Now that American education has entered the era of the MOOC—the Massive Open Online Course-the opportunity for cheating appears greater than ever. The all-knowing Google search engine is never more than a few keystrokes away. So how can a teacher manage such a large number of examinees so far away, let alone searching out cheaters taking tests across the Internet?
Using technology, of course. While special services via webcam(摄像头)and cheating detecting software have been developed now, Mettl, an online company, has developed advanced techniques for netting cheaters, which the company claims are even more reliable and easier to use. Whatever small attempt to cheat, he or she will be found out.
Mettl has adopted a handful of technologies on its test—taking platform, creating a mini monitoring state in an exam. Here’s how it works：A test-taker signs on to Mettl and selects his／her exam from the site’s library of pre—loaded tests. Facial and keystroke recognition technology confirm the person that has signed in is the very person, and the system records both the test—taker(through the webcam)and the test—taker’s screen throughout the test.
Mettl’s technology uses the test—taker’s webcam to detect how many people are using the computer. Soon, it will track eye movement well enough to sense whether the test-taker is looking away from the screen, perhaps to Consult a smart phone or a friend in secret. Mettl also monitors the test-taker’s screen and can detect when the test-taker has changed a computer or moved from the test. The system will soon be able to record sound, thus detecting whether the test-taker is talking or being talked to.
If any irregularities are detected, the system flags the incident and reports it back to the test’s administrator. This can bring any number of things, depending on the test-giver’s wishes：a complete shutdown of the exam, a warning message that appears on the test-taker’s screen, even human instructions from the control center.
Mettl is hoping its technology will help it break into the country’s big MOOC markets.
1.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Advantages of Massive Open Online Courses
B. Using technology to fight against cheating online
C. A new Test system serving the online students
D. How Americans help increase educational opportunity
2.From the first paragraph we can infer that
A. MOOC has replaced the traditional form of education
B. Teachers should be more strict in dealing with cheating
C. Google is a software designed for cheating
D. Preventing online cheating is a tougher job
3.How can Mettl help to get rid of cheating online?
A. By equipping teachers with cameras.
B. By asking test-takers to sign in.
C. By providing different tests at the same time.
D. By recording the test-takers’ behaviors.
4.Which part of a newspaper does the article come from?
A. Health B. Education C.Entertainment D. Culture
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The hottest TV drama in China – “Nirvana in Fire” or “Langya Bang” has just ended. Millions of people waited every day after midnight for the latest (two) episodes. Are you one of them? What is the story about? Why the show is so popular?
“Nirvana in Fire” is based on an Internet novel by author Hai Yan, who was invited to pen the screenplay for the television adaptation. The 55-episode series, set in a fictionalized kingdom, weaves together two storylines — one about a betrayed general's revenge and the other about princes fighting for the throne.
The series was put on screen on Sep. 19th, and the number of Internet views exceeded 140 million times the next day. Only during the week of National holiday, the number increased by 1.6 billion.
It’s now the hottest Chinese TV show with a very high score of 9.3 on Douban. (The classical TV drama, Journey to the West, produced in 1986 is with the same score). Previous and recent costume dramas such as “The Journey of Flower” and “Yun Zhong Ge” only scored 6.4 and 3.5.
Drawing comparisons to “The Count of Monte Cristo”, the story revolves around a gifted young man named Lin Shu, whose father serves as a general. Already a high-ranking military officer by his teenager years, Lin Shu enjoyed a close friendship with Prince Xiao Jingyan and was even engaged to Princess Nihuang.
At age 17, however, Lin Shu’s life turned upside down when his father’s army was framed and destroyed by a foxy political rival. Lin Shu escaped death, but due to the poisoning, his body became weak and frail, and he lost his martial arts abilities. From then on, his face was pale and his fingers always ice-cold.
