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What does the woman want to do? A. Find a place. B. Buy a map. C. Get an address.
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What will the man do for the woman? A. Repair her car. B. Give her a ride. C. Pick up her aunt.
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Who might Mr. Peterson be? A. A new professor. B. A department head. C. A company director.
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What does the man think of the book? A. Quite difficult. B. Very interesting. C. Too simple.
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What are the speakers talking about? A. Weather. B. Clothes. C. News.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 1.Why is Harry unwilling to join the woman? A. He has a pain in his knee. B. He wants to watch TV. C. He is too lazy. 2.What will the woman probably do next? A. Stay at home. B. Take Harry to hospital. C. Do some exercise.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 1.When will the man be home from work? A. At 5:45. B. At 6:15. C. At 6:50. 2.Where will the speakers go? A. The Green House Cinema. B. The New State Cinema. C. The UME Cinema.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 1.How will the speakers go to New York? A. By air. B. By taxi. C. By bus. 2.Why are the speakers making the trip? A. For business. B. For shopping. C. For holiday. 3.What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Driver and passenger. B. Husband and wife. C. Fellow workers.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。 1.Where does this conversation probably take place? A. In a restaurant. B. In an office. C. In a classroom. 2.Where does John do now? A. He’s a trainer. B. He’s a tour guide. C. He’s a college student. 3.How much can a new person earn for the first year? A. $10,500. B. $12,000. C. $15,000. 4.How many people will the woman hire? A. Four. B. Three. C. Two.
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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。 1.How long has the speaker lived in a big city? A. One year. B. Ten years. C. Eighteen years. 2.What is the speaker’s opinion on public transport? A. It’s comfortable. B. It’s time-saving. C. It’s cheap. 3.What is good about living in a small town? A. It’s safer. B. It’s healthier. C. It’s more convenient. 4.What kind of life does the speaker seem to like most? A. Busy. B. Colorful. C. Quiet.
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Janet Guthrie and Danica Patrick, first female Indy competitor and winner No complaints about woman drivers. Janet Guthrie, an space engineer who was training to be an astronaut, turned to car racing when she was cut from the space program for not having completed her doctors degree. In 1977, Guthrie became the first female Indy 500 competitor. She didn’t take the lead, but Danica Patrick did. In 2005 and in 2008, Patrick became the first woman ever to win an Indy Car Series. Raymonde de Laroche, first female licensed pilot A former actress who'd been born Elise Raymonde Deroche in Paris in 1882, Raymonde de Laroche was inspired to take up flying after seeing the Wright Brothers flight demonstrations in 1907 in France. Though she wasn’t the first female pilot, de Laroche was the first woman to earn a pilot’s license in 1910. Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim across the English Channel On August 6. 1926. Gertrude Caroline Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Ederle, who lived to be 98 and died in 2003, was also an Olympic swim champion and five-time world record-holder in five swimming events Kathrine Switzer, Nina Kuscik and Joan Benoit, first major female marathoners. In 1967, 20-year-old Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run in the Boston Marathon, even though race officials had tried to stop her. Nina Kuscik became the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon, 1972. In 1984, American Joan Benoit became the first winner of the Women’s Olympic Marathon, finishing 400 meters ahead of Norway's Grete Waitz 1.Why was Janet Guthrie forbidden to take up space program? A. She used to be a woman driver. B. She showed interested in car racing. C. She was employed as an engineer. D. She didn't gain doctors degree. 2.What made Raymonde de Laroche decide to become a pilot? A. Her experience as an actress. B. Her settlement in Paris. C. Wright Brothers influence. D. Wright Brothers dialogues. 3.What's the similarity between Gertrude Ederle and Kathrine Switzer? A. They were athletic B. They lived a long life. C. They had a higher fame. D. They were looked down upon.
