【题目】The young man couldn't afford a new car. ___________，he bought a used one.
A. Besides
B. Otherwise
C. Instead
D. Still
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【题目】B
Showering typically sends water down the drain, but a new space-age shower could change that. The design, inspired by NASA, saves water and money.
Astronauts have no choice but to recycle the water they use in space. Now the Orbital Systems Shower of the Future brings that concept down to Earth. This futuristic shower comes from Orbital Systems, a Swedish advanced technology company. Its CEO, Mehrdad Mahdjoubi, invented the product.
"The shower of the future is a water-recycling shower, thus enabling water savings up to 90 percent, energy savings up to 80 percent, at the same time increasing comfort and hygiene. The water is being collected in the drain, it's being analyzed, purified and then pumped back up to the shower head. So what is so special about the purification technology? Well, it's based on a patented purification capsule system that makes sure that the water is always crystal clear," he explained.
Mahdjoubi was inspired by a project between NASA and Sweden's Lund University to come up with designs for a mission to Mars. He adapted the closed-loop system that allows astronauts to re-use shower water again and again.
The product already has been tested in Sweden, where it saved up to 100,000 liters of water over four months. Based on those results, Mahdjoubi is confident his company can distribute the shower system worldwide.
"Our market is anyone who takes a shower, actually, and the biggest benefit it gives is to the market segment where the water consumption is the highest, such as bathing establishments, gyms, sports centers. Also, private households where the water consumption and the prices are high," said Mahdjoubi.
The "out of this world" design has won several business and innovation
【1】What does the underlined sentence mean in paragraph 2?
A. Astronauts bring the space water to the earth.
B. There’s need for the astronauts to save water any more.
C. People on the earth can do the same like the astronauts.
D. People have to recycle water on the earth.
【2】What’s the order of working procedure of the new shower?
①collect the water; ② purify the water;
③analyze the water; ④pump back the water
A. ①②③④ B. ①③②④
C. ①④②③ D. ①②④③
【3】What’s Mahdjoubi’s attitude towards the new product?
A. Optimistic B. Uncertain
C. Negative D. Indifferent
【4】Why does the author write the passage?
A. To introduce a new technology
B. To find a way to save energy
C. To promote a new product
D. To seek for investment
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【题目】Many workers stayed up for the whole night,___________ to buy tickets to return home early before the Spring Festival.
A. hoped
B. hoping
C. to hope
D. being hoped
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【题目】 It was a cold night in Washington, D.C. and I was heading back to the hotel when a beggar walked up to me. He asked if I would give him some money so he could get something to eat. After a short hesitation, I shook my head and kept walking. With helplessness, he said, “I really am homeless and I really am hungry! You can come with me and watch me eat!” But still, I kept on walking.
The incident bothered me for the rest of the week. In fact, I had money in my pocket and it wouldn’t have killed me to hand over a dollar or two even if he had been lying. On a freezing cold night, I wondered what would happen to a hungry man.
Flying back to my hometown, Anchorage, I couldn’t help thinking of him. I tried to find excuses for my failure to help. After all, government agencies, churches and charities were there to feed him. Besides, you’re not supposed to give money to beggars.
But I just couldn’t forget the incident and began to think I must do something. At that time, I was writing a garden column(专栏) for the local Daily News. Suddenly, I came up with an idea. Why not try to get all my readers to plant one row in their gardens donated to Bean’s? Bean’s Cafe, the soup kitchen which has volunteered to feed hundreds of hungry people every day for many years.
The idea began to take off. I began to receive more e-mails and calls from kind people. They tried their best to show their concerns about the hungry. Food was sent by different warm-hearted people and even those who only grew flowers sent their flowers. They are food for the spirit, which comforted me a lot.
Next year, the Garden Writers Association of America held their annual conference in Anchorage and after learning of Anchorage’s program, Plant a Row for Bean’s became Plant a Row for the Hungry. You can imagine how happy I was then.
【1】 According to the passage, the reason why the author refused to give some money to the beggar probably is that ________.
