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People keep organizing massive thousand person hide-and-seek games at Ikea (宜家) though it has _______ asked people not to play in its stores.

The first evidence of this _______ dates back to 2014, when a Belgian blogger named Elise De Rijck coordinated a hide-and-seek meet up at her local Ikea store to celebrate her 30th birthday. She _______ a Facebook group and invited her friends — but soon, thousands of people joined the group. Ikea Belgium got _______ of the plan and instead of _______ it, offered Ikea's full support, including _______ staff and security to host the event. From the photos that still _______ online, the event was a _______, filled with people hiding under bins and beds all over the store.

For Ikea, it was a(n) _______ thing. The company soon __________ similar Facebook groups organizing games and asked them to disband, noting __________ risks. And for good reason: Ikea is full of heavy furniture and forklifts (叉车).

Just this week, authorities in Glasgow __________ a new plan for a 3,000-person game in the Scottish city's Ikea store. Employees at the local Ikea __________ the plan on Facebook and called the police, who turned away the __________ gamesters. An Ikea spokesperson told The Scotsman, “We need to make sure people are safe, and that's hard if we don't know where they are.”

Ikea's prohibition on hide-and-seek __________. But at the same time, it's hard not to see the phenomenon as a potential __________ for the company, which has been working __________ to reinvent itself, rethinking its store designs and opening smaller urban stores that are really just a __________ for digital orders. It probably truly isn't safe to play guerilla-style games at a store that sells heavy furniture. Then again, Ikea has thousands of people __________ about driving to the very suburban box stores that wants people to visit. Isn't that an underlying opportunity, rather than a __________?

1.A.repeatedly B.occasionally C.suddenly D.hardly

2.A.claim B.setting C.trend D.scene

3.A.created B.invented C.obtained D.abolished

4.A.light B.rain C.wind D.sand

5.A.sponsoring B.rejecting C.approving D.monitoring

6.A.serious B.cheerful C.virtual D.extra

7.A.pioneer B.circulate C.expand D.survive

8.A.surprise B.creation C.success D.mess

9.A.one-time B.everyday C.frequent D.rare

10.A.looked forward to B.reflected on C.withdraw from D.reached out to

11.A.fire B.health C.safety D.business

12.A.organized B.prevented C.supported D.observed

13.A.declared B.banned C.exposed D.spotted

14.A.painstaking B.weather-beaten C.would-be D.poverty-stricken

15.A.causes debates B.makes sense C.ends in failure D.faces challenges

16.A.chance B.threat C.application D.disaster

17.A.aimlessly B.desperately C.accurately D.temporarily

18.A.warehouse B.museum C.showroom D.gallery

19.A.enthusiastic B.concerned C.upset D.anxious

20.A.plan B.game C.prohibition D.problem

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1.

Which of the following is discouraged by the Friends organization?

A．To build massive complexes for public amusement.

B．To prevent possible damages to the National Park.

C．To help protect and improve the Park for all to enjoy.

D. To sponsor publications and projects in local school.

2.

One of the benefits for members of Friends is to           .

A. have Friends’ goods free of charge

B. visit any place not open to the public

C. take part in work parties if they want to

D. give talks in their fields on current issues

3.

The purpose of this poster is to invite more people to_______________.

A. raise money for the Friends organization

B. join the Friends organization and be members of it

C. work as managers for Pembroke shire National Park

D. enjoy the landscape of Pembroke shire National Park

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In order to keep fit, people eat ________ vegetables per person today as they did two years ago.

A．as many twice　　　　　     B．twice more than

C．twice as many    D．more than twice

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A massive earthquake and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town, doubling the total death number on Sunday as the government tried to get aid to hungry survivors and stop looting(抢劫).

President Michelle Bachelet said at least 708 people had been killed and called for calm as people desperate for food and water looted stores in some areas worst hit by Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude quake, one of the world’s biggest in a century. The earthquake that shook Chile on Saturday morning was “50 times bigger than the one of Haiti.” The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month - yet the death number in Haiti, a Caribbean nation, was much higher.

The reasons are simple. Chile is wealthier and infinitely better prepared, with strict building codes, robust emergency response and a long history of handling seismic catastrophes. No living Haitian had experienced a quake at home when the Jan. 12 disaster crumbled their poorly constructed buildings.

Television images showed houses washed away by swirling waters, cars tossed into shattered buildings and boats lifted into the streets in coastal towns including Pelluhue and Constitucion, where 350 deaths alone were reported.

“It’s an enormous disaster ... there’s a growing number of missing people,” Bachelet said, adding that food and medical aid was being sent to help the roughly 2 million people affected by the quake. Chile is making great efforts to deal with a formidable task caused by the earthquake how to provide temporary shelter for so many people.

