Mini Cooper introduced its fastest street legal model yet at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week.
Mini has already decided that the car number 0001 will go to a customer in the United States, but hasn’t decided yet how to choose who will get it. It will not be decided through an auction (拍卖). said Mike Peyton, Mini’s vice president for the Americas.
On this Mini John Cooper Works GP, the fender flares (轮眉) are made from carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic. The material is recycled waste left over from the production of BMW i3 and i8. The rear wing is actually two wings combined and provides downforce at the back of the car to keep it pressed to the ground at high speeds. The turbocharged four-cylinder engine is the most powerful that has ever been used in a Mini. It has 75 horsepower more than the next most-powerful Mini John Cooper Works model.
The John Cooper Works GP has a special eight-speed automatic transmission, according to the company. It also has paddle shifters (换档器) on the steering wheel so the driver can shift modes by hand. To save weight, the car only has front seats which are special light weight sports seats.
There’s no choice of paint color on this Mini Cooper. The cars will be painted in Racing Gray, with the mirrors finished in Melting Silver.
The cars are named for John Cooper, a racing driver and race car designer who worked with the British Motor Corporation to create performance versions of the original Minis in the 1960s. Those cars became extremely popular with car racers.
Details:
Engine power: 301 horsepower
Top speed: 165 miles an hour
Amount: 3000
Time of production: July, 2020
Price: starting about: $45,000
1.What makes this Mini Cooper environment friendly?
A.Parts of it are made from waste.
B.It’s completely powered by electricity.
C.Its fender flares are produced by BMW.
D.Its ownership won’t be decided through an auction.
2.The new Mini Cooper doesn’t provide ________.
A.manual shifters B.backseats
C.back wings D.automatic modes
3.We can know from the passage that the new Mini Cooper ________.
A.is designed by John Cooper
B.mainly aims at car racers
C.is not yet on the market
D.will be produced in the British Motor Corporation
假如你是晨光中学的李津，为配合学校的科技月活动，你校英语社团的微信公众号开展征文活动。要求同学们写一篇英语短文，介绍我国科学家设计的一款生活型智能机器人。现请你投稿，文章内容包括：
1. 简要介绍这款生活型智能机器人。
2. 谈谈这款生活智能机器人的功能（至少写2点）
3. 说明生活型机器人的意义。
注意：1. 词数不要少于100。
2. 可适当加入细节，使内容充实，行文连贯。
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：智能机器人intelligent robot
June 10, 2020
Here I would like to introduce a new type of intelligent household robot to you.
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David Carter stands outside of the University of Texas’ Austin campus every day, offering the same warm greeting to students who pass by. “Hello, my friend!”
Carter, now 68, is a beggar who once attended the school from 1972 to L975. Then, he was involved in a crash and got serious injuries. He then had trouble with substance abuse and faced mental health challenges, leading him to drop out before completing his degree.
“If I could change one thing about my past life, I would have stayed in school,” Carter says. He says he knows an education can change someone’s quality of life.
Carter had to beg in the last few years fora simple reason. “I’m always flat broke,” he said. While most people would walk right by a beggar, Ryan Chandler, a junior at the university, decided to stop and chat with Carter-and he learned a valuable lesson: You can’t judge a book by its cover.
“A lot of UT students see them as criminal vagrants (无业游民,乞丐) or think that they are dangerous or unfriendly, and that idea just isn’t true,” says Chandler.
Chandler got to know Carter and saw his potential. “He completed 87 hours of course credits, which is enough for a degree for most people, but he just never finished,” Chandler says.
The student wrote a blog post about his new friend, and luckily, the right people heard about Carter and stepped in to help. The University of Texas readmitted Carter as a student, and a kind person who used to be a student UT offered to pay for Carter’s tuition.
“I want to be a student and I want to learn,” Carter said. Since the course requirements have changed, Carter is far from having the amount of credits needed to graduate. But his friend knows he’s willing to take up the challenge. “He is capable, he is ready, and he is dedicated to this,” Chandler says.
