Many of you are studying hard because you have to compete with many others in the upcoming national college entrance exam. But it may not occur to you that one of your competitors is a robot. An artificial intelligence(AI) robot will take part in the 2017 National College Entrance Exam, reported China Daily.
“The robot will sit three exams: math, Chinese, and a comprehensive test of liberal arts (文科), which includes history, politics and geography,” Lin Hui, CEO of an AI company in Chengdu. Like the others who take the exam, the robot will have to finish the tests in the given time. But instead of taking exams together with other students, the robot will take its exams in a closed room without anyone else present, except for proctors(监考人) and a notary(公证人). It is expected to be totally disconnected from the Internet and solve the problems with its AI program.
It’s believed that Chinese and the test of its liberal arts skills, rather than its math skills, will give the robot its biggest challenges. Questions in math are objective with specific answers, while in the other test subjects there are some subjective questions that test skills such as reading comprehension and essay writing.
The robot aims to be enrolled in one of the first-class Chinese universities in 2017, and then try to get into the more famous universities of Tsinghua or Peking University in 2020.
1.The author wrote the passage in order to ________.
A. lay more burden on Grade 3 students
B. inform readers of the explosive news
C. introduce the function of the robot
D. predict what robots will do in the future
2.What’s the main idea of the second paragraph?
A. The differences between the robot and other candidates.
B. The specific information about how the robot will take the exam.
C. The ideal universities of the robot.
D. The advantages the robot has.
3.Which is one of the biggest challenges for the robot candidate?
A. Math calculating B. Objective questions
C. Liberal arts skills D. Physics questions
4.Choose the correct one according to the passage.
A. The robot candidate will have its separate proctors
B. The robot will participate in Chinese, English, math and science
C. The robot is not designed to be admitted to universities
D. The robot connected from the Internet will sit for the college entrance exam
“Do you really want to eat that?” “Slow down. I’m worried about your healthy.” These were just a few of the much comments I received my parents. These and other comments made me find a personally trainer. The comments also made me feel terrible about my figure, what in turn caused unhealthy behavior included secret eating. Now, at 24 years old, I weigh 240 pound and I’m still getting those same comments from my family, despite a fact that I’ve asked them to stop. Such comments are really annoyed. I do hope that all parents will stop to saying such things to their children.
Last Friday, my friend David called me and invited me and our friend Tom to a party in his university. Tom and I are in1.same class. We both wanted to go to the party, but there was a problem--we’d have a final exam on the 2.(come) Monday.
“Don’t worry. We can come back on Sunday and won’t miss the exam,” really3.(want) to go to the party, Tom said. So I decided to go4.him.
The party was great and we5.(true) enjoyed ourselves there. However, we stayed up late on Saturday night and slept all day on Sunday and didn’t make it back to our university until Monday morning. We missed the exam. Then we went to our professor’s office and explained6.we missed the exam. We lied that there was a flat tire（车胎漏气）on our way back to the university. Our professor 7.(agree) that we could take the exam the following day.
When it was time to take the exam, Tom and I8.(take )to different rooms. After we opened the test paper, we saw only one question, “Which tire?”
Neither Tom nor I answered the question. Instead we told our professor the truth. Luckily, he later gave9.(we) the real test paper. And both Tom and I made a10.(decide): never to lie again.
When I was three years old, my parents discovered I was totally deaf. After consulting with many doctors, they made a decision about my ______. Instead of sending me to a private school for the deaf, they decided to send me to a ______ one.
From the first day there, the other kids _______ me and called me names ______ my hearing aid and the way I talked. I experienced great _________because, in addition to the problems of “fitting in” with the other students, I also struggled with my _________ I seemed to spend every spare moment doing homework just so I could __________. The teachers didn’t know what to do with me. Because of my hearing disability, I was constantly________ everyone, “What did he/she say?” But I _______that everyone would soon grow tired of repeating everything back to me. Since fitting in was so ________ to me, every time people around me laughed or smiled, I did the same even though I__________had no idea what was going on. On the surface, I was _______, but in reality, my self-esteem（自尊） was quite low. Mrs. Jordan, my 5th grade teacher, _______ all of that with a simple three-word phrase. One morning, she asked the class a question. I read her lips and _______raised my hand. I couldn’t________it –for once I knew the ______. But, when she called on me, I was_______. I took a deep breath and nervously answered Mrs. Jordan’s question.
