听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.Where did the speaker plan to go at first?

A. Scotland.    B. England.    C. Wales.

2.What do we know from the weather broadcast?

A. Eastern England will be snowy tomorrow.

B. Northern England will be foggy tomorrow.

C. Southwestern England will be clear tomorrow afternoon.

What is the man doing?

A. Watching TV.

B. Answering the phone.

C. Repairing the TV.

When is the plane taking off?

A. At 9:00.    B. At 10:00.    C. At 10:30.

Whom does the dictionary belong to?

A. Mary.    B. Jack.    C. Jane.

How did the man come here?

A. By bus.    B. By taxi.    C. By car.

What is the man going to do at the weekend?

A. Meet some friends.

B. Take a holiday.

C. Stay at home.

假定你是李华，想邀请热心于公益的留学生朋友Bryan一起去你市火车站参加为期两天的志愿服务活动。请给他写封邮件，内容包括：

1. 活动时间、地点；

2. 志愿服务内容（至少三个方面）。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Bryan,

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Sincerely yours,

Li Hua

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

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：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last Monday, I learned a lesson about tell lies. Early in the morning, I didn’t want to go to the school, but I pretended to feel ill. My mother was very worrying when I told her. She left quickly and I thought she has gone to work. But soon, she came back with a bottle of pill. She said that she had asked for a day off from work to look me. I felt a little guilty but I dared not tell the truth. That afternoon, my teacher came to visit me. I felt so regretfully for telling lies. Finally, I admitted I had lain and promised never to do them again.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

On October 23rd, 2018，President Xi Jinping announced the opening of the Hong Kong– Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) at an opening ceremony in Zhuhai, Guangdong province.

The HZMB, 1. (locate) at the waters of the Lingdingyang of Pearl River Estuary, is a huge sea crossing, linking Hong Kong and Macao to the Chinese mainland city of Zhuhai. As the world’s 2. (long) sea-based project, the 55-kilometre bridge is the result of five years of research and another nine years of building. It has been described as one of the “seven 3. (wonder) of the modern world” by the Guardian.

The project 4. (make) up of a 22.9-kilometer-long main bridge, a 6.7-kilometer-long tunnel and an artificial island off the bridge. It is designed with 5. service life of 120 years. It can withstand a strong wind equal 6. a maximum Beaufort scale 16. The bridge’s engineers had to consider many environmental factors to protect the 7. (surround) environment while building the bridge. Chinese white dolphins, an endangered species that lives in the area, 8. (be) a particular concern.

The HZMB will make 9. much more convenient to travel between the three areas it connects. It will bring people in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong within a “one-hour living circle”, 10. is expected to attract more visitors to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It will be a transport link as well as a social, economic, cultural, and tourism connection among the three areas.

    I used to hate running. It seemed too hard, and pushing outside my comfort zone was not what I was ________ to do. My husband Charles had been a serious competitive ________ for many years. After our marriage, he wouldn’t ________talk- ing about how much he missed it. So he picked it up again, and after about a year, I started to ________ him at the track. Just a few weeks later, Charles________ us both up for a five-kilometer race. I ________ about doing it. It was too soon.

But on race day, there I was. The gun ________. Thousands of runners pushed forward. The first kilometer was tough. “I don’t think I’m gonna make it.” I was already breathing ________ and painfully aware of the group of runners pounding past me. “No, you’re doing great,” said Charles. He was trying to encourage me, to get me focused on something else _______ my discomfort. “I can’t,” I said, barely audibly (听得见地). He tried a ________ way to persuade me. “Just make it to that house and let’s see how you __________.”

After another minute I saw the three-kilometer mark. All I could think of was that I was dying and that my husband made me _______. Miserable doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt. “You’ll be fine. You’ve got less than a kilometer to go.” I rounded a corner, and saw both sides of the street ________ with people watching the race, all cheering the runners on. I willed my ________ to keep going. Then I looked up and saw the clock. The seconds ticking away gave me ______. I knew that if I ____

finished this race I would achieve something. ________, I straightened up and kicked it. I had my arms held higher when I passed through the finish line. A volunteer ________ a medal around my neck.