1.Why didn’t Carter finish his study at UT more than 40 years ago? (no more than 10 words)
2.How does Carter feel as a dropout? (no more than 5 words)
3.What does the underlined part in the fourth paragraph probably mean? (no more than 5 words)
4.What can be inferred about Carter in his study at UT? (no more than 15 words)
5.What do you think is the right way to know someone? Please explain. (no more than 25 words)
We all have our bad days. No one is going to wake up each and every morning in a cheery mood. Sometimes we all feel just a little bit grumpier (脾气暴躁的) than usual, and that’s just a part of being human. Yet once we get to the office, many in the workforce feel it necessary to hide their emotions, whether they are in frustration, anger, or sadness. Interestingly, a new study finds keeping one’s behavior at the office authentic will result in greater productivity and a better relationship with co-workers. In other words: act how you feel, and don’t fake it.
It’s extremely common for the average workspace to preach an attitude of continuous positivity. While this may be beneficial from the CEO’s viewpoint, it just isn’t realistic when applied to real people with real problems and daily hardships. That’s why, the research team have concluded, employees will actually feel better, work harder, and connect more with their colleagues if they don’t hide their feelings with a fake smile.
Over 2,500 working adults, from a variety of industries such as finance or engineering, took part in this research via surveys. The questionnaires measured two distinct types of on-the-job emotional regulation: surface acting and deep acting. Surface acting means faking happiness while interacting with other employees; and deep acting refers to actively trying to change one’s emotions and feelings in order to be more pleasant at work. The study’s authors were interested to see how common it is for working adults to regulate their emotions while on the clock, and if so. Why? What benefits are employees gaining from such behavior?
After analyzing all of the survey responses, researchers identified four distinct types of individuals who hide or regulate their emotions around co-workers. “Non-actors” rarely hide their true feelings, and if they do, only to a very small extent. “Low actors” usually take part in only slight deep and surface acting. “Deep actors” perform lots of deep acting and low levels of surface acting, and “Regulators” exhibit high levels of both surface and deep acting.
By far non-actors were the smallest identified group in the study. Regulators, or employees who tend to hide their true feelings most often, are usually motivated by feelings of self-interest. These people believe that by hiding their feelings they will gain access to additional work resources and look good in front of their managers and co-workers. Deep actors, on the other hand, are usually more motivated by “pro-social” factors. This means they choose to hide their emotions because they believe it develops a healthier working environment. Regulators are the most likely of the four to experience great emotional tiredness and exhaustion. Meanwhile, deep actors tend to achieve improved well-being most frequently.
1.Many office workers tend to ________.
A.show their anger B.behave naturally
C.focus on their jobs only D.pretend to be happy
2.What does the underlined word “preach” mean in the second paragraph?
A.Promote. B.Forbid. C.Change. D.Ignore
3.How was the study carried out?
A.By performing experiments.
B.By analyzing questionnaire data.
C.By taking field trips to offices.
D.By interviewing CEOs.
4.What do we know about “regulators”?
A.They are straightforward and like to help others.
B.They are more surface acting than deep acting.
C.They like to build an image that will benefit them.
D.They are self-interested and will do whatever it takes to succeed.
5.What conclusion can we draw from the passage?
A.“Non-actors” always hold back their true feelings on purpose.
B.“Low-actors” are, most likely to display their true feelings.
C.Hiding true feelings is sure to leave a good impression.
D.It is worthwhile to become deep actors in a way.
6.Through the passage the author mainly intends to
A.stress the significance of displaying true feelings
B.highlight the importance of hiding true feelings
C.urge people to keep a cheerful emotion at work
D.persuade people to better their working efficiency
Purdue University researchers have engineered flying robots that behave like hummingbirds, trained by machine learning algorithms (计算程序) based on various techniques the bird uses naturally every day. The robot would be able to fly better through collapsed buildings to find trapped victims.
Even though such a robot can’t see yet, it senses by touching surfaces. Each touch changes an electric current, which the researchers realized that they could track. Xinyan Deng, a professor, and her colleagues at Purdue have been trying to decode (破译) hummingbird flight so that robots can fly where larger aircraft can’t. Deng’s group studied hummingbirds themselves for many summers in Montana. They documented key hummingbird actions, such as making a rapid 180-degree turn, and translated them to computer algorithms that the robot could learn from when connected with a simulation (模拟操作).
