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1.It never o_____ to me that you could succeed in persuading him to change his mind.
2.In many ways, time is the most p________ thing that we have. Yet most of us treat it as though it has hardly any value at all.
3.At the moment when he gets the first prize on the stage, I can’t help a_______ for his excellent performance.
4.Take good care of trees and bushes. We should live in h________ with nature.
5.Taking photos is strictly f_______ in the museum.
6.The north of China, ________(不像)the south, is windy in spring.
7.I’d like everyone to ________(聚集) round so I can demonstrate how the system works.
8.If we persist in practicing, ________(逐渐地)we’ll learn how to express ourselves in English.
9.The earthquake ________(见证)the kindness of strangers in an emergency.
10.With each attempt, he looked so confident and natural. There aren’t any signs of fear or being ________.(泄气)
11.If you are free on Friday, we ________ (推荐) visiting the national museum.
12.We are having pizza ________ (递送) for dinner tonight.
13.He commented that this novel was a ________(杰作)of American literature.
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On the first day of my first grade, I stood by the door with butterflies in my stomach. I 1.(voice)my biggest concern to my mother. “How will I make friends?” She handed me advice. “Be yourself. “ For the past 20 years, I have lived by these words. Soon I will graduate and become part of the real world. Nervously2.(face) challenges,I know I will whisper to myself 3. two simple words “Be yourself”.
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Mo Li Hua is a popular Chinese folk song 1.dates back to the 18th century. It’s one of the most well-known Chinese songs both in China and abroad. It’s a nice song2.beginners to learn due to its simple lyrics. The melody of this song has become well-known among Western listeners for several reasons. One is that it3.(sing) by Giacomo Puccini in his opera called Turandot in 1926. It was also used in the Olympics opening ceremony in China.
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip. After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night, and go to sleep.
Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and asks his faithful friend. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me 1. you see. “
“I see millions of stars. “ replies Watson.
“And what do you deduce from that?”
Watson thinks 2. (careful) for some time. “Well, according to the studies on astronomy, it tells me that there are potentially billions of planets. According to the scientific measurement of time, I deduce the time is probably a quarter past three. According to the current atmosphere, I forecast that we 3. (have) a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you, Holmes?”
Holmes is silent for a minute. “Watson,” he says, “someone 4. (steal) our tent!”
History of Broadway
When people think of Broadway, they may think of that part of the world-famous road in New York City that runs between 42nd and 53rd Streets. 1. It is a billion-dollar industry that includes theatrical shows in New York and live theater entertainment throughout the world.
New York's Theatre District has only 39 official Broadway houses. A play house must have 500 or more seats to be considered a Broadway theater. 2. Not all Broadway theatres are located on Broadway. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, buildings on Wall Street and places such as City Hall may have served as smaller theaters, and other locations in downtown New York City also did.
Today’s Broadway started when influential families contributed development of larger theaters away from the downtown area. Some people may have doubted these theaters would be successful, but they turned out to be. 3. With the rise of the new theater district, downtown changed forever as people happily traveled to the outskirts (郊区) of the city to see the best in live entertainment.
When these theaters began, many actors came from European countries. In 1857 actor Edwin Booth helped transform the Broadway theatre by popularizing a type of acting realism. Unlike actors before him, Booth did not stand still on the stage and simply deliver his lines. 4. Booth's style had a notable effect on the theater, and many considered him to be the greatest actor of his time.
5. Specifically, comedies and dramas often centred on then-current events such as women's right to vote, the Labor Movement, and war. Broadway developed again in 1866, and the Broadway musical was created. From then on, actors entertained their audiences by singing and dancing accompanied by an orchestra.
Now, Broadway is famous for various theatre productions and moving performances.
A.In fact, the shows have brought it fame throughout the world.
B.However, Broadway is much more than a geographical location.
C.Theatres, holding 100 to 499 people, are called Off-Broadway theatres.
D.Instead, he liked moving around and showing great emotion while acting.
E.Plays followed a popular style that encouraged typical characters and plots.
F.As this new style grew in popularity, the content of the shows began to change.
G.Madison Square Theater, built by the Mallory family in 1880, was one of them.
It’s common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room. But this common knowledge turns out wrong.
A new study finds that the woman in the painting is actually looking out at an angle that’s 15. 4 degrees off to the observer’s right-well outside of the range that people normally believe when they think someone is looking right at them. In other words, said the study author, Horstmann, “She’s not looking at you. “ This is somewhat ironic, because the entire phenomenon of a person’s gaze (凝视) in a photograph or painting seeming to follow the viewer is called the “Mona Lisa effect” . That effect is absolutely real, Horstmann said. If a person is illustrated or photographed looking straight ahead, even people viewing the portrait from an angle will feel they are being looked at. As long as the angle of the person’s gaze is no more than about 5 degrees off to either side, the Mona Lisa effect occurs.
This is important for human interaction with on-screen characters. If you want someone off to the right side of a room to feel that a person on-screen is looking at him or her, you don’t cut the gaze of the character to that side-surprisingly, doing so would make an observer feel like the character isn’t looking at anyone in the room at all. Instead, you keep the gaze straight ahead.
Horstmann and his co-author were studying this effect for its application in the creation of artificial-intelligence avatars(虚拟头像) when Horstmann took a long look at the “Mona Lisa” and realized she wasn’t looking at him.
To make sure it wasn’t just him, the researchers asked 24 people to view images of the “Mona Lisa” on a computer screen. They set a ruler between the viewer and the screen and asked the participants to note which number on the ruler intersected(和……相交) Mona Lisa’s gaze. To calculate the angle of Mona Lisa’s gaze as she looked at the viewer, they moved the ruler farther from or closer to the screen during the study. Consistently, the researchers found, participants judged that the woman in the “Mona Lisa” portrait was not looking straight at them, but slightly off to their right.
So why do people repeat the belief that her eyes seem to follow the viewer? Horstmann isn’t sure. It’s possible, he said, that people have the desire to be looked at, so they think the woman is looking straight at them. Or maybe the people who first coined the term “Mona Lisa effect” just thought it was a cool name.
1.It is generally believed that the woman in the painting “Mona Lisa”___________.
A.attracts the viewers to look back
B.seems mysterious because of her eyes
C.fixes her eyes on the back of the viewers
D.looks at the viewers wherever they stand
2.What gaze range in a painting will cause the Mona Lisa effect?
A. B. C. D.
3.The experiment involving 24 people was conducted to______.
A.confirm Horstmann’s belief
B.create artificial-intelligence avatars
C.calculate the angle of Mona Lisa’s gaze
D.explain how the Mona Lisa effect can be applied
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A.Horstmann thinks it’s cool to coin the term “Mona Lisa effect”.
B.The Mona Lisa effect contributes to the creation of artificial intelligence.
C.Feeling being gazed at by Mona Lisa may be caused by the desire for attention.
D.The position of the ruler in the experiment will influence the viewers’ judgement.