When will the man meet John?
A. Tonight. B. Tomorrow. C. The day after tomorrow.
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What is the possible relationship between the speakers?
A. Waitress and customer. B. Cook and waiter. C. Husband and wife.
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What will the man do next?
A. Search for his room key. B. Go to the front desk. C. Change his ID card.
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Why does the man telephone the reservation office?
A. To cancel his flight. B. To confirm his flight. C. To book a ticket.
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What does the woman advise the man to do?
A. Pay extra money. B. Drop the lessons. C. Continue learning.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.Why doesn't the woman like to work in the animal hospital?
A. She is not fond of animals.
B. She doesn't like the smell of medicine.
C. She thinks it's too boring and tiring.
2.When will the woman help clean up the park?
A. On Saturday. B. On Thursday. C. On Monday.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What did Mr. Ewing ask the speakers to do?
A. Arrive at the conference centre on time.
B. Talk with the branch office workers.
C. Help out at the conference centre.
2.How will the speakers go to the conference centre?
A. By asking Mr. Ewing for a lift.
B. By driving the man’s car.
C. By taking the underground.
3.What do we know about the woman?
A. She can’t drive a car.
B. She isn’t sure about the way.
C. She doesn’t like to travel alone.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. The man’s sports life.
B. The man’s medical history.
C. The man’s school experience.
2.What made the man’s leg broken?
A. A football game. B. A wild cat. C. A traffic accident.
3.What does the man say about himself?
A. He is afraid of cats.
B. He left the school team at the age of 17.
C. Dust could make him sneeze.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What does the woman probably do?
A. A swimmer. B. A boxer. C. A footballer.
2.What does the woman do after lunch?
A. Have a break.
B. Get back to the pool.
C. Do track work and body exercises.
3.How does the woman spend her most nights?
A. Dancing at a club. B. Chatting online. C. Going to bed early.
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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.Who helped the students organize the show?
A. The art teacher. B. The maths teacher. C. All the teachers.
2.What was the money raised for?
A. More books. B. More computers. C. Some lights.
3.Where did the students find the useful information?
A. In magazines. B. On websites. C. From books.
4.What was everybody asked to wear at the beginning?
A. A hat. B. A jacket. C. A dress.
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University Room Regulations
Approved and Prohibited Items
The following items are approved for use in residential(住宿的)rooms: electric blankets, hair dryers, personal computers, radios, televisions and DVD players. Items that are not allowed in student rooms include: candles, ceiling fans, fireworks, waterbeds, sun lamps and wireless routers. Please note that any prohibited items will be taken away by the Office of Residence Life.
Access to Residential Rooms
Students are provided with a combination(组合密码)for their room door locks upon check-in. Do not share your room door lock combination with anyone. The Office of Residence Life may change the door lock combination at any time at the expense of the resident if it is found that the student has shared the combination with others. The fee is $25 to change a room combination.
Cooking Policy
Students living in buildings that have kitchens are only permitted to cook in the kitchen. Students must clean up after cooking. This is not the responsibility of housekeeping staff. Kitchens that are not kept clean may be closed for use. With the exception of using a small microwave oven(微波炉) to heat food, students are not permitted to cook in their rooms.
Pet Policy
No pets except fish are permitted in student rooms. Students who are found with pets, whether visiting or owned by the student, are subject to an initial fine of $100 and a continuing fine of $50 a day per pet. Students receive written notice when the fine goes into effect. If, one week from the date of written notice, the pet is not removed, the student is referred to the Student Court.
Quiet Hours
Residential buildings must maintain an atmosphere that supports the academic mission of the University. Minimum quiet hours in all campus residences are 11:00 pm to 8:00 am Sunday through Thursday. Quiet hours on Friday and Saturday nights are 1:00 am to 8:00 am. Students who violate quiet hours are subject to a fine of $25.
1.Which of the following items are allowed in student rooms?
A. Ceiling fans and waterbeds. B. Wireless routers and radios.
C. Hair dryers and candles. D. TVs and electric blankets.
2.What do we know about the cooking policy?
A. A microwave oven can be used.
B. Cooking in student rooms is permitted.
C. A housekeeper is to clean up the kitchen.
D. Students are to close kitchen doors after cooking.
3.If a student has kept a cat in his room for a week since the warning, he will face .