“You did great! I’m so proud of you!” Charles was ________ that I’d made it. “That was AMAZING! I want to do another race. This running stuff is amazing!” I proudly ________ my medal as we walked to the post-race festivities. My lungs and my comfort zone both expanded.

1.A. accepted B. permitted C. pushed D. raised

2.A. runner B. policeman C. doctor D. lawyer

3.A. regret B. mind C. stop D. forget

4.A. follow B. attend C. join D. urge

5.A. signed B. gathered C. involved D. registered

6.A. commented B. hesitated C. wondered D. enquired

7.A. went off B. went out C. broke off D. broke out

8.A. smoothly B. heavily C. quickly D. abruptly

9.A. or rather B. more than C. rather than D. better than

10.A. pleasant B. reasonable C. casual D. different

11.A. react B. describe C. feel D. realize

12.A. ashamed B. painful C. embarrassed D. nervous

13.A. rich B. loose C. ready D. thick

14.A. arms B. mind C. heart D. legs

15.A. strength B. patience C. expectation D. wisdom

16.A. formally B. immediately C. normally D. actually

17.A. However B. Therefore C. Yet D. Instead

18.A. rewarded B. handed C. put D. presented

19.A. thrilled B. amused C. shocked D. frozen

20.A. enjoyed B. hugged C. kept D. seized

If one thing on your wish-list is a stress-free holiday, then here are some shopping tips prepared for you, which will save both your time and money.

Don’t be tough on your brains. 1. Don’t be afraid to look for clues and ask for ideas. First, see whether the folks on your to-buy-for list have already dropped some valuable hints of their dreamed items. If you strike out, encourage your lucky recipients to post items they wish someone would buy for them. You can also find inspiration in the many online gift guides. 2. — Gifts for Dads, Gifts for Golfers and such. Then you’ll get the idea.

3. You really can enlist your own personal helpers. Don’t feel guilty about that—after all, Santa employs helpers too. Many stores have free professional shoppers who can pick out presents for you. We’re not talking just high-end stores such as Blooming-dale’s and Nordstrom. 4. They’re all hungry to win your business away from online retailers. But you’ll likely need an appointment, so call ahead or search stores’ websites for “personal shopping”. You’ll typically find a link on the home page under Contact Us or Services.

Have gifts delivered.Time is money, and for not a lot of money you can save a lot of time by having your gifts delivered right to your door. Some mom-and-pop shops offer delivery service while chain stores tend to charge for that, but it still might be worth paying for the convenience. 5. First go to postmates.com or download the free app and see whether it’s available in your area. Then type the name of a store into the search bar, click on the store, and enter the item you want.

A. Make an appointment ahead.

B. Can’t figure out what to buy?

C. Do you wish for a stress-free holiday?

D. Get someone else to do shopping for you.

E. They are typically organized by recipient, interest, and/or price range.

F. Others like Macy’s and J. Crew will also let you leave the shopping to them.

G. For local stores that don’t offer this convenience, try the Post-mates delivery service.

A pretty face is never forgotten. Do you believe so? But maybe it is untrue! Psychologists believe beautiful people are less likely to be recognized. A new study suggests that attractiveness can actually prevent the recognition of faces, unless a pretty face has particularly distinctive features, such as Angelina Jolie’s.

German psychologists think the recognition of pretty faces is distorted (扭曲) by emotions. Researchers Holger Wiese, Carolin Altmann and Stefan Schweinberger at the University of Jena, Germany, discovered in a study that photos of unattractive people were more easily remembered than pretty ones when they showed them to a group of people.

For the study, which was published in science magazine Neuropsychologia, the psychologists showed photos of faces to test subjects. Half of the faces were considered to be more attractive and the other half as less attractive, but all of them were being thought of as similarly distinctive looking. The test subjects were shown the faces for just a few seconds to memorize them and were shown them again during the test so that they could decide if they recognized them or not.