I’ll never forget what __________ next. With sparkling eyes and a wide smile she cried, “That’s right, Stephen!” For the first time in my young life, I was an instant star. My heart burst with pride. I sat a little taller in my chair. My __________ soared（猛增） as never before. From that day forward, my______ and speech improved greatly and my popularity among my classmates increased.
1.A. performance B. journey C. career D. education
2.A. special B. new C. normal D. big
3.A. laughed at B. talked about C. waited for D. thought of
4.A. except for B. because of C. instead of D. according to
5.A. anxiety B. fear C. regret D. shock
6.A. friendship B. schoolwork C. singing D. dancing
7.A. get out B. speed up C. grow up D. keep up
8.A. reminding B. helping C. asking D. doubting
9.A. ensured B. expected C. imagined D. worried
10.A. easy B. natural C. important D. strange
11.A. finally B. usually C. gradually D. regularly
12.A. smart B. flexible C. outgoing D. energetic
13.A. explained B. supported C. covered D. changed[
14.A. immediately B. frequently C. luckily D. carefully
15.A. have B. believe C. remember D. make
16.A. answer B. rule C. plan D. secret
17.A. angry B. quiet C. afraid D. helpless
18.A. arrived B. improved C. began D. happened
19.A. confidence B. memory C. kindness D. patience
20.A. experiments B. grades C. relationships D. conditions
How to keep a nearly lost friendship alive
There are times when a friendship has to go through huge tests. It is a battle between staying together and moving away from each other. 1.More often than not, it is pride that destroys a friendship.
Relax your pride. This is easy to say, but very difficult to do. You may ask yourself, “Why should I say sorry when he does not show any regret for what he has done?”
2.If you find yourself saying any of these things, you should understand that it is your pri
de talking. Allowing your pride to control your feelings will leave you bitter and confused.
Talk about the problem. Face the problem calmly. 3. it may sound silly, but it could certainly heal the wounds that you have caused each other. If you avoid facing the problem, your pain will only grow. Remember, you want to keep the friendship and not worsen the problem.
Laugh about it. 4. After some time, when both of you have become calm and renewed your confidence in each other, go back to the time when you had nearly fallen apart. Laugh about your foolishness, and promise to never let pride take over your friendship.
Friendship is a valuable thing. 5.Rapport（融洽的关系）is what creates a friendship. Love, understanding, acceptance and forgiveness are what lead to a long-lasting friendship.
A. Try to save your friendship.
B. It cannot be bought or demanded.
C. It is often said that laughter is the best medicine.
D. Do not wait for the other person to make the first move.
E. There are many complex reasons why a friendship falls out.
F. Write a letter and read it out loud to the other person.
G. You may also say, “I have not done anything wrong, and I don’t want to say sorry.”
My name is Kenn Nesbitt and I’m a poet. I started writing poems as a hobby in 1994. At the time, I never gave any thought to publishing them; I just wrote for my own amusement. But it was so much fun that I ended up writing a lot of poems, which led me to the idea of creating a website, and at last writing books. If you want to write poems, I have some advice for you.
My ideas mostly come from my imagination. That is, I like to sit and daydream, and see what kinds of crazy things I can think up. For kids, I suggest that whenever you think of an idea, you should write it down, even if you don’t have time write them to create a whole poem from your idea. I have notebooks full of ideas that I haven’t written poems about yet. So I can always look through my notebooks and find something fun to write about.
One way to make poems interesting is to write about things readers can understand: school, family, food, pets, games, sports, and so on. To make a poem funny, I often ask myself, “What kinds of funny things might happen at school, or over dinner? What funny things might your pets do?” and it’s OK to make things up, such as having a pet elephant, or a pet that plays video games. Use your imagination and see where it leads. But the best advice I can give kids is not to just write one poem, it might be a great one, or maybe not so good. But if you write ten poems, you’ll probably find that, even though they aren’t all perfect, a few of them are much better than the others.
1.Why did the author start writing poems at first?
A. To publish them. B. To entertain himself.
C. To contribute to a website. D. To kill time.
2.What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2?
A. How to write poems. B. How to think up crazy things.
C. How to get ideas for poems. D. How to become creative.
3.According to the author, what is the best advice he can give us?
A. Just write great poems. B. Write as many as possible.
C. Make poems as funny as possible. D. Try to make things up in your poems.
4.Where does the author come from?
A. America B. China C. Germany D. not mentioned
5.What’s the author’s purpose of writing the text?
A. To suggest some poems written by him.
B. To show writing poems isn’t that hard.
C. To tell readers how to write poems.
D. To explain how he writes poems.