A. parent visits B. a fine of $100
C. the Student Court D. a written notice
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My First Marathon（马拉松）
A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train. Yet, I was determined to go ahead.
I remember back to my 7th year in school. In my first P.E. class, the teacher required us to run laps and then hit a softball. I didn’t do either well. He later informed me that I was ＂not athletic＂.
The idea that I was ＂not athletic＂ stuck with me for years. When I started running in my 30s, I realized running was a battle against myself, not about competition or whether or not I was athletic. It was all about the battle against my own body and mind. A test of wills!
The night before my marathon, I dreamt that I couldn’t even find the finish line. I woke up sweating and nervous, but ready to prove something to myself.
Shortly after crossing the start line, my shoe laces(鞋带) became untied. So I stopped to readjust. Not the start I wanted!
At mile 3, I passed a sign: ＂GO FOR IT, RUNNERS!＂
By mile 17, I became out of breath and the once injured ankle hurt badly. Despite the pain, I stayed the course walking a bit and then running again.
By mile 21, I was starving!
As I approached mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign. She is my biggest fan. She never minded the alarm clock sounding at 4 a.m. or questioned my expenses on running.
I was one of the final runners to finish. But I finished! And I got a medal. In fact, I got the same medal as the one that the guy who came in first place had.
Determined to be myself, move forward, free of shame and worldly labels(世俗标签), I can now call myself a ＂marathon winner＂.
1.A month before the marathon, the author ____________.
A. was well trained B. felt scared
C. made up his mind to run D. lost hope
2.Why did the author mention the P.E. class in his 7th year?
A. To acknowledge the support of his teacher.
B. To amuse the readers with a funny story.
C. To show he was not talented in sports.
D. To share a precious memory.
3.How was the author’s first marathon?
A. He made it. B. He quit halfway.
C. He got the first prize. D. He walked to the end.
4.What does the story mainly tell us?
A. A man owes his success to his family support.
B. A winner is one with a great effort of will.
C. Failure is the mother of success.
D. One is never too old to learn.
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There’s a new frontier in 3D printing that’s beginning to come into focus: food. Recent development has made possible machines that print, cook, and serve foods on a mass scale. And the industry isn’t stopping there.
Food production
With a 3D printer, a cook can print complicated chocolate sculptures and beautiful pieces for decoration on a wedding cake. Not everybody can do that — it takes years of experience, but a printer makes it easy. A restaurant in Spain uses a Foodini to “re-create forms and pieces” of food that are “exactly the same,” freeing cooks to complete other tasks. In another restaurant, all of the dishes and desserts it serves are 3D-printed, rather than farm to table.
Sustainability(可持续性)
The global population is expected to grow to 9.6 billion by 2050, and some analysts estimate that food production will need to be raised by 50 percent to maintain current levels. Sustainability is becoming a necessity. 3D food printing could probably contribute to the solution. Some experts believe printers could use hydrocolloids (水解胶体) from plentiful renewables like algae(藻类) and grass to replace the familiar ingredients(烹饪原料). 3D printing can reduce fuel use and emissions. Grocery stores of the future might stock "food" that lasts years on end, freeing up shelf space and reducing transportation and storage requirements.
Nutrition
Future 3D food printers could make processed food healthier. Hod Lipson, a professor at Columbia University, said, “Food printing could allow consumers to print food with customized nutritional content, like vitamins. So instead of eating a piece of yesterday’s bread from the supermarket, you’d eat something baked just for you on demand.”
Challenges
Despite recent advancements in 3D food printing, the industry has many challenges to overcome. Currently, most ingredients must be changed to a paste(糊状物) before a printer can use them, and the printing process is quite time-consuming, because ingredients interact with each other in very complex ways. On top of that, most of the 3D food printers now are restricted to dry ingredients, because meat and milk products may easily go bad. Some experts are skeptical about 3D food printers, believing they are better suited for fast food restaurants than homes and high-end restaurants.
1.What benefit does 3D printing bring to food production?
A. It helps cooks to create new dishes. B. It saves time and effort in cooking.
C. It improves the cooking conditions. D. It contributes to restaurant decorations.
2.What can we learn about 3D food printing from Paragraphs 3?
A. It solves food shortages easily. B. It quickens the transportation of food.
C. It needs no space for the storage of food. D. It uses renewable materials as sources of food.
3.According to Paragraph 4, 3D-printed food _____________.
