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Mother Teresa (August 26, 1910-September 5, 1997) was a great woman, who did a lot to improve the social condition of mankind. Due to her contribution in serving the society, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize aged 69. She was brought up in a Catholic family. When she was only seven, she lost her father. Even as a young child, she was interested in the life of missionaries (传教士). At the age of 18, she decided that she would become a nun. She left her home and went to join the Sisters of Loreto. It was the first step that she made towards providing services for mankind. On the 7th of October in the year 1950, Mother Teresa received Vatican permission to start the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, the mission of which would be to take care of the needy, the homeless, and people who were shunned by the society. Then it had a number of branches all over the country. The journey of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity started with the setting up of homes for "the Dying". In the year 1983, Mother Teresa suffered from a serious heart attack, while she was in Rome. However, she recovered. But, later in 1989, she again got an attack. Her health went worse and in the year 1991, she suffered from pneumonia. Taking her health problems into consideration, Mother Teresa decided to resign (辞职) from the post of head of the order. A secret vote was conducted in which all the nuns voted for the stay of Mother Teresa except herself. So, she agreed to continue serving as head of the Missionaries of Charity. Day by day her health was getting worse. On September 5, 1997, exactly nine days after her 87th birthday, this great soul departed for heaven. 【1】Why did Mother Teresa devote her life to the religious life? A. Because her parents had a deep influence on her. B. Because she wanted to provide services for others. C. Because she thought the life of missionaries simple. D. Because she came to know the Sisters of Loreto. 【2】Which of the following words can replace the underlined word "shunned" ? A. Cared. B. Concerned. C. Ignored. D. Affected. 【3】Why did Mother Teresa decide to resign from her post? A. She realized she couldn’t fully serve the people in need. B. She was only worried about her health condition. C. She wished to lead a more comfortable life. D. She knew a heart attack would take her life away at any time. |
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Genetic engineering, in its broadest definition, means to control a species so that a particular trait is increased in the population. A trait is how an organism (有机体) looks or acts or what it does. Having brown eyes is a trait. Flying in circles is a trait. Climbing trees is a trait. The earliest forms of genetic engineering occurred on farms. People selected seeds from plants that had more fruit production or tastier leaves than other plants of their types. Then they chose to save the seeds from the best of that group to sow the next year. So, year by year, the farmers produced better and better crops. This type of activity probably has been going on since mankind first settled in villages and began making a life for themselves in one location, about 12,000 years ago! The same sort of thing would have also happened with animals. For example, people chose to eat the animals that didn’t have favorable traits and let the animals with the favorable traits reproduce. It was thousands of years before mankind figured out how plants and animals reproduce themselves. With this knowledge, people could pollinate (授粉) plants by hand or keep a pair of animals together in order to deliberately cause an increase in a favorable trait. It was only in the last 250 years that scientists began figuring out chromosomes (染色体) and genes and the role they play in the way one generation passes its traits on to the next. And it’s only been in the last 30 years that scientists have been able to cut out specific genes from one organism and put them in another. It is this 30- year-old technology that is described by the narrow definition of genetic engineering. Mankind has long been able to have a deliberate impact on the world around him. He now possesses the tools to deliberately impact himself. Some people are afraid of what might be done with that power. 【1】The text is mainly developed by ______. A. asking questions B. examining differences C. making comparisons D. giving examples 【2】Paragraph 2 mainly talks about ______. A. the spread of genetic engineering B. the advantage of genetic engineering C. the original application of genetic engineering D. the popularity of genetic engineering 【3】The underlined word “them” in the last paragraph refers to ______. A. specific genes B. special traits C. chromosomes D. scientists 【4】What can we learn about genetic engineering from the last paragraph? A. It has a history of 250 years by the narrow definition of genetic engineering. B. Scientists don’t know how to make good use of it. C. People have a misunderstanding of it in the past 30 years. D. It is becoming a powerful tool of mankind. |
