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Shows that are all about movies. “Filmspotting” “Film spotting” has been producing weekly programs of insightful film analysis since 2005. Episodes typically begin with an in-depth discussion of one major new theatrical release. A reliable highlights is a Massacre Theater, in which the hosts gamely re-enact(重演) a scene and invite listeners to guess which movie it is from. “How did these get made?” The actors Paul Scheer , June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas host this discussion that doesn’t aim to pile hate on bad films so much as make detailed fun of them but try to figure out how they came to be. The hosts are so attractive that the commentary doesn’t come off as negative; even when they discuss true duds, their real love of movies shines through. “The Rewatchables “ “The Rewatchables “ taps into the universal joy of revisiting a favorite movie-and the less universal joy of doing it with a bunch of deeply knowledgeable friends. Each episode finds Bill Simmons, host of the show, and a cast of guests examining a movie that may not be an obvious classic, but is a culturally significant film that you have likely seen at least once. “Scripetnotes” Billed as a show about “ screenwriting and things that are interesting to screen writers”, “Scripetnotes” offers specific advice on screenwriting. The show’s regular Three Page Challenge, in which the two hosts, Craig Mazin and John August, comment on the sample of an audience- submitted screenplay, is invaluable whether you are an ambitious screenwriter or a curious film fan. 【1】What is the most interesting part of the “FilmSpotting”? A.Re-enacting a new theoretical release B.Involving people in guessing movies C.Reviewing culturally significant films D.Acting with the audience-submitted screenplay 【2】What does the show hosted by Bill Simmons focus on. A.Revisiting popular films B.Making remarks on bad films C.Recommending worth-watching classics D.Exploring the way the film business works.m 【3】Which show will be especially attractive to film writers. A.”Scripetnotes” B.”Film spotting” C.”The Rewatchables “ D.“How did these get made” |
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Some cities and lawmakers are resisting crime-fighting tech owing to bias (偏见) and accuracy concerns. Police departments around the U.S. are asking citizens to trust them to use facial recognition software as a handy tool in their crime-fighting toolbox. But some lawmakers — and even some technology giants — are against it. Take the western Massachusetts city of Springfield, where many residents are Latino or black. Springfield police say they have no plans to use facial recognition systems, but some City Council members are moving to block any future government use of the technology anyway. At an October hearing on the subject, Springfield City Councilman, Orlando Ramos, defended the technology. “The facial recognition technology does not drop a net from the sky and put you to prison,” he said, noting that it could serve as a useful investigative tool. However, he doesn’t want to take any risks. “It would only lead to more racial discrimination.” he said, citing studies that found higher error rates for facial recognition software used to identify women and people with darker skins. Similar debates across the country are highlighting racial issues and concerns about the technology’s accuracy. Axon, which supplies body-worn cameras nationwide, had already formed an artificial intelligence ethics board (伦理委员会)that concluded facial recognition technology isn’t yet dependable enough to justify its use on police cameras. Axon Chief Executive Rick Smith said, “Even if facial recognition software was perfectly accurate, the ability to track people raises privacy concerns. “Do we want everybody who walks near a police officer to get their face identified and logged in a database?” he said. Nevertheless, Todd Pastorini, general manager at biometric forensics (生物取证) company DataWorks Plus, said it’s the “extremely effective” method of running images through photos to help identify a suspect. “Society and the public are going to get frustrated, if governments refuse to adopt a technology that keeps improving”, he said. In his eyes, facial recognition hits are just one part of an investigation. 【1】What is Orlando Ramos’ attitude towards facial recognition? A.Hopeful. B.Cautious. C.Ambiguous. D.Tolerant. 【2】What is one focus of the debates about facial recognition? A.Gender discrimination. B.Speed limit. C.Accuracy rate. D.Steadiness control. 【3】What does Rick Smith think of facial recognition? A.It appears to cause prejudice. B.It brings about privacy concerns. C.Its technology is reliable. D.Its accuracy needs improving. 【4】What can we learn from the passage? A.Facial recognition tool meets with resistance. B.All the people disapprove of facial recognition. C.Facial recognition is the only tool of investigation. D.Governments should ban facial recognition. |