A. is more available to consumers B. can meet individual nutritional needs
C. is more tasty than food in supermarkets D. can keep all the nutrition in raw materials
4.What could be the best title of the passage?
A. 3D Food Printing: Delicious New Technology B. A New Way to Improve 3D Food Printing
C. The Challenges for 3D Food Production D. 3D Food Printing: From Farm to Table
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Hollywood’s theory that machines with evil(邪恶) minds will drive armies of killer robots is just silly. The real problem relates to the possibility that artificial intelligence(AI) may become extremely good at achieving something other than what we really want. In 1960 a well-known mathematician Norbert Wiener, who founded the field of cybernetics（控制论）, put it this way: “If we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot effectively interfere(干预), we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire.”
A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish to preserve its own existence. For the machine, this quality is not in-born, nor is it something introduced by humans; it is a logical consequence of the simple fact that the machine cannot achieve its original purpose if it is dead. So if we send out a robot with the single instruction of fetching coffee, it will have a strong desire to secure success by disabling its own off switch or even killing anyone who might interfere with its task. If we are not careful, then, we could face a kind of global chess match against very determined, super intelligent machines whose objectives conflict with our own, with the real world as the chessboard.
The possibility of entering into and losing such a match should concentrate the minds of computer scientists. Some researchers argue that we can seal the machines inside a kind of firewall, using them to answer difficult questions but never allowing them to affect the real world. Unfortunately, that plan seems unlikely to work: we have yet to invent a firewall that is secure against ordinary humans, let alone super intelligent machines.
Solving the safety problem well enough to move forward in AI seems to be possible but not easy. There are probably decades in which to plan for the arrival of super intelligent machines. But the problem should not be dismissed out of hand, as it has been by some AI researchers. Some argue that humans and machines can coexist as long as they work in teams—yet that is not possible unless machines share the goals of humans. Others say we can just “switch them off” as if super intelligent machines are too stupid to think of that possibility. Still others think that super intelligent AI will never happen. On September 11, 1933, famous physicist Ernest Rutherford stated, with confidence, “Anyone who expects a source of power in the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.” However, on September 12, 1933, physicist Leo Szilard invented the neutron-induced(中子诱导) nuclear chain reaction.
1.Paragraph 1 mainly tells us that artificial intelligence may .
A. run out of human control
B. satisfy human’s real desires
C. command armies of killer robots
D. work faster than a mathematician
2.Machines with specific purposes are associated with living things partly because they might be able to .
A. prevent themselves from being destroyed
B. achieve their original goals independently
C. do anything successfully with given orders
D. beat humans in international chess matches
3.According to some researchers, we can use firewalls to .
A. help super intelligent machines work better
B. be secure against evil human beings
C. keep machines from being harmed
D. avoid robots’ affecting the world
4.What does the author think of the safety problem of super intelligent machines?
A. It will disappear with the development of AI.
B. It will get worse with human interference.
C. It will be solved but with difficulty.
D. It will stay for a decade.
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Recently, I’ve been following a simple rule that is helping me crush procrastination(拖延症) and making it easier for me to stick to good habits at the same time．1. There are two parts to the 2-Minute Rule.
Part 1—If it takes less than two minutes，then do it now．
2. For example，washing your dishes immediately after your meal，tossing the laundry in the washing machine，taking out the garbage，sending that email，and so on．
If a task takes less than two minutes to complete，then follow the rule and do it right now．
Part 2—When you start a new habit，it should take less than two minutes to do．
Can all of your goals be accomplished in less than two minutes? Obviously not．But，every goal can be started in 2 minutes or less．3.
It might sound like this strategy is too basic for grand life goals，but I beg to differ．The 2-Minute Rule works for big goals as well as small goals because of the inertia(惯性)of life．4. I love the 2-Minute Rule because it embraces the idea that all sorts of good things happen once you get started．
The most important part of any new habit is getting started—not just the first time，but each time．It’s not about performance，it’s about consistently taking action．
I can’t guarantee whether or not the 2-Minute Rule will work for you．5. Anyone can spare the next 120 seconds．Use this time to get one thing done．Go．
A. I call this little strategy the “2-Minute Rule”．
B. And that’s the purpose behind this little rule．
C. Here’s what you need to know to stop procrastinating．
D. Once you start doing something，it’s easier to continue doing it．
E. But，I can guarantee that it will never work if you never try it．
F. The goal is to make it easier for you to get started on the things you should be doing．
G. It’s surprising how many things we put off that we could get done in two minutes or less．
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We were depressed and things were tough. Mom had a ____time raising us on her own because Dad died five years ago. We relied on social assistance for ____.