A. he happened not to take money then
B. he wasn’t fond of beggars
C. he thought that the beggar was lying
D. he didn’t like being bothered
【2】Why did the author can’t help thinking of the beggar ?
A. Because he felt he had done wrong for his failure to help him.
B. Because he wanted to know whether the beggar had lied to him.
C. Because he was worried that the beggar might die from hunger.
D. Because some agencies, churches and charities should help the beggar.
【3】 What does the underlined phrase “take off” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A. remove clothes. B. leave suddenly.
C. become successful. D. come into being.
【4】 What’s the correct order to record the author’s launch of the program “Plant a Row for the Hungry?”
① He ran into a beggar.
② He was regretful.
③ He came up with the idea of planting a row for Bean’s.
④ The Plant a
⑤ He went back home.
⑥ Writers gathered in Anchorage.
A. ①②③④⑤⑥. B. ①⑤②③④⑥.
C. ①②⑤③④⑥. D. ①②⑤③⑥④.
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【题目】Celebrity TV presenter Ju Ping has been a host on China Central Television for 30 years, but her recent experience fronting a charity event was one of the most special moments in her career.
On April 2, World Autism Day, Ju partnered with Xia Junqi, a 17-year-old autistic teenager, to host a charity gala at the Beijing National Aquatics Center, otherwise known as the Water Cube.
The event was organized by One Foundation, which aims to increase public awareness of autistic people and their needs.
Autism is a neural disorder that impairs sufferers’ communication skills and social interactions. Sufferers have restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior. It affects about 1.6 million people in China, with medical studies suggesting autism may affect one in every 166 children.
Autism has no cure. For many years it went largely undiagnosed in China but early intervention and continuous education may help to teach the autistic self-help skills and lessen their disruptive behavior.
The gala featured autistic children singing, dancing and performing, and was greeted with enthusiastic applause from the audience.
Cai Chunzhu, a celebrity playwright, recalled feeling heartbroken when his son was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2. He says his family struggled to accept the reality but finally made peace with the diagnoses in the past four years. He says the boy lives in his own world and is trained in an intervention facility. Sun Zhongkai, executive director of the Beijing Stars and Rain Institute for Autism, one of the earliest intervention facilities for autistic children in China, shared with audience his deep sorrow for parents who often collapsed with desperation when he told them there was no cure for their autistic children.
Over the years, Chinese society has become more supportive of autistic people and their families, but there are still challenges in terms of getting autistic people employed and looking after them when their parents pass away.
Actor Zhou Xun also called on society to show greater understanding and support toward autistic children and their families.
【1】Where did the gala take place?
A. In a theater in Shanghai. B. In the Water Cube.
C. In a Children’s Palace. D. In Nanjing.
【2】What does the underlined word “impairs” mean in the fourth paragraph?
A. damages sth or makes sth worse.
B. improve sth or become sth better.
C. feel what they do the saddest.
D. increase the interest of knowing sth
【3】What can we know from the seventh paragraph?
A. Some parents were in deep sorrow when they heard their children can be cured.
B. Cai Chunzhu is executive director of the Beijing Stars and Rain Institute for Autism.
C. Sun Zhongkai recalled feeling heartbroken when his son was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2.
D. Autism is a kind of disease that can not be cured.
【4】What is the attitude of our society and enthusiastic people?
A. Some actors like Zhou Xun called on people to do nothing for autistic children.
B. Chinese society and people have become more supportive of autistic people and their families.
C. Some people want to give up helping autistic people because of many challenges they face.
D. Autistic children won’t be looked after when their parents pass away.
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【题目】He ___________ his friends for their help at the hotel now.
A. entertained
B. was entertaining
C. is entertained
D. is entertaining
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【题目】C
Robots are common in today's world. They manufacture cars, work in space, explore oceans, clean up oil spills and investigate dangerous environments. And now, scientists at the University of Manchester are using a robot as a laboratory partner.
The researchers at the university created the robot in 2009 and named it Adam. Despite the name, Adam is not a humanoid robot. It is about the size of a car.
