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The Chinese government has decided to end its one-child per family policy and let families have two children. A statement gives the reasons for the change, ___1.___ (say) it is meant to balance population development, stop a declining birth rate and strengthen the country’s work force.
China ___2.__ (carry)out the one-child policy in 1980. But the government permitted a small number of __3.___ (couple) to have two children. For example, some rural families were given approval to have two children if the first-born was a girl. In 2013, the government permitted other families to have two if one parent was __4.__ only child.
A teacher and population expert, Jiang Quanbao, explains how Chinese families will react __5._ the policy. “Many young people in the cities are ___6.___ (probable) not interested in having a second child,” he says. “People in rural villages may be __7.__ (much) interested, but some of them are already allowed to have two children.”
At the end of 2014, China had a population of 1.37 billion people, a total of 800 million of __8.___ are employed. But that job market population is expected ___9.___(drop) by 2050. With the two-child policy, the labo10.__ (short) will be relieved, starting in 20 years.
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If you ever have a chance to go to Finland, you’ll probably be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.
Take the taxi drivers for example．You can go ___ ___ on a journey, tell the driver to ______ you at any place, say that you have some business to ___ ___, and that you will pay the taxi driver later. He will agree without any ______ but just accept your words in good ______.
The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their ______, but also provide food for outside ______．Hotel guests have their meals free , so they _____ go to the free dining rooms to have their meals, and the ______ they would do to show their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter．With such ______ check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends to wine and dine free of ______.
Finnish workers are paid by the hour．If you work in Finland and have ______ the boss on the hourly rate, then you just say how many hours you have worked and you’ll be paid ______.
With so many loop holes in every day life, surely Finland must be a good country to those who ______ to take “petty advantages”．But the ______ thing is, all the taxi passengers always come back to pay their _____ after they have attended to their business; not a ______ outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms; workers always give the exact hours they have ______．．．As the Finns always act on good faith and always have a (an) ______ of “right is right” and “wrong is wrong” in every thing they do, so to live in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”.
What we regarded as “foolish” is ______ the Finnish people’s way of life．
1.A. somewhere B. anywhere C. sometime D. anytime
2.A. stop B. pass C. drop D. pick
3.A. attend to B. take care C. take up D. appeal to
4.A. guarantee B. anxiety C. passenger D. money
5.A. smile B. place C. seat D. faith
6.A. meals B. visitors C. guests D. cards
7.A. waiters B. diners C. drivers D. workers
8.A. naturally B. respectively C. secretly D. contently
9.A. best B. worst C. most D. least
10.A. strict B. complete C. troublesome D. loose
11.A. registration B. care C. charge D. noise
12.A. paid for B. debated with C. talked about D. agreed with
13.A. accordingly B. reluctantly C. separately D. automatically
14.A. hesitate B. hate C. love D. refuse
15.A. strange B. confusing C. complex D. imaginative
16.A. business B. trip C. fine D. fare
17.A. single B. faithful C. familiar D. usual
18.A. worked on B. put in C. spent on D. run out
19.A. religion B. law C. idiom D. attitude
20.A. eventually B. accidentally C. actually D. temporarily
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When we think about the dreams we have, it is surprising to see how many people failed even if they could have succeeded. So today I’m going to tell you five ways to kill your dreams.
Believe in overnight success.
Everyone knows the story of a tech guy who built a mobile app and sold it for a lot of money. ___1.__ If you investigate further, you will find that he is well educated and has been working on the project for 20 years. Therefore, your overnight success is always a result of what you’ve done in your life.
__2.___
Constantly, people around you always have opinions on which path you should take. But whichever way you choose, there are other ways you have to pick as well. And one day you need to solve those problems yourself.
Decide to rest when success is guaranteed.
When your life is going great and everything is set—time to rest. Actually, when you’re growing towards a peak, you need to work even harder and find yourself another peak. If you were content with what you’ve accomplished, it would stop you from a greater success. __3.__
Believe the fault is someone else’s.
I constantly see people saying, “I created this great product, but the market is so bad.” If you have dreams, it’s your responsibility to make them happen. Yes, the market may be bad. But if no one bought your product, surely there is something there that is your fault. __4.__
Believe that the only things that matter are the dreams themselves.
Achieving a dream is a short moment, but your life is not. __5.___ And the only way to really achieve all of your dreams is to fully enjoy every step of your journey.
A. When we face difficulties, believe in ourselves.
B. The overnight success inspires so many people.
C. The story may seem real, but I bet it’s incomplete.
D. Be responsible for your own dreams.
E. Life is never about the goals themselves.
F. There’s no time to settle down.
G. Believe someone else has the answers for you.
Do you suffer from cybersickness？
The rise of mobile phones has been blamed for a number of social ills, but your smart phone may also be making you physically sick as well. Scientists have identified a condition called “cybersickness”, which they say is the digital version of motion sickness. The phenomenon, which affects up to 80 percent of the population who own smart phones or tablets, leads to feelings of sickness and unsteadiness. It is caused by seeing fast motion on a screen, which covers anything from a car chase in a film to scrolling through web pages on your phone.
The more realistic the visual content appears to you, the higher your chances of getting cybersickness are . The condition was identified in a piece in the New York Times in which British and US experts said that it needed solving. Motion sickness leaves sufferers feeling ill because they feel movement in your muscles and your inner ear but do not see it. The mismatch in digital sickness is the opposite—you see movement on the screen but do not feel it. The effect is the same and the symptoms include a headache, wanting to throw up, confusion and the need to sit down. Often cybersickness shows itself in a subtle way and sufferers put it down to stress or eyestrain.
