The best thing to start your day is a good breakfast. In fact, many people believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In China, porridge with pickles (咸菜), baozi, noodles, soybean milk and youtiao are common breakfast foods. What are breakfasts in other countries like? Let’s take a look!
US
In the US, a good Sunday morning starts with scrambled eggs, crispy bacon or juicy sausages, and soft pancakes with butter and sweet syrup on top. On busy weekdays, most people in the US like to eat cereal with milk, bread and fruit for breakfast. Some people also drink coffee.
Canada
Canada is the largest producer of maple syrup. People usually have pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast. Canadian bacon is a popular dish for breakfast as well. Canadian bacon is quite unlike the crispy bacon of the United States. It tastes more like ham and is served in thin round slices.
Britain
The British breakfast is similar to the American breakfast. A basic British breakfast consists of fried eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, baked (烘) beans, and tomatoes. These foods are popular among young people in Britain. Usually, British people have coffee, tea or milk to drink. Some people also like to drink orange juice.
Japan
Most people in Japan these days – at least in big cities – eat a quick Western-style breakfast like eggs, toast, juice and coffee. Those who prefer more traditional foods are likely to have tea and miso soup with rice. Steamed rice is necessary for a Japanese-style breakfast. People also add nori seaweed or a little raw egg to their rice.
1.On busy weekday mornings, most people in the US prefer _____.
A.scrambled eggs, crispy bacon or juicy sausages
B.soft pancakes with butter and sweet syrup on top
C.ham, scrambled eggs and pancakes
D.cereal with milk, bread and fruit
2.Maple syrup is popular in _____.
A.America B.Canada C.Britain D.Japan
3.The British-style breakfast includes _____.
A.scrambled eggs, mushrooms and baked beans
B.fried eggs, sausages with sweet syrup
C.bacon, sausages, mushrooms and noodles
D.fried eggs, sausages, tomatoes with coffee or tea
假定你是李华，你写信邀请朋友Henry参加China Daily为庆祝建国70周年举办的艺术展。信的内容包括：
1. 作品类别：摄影、书画、诗歌等
2. 截止日期：9月9日
3. 投稿邮箱：news@chinadaily.com.cn
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3. 参考词汇：建国，the founding of the People’s Republic of China
Dear Henry,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。作文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）并在其下面写出该加的词。
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的词。
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2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last week, I, along with the rest of my grade, went on a 18-hour survival training trip. On arriving at the destination, we put up our tents before making lunch. Then we participated in team-building activity such as dragon boat racing or rock climbing. They were extreme fun but tiring. The most exciting event was the boat racing, as I have never been in a dragon boat before. The thrilled feeling of riding over the waves will stay my mind forever. By the end of the day, they were all sweaty and exhausted. The next morning, take back with us our newly created memories, we returned back home.
As the train pulled out, the passengers slowly settled down on their seats. I reserved the lower berth(卧铺), so I could enjoy the beauty outside from the moving train. An elderly lady _______ the front seat of mine. Looking at her, I guessed she must be in her eighties. At one point, our eyes _______, she smiled at me, and with politeness, I gave her response. Both of us were _______. And the train was _______ its speed.
It was 4:50 pm, evening time. So, _______ time was still a long way off. I couldn't _______my curiosity any longer and asked, “Auntie! Where are you going?”
She looked at me and kindly said, “_______ camp, dear.”
Suddenly my enthusiasm _______ to know the reason. I politely said, “Aunty, you are visiting someone?”
She smiled _______ and said, “Yes!”
Just to continue the ________, I talked to her in a very merry mood, “Auntie, you must be feeling so ________ to see your child or your grand children.”
Perhaps, this question ________ her a little but bravely she answered, “Oh, dear! You are so sweet! Anyways, I had only one son who joined the army but was ________ by the terrorist attack just few days before. I bought so many new winter ________ for him. I thought why I would not ________ my son's clothes to some other ________. So I would control my ________ and would be relieved ________ that my own son has worn it.”
I was shocked hearing her ________ story! But I saluted the old lady from the bottom of my heart, for her ________ heart!
