1. Where does the man work?
| A．In a hospital. | B．On a plane. | C．In a restaurant. |
| A．Tiring. | B．Well－paid. | C．Disappointing. |
| A．Their train tickets. | B．The driving habit. | C．Traffic jams. |
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删除: 把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉。
修改: 在错的词下划一横线， 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意: 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
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Last year, Zhang Pingyu paid visit to London. Worried about the time available, Zhang Pingyu had made a list of the site she wanted to see. It was the Tower which she visited first. Fancy! This solid stone, square tower had been remained standing for one thousand years. Many new buildings had expanded around it. Therefore, it was still part of a royal palace and prison combined. There followed St Paul’s Cathedral built after the terrible fire of London in 1666. It looked splendidly when first built. Westminster Abbey, too, was very interesting. Then just as he came out of the abbey, Pingyu heard the famous sound of the clock Big Ben, ring out the hour.
The next day Pingyu was leaving London to Windsor Castle. “Perhaps I will see the Queen？” she wondered as she fall asleep.
4 . March1，2019
Dear Residents
RE. NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION-SHORELINE EROSION PROTECTION
Sheet Pile Wall，Rip Rap Protection(抛石护岸) and Spot Repair on SA SU Road between Church and Jimmy Road, Tsawout First Nation. Our File: CPMS 6849
Beginning April 1, 2019, our community, Tsawout First Nation, will be beginning work on the Shoreline Erosion(侵蚀)Protection project along SA SU Road between Church and Jimmy Road. Workers employed by Donn Mann Excavating and Tsawout First Nation Public Works Department will be onsite working from 7: 00 am until 5: 00 pm daily Monday to Friday until September 30，2019.
PROJECT RELATED INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Traffic Delays -In order to safely and efficiently complete this construction item, there will be some lane(车道)restrictions. Car drivers must follow the polices orders, slow down the speed，and pass the construction area extremely cautiously. The construction item may cause traffic delays. We will make every effort to minimize any potential inconvenience and provide you with the latest notice when disruptions( 中断)must occur. Police and emergency vehicle access will be maintained at all times.
Truck Traffic -At times you will notice increased truck traffic in the construction area. Please be aware and use extra caution while driving
Vibration -You may experience some vibration at home during the construction. The shaky motion happens due to the work being done. We recommend that you remove or secure objects on shelves and walls.
This construction item is part of the Tsawout First Nation Shoreline Erosion Protection project that will be beginning in April 2019 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2019. Please see upcoming newsletters and notices for further updates.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation
Sincerely
Rob Mortin
Tsawout First Nation
1. How long will the construction item last?| A．bout 4 months. | B．About 5 months. | C．About 6 months. | D．About 7 months. |
| A．Car drivers shall pass through the construction area with great care |
| B．Only emergency vehicles can pass through the construction area |
| C．No vehicle will be allowed to pass through the construction area |
| D．All vehicles shall be checked before entering the construction area. |
| A．avoid driving their vehicles in the rush-hours |
| B．make sure that their walls are in good condition |
| C．update upcoming newsletters and notices daily |
| D．have their photo frames taken down from the walls |
5 . When a driver slams on the brakes to avoid hitting a pedestrian crossing the road illegally, she is making a moral decision that shifts risk from the pedestrian to the people in the car. Self-driving cars might soon have to make such ethical (道德的)judgments on their own — but settling on a universal moral code for the vehicles could be a tough task, suggests a survey.
The largest ever survey of machine ethics, called the Moral Machine, laid out 13 possible situations in which someone’s death was unavoidable. Respondents were asked to choose who to spare in situations that involved a mix of variables: young or old, rich or poor, more people or fewer. Within 18 months, the online quiz had recorded 40 million decisions made by people from 233 countries and territories.
