1、His success ________ a craze for choosing economy as the major.
A.set in motion B.put into operation C.set in action D.put in practice
2、________we know, Zhang Wenhong is such a good doctor________ we all like.
A．As long as；whom
B．As long as；who
C．As far as；that
D．As far as；as
3、What worried the child most was ______ to visit his brother n hospital.
A.his not being allowed B.his not allowing
C.his being not allowed D.having not been allowed
4、Robots can be reprogrammed by a computer to do another one after completing one specific task, and this is ______ automatic machines differ.
A．because
B．what
C．where
D．how
5、The reason ________ he explained was________ he was ill and unable to go to school.
A.which; that B.why; because C.which; because D.why; that
6、He has lived longer than the doctor expected. They didn’t think he would ________ to November.
A．make for
B．make it
C．make out
D．make up
7、Although he was a world-famous fashion photographer, Cunningham’s approach to life was ________.
A．associated
B．artificial
C．uncomplicated
D．desperate
8、Starting in January 2019, taxpayers in China could receive tax reductions, after _______ personal information on a specially developed government app.
A．dropping off
B．bringing out
C．filling in
D．putting out
9、We’re doing our best to keep the virus under control and we will not ________ those people who need us the most at this time.
A.abandon B.applaud C.astonish D.acknowledge
10、By the time he gets to the airport, I think we ____ for London.
A. have left B. will leave
C. will have left D. had left
11、________ from his parents, and ________ that he has wasted too much time, the boy is determined to stop playing video games.
A．Pressing; realizing
B．Pressed; realized
C．Pressing; realized
D．Pressed; realizing
12、More than one person________ involved (参与) in the case.
A.is B.are C.has D.have
13、Only if you ________into ordinary people’s life, ________ find out why they are dissatisfied and understand the revolution threatening the country.
A.have gone … you will B.will go … may you
C.go … you may D.do go … you will
14、Travelling on the bad mountain roads is a(an)________ experience and I will never risk my life like that.
A. terrifying B. terrified
C. astonishing D. astonished
15、After the crisis, the President said it would be essential to ____ the financial system.
A. reform B. inform
C. perform D. conform
16、I was so familiar with her that I recognized her voice _______ picking up the phone.
A.the moment B.on C.before D.though
17、At the end of the dinner party, the conclusion of the crisis________ bare the fact women have as much self-control as men.
A.lay B.laid
C.lined D.lied
18、Don’t let failure _____ you, for you can never tell how close you may be to victory.
A. display B. dissolve
C. discount D. discourage
19、Difficulties and hardships have ____ the best character of the young geologist.
A. brought in B. brought out
C. brought up D. brought about
20、They advocate the proposal we were opposed ______ rediscussed at the next meeting.
A.to be B.should be C.to was D.was
21、Honesty is the best policy. If your account doesn’t _________ what the security cameras recorded, you’ll get punished.
A.subscribe to B.attend to C.correspond to D.relate to
22、A ________ discussion about whether men are brave than women is settled in a ________rude way.
A.warm… / B.lively… very
C.hot… rather D.spirited… fairly
23、The accused man ___________ himself innocent.
A.conducted B.abolished C.resigned D.declared
24、Solar power is power energy from the sun.
A.producing used B.produced using
C.produced used D.producing using
25、Ann suffered from depression and a number of other _______ problems.
A. emotional B. effective
C. earnest D. enjoyable
26、 Kieron Graham always knew he had an older brother. His adoption papers, signed and sealed when he was three months old, listed a sibling named Vincent but no last name. Though Kieron spent years thinking about Vincent, he could never track him down.
That changed in December 2017, when Kieron’s adoptive parents gave their four adopted children AncestryDNA tests as Christmas gifts. Kieron, now 21, sent his saliva sample in for analysis. When his results came back, he was stunned to find he had a slew of DNA matches for relatives who had also taken the test. Most were distant connections, but one match was so strong that it was labeled “close family”. His name was Vincent Ghant. Kieron looked for him on Facebook and soon made a possible connection. “This is going to sound so wild … but I think you’re my brother,” Kieron wrote on Facebook’s Messenger app.
“I was given up for adoption in 1997 and it says on my paperwork that my mother has a son with your name and your birth date. Her name is Shawn.”
“OMG do you know your real name?” wrote Vincent, now 30.
