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1.The manager has decided to put ______ he thinks is energetic and clever in the position of the leadership of the company.
2.The government stressed that efforts must be made to prevent risks ______ (arise) from gathering of tourists.
3.But for the medical team’s efforts, more lives _______(claim) in this pandemic.
4.We choose this hotel because the price for a night is down to $ 20, half of _____ it used to charge.
5.What you did seems ______ (violate) the law. It won’t be long before you are sent into prison.
6.The importance of music and the effort ______ has on children’s intelligence development has been widely acknowledged.
7.It is necessary that every rule we set up _______(apply) to everyone.
8.Hard _______ the doctors had tried to save his life, the scholar died in the end.
9.It is the third time that the little boy __________ (subscribe) to China Daily.
10.TikTok, known as Douyin in China, is a social media platform ______ short videos can be edited and uploaded easily.
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1.President Trump announced that the United States would w_______from the Paris Climate Agreement, which would weaken efforts to fight global warming.
2.Mike runs a hotel in Yunnan and shares his stories with others v_____ his online blog.
3.Thousands are ________(不顾一切地) trying to leave their battled homes and villages.
4.“It never occurred to me that I could possibly save a life through the hotline,” she added, r_____ a story about saving a suicidal man.
5.Many coffee drinkers in China have been in a panic that coffee causes cancer after a post was c______ in social media on the weekend.
6.You should try to understand what’s actually happening instead of acting on the _________(假设) you’ve made.
7.His arm has s_______ up where the bee stung him.
8.Guests attending the conference are trying out mobile phones with a 5G _______(终端).
9.Every time he gets drunk, he becomes violent and a_______.
10.Educators from across the globe share a common belief that education should not be interrupted under any c_________.
11.The boss donated ________(慷慨地) a large sum of money to the earthquake-stricken area.
12.It rained heavily and a stream _______(蜿蜒) its way across the field.
13.Peter stood out among the job hunters because of his c_______ of English, so the company employed him as a translator.
14.He refused to eat any pork in the restaurant because of his r______ belief.
15.At the end of the lecture, the whole audience rose, _______(鼓掌，称赞）the speaker for his wonderful speech.
Within a minute’s walk of my house there was a wild stretch of unspoiled woodland, where there were blackberry plants, squirrels and their young. I _________ walked in this park with Rex --- a friendly, harmless little dog; and _______ we rarely met anyone in the park, I took Rex along without a leash(狗绳).
One day we met a mounted policeman in the park, a policeman eager to show his _______.
“What do you mean by letting that dog run _______ in the park without a leash and a muzzle(口套)?” he shouted at me angrily. “Don’t you know it’s against the law?”
“Yes, I know it is,” I replied softly, “but I didn’t think he would do any _______ out here.
“You didn’t think! You didn’t think! The law doesn’t know about what you think. That dog _______ kill a squirrel or bite a child. Now, I’m going to _______ this time; but if I catch this dog out here again without a leash, you’ll have to tell it to the _________.”
I humbly _________ to obey.
And I did obey --- for a few times. But Rex didn’t like the muzzle, and neither did I; so we decided to take a __________. Everything was lovely for a while, and then we got into ________. Rex and I raced over the hill one afternoon and there, suddenly --- to my __________ --- I saw the majesty of the law, riding on a horse. Rex was out in a front, heading straight for the officer.
I was in for it. I knew it. So I didn’t ________ until the policeman started talking, I beat him to it. I said: “ Officer, you’ve caught me ________. I’m guilty. I have no alibis, no excuses. You ________ me last week that if I brought the dog out here again without a muzzle you would fine me.”
“Well, now,” the policeman responded in a soft tone, “I know it’s a ________ to let a little dog like that have a run out here when nobody is around.”
“Sure it is,” I replied, “____________ it is against the law.”
“Well, a little dog like that isn’t going to harm anybody,” the policeman protested.
“No, but he may kill __________,” I said.
“Well now, I think you are taking this a bit too seriously,” he told me.
“I’ll tell you what you do. You just let him run over the hill there where I can’t see him --- and we’ll forget all about it.”
That policeman, being human, wanted a feeling of ________; so when I began to condemn myself, the only way he could nourish his self-esteem was to take the kind and generous attitude showing __________.
