As soon as I got to the airport, I realized I ________ my ID card at home.
A. had leftB. has left
C. would leaveD. will leave
科目:高中英语 来源:2017届四川成都高三第一次诊断性检英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Wouldn't it be wonderful to travel to a foreign country without having to worry about the headache of communicating in a different language?
In a recent Wall Street journal article, technology policy expert Alec Ross argued that, within a decade or so. We’ll be able to communicate with one another via small earpieces with built-in microphones. That's because technological progress is extremely rapid. It’s only a matter of time. Indeed, some parents are so convinced that this technology is imminent that they're wondering if their kids should even learn a second language.
It's true that an increase in the quantity and accuracy of the data loaded into computers will make them cleverer at translating "No es bueno dormir mucho" as "It's not good to sleep too much. " Replacing a word with its equivalent (同义词) in the target language is actually the "easy part of a translator's job". But even this seems to be a discouraging task for computers.
It’s so difficult for computers because translation doesn't-or shouldn’t-involve simply translating words, sentences or paragraphs. Rather, it’s about translating meaning. And in order to infer meaning from a specific expression, humans have to interpret a mass of information at the same time.
Think about all the related clues that go into understanding an expression: volume, gesture, situation, and even your culture. All are likely to convey as much meaning as the words you use.
Therefore, we should be very skeptical of a machine that is unable to interpret the world around us. If people from different cultures can offend each other without realizing it, how can we expect a machine to do better? Unless engineers actually find a way to breathe a soul into a computer, undoubtedly when it comes to conveying and interpreting meaning using a natural language, a machine will never fully take our place.
1.What does the underlined word "imminent" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Ready.B. Approaching.C. Helpful.D. Advanced.
2.Why is it hard for computers to replace a word with its equivalent?
A. Their data is not adequate enough.
B, The real meaning of words can vary.
C. Their accuracy needs big improvement.
D, A soul hasn't been breathed in them.
3.What view does the author hold about translation?
A. Proper translation can be tough for humans.
B. Slight distinctions matter little in translation.
C. Some machines will interpret our world properly.
D. Cultures deserve more attention than words used.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A. An Expert's Precise Prediction
B. The Complexity of Translation
C. Who Will Be a Better Translator
D. Will Language Barrier Actually Fall
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科目:高中英语 来源:2017届北京市海淀区高三上学期期末考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
I usually sleep with the window open ________ it is really cold.
A. ifB. unlessC. now thatD. in case
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科目:高中英语 来源:2017届北京东城区高三上期末考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
Life isn’t always beautiful, ________ the struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser.
A. orB. soC. butD. for
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科目:高中英语 来源:2017届北京东城区高三上期末考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
—Would you like to have some ice-cream?
—I’d like to, but I'm on a diet ________ weight.
A. loseB. to loseC. being lostD. lost
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科目:高中英语 来源:2017届安徽江南十校高三下期开年第一考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:语法填空
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In Hangzhou, borrowing books from the library is now as simple as shopping online: click, pay 1. wait for delivery.
The city’s public library recently launched a program on WeChat, 2. popular Chinese messaging software, enabling its readers to check out books online and get them 3. (deliver) to their homes at low prices.
To enjoy the “Hangzhou enjoyable reading” service, one first needs to follow the library’s official WeChat account, 4. provides a list of books. After picking books, borrowers are required 5. (present)the information such as their library membership cards, cell phone numbers and so on. The selected items will be delivered by express within three days after payments. Each reader can borrow up to 5 books once and 20 books at most 6. total. The books can be borrowed for up to 40 days. Reading now can borrow the library’s most popular books in this way. The online books will be renewed and enriched 7. (gradual) according to readers’ borrowing habits and 8. (prefer). At the end of December, the library’s old and classic books 9. (put) online too, making the total number of books available and bringing borrowers a lot of 10. (convenient)
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科目:高中英语 来源:2016-2017学年黑龙江哈尔滨六中高一上期末考英语卷(解析版) 题型:完成句子
1.—Did you see a man in black pass by just now?