The researchers were surprised by the result. “Until now we assumed that it was generally easier to memorize faces which are being considered as attractive, just because we prefer looking at beautiful faces,” Dr. Wiese said. But the study showed that such a connection cannot be easily proven. He assumes that remembering pretty faces is distorted by emotional influences, which enhance the sense of recognition at a later time. The researchers’ idea is backed up by evidence from EEG-recordings (脑电图记录) they used during their experiment which show the brains’ electric activity.

The study also revealed that in the case of attractive faces, considerably more false positive results were detected. In other words, people thought they recognized a face without having seen it before. “We obviously tend to believe that we recognize a face just because we find it attractive.” Dr. Wiese said.

1.What do we know about the photos from Paragraph 3?

A. They were all of pretty faces.

B. They were selected at random.

C. They were not distinctive at all.

D. They were showed twice to the test subjects.

2.What does the underlined phrase “false positive results” in the last paragraph mean?

A. People actually only recognize few pretty faces.

B. People recognize more ugly faces than pretty ones.

C. People claim to recognize a face they have never seen.

D. People recognize fewer faces than they have thought.

3.What can be inferred from the new study?

A. People are reluctant to recognize ugly faces.

B. Beautiful people are particularly distinctive.

C. Attractiveness  prevents the recognition of faces.

D. Attractive faces are always easy to be recognized.

4.Which word can show the author’s attitude towards the findings of the research?

A. Doubtful.    B. Disapproving.

C. Favorable.    D. Objective.

    LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12 (Xinhua)—Legendary comic book writer Stan Lee has died at the age of 95, according to media reports on Monday.

Lee, born in Stanley Lieber on Dec. 28th, 1922, began his career in 1939 and joined the Marvel Comics in 1961.

He is considered as one of the most legendary names in the history of comic books and the leading creative force behind the rise of Marvel Comics. He co-created iconic fictional characters such as Spider-Man, X-Men, the Avengers, and many more.

Lee’s characters often have super powers, but they also have weaknesses. They were humans, not gods. They not only struggled to save the world, but also to pay their bills, make friends, and hold jobs. This made Marvel comic book heroes stand apart from its competitor DC, which produced the seemingly perfect heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman. Those superheroes have been adapted into blockbuster films, most of which were made after Disney acquired Marvel in a 4-billion-dollar deal in 2009.

In a statement, Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company said Stan Lee was as extraordinary as the characters he created.

Marvel also praised Lee on its website by putting on one of Lee’s famous quotes, which goes, “I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people’s lives. Without it, they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you’re able to entertain, you’re doing a good thing. ”

Praise from his Hollywood peers and colleagues was generous. President of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige appreciated Lee’s unparalleled impact on the industry. “No one has had more of an impact on my career than Stan Lee,” Feige said. “Our thoughts are with his family and the millions of fans who have been forever touched by Stan’s genius, charisma and heart.”

1.How do Lee’s characters differ from those of DC?

A. They are perfect heroes.

B. They often have super powers.

C. They are not humans, but gods.

D. They have human shortcomings.

2.We can learn from Lee’s statement in Paragraph 6 that ________.

A. it is embarrassing to be a comic-book writer

B. a taste of entertainment is necessary in people’s lives

C. entertainment is the most important thing in the world

D. you can do everything well if you are able to entertain

3.According to the passage, we could know that ________.

A. Lee influenced Kevin Feige’s career a lot

B. Lee joined the Marvel Comics in his forties

C. Lee created the fictional characters all by himself

D. The superheroes were adapted into films before Disney acquired Marvel

4.What can be the best title for the passage?

