“ Can’t you read?” Mary said _______ to the notice.
A．and pointed angrily B．angrily pointing
C．angrily pointing C．angrily pointed
科目：高中英语 来源：2012年北师大版高中英语选修一Unit15练习卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
The lights dimmed，the musical hall grew quiet and out walked the conductor (指挥) shiny and white and 4 feet and 3 inches tall.
ASIMO, a robot designed by Honda Motor Co., met its latest challenge Tuesday evening: Conducting the Detroit Symphony (底特律交响乐团), in a performance of “The Impossible Dream” from “Man of La Mancha”．
“Hello, everyone，” ASIMO said to the audience in a childlike voice, then waved to the orchestra. As it conducted, it perfectly mimicked (模仿) the actions of a conductor,
nodding its head at various sections and gesturing with one or both hands. ASIMO took a final bow to excited shouts from the audience. Later, cellist Yo－Yo Ma joined ASIMO onstage to receive an award for his efforts in music education.
Honda spokeswoman Alicia Jones says it is the first time ASIMO has conducted an orchestra, and it may be the first time any robot has conducted a live performance. But ASIMO has its limits. ASIMO's engineers programmed the robot to mimic Charles Burke, the Detroit Symphony's education director, as he conducted the piece in front of a pianist about six months ago. But it can't respond to the musicians.
“It's not a communicative device. It simply is programmed to do a set of gestures，” said Leonard Slatkin, the orchestra's musical director. “If the orchestra decides to go faster, there's nothing the robot can do about it. Hopefully, I keep that under control.”
But several musicians also said ASIMO was more realistic than they expected. “The movements are still a little stiff (僵硬的), but very humanlike, much better than I thought，” Hutchinson said.
1.What's the audience's response to ASIMO's performance?
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A．Disappointed. |
B．Moved. |
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C．Excited. |
D．Astonished. |
2.Whose conducting was ASIMO made to copy?
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A．Yo－Yo Ma's. |
B．Charles Burke's. |
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C．Leonard Slatkin's. |
D．Alicia Jones's. |
3.We can learn from the passage that ASIMO ________.
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A．was designed and trained by Yo－Yo Ma |
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B．can communicate with the audience freely |
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C．only performs according to the designed programs |
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D．can change its conducting style freely |
4.What would be the best title for this passage?
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A．Detroit Symphony gives a good performance |
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B．Honda robot conducts Detroit Symphony |
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C．“The Impossible Dream” from Detroit Symphony |
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D．Cooperation between Honda and Detroit Symphony |
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科目：高中英语 来源：0117 期末题 题型：完形填空
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| Years ago, in a small fishing village in Holland, a young boy taught the world about the rewards of unselfish service. Because the entire village lived on fishing, a volunteer rescue team was needed in case of emergency. One night, the winds 1 , the clouds burst and a strong storm overturned a fishing boat at sea. The crew in trouble 2 the SOS. The captain of the rescue rowboat team 3 the alarm and the villagers 4 in the town square overlooking the sea. When the team started their rowboat fought their way through the wild waves, the villagers waited 5 on the beach, holding lamps to 6 the way back. An hour later, the rescue boat reappeared through Falling 8 on the sand, the volunteers reported that the rescue boat could not hold any more 9 and they had to leave one man behind. Even one more passenger would have surely 10 the rescue boat and all would have been lost. 11 , the captain called for another volunteer team to 12 the survivor. Sixteen -year-old Hans stepped forward. His mother grabbed his arm, crying, "please don't go. Your father 13 in a shipwreck (船只失事) 10 years ago and yo Hans replied, "Mother, I have to go. 15 everyone said I can't go, let someone else do it? Mother, this time I have to do my duty. When the call for service 16 , we all need to take our turn and do our part. Hans kissed his mother, joined the team and 17 into the night." Another hour passed, which seemed to Hans' mother like a century. 18 the rescue boat dashed through the fog wit to control himself, Hans excitedly cried back, "Yes, we found him. Tell my mother it's my elder brother, Paul!" | ||||
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
I’m seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Los Angeles. People came to the counter and you put things in their bags for them. And carried things to their cars. It was hard work.
