“A child is dying out of breath!” I had just began my working day in the city, when these words came through the radio of the police car I was driving. I turned on the red lights and siren (警笛) and drove off as fast as I could, “Just my luck!” I thought. I did not know this city well and my first call of the day was a lifeanddeath sudden happening several kilometers away.
I got to the house. A mother, filled with fear, handed me her baby, her face already blue. Was I too late? Dear me!
I did what I had been taught to do in such a serious condition. A small thing flew out of the baby’s mouth onto the floor. It was a button. Thank heaven! The holes in it let a little air through.
A doctor rushed into the room with an oxygen bag.The baby began to cry at the top of his voice, burned red and started to look for his mother. He was angry but was saved.
1.The writer of the story is ________.
A.a policeman B.a driver C.a doctor D.the boy’s father
2.The writer turned on the red lights and siren in order to ________.
A.show that he was a police
B.have the people in the streets make way for him
C.warn the people in the streets of the danger ahead
D.tell the people in the streets that he did not know the way well
3.The baby was still living when the writer got to the house because________.
A.the writer arrived in time B.the writer had been taught what to do at that time
C.the button was not big enough D.the button happened to have holes in it
4.What did the writer mean when he said to himself “Just my luck!”？
A.It was a good chance for him to practice what he had learned before.
B.He was happy to have such a serious matter on his working day.
C.He was not at all happy to have so serious a matter on his working day.
D.He had been long waiting for the day to come.
假定你是李华，你的外国笔友Jack打算暑假期间来中国体验生活，发来邮件询问相关信息。请你回复邮件，内容包括:
1.表示欢迎；
2.推荐内容；
3.你的祝愿。
注意:1.词数100左右； 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(
)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(
)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
It was a rain and cold night. I finish my evening classes and was about to go back to my house. I got into a taxi and told the driver my destination. To my surprise, the driver made an apology, says he didn’t know the way. What come a taxi driver didn’t know the way? I was a little of angry. At the moment, an old couple stopped our car. Their destination was the same as me, so he let them in. The two greeted us but the grandpa told the driver the way. From their conversation I knew the driver was a farmer and he has been a taxi driver just for three days.
I’m also new to Zhengzhou. Sometimes I make direction mistakes, but there is always a person can help me. It was cold outside, but I felt real warm.
My father never kept anything for emotional purpose-except once. I was the only one in my family who cared about baseball and I always _______ watching my heroes at Yankee stadium. One winter, I wrote down a _______ for the summer dates and dreamed every night. To my surprise, one evening I saw my father_______ it before going out to work.
The following Sunday, he told me, “Let’s put away some money into a _______each week, and maybe we can go to Yankee Stadium this summer.” I _______ washed out a jar and _______a label:YANKEE STADIUM FUND, 1960.
Each of us _______ to the jar weekly. _________, we still hadn’t gone to a game because my father had had to work every Saturday. So one day. I _______ him of the remaining time, and then he ________ me, “Don’t worry and we’ll have a ________ Saturday.”
On the morning of the last game, I was waiting hopelessly with no ________ of my father who had been to work when he suddenly appeared and yelled, “I got two ________!”
I could hardly ________ when we finally sat together, father and son, ________ my New York Yankees. I sat cheering, but for my father, all I could see is a face________ tiredness from working all week.
In 1963, my father died suddenly while working. In his bedroom, I noticed a ________ ticket in his yellowed book, which________, October 1, 1960, General Admission. My father, who ________ nothing for emotional reasons, had decided to keep this, a (an) ________of our afternoon together.
1.A.dreamed of B.worried about C.tried out D.lived on
2.A.schedule B.note C.letter D.novel
3.A.exploring B.checking C.tearing D.examining
4.A.bottle B.jar C.bowl D.cup
5.A.slowly B.patiently C.immediately D.unwillingly
6.A.attached B.identified C.created D.bought
7.A.referred B.contributed C.donated D.attended
8.A.However B.Moreover C.Therefore D.+Furthermore
9.A.accused B.informed C.inquired D.warned
10.A.rescued B.scolded C.comforted D.encouraged
11.A.grey B.terrible C.boring D.free
12.A.signal B.sign C.reply D.company
13.A.balls B.coins C.tickets D.flags
14.A.breathe B.imagine C.stand D.jump
15.A.greeting B.watching C.hearing D.playing
16.A.lined with B.decorated with C.equipped with D.coupled with
17.A.pretty B.plain C.used D.faded
18.A.spoke B.wrote C.read D.mentioned
19.A.created B.abandoned C.produced D.saved
20.A.impression B.gift C.present D.memory
People often say that “failure is the mother of success”. 1. As a result, Manalo, a professor of educational psychology in Japan says, “We know we shouldn’t give up when we fail—but in reality, we do.”
Manalo and Manu, a professor of learning sciences in Swiss, put together a special issue (专利) last December on benefiting from failure. The issue’s 15 studies provide teachers and educational researchers with a guide for achieving success. 2. Another confirmed that advice on failures is most constructive when the receiver is prepared to experience unpleasant feelings.
Manalo and his co-authors also focused on overcoming one everyday form of failure: not completing a task. They asked 131 students to write an article about their school experiences. Half of the students received instructions for their writing, and half were left to their own. 3. Afterward the researchers found that those in the instructed group were more willing to complete their articles, compared with those who lacked guidance—even if the latter were closer to being done. 4.
5. Stephanie Couch, the director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, holds the opinion. Couch, whose work was also featured in the special issue, says that we should tell them to think of failure as part of a process toward success.
A.However, all were stopped before finishing.
B.The saying shows the importance of success.
C.Teaching students not to fear failure makes goals achieved more easily.
D.One study reported that the sooner students fail, the sooner they can move forward.
E.Though having some truth to it, the saying does not tell us how to turn a loss into a win.
F.They believed that learning how to fail can help people avoid becoming lasting failures.
G.Knowing how to finish, in other words, was more important than being close to finishing.
A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components,” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.
While this first robotic fly is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically, it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”
1.Which of the following statements was the difficulty engineers met while making the robotic fly?
A.They did not have sufficient fund.
B.No ready-made components were available.
C.There was no model in their mind.
D.It was hard for them to assemble the components.
2.What do we know about the robotic fly?
A.The robotic fly has been put into wide application.
B.The robotic fly consists of a flight device and a control system.
C.The robotic fly can collect information from many sources.
D.The robotic fly can fly well with the cooperation of individual components.
3.Which of the following can be learned from the passage?
A.The robotic fly can replace animals in some experiments.
B.Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.
C.The robotic fly is designed to learn about insects.
D.There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.
4.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A.The Development of Robotic Fly
B.Robotic Fly Promotes Engineering Science
C.Harvard’s Efforts in Making Robotic Fly
D.Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life Insect