A. Comics Legend—the Marvels and DC

B. The Superheroes in Stan Lee’s Comics

C. Marvel’s Comics Legend Stan Lee Dies at 95

D. The Life Story of Marvel Comics Legend Stan Lee

Dr. Amanda Harris was ready for sleep since it was already 11 pm. The phone rang. On the other end of the line was a woman about to break a promise. The woman was her mother’s neighbor. Flora Harris had made the neighbor swear she wouldn’t tell her daughter she’d had a heart attack and was in hospital. The neighbor wisely decided to disobey orders.

Amanda desperately wanted to get to the hospital immediately, but she couldn’t. She lives in Washington D. C., and her mother lives in California. For the past year and a half, Amanda has gone to Los Angeles every other month to take care of her mother. Flora Harris takes care of her husband, James, who’s 91 and has Alzheimer’s disease. They live in their own home, and a caregiver comes to help them a few hours a day.

Amanda is one of many Americans facing the heartache of how to take care of aging parents from afar. She’s often worried and guilty, not to mention busy with a demanding job, two teenage daughters and the frequent trips to California.

In some ways, Amanda is lucky. She has the resources to make the trips to Los Angeles. Plus, she is a doctor who treats the elderly. She’s treated countless patients whose children live far away.

“But it’s still tough,” she says. “I can foresee what the next few years are going to look like, and it’s not a pretty picture. There will come a time when my father won’t recognize me and I worry he’s going to be violent and hurt my mother.”

So what do you do when you live a continent away from your aging, sick parents? You can hire someone to help, but you can’t count on it completely.

1.Why is Amanda worried and guilty?

A. She is tired of taking care of her husband.

B. She cannot afford to go to California often.

C. She cannot take good care of her aging parents.

D. She has heart disease and cannot do a demanding job.

2.The author considers Amanda lucky because ________.

A. her parents are well cared by a caregiver

B. she has experience of treating the elderly

C. her parents are not very old

D. she has a lot of free time

3.What’s one of the symptoms of a person with Alzheimer’s disease?

A. Having no sense of pain.

B. Having heart attacks often.

C. Always feeling worried and guilty.

D. Being unable to recognize relatives.

4.The writer writes this passage in order to _________.

A. stress the importance of tending aging parents

B. give some advice on tending aging parents from afar

C. introduce the current situation of aging parents in the USA

D. show the difficulty of tending aging parents living far away

Your 2018 Reading List, Provided by Bill Gates

Most of us can’t live like billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, but we can read like him. Gates recommended four books in 2018—though some were published earlier.

Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson (2017)

The bestselling biographer of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein researched deeply into da Vinci’s contributions beyond art, highlighting the breadth of his scientific, technological, and creative output. “Leonardo nearly understood almost all of what was known on the planet at the time. That’s mostly because of his curiosity about every area of natural science and the human experience,” said Gates.

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui (2017)

Gates calls this graphic novel “really impressive”. Bui is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees who came to America after the fall of Saigon, and becoming a parent inspired her to look into her own parents’ miserable history. “I was struck by how the experiences Bui illustrates manage to be both universal and specific to their circumstances,” said Gates.

Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders (2018)

Saunders, a long-time short story writer, won high praise for this novel. The book imagines the ghosts that haunt (萦绕) the basement of Willie Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s son, who died at 11 in real life. “Willie’s death after the Civil War made the president have a new understanding of the grief he’s creating in other families by sending their sons off to die in battle,” said Gates.

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything, by David Christian (2018)

This new book is by the creator of Big History, a free, online social studies course. It traces history in wide, sweeping movements, starting with the Big Bang, and it provides, in effect, a short course in modern science. This is a brief history of the universe. “David gets a little stuck on the current economic and political problems in the West, and I wish he talked more about the role innovation will play in preventing the worst effects of climate change,” said Gates.

1.Which books refer to the field of science?

A. Origin Story and Leonardo da Vinci.

B. Lincoln in the Bardo and Origin Story.

C. Leonardo da Vinci and The Best We Could Do.

D. The Best We Could Do and Lincoln in the Bardo.

2.If you are interested in thrillers, whose book will you most probably choose?