Further study on the physics of insects and hummingbirds allowed Purdue researchers to build robots smaller than hummingbirds--and even as small as insects-without compromising the way they fly. The smaller the size, the greater the wing flapping frequency, and the more efficiently they fly. The robots have 3D-printed bodies and wings made of carbon fiber. The researchers have built one hummingbird robot weighing 12 grams--the weight of the average adult hummingbird. The hummingbird robot can lift up to 27 grams.
Designing their robots with higher lift gives the researchers more room to eventually add a battery and sensing technology, such as a-camera or GPS. Currently, the robot needs to be tied to an energy source while it flies-but that won’t be for much longer, the researchers say. The robots could fly silently just as a real hummingbird does, making them more ideal for covert (转换) operations.
Robotic hummingbirds would not only help with search-and-rescue tasks, but also allow biologists to more reliably study hummingbirds. In their natural environment through the senses of a realistic robot. This work is part of Purdue’s 1501° anniversary. This is one of the four themes of the celebration’s Ideas Festival, designed to show Purdue as an intellectual center solving real-world issues.
1.The hummingbird robot could be helpful in searching for victims .
A.in a very wide area B.in a desert
C.in a dark place D.in the sea
2.What can we know about the hummingbird robot?
A.It is as light as an insect. B.It can fly to any place.
C.It can see where to go. D.The smaller it is, the better.
3.What is the disadvantage of the robotic hummingbird at present?
A.It barely lifts its weight. B.It’s not equipped with a battery.
C.It can’t fly too high in the sky. D.It produces a little noise outside.
4.Besides being useful in rescues, the hummingbird robot can help .
A.biologists to study hummingbirds B.biologists to study wildlife
C.transport dangerous goods D.protect birds in the wild
Like many other students beginning graduate school, I was quickly charged with responsibilities and had to find time for studying by letting goof many other things I valued. Letting go of football and the violin was, however, self-defeating: it might have brought me more time in the short term, but spending that extra time on work only’ made me more stressed and less productive.
Towards the end of the MSC (Master of Science program) started to lose my motivation and curiosity for science and research, as well as my creativity. Spending so much time and energy in the laboratory, and focusing all my attention on my thesis and courses, made me feel down and almost totally uninterested in my field - not to mention short-tempered and oversensitive in my personal communications.
Over time, I learnt from these experiences. When I started my PhD, I focused on balancing academic success with personal time-off, and made personal happiness a priority (首要事情) in my weekly schedule. My mentor (导师) and I discussed my work-life balance early in my program, and we arrange our lab responsibilities accordingly.
I set boundaries for myself in new ways: ‘rather than doing lab work all weekend, I’d play football or the violin, or visit loved ones, before allowing myself to work fora few hours.
This was hard at first: I worried that it would affect my standing with my peers, and superiors, but I had learnt from experiences that an overloaded schedule can drain (使疲劳) you so much that you become unfocused and start making mistakes or forgetting important details.
Since establishing a better work-life balance, I’ve been doing well in graduate school. Outside the lab, I’ve been able to take up a few leadership positions at my university because I’m not as stressed with my work. I serve as our department’s student councilor and I am also vice-president academic in the Health Sciences Graduate Students’ Association. My advice is this: a healthy work-life balance isn’t a luxury; it’s a key part of success in graduate programs.
1.What is the author’s problem?
A.He must study hard to graduate.
B.He must give up his hobby for study,
C.He didn’t know how to study more effectively.
D.He didn’t know how to deal with pressure.
2.Paragraph 2 shows ________.
A.the challenges of an MSC program
B.the consequences of giving up hobbies
C.the benefits of focusing on schoolwork
D.the importance of balancing study and hobbies
3.To balance academic and personal life, the author ________.
A.asks his peers for help
B.seeks to reduce his lab duties
C.puts his hobbies first more often
D.avoids schoolwork at weekends at all
4.When the author gets his hands too full, he ________.
A.tends to put things on hold
B.tends to lose the attention to details
C.will lose his patience with his academic work
D.will make a new schedule accordingly
5.What can be inferred from the author’s personal experience?
A.It’s never too late to make a change in the university.
B.It’s easy to be work-life balanced in our lives.
C.Multi-tasking has many advantages in the university.
D.Work-life balance is necessary in the university.