“I think it was Tyler.”
“OMG YES!!! You are my brother.”
“Wow,” wrote Kieron.
“This is crazy,” said Vincent.
The craziness was just beginning. As they talked, the brothers realized they lived about 20 minutes from each other, outside of Atlanta. More mind-blowing, they attended the same university and majored and minored in the same subjects: political science and legal studies.
“We were like, what are the odds we’re separated our entire lives and then end up at the same school with the same interests?” says Kieron.
Vincent was nine when Kieron was born and remembers caring for his baby brother. But times were tough, and Shawn, who worked 15-plus hours a day as a nurse, decided that placing Kieron for adoption would give him the best chance to succeed.
Now the brothers had the chance to make up for lost time. They decided to meet at a local tea shop that week. “I was really nervous,” says Kieron. “I was wondering what I should say, what I should do.” As he waited outside the shop, he heard someone call his name, and he suddenly found himself in a hug with the brother he’d thought about his entire life.
The men went inside and talked. “We connected,” says Vincent, “like we already knew each other.”
【1】The underlined word “mind-blowing” is closest in meaning to “_______”.
A.desperate B.grateful C.ridiculous D.surprising
【2】Which of the following statement is true about the two brothers?
A.Kieron was given up for adoption as soon as he was born.
B.They grew in different environment but had a similar educational background.
C.Kieron had met Vincent before as they lived quite close to each other.
D.It was rather difficult for Kieron to track down his own brother after the AncestryDNA test.
【3】What can be inferred from the passage?
A.Adopted children usually show deeper affection for their birth family.
B.Vincent lives with his mother all the time.
C.Kieron’s mother was unwilling to give him up but she had no choice.
D.The four adopted children have found their birth family after the AncestryDNA tests.
27、Walking home from work with a family friend, I found myself in a discussion about her daughter's going to college.
It started with the mother telling me that she had no money to help her daughter go through college, which led the mother to push community college fiercely. She then started to say how she had been pushing “high-paying” fields on her daughter—doctor, engineer, lawyer, etc. When I asked her if that was what her daughter had interest in, she said no. I asked her what the point was to push her daughter into something that she didn't like, and she responded with, “I just want her to make a good fortune.”
After hearing her words, I would like to state that money is not everything. A high-paying job means nothing if you are miserable. I used to do a high-paid job, but it was very tiring and I had no time of my own. I didn't like it at all. Though the pay was good, I was not happy.
So I'd like to tell parents, please do not force your children into a major or a career just because you think they are going to make a lot of money. They would feel terrible for taking that major or job just to comfort you. The worst part is the feeling of guilty when they decide to change that major to something they actually want or when they quit that job.
Being a member of a generation who are willing to give absolutely everything to our kids, we know we just hope our children could live happy lives. Please do not force a career path on our children just because we think it is good for them. Give our children advice, but don't force them.
【1】What do we know about that mother?
A．She thought highly of community college.
B．She got along very well with her daughter.
C．She couldn't afford her daughter's college fees.
D．She wanted to be a doctor when she was young.
【2】The mother chose the fields for her daughter mainly because ________.
A．her daughter really liked those fields.
B．she thought those fields were interesting.
C．those fields wouldn't cost much at college.
D．she considered them to be high-paying fields.
【3】Why did the writer mention her story in Paragraph 3?
A．To prove that high-paying jobs mean nothing.
B．To show that not all high-paying jobs are satisfying.
C．To prove that high-paying jobs make people miserable.
D．To show that low-paying jobs are better than high-paying jobs.
【4】From the text, we can infer that the writer would most probably advise parents to ________.
A．choose the best major or career for their children.
B．avoid giving their children advice on their major or career.
C．let their children make the final decision on their major or career.
D．give everything to their kids to make sure they'll have a good future.
28、Writing Contests
FIL Prize
A nine-month fellowship at the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington Chestertown, Maryland, is given annually to the winner working on an essay that addresses the history or legacies of the American Revolution and the nation's founding ideas The winner will get a scholarship of $45,000.Submit an essay sample (样本) of any length. FIL., Prize, C.V. Starr Center, Custom House, 101 South Water Street. Chesertown. (740) 765-3442
Vassar Miller Prize
A prize of $1.500 and the publication is available annually to a poetry collection, The famous poet Rosanna Waren will judge. Using the online submission system, you submit a manuscript (手稿) of 50 to 80 pages with a $25 entry fee.