A. Walter Isaacson. B. Thi Bui.

C. George Saunders. D. David Christian.

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The Best We Could Do is an autobiography.

B. Lincoln in the Bardo has been warmly received.

C. David Christian talks much about the part that innovation will play.

D. Readers can only read about Leonardo da Vinci’s contributions towards art.

很多父母太溺爱孩子，导致一些孩子缺乏基本的生活自理能力。你班正准备就这一话题召开一次主题班会，请你依据下表用英语准备一篇发言稿，要点如下：

1. 对所给提示，不要简单翻译，可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

2. 词数150左右。开头己给出，不计入总词数。

Nowadays, many parents try their best to give their children a happy and meaningful life.

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阅读下列句子，根据中文或首字母提示，写出正确单词，每空仅填一词。

1.There are v _____ kinds of hotels with different in the city. You can choose the one you like.

2.He is such a c _____ boy, keeping asking questions about the equipment when visiting the lab.

3.After the students handed in their paintings, the class was d _____ and they all went home.

4.It never o _____ to me that it would take two days for the students to finish the program.

5.Excuse me but you can't sit here. These seats are r _____ for special guests.

6.She is _____ (热情的）about going to Spain，, which is always her dream country.

7..We are _____ (安排）the schedule to end the last program a little earlier to allow the guests more time for the dinner meal.

8.I decided not to do my more personal interviews until I _____ (官方地)became president that December.

9.Dad, when will we arrive at the _____ (目的地)？The journey is so long that it seems endless.

10.Scientists haven't found strong evidence for the _____ (存在）of this creature.

请认真阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。

I grew up in one of the poorest communities on the south side of Atlanta, US and was raised by a single mother who didn't finish 3rd grade. Not many people expected much of me, so I had to expect something of 1..

On my 13th birthday, I bought a poster of Harvard and put it up in my room. Being at Harvard was 2. I dreamt about all the time though many people thought it was far 3. my reach. I would bum the midnight oil,4.  (bury) in piles of books. I'd begin my day by asking myself these two questions, "What do I want in my life?" and "Are the things I am doing today going to get me closer to that life?"

 5. (remind) myself of my goal each made it easy to say no to the same choices I saw my peers making, because those paths wouldn't have taken me closer to my goal. Asking myself those questions gave me the courage and energy to study just one more hour on my SATs when my friends were asleep; and it gave me the determination to submit（提交）just one more scholarship 6. (apply) when 180 others had already turned me down.

On March 31st, 2011, 7. email arrived from Harvard. The first word was "Congratulations!" A

month later, Harvard invited me to visit the campus 8. for the first time I got to see inside Sanders Theater, tour Widener Library and eat dinner in Annenberg Hall. I couldn't wait to start my 9. (explore) here.

Who you are today is the result of the decisions that 10. (make) earlier, and who you will be tomorrow will be the result of the choices you make today. Who do you want to be tomorrow?

A mother stared down at her son who was dying of terminal leukemia (白血病). Like any parent she wanted her son to grow up and realize all his dreams. She took her son's hand and asked, "Bopsy, did you ever think about what you wanted to be when you grew up?"

"Mommy, I always wanted to be a fireman when I grew up."

Mom smiled back and said, "Let's see if we can make your wish come true." Later that day she went to her local fire department in Phoenix, Arizona, where she met Fireman Bob. She explained her son's final wish and asked if it might be possible to give her six-year-old son a ride around the block on a fire engine. Fireman Bob said, "Look, we can do better than that. If you'll have your son ready at seven o'clock Wednesday morning, well make him an honorary fireman for the whole day, He can come down to the fire station；, eat with us, go out on all the fire calls, the whole nine yards! And, if you'll give us his sizes, we'll get a real fire uniform made for him."

Three days later Fireman Bob picked up Bopsy, dressed him in his fire uniform and escorted（护送）him from his hospital bed to the waiting hook and ladder truck. Bopsy got to sit up on the back of the truck and help steer it back to the fire station. He was in heaven.