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American high school students are terrible writers, and one education reform group thinks it has an answer: robots. Or, more accurately, robot-readers—computers programmed to scan students’ essays and spit out a grade. Mark Shermis, professor of the College of Education at the University of Akron, is helping to hold a contest, set up by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (WFHF), which promises $ 100,000 in prize money to programmers who write the best automated grading software. “If you’re a high school teacher and you give a writing task, you’re walking home with 150 essays,” Shermis said. “You’re going to need some help.” Automated essay grading was first proposed in the 1960s, but computers back then were not up to the task. In the late 1990s, as technology improved, several textbooks and testing companies jumped into the field. Today, computers are used to grade essays on South Dakota’s student writing assessments and a handful of other exams, including the TOEFL test of English fluency, taken by foreign students. The Hewlett contest aims to show that computers can grade as well as English teachers—only much more quickly and without all that depressing red ink. “Automated essay scoring is objective,” Shermis said. “And it can be done immediately. If students finish an essay at 10 pm, they will get a result at 10: 01 pm.” Take, for instance, the Intelligent Essay Assessor, a web-based tool marketed by Pearson Education, Inc. Within seconds, it can analyze an essay for spelling, grammar, organization, and help students to make revisions. The program scans for key words and analyzes semantic (语义的) patterns, and Pearson claims that it can understand the meaning of text much the same as a human reader. 【1】The text is written to introduce ______. A. education reform in America B. robot-readers C. Hewlett contest D. William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 【2】From Paragraph 3, we know that in the 1960s ______. A. Computers were not easy to get B. Automated grading software was popular C. Computers couldn’t grade essays automatically D. People refused automated essay grading 【3】The Intelligent Essay Assessor can ______. A. Rewrite essays B. Underline the mistakes in red ink C. Correct key words and patterns D. Understand the meaning of text |
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Making Short Videos “A picture is worth a thousand words or so”, they say. Well, motion (运动) pictures can contain even more memories. 【1】Here are some apps you can use to make your own short videos. Qupeiyin.cn Reciting lines from movies is an effective and classic way to learn English. So what if you could dub(配音) recordings accompanied by movie clips(剪辑) and then share them with friends? 【2】You name it. By contributing your voice, you can either mimic(模仿) the original soundtrack or create something completely new of your own. Shorts 【3】With the help of the Shorts app, you can make pictures in your album into a slide show. Choose from any of the off-the-shelf themes---“holiday”, “travel”, “friendship” and “party” for example—each matched with its own theme music and slide background. But if you’re not satisfied with the combinations, feel free to do a little change by adding text to the pictures or replacing the music with something in your own playlist. Viva Video Video making and editing once seemed awfully hard.【4】But this app will ease you into the field with straight-forward functions and clear direction to help you “create your own video story”. Apart from filter, stickers and text, the coolest part of this app is that you can write the narratives yourself and add your own voice to the video.【5】Viva Video requires a relatively powerful phone to run smoothly. A．But here is a little reminder. B．This app has movies, cartoons, lectures, TV series. C．These apps have a variety of identifications (识别). D．That’s why short videos are becoming popular. E. Videos and pictures aren’t only for separate purposes. F. Newbies (网络新手) and amateurs didn’t dare to even give it a try. G. Video making and editing is what Apple fans want to try. |
