2 . As China has boomed, the educational environment has improved significantly, with many great universities now available. （英译汉）

3 . 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.

4 . Fill in the blanks with the words or phrases from the box below. Change the form where necessary.

trend             commit     spot        available       purchase        identify conventional   origin       launch     identical       genuine          vary

1. Is the painting a ________ Picasso?
这幅画是毕加索的真迹吗？
2. The two pictures are similar, although not ________.
这两幅画很相似，虽然不完全相同。
3. Only five years after Steve Jobs' death, smart-phones defeated ________ PCs in sales.
仅在乔布斯去世五年后，智能手机的销售量就超过了传统的个人电脑。
4. The decision to delay the ________ stems from unfavourable weather conditions.
推迟发射的决定源于不利的天气情况。
5. Global warming is a ________ toward warmer conditions around the world.
全球变暖是指全世界变得越来越热的趋势。
6. The ________ of the word remains obscure.
该词的来源尚不清楚。
7. But sugar additives are not easy to_________ and are hard to avoid.
但是糖类添加剂不容易被识别，而且很难避开它。
8. The handbook is ________ on the Web.
这本手册互联网上有。
9. You can ________ this TV set on credit.
你可以用赊帐的方式购买这台电视机。
10. Can you ________ the difference between these two pictures?
你能不能看出这两幅画有什么不同？

5 . 英译汉
1 contrast [ˈkɒntrɑːst] v.    1    
2 imply [ɪmˈplaɪ] v.    2    
3 major [ˈmeɪdʒə(r)] adj.    3    
4 available [əˈveɪləbl] adj.    4    
5 option [ˈɒpʃn] n.    5    
6 desire [dɪˈzaɪə(r)] n.    6    
7 reduce [rɪˈdjuːs] v.    7    
8 eventually [ɪˈventʃuəli] adv.    8    
9 concerned [kənˈsɜːnd] adj.    9    
10 fund [fʌnd] v.    10    

9 . 网上提供这么多种类的物品，我们很容易以更低的价格得到我们想要的东西。
________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________, it is easy for us to get what we want at a much lower price.