We know that a smart phone app can bring us a...

We know that a smart phone app can bring us a lot of benefits when we learn another　 language. 1. Many of us have to endure hours of school lessons with our heads buried in textbooks. It's no wonder then that technology appears to be providing a better way of learning.

Having a smartphone means you can have a virtual teacher with you wherever you go, and there is certainly a huge demand for language learning apps. Many app developers are keen to cash in on the demand, hoping to share a piece of the app market. 2.One of many popular apps, Duolingo, offers 91 courses in 30 languages and has more than 300 million users.

3.They offer languages not popular enough to be taught at evening classes, or at most universities. And others offer' invented' language courses in Esperanto, Elvish and Star Trek's Klingon-lessons you might not find in a traditional classroom. Whatever you want to learn, apps allow you to go at your own pace and fit learning around other commitments. But they're not perfect-you might not get your head round the grammar. Lacking the peer support you could get in a classroom environment is a challenge, too.

So, does technology spell the end of traditional classrooms and teachers? Guy Baron, head of modern languages at Aberystwyth University, thinks not. He told the BBC that the apps are very conversational. . . they're not designed for degrees, but they could be additional resources. 4.

Certainly technology is going to help in and outside the classroom. But motivation can be a problem when using an app. 5.Of course, if you have a genuine reason to learn another language, you will no doubt stick with it.

A.There are numerous learning apps available.

B.Some educational apps are targeted at specific small groups.

C.A coming message may easily get distracted from your online lessons.

D.The content may be not what you really want and it is quite a waste of time.

E.Apps should be used alongside classroom methods, not separated from traditional teaching.

F.It opens doors, makes you more employable, helps you make new friends, and it's fun too.

G.Attending a real lesson, facing a real teacher, probably helps you to be more devoted.

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Dream is strength. The strength can bring us wherever we want to get to and it can bring us a lot of wonders on our way to the place in our dreams.

Dream is beauty. Maybe you can see the things full of magic and maybe you will be moved by your own dream.1.. But should we have our life without dreams? Of course not.

Everyone has his dreams and dreams are especially important to teenagers. As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize. Or they can be small,for example, you may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class. 2., what do you do with it?Do you ever try to make your dream come true?

Andrew Matthews, an Australian writer, tells us that making our dreams come true is the biggest challenge in our life. 3., or that it is impossible for you to become a writer.4.. In fact, everyone can fulfill his dream. The first thing you must do is remember what your dream is.Don’t let it leave your heart.Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true earlier because a big dream is made up of many small dreams.

You must never give up your dreams.5.. But the biggest one comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important and face all these difficulties bravely.

A. These kinds of thoughts stop you realizing your dream

B. There will be many difficulties on the road to your dreams

C. Once you find a dream

D. You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects

E. Both big dreams and small ones are very important to our lives

F. The world is so real that the dreams seem weak

G. Your talent is one of the most important factors in living your dreams

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“We all know that exercise is good for us, but can you get the benefits without actually doing the exercise?” asks Michael Mosley.

Having a hot bath or a sauna is a good way to soothe your limbs after exercise, but what happens if you do it instead of exercise? Dr. Steve Faulkner of Loughborough University asked me to take part in an experiment comparing the relative benefits of having a long, hot bath versus an hour of hard pedalling.

For this study I join a group of volunteers who have all been fitted with monitors which continuously record blood sugar levels. Keeping your blood sugar levels within the normal range is an important measure of your “metabolic” fitness.

The first part of the experiment is very relaxing, consisting of having a long, hot bath. While I sit in the bath, which they keep at 40℃, Steve closely monitors my core temperature. Once it has risen and stayed there, I am allowed out.

A couple of hours after my bath I have a light meal. Since we want to see how having a hot bath compares with exercise we repeat the experiment.

So what’s the result?

“One of the first things that we were looking at,” Steve says, “is the energy expenditure while you’re in the bath and what we found was an 80% increase in energy expenditure just as a result of sitting in the bath for the course of an hour.”

This is nothing like as many calories as cycling for an hour (which comes out at an average of 630 calories) but we do burn 140 calories, the equivalent of a brisk 30-minute walk.

1.What is the meaning of the underlined word in Paragraph 2?

A. exercise　　 B. strengthen　　 C. relax　　 D. build up

2.What is the purpose of the experiment?

A. To compare energy expenditure of hot bath and pedalling

B. To tell people how to lose weight.

C. To show the benefit of hot bath.

D. To encourage people to have a hot bath instead of pedalling.

3.What does normal sugar level mean?

A. It means you are healthy.　　 B. It means your temperature is normal.

C. It means you don't need exercise.　　 D. It means your metabolic system is normal.

4.If you want to burn 600 calories, what can you do?

A. Have a hot bath for one hour.　　 B. Cycle for one hour.

C. Have a brisk 60-minute walk.　　 D. Have a brisk 30-minute walk.

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Nowadays, many of us track our steps with smart watches, pedometers（计步器）or phone apps and are of course thrilled when we reach that all-important daily goal of 10,000 steps. You might _______ that this number has appeared after years of research.

