Anvitha Vijay has built two educational apps and is at work on a third.She aims to use her skills to help others.
Need an app for that?Anvitha Vijay,9,can build it.With the help of YouTube videos,the young techie from Melbourne,Australia,learned to code at age 7.Soon,she was trying her hand at making apps.
"When I first got my iPad,I was fascinated by all the apps on it,"she said."It wasn't long before I wanted to create my own."
She built her first two apps with her younger sister.Smartkins Animals helps children identify more than 100 animals and their sounds.Smartkins Rainbow Colors teaches kids colors.Each app has been downloaded thousands of times.
Anvitha’s skills won her a scholarship to attend a big tech conference hosted by Apple in San Francisco, California.There,she got tips from the experts.She went to workshops where she learned about the latest software for app building.All that training led to an idea for a third app.This one,called GoalsHi,inspires kids to practice good habits.Users are rewarded for achieving goals,such as eating their vegetables or practicing the piano.Anvitha says the rewards are like getting a sticker for a job well done.“Kids can set goals with this app and get stars when they achieve them,”she said."The idea is to empower and motivate kids to achieve one little step a day."
Anvitha's goal is to continue creating technology that helps kids learn while having fun.But even more important to her is that the world sees the power of technology in kids' hands.“The more training we get in tech at an early age,"she said,"the better chance we have of becoming innovation champions who will one day change the world.
1.What can we know about Anvitha?
A. She made her first app at 7.
B. She first learned about apps through her iPad.
C. She made a speech at the conference in California.
D. She used her scholarship to try making her third app.
2.What's the function of GoalsHi?
A. To help kids identify colors.
B. To help kids recognize animals.
C. To inspire kids to achieve all goals.
D. To motivate kids to form good habits.
3.Why does Anvitha try to make apps?
A. To win a scholarship.
B. To help children have fun.
C. To help kids and in turn change the world.
D. To show her talent and skills of technology.
A small robot may help children who are recovering from long-term illnesses in the hospital or at home.
These children may feel isolated from their friends and classmates.The robot takes their place at school. Through the robot,the children can hear their teachers and friends.They also can take part in class from wherever they are recovering.
A Norwegian company called No Isolation created a robot.The co-founders of No Isolation are Karen Dolva and Marius Aabel.The robot is called AV1.AV1 goes to school for a child who is at home while recovering from a long-term illness.And the child's school friends must help.They carry the robot between classes and place the robot on the child's desk.
Dolva explains how the robot AV1 works.She says,from home,the child uses a tablet or phone to start the robot. Then she/he uses the same device to control the robot's movements.At school,the robot becomes the eyes,ears and voice of the child.The child can take part in classroom activities from wherever she/he is recovering—whether at home or from a hospital bed.The robot is equipped with speakers,microphones and cameras that make communicating easy.It was designed to be tough.It is water resistant and can take a fall from a desk without damage.
Inside AV1,there is a small computer connected to a 4G network.A small camera hooked up to a small computer could do the job.But that would not be the same.AV1 is large and looks like a human for a reason.Dolva says this is important because the robot is supposed to be a friend to the children.
And robots are,quite simply,cool.The robot just became available to the public.Hopefully AV1 will help some children feel less lonely while they are absent from class.
1.Which of the following can replace the underlined word “isolated” in Paragraph 2?
A. freed B. tired
C. banned D. separated
2.What can we know about AV1?
A. It can go to school on its own.
B. It is small and looks like a kid.
C. It can replace children to attend classes.
D. It was created by Dolva and Aabel.
3.How are the movements of AV1 controled?
A. By using a tablet or phone.
B. By joining in classroom activities.
C. Through a small speaker.
D. Through a small camera.
4.Who is AV1 mainly designed for?
A. Children who have just recovered from illnesses.
B. Children who can't go to school for a long time.
C. Children who are bored with going to school.
D. Children who can't see,hear or speak.
Robert Ballard is probably the most famous deep-sea explorer in the past 100 years. While he is best known for his historic discovery of the wreckage(残骸) of the R.M.S. Titanic which sank to the bottom of the sea in 1912, he also discovered the wreckage of the Bismarck and the Yorktown. Over his career, Dr. Ballard has completed over 120 deep-sea journeys and continues to push exploration to new depths with new technologies and strategies. His new high-tech Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island links scientists all over the world and makes it possible to identify new discoveries in realtime.
Reporter: What were you like as a kid?
Ballard: I was a very “active” kid with lots of interests including sports (football, basketball, and tennis), fishing, and studies.
Reporter: Do you have a hero?
Ballard: My hero is Captain Nemo from the book, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and his submarine the Nautilus.
Reporter: What do you daydream about?
Ballard: I dream about undersea exploration.
Reporter: How did you get into your field of work?
Ballard: It started with a scholarship to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, in the summer of 1959 when I was a junior in high school. That summer, I went to sea on two separate expeditions in Baja California with various oceanographers(海洋学家). During one of those expeditions, I met Dr. Robert Norris, a Scripps graduate with a Ph. D. in marine geology, who invited me to come to the University of California, Santa Barbara where I ended up getting my undergraduate degree in Geology and Chemistry with minors in Math and Physics.
Reporter: What’s the best piece of advice that anyone has ever given you that you can share with us?
Ballard: Follow your dreams and don’t let anyone talk you out of them.
Reporter: Do you have any good jokes?
Ballard: I prefer sayings to jokes. My favorite is, “Never get into the thick of thin things.”
1.It can be inferred from the first paragraph that Robert Ballard ________.
A. is president of a university and travels a lot
B. is the most famous deep-sea explorer in history
C. is still contributing to the development of deep-sea exploration
D. is best famous for the discovery of the wreckages of three ships
2.From the passage we know Nemo ________.
A. is Jules Verne’s nickname B. is the name of a ship
C. is a sailor on a submarine D. is a character in a book
3.What can we know about Ballard?
A. He was lucky to meet Dr. Robert Norris.
B. He once wrote a book about the sea.
C. He loves jokes more than proverbs.
D. He used to be tired of studying.
4.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. The great achievements of Robert Ballard.
B. An interview with a famous deep-sea explorer.
C. A brief introduction to famous Robert Ballard.
D. What a famous deep-sea explorer is like.
假定你是李华，你收到了你的美国朋友Peter寄来的最新英文小说。请给他回信，告诉他礼物己收到，并回赠他一件礼物以及说明礼物的意义，并邀请他来中国旅游。
注意：1.词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
During the holiday I take part in a special summer camp. There I met a girl from Canvey, a town on the Thames, where is to the east of London. As a host, I showed him around such place as the Great Wall and the Summer Palace. She was deeply impressing by the great sights. I also told her about the great changes that had been taken place in the past few decades. She said Beijing was quite different from that she had expected and that it was very beautifully. Meanwhile, I improved my spoken English in her help. I think summer camp is very valuable.
1.They talked friendly as if they ______ (be) friends for many years.
2.Tired of the city life, her husband suggested ______ (settle) down in the country after they retired.
3.As one of the most famous tourist ______ (attract), the Great Wall is a symbol of our profound Chinese culture.
4.With his attention ______ (focus) on the computer games, he didn’t notice his mom come in.
5.The novel is said to ______ (translate) into several foreign languages and sells well abroad.
6.I do hope everybody can become the backbone of our nation and make great ______ (contribute) to society.
7.So ______ (challenge) was the task that he had to apply himself to it.
8.______ (struggle) for months 10 find a job since graduation, he finally took a position in a local company.
9.The write couldn’t stand ______ (wake) up by the outside at midnight.
10.The shops have sinned to put ______ Christmas decorations.