University of North Texas Press, 1155 Union Circle#311336, Denton, TX76203. (940) 565-2142.
Pulitzer Prizes
Four prizes of $15, 000 each are given annually to the U.S. writers for books of fiction general non-fiction, and biography or autobiography published in the United States during the current year. For books published between January 1 and June 14, submit four copies of the book, an author’s biography and a photograph, and a $50 entry fee by June 15.The deadline for books published during the second half of the year is October 1.
Pulitzer Prizes, Prizes in Letters, Columbia University, Pulitzer Prize Office, 2950 Broadway, New York. NY 10027. (212) 854-3841.
Spokane Prize
The total prize money is $30, 000 and half of it is given annually to the winner. Other three participants in the top four will each receive $5, 000.The winner and other finalists will also be invited to read at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Writers Andrea Barrett and Alex Espinoza will judge. All pieces of works taking part in competition must be books of fiction published during the current year. Submit four copies of a short story collection, and the novel will be published by October 31.
Faulkner Foundation, 201 East Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C.20003.(202)898-9063.
【1】If you win FIL. Prize, what can you do?
A.Gain the research fund.
B.Become a prional writer.
C.Be hitted into Washington Coll.
D.Have a chance to study American Experience.
【2】What can we learn about Pulitzer Prizes?
A.They provide a scholarship.
B.They are given to various types of works.
C.They are given more than once in a year.
D.They not only pay attention to works published in the U. S.
【3】What is the common point between Pulitzer Prizes and Spokane Prize?
A.They both need entry fees
B.They both support online submission.
C.They both have certain word limit for entries.
D.Their entries both have already been published.
29、NEW HAVEN, Connecticut —— A surprise awaited students in Yale who showed up for Professor Laurie Santos’s class. They got slips of paper that said, “No class today.” There was only one rule for the students ‘ unexpected free time——They were not allowed to study, but to relax. Since exams and papers were coming up, everyone was tired and stressed. At this moment they were touched. With around applause, nine students hugged Santos, and two burst into tears.
Yet, cancelling class was not just a break. It was also a challenge, as she was asking them to stop worrying about their grades, even if it was just an hour. One student went to the Yale University Art Gallery for the first time in her four years at Yale. A group of students went to a recording studio and played a new song. More people were outside, and more were smiling. That’s why about 1,200 students were taking Santos’s class, called “Psychology and the Good Life,” the largest class in Yale’s 317-year history. Even non-Yale students had the chance to take Santos’s class. It was offered as an online course and she immediately became an Internet hit.
Skyler Robinson, one of her students, was at a loss for a while about what to do during his break, and then decided to take a nap. “It was a great nap,” he commented. Santos designed the class after she realized that her students kept busy through long days that seemed far more depressing and joyless than her own college years. “They feel they’re in this crazy rat race. They’re working so hard that they can’t take a single hour off. That’s awful.”
The ideas behind the class are simple. Santos said, “It is the hope that science can help students find peace among all the stresses and difficulties they face at college.” The lessons include showing more gratitude, performing acts of kindness and increasing social connections. The students really wanted to learn to lead a happy life in a science -driven way. Santos also noted the psychological happening of “mis-wanting”, which led people to work towards the wrong goals in life.
One week, Santo asked students to exercise. Another week, she wanted them to get more sleep. They worked hard to keep some new habits. Social science research led to many new understandings of how people find happiness. She thinks her class can change Yale, or rather, not just Yale.
【1】How did students respond to the cancelling class?
A．They expressed their concern.
B．They were at a loss what to do.
C．They showed gratitude to the teacher.
D．They were eager to study individually.
【2】How can we know Santo’s class was popular?
A．From the attendence in her class.
B．From the subject she taught.
C．From the long history of Yale.
D．From the release of the online course.
【3】What can students learn from Santos’s class?
A．To develop good study habits.
B．To let exercise become their routine.
C．To better understand how to find happiness.
D．To do something joyful during the stressful time.
【4】What can we infer from the text?
A．Santos had a more stressful time in her college.
B．Students would be in rat race after Santos’s class.
C．Santos’s influence can reach a wider range of people.
D．Santos is going to cancel more classes for better effects.