When the researchers analysed these answers, they found that the nations could be divided into three groups. One contains North America and several European nations where Christianity has been the dominant (占支配地位的)religion; another includes countries such as Japan, Indonesia and Pakistan, with strong Confucian or Islamic traditions. A third group consists of countries in Central and South America, such as Colombia and Brazil. The first group showed a stronger preference for sacrificing older lives to save younger ones than did the second group, for example.
The researchers also identified relationships between social and economic factors in a country. They found that people from relatively wealthy countries with strong institutions, such as Finland and Japan, more often chose to hit people who stepped into traffic illegally than did respondents in nations with weaker institutions, such as Nigeria or Pakistan.
People rarely face such moral dilemmas, and some cities question whether the possible situations posed in the online quiz are relevant to the ethical and practical questions surrounding driverless cars. But the researchers argue that the findings reveal cultural differences that governments and makers of self-driving cars must take into account if they want the vehicles to gain public acceptance.
At least Barbara Wege, who heads a group working on autonomous-vehicle ethics at Audi in Ingolstadt, Germany, says such studies are valuable. Wege argues that self-driving cars would cause fewer accidents, proportionally, than human drivers do each year—but that people might focus more on events involving robots.
Surveys such as the Moral Machine can help to begin public discussions about these unavoidable accidents that might develop trust. “We need to come up with a social consensus,” she says, “about which risks we are willing to take.”
1. Why is it difficult to set universal moral rules for programming self-driving cars?| A．Social values always change with the times. |
| B．Moral choices vary between different cultures. |
| C．Drivers have a preference for sacrificing the weak. |
| D．Car makers are faced with decisions of life or death. |
| A．using a massive online quiz worldwide |
| B．comparing different cultures and customs |
| C．dividing the respondents into three groups |
| D．performing a series of controlled experiments |
| A．Nigeria | B．Colombia |
| C．Finland | D．Indonesia |
| A．Self-driving cars will greatly improve the traffic environment |
| B．Accidents caused by self-driving cars might receive more attention |
| C．Problems involving self-driving cars might shake the public trust in society |
| D．Car makers needn’t take the risk of solving self-driving car ethical dilemmas |
6 . As the weather costs you a loss on trains and flights, we look at your rights.
Cancelled trains
On a single ticket, a passenger will usually receive 25% of the fare if the train is delayed by 15 minutes. If the delay reaches 30 minutes, the compensation（补偿金）rises to 50%, and if it’s over an hour you should be able to reclaim the whole cost. Clear arrangements vary according to train operators（运营商）.
If you were due to travel, to say Aberdeen from London, your train is cancelled and you decide not to travel, you can get a full compensation. If you had a non-cancelable ticket with one operator, and failed to make that train because the connecting train was delayed, you can take the next available train.
Flights
If your flight is cancelled because of the snow you have the right to s full compensation of the ticket, or to be rerouted home on a later flight.
But you will have no right to get a delay or cancellation compensation under EU rules, because the snow is an extraordinary circumstance beyond the airline’s control. If you don’t take the compensation and choose to be rerouted, and it means you are stuck at the airport overnight, it’s the airline’s duty to pay for a reasonably priced hotel room and meals.
The airline has to reroute you at the earliest opportunity, or at the passenger’s free time, you are supposed to take the availability of seats.
If you choose to be rerouted or if your departure is delayed by more than two hours, airlines also have to provide assistance such as food. The airlines keep this quiet and getting the money out of the low-cost operators can be a hard job. Keep evidence of cancellations, all receipts, and use your mobile to video any offer to pay by airline staff.
1. What is your compensation determined by when your trains are delayed due to bad weather?| A．The operator. |
| B．The price of the ticket. |
| C．The length of delay time. |
| D．The class of the service and the price of the ticket. |
| A．One. | B．Two. |
| C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．By keeping the evidence and videoing any offer to pay. |
| B．At the earliest opportunity, or the passenger’s free time. |
| C．By preventing the airlines from keeping their duty quiet. |
| D．By arguing reasonably with the staff of the airlines offering you the flight. |
7 . All China’s major cities have good transport
Buses in Chinese towns are always
A taxi is often
The minibus is a compromise between the
Tour buses, normally
8 . I’m learning to drive in Switzerland. I think it will be a good idea to learn now because I have plenty of free time and am earning a little money to pay for lessons. I never learnt when I lived in the UK, so luckily driving on the “wrong” side isn’t a problem.
