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假设你是晨光中学的学生李津。你在某网站的论坛上读到一位名为Chris的外国学生发的帖子，得知他去年，虽语言不通但借助翻译软件的帮助，到几个不同的国家旅游，基本顺利。他疑惑有了翻译软件，今后是不是就没有必要学习外语了。请根据以下提示给Chris留言：

（1）还有必要继续学习外语；

（2）翻译软件的缺点，如准确性及时性，适用场合等等；

（3）掌握外语的好处。

注意：（1）词数不少于100；

（2）可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯；

（3）开头已给出，不计入总词数。

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Since it never occurred to anybody at the school to provide the services of an interpreter,I had to sit in the front row so that I could read the teacher's lips. Classroom discussions were virtually impossible to follow because I couldn't hear what was being said around the room.In a vain effort to keep up with them,I was always asking whoever happened to be sitting next to me what was being said. Eventually,I got tired of watching everyone shrug their shoulders indifferently and rolling their eyes.I began to pretend that I knew what was going on.Fitting in was so important to me that every time the kids laughed,I laughed along even though I felt muddle-headed most of the time.

Luckily then fate threw me light.

On one sunny afternoon,my teacher,Mrs.Jordan,asked the class a question.I read her lips from my front-row seat and immediately raised my hand.I couldn't believe it-despite my fears,I felt incredibly confident because-for once-I was sure I had the right answer.But,when she called on me,I was suddenly afraid. Here was an opportunity to impress the powerful teacher and show her I was worthy of her love.I didn't want to blow it.I took a deep breath and nervously answered her question.

Her explosive response shocked all of us.She enthusiastically stepped her right foot on the floor,pointing directly at me.With sparkling eyes and a wide smile she cried,“THAT'S RIGHT,STEPHEN!”

For the first time in my young life,I felt like an instant star.My heart burst with pride.My confidence soared.It was amazing what a great effect the simple three-word phrase delivered with incredible enthusiasm had on my young life. THAT'S RIGHT,STEPHEN!It got me to think that I would make a place for myself in this world no matter how many obstacles I had to overcome.From that day,my grades and speech improved dramatically and my peers suddenly looked at me with new respect.

1.What frequently happened when the author asked for help from his classmates?(No more than 5 words)

2.What does the underlined word"muddle-headed”in paragraph 1 mean?（No more than 1 words)

3.Why was the author in fear of answering Mrs.Jordan's question?(No more than 10 words)

4.What's the main idea of the last paragraph?(No more than 10 words)

5.How did a simple act of your teacher once change you?(No more than 25 words)

    The recent widespread interest in all branches of psychology has accustomed us to accepting an idea which,when first offered,seemed laughable:We all,at some level,spend most of the time on reverie(幻想）。We dream either consciously or unconsciously,awake or asleep,of a situation in which we feel we should be happier than we are in real life.Occasionally some childish ideas of happiness or success break out in to confuse or prevent us from living an adult life.Sometimes the dream is refusing to leave the safe shelter of the nursery,where all wants were met as soon as felt,where warmth and food and love were given freely and unearned.As Emerson wrote,"We do not believe there is any force in today to match or recreate that beautiful yesterday.We linger in(徘徊）the ruins of the old tent where once we had bread and shelter."To some extent this is true of all of us,but less true of the happy and successful adult than of others.

At other times,funnily enough,the life-wasting reverie is about success:The mild man is Napoleon or the ugly woman is a charming singer.If reality never broke in upon such reverie,the dreamer might be happier than if he were to find himself in a position to realize some part of it.Such reverie is in itself compensation for a life of dull routine.But,the world being what it is,the dreamer must live,for part of his time at least,in the cold atmosphere of fact.This is no Land of Cockaigne:Roast 1t pigs do not run about crying,"Eat me!"Fruit does not fall from the trees into our mouths..

The deeply rooted dreamer will struggle only just as much as he needs,and no more.He will do anything half-heartedly to get his bread and butter.Then,when his daily task is over,he will be hack to his dreams again,whether he realizes it or not. He succeeds at only one thing:in clearing away a little space,gaining each day a few hours of free time,for just one purpose-to go on wasting his life.But his

dream is happy.It is,for him,a true compensation for his failure in every other relation,and so he continues in it.Yet,since after all happiness is the true goal,he believes that the smallest success in reverie brings with it more happiness.

However,it is important to remember that failure is real,for otherwise we will not prepare ourselves to fight it.

1.People's spending most of the time on reverie is something that

A.was laughed at by people in the past

B.most people are greatly fed up with

C.psychologists are very interested in

D.psychologists have widely accepted

2.People who are living in reverie

A.are filled with fear of the future life

B.usually have a happy childhood

C.always enjoy recalling their past life

D.are happier than any successful adult

3.People living in the Land of Cockaigne______

A.think that they are the greatest of the world

B.could enjoy all they need for life without work

C.will realize life means struggle

D.usually live a life of dull routine

4.Which of the following about deeply rooted dreamers is TRUE?

A.They'll never work for life even when they're starving.

B.They admire heroes so much as to become Napoleon.b

C.They don't feel happy due to the little things they have.

D.They'll never do any more than keeping themselves alive.

5.The writer suggests in the passage that_____

A.we should stop spending most of our time on reverie

B.people can realize something vital through dreaming

C.we should prepare ourselves to fight failure

D.people can gain more happiness from reality

    Dad and I loved baseball and hated sleep. One midsummer dawn when I was nine, we drove to the local park with our baseballs, gloves, and Yankees caps.

“If you thought night baseball was a thrill, just wait,” Dad told me. “Morning air carries the ball like you’ve never seen.”

