The thought of the prize____________(激励着我)
The thought of the prize____________(激励着我)
The thought of the prize____________(激励着我)
Which of the following is NOT true about Andrew Carnegie?
A.He thought individuals should progress through hard work.
B.He felt that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society.
C.He preferred to provide opportunities that would allow others to help themselves.
D.He thought that charity was a good way to help the poor.
The findings support that______.
A.future goals will greatly influence a person’s present performance
B.a person’s present performance is determined by his/her past knowledge
C.future thought depends to a great degree on the memory of the past
D.present thought is impossible without the ability to imagine the future
Which of the following assumptions about early humans is expressed in the passage?
A.They probably had extensive knowledge of plants.
B.They thought there was no need to cultivate crops.
C.They did not enjoy the study of botany.
D.They placed great importance on the ownership of property.
听力原文:M: What do you think the Greens might like for a wedding present?
W: How about a pretty cloth for their new table? I first thought of an ashtray but I am not sure that they smoke.
Q: What did the woman suggest for a wedding gift?
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A.An ashtray.
B.Teacups?
C.A tablecloth.
D.A vase.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: Milk was a basic food of man long before history was written. It will probably keep on being one as long as there are animals that give milk. Even the word milk is very old. It comes from Sanskrit, one of the oldest languages known to man. A picture of milking has been found in the ruins of an ancient city. It was drawn about 3500 B.C. Milk is often mentioned in the Bible. This shows what an important food milk was thought to be in ancient times.
Many ancient people also thought that milk had great healing power. One of the most famous Greek doctors told his patients to drink milk to cure illness. The Romans rubbed bread soaked in milk on their faces. They thought that this would make their skin paler. They also thought that it would keep their beards from growing! The wife of one emperor of Rome took a milk bath every day. She believed this would improve her health and beauty. She kept five hundred animals to make sure of having milk each day.
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A.About 3500 B.C.
B.Long before history was written.
C.When there was history record.
D.About 4500 B.C.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: In earliest times, men considered lightning to be one of the great mysteries of nature. Some ancient people believed that lightning and thunder were the weapons of the gods. In reality, lightning is a flow of electricity formed high above the earth.
The American scientist and statesman, Benjamin Franklin, was the first to show the connection between electricity and lightning in 1752. In the same year he also built the first lightning rod. This device protects buildings from damage by lightning.
Scientists estimate that there are about 2 billion flashes of lightning per year. Lightning hits the Empire State Building in New York City 30 to 48 times a year. In the United States alone it kills an average of one person every day.
The safest place to be in case of an electrical storm is in a closed car. Outside, one should go to low ground and should not get under trees. Also, one should stay out of water and away from metal fences. Inside a house, people should avoid open doorways and windows and should net touch wires or metal things.
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A.They thought it was the weapon of the gods.
B.They thought it was electricity.
C.They thought it was firework of the gods.
D.They thought it was a mystery.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: "Fingers were made before forks." When a person gives up good manners, puts aside knife and fork, and dives into his food, someone is likely to repeat that saying.
The fork was an ancient agricultural tool, but for centuries no one thought of eating with it. Not until the 11th century, when a young lady from Constantinople (君士坦丁堡) brought her fork to Italy, did the custom reach Europe.
By the 15th century the use of forks was widespread in Italy. The English explanation was that Italians were averse to eating food touched with fingers, "seeing all men's fingers are not alike clean". English travelers kept their friends laughing while describing this ridiculous Italian custom.
Anyone who used a fork to eat with was laughed at in England for the next hundred years. Men who used forks were thought to be woman-like, and women who used them were called show-offs. Not until the late 1600s did using forks become a common custom.
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A.To keep their food clean.
B.To imitate the people of the East.
C.To impress visitors with their good manners.
D.To amuse the English.
According to paragraph 1, which of the following is true about petroleum formation?
UPPER PALEOLITHIC ART WAS NOT CONFINED TO CAVE PAINTINGS. MANY SHAFTS OF SPEARS AND SIMILAR OBJECTS WERE DECORATED WITH FIGURES OF ANIMALS. THE ANTHROPOLOGIST ALEXANDER MARSHACK HAS AN INTERESTING INTERPRETATION OF SOME OF THE ENGRAVINGS MADE DURING THE UPPER PALEOLITHI
C. HE BELIEVES THAT AS FAR BACK AS 30,000
B.