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FOR ALL the technological wonders of modern medicine, from gene-editing to fetal(胎儿的) surgery, health care—with its fax machines and clipboards(资料夹)—is often stubbornly old-fashioned. This outdated era is slowly drawing to a close as, slowly, the industry catches up with the artificial-intelligence (AI) revolution. And it should have happened earlier, argues Eric Topol, a heart doctor keen on digital medicine. Dr Topol’s vision of medicine’s future is optimistic. He thinks AI will be particularly useful for repetitive tasks where errors arise easily, such as selecting images, examining heart traces for abnormal symptoms or recording doctors’ words into patient records. In short, AI is set to save time, lives and money. Much of this is imaginary—but AI is already defeating people in a variety of narrow jobs for which it has been trained. Eventually it may be able to diagnose and treat a wider range of diseases. Even then, Dr Topol thinks, humans would watch over the rules, rather than being replaced by them. The author’s fear is that AI will be used to deepen the assembly-line(流水线) culture of modern medicine. If it awards a “gift of time” on doctors, he argues that this additional benefit should be used to extend the time of consultations, rather than simply speeding through them more efficiently. The Hippocratic Oath holds that there is an art to medicine as well as a science, and that “warmth, sympathy and understanding may be more important than the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug”. That is not just a cliché: the patients of sympathetic physicians have been shown to do better. As Dr Topol says, it is hard to imagine that a robot could really replace a human doctor. Yet as demand for health care goes beyond the supply of human carers, the future may involve consultations on smartphones and measurements monitored by chat robots. The considerately warmed stethoscope(听诊器), placed gently on a patient’s back, may become history. 1.According to the author, health care has been generally considered ____________. A. to bring out many technological wonders B. to boost the sales of fax machines and clipboards C. to be out of date and fail to keep up with modern times D. to constantly catch up with new technological progress 2.AI is set to save time, lives and money because it can ___________. A. repeat doctors’ words and instructions B. correct doctors’ errors and mistakes C. select doctors according to patients’ demands D. replace doctors’ tasks in certain fields 3.The underlined word “cliché” is closest in meaning to __________. A. an idea so often used that becomes uninteresting B. an idea so interesting that is often used C. an effective rule that applies to medicine and doctors D. a benefit to both doctors and patients 4.It can be inferred from the passage that _____________. A. AI will completely replace the jobs of doctors B. doctors’ sympathy and understanding should not be ignored C. the application of AI will discourage the assembly-line culture D. AI will bring warmth, sympathy and understanding to patients
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The hemlock(铁杉) trees along the Wappinger Creek, New York, look healthy. However, scientist Gary Lovett says the white balls which provide protection for the bugs are created by a tiny insect. It’s hard to believe the tiny bug could kill a tree. However, trees can end up with millions and millions of the pests. When there are that many, it ends up killing the tree. The bug from East Asia is slowly killing trees across the USA. The trouble-making bug is just one of many invasive(入侵的) pests that have slipped into the United States. They can hurt other living things in their new home. Many invasive pests arrive on wooden pallets(运货板) piled inside shipping containers. They support and separate goods, and keep them from sliding around. Invasive pests often tunnel into the pallets. How can we stop pests from riding on pallets? Lovett says new rules are needed. The companies that make pallets don’t want more rules. Congress has added an amendment(修正案) in the 2018 Farm Bill to try and prevent this problem. However, Lovett is not hopeful it will make much of a difference. Pallets are checked by inspectors. Many are sprayed with bug-killing pesticide. “I believe in the system，” said Brent McClendon, president of The National Wooden Pallet and Container Association. He also said shipping containers are checked very carefully. Still, each year 13 million containers are shipped to the U. S. Each is full of wooden pallets. Lovett says: “Inspectors can’t possibly check everything. All it takes are a few bad pallets; we should get rid of wooden pallets.” He believes pallets should be made of plastic or eco-composite wood. Eco-composite wood is a mix of wood fiber and plastic. Insects cannot hide into it. One problem is that these choices cost more. They may be worth the extra money, though. Invasive pests cost the U.S. $5 billion a year. Trees don’t just die in forests. They also die in cities and our yards. Then, they need to be replaced. That costs money, too. 1.All the statements are TRUE except that ________. A. pesticide has been applied to bug-killing B. invasive pests are native to Wappinger Creek C. invasive pests hide in pallets used in shipping D. the companies making pallets don’t want more rules 2.What can we infer from the passage? A. Bugs can be easily spotted by eyes. B. Bugs ruin the shipping goods slowly. C. Even tiny bugs could be a threat to a tree. D. Bugs cover trees with white soft balls to protect tress. 3.Why does Gary Lovett want to get rid of wooden pallets? A. Because insects mostly die in them. B. Because plastic pallets are eco-friendly. C. Because they are not worth extra money. D. Because they are the major pest carriers. 4.What does the passage mainly talk about? A. Invasive pests are harming plants in the USA. B. Effective measures have stopped the pest invasion. C. Congress contributes a lot to dealing with invasive pests. D. Ecosystem in the USA is poorly damaged by invasive woods.