30、 I am from Indonesia. I was very happy when my sister Vera ____ helped me apply to a school in Provo，USA. Meanwhile，I felt ____，because it was my first time to go to another country which uses a different language. However，I knew it was a good ____ to study in the US.
I left my hometown for Singapore on April 23，at 6:00 pm. It took me 20 minutes by taxi to Changi Airport. The taxi driver ____ me about the cost. I was supposed to pay him ＄ 12，but he charged me ＄ 22. I had already ____ that at that time，but I didn’t want to make any ____ because I was alone in another country.
Unfortunately，the Northwest Airlines counter was ____ . A security guard told me the counter would open at 4 o’clock in the morning，but my ____ time would be 6:00 am and what made me ____ was that I didn’t have a ticket in my hands.____ ，my sister had already booked an online ticket，but I needed to get the ____ at the airline counter.____ ，I could do nothing about that until the next day. Waiting at the airport was so ____ . So I went into a cafeteria. I stayed up the whole night ____ the aircraft would be gone when I ____ .
While waiting，I decided to take some pictures for ____ . I met a new friend named AL Corpus there. He told me about his experience when he arrived in the US for the first time. He ____ me what I would need to do to enter the United States. He was very ____ and friendly. Finally，I arrived in Provo ____ . Now whenever I think of the trip，I feel happy because I had many unforgettable ____ on my trip to Provo.
【1】A. gradually B. successfully C. occasionally D. usually
【2】A. nervous B. interested C. unhappy D. sad
【3】A. adventure B. possibility C. choice D. dream
【4】A. informed B. charged C. supported D. cheated
【5】A. realized B. forgotten C. admitted D. forgiven
【6】A. plan B. mistake C. decision D. trouble
【7】A. closed B. damaged C. stopped D. protected
【8】A. arrangement B. flight C. entrance D. meeting
【9】A. angry B. relaxed C. careful D. anxious
【10】A. Suddenly B. Especially C. Actually D. Finally
【11】A. ticket B. admission C. change D. notice
【12】A. Meanwhile B. Besides C. However D. Therefore
【13】A. exciting B. interesting C. silly D. boring
【14】A. for fear that B. in order that C. as if D. even if
【15】A. expected B. awoke C. understood D. returned
【16】A. convenience B. memories C. imagination D. responsibilities
【17】A. called B. offered C. wished D. taught
【18】A. careful B. hopeful C. helpful D. thankful
【19】A. politely B. safely C. simply D. hurriedly
【20】A. experiences B. difficulties C. chances D. advantages
31、From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏演唱会). A recital _____I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I _____ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he would shake his head, muttering(嘀咕) _________about build self-confidence and working toward a ________.
So it was with really great______that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and ______my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt ______rising to play the piano in his very first recital.
My father had longed to play music since childhood, but his family was poor and couldn’t _________lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, _______too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t ________there. When he retired three years ago, he _____ his church music director to take him as a student.
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he ______stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the ______? I worried, remembering those split seconds______ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would _______. But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the _____fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I______he had been doing what music teachers always stress:___ _____the music and pretend the others aren’t there.
“I’m ________of him for starting something new at his age,” I said to my son Jeff.
“Yeah, and doing it so______,” Jeff added.
With his first recital, my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.
【1】
A．reflected
B．explained
C．meant
D．proved
【2】
A．would
B．could
C．might
D．should
【3】
A．nothing
B．everything
C．anything
D．something
【4】
A．goal
B．stage
C．journey
D．chance
【5】
A．trouble
B．satisfaction
C．strength
D．disappointment
【6】
A．kept
B．sent
C．watched
D．felt
【7】
A．through
B．from
C．against
D．before
【8】
A．miss
B．afford
C．select
D．understand
【9】
A．as
B．once
C．if
D．while
【10】
A．educated
B．protected
C．stuck
D．spoilt
【11】
A．allowed
B．invited
C．inspired
D．persuaded
【12】
A．roughly
B．simply
C．merrily
D．curiously
【13】
A．words
B．videos
C．notes
D．lessons
【14】
A．decades
B．weeks
C．hours
D．moments
【15】
A．play
B．freeze
C．click
D．adjust
【16】
A．same
B．warm
C．different
D．dirty
【17】
A．predicted
B．realized
C．imagined
D．insisted
【18】
A．pass over
B．turn up
C．bring in
D．concentrate on
【19】
A．ashamed
B．aware
C．tired
D．proud
【20】
A．casually
B．anxiously
C．nicely
D．frequently
32、 In France, a bookstore chain has put a special camera in its shops. The system feeds a video stream to software which_______shoppers’ movements and facial expressions for surprise, dissatisfaction, confusion or hesitation. When a shopper walks to the end of an aisle（货架通道） only to_______with a frown to a particular bookshelf, the software messages_______, who then go to help. For the eight months leading up to this April, sales rose_______a tenth.