A lack of water, food and fuel sharpened the hardship for the hundreds of thousands of people left homeless, and widespread disruption to the power supply threatened to hamper (妨碍) Chilean industry’s recovery. In the hard-hit city of Concepcion, about 310 miles south of Santiago, the government imposed a night-time curfew (宵禁令) in Concepcion and the Maule region on Sunday in a bid to stop looting.

Police used tear gas and water blast guns to disperse a crowd of looters carrying off food and electrical appliances from one supermarket in Concepcion. Television images showed people stuffing groceries and other goods into shopping trolleys. “People have gone days without eating,” said Orlando Salazar, one of the looters at the supermarket. “The only option is to come here and get stuff for ourselves.” On the second day of the most serious natural disaster to hit Chile in decades, rescuing survivors from the ruins had been quickly replaced by the hard challenge of helping them. People overseas have been deeply impressed by earthquake relief efforts by the Chilean government.

1. There are several reasons why the loss of lives in the Chile earthquake was comparatively low EXCEPT __________.

A. improvements had been made in the constructed buildings.

B. Chile is always well prepared for the coming earthquake.

C. large number of Chile residents had gone oat for a holiday.

D Chile has rich experience in dealing with this disaster.

2. The underlined word “formidable” in the fifth paragraph probably means ________.

A. difficult          B. glorious                       C. light                     D. original

3. According to the passage, what is the most pressing task in the earthquake-hit areas?

A. rescuing survivors

B. providing temporary shelter and food for the victims

C. burying dead bodies

D. clearing away the ruins

4. The author’s main purpose in writing the passage is to ____________.

A. call on international aid agencies to go to Chile to help.

B. tell us how to deal with the coming disaster.

C. show how the people of Chile rebuild their country after the big disaster.

D. tell us something about the enormous earthquake in Chile.

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____ the standard of living for 3 billion people will create massive opportunities, XiJinping said at the fifth BRICS summit , and he called for major cooperation projects.

A. Improve          B. Improved     C.Improves     D.Improving

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At least 42 people _______ confirmed dead with another four still_______ after a massive landslide engulfed a village in Southwest China’s Yunnan province on Friday morning.

A．have been; missing  B．have; missing       C．have been; losing   D．have; losing

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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

It is expected 1. over 100,000 people will take part in a massive parade at Beijing’s Tian’an men Square on the morning of Oct 1, National Day, 2. (celebrate) the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

“3.(participate) from all walks of life and ethnic groups will attend 4.ceremony, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots(同胞), overseas Chinese and foreigners 5. (include)”, said Du Feijin, head of the publicity department of the Beijing Committee of the Communist Party of China. “Tian’anmen Square will feature red decorations representing the 6. (glory) history of the Party as it led the Chinese revolution to victory”, he said, 7. (add) that 70 red lanterns would be hung parallel 8. the east and west sides of the square. Starting next month, a series of activities like raising the national flag, singing the national anthem and commemorating revolutionary martyrs(烈士) will be held nationwide to let9. (many) people take part in celebrating the birthday of the motherland. Besides, a documentary which features highlights during the 70-year journey10.(broadcast) on TV.

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Aristotle thought the face was a window onto a person’s mind. Cicero agreed. Two thousand years passed, and facial expressions are still commonly thought to be a universally valid way to judge other people’s feelings, irrespective of age, sex and culture. A raised eyebrow suggests confusion. A smile indicates happiness.

Or do they? An analysis of hundreds of research papers that examined the relationship between facial expressions and underlying emotions has uncovered a surprising conclusion: there is no good scientific evidence to suggest that there are such things as recognizable facial expressions for basic emotions which are universal across cultures. Just because a person is not smiling, the researchers found, does not mean that person is unhappy.

This may raise questions about the efforts of information-technology companies to develop artificial-intelligence algorithms (算法) which can recognize facial expressions and work out a person’s underlying emotional state. Microsoft, for example, claims its “Emotion API” is able to detect what people are feeling by examining video footage of them. Another of the study’s authors, however, expressed scepticism. Aleix Martinez, a computer engineer at Ohio State University, said that companies attempting to obtain emotions from images of faces have failed to understand the importance of context.

For a start, facial expression is but one of a number of non-verbal ways，such as body posture, that people use to communicate with each other. Machine recognition of emotion needs to take account of these as well. But context can reach further than that. Dr Martinez mentioned an experiment in which participants were shown a close-up picture of a man’s face, which was bright red with his mouth open in a scream. Based on this alone, most participants said the man was extremely angry. Then the whole picture was shown. It was a football player with his arms outstretched, celebrating a goal. His angry-looking face was, in fact, a show of pure joy.