1.A.seldom B.sometimes C.frequently D.never
2.A.when B.since C.if D.while
3.A.authority B.force C.magic D.dignity
4.A.loose B.freely C.wildly D.quickly
5.A.wrong B.damage C.good D.harm
6.A.can B.might C.will D.must
7.A.give you up B.let you off C.give in to you D.put up with you
8.A.owner B.policeman C.judge D.children
9.A.listened B.promised C.agreed D.kept
10.A.change B.chance C.charge D.cheat
11.A.trap B.difficulty C.trouble D.shape
12.A.disappointment B.surprise C.joy D.regret
13.A.wait B.move C.say D.walk
14.A.on the scene B.blue-blooded C.in spot D.red-handed
15.A.warned B.told C.informed D.taught
16.A.appeal B.temptation C.urge D.crime
17.A.and B.so C.but D.because
18.A.blackberry B.birds C.children D.squirrels
19.A.importance B.achievement C.happiness D.respect
20.A.sympathy B.regret C.mercy D.optimism
Surveillance (监视) is a fact of life. Your boss is monitoring your performance at work. Supermarkets are collecting data on your grocery shopping. 1.
In a few months, European Union law-makers are due to approve proposals that will make driver assistance systems mandatory (强制的) in cars within three years. All new models of car will come with black boxes (event data recorders), intelligent speed assistance, lane-keeping assistance and more besides.
A large number of technologies will soon be monitoring a driver’s every move. Are we prepared for devices that watch how we drive and try to help us do it better?
2. In a report published in April 2018, it found that the suite of changes could save at least 7,300 lives by 2030, and reduce the number of serious injuries from car crashes by 38,900. “We can have the same kind of impact as when safety belts were first introduced,” says Oliver Carsten, who studies transport safety at the University of Leeds, UK.
3. The black box is the most controversial (有争议的) tech because of fears that the tech encourages surveillance. It would be easy to worry about being watched in your car. But the EU rules say the system is only checked in the event of an accident to help with insurance claims and police investigation. The point is to provide for a fair allocation (分配) of responsibility when a crash occurs. Some people choose to have a black box because it can reduce their individual insurance premium (保险费). 4. What’s more, the data collected in human-driven cars will help train automated driving systems to the point that they could be ready for large-scale deployment in the future.
5. Drivers should think of it as an extra layer of protection, rather than the vehicle trying to take over driving from you.
A.Now there is a new field: the automobile.
B.There is concern about these technologies, however.
C.The tech is reducing costs because it’s reducing the number of crashes.
D.Safety isn't much discussed, principally because cars are already very safe.
E.While the EU is taking the boldest steps, these technologies aren't far behind in other parts of the world.
F.As a result, what may at first glance seem like a surveillance technology is actually a benefit for society.
G.The European Commission says that introducing these advanced driver assistance systems will make driving safer.
An introduction to this book is as superfluous as a candle in front of a powerful searchlight. But a convention of publishing seems to require that the candle should be there, and I am proud to be the one to hold it. About ten years ago I picked up from the pile of new books on my desk a copy of Sons and Lovers by a man of whom I had never heard, and I started to race through it with the immoral speed of the professional reviewer. But after a page or two I found myself reading, really reading. Here was—here is—a masterpiece in which every sentence counts, a book packed with significant thought and beautiful, arresting phrases, the work of a remarkable genius whose gifts are more richly various than those of any other young English novelist.
To appreciate the rich variety of Mr. Lawrence we must read his later novels and his volumes of poetry. But Sons and Lovers reveals the range of his power. Here are combined and blended(混合的) sort of ''realism'' and almost lyric(抒情的) imagery and rhythm. The speech of the people is that of daily life and the things that happen to them are normal adventures and accidents; they fall in love, marry, work, fail, succeed, and die. But of their deeper emotions and of the relations of these little human beings to the earth and to the stars, Mr. Lawrence makes something near to poetry and prose(散文) without violating its proper “other harmony.”
Take the marvellous paragraph on next to the last page of Sons and Lovers (Mr. Lawrence depends so little on plot in the ordinary sense of the word that it is perfectly fair to read the end of his book first):
Where was he? One tiny upright speck of flesh, less than an ear of wheat lost in the field. He could not bear it. On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a spark, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct. Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun, stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spinning round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in the darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted(气馁). So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing.