The bookseller wants to keep its name_______for now. Similarly，other French clients of the Paris startup behind the technology, Angus.ai, are_______it in stores which are not open to the public. They_______ airport owner Aéroports de Paris, the luxury-goods giant LVMH, and Carrefour, the supermarkets chain.
Simple video produces a lot of insights, but there are far more complicated ways of learning about shoppers’_______. Thermal-imaging (热成像的) cameras_______detect heart rates. Wirelessly collected data from smartphone accelerometers (加速度传感器) can suggest when shoppers become fascinated (movement stops) or are unhappy about________(a phone is raised to search for cheaper products online). For even more insights, shoppers are sometimes asked to put on special equipment, typically in exchange for a ________or reward of another kind.
All of this could be a(n)________, some say, for sellers to enjoy the advantage that big data has long given online sellers. A race is________to work out how best to________and use emotional data, thus improving packaging, displays, music, or the content and timing of persuading customers into buying goods.
Using technology is much less________than old-fashioned interviewing. Nielson, a consumer-research giant, charges around $10,000 to interview 25 shoppers about three products. Angus. ai’ s service costs just $66 a month per camera. Sometimes,________market surveys may ask the wrong questions. What’s more, they can give misleading________. People typically change their responses intentionally to make themselves sound sensible,________purchases are often driven by subconscious (潜意识的) emotions.
One obvious________of shopping’s emotional side is the idea of “retail therapy” — consumers driven to spend when they are feeling blue. Whichever store is the first to spot mildly________customers could make a fortune!
【1】A.receives B.analyzes C.designs D.delivers
【2】A.return B.nod C.yell D.sit
【3】A.guards B.officials C.secretaries D.clerks
【4】A.to B.at C.for D.by
【5】A.present B.different C.quiet D.famous
【6】A.testing B.improving C.leading D.leaving
【7】A.contain B.include C.list D.involve
【8】A.ideas B.preferences C.choices D.emotions
【9】A.must B.need C.can D.should
【10】A.services B.prices C.qualities D.packages
【11】A.product B.value C.discount D.activity
【12】A.challenge B.chance C.alternative D.routine
【13】A.on B.off C.up D.in
【14】A.store B.process C.collect D.share
【15】A.mature B.popular C.attractive D.expensive
【16】A.traditional B.ordinary C.original D.historical
【17】A.impressions B.suggestions C.results D.promotions
【18】A.because B.while C.though D.unless
【19】A.change B.imitation C.example D.signal
【20】A.satisfied B.affected C.confused D.depressed
33、 In a couple of hours my son Daniel was flying out to France and to spend at least a year learning French in a different culture. It was a ________ for him.
When we were to say goodbye, I looked ________ at his face, attempting to give him good advice. But no sound came over my ________. I stood motionless and silent.
I knew that this wasn’t the ________ time I had let such an opportunity pass me by. On Daniel’s first day in preschool, I followed him to the bus. I hadn’t said a word before he ________ the bus and disappeared. Some ten ________ later, his mother and I drove Daniel to his university. He was ill in bed ________ I wanted to say goodbye. Again the ________ let me down. I only ________ words like “I hope you’re better. Dan.” Then I ________ and left.
Among all those________ there was one I didn’t miss, however. One day, I ________ Dan that he could have traveled around the ________ because I believed that was the best way to ________ a deeper insight into life. Dan thought about it and chose Paris. The night before his ________ for Paris, I lay twisting and turning in bed, ________ what to tell him. But in vain. Maybe, I thought, it wasn’t really ________ after all.
But when I stood ________ Dan, I knew that it really did mean something. My mouth was dry. “Dan,” finally stammered out (结结巴巴地说), “If I had the ________ myself, would have chosen you.” That was all I could say, ________ and commonplace. It was nothing, and yet it was everything.