While working, you wear a plate with your name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said,“Mr Castle, how are you?”we talked about this and that.As he left, he said," It was nice talking to you,Brett.”I helt great,he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh no. he didn’t remember me at all, he just resd the name plate. I wish I had put“Irving”down on my name plate. If he’d have said,“Oh yes, Irving,how could I forget you?”I’d have been ready for him. There’snothing personal here.
The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these was:you couldn’t accept tips（小费）。Okay, I’m outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction（反应）is to take a quarter and give it to me. I’d say,‘‘I‘m sorry, I can’t,”they‘d get angry. When you give someone o tip, you’re sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you expect them to say,”Oh,thanks a lot.”When you say‘‘I’m sorry,I can’t.” They'd get angry.When you give someone a tip,you're sort of being polite.You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and yo cxpect them to say, "oh , thanks a lot." When you say,"I'm sorry,I can't,"they feel a little put down. They say "No one will know.”And they put it in your pocket. You say, "I really can’t.”It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically（身体上）to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the store’s belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn’t understand the strangeness of some people’s ideas. One lady actually put it in my pocket, got in the car,and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.
I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.
1. what can be the best title for this text?
A. how hard life is for Box Boys
B. getting along with Customers
C. why I Gave up My Job
D. the Art of Taking Tips
2. From the second paragraph, we can infer that___.
A. the writer didn’t like the impersonal part of his job
B . with a name plate,people can easily start talking
C . Mr Castle mistook Irving for Brett
D. Irving was the writer’s real name
3. The box boy refused to accept tips because__
A. customers only gave small tips
B. some customers had strange ideas about tipping
C. the store forbade the box boys to take tips
D. he didn’t want to fight with the customers
4. The underlined phras“put down”in the third paragraph probably means__
A. misunderstood
B. dEfeated
C. hateful
D. hurt
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Catherine Destivelle is rock star.She loves rock,but she can’t sing or play the guitar!She is a rock climber and a big star in France and Italy.She is the most famous woman climber in the world because she climbs without ropes.She climbs in many countries but most often in the French Alps near Chamonix,where she lives.She started climbing near her home in Paris when she was five.Then,at fourteen,she joined the French Alpine Club to learn more,but immediately she climbed better and more quickly than the older members of the club.She won her first competition in Italy in 1995.
Three years ago she found a new route up the Dru Moun-tain near Chamonix.The climb took eleven days and for four days the snow was so heavry that she could not move.Last year other climbers tried to follow the new Destivelle Route,but they failed.They are going to try again this year.
People always ask her about her climbing.She says,“I climb because I’m in love with mountains.I like touching the rock and reading the face of the rock.I like it a lot.I felt at home on the side of a mountain.I prepare well before I go,so I’m never worried.”
Catherine chooses new mountain from books-like buying from a shopping catalogue（目录）! “I see a nice mountains and I go to climb it!”Her next mountain is in Pakistan. She is going there next mounth：“It’s much bigger than the Dru, so it’s going to take longer to climb.An American climber,Jeff Lowe,is coming with me to help. ”
1.Catherine Destivelle is called “a star” because__________.
A.she won a competition in 1995
B.she loves rocks
C.she’s a famous woman climber
D.she found a new route up to the Dru Mountain
2.She had great trouble finding a new route up the Dru Mountain because____________.
A.she lost her way B.the climb took 11 days.
C.she needed help from an American climber D.there was heavy snow
3.On the side of a mountain she feels __________
A.worried B.easy and happy C.ike going home D.well
4.We can infer from the passage people often ask her“____________”.
A.Why do you like climbing?
B.Are you in love with an American climber?
C.Do you enjoy reading books on mountains?
D.What do yo do before you go climbing?
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