There were three fire calls in Phoenix that day and Bopsy got to go out on all three calls. He rode in the different fire engines and even the fire chief's car. Having his dream come true, with all the love and attention that was lavished（慷慨给予）upon him, Bopsy lived three months longer than any doctor thought possible.

One night all of his vital signs began to drop and the head nurse began to call the family members to the hospital. Then she remembered the day Bopsy bad spent as a fireman, so she called the fire chief and asked if it would be possible to send a fireman in uniform to the hospital to be with Bopsy as he made his transition. The chief replied, "We can do better than that. We'll be there in five minutes. Will you please do me a favor? When you hear the sirens（警报器）screaming and see the lights flashing, will you announce over the PA system that it's just the fire department coming to see one of its finest members one more time? And will you open the window to his room? Thanks?"

About five minutes later a hook and ladder truck arrived at the hospital, extended its ladder up to Bopsy's third floor open window and 14 firemen and two fire-women climbed up the ladder into Bopsy's room. With his mother’s permission, they hugged him and held him and told him how much they loved him. With his dying breath, Bopsy looked up at the fire chief and said, "Chief, am I really a fireman now?"

"Bopsy, you are," the chief said. With those words, Bopsy smiled and closed his eyes for the last time.

1.Bopsy's mother went to the local fire department and asked if     .

A. her son could get a fire uniform

B. Fireman Bob could make her son a real fireman

C. her son could see a fire engine

D. they could give her son a ride on a fire engine

2.What did Fireman Bob probably mean by saying "the whole nine yards"?

A. The fire engine was nine yards long.

B. The whole journey that day was very upsetting.

C. Bopsy could experience everything as a fireman,

D. All the sirens of the fire engines would scream that day.

3.According to Paragraph 4 and 5, Bopsy managed to do many things EXCEPT     .

A. driving the hook and ladder truck    B. going out on all the three fire calls that day

C. riding in the fire chef's car    D. living longer than he was supposed to be

4.Why did the head nurse want a fireman in uniform to be sent to the hospital?

A. Because Bopsy begged her to do so.

B. Because Bopsy saw the firemen as his family members.

C. Because she wanted to do something for Bopsy before he died,

D. Because she wanted Bopsy to be approved as a real fireman.

5.Which of the following statements best shows the theme of the passage?

A. Where there is a will, there is a way.

B. Sometimes there are miracles because of love.

C. Great things may be done by painstaking efforts.

D. A mother understands what a child does not say.

In the years ahead, AI will raise three big questions for bosses and governments. One is the effect on jobs. Although bosses publicly praise the broad benefits AI will bring very much, their main interest lies in cutting costs. One European bank asked a technology company to find a way of reducing the staff in its operations department from 50,000 to 500. This special report has shown that AI-enhanced tools can help reduce staff in departments such as customer service and human resources by a large amount. The McKinsey Global Institute finds that by 2030 up to 375m people, or 14% of the global workers in companies or countries, could have their jobs automated away. Bosses will need to decide whether they are prepared to offer and pay for retraining, and whether they will give time off for it. Many companies say they are all for workers developing new skills, but not at the employer’s expense.

A second important question is how to protect privacy as AI spreads. The Internet has already made it possible to track people's digital（数字的）behaviour in extremely small detail. AT will offer even better tools for businesses to monitor consumers(客户) and workers, both online and in the physical world. Consumers are sometimes happy to go along with this if it results in personalised（个性化的）service. But AI probably brings privacy violations (侵犯) that are seen as shocking and morally unacceptable. In the wrong hands, useful technology could be against fair and equal treatment. Countries with a record of the careful watching of a person place, especially by the police or army and human-rights abuses already using AI to monitor political activity. The police around the world will use AI to spot criminals, but may also look on ordinary citizens secretly, in order to discover things or find out information about them. New rules will be needed to ensure agreement on what degree of monitoring is acceptable.