【1】A.holiday B.talent C.milestone D.risk
【2】A.closely B.seriously C.elegantly D.dreadfully
【3】A.head B.ears C.lips D.mind
【4】A.last B.first C.right D.precise
【5】A.missed B.braked C.dropped D.boarded
【6】A.decades B.years C.days D.hours
【7】A.when B.while C.because D.and
【8】A.sounds B.words C.comfort D.advice
【9】A.declared B.shouted C.interpreted D.uttered
【10】A.came to B.rang off C.paid off D.turned around
【11】A.opportunities B.assessments C.profits D.outcomes
【12】A.reminded B.contradicted C.told D.informed
【13】A.city B.world C.country D.countryside
【14】A.obtain B.adore C.restore D.resist
【15】A.decision B.application C.arrangement D.departure
【16】A.leaving alone B.objecting to C.puzzling about D.adjusting to
【17】A.practical B.messy C.disgusting D.necessary
【18】A.in favor of B.in terms of C.in front of D.in need of
【19】A.choice B.money C.status D.privilege
【20】A.pure B.clumsy C.fulfilling D.fateful
34、Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
The Internet E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic age possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on 【1】 relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.
Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, “No, quiet 【2】.” They say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends-not to mention strangers. And what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so 【3】 supporting.
The technological leader promised us that access would make life more convenient. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to 【4】 us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy 【5】.
If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast 【6】 land, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the 【7】 of all resources.
And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really 【8】 in the e-economy age. If this new technology 【9】 is only about super efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time-our sense of what it means to be a(n) 【10】 human being.
35、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high【1】 — as Christie’s becomes the first auction house to offer a work of art created by an algorithm. This portrait, however, is not the product of a human mind. It was created by an【2】 intelligence, an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses. And when it went under the【3】 in the Prints & Multiples sale at Christie’s on 23-25 October, Portrait of Edmond Belamy sold for an【4】 $432,500, signaling the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage.
From a distance, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy looks almost plausible. Up close, however, the paintwork becomes a grid of mechanical-looking dots, the man’s face a golden blur with black holes for eyes. Look into those eyes. They show no sign of feeling or life. Did a computer make this?
The answer is yes. The first artwork【5】 by AI to be sold at Christie’s, its【6】 price would seem to suggest that in future we will get computers to make art for us. Robot van Gogh will harmlessly cut its ear off and robot Picasso will be a genius.
Is this the future AI art visionaries such as the French collective Obvious, which programmed this “painter” by getting it to compare its own work with 15,000 pre-20th century portraits, have in mind? Or are they just, God forbid, making a fast buck from deceivable art collectors? Because believing the algorithm that knocked this up to be in any meaningful way an “artist” is like thinking your voice-interaction programme is out to get you. Dream on. Computers would need to replicate human consciousness before they could replicate the funny thing humans do called “art”.
Art is a way in which human 【7】 expresses itself, and is equally true of the earliest cave art, Rembrandt’s portraits and Duchamp’s urinal. And that is what is missing from Portrait of Edmond Bellamy. Art is a way humans communicate ideas, perceptions and feelings to each other. It has no 【8】 outside the human passion to communicate. So in what meaningful sense can an AI replica of certain【9】 traits of old master paintings be called art?
For a robot to really make art, it would need an autonomous mind that was emotional as well as【10】. No AI developer has yet claimed to be anywhere near achieving that and if they ever do, their creation will probably have better things to do than paint portraits — like destroy humanity.
Maybe afterwards robots will invent their own kind of art, but it won’t be some poor pastiche of human genius.
It will be beyond anything we organics could imagine.
36、Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Tablets are really useful devices, but their big screens always make them a burden to carry around without a bag. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a phone with the powers of a tablet that could be folded up and fit 【1】 into the hand?
Now something like a tablet-shaped but fold-able phone is about to become 【2】. In February, South Korean electronics company Samsung and China’s Huawei both unveiled fold-able phones Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X 【3】. Mobile phone use has entered the “fold-able future”, The Verge noted.
The technology could change our lives in significant ways. These devices, due to their 【4】 screens, give us the larger screens we want. Meanwhile, they still fit easily into the pocket. As USA Today noted, they’re “the 【5】 of a small tablets and smart-phone, all in a single device”.