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In recent times, vegetarianism has become more popular, but it is still not the best option for many. If you may be contemplating removing meat from your diet but do not want to go completely meat-free, perhaps try going meat-free for just one day a week. Sharon Palmer, a registered dietitian and author of Plant Powered for Life, discusses how “research consistently shows that plant based diets are linked with a lower risk of obesity, hypertension, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer”. She says, “Even going meatless one day a week can make a difference, as you increase all of those whole plant-foods beans, wholegrains , nuts, seeds, vegetables, fruits-and decrease more animal foods, in particular red and processed meat. A high intake of these foods has been linked with increased disease risk.” Deciding to have a more plant-based diet also increases your intake of fiber, vitamins healthy fats and minerals. To help to do this, stocking your fridge with a variety of beans, seasonable veggies , wholegrains, herbs, nuts and seeds is Palmer’s secret to eating more plant-based meals. Palmer’s other recommendation is “plantifying” your favorite dishes. “Just make your favorite entrees or meals plant-based, with a few swaps.If you love Taco Tuesday, make your tacos veggie by skipping the meat and serving black beans or a vegetarian mushroom with tofu filling. If you love Indian food, skip the chicken masala and have chickpea masala instead. These will be foods you already love and are familiar with.” Her biggest advice is to pick one day a week to follow through this and mark it on your calendar. “I love the Meatless Monday idea because people often start their best behavior at the beginning of the week... However, there may be a better day of the week for you. So just plan it,” Palmer said. 【1】What does the underlined words “contemplating” in Paragraph 1 most probably mean.? A.Stopping B.Delaying C.Resisting D.Considering. 【2】The writer mentions Sharon Palmer as a registered dietitian and author of a book probably because he wants his readers to______. A.firmly believe Palmer’s advice B.better understanding Palmer’s theory C.buy Palmer’s popular book D.know the popularity of Palmer’s advice. 【3】To “plantify” your favorite dishes, you just________. A.try going meat-free one day a week B.stock your fridge with whole plant foods C.use vegetable filings, not meat for dumplings D.plan a meatless day of the week as you like. 【4】How about Palmer’s advice according to the text? A.Theoretical B.Practical C.Boring D.Unrealistic. |
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Up to 40% of all food in the United States is wasted. Producing food that people don’t consume swallows up roughly 20% of America’s cropland and agricultural water, and produces greenhouse gas emissions(排放物) equal to 37 million passenger vehicles each year. Yet, 37 million Americans lack consistent access to adequate and nutritious food. NRDC’s Food Matters Initiative partners cities to confront food waste. Food Matters is piloting all-round, cutting-edge strategies that are easy to follow and share. The first two strategies--and arguably the most critical ones--are to estimate a local baseline level of food waste and then assess the potential for rescuing surplus food. A baseline is necessary in order to understand the scale and natural of the problem. It is also a prerequisite(先决条件) to assessing any progress made, which will help inform future program development. Using a calculator tool NRDC developed based on the Food Matters research models ,the Atlanta’s Mayor’s Office of Resilience had a better understanding of the qualities of wasted food and where it was likely occurring. This allowed the city to focus the attention on the solutions that were more closely related to the situation in Atlanta. As in many cities across the U.S., much of the food wasted in Atlanta occurs in households and consumer-facing businesses such as restaurants. Armed with this information, the Mayor’s Office of Resilience, creates a restaurant challenge encouraging restaurants to work on the entire system of reduction, rescue, and recycling. After 90 days and participation from 6 restaurants at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson airport, the program rescue 21,000 meals and saved owners over $62000. Atlanta’s restaurant challenge is one of a handful of examples where cities have engaged(吸引) consumer-facing food businesses to reduce their food waste. New York led the charge with a Mayor’s challenge to restaurants .Denver recently completed a series of neighborhood restaurant challenges. Nashville has an ongoing Mayor’s Food Saver Challenge including not just restaurants but other food businesses as well. Several other cities and countries throughout the country have similar business engagement success stories. 