Unit 1 Science Fiction 知识点题库

1）原文作者：刘慈欣(2015年雨果奖获得者);

2）电影内容：拯救地球，带着它流浪;

3）你的看法。

注意：1）词数80左右;

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

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Yours,

Li Hua

Should I stay or should I go? An LED device(设备) for driverless cars aims to give pedestrians(行人) at a crossing the power to communicate with cars, signaling for them to stop or drive on.

Blink, created by researchers at the Royal College of Arts and Imperial College London, turns the awkward dance of eye contact and hand gestures that happens when a car slows down while someone is waiting to cross the road into something driverless cars can understand.

Blink combines an organic light display with the windscreen(挡风玻璃) and windows of a car and uses light signals to show pedestrians when the car is aware of their presence. If the car detects a pedestrian, a figure lights up.

If a pedestrian raises a hand as a stop sign, the figure turns green, directing the pedestrian to cross, and the car is prevented from moving forward. If they place a hand out to the side to signal for the car to go forward, the figure turns red and the car continues.

But George Filip at the University of Nottingham, UK, isn't certain it is a good idea to give pedestrians control over driverless cars. He says cities could end up crowded because pedestrians keep stopping cars.

"Producers should wait until the novelty of driverless cars has worn off before creating car­pedestrian communications systems, " he says. "We need to learn how people actually communicate with autonomous cars. "

The idea is to help people feel more comfortable around driverless cars, says Blink co­creator Raunaq Bose. "It effectively gives pedestrians the car­stopping powers of lollipop men and women(帮助学童过马路的交通安全员). "

The team hasn't yet tested the device on a driverless car, but Bose says several automotive companies have expressed interest.

句式：more than 不只是,不仅仅

仿写：父母不仅要给孩子提供吃穿，还是孩子的启蒙老师。

He clever but dishonest.

When our confidence is low, we sometimes tend to believe what others think of us. We don't have the confidence in ourselves 1 we have to believe in others. One individual who has 2 to accept others' beliefs is Les Brown.

It started when he was just a baby. He was put up for adoption. 3 he was adopted by a woman, Ms. Mamie Brown. She was a single parent, had limited 4 resources, and little education, but she had a big heart. She 5 Les and his twin brother.

As Les was 6 he met difficulties in school. He was incorrectly labelled as a "slow learner". When that label is put on a child, it damages a child's self-esteem. However, Les was 7. He didn't believe what others believed his abilities to be. He had big dreams. He had no 8 education beyond high school, yet he had determination and was very persistent. He 9 his education by self-education.

Today he is a very successful professional speaker and author. He is a(n) 10 of someone who has overcome other people's beliefs. In his videos and tapes, he expressed confidence. He told his story and 11 he overcame the challenges in his life. Listening to him speak, and listening to him laugh, which is 12 infectious, we can say that he is very motivating and inspiring.

Remember the words of 13 by Les Brown, "You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you 14." For those who have low self-confidence, start reading about the Les Browns of the world. Many people have so much more 15 than where they are right now. If you have a dream, then start today to move yourself towards it.

In the story of The Crow and the Pitcher from Aesops Fables, a thirsty crow(乌鸦) drops stones into a narrow jar to raise the low level of water inside so he can take a drink.

Now scientists have evidence to back up that story. Crows actually do understand how to make water displacement(移位) work to their advantage, experiments show. The results suggest that the birds are, at least in some aspects, as smart as first-graders.

Researchers, led by Sarah Jelbert at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, presented six crows with tubes filled with water. Inside the tubes, a worm or piece of meat on a piece of wood was floating, just out of reach of the crows. In front of the tubes, the researchers arranged several rubber erasers that would sink, and some plastic objects that would float. The crows found out that they could drop the erasers into the tubes in order to raise the water level and get their snack.

However, the birds handled awkwardly in experiments in which they could choose to drop objects in either a wide tube or a narrow one to get a snack, the researchers said. Dropping objects into the narrow tube would lift the water level by a greater amount and put the treat within reach after just two drops; while it took around seven drops to raise the snack to the same level in the wide tube. The crows obviously didn't realise this, and most of them went for the wide tube first.

Previous studies showed that chimps and human children can solve similar tasks. In a 2011 study, chimps and kids found out that they could put water into a tube to reach a peanut that was floating in a small amount of water at the bottom.

Tom is pleased the chance to go abroad.

My son to use the computer without permission.

You are driving on a stormy night. You pass by a bus stop and see three people(wait) for the bus:·An elderly woman who is about (die).·An old friend who once saved your life.·The perfect dream lover you've been dreaming about. Which one would you choose if there could only be one passenger in your car? Should you save the elderly woman the kind old friend? You may never find your perfect dream lover again!

This question was used in a (compete) for a single job. There were 200 applicants. The one who (employ) finally responded, "I would give the car key to my friend and let (he) take the elderly woman to hospital. Then I would stay behind and wait for the bus with my dream lover."

an excellent answer it is! That is (exact) what we say "think outside the box". In other words, we need to think differently, creatively, or a new perspective.

Sometimes, we get (much) if we are able to give up our thought limitation. Never forget to "think outside the box".

A painter living by painting portraits(肖像) was leading a poor life.

One day, a woman came by. She liked the paintings very much and asked the painter to draw a portrait for her. They agreed on 2,000 dollars.

Before painting the portrait, the woman asked the painter to draw more jewels. The painter curiously asked why, but the woman refused to explain. After a week, the portrait was done and the woman came to take the painting. At this moment, she hit on an evil idea of bullying the unknown young artist. She thought, "The portrait is me. If I don't buy the painting, nobody will buy it. Why should I pay so much money?" So the woman said to the young painter, "I will only pay 200 dollars for it."

The young man was surprised, for he had never come across such an experience. He argued with her, expecting this woman to keep to the agreement.

"I can only pay 200 dollars to buy the painting," the woman thought she would win for sure.

The young painter knew the woman broke her promise on purpose, so he felt annoyed. He said in a firm voice, "No, I would prefer to keep this painting rather than be humiliated(羞辱) by you. Today you break your word and some day you must pay 20 times for it."

"What a joke! 20 times will be 40,000! I won't be stupid to pay 40,000 dollars to buy the painting!"

"Well, we'd better wait and see," the young artist shouted to the woman who left angrily. After the stimulation(刺激) of such an incident, the painter moved out of this sad place, studied under acknowledged teachers and worked hard day and night. More than a dozen years later, he finally started a new way and became popular in the circle of art. However, the woman had forgotten the artist's painting and words the next day.

注意:

1）续写词数应为150左右;

2）请按如下格式作答。

One day, that famous painter decided to hold an art exhibition.

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The woman went there hurriedly, apologised a million times and promised that she would buy her portrait as soon as possible.