Mike bought an old car cheaply,cleaned it up and sold it at a ______.
A. benefit B. bargain
C. profit D. prize
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Mike bought an old car cheaply,cleaned it up and sold it at a ______.
A. benefit B. bargain
C. profit D. prize
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What did the woman do today?
A.She cleaned the car.
B.She bought an umbrella.
C.She listened to the weather forecast.
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Imagine a cat that does not need someone to clean up after it keeps an older person company and help them remember to take their medicine. That is the shared dream of the toy maker Hasbro and scientists at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The researchers received a $3-million-dollar award from the National Science Foundation for a special project. They want to find ways to add artificial intelligence, or A.I., to Hasbro’s “Joy for All” robotic cat.
The cat has already been for sale for two years. Though priced over 1000 dollars, it sold quite well. It was meant to act as a “companion” for older people. Now the project is aimed at developing additional abilities for the cat. Researchers at Brown’s Humanity-Centered Robotics Initiative are working to decide which activities older adults may need the most. They hope to make the cat perform a small number of activities very well. Such activities include
finding lost objects and reminding the person to take medicine or visit their doctor. They also want to keep the cost down to just a few hundred dollars.
It is an idea that has appealed to Jeanne Elliott. Her 93-year-old mother Mary Derr lives with her in South Kingstown. Derr has dementia (痴呆). The Joy for All cat that Elliott bought this year has become a true companion for Derr. The cat stays with Derr and keeps her calm while Eliot is at work. Elliott said a robotic cat that helps her mother to remember to take her medicine and be careful when she walks would be greater.
The researchers are trying to learn how the improved cats will complete helpful activities and how they will communicate. They say that they do not want a talking cat, however. Instead they are trying to design a cat that can move its head in a special way to successfully communicate its message. In the end, they hope to create an exchange between the human and the cat in which the human feels the cat needs them. By doing so, the researchers hope they can even help prevent feelings of loneliness and sadness among elderly people.
1.What’s the purpose of the project?
A. To relieve the pain of the elderly.
B. To promote the sales of a medicine.
C. To help make the robotic cat smarter.
D. To invent a robotic cat for the elderly.
2.Compared with the old model, the new robotic cat will be ________.
A. cheaper
B. smaller
C. more talkative
D. more expensive
3.What does Paragraph 3 intend to tell us?
A. The more functions of the cat, the better.
B. The cat gives much help to the elderly.
C. There is no cure for dementia at present.
D. Mary Derr would have died without the cat.
4.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. A talking cat is quite popular among the elderly.
B. Feelings of sadness among the elderly are unavoidable.
C. Each family can afford such a cat in the future.
D. The feeling of being needed is vital to the elderly.
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The salesman sold me the car at a lower price and added some fancy gifts _____.
A.for example B.for sale
C.for good measure D.for one thing
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He sold me the car at a cheap price and included the radio ______.
A. in good relation B. from good aspect
C. for good measure D. in good spirits
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It was already dark when an old man arrived at a small town. He found an inn and wanted to stay there for the night. After he had entered his room, the owner said to his wife, “Look at his luggage, dear. It’s heavy and the old man is so careful about it that he takes it wherever he goes. I’m sure there are lots of valuable things in it. I want to steal some when he is asleep.”
“No, no,” said the woman. “He must search for what was gone tomorrow morning. Then he’ll take you before the judge.” They thought and at last the woman had an idea. “We have forgetful grass,” said the woman, “Why not put some into his food? If he has the food, he will forget to take his luggage away.” “How clever you are! My dear.” said the owner, “Don’t forget it when you prepare supper for him.”
The old man had the food with the forgetful grass and went to bed. The next morning, when the owner got up and hurried to the room that the old man lived in, he found the door was open and the old man had left with his bags. He woke his wife up and said angrily, “What a fool! Your forgetful grass isn’t useful at all.” “No, no,” said the woman. “I don’t think so. The forgetful grass does always work. He must have forgot something.” “Oh, I’ve remembered!” The owner cried out suddenly, “He forgot…”
1.The owner and his wife put the forgetful grass into the food because _______.
A.the old man always forgot something
B.they wanted to make the food better
C.they hoped the old man would leave the bags in the inn
D.they wanted to know if the grass was useful
2.According to the passage the old man forgot _______.
A.to take his bags away
B.to tell the owner when he left
C.to close the door when he went to sleep
D.to pay them the inn money
3.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Both the owner and his wife were clever.
B.The owner of the inn got nothing from the old man.
C.The old man left the inn without his bags.
D.The woman forgot to put the grass into the food.
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Every art lover has a dream---to buy an old painting at a low price and later discover that it’s worth millions. 1. But this dream can become a nightmare if it turns out that the painting is stolen.
The following true story happened in London. An art collector was walking around an outdoor market in the East End when he saw two interesting paintings.2. He decided to buy them after they got the price down to 145 pounds. The art collector knew it was a good deal, but he wasn’t sure how much his paintings were really worth.
He decided to take the paintings to the Sorheby’s, a famous auction house.3. They were painted by two of England greatest painters Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds. They had been stolen from Lincoln’s Inn, a famous historical building in London and were worth about two million pounds.
4. Experts at Sotheby’s were convinced that he was an art thief and called the police. Within minutes the police arrived. They arrested the frightened man and took him to the police station. After hours of questioning, the police realized that they had made a mistake and let the man go.
The art collector returned them immediately because he was worried about his good name.5. So the stolen paintings are now back at Lincoln’s Inn.
A. Nothing is more exciting.
B. At this point the art collector was in trouble.
C. An auction house is a place where things are sold to whoever offers the most.
D. Although he wasn’t an art expert, he saw that they were old.
E. Obviously, he did not want to be associated with stolen works.
F. The art experts who saw the paintings recognized them immediately.
G. He recognized that they were stolen works worth great value.
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________ cleaning the yard and making up the beds for the old, we also read newspapers for them and had chats with them.
A. Except for B. Rather than
C. Apart from D. Instead of
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______ cleaning the yard and making up the beds for the old, we also read newspapers for them and had chats with them.
A. Except for B. Apart from
C. Rather than D. Instead of
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
________ cleaning the yard and making up the beds for the old, we also read newspapers for them and had chats with them.
A. Except for B. Rather than C. Apart from D. Instead of
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