Such glorious writing lifts the book far above a novel which is merely a story. I beg the reader to attend to every line of it and not to miss a single one of the many sentences that await and surprise you. Some are enthusiastic and impressive, like the paragraph above; others are keen, ''realistic'' observations of things and people. In one of his books Mr. Lawrence makes a character say, or think, that life is ''mixed''. That indicates his philosophy and his method. He blends the accurately literal and trivial(琐碎的) with the extremely poetic.
To find a similar blending of tiny daily detail and wide imaginative vision, we must go back to two older novelists, Hardy and Meredith. I do not mean that Mr. Lawrence derives(源于) immediately from them or, indeed, that he is clearly the disciple(弟子) of any master. I do feel simply that he is of the elder stature(名望) of Hardy and Meredith, and I know of no other young novelist who is quite worthy of their company. When I first tried to express this comparison, this connection, I was contradicted by a fellow-critic, who pointed out that Meredith and Hardy are entirely unlike each other and that therefore Mr. Lawrence cannot resemble both. To be sure, nothing is more hateful than forced comparisons, nothing more boring than to discover parallels between one work of art and another. An artist's mastery consists in his difference from other masters. But to refer a young man of genius to an older one, at the same time pronouncing his independence and originality, is a fair, if not very superior, method of praising him.
1.The underlined word ''superfluous'' in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______.
A.meaningful B.unnecessary
C.fundamental D.unbelievable
2.What does the author want to illustrate by including one paragraph from Sons and Lovers?
A.The plot of the novel has little to do with daily life.
B.It is wise to read Lawrence's books from the end.
C.Lawrence is capable of telling good stories.
D.The language in Lawrence's books is elegant.
3.Who were Hardy and Meredith?
A.They taught Lawrence literature when he was young.
B.They were the realistic novelists of Lawrence’s time.
C.They were novelists who resemble each other in writing.
D.They were novelists combining details with imagination.
4.What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?
A.To introduce Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers.
B.To show his experiences of reading classics.
C.To analyze Lawrence's writing characteristics.
D.To compare the styles of different novelists.
A drug used to treat severe bleeding could save thousands of lives for mothers giving birth. A global trial of the drug found it reduced the risk of bleeding deaths during childbirth by nearly one-third. The study involved 20,000 women in 21 countries, mainly in Africa and Asia. The trial was carried out by London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The drug is called tranexamic acid(氨甲环酸）. It is low-cost and researchers said it does not cause serious side effects for mothers or babies.
The drug is used to treat mothers for severe bleeding during childbirth, also known as postpartum hemorrhage (产后出血).It is the leading cause of mother’s death worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
Haleema Shakur is the project director of the trial. She says despite medical advances in many countries, severe bleeding after childbirth remains a big problem in some parts of the world. “It's one of the biggest killers of mothers. In Africa and Asia. about 10 percent of women will end up with severe bleeding. " The drug works by stopping blood clots（血凝块） from breaking down after a mother gives birth. The treatment can prevent the need for doctors to perform surgery to find the source of bleeding.
Shakur said the best results were reported when the drug was given to women as soon as possible after childbirth, “The earlier you give it- so within the first three hours of giving birth—the better the effect is. ”
The next step will be to get the drug where it is needed provide training for doctors and nurses on how to use it. During the trial, women were given the drug in a hospital. But researchers are looking for easier ways to administer the drug so it can be more widely used in small clinics and rural areas.
1.What is the reachers’ next plan?
A.To know how much the drug is.
B.To get permission to use the drug.
C.To let more people know the drug.
D.To make medical staff know how to use the drug.
2.What can we learn from the text?
A.The more mothers use the drug, the better its effect is.
B.African and Asian countries made great progress in medicine.
C.Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of women’s death.
D.There is a long way to go before the drug can be used more widely.
3.What may be the best title for the text?
A.Care for the Health of Mothers
B.How Can We Use Tranexamic Acid Well?
C.Childbirth Drug Greatly Reduces Bleeding Deaths
D.What's the Biggest Killer of Mothers?