【1】What are the data mainly about in paragraph 1? A.the harm of food waste B.the cause of food pollution C.the importance of food safety D.the solution to food waste. 【2】How does Atlanta benefit from the calculator tool of NRDC? A.It makes new plans for banning food waste B.It helps the city better work on the solutions. C.It tests the work efficiency of the government D.It increases the potential for recycling food waste. 【3】What is the restaurant challenge mainly about? A.Inspiring customers to order food based on actual need B.Teaching waiters to deal with food waste in the greener way. C.Encouraging restaurants to reduce food waste in every process . D.Making restaurants compete with each other in waste recycling. 【4】What can we learn from the last paragraph? A.Restaurant challenges only work in America B.More and more cities are focusing on food waste . C.Food businesses are the main sources of food waste . D.It is difficult to complete the restaurant challenges. |
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Have you ever heard of the Internet of Things(IoT)? It’s a term that is being used more and more often lately.【1】Basically, any device with an on/off switch that connects to the Internet is part of the IoT. Based on this definition, What items might be part of the IoT? Look around you .Are there any devices in your home or classroom part of the IoT?【2】Your friend’s smartphone? Your teacher’s iWatch? How about those smart headphones you want for your birthday? These are all part of the IoT. In many cases, these devices share data with each other.【3】For example, consider the devices in a smart home.There might be a smart thermostat(恒温器), a smart speaker and a smart oven(烤箱) . Now, picture a person walking home with a smartphone in their pocket. If the smartphones GPS knows the person will be home soon, it can send that Information to the other IoT devices, the thermostat can adjust to the person’s preferred temperature. The smart speaker can play their favorite album. 【4】All these things are done before the person walks through the door-and without them lifting a finger. Exactly how big is the IoT? In 2020, it is estimated that about 34 billion devices will be connected. Just think of all the ways those devices can work together to make life easier!【5】with the threat of hackers(黑客) stealing data from devices in homes, cars and businesses. Security is now more important than never. A.But what does it actually mean ? B.But of course, there are drawbacks C.Their universality might surprise you. D.The smart oven can heat up their favorite snack E.Too many IoT devices give little thought to the basics of security F.The IoT bridges the gap between the digital world and the physical world. G.By sharing data, devices on the loT work together to make some parts of life easier. |
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I served as a Newport Beach ocean lifeguard in Orange County, California. Late in a shift , another guard, Mike, phoned me, “Hey, I got a couple of kids playing close to the dangerous water section. I’m going to give them a _____. Keep an eye out for anything unusual.” Sure enough, as soon as he _____, a huge wave sucked the two kids into the water. Mike saw it and rushed toward the ocean. Their mother realized what was happening. She was on her feet, _____. Before I was even halfway there, Mike had _____into the deep water to pull them up. They were so _____that they couldn’t walk, so Mike was carrying them, one under each _____. The mother let out a sigh of relief. Suddenly, a new kind of panic washed over her as though there was a new, equally dangerous ______to her kids’ lives. She rushed up, seize her kids and left without so much as a thank-you. Mike had a _____growing experience.His frightening tattoos (纹身) and shaved head with scars showed he wasn’t the _____guard on the beach. I admitted I didn’t really get along with Mike. But his saving ability made up for everything he_____ in PR (公关)skills. If any other guard had been______that night, there would have been a very real_____ that the mother wasn’t going home with both her kids. Maybe he wasn’t her idea of a knight in shining armor. But that wouldn’t change the fact that he had just______her kids. That was over ten years ago .If you ask Mike about it today, I doubt if he’ll still remember it, but I won’t forget. As I jogged back to work that day, I______myself I’d never let my own fear an ______prevent me from recognizing a hero when I see one. 