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In 1957, Jane Goodall first met the famous anthropologist (人类学者) Dr Louis Leakey, who later played an important role in her life. With the ____ of gaining insight into humans’ evolutionary (进化的) past, Dr Leakey ____ a pioneering long-term field study on ____ chimps. Even though Jane had no formal ____, her patience and determination to understand animals______him to choose her for the study. ____ it was unusual for a woman to work in the forest of Africa, going there ____the fulfillment (实现) of her childhood dream. In the summer of 1960 she ____ in Tanzania(坦桑尼亚) on Lake Tanganyika’s eastern shore. This marked the ____ of the longest continuous field study of animals in their ____ habitat(栖息地). Five years ____, she earned a doctor’s degree at Cambridge University and then ____ to Tanzania to found the Gombe Stream Research Center. And in 1977, to provide on- -going ____ for chimp research, Dr Goodall ____ The Jane Goodall Institute. Today, she ____ most of her time traveling around the world, giving lectures on her ____ at Gombe and speaking to school groups about Roots && Shoots, her environmental education and humanitarian program for the _____ “Chimps have given me so _____ The long hours spent with them in the ____ have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my ___ of human behavior, of our place in nature.” 【1】A. knowledge B. idea C. way D. method 【2】A. argued B. achieved C. suggested D. changed 【3】A. rude B. special C. modest D. wild 【4】A. living B. training C. exercise D. practice 【5】A. made B. let C. devoted D. led 【6】A. Although B. Because C. If D. Once 【7】A. intended B. stopped C. meant D. inspired 【8】A. reached B. left C. arrived D. went 【9】A. happening B. beginning C. end D. achievement 【10】A. man-made B. old C. new D. natural 【11】A. ago B. before C. later D. behind 【12】A. returned B. referred C. connected D. turned 【13】A. time B. evidence C. environment D. support 【14】A. founded B. built C. created D. set 【15】A. pays B. spends C. costs D. devotes 【16】A. experiences B. presence C. bravery D. appearance 【17】A. human B. youth C. animals D. adults 【18】A. much B. many C. little D. few 【19】A. institute B. university C. field D. forest 【20】A. understanding B. desire C. imagination D. protection |
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用单词的适当形式填空 【1】She wanted to i_________her students by having them listen to this instructive speech. 【2】All of us should mind our b_________ in public places. 【3】Would you mind writing a s___________of the passage? About 200 words are OK. 【4】Please be more c___________and don’t play loud music late at night. 【5】Swimming helps to get the blood __________ (循环) through our body. 【6】Farmers produce millions of tons of_________ (粮食，谷物)to feed the nation. 【7】An outbreak of fire or an accident is an _____________(突发事件). 【8】Do you have any___________(评论)on the proposal? 【9】I felt a great sense of a__________ when I reached the top of the mountain. 【10】We all found his _________(争论) convincing and interesting. |
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阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。 Yuan Longping is one of the most famous scientists in the world. He【1】 (struggle) for the past five decades for the Chinese farmers. He grows 【2】 is called super hybrid rice. This special strain of rice makes 【3】 possible to produce one third more of the crop in the same fields. 【4】(use)his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before. Finding ways to grow more rice has been his life goal since he graduated from college in 1953. At that time, hunger was【5】disturbing problem in many parts of the countryside. Therefore, he wanted to help his motherland rid of hunger【6】increasing the rice output without【7】(expand) the area of the fields, and he finally made it. 【8】 a great scientist, he leads a very simple life. He believes that a person with too much money has more rather than【9】 (few) troubles. He has another dream 【10】 his rice can be grown around the globe and no hunger is in the world. |
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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处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用(＼)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。 My neighbor Mrs. Li is a curious lady. Yesterday morning, a mailman rang my doorbell. Hear the bell, Mrs. Li put her head out of the windows immediately and asked in a loud voice, “What’s the matter?” “Are you Li Xia? There’s package for you,” answer the man. “Where is it come from?” Mrs. Li asked. “It’s from London.” Then Mrs. Li asked the mailman to open it. Feeling puzzling, he replied that he couldn’t open the package and asked Mrs. Li to come down and open it herself. Mrs. Li refused polite. The mailman was a little bit angry but asked impatiently, “Why?” “Because I’m not Li Xia. She lives next door. I played a joke of you.” |
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每年的10月31日是联合国确定的“世界勤俭日”。假设你是李华，你最近给你在美国的朋友Mike的一封email中专门讨论了“勤俭”的问题。你的email内容应包括： 1)指出校园内中学生花钱如水，没有节约的概念； 2)分析产生这一现象的原因(独生子女；生活水平的提高；追求时髦等)； 3)你对“节俭”的看法。 注意： 1．字数：110左右。 2．开头和结尾已写好，不计入总字数。 3．参考词汇：世界勤俭日：World Thrift Day; 花销：expenditure; 现象：phenomenon Dear Mike， How's everything going? As you know, World Thrift Day falls on October 31. So this time I'd like to discuss thrift with you. In recent years, the monthly expenditure of middle school students has been on the sharp rise. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How about your point about thrift? Best wishes! Yours faithfully Li Hua |
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