I’m sure David will find the library—he has a pretty good ______ of direction.
A. idea B. sense C. experience D. feeling
Then the crowd dismisses（散开）______, and I don’t know what’s up.
A. all of a sudden B. all of suddens C. no more D. more or less
开放作文（满分15分）
请根据下面提示,写一篇短文。词数不少于50。
In your English class, the teacher shows the picture below and asks the class to discuss it. Your classmates may have different understandings.
Look at the picture carefully and tell the class how YOU understand it.
Vocabulary support:
千里马： swift horse
拉磨，碾磨：grind
磨坊： mill
情景作文（满分20分）
在学习、生活和工作中，学会与人合作是非常重要的。请你根据下表中所提供的信息，写一篇题为”Being a Good Partner”的英文演讲稿。词数不少于100.
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为何与人合作 |
1．现在社会必备的能力 |
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2．可省时间和精力 |
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3．更多互相学习机会 |
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与谁合作 |
与喜欢的人合作 |
心情愉快，同甘共苦 |
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与不喜欢的人合作 |
学会容忍，努力挖掘其优点 |
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你的看法 |
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注意：演讲稿的开头和结束已给出。
Good afternoon, everyone! The topic of my speech today is “Being a good partner”. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thank you for your listening!
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Are you a team person? Are you at your best as part of a small, tightly united group of dedicated workers? If so, the future may hold more for you than you think.
1. That’s happening in those areas of business and data processing where one person and a computer can replace a team of workers.
2. High technology has led to a new type of teamwork in a number of fields, including advertising, scientific research, engineering design, architecture and ocean exploration.
Through computer networking, scientists, engineers, and technicians at different locations — often thousands of miles apart --- can work on the same project at once. 3.
Examples? An engineering team can now design and try out a robot system --- a new manufacturing process, or an entire factory — before it is built. An architectural team can do the same with a building or a bridge. A medical team can simulate a dangerous operation before performing it on a patient.
Of course, computer-assisted team effort doesn’t end with investigation and simulation. 4. “CAD-CAM --- computer-aided design and manufacture --- is breaking down barriers between traditional design and manufacturing functions.” explains Dr. Prakash Rao, an engineering manager at General Electric. “Interdisciplinary(跨学科的) teams and engineers follow a product from concept to production. Everything is interconnected like a network.”
5. A team that produces robots may use them to explore space and ocean depths. For high-technology teamwork, the future seems limitless.
A. They can exchange ideas, try out different designs, and test their results.
B. It now usually continues into actual design, manufacturing, and testing.
C. In the future, team work will be highlighted by the introduction of new technology.
D. Sometimes, a computer-aided effort can extend beyond production.
E. But, elsewhere, teamwork is very much alive.
F. It ends in the products which are extensions of the traditional design.
G. High technology, some predicted, would make team work a thing of the past.
Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 7, 9, 6. Read them loud. Now look away and spend 20 seconds memorizing them in order before saying them out loud again. If you speak English, you have about a 50% chance of remembering those perfectly. If you are Chinese, though, you’re almost certain to get it right every time. Why is that? Because we most easily memorize whatever we can say or read within a two-second period. And unlike English, the Chinese language allows them to fit all those seven numbers into two seconds.
That example comes from Stanislas Dahaene’s book The Number Sense. As Dahaene explains: Chinese number words are remarkably brief. Most of them can be spoken out in less than one-quarter of a second (for instance, 4 is “si” and 7 “qi”). Their English pronunciations are longer. The memory gap between English and Chinese apparently is entirely due to this difference in length.
It turns out that there is also a big difference in how number-naming systems in Western and Asian languages are constructed. In English, we say fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, so one might expect that we would also say oneteen, twoteen, threeteen, and fiveteen. But we don’t. We use a different form: eleven, twelve, thirteen and fifteen. For numbers above 20, we put the “decade” first and the unit number second (twenty-one, twenty-two), while for the teens, we do it the other way around (fourteen, seventeen, eighteen). The number system in English is highly irregular. Not so in China, Japan, and Korea. They have a logical counting system. Eleven is ten-one. Twelve is ten-two. Twenty-four is two-tens-four and so on.
That difference means that Asian children learn to count much faster than American children. Four-year-old Chinese children can count, on average, to 40. American children at that age can count only to 15. By the age of five, in other words, American children are already a year behind their Asian friends in the most fundamental of math skills.
The regularity of their number system also means that Asian children can perform basic functions, such as addition, far more easily. Ask an English-speaking seven-year-old to add thirty-seven plus twenty-two in her head, and she has to change the words to numbers (37+22). Only then can she do the math: 2 plus 7 is 9 and 30 and 20 is 50, which makes 59. Ask an Asian child to add three-tens-seven and two-tens-two, and then the necessary equation(等式) is right there, in the sentence. No number translation is necessary: it’s five-tens-nine.
When it comes to math, in other words, Asians have a built-in advantage. For years, students from China, South Korea, and Japan --- outperformed their Western classmates at mathematics, and the typical assumption is that it has something to do with a kind of Asian talent for math. The differences between the number systems in the East and the West suggest something very different --- that being good at math may also be rooted in a group’s culture.
1.What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. The Asian number-naming system helps grasp advanced math skills better.
B. Western culture fail to provide their children with adequate number knowledge.
C. Children in Western countries have to learn by heart the learning things.
D. Asian children’s advantage in math may be sourced from their culture.
2.What makes a Chinese easier to remember a list of numbers than an American?
A. Their understanding of numbers.
B. Their mother tongue.
C. Their math education.
D. Their different IQ.
3.Asian children can reach answers in basic math functions more quickly because ____________.
A. they pronounce the numbers in a shorter period
B. they practice math from an early age
C. English speaking children translate language into numbers first
D. American children can only count to 15 at the age of four