【1】A.lesson B.choice C.warning D.surprise 【2】A.hung up B.turned up C.called up D.came up 【3】A.whispering B.fighting C.arguing D.screaming 【4】A.slipped B.sunk C.dived D.fallen 【5】A.excited B.tired C.confused D.annoyed 【6】A.leg B.arm C.shoulder D.foot 【7】A.threat B.anxiety C.surprise D.fear 【8】A.caring B.rough C.normal D.steady 【9】A.patient B.dull C.friendly D.strange 【10】A.owed B.lacked C.allowed D.required 【11】A.on duty B.on time C.in turn D.in vain 【12】A.honor B.doubt C.chance D.fact 【13】A.returned B.stopped C.frightened D.saved 【14】A.comforted B.changed C.promised D.devoted 【15】A.confidence B.comment C.appreciation D.prejudice |
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 President Xi Jinping 【1】(sign)a presidential order on Tuesday to award four people national medals and honorary titles for their outstanding contributions 【2】 fighting the COVID-19 pandemic(流行病). Zhong Nanshan, 84. 【3】 excellent disease expert, was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the highest national honor, for his outstanding work in fighting COVID-19 in China. Three others were also awarded the “People’s Hero” national honorary title for helping fight against the novel coronavirus(新冠病毒). They are Zhang Boli, a 【4】 (tradition) Chinese medicine expert; Zhang Dingyu, head of Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital; and Chen Wei, a medical scientist 【5】 made major achievements in COVID-19-related basic research. Zhong also has long been devoted to the research, prevention and 【6】 (treat) of major infectious and chronic respiratory diseases(慢性呼吸病), and has a long record of 【7】 (achievement). He was a major figure in the fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome(综合症状) outbreak in 2003 in China. Following the COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese government encouraged the country 【8】(contain) the disease in Wuhan. Hubei province, after the city was locked down in late January. More than 42,000 medical workers from across the country 【9】 (send) to Hubei to fight the disease. The pandemic has been 【10】(effective) placed under control on the Chinese mainland since early March. |
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你校三个月前发起了“我有一个好习惯”的活动。请你为校英文报写一篇报道，内容包括： 1. 活动简介； 2. 你的好习惯； 3. 你的体会。 注意： 1. 写作词数为80左右； 2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 I Have A Good Habit ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 There are a number of volunteer organizations out there that deal in things like clothing donation and the sale of used books. Retired schoolteacher Cathy has been a member of such an organization, VNSA, since 2012. Her duties involve working throughout the year to help prepare the books for their February sale and acting as personnel manager for the sale. That means she helps coordinate (协调) all the other volunteers who help out before, during, and after the event. It was before the 2019 book sale and Cathy once again found herself sitting among a towering pile of books and sorting through them to ensure that they would be in good enough condition to resell. As she was sorting, she came upon a book, wrinkled and broken. Though she didn’t like doing it, the only remaining choice for her was to throw it away. A greedy book lover herself, Cathy felt guilty about throwing away any book. Before she threw it away, she decided to check for more serious damage inside that might justify her giving it up. She opened the cover and went through the pages when she noticed something unusual. Going through the pages, Cathy was surprised to see that a part had been hollowed out (挖空)inside the book. Obviously, something was hidden in that rather expertly hollowed space. She looked down and saw that the book’s previous owner had hidden four packages in the space, each containing ten $100 bills. Cathy’s first thought was that the bills were toy money that perhaps a kid had hidden inside as part of some childish game or something. 注意: 1.续写词数应为150左右； 2.请在答题卡的相应位置作答。 But Cathy soon realized that these were real $100 bills. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Luckily for Cathy, the book also contained the name of the book owner. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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