Do you want to live forever? By the year 2050,you might actually get your wish-if you are willing to leave your biological body and live in silicon circuits (半导体电路). But long before then, perhaps as early as 2020,some measures will begin offering a semblance of immortality (虚的永生).
Researchers are confident that the technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life? Whatever you see and hear, all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and added to your personal chronicles (履历). By the year 2030, it may be possible to catch your nervous systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions.
Researchers at the laboratories of British Telecommunications have given the name of this idea as Soul Catcher. Small electronic equipment will make preparation for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps in a wristwatch, with wireless links to microseosors under your scalp (头皮) and in the nerves that carry all five sensory signals. So wearing a video camera would no longer be required.
At first, the Soul Catcher's companion system-the Soul Reader-might have trouble copying your thoughts in complete details. Even in 2030, we may still be struggling to understand how the brain is working inside, so reading your thoughts and understanding your emotions might not be possible. But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities (永生实体). Researchers can only wonder what it will be like to wake up one day and find yourself alive inside a machine.
For people who choose not to live in silicon, semblance of immortal it would not be as useless as they thought. People would know their lives would not be forgotten, but would be kept a record of the human race forever. And future generations would have a much fuller understanding of the past. History would not be controlled by just the rich and powerful, Hollywood stars, and a few thinkers in the upper society.
1.The main idea of this passage is that_____ .
A. human beings long for living forever
B. there are many difficulties in making the Soul Catcher
C. people can live forever as technology develops
D. the invention of Soul Catcher has great importance
2.According to this passage, a Soul Catcher will be______ .
A. a new machine on which research measures have already been made
B. a new invention in order to catch and keep human's thoughts
C. made by British scientists to offer something that looks like living forever
D. made of silicon circuits which can catch people's nervous activity
3.We can infer from the passage that semblance of immortality is______.
A. to be a reality sooner or later
B. far from certain
C. just an idea that couldn't be realized at all
D. a fading hope
4.The meaning of the underlined word revitalize, in the fourth paragraph is close to___ .
A. make dead B. make famous
C. make known D. make active
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单词拼写。
1.A d__________ person always tries to finish the job, no matter how hard it is.
2.The concert went like clockwork because Li Pei had o__________ it well.
3.It is difficult to be correct when you f__________ the future.
4.I’ve regretted that I seldom followed my own work s__________.
5.She p__________ to stay at home in the evenings to watch TV those days.
6.Xiaoming has just g__________ from his university, and he is planning for a long trip.
7.The water went all over the fields and d__________ quite a few villages along the river.（毁了）
8.Water, food, and e__________ were hard to get after the earthquake.（电）
9.People began to wonder how long the d__________ would last.（灾难）
10.Workers built s__________ for the homeless people.（避难所）
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阅读下列短文，从所给的七个选项（A、B、C、D、E、F、G）中选出每空最佳选项。
Question: Why is it so hard for some people to apologize after they’ve done something wrong? I have made efforts to persuade my uncle to be nice to people that he’s hurt. 1. How I wish things would be better if he’d just say he’s sorry and ask them to forgive him.
Answer: 2. It’s just easier for him to pretend nothing happened than to face the embarrassment (尴尬) of admitting he was wrong. You’ve probably done the same thing yourself at some time. In fact, most of us have. Furthermore, what if others won’t forgive him even if he apologizes?
3. Pride blinds us to our mistakes or faults. Or at least it makes us pay less attention to their seriousness.
Pride also makes us unwilling to admit to others that we were wrong. Perhaps we’re afraid they will look down on us if we admit it. 4.
But others see through our pride. And things would be far better if we admitted our faults and asked for forgiveness. 5.
Now you know why your uncle refuses to apologize, talk to him again. Help him to learn how to apologize and ask for forgiveness from others.
A. But a deeper reason is pride.
B. But he just refuses to do that.
C. We may even hope that somehow they will overlook it.
D. As a result, you would offend others and hurt their feelings.
E. There are a variety of reasons for your uncle’s refusal to apologize.
F. Otherwise our pride would only hurt us and cause conflict with others.
G. One reason your uncle finds it hard to apologize could be embarrassment.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年江西上高二中高二上第三次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
A Deed a Day
It was a busy day as usual. I was making sandwiches and balancing the phone between my shoulder
and chin. The washing machine sounded as my husband walked in with our daughters. We had only about twenty minutes to eat we had to take the girls to their next activity. My husband seemed a bit that dinner was not on the table.
That night, I had a heavy , thinking we were becoming taskmasters on an assembly line (流水线). We had become too in our own tasks and not very considerate towards
those around us. We needed to do something to bring back some meaning into our lives. It needed to be something that would our own agendas and energize us toward the common good.
I bought a notebook, named it “Our Deed Diary” and held a family meeting. I told my family I wanted us all to think about doing a for others every day. It could be for each other or for people outside our . And we all needed to write it down in the notebook.