C., HUNTERS MAY HAVE USED A SYSTEM OF NOTATION, ENGRAVED ON BONE AND STONE, TO MARK PHASES OF THE MOO
N. IF THIS IS TRUE, IT WOULD MEAN THAT UPPER PALEOLITHIC PEOPLE WERE CAPABLE OF COMPLEX THOUGHT AND WERE CONSCIOUSLY AWARE OF THEIR ENVIRONMENT. IN ADDITION TO OTHER ARTWORKS, FIGURINES REPRESENTING THE HUMAN FEMALE IN EXAGGERATED FORM. HAVE ALSO BEEN FOUND AT UPPER PALEOLITHIC SITES. IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THESE FIGURINES WERE AN IDEAL TYPE OR AN EXPRESSION OF A DESIRE FOR FERTILITY.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: A lot of people travel to foreign countries in the summer time and it's really a good experience. I've done a lot of that myself and I've seen a lot of interesting things when I've traveled.
One time I was sitting in a restaurant watching the people come in and out, just drinking some coffee, and kind of enjoying the experience of being in another place. I watched at one point two people come in and sit down at a table. They didn't quite know what to order and they didn't speak the language at all, but there were pictures in the menu and they thought, well, they could probably get by just pointing at things so riley pointed at something and the waiter seemed to think that was reasonable because be didn't ask any questions. So he brought the sauce for the meat that they were going to eat first and put it on the table. The two people who were eating didn't understand what they'd ordered so they didn't know what he'd brought. They looked at it and since it was in a small bowl, they thought, "Well, this must be the soup." And they drank it. You can imagine their surprise to find out that it was almost a hundred percent chilly sauce!
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A.Eating some salad.
B.Having a sandwich.
C.Reading a book.
D.Drinking coffee.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: Sir Isaac Newton, who was born in 1642 and who died in 1727, was one of the greatest scientists who have ever lived. We aren't going to tell you about his discoveries in today's programme, instead, we're going to tell you a true story about the man himself. Newton thought about so many problems that he was often absent-minded. He frequently forgot to have his meals. One evening his friend, Dr. Stukeley, called and asked if he could see the great scientist. The maid told Dr. Stukeley that Newton was busy and asked him if he would wait in the dining-room. Dr. Stukeley sat at the dining-table and waited. On the table there was a covered dish which contained a chicken for Newton's dinner. Dr. Stukeley waited such a long time that he got very hungry. In the end he ate the chicken and put the cover back on the dish. Immediately after this, Newton appeared. He greeted his friend warmly and then asked the maid if he could have his dinner. She told him it was on the table. Newton uncovered the dish and saw the chicken bones. "I thought I hadn't eaten," he said, "but I see that I have."
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A.In 1624.
B.In1642.
C.In 1720.
D.In 172
An Internet survey was carried out to see the popularity of the computer-generated stories, other computerized stories and stories written solely by a human. The result was that readers ranked MEXICA stories highest for flow and coherence, structure, content, suspense and overall quality. Rafael Pérezy Pérez, the creator of MEXICA, explained that a story might begin with something as basic as, "The enemy wounded the knight. The princess cured the knight. The knight killed the enemy. The knight rewarded the princess. The end. "
The program reads characters as variables (变量) and assigns a numerical value, between a continuum(连续体) from -3 to +3, to emotional connections that are defined as either amorous (多情的) or non-amorous. The numerical value is equivalent to the degree of emotion, with -3 being intense hate and +3 being intense love. The program also understands story tension, such as linking the word "wounded" with tension. This too is assigned a numerical value.
Once these clusters of emotional links and tensions are established, the program begins what is called an "engagement reflection cycle". Basically this involves searching a database of story actions and other happenings, which are called "atoms", and determines the best match for the characters and contexts for that moment.
The process repeats itself again and again until the system can no longer make any matches. At this point, the computer analyzes the story for coherence and "interestingness". The program views a story as interesting when tension levels increase and fall throughout the piece. If the program finds that the story is boring or incoherent in places, it will replace or insert atoms until a version is thought to be satisfactory.
What can we know about MEXICA from the passage?
A.It is a computer program that can write fiction stories on its own.
B.It is a computer program created by Rafael Pérezy Pérez.
C.It is blamed for low quality among many other descriptors.
D.The stories it has written is not very popular among readers.
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