However, there are a lot of rules to remember. When you see a road to your right and there are no white lines on the ground, the cars to your right have the right to go before your car and you have to stop for them. In practice, lots of people forget this and cars either wait for each other while both drivers try to remember what to do, or beep (鸣喇叭) at each other if both try to go at the same time!
When you drive round a roundabout, you should check all your mirrors. To remember how to do this, I often count them aloud—one, two, three—then a second glance at your blind spot when you’re in the roundabout. One friend came driving with me and after about an hour asked why on earth I was counting. He had passed his test so long ago, he couldn’t remember ever having to check three mirrors!
Driving still seems scary to me so I drive quite slowly. I also don’t know the countryside roads very well and don’t know what’s coming up round the comer or over the next hill. I drive slowly so I feel safe, but my driving instructor tells me to speed up or cars will bump into me from behind or try to overtake somewhere dangerous. So driving slowly is just as dangerous as driving fast!
I’m not a very practical person so learning to drive has been a challenge. I don’t have a lot of confidence and find it quite demotivating to do something that doesn’t come naturally to me. To make driving more fun and interesting, I learn in Swiss German, so my instructor gives me instructions in Swiss. This way I’ve tricked myself into enjoying driving and hopefully will pass the test!
1. What can be inferred from the first paragraph?| A．It isn’t a proper time for the author to take driving lessons now. |
| B．Driving on the “wrong side” doesn’t influence the author.. |
| C．The author was too poor to pay for driving lessons in Switzerland. |
| D．It is easy for the author to get confused about the driving rules in Switzerland. |
| A．remind himself to check the mirrors | B．speed up |
| C．overtake somewhere dangerous | D．make driving more interesting |
| A．Encouraging. | B．Amazing. |
| C．Exciting. | D．Discouraging. |
| A．Driving speed. |
| B．Strict driving instructors. |
| C．Anecdotes of my driving experience. |
| D．Complicated driving rules in Switzerland. |
1.时间：20天(2018年2月1日-2018年2月20日）；
2.活动：参观北京的一些知名旅游景点、欣赏中国国粹京剧、在北京胡同和当地人一起欢度春节；
3.你的建议。
参考词汇：京剧Beijing Opera胡同Hutong
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Dear Ben,
I’m glad that you are coming to Beijing for your winter vacation.
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Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Hua
10 . I was coming back home late at night in a “Sharing” minivan. In Hyderabad, India, it is a cheap and quick means of transport. The van drivers ply (揽客) as many as 13 people at times in a vehicle which is designed for the transport of 8 people. Our van was
On the journey, one girl signaled the driver to
Even in pain, the girl held up a note and asked us to
I neither knew
We made her sit in a nearby lawn and her friend rushed to get a(n)
I do not know if I did enough. But I feel I gave some
| A．crowded | B．old | C．damaged | D．slow |
| A．wait | B．leave | C．come | D．stop |
| A．turned | B．fell | C．jumped | D．sat |
| A．early | B．cold | C．dark | D．quiet |
| A．then | B．now | C．here | D．there |
| A．up | B．down | C．in | D．back |
| A．thank | B．tell | C．pay | D．warn |
| A．calm | B．happy | C．ready | D．fine |
| A．him | B．her | C．them | D．it |
| A．but | B．so | C．as | D．though |
| A．danger | B．surprise | C．horror | D．pain |
| A．policeman | B．doctor | C．taxi | D．ambulance |
| A．shop | B．clinic | C．restaurant | D．school |
| A．manage | B．struggle | C．recover | D．settle |
| A．belief | B．advice | C．joy | D．comfort |
