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Apple Store Description Tap the Apple Store app on your iPhone or iPod touch, and you can do all things Apple.Buy Apple products and accessories(配件) and read customer reviews. Add free laser engraving and choose signature gift wrap on select products to make your items even more special. Find Apple Retail Stores, reserve select Apple products for pickup at your favorite store, and request help when you are at the store. Schedule Genius Bar and One to One reservations and check in for them when you arrive. The Apple Store app is also the easiest way to buy or reserve your new iPhone --- right from your current iPhone. You can do it in just a few taps, without entering your AT & T account information. Order your new iPhone from the Apple Online Store and it’s shipped to you free and ready to use. Or reserve your new iPhone, pick it up at an Apple Retail Store, and we’ll set it up for you in minutes. Apple Online Store Features •Explore new and featured products from Apple. •Buy a new iPhone and other Apple products, accessories, and software. •Add free personal engraving to any new iPad or iPod. •Choose signature gift wrapping for any iPad or iPod, select Mac notebooks, and select Apple software and accessories. •Read customer reviews and get answers to product questions. Apple Retail Store Features •Reserve iPhone and other select products for pick up. •Request help, check in for reservations, and receive meet-up alerts when you are at a store(iOS 4 required). •Make Genius Bar and One to One reservations. •Sign up for workshops and events. What’s New in Version 1.1 •Add engraving and gift wrapping to select purchases from the Apple Online Store. •Reserve products for pickup at an Apple Retail Store. •Check in for reservations and request help within stores(iOS 4 required). •Add Apple Retail Store reservations directly to iCal. Please note: With Location Services on and the Apple Store app open, Apple will use your location to identify nearby Apple Retail Stores and to offer additional services when you are in a store. If you have previously selected the Apple Store app using location but do not want this new feature, you can update your Location Services preferences in General Settings. 1.The text is intended to ______. A.recommend a new product of Apple B.inform the readers of Apple Store C.describe the function of Apple Store D.offer additional services to customers of Apple Store 2.Tap the Apple Store app on your iPhone, and you can _______. A.buy Apple products only B.get to any Apple Retail Store C.reserve iPhone products for pickup D.request help wherever you are 3.Which of the following is NOT the advantage of Apple Online Store? A.Reserve your new iPhone without entering your AT & T account information. B.Order your new iPhone and it’s shipped to you free and ready to use. C.Reserve your new iPhone and pick it up at an Apple Retail Store conveniently. D.Check in for reservations, and received meet-up alerts when you are at a store.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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单词拼写 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.
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单句填空 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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动词短语填空 1.He was late as a result of being held _____ in a traffic jam. 2.European leaders are unwilling to acknowledge the existence of the hidden economic threat to the whole Europe, let _____ deal with it effectively. 3.It is uncertain what side effect the GM food will bring ____, although some scientists consider it to be safe. 4.Not knowing when Zhang Yingying’s murder case would be solved, her mother broke ______ at the start of a recent court hearing. 5.After experiencing the initial failures, his career began to take _____. 6.Conventional wisdom has it that we should put _____ some money for rainy days when we have a lot in hand. 7.When asked about his childhood, the man choked _____. Obviously, it is a scar he doesn’t want to be touched. 8.I could have told the whole story to you if you hadn’t broken ____ so often. 9.His writing is so confusing that it is difficult to make ______ what he is trying to express. 10.The police combed _____ this area for the missing boy, but in vain.
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阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。 Human beings are smart. However, it seems that people are gradually losing their smartness as smartphones become more and more important assistants in their lives, reported news website Record Japan on Oct. 22. As we rely too much on technology instead of our brains, many people have lost three basic abilities, said the website. The first skill many people have lost is remembering phone numbers. Because phone numbers are stored in smart phone contacts, there's no need to dial a number or look at it again. And some people may also have lost their sense of direction because navigation apps can guide people anywhere they want to go. These apps can even find shortest routes for you and avoid traffic jams. But the worst lost skills may be social ones, meaning that some people are becoming socially inept(无能的）. People often bury themselves in their smart phones. As we're too addicted to what's happening in the virtual world, some of us have lost conversational skills and sometimes can't even tell whether a person is happy or not. In August, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, studied 51 students aged 11 and 12 who had over five hours' screen time every day. Their task was to tell the emotions of 48 pictures of faces that were happy, sad, angry or scared. The children made an average of 14.02 mistakes at the beginning. But after a five-day camp without electronic (电子的) products, they made only 9.41 mistakes on average. “If you’re not practicing face-to-face communication, you could be losing important social skills,” concluded professor Yalda Uhls from the research. Luckily, people still have a chance to get these abilities back. You should try to keep your parents' numbers in mind for emergencies. You should also pay more attention to street signs and stores, which will help you to draw a mind map and stop you from getting lost. And the easiest solution to social skill loss is to take a break from electronic devices because we are social creatures. We need device-free time. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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