阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Many times we do something positive or say something kind, but we don’t see the influence it has on other people. We may these “random（随意的）acts of kindness”, but we never know what happens next. One time, I was lucky enough to .
I was returning from a trip I stopped to refuel and get snack at a gas station. It was late. I was , and home was still more than two hours away. I was feeling , and my back hurt from all the .
I went . The checker smiled at me, and we for a moment. I don’t remember what she said, but I do remember the she showed me. I was by her kindness. It kept me going on my journey home.
The next week, I was cleaning my purse, and I the receipt. The receipt（收据） reminded me of the clerk’s , and it had the address of the store. I decided to a thank-you note to her manager. In the letter I told the manager that his employee’s kind words and caring attitude stood out to me, my trip home.
A week , that clerk wrote me back. As a result of my note, she got a(n) from her manager and a company award. I was . Robin’s kindness inspired me to return her positivity.
Mother Teresa us to “do small things with great love”. Oftentimes, when we do such small things, we don’t get to see the effects of our kind words or deeds, every so often, we’re blessed to discover the positive outcome.
1. A. imagine B. practice C. devote D. dream
2.A. work out B. figure outC. make out D. find out
3.A. when B. why C. whether D. that
4.A. clever B. tired C. lazy D. poor
5.A. down B. well C. upset D. disappointed
6.A. driving B. running C. swimmingD. walking
7.A. outside B. away C. off D. inside
8.A. believed B. explainedC. shouted D. chatted
9.A. exactlyB. surprisingly C. carelessly D. unluckily
10.A. interest B. kindness C. shame D. pity
11.A. hungry B. refreshed C. crazy D. angry
12.A. came acrossB. dropped offC. called on D. looked for
13.A. feelings B. warmth C. strength D. interests
14.A. check B. book C. write D. copy
15.A. designing B. repairing C. taking D. brightening
16.A. ago B. later C. since D. lately
17.A. operation B. suggestionC. employmentD. praise
18.A. successful B. shocked C. happyD. thankful
19.A. advised B. forced C. suggestedD. demanded
20.A. as B. though C.so D. but
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
There are so many Confucian Temples (孔庙) around the world, especially in China. If Confucius were still alive today and could celebrate his September 28 birthday with a big cake, there would be a lot of candles. 1.
While many people in China will remember Confucius on his special day, few people in the United States will give him a passing thought. It’s nothing personal. Most Americans don’t even remember the birthdays of their own national heroes.
2.In many ways he has become a bridge that foreigners must cross if they want to reach a deeper understanding of China.
In the past two decades, the Chinese studies programs have gained huge popularity in Western universities. More recently, the Chinese government has set up Confucius Institutes in more than 80 countries. 3.The main courses of Chinese culture usually included Chinese art, history and philosophy（哲学）. Some social scientists suggest that Westerners should take advantages of the ancient Chinese wisdom to make up for the disadvantages of Westerners philosophy. 4.So they will be ready for life in a world where China is an equal power with the United States. Businessmen who hope to make money in China are reading books about Confucius to understand their Chinese customers.
5.Today China attracts the West more than ever, and it will need more teachers to introduce Confucius and Chinese culture to the West.
As for the old thinker, he will not soon be forgotten by people in the West, even if his birthday is.
A. These schools teach both Chinese language and culture.
B. So the old thinker’s ideas are still alive and well.
C. He’d need a fan or a strong wind to help him put them out.
D. Why do Americans have no knowledge about Confucius?
E. Students in the United States, in the meantime, are racing to learn Chinese.
F. But this doesn’t mean that Americans don’t care about Confucius.
G. This is because China is becoming increasing powerful.
Teenagers around the world can be glad with the news that their brain deserves the blame when parents’ orders go ignored while they tap on their smartphones.
A new scientific study from the University College London has found that humans may suffer temporarily deaf when they’re simultaneously focusing on something visual. Research found that the 13 volunteers experienced inattentional deafness to the normal-volume sounds playing in the background as their visual tasks became increasingly difficult. ‘We found that when volunteers were performing the demanding visual task, they were unable to hear sounds that they would normally hear,’ study co-author Maria Chait said in a statement. ‘The brain scans showed that people were not only ignoring or filtering out the sounds, they were not actually hearing them in the first place.’
The findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggest that the visual and auditory processing centers that make sense of the sights and sounds that surround us share limited resources.
Inattentional deafness is a common everyday experience and the study explains why, according to UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Professor Nilli Lavie, a co-author of the study. ‘This could also explain why you might not hear your bus or train stop being announced if you’re concentrating on your phone, book, or newspaper. ’‘If you try to talk to someone focusing on a book, game, or television program and don’t receive a response, they are not necessarily ignoring you, they simply might not hear you! ’ she said.
Loud sounds—like ambulance sirens—will still be able to break through, but some situations could become potentially dangerous when the quieter ones go unheard, according to Medical Daily. ‘This has more serious implications in situations such as the operating theater, when a surgeon concentrating on their work might not hear the equipment beeping,’ Lavie said. ‘It also applies to drivers concentrating on complex directions as well as cyclists and motorists who are focusing intently on something such as an advertisement or even simply an interesting-looking passerby.
1.The 13 volunteers studied in the study______
A. experienced deafness due to their inattention
B. were deaf to the normal sounds intentionally
C. can hear the normal-volume sounds when performing the demanding visual task
D. didn’t choose to ignore the normal sounds on purpose
2. If a person concentrates on a book______
A. you cannot expect him to respond to you
B. he doesn’t want to give you a reply
C. he wants you to be away from him
D. he may get angry because of your disturbance
3.How does the inattentional deafness affect our life according to the last paragraph?
