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[1] It’s Friday evening. My daughters sighed (叹息) when I gently took the iPads away from their laps. One by one, our screens were turned off. We lit the candles and sat down to have a big meal.
[2] We call it our “Technology Shabbat”(科技安息日) which lasts from sunset(日落) on Friday to sunset on Saturday. Now most friends know they will not be able to contact(联系) us by using computers or mobile phones for 24 hours.
[3] I first understood the importance of “Technology Shabbat” in 2008, when my father had got brain cancer. Some days he would have only one good hour, and the only thing I wanted to do was to be with him. When I looked (4) ①______ my father, I turned off my mobile phone.
[4] Soon after that, my husband and I decided to turn off all the electronic things for one full day every week.
[5] During our “Technology Shabbat”, time slows down. Our Saturdays now feel like mini-vacations. We drive cars or ride bikes. We work in the garden, play board games and cook meals with our kids. I feel like a better mother, wife and person.
[6] Keeping a balance(平衡) between the good and the (4) ②______ of technology is important for my family. The technology helps us share knowledge and funny ideas all over the world. But the technology also takes something away from us. When we (4) ③______ up late at night linking(连接) from website to website or sending messages, we click(点击) again and again until we have been overloaded(超负荷的).
[7] Now we’re rushing into the time full of high technology. (5) We should pay attention to what we are doing online and when we should go offline.
[8] I will always remember the most important thing in my family: Technology Shabbat.
1.When is “Technology Shabbat” in the writer’s family? (No more than 10 words)
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2.What did the writer and her husband decide to do after her father got cancer? (No more than 18 words)
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3.What’s the good of technology according to the passage? (No more than 15 words)
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4.Fill in each blank with one proper word.
①____________ ②____________ ③____________
5.Translate the underlined sentence in the seventh paragraph into Chinese.
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6.Do you like the idea of “Technology Shabbat”? Why or why not? (No more than 25 words)
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To save people’s lives, the doctors and scientists are risking their lives to do ________(医学的) research.
Our teachers often encourage us to face the difficulties ________(勇敢地) and try to overcome them.
We Chinese held many activities to celebrate our country's 70th birthday on O________ 1st, 2019.
In recent years, a growing number of Chinese books and movies have been translated into other languages.1. They have been learning Chinese and are interested in Chinese culture. Anna is one of them, Before she translated Jin Yong’s novel Legends of the Candor Heroes (《射雕英雄传》), the writer was little known to English readers.2.
But Anna managed to do it. Impressed (使……印象深刻) by the book’s themes (主题) of good against evil, loyalty (忠诚) and love, as well as Chinese philosophy (哲学), Anna hoped to bring it to new readers. After five years of work, the translated book was published in 2018.3. Many people think Anna did a good job.
Anna studied at the University of Oxford.4. After the trip she became interested in China and began to learn Chinese. She calls herself “a clumsy (笨拙的) student, just like Guo Jing from Legends of the Condor Heroes, but one of loyal heart”.
5. Last year, he translated the animated movie Ne Zha. He said, “I see China’s stronger cultural influences. And we have a growing number of students majoring in Chinese. More Chinese stories will appear in front of new audiences.”
A.Like Anna, another translator David also learned Chinese in college.
B.She took a trip to China at the age of 21.
C.Many of the translators are young people.
D.One reason for this was that his works were too hard to translate.
E.It was reprinted (再版) seven times within several months in the UK.
To many people, art is a human expression of creativity. But in recent years, you may have read news about artificial intelligence(AI)creating its own art, such as painting or writing poems. Some people worry that AI might someday replace(替代)artists.
But this worry seems to be unnecessary, at least for now. Many artists today are turning AI into a useful tool. Instead of replacing artists, AI is bringing artists more possibilities.
A piece of music created by AI recently attracted attention. AI was used to create the music based on the protein(蛋白质)structure of COVID-19. The music lasted nearly two hours. The project was led by Markus Buehler, an American musician and MIT professor(教授)of engineering. He assigned (指定) a unique note (独特的音符) to each amino acid (氨基酸) is the protein. The AI then translated these notes into music.
Listeners found the project “mind-blowing”. “It allows me to see the virus in a new way,” said one listener. This surprising combination (结合) between science and art could not be achieved without AI. As The Verge wrote, “AI helps artists play around in unpredictable ways, creating things beyond (超过) what they have ever thought was possible before.”
Apart from creating imaginative works, AI can also take care of repetitive (重复乏味的) tasks for artists. For example, in the comic and cartoon industries, there are now AI tools that can automatically (自动) color in black-and-white line drawings. Although the results can be unpredictable and require a little cleanup. it can give artists room to experiment (实验) by cutting down the time it takes to color each picture.
As Peter Ward wrote for The Culture Trip. “Art of every kind has always been influenced by technological developments.” AI can become a useful tool to bring change to the art world if it’s welcomed and not unfairly feared.
1.According to the passage, AI can’t ________ now.
A.write poems B.paint C.replace artists D.create music
2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the third and fourth paragraphs?
A.AI created a piece of music about COVID-19.
B.Many of AI’s art creations are beyond artists’ imagination.
C.Science and art can be combined with the help of AI.
D.Markus Buehler was not a professor of engineering, but a musician.
3.The underlined phrase “Apart from” in the fifth paragraph can be replaced by “________”.
A.Besides B.Instead of C.Because of D.According to
4.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A.Technological developments have greatly influenced people’s daily life.
B.AI has been widely used in science research.
C.AI is bringing more help to the art world as a useful tool.
D.AI’s creativity has caused more and mare worries.