Where did the woman spend her summer holiday?
A.In Beijing. B.In Tokyo. C.In London.
Why did Cathy call the woman?
A.To borrow magazines.
B.To make an invitation.
C.To get her magazines back.
How did the woman usually go to school?
A.On foot. B.By bus. C.By bike.
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1.不久之后，失主就来认领他的行李了，这出乎我们的意料。(which)
2.在如此这样的一个特殊时期，对于吉祥航空的这一人性化操作，很多网友手动点赞。(Such)
3.在采访最后，提起武汉，这个84岁，为国家操劳了一生，和病魔战斗了一辈子的钟南山院士academician却哽咽了。(devote)
4.趁着寒假宅在家，有的学生挥剑，有的学生在网上练习配音，还有的泼墨挥毫，尽管被限于家中，他们做完寒假作业之余可谓是丰富多彩。(take advantage of ,describe)
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
This is a story about a book that just kept selling, catching publishers, booksellers and even its author off guard. The book is Sapiens, by the Israeli academic Yuval Noah Harari, published in the UK in September 2014.It is a recondite(深奥的) work of evolutionary history charting the development of humankind through a scholarly examination of our ability to cooperate as a species.
Sapiens sold well on publication, particularly when it came out in paperback in the summer of 2015.What is remarkable about it, though, is that it's still selling in vast numbers. Sapiens has sold a further half million copies, establishing itself firmly at the top of the bestseller lists. The book's wild success is symptomatic of a broader trend in our book-buying habits: a surge in the popularity of intelligent, challenging nonfiction, often books that are several years old.
It was trade publication, the Booksellers, that first noted the rise of what is called the “brainy backlist”, it also highlighted a concomitant fall in the sales of the books that had been such a staple of publishers' catalogues-celebrity biographies. We are turning away from exciting but disposable stories of fame towards more serious, thoughtful, quiet books that help us understand our place in the world. Mark Richards, publisher at John Murray Prese, see the return to serious works of nonfiction as a response to the spirit of the age, “People have a hunger both for information and facts, and for nuanced(有细微差别的) exploration of issues, of a sort that books are in a prime position to provide.” he says.
In the end, the story of Sapiens is about a book becoming part of a national conversation. At a time when politics is more furious and fragmented than ever, when technology is colonizing our everyday existence.
Directions:Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
Fed up with constantly having to recharge or replace batteries in your ever-expanding electronic devices? The solution may be just a few steps away.
“Energy harvesting” promises to power countless consumer devices, often with nothing more than your body's movement or heat.1..But many experts believe the market for the technology could explode due to electronic devices being developed for the Internet of Things.
Among the most basic forms of the technology is body power,2.Automatic watches have employed the concept for decades, for example, by winding themselves when their user moves their arm. Now the concept is being considered for a number of other devices.
In an contest seeking visionary ideas for wearable technologies, Intel awarded$5,000 for a concept to change the temperature difference between a person's body and a special piece of clothing they'd wear into electricity for mobile devices.
3.. Stanford University engineers are testing smart microchips that create electricity from ultrasound to power implantable devices that can analyze a person's nervous system or treat their diseases.
A textile research association in Spain is proposing to obtain electricity from radio waves that flow around everyone to power sensors sewn into clothes, which can monitor a person's heartbeat or other vital signs.
Obtaining stable energy from devices can be complex, however. For one thing, the motlon that generates the electricity has to be constant to be useful. Moreover, the amount of power the devices produce depends on the person using them, according to a Columbia University study, It determined that taller people on average provide about 20percent more power than shorter ones when walking, running or cycling.
4.. While such devices are expected to cost less than battery-powered alternatives when compared over many years ,experts say, people may continue buying ones with batteries merely because those would be cheaper in the short term.
A.Dozens of companies around the world already offer such products
B.Using sound to power devices is another energy-harvesting variation
C.It's also unclear how eagerly consumers might welcome energy-harvesting products,
D.With the Internet of things expected to combine billions of devices, we'll have to use energy harvesting.
E.When certain materials are squeezed or stretched, the movement of their atoms creates an electrical charge.
F.Research fim IDTechEx has estimated that annual global sales of energy-harvesting products could hit $.2.6 billion by 2024.