He was right. Our fastballs charged faster and landed more lightly. The echoes of our catches popped as the sun rose over the dew-sprinkled fields.

The park was all ours for about two hours. Then a young mother pushed her stroller toward us. When she neared, dad politely leaned-over the stroller, waved, and gave the baby his best smile.

The mother stared at him for a second, and then rushed away.

Dad covered his mouth with his hand and walked to the car. “Let’s go,” he said. “I’m not feeling well.”

A month earlier, Bell’s palsy(贝尔氏神经麻痹）had struck Dad, paralyzing the right side of his face. His smile, which once eased the pain of playground cuts and burst forth was gone.

As I slumped in the car, I began suspecting that our sunrise, park visit wasn’t about watching daylight lift around us. This was his effort to avoid stares.

After that day, Dad spent more time indoors and no longer wanted to play catch.

For Bell’s palsy suffers, most recover in several weeks. Other cases take a few months to heal. But after nine weeks of therapy, the doctor admitted she couldn’t help Dad.

Dad coped through humor. He occasionally grabbed erasable markers and drew an even-sided wide smile across his face. Other times, he practiced his Elvis impersonation, joking that his curled lips allowed him to perfect his performance of “Hound Dog”.

By the time I entered fourth grade that September, dad could blink his right eye and speak clearly again.But his smile still hadn’t returned.So I made a secret vow I would abstain from smiles of any kind.

Nothing about fourth grade made this easy. Classmates were both old enough to laugh about pop culture and young enough to appreciate jokes. Kids called me Frowny the Dwarf.(I was three foot ten.) Teachers accompanied me into hallways, asking what was wrong. Breaking the promise I had made myself was tempting, but I couldn’t let Dad not smile alone.

When I asked my PE coach, “What’s so great about smiling?” He made me do push-ups while the rest of the class played ball game. Then he called Dad.

I never learned what they discussed. But when I got off the school bus that afternoon, I saw Dad waiting for me, holding our gloves and ball. For the first time in months, we got in the family car and went to the park for a catch.

“It’s been too long,” he said.

Roughly a half-dozen fathers and sons lined the field with gloved arms in the air.

Dad couldn’t smile, but he beamed, and so did I. Sundown came quickly. The field’s white lights glowed, and everyone else left. But dad and I threw everything from curve balls to folly floaters into the night. We had catching up to do.

1.Why did Dad choose to play baseballs one summer dawn?

A.They could perform better in the morning.

B.Morning air was more suitable for playing baseball.

C.He tried to escape others attention to his face.

D.The park was empty and they could enjoy themselves

2.The underlined phrase “abstain from” in Paragraph 12 means_______.

A.seek for B.give up

C.recover from D.break into

3.What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 13?

A.The boy lost his ability to smile.

B.The boy couldn’t appreciate pop culture

C.The boy must have suffered many wrongs.

D.The boy tried his best to make Father smile.

4.Why did the father accompany his son to the park for a catch that night?

A.He had made a complete recovery.

B.He thought night baseball was a thrill.

C.He was instructed by the PE coach to do so."

D.He intended his son to return to normal

5.Which of the following can best describe the author’s father?

A.Selfless and lucky

B.Responsible, and humorous.

C.Sensitive and stubborn.

D.Generous and determined.

6.What is the best title for the passage?

A.Losing My Father’s Smile

B.Making a Hidden Secret

C.Playing Baseball in the Morning

D.Recovering from a Face Illness

    Scientists say they’ve developed a system using machine learning to predict when and where lighting will strike.The research was led by engineers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

European researchers have estimated that between 6,000 and 24,000 people are killed by lightning worldwide each year. The strikes can also cause power outages, destroy property, damage electrical equipment and start forest fires. For these reasons, climate scientists have long sought to develop methods to predict and control lightning. In the United States and other places, ground-based sensing devices are used to identify strikes as they happen. But, no system has been created to effectively predict lightning.

The system tested in the experiments used a combination of data from weather stations and machine learning methods. The researchers developed a prediction model that was trained to recognize weather conditions that were likely to cause lightning.

The model was created with data collected over a 12-year period from 12 Swiss weather stations in cities and mountain areas. The data related to four main surface conditions: air pressure, air temperature, relative humidity and wind speed.

The atmospheric, data was placed into a machine learning algorithm (算法), which compared it to records of lightning strikes. Researchers say the algorithm was then able to learn the conditions under which lightning happens.

Amirhossein Mostajabi is a PhD student at the institute who led the development of the method. He said, “current systems for gathering such data are slow and complex and require costly collection equipment like radar or satellites.”

“Our method uses data that can be obtained from any weather station,” Mostajabi said. “This will improve data collection in very remote areas not covered by radar and satellite or in places where communication systems have been cut,” he added.

The researchers plan to keep developing the technology in partnership with a European effort that aims to create a lightning protection system. The effort is called the European Laser Lightning Rod project.

1.Why have climate scientists tried to predict and control lighting?

A.To collect relative data.

B.To reduce the destruction lightning has been causing.

C.To create a scientific system.

D.To do research in relation to machine learning.

2.The four mentioned surface conditions include all the following EXCEPT________.

A.air pollution

B.wind speed

C.relative humidity

D.air temperature

3.What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A.Lighting.

B.The system being tested.

C.The atmospheric data.

D.The machine learning algorithm.

4.What can we learn about Mostajabi from the passage?

A.He developed the method and the system himself.

B.He thinks the current systems are too slow and simple.

C.He is a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

D.He believes their system does much better in data collection.

5.Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?

A.Lightning Causes Huge World Wide Damage.

B.Scientists Test Systems to Predict Lightning.

C.Machine Learning Has Made New Breakthrough.

D.A New Approach Has Improved Data Collection.