—No, sir. I ________ (read) a newspaper.
2.To learn English well, we should find opportunities to hear English ________(speak) as much as we can.
3.Don’t promise anything ________ you are one hundred percent sure.
4.Words came ________ our team won the game.
5.The boss, ________ company my father has worked in for 20 years, is kind.
6.How long do you think it will be ________ China sends a spaceship to the moon?
7.Jim receive a letter just now ________(say) his dad would come to see him soon.
8.________ makes the shop different is that it offers more personal services.
9.We all ________ (have) a good time in the past three days.
10.The deaf dancers think dancing is an activity ________ sight matters more than hearing.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2017届陕西西安市高三上第三次模拟考英语卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Good news for giant panda lovers: The cute and cuddly creature has just been brought back from the brink of extinction.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) downgraded the species from “endangered” to “vulnerable” as the union released its updated Red List on Sept 4 at Hawaii.
The downgrade came after IUCN data suggested that there were 1,864 giant pandas in the wild in China in 2014 — their population has grown by 17 percent in the decade leading up to 2014.
Chinese conservation efforts, including forest protection and reforestation, are considered to be the driving force behind the animal’s resurgence.
“It’s all about restoring the habitats,” Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the IUCN Red List, told the BBC.
The number of panda reserves in China has also jumped to 67, from 13 in 1992. Nearly two-thirds of all wild pandas live in these reserves, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
“Just by restoring the panda’s habitat, that’s given them back their space and made food available to them,” Hilton-Taylor said.
A loss of habitats, on the contrary, was what caused the number of pandas to drop to just over 1,200 in the 1980s, Hilton-Taylor added.
Apart from giant pandas, the Tibetan Antelope has also moved from “endangered” to “near threatened”. According to a statement from IUCN, the animal’s numbers dwindled severely — dropping from around 1 million to an estimated 65,000-72,500 in the 1980s and early 1990s — due to commercial poaching. Rigorous(严格的) protection has since been enforced to protect the beasts and the population is now likely to be between 100,000 and 150,000.
Despite the improved statuses, wild animals like the giant panda and the Tibetan Antelope still face great challenges. The IUCN warned, for example, that ongoing threats from climate change could eliminate more than 35 percent of the panda’s bamboo habitat in the next 80 years, which would reverse the species recent gains.
1.What does the underlined word in pagagraph 1 mean?
A. dangerous and threatened.B. safe and sound.
C. weak and easily hurt.D. normal and common.
2.Which of the following can account for pandas’ living improvement?
A. Better climate.B. More built reserves.
C. Well restored habitats.D. Aroused public awareness.
3.The passage is written in order to ________.
A. convinceB. informC. argueD advocate
4.What does the last paragraph imply?
A. The climate will influence the threatened species.
B. We humans still have a long way to go to protect the endangered species.
C. Pandas will go extinct for lack of abundant food.
D. Habitats for giant pandas will decrease sharply.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2017届河北衡水中学高三上期五调12月英语试卷(解析版) 题型:语法填空
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Also 1.(know) as “paper paintings” and “painted pictures”, New Year paintings are 2. unique art form in Chinese folk culture. The paintings are called “New Year paintings” because they are 3.(most) posted during the Chinese New Year holiday 4. decoration and they are also a symbol of New Year’s greetings.
New Year paintings 5. (appear) around the Tang dynasty, replacing the previous door pictures 6. (feature) the gods believed to be able to protect the residents and drive away ghosts. In the Song dynasty, New Year paintings were created on a large scale. With the advancement of printing technology, the content and forms of New Year paintings became 7.(diversity). The development of the paintings matured in the Ming and Qing dynasties, 8.the art hit its heyday(全盛期).
Traditional printing 9.(method) of New Year paintings include woodlock printing, stone-block printing, offset (胶印) printing, traditional Chinese painting, watercolor painting and sketches etc. Woodblock printed New Year paintings 10.(be) the most popular and interesting ones.
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