After twelve years, Lin Shu returned to his country’s capital with a new name, Mei Changsu, and a new identity, the leader of the Jiang Zuo Alliance. He then became the strategic adviser for his friend, Prince Jingyan, who had been exiled(流放) by the king. Despite the efforts of Prince Xiao Jingheng and the crown prince to win the throne for themselves, Mei Changsu succeeds in paving the road for his friend to take over as king, as well as the avenging the injustices dealt to his troops many years before.
1.Which of the following is true?
A. Lin Shu changed his face and name in order to take revenge.
B. Lin Shu and the crown prince were childhood friends and Lin helped him to be the king.
C. Nirvana in Fire was set in a real kingdom in history.
D. Nirvana in Fire shares the same score with Journey to the West on Douban.
2.What is the underlined word mean?
A. made a false charge B. taken advantage of
C. defeated D. got ride of
3.What is more likely to talk about in the following paragraph?
A. How did the prince fight for the throne?
B. Where was Nirvana in Fire shot?
C. Why did Nirvana in Fire enjoy such popularity?
D. What happened to Mei Changshu after he succeeded in taking the revenge?
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
Even when you’re extremely busy, you aren’t using your time with 100% efficiency. There are gaps in everyone’s schedule where they aren’t doing anything important. Even if your schedule has no gaps, there is probably lots of time where you aren’t working as fast or as effectively as you possibly could.
Why aren’t you completely efficient? It’s because time isn’t the limiting factor. If it were the limiting factor, people could work non-stop without breaks or any unproductive distractions. Instead, people, even those who are highly productive, need to take breaks, occasionally procrastinate(拖延) and slow down on tasks throughout the day.
The real and most important limiting factor for productivity is your energy levels to pay attention. Energy levels limit your productivity because when you’re tired, you can have ample time and still not get everything done. Your attention ability is also limited, because even if there are a million things that need to be done, you can only focus on one or two at a time.
You might not be able to insert another 4-5 hours into your schedule without making some sacrifices. But even extremely busy people can add an hour or two into their schedule without cancelling anything. The reason it’s hard to “find time” isn’t a lack of time. It’s because you don’t have enough energy left to focus on something else that needs to fit into your day.
I first suspected time wasn’t the real problem during an extremely busy period in my life over a year ago. I was insanely busy, but at that time I still exercised regularly. I had daily-to-do lists with over twenty items, and I still found time to exercise. However, after a few weeks off, due to illness, stopped exercising. I was not busy by any standards, in fact, my schedule was incredibly light. Despite this free time, I found it hard to find time to exercise. It seemed to get pushed later and later into my schedule until it was gone. How can I explain this odd experience? I believe you have known it.
1.If someone can’t work with 100% efficiency, the most important limiting factor is ______.
A. a schedule without gaps B. breaks and distractions
C. the limited time D. the limited energy
2.According to paragraph 4, everyone, including the extremely busy people, can ______.
A. work without any rest
B. focus on many things at a time
C. find some more time in a day
D. do some exercise regularly
3.After a few weeks off, what was the change of the writer’s life?
A. He had a longer daily to-do lists with over twenty items.
B. He stopped doing exercise because of the lack of energy.
C. He found it hard to find time to exercise because he was busier.
D. He pushed most of the things later and later in his schedule.
4.The writer gives the example of himself in the last paragraph in order to ___________.
A. prove what the real limiting factor is
B. show us how busily he needs to work
C. explain how important a healthy body is
D. tell us what an odd experience he has
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
A Dutch artist and designer has come up with a device which he hopes will get rid of pollutants from Beijing's smog skies, creating clean air for the city's mask-wearing people.
An electromagnetic field（电磁场） will pull particles（微粒） in the smog to the ground where they can be easily cleaned.
“It's like when you have a balloon which has static（静电） and your hair goes toward it. Same with the smog,” says artist Daan Roosegaarde.
His studio has reached an agreement with the Beijing government to test the technology in one of tile capital's parks.
