Will there be a time in our lives when cars don’t crash? When we can just sit back and relax and our cars will drive themselves. Auto technology experts say “yes”. And they say that some of those advances may happen quicker than you might think.
They will require the users to input the name of the destination or the complete address of the location that they want to go and the cars’ artificial intelligence takes them there automatically without a driver. They will run on solar power in the daytime and ethanol fuel (乙醇燃料) at night. Toyota, BMW and Honda will completely control the trade of driverless car business together and will have the cheapest driverless cars. Fossil fuels will be completely incompatible (不相配的) with these cars.
Driverless cars will not require a driver’s license of any grade to operate. Anyone with basic literacy and computer skills who are at least 16 years of age will be legally allowed to operate the vehicle with absolutely no restrictions. This would give the young users permission to operate the driverless cars on major highways as well as secondary roads without needing a separate classification. In addition to all this, drunken people will be able to use their own automobiles to return home because they are not “driving” the vehicle.
What’s more, car insurance will become obsolete because there will be no more automobile accidents after the year 2025. This is because the driverless car will have all safety methods in place by the car’s artificial intelligence to prevent automobile accidents. Global positioning systems will become mandatory (强制的) in all newly-manufactured cars after 2010, and will be the most important part in the driverless car.
1.Who will not be able to use driverless cars?
A. Adults with basic literacy and computer skills.
B. Adults who are drunk.
C. Adults without computer skills.
D. Adults without a driver’s license.
2.We can infer from the second paragraph that driverless cars .
A. will need fewer fossil fuels
B. will not need a human’s instructions
C. will run on solar power only
D. will be environmentally friendly
3.What will prevent the driverless car from crashing?
A. Artificial intelligence.
B. Global positioning systems.
C. The people inside.
D. Car insurance.
4.The underlined word “obsolete” in the last paragraph probably means “_____”.
A. difficult to get B. quite important
C. dangerous D. out of business
5.Which of the following may be the best title of the passage?
A. Car safety. B. Driverless cars.
C. The future cars. D. New technology in cars.
Time magazine released its annual list of the 100 "Most Influential People in the World" on Wednesday. Jeremy Lin 1. (include).
“Jeremy Lin, New York Knicks starting point guard, is 2. individual that many children can aspire to be alike,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, “kids can learn a great lesson 3. the injured Knicks point guard who graduated from Harvard University.”
“Jeremy Lin’s story is a great lesson for kids everywhere because 4. fights back so many of the prejudices and wrong ideas that unfairly hold children back. He’s changed the idea 5. Asian-American guards somehow can’t succeed in the NBA --- and that being a world-class athlete on the court is somehow contradictory with being an excellent student off the court.” Duncan said.
“It’s great to see good values 6. (reward) in professional sports because that’s not always the case.” Duncan said in the Time report. “Often it’s the bling, the glam, the individual that gets celebrated --- not the team and working together to advance a goal 7. (big) than oneself.”
Lin’s teammates seemed to take pride 8. the up-and-coming basketball star, 9. Lin remained modest about the 10. (recognize) by tweeting, “Now my face is red.”
Less is more. This is why we say: reduce things by half instead of doubling them, get rid of junk instead of piling it up, slow down instead of . Apply these in your everyday life, and you will find yourself being on your journey to simplification.
When you concentrate on one task, you find you have that you didn’t even know you had. Just imagine: you are at a fair and you have to carry two heavy pigs over 100 yards. If you keep one and then the other, it will take a long time, because one of them will keep slipping out of your hand and . But if you tie one pig in a place, pick up the other, gather all your , make a dash for the finish line, pause for a moment, run back, get the other one, and with great determination, carry the second pig to the finish line, and then you can be sure of success.
The stress of work is now great almost in all occupations. In the modern nuclear family, the stress that would have been shared among all the relatives is now on the individual partner.
If you have the feeling that 24 hours per day is not , then it’s not because the day has too few hours, but because you have too many activities. A simple fact is that people tend to forget. The is equally simple: refuse to accept so many assignments.
“I can handle stress” is regarded as a positive statement. People who can handle stress are given more --- until one day they . Pay careful attention to the that tell you that you are under more stress than you can deal with. These signs come from various of life. You become ill, or your work efficiency .
If you have any of these symptoms, change your life goals and decrease your tolerance of stress. Say openly, “I can’t manage that.”
1.A. bringing up B. taking up C. giving up D. speeding up
2.A. operations B. advantages C. principles D. relations
3.A. appetite B. gift C. energy D. excuse
4.A. grabbing B. pushing C. enjoying D. exchanging
5.A. running off B. turning off C. catching up D. lying down
6.A. labor B. strength C. power D. force
7.A. equally B. largely C. formerly D. mainly
8.A. contracted B. concentrated C. congratulated D. constructed
9.A. proper B. short C. important D. enough
10.A. overloaded B. overdeveloped C. overcrowded D. overslept
11.A. answer B. solution C. problem D. destination
12.A. break up B. break off C. break out D. break down
13.A. phenomena B. signs C. problems D. parts
14.A. qualities B. directions C. aspects D. stages
15.A. improves B. decreases C. increases D. changes
最近，我们高兴地得知中国作家莫言被授予诺贝尔文学奖，很多外国人对莫言及其作品非常感兴趣。 请根据以下的中文提纲，用120个单词左右写一篇关于莫言的英文介绍。
【写作内容】
姓名：莫言
出生时间：1955年2月17日
出生地：山东高密
职业：著名作家
主要经历：童年时在家乡小学读书，后因文革辍学；在农村劳动多年；1981年，莫言开始创作生涯，发表了《枯河》、《秋水》、《民间音乐》等早期作品。
获奖情况：2011年8月20日，《蛙》获得第八届茅盾文学奖。
2012年10月11日，获得诺贝尔文学奖，这是首次中国人获得这一奖项。
【参考词汇】枯河：Dry River ; 秋水：Autumn Stream; 蛙：Frog
文革：China’s Cultural Revolution;
茅盾文学奖: Mao Dun Literature Prize
【写作要求】 保证要点不遗漏的基础上，可适当的增减内容以保证衔接的连贯性；
用括号里的词的适当形式填空（共5小题，每小题1分，共5分）
1.Try not to say anything about the idea until you have understood it __________ (entire)
2.We did a lot of _________ (cycle)in France last year.
3.We crossed into _________ (German)from Switzerland last week.
4.The coal _______ (mine)were working underground in uncomfortable conditions.
5._________ (cruel) to animals will be strongly punished in some countries.
短语填空 （从下列短语中选出一个合适的并用其适当形式填入每个句子中，使其句意完整，共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）
1.Suddenly a strong wind came and __________ the roofs of their new houses.
2.Peter has lost his job, and the family is __________ a very difficult time.
3.He didn’t want to come at first , but at the last minute he _________.
4.When the party _________ , there was a great change in education policy.
5.The workmen have _________ a deep channel for the water.