I thought one deed a day was too easy. However, it was actually than it seemed because it had to be something what we had already done. Sending birthday cards to people we already sent cards to every year would not .
We had a rough . On some days, someone would forget to a good deed, while on other days, we would forget to write our good deeds in the diary. After a few weeks though, I found myself waking up in the morning trying to what good deed I could do for someone that day. My daughters began to rush to me after school to me the good deed they had done.
Now, after a year, I am happy to say that it is making a(n) in our lives. Instead of always what the day will bring for us, we think about what we can do for someone else.
Who would have thought that trying to do a simple kindness a day would be so ? I feel my daughters have felt inner joy that you can only by giving to someone else from your heart. The best thing is that you feel so great about doing something for someone else; you don't even look for or expect anything in . So, when someone does return the favor, it is an enormous and positive .
1.A. before B. while C. though D. unless
2.A. embarrassed B. frightened C. annoyed D. puzzled
3.A. heart B. shoulder C. foot D. stomach
4.A. successful B. absorbed C. confident D. interested
5.A. repeat B. recall C. refocus D. relate
6.A. task B. copy C. job D. kindness
7.A. home B. town C. school D. room
8.A. stranger B. harder C. bigger D. sweeter
9.A. between B. beyond C. about D. from
10.A. matter B. happen C. last D. count
11.A. time B. start C. idea D. life
12.A. praise B. record C. do D. check
13.A. describe B. explain C. remember D. decide
14.A. bring B. tell C. offer D. teach
15.A. effort B. fortune C. difference D. choice
16.A. forgetting B. believing C. knowing D. wondering
17.A. tiring B. rewarding C. surprising D. moving
18.A. experience B. exchange C. predict D. imagine
19.A. silence B. order C. time D. return
20.A. effect B. contribution C. bonus D. attitude
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短文改错
When I was a very young children, my father created a regular practice I remember well years late. Every time he arrived home at end of the day ,we'd greet her at the door. He would ask who we was and pretend not to knowing us. Then he and my mother would have had a drink while she prepared dinner and they would talk about his day and hers. While they chat, my father would lift my sister and me up to sit in the top of the fridge. It was both excited and frightening to be up there！My sister and I thought he was so cool for putting us there.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年内蒙古高二上期第二次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
______ understand fully how film reacts to light, it is necessary to study the chemicals in the film.
A. In order to B. So as to
C. So that D. In order that
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We must take measures to prevent a possible ______ between the two sides.
A. accomplish B. conflict
C. construct D. contact
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年内蒙古高二上期第二次月考英语卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
_______ the foreign students to the end of the road and you will see a splendid world.
A. Follow B. When follow
C. Following D. If you follow
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You have probably heard of the Mozart effect. It’s the idea that if children or even babies listen to music composed by Mozart, they will become more intelligent. A quick Internet search suggests plenty of products to assist you in the task. Whatever your age there are CDs and books to help you taste the power of Mozart’s music, but when it comes to scientific evidence that it can make you more clever, the picture is more mixed.
The phrase “the Mozart effect” was made up in 1991, but it was a study described two years later in the journal Nature that sparked real media and public interest about the idea that listening to classical music somehow improves the brain. It is one of those ideas that sound reasonable. Mozart was undoubtedly a genius himself; his music is complex （复杂的）and there is a hope that if we listen to enough of it, we’ll become more intelligent.
The idea got across to the public, with thousands of parents playing Mozart to their children, and in 1998 Zell Miller, the Governor of the state of Georgia in the US, even asked for money to be set aside in the state budget so that every newborn baby could be sent a CD of classical music. It was not just babies and children who were exposed to Mozart’s music on purpose, even an Italian farmer proudly explained that the cows were played Mozart three times a day to help them to produce better milk.
I’ll leave the debate on the impact on milk yield to farmers, but what about the evidence that listening to Mozart makes people more intelligent? More research was carried out but an analysis of sixteen different studies confirmed that listening to music does lead to a temporary improvement in the ability to handle shapes mentally, but the benefits are short-lived and it doesn’t make us more intelligent.
1.What can we learn from paragraph 1?
A. Mozart composed many musical pieces for children.
B. Children listening to Mozart will be more intelligent.
C. There are few products on the Internet about Mozart’s music.
D. There is little scientific evidence to support Mozart effect.
2.The underlined sentence in paragraph 3 suggests that ________.
A. the idea was accepted by many people
B. people were strongly against the idea
C. Mozart played an important part in people’s life
D. the US government helped promote the idea
3.What is the author’s attitude towards the Mozart effect?
A. Favorable.B. Objective.C. Positive.D. Doubtful.
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Listening to Mozart, necessary?
B. What music is beneficial?
C. What is the Mozart effect?
D. To accept Mozart or not to?
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