The _______ number "10,000" dates back to a marketing campaign _______ shortly before the start of the1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. A company began_______a pedometer called the Manpo-kei: “man” meaning 10,000, “po” meaning_______and “kei”meaning meter. It was hugely _______ and the number seems to have stuck. Marty buyers are appealed by the new gadget.

Since then, studies have _______ the health benefits of 5,000 with 10,000 steps and, not

_______，the higher number is better. But until recently, all the _______ between hadn't been studied. I-Min Lee, a professor of ________ at Harvard Medical School, and her team ________a group of more than 16,000 women in their seventies. Each woman spent a week ________ a device to measure movement during ________ hours. When they ________ the women up an average of four years and three months later, 504 died. How many steps do you think the people alive had been doing? In fact, the average number for________ was only 5,500 but not 10,000. Women who took more than 4,000 steps a ________ were significantly more likely to still be alive than those who did only 2,700 steps. It's surprising that such a small ________could have consequences for longevity（寿命）．

However，physical conditions.________from person to person，and we should do it wisely. So count if you find it ________ you, but remember there's nothing special about 10,000 steps. Set the goal that is ________ for you.

1.A.assume B.admit C.acquire D.afford

2.A.strange B.ordinary C.abstract D.magic

3.A.recommended B.launched C.stated D.commanded

4.A.selling B.purchasing C.producing D.donating

5.A.walkers B.runners C.steps D.numbers

6.A.helpful B.successful C.plentiful D.powerful

7.A.known B.displayed C.compared D.shown

8.A.excitingly B.disappointingly C.amusingly D.surprisingly

9.A.signs B.strengths C.symbols D.numbers

10.A.science B.law C.medicine D.history

11.A.focused on B.took part in C.got along with D.thought highly of

12.A.taking B.wearing C.holding D.bringing

13.A.walking B.sleeping C.running D.shaking

14.A.asked B.spied C.found D.followed

15.A.women B.deaths C.survivors D.people

16.A.day B.hour C.month D.week

17.A.distance B.growth C.decrease D.difference

18.A.separate B.reflect C.vary D.come

19.A.distracts B.motivates C.pulls D.defeats

20.A.challenging B.appropriate C.beneficial D.creative

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Nowadays, many of us track our steps with smart watches, pedometers (计步器) or phone apps and are of course thrilled when we reach that all-important daily goal of 10,000 steps. You might_______that this number has appeared after years of research.

The_______number ''10,000'' dates back to a marketing campaign_______shortly before the start of the1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. A company began_______a pedometer called the Manpo-kei: ''man'' meaning 10,000, ''po'' meaning_______and ''kei'' meaning meter. It was hugely _______and the number seems to have stuck. Many buyers are appealed by the new device.

Since then, studies have_______the health benefits of 5,000 with 10,000 steps and, not _______，the higher number is better. But until recently, all the_______between hadn’t been studied. I-Min Lee, a professor of________at Harvard Medical School, and her team________a group of more than 16,000 women in their seventies. Each woman spent a week________a device to measure movement during________hours. When they________the women up an average of four years and three months later, 504 died. How many steps do you think the people alive had been doing? In fact, the average number for________was only 5,500 but not 10,000. Women who took more than 4,000 steps a________were significantly more likely to still be alive than those who did only 2,700 steps. It's surprising that such a small________could have consequences for longevity (寿命).

However, physical conditions________from person to person, and we should do it wisely. So count if you find it ________ you, but remember there’s nothing special about 10,000 steps. Set the goal that is________for you.

1.A.assume B.admit C.acquire D.afford

2.A.delicate B.ordinary C.abstract D.magic

3.A.recommended B.launched C.stated D.commanded

4.A.marketing B.purchasing C.manufacturing D.donating

5.A.walkers B.runners C.steps D.numbers

6.A.thoughtful B.successful C.plentiful D.powerful

7.A.identified B.displayed C.compared D.compromised

8.A.excitingly B.disappointingly C.amusingly D.surprisingly

9.A.signs B.strengths C.symbols D.numbers

10.A.psychology B.mathematics C.medicine D.philosophy

11.A.focused on B.took part in C.got along with D.thought highly of

12.A.associating B.wearing C.undertaking D.claiming

13.A.walking B.sleeping C.running D.shaking

14.A.remarked B.distinguished C.acquainted D.tracked

15.A.women B.deaths C.survivors D.people

16.A.day B.hour C.month D.week

17.A.distance B.growth C.decrease D.difference

18.A.separate B.reflect C.vary D.recover

19.A.distracts B.motivates C.indicates D.accumulates

20.A.challenging B.appropriate C.beneficial D.creative

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It’s hard for elderly people to see ______ convenience a smart phone can bring to us.

A．what　　　 B．which　　 C．whose　　 D．how

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You want a smart phone， but just how smart do you want it？ How about one that can read your mind？ Well， that phone may well be on its way...

Justin Rattner， chief researcher at Intel， says that technology has developed to the point that “context-aware computing (情景感知计算)”， an idea that’s been around for twenty years， is becoming more of a reality.