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While elephants born without tusks (长牙)are not unheard of，they normally form just 2 to 6 percent of the population. However, that is not the case at Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, where an astonishing 33 percent of female elephants born after the country’s civil war ended in 1992 are tuskless. While that may appear to be just a coincidence, Joyce Poole, an elephant behavior expert, has another theory. The researcher thinks we may be witnessing unnatural evolution of the species due to the constant hunting of elephants for valuable ivory. Poole says before the country’s 15-year-long civil war, the 100,000-acre park was home to over 4,000 elephants. However, by the time the conflict ended in 1992, about 90 percent of them had been killed for ivory to help finance weapons (武器)and meat to feed the soldiers. Of the less than 200 survivors, over 50 percent of adult females had no tusks. Therefore, it is not surprising that the park’s tuskless elephant population has grown greatly. This is not the first time researchers have observed a great change in the population of elephants. At Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park and Lupande Game Management Area， areas which were heavily hunted in the 1970s and 1980s, 35% of elephants 25 years or older and 13% of those younger than 25 are now without tusks. A 2008 study published found that the number of tuskless females at the Ruaha National Park in Tanzania went from 10.5 percent in 1969 to almost 40 percent in 1989, largely due to illegal hunting for ivory. The recent ban on ivory in both the US and China should help get rid of, or at least reduce, elephant hunting. However, scientists are not sure how long it will take for elephants with a higher rate of tuskless females, to change the trend. 1.What is the probable cause of the phenomenon mentioned in Paragraph 1 ? A. Illegal hunting. B. Constant farming. C. A pure coincidence. D. Natural evolution. 2.Why did people kill so many elephants during the civil war in Mozambique? A. To get funds by selling ivory. B. To develop new weapons. C. To provide food for local people. D. To make ivory products. 3.Which of the following had the earliest record on tuskless elephants? A. Gorongonsa National Park. B. South Luangwa National Park. C. The Ruaha National Park. D. Lupande Game Management Area. 4.What does the underlined phrase “the trend” in the last paragraph refer to? A. Elephants facing greater danger. B. Elephants growing more slowly. C. Fewer female elephants staying alive. D. More female elephants being tuskless.
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Can We Stop Food Longing Through Imaginary Eating? Are you fighting an urge to reach for chocolate? Then, let it melt in your mind, not in your mouth. According to the recent research, imagining eating a specific food reduces your interest in that food, so you eat less of it. This reaction to repeated exposure to food—being less interested in something because you’ve experienced it too much—is called habituation. 1. The research is the first to show that habituation can occur through the power of the mind. “If you just think about the food itself—how it tastes and smells—that will increase your appetite,” said Carey Morewedge, a well-known psychologist. “It might be better to force yourself to repeatedly think about chewing and swallowing the food in order to reduce your longing. 2. Visualizing yourself eating chocolate wouldn’t prevent you from eating lots of cheese,” he added. Morewedge conducted an interesting experiment. 51 subjects were divided into three groups. One group was asked to imagine putting 30 coins into a laundry machine and then eating three chocolates. 3. Another group was asked to imagine putting three coins into a laundry machine and then eating 30 chocolates. Lastly, a control group imagined just putting 33 coins into the machine—with no chocolates. 4. When they said they had finished, these were taken away and weighed. The results showed the group that had imagined eating 30 chocolates each ate fewer of the chocolates than the other groups. 5. Physical signals—that full stomach feeling—are only part of what tells us we’ve finished a meal. The research suggests that psychological effects, such as habituation, also influence how much a person eats. It may lead to new behavioral techniques for people looking to eat more healthily, or have control over other habits. A. What’s more, this only works with the specific food you’ve imagined. B. People were advised to try different methods to perform the experiment. C. For example, a tenth bite is desired less than the first bite, according to the study. D. All of them then ate freely from bowls containing the same amount of chocolate each. E. It meant those who repeatedly imagined eating would concern about some specific food. F. This requires the same motor skills as eating small chocolates from a packet, the study says. G. This study is part of the research looking into what makes us eat more than we actually need.