The third question is about the effect of AI on competition in business. Today many firms are competing to provide AI-enhanced tools to companies. But a technology company that achieves artificial intelligence could race ahead of competitors, put others out of business and lessen competition. This is unlikely to happen in the near future, but if it did it would be of great concern.

1.What can we learn from the second paragraph?

A. All the daily behavior of people is tracked by the Internet.

B. AI is a kind of technology against fair and equal treatment.

C. Consumers are happy to be monitored as long as there is suitable service provided.

D. AI may be applied in more ways including discovering things about ordinary people.

2.What does the underlined word “spot” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. notice    B. prevent

C. reduce    D. analyze

3.Which of the following statements is true according to this passage?

A. The staff in a European bank has been sharply reduced by AI technology.

B. AI has aroused concern about privacy as it spreads.

C. New rules for monitoring have been set.

D. Technology companies have achieved major breakthroughs in AI.

4.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A. Big rise in profits    B. possible track in digital behaviour

C. Sunny with a chance of thunderstorms    D. Promising with a concern of privacy protection

Summer's here and it won't be long before school-aged kids across America start complaining that they're tired of riding their bikes, playing at the park, swimming in the pool...and all the other awesome activities their parents hoped would keep them pleasant for the next 10 weeks. Well, if it's any comfort, such rapid boredom could suggest that the kids have amazing powers of memory. A new study shows that the better your short-term memory is, the faster you fed sated (过饱的）and decide you've had enough.

"Though satiation can be physical, like when you feel full after eating too much, we were interested in the psychological (心理学的）side of satiation. Like when you’re just tired of something," Noelle Nelson, assistant professor of marketing and consumer behavior. She and her colleague Joseph Redden at the University of Minnesota tried to think outside the lunch box." Something that was interesting to me is that some people get tired of same things at very different speeds. So if you think about pop songs on the radio, some people must still be enjoying them and requesting them even after hearing them a lot. But a lot of other people are really sick of those same songs."

The difference, the researchers thought, might have to do with memories of past experiences. For example, studies show that people push away from the dinner table sooner when they're asked to describe in detail what they ate earlier for lunch.

So the researchers tested the memory capacity (能力）of college students, The students then viewed a repeating series of three classic paintings...like The Starry Night, American Gothic, and The Scream...or listened and re-listened to a series of three pop songs...or three pieces of classical music. Throughout the test, the students were asked to rate（定等级）their experience from zero to tan. And the better a participant scored in the memory test, the faster they got bored." We found that people with larger capacities remembered more about the music or art, which led to them getting tired of the music or art more quickly. So remembering more details actually made the students feel like they'd experienced the music or art more often."

The findings suggest that marketers could control our desire for their products by figuring out ways to keep us from fully remembering our experiences. We could also trick ourselves into eating less junk food by putting ourselves in the memory of a previous (之前的）snack. As for kids easily bored, just tell them to forget about it—it might help them have more fun.

1.According to the new study, kids get tired of some activities quickly because of     .

A. too many activities    B. good short-term memory

C. fast satiation    D. physical tiredness

2.The researchers did a test on college students and found that     .

A. lower capacities could help them remember more about the music or art

B. these students got tired of things at the same speed

C. they remembered the three classic paintings better than the songs

D. students with larger memory capacity would get bored faster

3.The underlined word "it" in the last paragraph refers to     .

A. the past memory    B. the past capacity

C. the past boredom    D. the past complaints

4.What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. School-aged kids tend to have good short-term memory in summer.

B. Bad short-term memory is more likely to make us lose interest in something easily.

C. The quality of your short-term memory affects the speed you feel bored.

D. It is important to develop the memory capacity of college students.

The best books of the year

1.Which of the following books are published by the same publishing house?

A. Asymmetry & The Great Believers.    B. The Great Believers & Educated.

C. Educated & Frederick Douglass.    D. Asynimetry & Frederick Douglass.

2.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. There is no connection between the two sections in "Asymmetry".