The technology could 【6】 other devices too. For example, we could make TVs that stick to walls like posters, or fold up easily to hide away in drawers. In crowded modem cities, they will help us to 【7】 available space.
In a keynote address, Samsung’s senior vice president of mobile product marketing, Justin Denison, called the fold-able screen “the 【8】 for the smart-phone of tomorrow.” “It’s a balank canvas for us to do something beautiful together,” he said.
So is there nothing to stand in the way of the fold-able future?
According to tech news website Android authority, the necessary displays were difficult to produce. In 2012, nine out of every to OLED screens produced were 【9】. Today, that 10 percent rate has been improved to between 50 and 90 percent. However, at present these fold-able devices are expensive. For example, the price of Huawei Mate X is 17,500 RMB. That’s a price that may 【10】 the majority of people.
But if the fold-able device isn’t going to change the world overnight, there is no doubt that it is coming.
Patrick Moor-head, an industry analyst told The Verge, “Few are debating if fold-able or roll-able mobile displays are the future of smart-phones; the only question is when and by whom.”
37、Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
On a broiling afternoon when the men were away at work and all the women napped, I moved through majestic depths of silences, silences so immense I could hear the corn 【1】. Under these silences there was a / an orchestra of natural music playing notes no city child would ever hear. A certain cackle from the henhouse meant we had gained an egg. The creak of a porch swing told of a momentary breeze blowing across my grandmother’s yard. As I 【2】 along a mossy bank to surprise a frog, a 【3】splash told me the quarry had spotted me and slipped into the stream. Wandering among the sleeping houses, I learned that tin roofs crackle under the power of the sun, and when I tired and came back to my grandmother’s house, I padded into her dark cool living room, lay 【4】 on the floor, and listened to the hypnotic beat of her pendulum clock on the wall ticking the meaningless hours away.
I was enjoying the luxuries of a rustic nineteenth-century boyhood, but for the women Morrisonville life had few 【5】. Their lives were hard, endless, dirty labor.
For baths, laundry, and dishwashing, they hauled buckets of water from a spring at the foot of a hill. To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves. They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on washboards until knuckles were 【6】, and wrung it out by hand. Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top.
They scrubbed floors on hands and knees, thrashed rugs with carpet beaters, killed and plucked their own chickens, baked bread and parties, grew and conned their won vegetables, patched the family’s clothing on treadle-operated sewing machines, 【7】before the men to start the stove for breakfast and pack lunch pails, polished the chimneys of kerosene lamps, and even found time to tend the flowers that grew around every house. By the end of a summer day a Morrisonville woman had toiled like a serf.
At sundown the men drifted back from the fields exhausted and 【8】. They scrubbed themselves in enamel basins and, when supper was eaten, climbed up onto the porch to watch the night arrive. Presently the women 【9】 them, and the twilight music of Morrisonville began.
The swing creaking , rocking chairs 【10】 on the porch planks, voices murmuring approval of the sagacity of Uncle Irvey as he quietly observed for probably the ten-thousandth time in his life, “A man works from sun to sun, but a woman’s work is never done.”
38、假定你是高三学生李华，你的英国朋友Sinan发邮件问你未来的职业规划。请你回复邮件，内容包括：
1. 你的职业规划；
2. 选择该规划的理由；
3. 询问对方的意见。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
39、假定你是李华，疫情得到控制，现在你已经回校上课了。请你给你的外教Mrs. Smith写封感谢信，感谢疫情期间她对你的教导和帮助，内容包括：
1.感谢疫情期间老师对自己英语学习的帮助和信心上的鼓励；
2.表达对老师的想念以及衷心祝愿。
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40、假如你是李华,你的好朋友Jane最近发现自己在长胖，很苦恼。她写信请你给她就如何避免这一情况提建议。请你根据下面的内容给Jane写一封信，词数100左右。
想要减肥，应做到以下三点：
1.要保证健康饮食。 2.多锻炼。 3.喝足够的水。
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Yours
Li hua
41、假定你是李华，在伦敦一所学校交换学习。得知你所在学校将举办为期一周的中国文 化周活动，你给该活动负责人Chris写一封电子邮件询问有关事宜。内容包括：
1.活动时间；
2.活动内容；
3.表达参与意愿。
注意：1.词数100字左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Chris,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua