (真品的), but ________ , it turned out to be just a fake.
9. Writing each day gives you time to think carefully and ________ what you want to achieve.
10. The public's continued enthusiasm about the Qingming Scroll, even after all these centuries, ________ the power of this historic piece of art.