Although there is more female participation in IT workforce,______ a significant imbalance of male and female senior positions.
A.it remains B.there remains
C.there remaining D.that remains
You should take control of your life _________ it is planning coursework or picking a major.
A.whenever B.whether C.whatever D.no matter
— David has made great progress recently.
— _________, and _________.
A.So he has ... so you have B.So he has ... so have you
C.So has he ... so do you D.So has he ... so you have
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假设你是明启中学的李华，你在美国的朋友 Chris 写信询问你和你的伙伴们是怎样度过今年特殊的春节的，请给Chris 写一封电子邮件，邮件必须包含以下内容
1.今年的春节和往年不同的地方
2.你和你的伙伴们选择的度过方式和活动
3.你的感受
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Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1.这公司推广的新电子设备无法满足本地学生的需要。（meet）
2.我从未想到会有如此多的人在短时间内感染上这么严重的病毒。（Never）
3.无论采用何种销售策略，这个想要诓骗青少年的项目必然不攻自破。（intend）
4.尽管宅在家，只要营养膳食，规律作息，每日线上练习，高三学生一定能取得最终成功。（despite）
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Would a person born blind, who has learned to distinguish objects by touch, be able to recognize them purely by sight if he regained the ability to see? The question, known as Molyneux’s problem, is about whether the human mind has a built-in concept of shapes that is so innate(天生的) that such a blind person could immediately recognize an object with restored vision. The alternative is that the concepts of shapes are not innate but have to be learned by exploring an object through sight, touch and other senses.
After their attempt to test it in blind children failed, Lars Chittka of Queen Mary University of London and his colleagues have taken another attempt at finding an answer, this time using another species. To test whether bumblebees can form an internal representation of objects, they first trained the insects to distinguish globes from cubes using a sugar reward. The bees were trained in the light, where they could see but not touch the objects. Then they were tested in the dark, where they could touch but not see the globes or cubes. The researchers found that the bumblebees spent more time in contact with the shape they had been trained to associate with the sugar reward, even though they had to rely on touch rather than sight to distinguish the objects.
The researchers also did the reverse test with untrained bumblebees, first teaching them with rewards in the dark and then testing them in the light. Again, the bees were able to recognize the shape associated with the sugar reward, though they had to rely on sight rather than touch in the test. In short, bees have solved Molyneux's problem because the fact suggests that they can picture object features and access them through sight or touch.
However, some experts express their warnings. Jonathan Birch, a philosopher of science, cautions that the bees may have had prior experience associating visual and tactile(触觉的) information about straight edges and curved surfaces in the context of their nests, so it is not possible to eliminate the possibility that some of the cross-sensory concept is learned rather than innate.