Adam was built to do science and make discoveries. Ross King is the leader of the University of Manchester research team. He says the robot made a discovery about yeast(酵母), a kind of fungus(真菌) used in science as a model for human cells.
"Adam hypothesized certain functions of genes within yeast and experimentally tested these hypothesizes and confirmed them. So it both hypothesized and confirmed new scientific knowledge."
Adam's success as a scientist led to the creation of another robot scientist named Eve. Researchers developed Eve to design and test drugs for tropical and neglected diseases. These diseases kill and infect millions of people each year.
Drug development is slow and costly. Experts say it can take more than 10 years and about $1 billion to discover and develop new medicines. Drug manufacturers are unlikely to get their investment money back.
So the University of Manchester developed a low-cost test that shows whether or not a chemical is likely to be made into an effective medicine. Mr. King says that other drug testing methods were not very effective.
"How it works conventionally is you use robotics as well and you have a large collection of possible drugs. You test every single compound. And you start at the beginning of your library and continue until the end, and stop. So it's not a very intelligent process. The robotics doesn't learn anything as it goes along, even if it's tested a million compounds, it still doesn't have any expectation of what will happen next when it tests a new compound."
Mr. King says that Eve is different because the robot learns as it tests different compounds. He says the robot is designed to ignore compounds that it thinks unlikely to be good. It will only test the compounds which have a good chance of working.
Eve has discovered that a compound known to be effective against cancer might also be used to fight against malaria and other tropical diseases.
Mr. King says he hopes to completely automate the drug testing process with robots like Eve to create and test new chemicals. But he says humans remain in control of the manufacturing process.
【1】Scientists now are using a robot to__________.
A. manufacture cars
B. work in the laboratory
C. work in space
D. explore oceans
【2】The purpose of building Adam is to________.
A. do science and make discoveries
B. help people in poor health
C. do operations on patients
D. bring happiness to scientists
【3】Which is NOT true according to the passage__________?
A. Adam looks like a car
B. Adam's success led to the creation of Eve
C. tropical and neglected diseases diseases kill and infect millions of people
D. Drug manufacturers can get their investment money back
【4】Why was a low-cost test developed__________?
A. Because scientists want to know whether a chemical is likely to be made into an effective medicine
B. Because other drug testing methods were not very effective
C. Because drug development is slow and costly.
D. Because drug manufacturers ask scientists to do so.
【5】What's the main idea of the passage_________?
A. the uses of robots
B. robot is used in science researches
C. scientists are replaced by robots
D. how to make a robot
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【题目】It seems that living green is ___________ easy and affordable. A small step makes a big difference.
A. exactly
B. fortunately
C. surprisingly
D. hardly
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【题目】Health is the most important thing in the world．Nothing is more important than health．If we take away our money, houses, cars or even our clothes, we can still survive． 【1】 That is why we always try to eat in a healthy way and exercise regularly．
How can we keep healthy？In order to eat healthily, I usually avoid eating food high in fat, like French fries or cookies, which are junk foods． 【2】 Meanwhile, I eat a lot of vegetables and fresh fruit which are full of vitamins．
【3】 Taking exercise every day helps us build a strong body．Regular exercise is an important part of keeping me healthy．
What’s more, I think friends are an important part of one’s health． 【4】 I always feel better when I am with friends than when I am alone．When I am with my friends, I always laugh．Laughing is also an important part of health．It is good to stay with my friends．
By eating properly and exercising regularly, I can keep my body at a proper weight and keep healthy．By spending time with my friends, I can keep my mind as well as my body happy．These things sound easy to do, but not many people can manage them． 【5】
A． On the other hand, doing exercise is very important．
B． There are some people who like staying alone, but they keep healthy．
C． Many studies show that people with a range of social contacts don’t get sick．
D． But if our health was taken away, it is certain that we would/span> surely die．
E． I only eat little meat．
F． So I think a strong will is necessary if we want to keep healthy．
G． Some people appear fat because they often eat too much．
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