With its skies regularly covered by dirty gray smog, Beijing this week announced a series of emergency measures to handle the problem.
Roosegaarde says an indoor model device has already proven it works and is confident that the results — with the help of a team of scientists and engineers — can be replicated outside.
“Beijing is quite a good place because the smog in Beijing is quite low. It lies in a valley so there's not so much wind. It's a good environment to explore this kind of thing.”
“We'll be able to purify the air and the challenge is to get the top of the smog so you can see the sun again.”
Roosegaarde acknowledges that projects like this are a way of drawing attention to the problem, rather than a practical solution to Beijing's awful air pollution.
“This is not the real answer for smog. The real answer has to do with clean cars, different industry and different lifestyles.”
However, he hopes the project will make a “fundamental statement” by allowing the city's people to realize the difference between breathing clean and smog-filled air.
1.The device works by _______.
A. helping keep the particles out with more masks
B. pulling pollutants to the ground with an electromagnetic field
C. absorbing hair with a balloon with static
D. creating clean air and let it out into the sky
2.According to the passage, ______ .
A. the Beijing government has agreed to use the technology in Beijing
B. they have proven the results of the device both indoors and outdoors
C. the results of the air-cleaning device can be expectable
D. the Beijing government has never done anything to handle the air pollution
3.What does Roosegaarde really mean by saying “Beijing is quite a good place…... ”?
A. The air pollution in Beijing is not quite serious.
B. The weather in Beijing is good for foreigners to live in.
C. Beijing is quite fit for using the air-cleaning device.
D. It is easy to get the top of the smog in Beijing.
4.Roosegaarde appeals to people in Beijing to ________.
A. pay attention to air pollution and solve the problem finally
B. invent more devices to clean the smog in Beijing
C. drive modern cars and try different lifestyles
D. realize how serious the pollution they're facing is
难度: 困难查看答案及解析
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。（请将答案涂在答题卡上E=AB F=AC G=AD）
We’d better develop our interest in English at the beginning of our study. 1. We may feel good when we can say something simple in English.
2. So we must make some plans before study. And we should certainly carry out these plans in our study.
3. Our notes are much thinner than the books so that we can learn them by heart easily and can often review and read them. We may also record our notes on tapes so as to listen to them easily.
Reading a newspaper is the best thing to improve your English. 4. It will help you keep in touch with a lot of subjects in English.
5. Learn by heart the whole sentences and the phrases that contain the new words so that we may know how to use the words.
If time permits, we may read a mini Chinese-English dictionary carefully from cover to cover, which may help us widen our sight and master knowledge in all ways.
A. Read a little from a newspaper every day.
B. Don’t read books without making notes.
C. Carefully write an e-mail in English.
D. It’s easy to develop an interest in English study.
E. The more, the better.
F. Plans are always very necessary.
G. Never just memorize single English words.
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
All of us can give others a hand as long as we are willing to do so. Actually, there are some people doing kind things all the time. Spreading kindness, one good deed at a time, is Karla Gibson’s mission. “I wish everyone could join me. There are so many _______ things going on in the world; I mean every day,” said Karla.
Karla had the ____and sense of duty in December of 2013. The single mother of three said she tended to get down around the holidays, so she ______ to do something to cheer others up. She started a Facebook page and____ her good deeds each day, from feeding the homeless to giving Easter gifts to the incarcerated (囚犯). She hoped to ____ others.
“We have to do something. Our ____ can make a difference in someone’s day. You ________ know when someone might be having their worst day, and then something like buying them a coffee can change their whole attitude,” Karla ______.
Karla’s greatest ____so far had to do with coffee. On September 27th, Karla’s birthday, she went to her local Starbucks and gave the _______ $127 to pay for other people’s drinks. She sat at the end of the drive-thru holding a _______ that read, “Have a great day.” She ended up _______ about 23 customers. “It was really fun. It was _______ one of the best birthdays ever,” she said. Her kindness that day didn’t go _______. One couple was so grateful that they surprised her with flowers and balloons to show their _____.