Given that people cannot guess each other’s emotional states most of the time, Dr Martinez sees no reason computers would be able to. “There are companies right now claiming to be able to do that and apply this to places I find really scary and dangerous, for example, in hiring people,” he says. “Some companies require you to present a video resume, which is analyzed by a machine-learning system. And depending on your facial expressions, they hire you or not, which I find really shocking.”

1.We can learn from the second paragraph that __________.

A.facial expressions are universal across cultures

B.it is hard to recognize some facial expressions

C.emotions and facial expressions may not be related

D.common facial expressions convey similar meanings

2.In the passage, the word “scepticism” (paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to “__________”.

A.similar interest B.fierce anger C.strong support D.great doubt

3.The experiment mentioned by Dr Martinez may prove that ___________.

A.facial expression is an important way to communicate

B.machine recognition of emotion is not reliable at all

C.facial expression is not the only way to detect feelings

D.people may misread facial expressions for lack of context

4.What does this passage mainly tell us?

A.Facial expressions are among the most universal forms of body language.

B.Computers can detect people’s mind by analyzing their facial expressions.

C.Facial expressions may not be the reliable reflection of a person’s emotions.

D.Companies can depend on machine recognition of emotion to hire people.

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Aristotle thought the face was a window onto a person’s mind. Cicero agreed. Two thousand years passed, and facial expressions are still commonly thought to be a universally valid way to judge other people’s feelings, irrespective of age, sex and culture. A raised eyebrow suggests confusion. A smile indicates happiness.

Or do they? An analysis of hundreds of research papers that examined the relationship between facial expressions and underlying ( 潜在的) emotions has uncovered a surprising conclusion: there is no good scientific evidence to suggest that there are such things as recognizable facial expressions for basic emotions which are universal across cultures. Just because a person is not smiling, the researchers found, does not mean that person is unhappy.

This may raise questions about the efforts of information-technology companies to develop artificial-intelligence algorithms (算法) which can recognize facial expressions and work out a person’s underlying emotional state. Microsoft, for example, claims its “Emotion API” is able to detect what people are feeling by examining video footage of them. Another of the study’s authors, however, expressed scepticism. Aleix Martinez, a computer engineer at Ohio State University, said that companies attempting to obtain emotions from images of faces have failed to understand the importance of context.

For a start, facial expression is but one of a number of non-verbal ways, such as body posture, that people use to communicate with each other. Machine recognition of emotion needs to take account of these as well. But context can reach further than that. Dr Martinez mentioned an experiment in which participants were shown a close-up picture of a man’s face, which was bright red with his mouth open in a scream. Based on this alone, most participants said the man was extremely angry. Then the whole picture was shown. It was a football player with his arms outstretched, celebrating a goal. His angry-looking face was, in fact, a show of pure joy.

Given that people cannot guess each other’s emotional states most of the time, Dr Martinez sees no reason computers would be able to. “There are companies right now claiming to be able to do that and apply this to places I find really scary and dangerous, for example, in hiring people,” he says. “Some companies require you to present a video resume, which is analyzed by a machine-learning system. And depending on your facial expressions, they hire you or not, which I find really shocking.”

1.We can learn from the second paragraph that ______.

A.facial expressions are universal across cultures

B.it is hard to recognize some facial expressions

C.emotions and facial expressions may not be related

D.common facial expressions convey similar meanings

2.In the passage, the word “scepticism” (paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to “______”.

A.great doubt B.similar interest

C.fierce anger D.strong support

3.The experiment mentioned by Dr Martinez may prove that .

A.facial expression is an important way to communicate

B.machine recognition of emotion is not reliable at all

C.facial expression is not the only way to detect feelings

D.people may misread facial expressions for lack of context

4.According to the text, which of the following statements is correct?

A.Facial expressions differ from person to person.

B.People with red face must be feeling extremely angry.

C.Artificial-intelligence algorithms can always work out a person’s inner emotional state.

D.Unbelievable to Dr Martinez is that job offers are decided by a machine-learning system.

5.What does this passage mainly tell us?

A.Facial expressions are among the most universal forms of body language.

B.Computers can detect people’s mind by analyzing their facial expressions.

C.Facial expressions may not be the reliable reflection of a person’s emotions.

D.Companies can depend on machine recognition of emotion to hire people.

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This is the first time that the organization has named a color after a _______ from a film.

A. person　　 B. figure　　 C. character　　 D. celebrity　　

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