Looking back, I ____ remember what Mom went through to send us to school. I studied hard then. Every morning, she would put a new piece of cardboard in our shoes because our shoes were ____. Constant moving was typical for my family in these times. Rent was 25 dollars a month but Mom couldn't ____it. Though it was hard, we never ____. Christmas was approaching. We were given 25 dollars for social services. Instead of buying food, Mom would use the money to pay the ____, ensuring us all of a ____over our head. ____we had nothing for Christmas.
Unknown to Mom, I had been selling Christmas trees to earn enough money for a new pair of ____. On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, I was ____to go to catch the bus.
As I reached the stop, I began to feel ____. I was going to buy a new pair of boots____Mom was at home in tears. My mind was ____and I realized what I had to do. I didn't get on the ____.
I went in a grocery store and bought the Christmas treats. I ____home and put them quietly against the door. I knocked on the door. When Mom opened the door, ____rolled into the house. She just stood there ____. I managed to hold back the ____, saying, "Merry Christmas, Mom! There really is a Santa Claus!"
That day I got many ____and kisses from Mom. It was a Merry Christmas for us after all!
1.A. good B. short C. hard D. funny
2.A. life B. travel C. nursery D. movement
3.A. hardly B. still C. yet D. then
4.A. handed over B. picked up C. turned over D. worn out
5.A. store B. afford C. make D. get
6.A. complained B. glanced C. envied D. calculated
7.A. decoration B. gifts C. rent D. clothes
8.A. cloud B. light C. roof D. window
9.A. And B. But C. Or D. So
10.A. glasses B. jeans C. boots D. socks
11.A. lucky B. concerned C. fearful D. excited
12.A. frightened B. guilty C. proud D. content
13.A. while B. because C. whether D. unless
14.A. woken up B. made up C. given away D. turned down
15.A. platform B. train C. bus D. plane
16.A. drove B. rang C. left D. rushed
17.A. balls B. shoes C. dollars D. things
18.A. surprised B. nervous C. disappointed D. painful
19.A. words B. trouble C. tears D. sweat
20.A. candies B. hugs C. awards D. creams
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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。
If you feel stressed by responsibilities at work, you should take a step back and identify (识别)those of 1.(great) and less importance. Then, handle the most important tasks first so you’ll feel a real sense of 2.(achieve). Leaving the less important things until tomorrow 3.(be) often acceptable.
Most of us are more focused 4. our tasks in the morning than we are later in the day. So, get an early start and try to be as productive 5. possible before lunch. This will give you the confidence you need to get you through the afternoon and go home feeling accomplished.
Recent 6.(study) show that we are far more productive at work if we take short breaks 7.(regular). Give your body and brain a rest by stepping outside for8.while, exercising, or dong something you enjoy.
If you find something you love doing outside of the office, you’ll be less likely 9.(bring) your work home. It could be anything-gardening, cooking, music, sports—but whatever it is, 10.(make) sure it’s a relief from daily stress rather than another thing to worry about.
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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：在错的词下划一横线，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。
Dear Chris,
Are you interested in coming with me to see a famous opera？It will performed at the Sichuan Opera House at 2 p．m. in May Day. I know you took great interest in Chinese culture, especially local opera. I think the perform will not only leave you with an unforgettably impression, but satisfy your interest in Chinese Opera as well. If you can come, I suggest us should visit the Sichuan Museum near the Opera House before and after the opera. You decide. The museum is hosting a exhibition on Sichuan opera. If we go, I believe you can learn many about Chinese opera in there.
Yours，
Li Hua
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假如你是李华,你所在的学校下周要开运动会,请你根据以下要点给你的外教Peter写一封邀请信,邀请他来参加你校的运动会,并参加教师项目的比赛。(词数:120左右)信件要点如下:
开始时间: 4月29日早上8:00 地点:北校区大操场
学生项目: 田赛、径赛
教师项目: 4×100米接力赛,拍球跑
参考词汇: 拍球跑running with a ball
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