B. "The Great Believers" is set in a poor family in Idaho.

C. Westover didn't attend a single day of school before going to the college.

D. Blight wrote three autobiographies about both the public and private life.

"Paige, go down to the office," said my teacher, There was a strange tone（语气）in her ______. I was never known to get into trouble, so I knew something was ______ . It got even more ______ when my teacher said my mom was on the phone. Did something happen to my ______? I picked up the phone; I was barely breathing and my hands were ______. "Honey, there was a bank robbery today and your dad was ______ in the car chase that followed. He is doing okay, but shots were fired at his squad(特别行动小组)."

My dad has been a ______ for over 25 years. Every day of my life, I have lived with the ______ thought that something could happen to him. I have always been ______ to my dad, and I do not know what I would do if he was taken away from me, I am so ______ of his job, but I must admit it would be ______ if he had a normal job. On April 28, my dad got the call to go to a bank robbery. The robbery ______ a car chase. My dad was driving fast to ______ the robber. Over the radio, a fellow officer was yelling at him ______ him the robber was pointing a gun towards his squad. Three shots were fired. My clad narrowly escaped those bullets. All I had to hear was that my dad was involved in a shooting, and I was ______ his funeral (葬礼). I thought the day would never end.

My mom and I sat at home waiting for my dad to walk through the door. The second he did. I rushed up to him and gave him the biggest ______ in the world.

Life is about ______ it with the ones you love. What is the ______ of life if you do not have your friends and family? This experience has taught me a ______ . I have learned to live my life to the ______ and never to take anyone or anything for granted.

1.A. mind    B. heart    C. voice    D. appearance

2.A. wrong    B. exciting    C. boring    D. common

3.A. encouraging    B. confusing    C. satisfying    D. annoying

4.A. school    B. class    C. family    D. committee

5.A. waving    B. shaking    C. suffering    D. moving

6.A. lost    B. held    C. involved    D. taken

7.A. policeman    B. coach    C. professor    D. doctor

8.A. anxious    B. optimistic    C. interesting    D. unnecessary

9.A. hateful    B. close    C. cruel    D. helpful

10.A. tired    B. proud    C. jealous    D. ashamed

11.A. harder    B. poorer    C. easier    D. wealthier

12.A. gave out    B. took away    C. came across    D. turned into

13.A. keep up with    B. look up to    C. rise up against    D. get away from

14.A. inspiring    B. warning    C. comforting    D. instructing

15.A. describing    B. refusing    C. holding    D. imagining

16.A. demand    B. hug    C. success    D. shock

17.A. comparing    B. sharing    C. hiding    D. regretting

18.A. way    B. atmosphere    C. fortune    D. point

19.A. subject    B. rate    C. lesson    D. skill

20.A. happiest    B. fullest    C. longest    D. highest

—Would you mind if I closed the door, as it is so cold?

—Of course not.      .

A. My pleasure    B. It depends

C. With pleasure    D. Go ahead

— It was hard work that won Frank the best scores on each test,      ?

— Yes. When it comes to study, hard work counts.

A. was it    B. wasn’t it

C. did it    D. didn’t it

Jonah was a little worried because he      a new job the next day and he wasn't sure whether he would be fit for it.

A. have done    B. will do

C. was to do    D. did

If you      something such as a story or excuse, you invent it, sometimes in order to cheat people.

A. take up    B. make up

C. look up    D. keep up

Success always hides behind the next comer in the road, so you will never know how close it lies      you turn the comer.

A. as    B. if

C. though    D. unless

       great fame he has won, Kris Wu, a popular Chinese-Canadian singer, is trying to bridge the East and West with his music.

A. However    B. Whatever

C. Whenever    D. Wherever

The requirement of the government is that the citizens      not set off fireworks from January 1, 2019 on.

A. shall    B. should

C. can    D. may