1.A.occupied B.served C.covered D.offered
2.A.rolled B.touched C.met D.lowered
3.A.busy B.silent C.shy D.friendly
4.A.taking up B.picking up C.bringing up D.giving up
5.A.bed B.study C.work D.leisure
6.A.satisfy B.decide C.show D.resist
7.A.Sports B.Tourist C.Winter D.Army
8.A.doubled B.came C.stopped D.faded
9.A.secretly B.proudly C.falsely D.nervously
10.A.journey B.tradition C.conversation D.friendship
11.A.surprised B.excited C.worried D.scared
12.A.hooked B.tired C.amazed D.hurt
13.A.killed B.injured C.trapped D.frightened
14.A.food B.shoes C.clothes D.books
15.A.lent B.sold C.sewed D.spared
16.A.passengers B.soldiers C.charities D.camps
17.A.sorrow B.temper C.behaviour D.loneliness
18.A.dreaming B.realizing C.thinking D.knowing
19.A.adventurous B.interesting C.boring D.heartbreaking
20.A.sad B.light C.brave D.heavy
If you desire to meet new friends, have fun and get into shape, basketball is the best sport for you regardless of whether you are a professional or an amateur.1.
Here are some of the benefits you can acquire from playing basketball.
• Improve your fitness levels.
Playing basketball will definitely improve your fitness levels. Basketball is an amazing cardiovascular(心血管的) exercise. 2. Moreover, it aids in oxygen circulation and blood distribution throughout the body.
• Encourage teamwork.
Basketball requires team work to achieve a common objective. 3. This sport is great for kids, as it shows them how to work together in harmony to reach the goal.
• 4.
It brings individuals together and helps create friendship and bonds. This provides a great opportunity for children who are shy, as it helps them interact with new friends, which will help your child function better in life.
5. Although there are no drawbacks associated to playing basketball, it is necessary that you perform other exercises to improve your speed and power.
A.Stay with friends.
B.Develop social skills.
C.It is beneficial to people with heart problems.
D.In all, you can play basketball as much as possible.
E.It can cure people’s illnesses about heart and blood.
F.The players have to work as a team to guarantee a win.
G.Basketball is popular worldwide due to a variety of reasons.
Robots are increasingly being developed to think and act like humans. But one common human quality that has been difficult for engineers to recreate in machines is humor.
Most robots are powered by artificial intelligence, or AI. Some have performed better than humans in tests designed to measure machine intelligence.
Computer scientists have also hoped to give robots technical skills to help them recognize, process and react to humor. But these attempts have mostly failed.
Kiki Hempelmann is a computational language expert who studies humor at Texas A&M University. “Artificial intelligence will never get jokes like humans do,” he told the Associated Press. The main problem, Hempelmann says, is that robots completely miss the context of humor.
Tristan Miller is a computer scientist and linguist at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. In one research project, he studied more than 10,000 puns(双关语).
Puns are a kind of joke that uses a word with two meanings. For example, you could say, “Balloons do not like pop music.” The word “pop” can be a way of saying popular music; or, “pop” can be the sound a balloon makes when it explodes.
But a robot might not get the joke. Tristan Miller says that is because humor is a kind of creative language that is extremely difficult for computer intelligence to understand.
Despite the difficulties, Darmstadt University’s Miller says there are good reasons to keep trying to teach humor to robots. It could make machines more relatable, especially if they can learn to understand sarcasm(讽刺), he noted. Humans use sarcasm to say one thing but mean another.
But Texas A&M’s Kiki Hempelmann is not sure such attempts are a good idea. “Teaching AI systems humor is dangerous because they may find it where it isn’t, and they may use it where it’s inappropriate,” he said. “Maybe bad AI will start killing people because it thinks it is funny,” he added.
1.Which is difficult for robots to gain according to the passage?
A.Thinking. B.Humor.
C.Intelligence. D.Action.
2.What does Kiki mean by saying robots’ missing the context of humor?
a. They lack creativity and skills.
b. They have no sense of humor at all.
c. They don’t understand the situation.
d. They have no related ideas that make a joke funny.
A.ab B.ac
C.bd D.cd
3.What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?
A.The risk of teaching humor to AI.
B.The necessity of making AI smart.
C.The reason to keep robots humorous.
D.The possibility of robot understanding humor.
4.Which is the best title of the passage?
A.To Be Smarter, Be Humorous.
B.AI can Get Jokes Like Humans.
C.How to Help Robots Learn Humor?
D.Why Robot Humor Mostly Falls Flat.
