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Last Monday, the students at an elementary school welcomed a new student. He was not shy at all and seemed 1. (recognize) all kids by their names immediately . You may wonder who can do that. Well, the new student was not a human2.a robot. The 1.2 meter tall student is part of a robot experiment. The experiment is to test3.if robots can naturally deal with a group of people.
4.(compare) to other students, the robot appeared to be smarter than his “classmates”, because he was programmed with the facial5.(photo) and voiceprints of all kids and teachers there. Also, he 6.design) with the contents of all the textbooks. As 7.result, he impressed everyone by answering every question 8. (correct).
In fact, this is not the first time the robot 9. (be) around humans. In the past years he has done many tasks, one of 10. was accompanying patients at hospital.
Oxford and Cambridge have decided to remove the words CAN”T and IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionaries. Cox, 25, a girl born without arms, stands inside a(n) ____. Although she was born without arms, that has _______ stopped her from doing one thing: using the _____ “can’t”.
Cox got the Sport Pilot certificate recently and became the first pilot licensed to _____ using only her feet. She made what’s seemingly _____ become a reality. Her certificate______ her to fly a light sport aircraft of 10,000 feet.
“She’s a good pilot and she’s strong,” said Parrish, the flying _____ at San Manuel’s Ray Blair Airport. Parrish _____ a company of PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and has trained many pilots, some of whom didn’t come close to Cox’s _____. “When she came up here driving a car,” Parrish recalled, “I knew she’d have no _____ flying a plane…”
Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she _____ early on that she didn’t want to use prosthetic（假体的）_____.
Not only did Cox _____ a license to fly airplanes on October 10, 2008, but she also has a college degree in psychology, and a successful _____ as a motivational speaker. What doesn’t Cox have? Arms. From _____ on, her feet became her hands. She can drive a car and fly an airplane using her feet, without any _____ adaptations.
“I highly encourage people with _____ were confident enough to consider flying,” Cox said, “It helps _____ the traditional idea that people with disabilities are powerless into the belief that they are_______and capable of setting high _____ and achieving them.”
1.A. aircraft B. wheelchair C. armchair D. microscope
2.A. still B. almost C. only D. yet
3.A. meaning B. motto C. speech D. word
4.A. leap B. jog C. fly D. flee
5.A. awesome B. impossible C. grand D. theoretical
6.A. scans B. drags C. bumps D. qualifies
7.A. instructor B. companion C. fellow D. architect
8.A. conducts B. resigns C. runs D. designs
9.A. ability B. boundary C. satisfaction D. disability
10.A. ambition B. courage C. affection D. problem
11.A. speeded up B. figured out C. took up D. marked out
12.A. cushions B. tanks C. devices D. scanners
13.A. earn B. observe C. abolish D. envy
14.A. awareness B. reflection C. assessment D. career
15.A. time B. then C. birth D. now
16.A. immediate B. physical C. flexible D. special
17.A. faiths B. disabilities C. purposes D. decisions
18.A. transform B. suck C. scare D. urge
19.A. generous B. responsible C. powerful D. independent
20.A. spirits B. goals C. attempts D. profits
Training for a marathon (马拉松) requires careful preparation and steady, gradual increases in the length of the runs. 1., buy the best-fitting running shoes you can find. No one can say which brand will work best for you or feel best on your feet, so you have to rely on your experience and on the feel of each pair as you shop. When you have found shoes that seem right, walk in them for a few days to double-check the fit. 2.. As always, you should stretch (伸展) at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.
During the first week, do not think about distance, but run five minutes longer each day. 3., it is wise to take a day off to rest. But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run. 4.. After two weeks, start timing yourself. 5.. Depending on the kind of race you plan to enter, you can set up a timetable for the remaining weeks before the race.
A. After six days
B. For a good marathon runner
C. Before you begin your training
D. With each day, increase the distance by a half mile
E. If they still feel good, you can begin running in them
F. Time spent for preparation raises the quality of training
G. Now you are ready to figure out a goal of improving distance and time
What do you do when you need to look something up? Go to the library? Open an encyclopedia(百科全书)? Click onto the Internet? These days, most people go straight to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. But how reliable is it?
There’s no denying the popularity and usefulness of Wikipedia. It attracts as many as 78 million visitors every month, and the site is available in more than 270 different languages. It’s one of the most comprehensive resources available, which includes almost all details, facts and information that may be concerned. It’s got much more information than an ordinary encyclopedia. The site is updated on a daily basis by thousands of people around the world. Anyone with an Internet connection can log on and edit the contents or add a new page. And you don’t need any formal training.