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I was at the post office early that morning, hoping to be in and out in a short while. Yet, I______ myself standing in a queue that went all the way into the hallway. I had never seen so many people there on a weekday. It seemed someone might have made an announcement, welcoming customers to carry as many ______ as they could and bring them in when I needed to have my own package ______. The queue moved very slowly. My patience ran out and I got______. The longer it took, the angrier I became. When I got to the counter finally, I finished my______quickly and briefly, and then walked past the queue that was now extending past the front door. “Excuse me,” I said, trying not to be too pushy. Several people had to move ______ to make room for me to get to the ______. I stepped out, complaining about the ______ conditions. Thinking I was going to be late for my dentist appointment, I headed into the parking lot. A woman was coming across the lot in my ______. She was walking with determination, and each step sounded very heavy. I ______ that she looked as if she could breathe fire. It stopped me in my tracks. I ______ myself and it wasn't pretty. Had I looked like that? Her body language said that she was having a ______ day. My anger melted away. I wished I could wrap her in a hug but I was a______. So I did what I could in a minute______ she hurried past me－I smiled. In a second everything changed. She was astonished, then somewhat ______.Then her face softened and her shoulders______. I saw her take a deep breath. Her pace slowed and she smiled back at me as we passed each other. I continued to smile all the way to my ______. Wow, it's amazing what a simple smile can do. From then on, I became aware of people's ______ and my own, the way we show our feelings. Now I use that ______ every day to let it ______ me that when facing the world, I can try a smile. 1.A. found B. helped C. troubled D. enjoyed 2.A. possessions B. packages C. chances D. dollars 3.A. lifted B. cashed C. weighed D. carried 4.A. pleased B. disappointed C. delighted D. annoyed 5.A. business B. choice C. situation D. attitude 6.A. away B. about C. along D. aside 7.A. counter B. cashier C. exit D. entrance 8.A. weather B. service C. work D. purchase 9.A. satisfaction B. decision C. direction D. imagination 10.A. announced B. discovered C. proved D. noticed 11.A. trusted B. recognized C. hid D. persuaded 12.A. rough B. bright C. big D. nice 13.A. gentleman B. stranger C. customer D. passenger 14.A. until B. though C. before D. since 15.A. attracted B. frightened C. excited D. confused 16.A. trembled B. raised C. relaxed D. tightened 17.A. car B. office C. home D. doctor 18.A. appearances B. reactions C. conversations D. expressions 19.A. treatment B. awareness C. conclusion D. achievement 20.A. remind B. show C. give D. tell
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阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题纸相应位置上。 Everyone likes to have friends 1. are trustworthy. When what we say matches what we do, we earn trust and friendship. On 2. contrary, once we break our word, nobody will ever trust us again. For example, if you are 3. untrustworthy worker, you are less likely 4. (get) a promotion. Therefore, the 5. (important) of keeping one's word cannot be stressed too much. I once had the unpleasant experience of someone breaking his promise to me. Last month, everyone in my class had to gather at school 6. 6:30 am for our 7.(graduate) trip. My friend Ben asked me to meet him at McDonald's at six, but he never showed up. I was 8. (depress) that when I called him, he told me he was already at school. I 9. (rush) straight there, but all my classmates still blamed me for delaying the trip. After that, I ended my 10. (friend) with Ben because I don't need friends who can't keep their word.
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假定英语老师要求同桌之间互相修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。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:在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意: 1.每处错误及其修改均仅限1词； 2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。 In my childhood, my parents sent me to learn Chinese calligraphy. However, things are quite opposite to their expectations. Not only I get bored with hours of practice but also I doubted about the valuable of it. Nevertheless, when I entered high school, write calligraphy proved both essential or beneficial. It was at that time when I realized how important it is to master a certain skill. Judging from my own experience, I want to say a few word to those children who have a same trouble as I did. Do not refuse to learn a skill when young, as at the long run you will find them helpful.
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假定你是李华，是校学生会主席，你校将举行校文化节，学校安排你写一封电子邮件，邀请外籍教授Black先生做关于中美文化差异的讲座。 要点:1.讲座时间:2019年5月16日下午15点到17点； 2.讲座地点:报告厅； 3.联系方式:englishtec@163.com。 注意:1.词数100左右； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 Dear Professor Black, ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua
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