Karla’s acts of kindness have become a _______ affair. Her two sons are always ______ others. “Sometimes I’ll ask Kyle, ‘So, did you do anything extra nice today?’ and he’s like ‘Somebody ______ something in the hallway and I picked it up’ or ‘I held the door for someone’, that kind of thing,” said Karla.
It’s because of Mom that the boys think it’s _______ to give a hand to others. “I think it’s a great idea of hers. It’s always nice to help someone out ______ they really need it,” said Karla’s 15-year-old son Chad.
1.A. good B. bad C. new D. casual
2.A. commitment B. appointment C. preference D. success
3.A. managed B. agreed C. hesitated D. decided
4.A. did B. mentioned C. shared D. missed
5.A. greet B. inspire C. introduce D. remember
6.A. kindness B. happiness C. stories D. sadness
7.A. still B. often C. never D. even
8.A. whispered B. explained C. reported D. replied
9.A. surprise B. challenge C. concern D. moment
10.A. cashier B. customer C. beggar D. secretary
11.A. mark B. sign C. symbol D. flag
12.A. paying for B. picking up C. paying off D. picking out
13.A. occasionally B. usually C. probably D. hardly
14.A. unoccupied B. unnoticed C. unorganized D. unquestioned
15.A. wisdom B. existence C. generosity D. appreciation
16.A. society B. love C. holiday D. family
17.A. encouraging B. inviting C. helping D. affecting
18.A. dropped B. bought C. found D. fell
19.A. strange B. lucky C. cool D. funny
20.A. after B. though C. unless D. when
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
My family objected violently when my brother and I said__1._ were going to spend the Christmas holidays abroad. But nothing could persuade us _2.__ (stay). Two days__3.__ Christmas, we went to a small town in Southern Germany. We spent __4._ whole of Christmas Eve sightseeing.
There were so many activities in the town that they added to our_5.__ (excite). The streets were crowded with people __6._ the shops were full of wonderful things. In the evening, we went to listen to Christmas songs sung by children around the__7.__(bright) decorated Christmas tree in the main street. We returned to our hotel late that night, greatly__8.__ (look) forward to the next day when we planned to have a meal at the best restaurant in town. But in the morning the streets were empty. To make matters worse, all the shops including the restaurants __9.__ (shut). At last we had to return to our hotel, feeling very miserable. Our Christmas “feast” was a bag of fruits, which my brother had happened to buy the day before. Our thoughts sadly turned to home __10.__, at that moment, the entire family must have been wishing us a “Merry Christmas.”
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
短文改错
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处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（^），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。
I’m tired and covered in dust. I’ve been digging all day and I’ll be doing the same tomorrow. Sound awful, doesn’t it ? But I’ve never had so many fun in my life. As an archaeology student, I have already knew something about the Qin Tomb and the terracotta warriors. Most Chinese children can tell you Qin Shihuang was the emperor first unified China. He was a brilliant ruler, and he was also a cruel man who killed thousands of people. When he became the king of the state, he immediately ordered workers to construct an underground tomb for him, which is said to contain great treasures. But, the actual entrance to the tomb has ever been found, nor has the tomb been opened. There are ancient descriptions of crossbows hiding at the tomb’s entrance. It’s said that if everyone steps across the entrance, the crossbows will fire.
难度: 困难查看答案及解析
书面表达
你们班开展了一次以"Less Stress（压力）, Better Life"为主题的英语演讲比赛,请你准备发言稿,谈谈你的一些缓解压力的好办法,与同学分享,内容包括:
●同学们中普遍存在的压力：学习很努力，成绩不理想；作业太多，没时间休息.
●我的压力：成绩好，但与同学相处有困难；与父母缺乏沟通(communicate with…)。
●缓解压力的方法：至少两项。 注意： 1. 词数120左右；
难度: 困难查看答案及解析