A. It may lead to people losing friends.
B. It may cause danger in some fields.
C. It may make something more complex.
D. It may increase one’s attraction.
4.What does the passage mainly want to tell us?
A. The benefit of the inattentional deafness
B. The expectation from young teenagers.
C. Concentrating on something visual can cause short deaf ears
D. Inattentional deafness is not a good thing
Hey, ladies! It’s summer again and it’s time for a new you! No more make-up, no more pretending! Yes, that’s right! It’s time to stop making ourselves beautiful for the camera, and start posting confident pictures without all the make-up and extra tricks we add onto ourselves in the hope of appearing more attractive and beautiful. Because believe it or not, we already are!
After we wash our face and go to bed, it is not so perfect. You know it’s the face we should confidently be showing to the world! Who cares if you have pimples（面痕）or your eyes look small, or if you have crow’s feet? Guess what? Those are actually what make you such a beautifully grown woman. And any person who doesn’t think so is just not as strong as you.
Nowadays we are so prone to do anything and everything to make us look as young and perfect as possible. Yet the truth is, by doing this, we are actually making our tree skin get worse and badly affected by all the junk we put on. We are making ourselves believe that by changing our appearance we will be more accepted and seem more attractive to other people. And yet, our final goal is to find that without all of the make-up. What kind of twisted（扭曲的）game are we really playing with ourselves?
So I would like to make a suggestion for all women out there to give yourself a break at least this summer. Take a couple of pictures without all of that make-up on. You don’t need it every single day, especially not this hot summer! You’ll be surprised that the more confident you are about showing the real side of you, the more attractive you will be to everyone else.
Yes, the saying, “Beauty comes from within” is an old one, definitely still holds some troth today. So be brave, carefree, and make-up free! Let the world see you for who you really are!
1.The author thinks that ladies should show others _______.
A. their crow’s feet
B. their beautiful pictures
C. their real face with confidence
D. their attractive appearance
2.What does the author think of adding make-up to our face?
A. It makes perfect images.
B. It makes us more accepted and attractive.
C. It makes true images go outdated.
D. It’s hard to achieve what we wish.
3.What is the author’s purpose of quoting the old saying?
A. To declare it’s what one really is that matters.
B. To show the importance of adding make-up
C. To give us some examples of adding make-up.
D. To tell us not to neglect those old sayings.
4.What is the topic of this text?
A. Spending more time being with families and friends.
B. Not putting on any make-up on our face this summer.
C. Paying enough attention to ourselves in this summer.
D. Showing the beautiful side of ourselves to others.
Go, known as Weiqi in China and Baduk in South Korea, was viewed as the last game where humans can defeat machines. Lee Se-dol, one of the greatest Go players, has won 18 world championships for 21 years of his professional career. AlphaGo, a computer program developed by Google's DeepMind, beat the European Go champion, an achievement that was not expected for years in October, 2015.
The match between Lee and AlphaGo was seen as a representative game between humans and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The match of the century drew great attention from news organizations, Go fans and the general public across the world as well as in South Korea.
Go originated from China more than 2,500 years ago. It involves two players who take turns putting markers on a net-shaped board to gain more areas on it. One can occupy the markers of the rival (对手) by surrounding the pieces of the other. Go is considered to be a lot more complex than chess where artificial intelligence scored its most famous victory to date when IBM’s Deep Blue beat grandmaster Gary Kasparov in 1997.
But experts say Go presents an entirely different challenge because of the game’s incomputable number of move options. In other words, the computer must be capable of human-like "intuition" (直觉) to win.
"I was very surprised because I did not think that I would lose the game," said Mr. Lee. He said AlphaGo’s early strategy was “excellent” and that he was shocked by one unconventional move it had made that a human never would have played, which he believed directly resulted in his loss.
AlphaGo is proud of a deep learning capability to learn for itself and discover new strategies by playing games against itself and adjusting neural networks (神经网络) based on a trial-and-error process known as reinforcement (强化) learning.
In spite of his loss, he did not regret accepting the challenge. "I had a lot of fun playing Go and I’m looking forward to the future games,” he said after AlphaGo won 3-0 in a five-game match.
“Playing against a machine is very different from an actual human player. Normally, you can sense your rival’s breathing, their energy. And lots of times you make decisions which depend on the physical reactions of the person you’re playing against. With a machine, you can’t do that”, Lee said.
1. Where can we most probably read this text?
A. In a personal diary
B. In a science magazine
C. In a science fiction
D. In a travel guide
2. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Only people in South Korea pay attention to the match between Lee and AlphaGo.
B. Artificial intelligence rewrote the history as AlphaGo beat Gary Kasparov in 1997.
C. AlphaGo’s early strategy was to play by regular moves the same as human beings.
D. Lee Se-dol was convinced he would finally win the match before the series started.
3.What did Lee think was the cause of his loss?
A. AlphaGo had an excellent strategy and unconventional moves.
B. He couldn’t sense AlphaGo’s breathing and energy in the games.
C. He made decisions depending on the rival’s physical reactions.
D. The designer of AlphaGo was a talent who couldn’t be defeated.
4.This article is mainly about _____.
A. The differences between playing chess and Go
B. The difficulties Lee met in the match with AlphaGo
C. The introduction of a match between Lee and AlphaGo
D. The development of the Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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D. submit online application before the deadline
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