Steven Rauch, a professor of otolaryngology（耳鼻喉科学） at Harvard Medical School, said: “Your sense of balance is different from other senses in that it has lots of inputs. When those inputs don’t agree, that’s when you feel dizziness and sickness. ”
Some studies that have been carried out into cybersickness found that women are more susceptible than men, the New York Times reported. Those who have Type A’ personalities—meaning they are confident and determined—are more likely to suffer from cybersickness as well. Among those who have reported experiencing the condition have been video gamers who spend hours playing fast paced games. Engineers at Oculus VR, the virtual headset manufacturer, have admitted that digital motion sickness is one of their biggest problems.
1.From the text, we know that cybersickness ______.
A. is completely equal to motion sickness
B. affects up to 80% of the population.
C. leads to people’s feelings of sickness and unsteadiness
D. is caused by seeing fast moving objects around
2.What’s the difference between motion sickness and digital sickness?
A. Digital sickness means sufferers see movement but do not feel it.
B. Digital sickness means sufferers feel movement but do not see it.
C. Motion sickness means sufferers see movement but do not feel it.
D. Motion sickness means sufferers don’t see or feel movement
3.What does the underlined word “susceptible” in the last paragraph mean?
A. likely to accept B. likely to be affected
C. likely to suspect D. likely to be cured
4.This passage is most probably ____________.
A. a science fiction B. a newspaper ad
C. a book review D. a science news report
In 1959, when Jean Harper was in the third grade, her teacher gave the class an assignment to write a report on what they wanted to be when they grew up. She poured her heart into her report and expressed her dream of becoming an airline pilot. Her paper came back with an "F" on it. The teacher told her it was a "fairy tale". Jean was heartbroken and ashamed. As the years went by, Jean was beaten down by the discouragement and negativity she encountered whenever she talked about her dream. "Girls can't become airline pilots; never have, never will. You're crazy. That's impossible. "Finally Jean gave up.
In her senior year of high school, her English teacher was a Mrs. Dorothy Slaton, a demanding teacher with high standards. One day Mrs. Slaton asked this question: "If you had unlimited finances, unlimited access to the finest schools, unlimited talents and abilities, what would you do?" Jean felt a rush of the old enthusiasm, and with excitement she wrote down the very old dream.
The next thing that Mrs. Slaton said changed the course of Jean's life. The teacher leaned forward over her desk and said, "I have a little secret for you. You do have unlimited abilities and talents. When you leave school, if you don't go for your dreams, no one will do it for you. You can have what you want if you want it enough."
The hurt and fear of years of discouragement disappeared all of a sudden. Jean felt thrilled and told her about her dream of becoming a pilot. Mrs. Slaton slapped the desk top. "Then do it!" she said.
So Jean did. It didn't happen overnight. In her l0 years of hard work, even facing varieties of laugh, frustration and opposition, she never gave up her dream. Instead, she went on doing everything her third-grade teacher said was fairy-tale.
Eventually, Jean Harper became a Boeing 737 captain for the United Airline Company.
1.Jean’s third-grade teacher thought her dream to be ____________.
A. great B. impossible
C. challenging D. reasonable
2.Mrs. Slaton may hold the view that _____________.
A. only some of her students have great potential
B. her students are good enough to be admitted to the best schools
C. belief contributes to realizing a dream
D. Jean was to have her dream realized
3.According to the passage, we can infer that___________.
A. Jean’s dream was always in her deep heart
B. Jean owed her success to all her teachers
C. most people around Jean approved of her dream
D. Jean achieved her dream with ease
4.Which is the best title of the passage?
A. A Respectable Teacher B. How to Realize a Dream
C. Hard Work Pays off D. Reach for the Sky
Writing one or two articles a day is a fair goal for a human writer. By contrast, the Wordsmith platform can produce up to 2,000 articles a second! Wordsmith is one example of natural language-generation software, often referred to as a robot journalist. To be fair, the software doesn’t start from the beginning, like a human writer might. Instead, the software takes a set of structured data and transforms it into readable text.
Natural language-generation software, such as Wordsmith and Quill, does its work by identifying trends and highlights in sets of data. The software then searches its own dictionary for the words to express its findings.
Why keep human writers around
Although this type of software writes faster than any human, it requires sets of structured data to work. That’s why it’s especially useful for writing earnings reports and other types of “dry” writing. Humans, on the other hand, are good at turning their unstructured thoughts directly into prose. The reports produced by Wordsmith and Quill read naturally, and they can match the tone of human writers. But for now, the robot journalists probably won’t steal many jobs or win any Pulitzer Prizes!（普利策奖）
Current applications of natural language-generation software
Financial reports: The software is commonly used by banks or traders to analyze large amounts of financial data and then produce reports in plain English.
Health and fitness: The software can turn data gathered from wearable devices or fitness trackers into personalized reports. The writing tone can even be adjusted to sound more encouraging!
Sports reporting: The software is often used to turn real baseball, basketball and football statistics into exciting stories.
1.What does natural Language-generation software refer to?
A. The Wordsmith platform.
B. A robot journalist.
C. A special dictionary.
D. Articles written by computer.
2.Natural language-generation software can_________.
A. discover the world’s focuses through the Internet
B. write well enough to win Pulitzer Prizes
C. produce articles in a tone similar to human’s
D. write such beautiful prose as human writers
3.We can learn from the passage that natural Language-generation software ________.
A. has taken the place of human writers currently
B. is only able to turn structured data into dry reports
C. is widely used in all the fields
D. works properly only with the help of sets of structured data
4.Nowadays Natural language-generation software is seldom used by_________.
A. schools B. banks
C. hospitals D. newspapers