That could lead to a phone that acts as a mind reader in your pocket. But rather than simply collect secrets about you， the device could do things with that information， such as predict what you might do next and make suggestions.

Rattner gave a few examples during his speech at Intel’s developer conference in San Francisco recently.

Among them is a software that Intel worked on with Fodor’s Travel， a traveling website. It learns what types of foods you like to eat and what types of places you like to visit， based on searches you type into the phone or places you searched using GPS (全球定位系统). The software makes similar recommendations when you visit a new city.

Tech companies are already working to predict what people want. Search engine Google， movie-rental service Netflix， and online radio service Pandora try to guess what people want even before they know they want it.

Putting those types of functions together with the other information that phones collect about people could pave the way for even more helpful mobile phones， Rattner said.

A challenge is training computers to look at data from “hard sensors (传感器)” (which measure place， movement， temperature and the like) and combining those findings with data from “soft sensors” (such as calendar appointments and Web browsing history).

For example， your phone could tell that you have just left school and seem to be on your way home—a location it might know from your address book. It could then tell you the best route around traffic.

Rattner added that researchers are even making steps toward the final goal—a computer understanding of thoughts.

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— I’m really amazed at the functions of smart phones.

—So am I. We can surf the Internet, watch movies and listen to music, ______.

A. I got it　　 B. I took it

C. you name it　　 D. you make it

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Microsoft has developed a new smart phone app that interprets eye signals and translates them into letters, allowing people with motor neurone disease to communicate with others from a phone.

The GazeSpeak app combines a smartphone’s camera with artificial intelligence to recognize eye movements in real time and convert(改变) them into letters, words and sentences.

For people suffering from ALS（渐冻症）, also known as motor neurone disease, eye movement can be the only way they are able to communicate.

“Current eye-tracking input systems for people with ALS or other motor impairments are expensive, not robust under sunlight, and require frequent re-calibration and substantial, relatively immobile setups,” said Xiaoyi Zhang, a researcher at Microsoft who developed the technology.

“To mitigate the drawbacks…we created GazeSpeak, an eye-gesture communication system that runs on a smartphone, and is designed to be low-cost, robust, portable and easy to learn.”

The app is used by the listener by pointing their smartphone at the speaker. A chart that can be stuck to the back of the smartphone is then used by the speaker to determine which eye movements to make in order to communicate.

The sticker shows four grids(方格) of letters, which each correspond to a different eye movement. By looking up, down, left or right, the speaker selects which grids the letters they want belong to. The artificial intelligence algorithm（程序） is then able to predict the word or sentence they are trying to say.

1.What does the underlined word “mitigate” in paragraph 5 probably mean?

A. ignore　　 B. destroy

C. increase　　 D. reduce

2.The passage mainly tells us ________ .

A. The advantages of Gaze Speak over the Current eye-tracking input systems.

B. Smartphone App helps ALS suffers speak with their eyes movement.

C. The sticker plays an important role in Gaze Speak.

D. The writer is making an advertisement for Gaze Speaker.

3.What’s the writer’s attitude towards the invention of Gaze Speaker?

A. doubtful　　 B. negative

C. favorable　　 D. unclear

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Microsoft has developed a new smart phone app that identify eye signals and translates them into letters, allowing people with motor neurone disease (运动神经元症) to communicate with others from a phone.

The GazeSpeak app combines a smartphone’s camera with artificial intelligence to recognize eye movements immediately and change them into letters, words and sentences.

For people suffering from ALS (渐冻症) , also known as motor neurone disease, eye movement can be the only way they are able to communicate.

“Current eye-tracking input systems for people with ALS are expensive, not strong under sunlight, and require frequent re-adjustment and material, relatively steady setups,” said Xiaoyi Zhang, a researcher at Microsoft who developed the technology.

“To ease off the disadvantages, we created GazeSpeak, an eye-gesture communication system that runs on a smartphone, and is designed to be low-cost, strong, portable and easy to learn.”

The app is used by the listener by pointing their smartphone at the speaker. A chart that can be stuck to the back of the smartphone is then used by the speaker to determine which eye movements to make in order to communicate.

The sticker shows four grids of letters, which each is equal to a different eye movement. By looking up, down, left or right, the speaker selects which grids the letters they want belong to. The artificial intelligence is then able to predict the word or sentence they are trying to say.

Zhang’s research, Smartphone-Based Gaze Gesture Communication for People with Motor Disabilities, is set to be presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in May. (265)

1.According to the passage, people with ALS can communicate with others by __________.

A. eye contact　　 B. body language

C. hand shaking　　 D. language expression

2.Which of the following is NOT the advantage of GazeSpeak?

A. cheap　　 B. unsteady

C. accessible　　 D. learnable

3.How do the speakers use the app?

A. They point at the letters they want on the phone.

B. They predict the word or sentence they try to say.

C. They turn to the listeners to speak out the letters for them.

D. They look in the four directions to choose the grid of letters.

4.Which of the following might be the best title for the text?

A. People Suffering From ALS Needs Help

B. Smartphone App Helps ALS Sufferers Speak With Eyes

C. How Do People With ALS Communicate With Others

D. Researchers Develop The New Smartphone App

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