Of course, there are some controls. Wikipedia has a team of more than 1,500 administrators who check for false information. And main targets for harmful comments(such as politicians) are off-limits to public editing. But with more than 16 million articles to keep an eye on, it isn’t easy. So, while Wikipedia benefits from being constantly updated with information from all over the world, it’s also open to “vandals”（恣意破坏公共财物者）.
Some of the damage is easy to notice. One person drew devil horns and a moustache on Microsoft chairman Bill Gate’s photo, while another edited Greek philosopher Plato’s biography to say he was a “Hawaiian weather man who is widely believed to have been a student of ‘Barney the purple Dinosaur’.
But other things are harder to spot. The most common form of vandalism (恣意破坏公共财物罪)involves adding tiny items of false information into the biography of a famous person. Unbelievably, some of this misinformation has appeared in newspapers, with The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Independent all having fallen victim to the dirty tricks. For example, in an article about British comedian Sir Norman Wisdom, one newspaper claimed that he co-wrote Dame Vera Lynn’s wartime hit There’ll be bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover. He did no such thing. And in other article, it was reported that TV Theme tune composer Ronnie Hazlehurst had written the S Club 7’s hit Reach again, not true. So, if you’re going to use any information from Wikipedia, make sure you double-check it first.
1.We can we learn from the passage?
A. Updated by 78 million people around the world, Wikipedia is sure to be attacked.
B. Thanks to its popularity and convenience, Wikipedia is available in 1500 languages.
C. Anyone who has access to the Internet can edit any contents of Wikipedia as they like.
D. The primary job of the administrators is to guarantee information conveyed is accurate.
2.What’s the writer’s attitude to Wikipedia according to the text?
A. Critical. B. Objective.
C. Satisfied D. Supportive
3.The main purpose of the last two paragraphs is to tell us that______
A. All items of false information are not easy to get spotted.
B. Information about famous people is likely to be inaccurate.
C. No matter how famous the papers are, they will be cheated.
D. You can never be careful enough while updating information online.
4.What can be used as a suitable title for the text?
A. Why Wikipedia Is So Popular?
B. Wikipedia Is Reliable to Use
C. How to Look up Information in Wikipedia?
D. Wikipedia Has Advantages and Disadvantages
The ocean bottom, a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the earth, is even today largely unexplored. Until about a century ago, the deep ocean floor was completely inaccessible and hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally without light and in the case of intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the earth’s surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a strange environment to humans, in some way, as fighting and remote as the outer space.
Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks for over a century, the first detailed global study of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1969, with the beginning of the National Science Foundation’s Deep Sea Drilling Project(DSDP). Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDP’s drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean’s surface and drill very deep waters, taking samples of rocks from the ocean floor.
The Glomar Challenger completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, it sailed 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 samples of rocks around the world. Those samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of years ago and to make out what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challenger’s voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics (构造学) and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes.
The sample of rocks drilled by the Glomar Challenger has also provided a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years. The information of past climatic change can be used to predict the future climate.
1.What does the underlined word “inaccessible” in paragraph1 mean?
A. unrecognizable. B. unreachable.
C. unusable. D. unreasonable
2.The Deep Sea Drilling Project was significant because it was _____.
A. an attempt to find new sources of oil and gas
B. supported entirely by the gas and oil industry
C. conducted by geologists from all over the world
D. the first detailed exploration of the ocean bottom
3.What can we know about the Glomar Challenger?
A. It provided a record of past climatic change.
B. It took almost 600,000 samples of rocks
C. It made its first DSDP voyage in 1968.
D. It has gone on over 100 voyages.
Arthur Miller(1915-2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists（剧作家） of the 20th century. Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression (大萧条时期) of the early 1930s.
Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators (标志) of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with his system, Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment (情绪): if he can’t do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.
When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It was the first play to win all the three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
1.Why did Arthur Miller’s father move to the USA?
A. His family business failed.
B. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.
C. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream”.
D. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.
2.What do we learn about Willy Loman in the play Death of a Salesman?
A. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.
B. He is a victim of the American system.
C. He runs the Wagner Company.
D. He treats his employer badly.
3.After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman _____.
A. achieved huge success
B. won the first Tony Award
C. was warmly welcomed by salesmen
D. was severely attacked by dramatists
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. Arthur Miller and his family.
B. The awards Arthur Miller won.
C. Arthur Miller and his best-known play.
D. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.
