The world’s richest man might seem to have it all, but Bill Gates has one regret. The self-made billionaire said he felt stupid for not knowing any foreign languages.
Speaking in his third Ask Me Anything question-and-answer session for online forum Reddit(红迪网), the Microsoft founder said that he wished he spoke French, Arabic or Chinese.
He said: “I took Latin and Greek in high school and got A’s and I guess it helps my vocabulary. I keep hoping to get time to study one of these—probably French because it is the easiest. I did Duolingo for a while but didn’t keep it up.”
Gates, who is worth $79.3 billion, praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for surprising an audience in Beijing when he spoke fluent Chinese. “Mark Zuckerberg amazingly learned Chinese and did a Q&A with Chinese students—unbelievable, isn’t it?” he said.
This isn’t the first time for Gates to admit his regret over language. He also showed his habits at home and personal insights.
Last February, Gates said he likes to do the dishes himself—to his own special standards every night and also told the interviewer that his wife, Melinda, would likely want Samuel L. Jackson to play her husband in a biopic(传记片).
He also admitted that he would pick up a $100 bill if he found it on the street.
As he took the top spot on Forbes(福布斯)28th Annual Billionaires list last year for the fourth time, he said he is pretty basic when it comes to so ending on clothes and food, but that he enjoys investing in shoes and racquets(球拍)when he plays tennis.
When asked a life lesson he had to learn the hard way, the billionaire said staying up too late is a habit he is still trying to break. “Don’t stay up too late even if the book is really exciting. You will regret it in the morning. Pam still working on this problem,” he said.
1.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. An Interview with Bill Gates B. How Bill Gates Succeeded
C. Bill Gates’ Regret D. The Richest Billionaire
2.The underlined part in Paragraph 8 may actually mean that_____.
A. it is important to lay a good foundation of life
B. food and clothing are basic needs for people’s life
C. he doesn’t spend much money on food and clothes
D. he never cares about buying food and clothing
3.What advice did Bill Gates give?
A. Avoid staying up too late. B. Be a good language learner.
C. Do the dishes yourself at home. D. Pick up the $100 bills in the streets.
4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Bill Gates is also the founder of Facebook
B. Bill Gates topped the list of Forbes 28 times.
C. Bill Gates was good at learning languages in high schoo1.
D. Bill Gates’ wife wants Samuel to play a game with Gates.
The International Painting Contest on Google’s homepage in 2015 may look pretty strange, but it spotlightings a very serious issue: clean water, which is unusual for an 11-year-old from Long Island.
Audrey Zhang, a fifth-grader from Levittown, N.Y, is the winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest, rising to the top of some 100, 000 entries on the theme of “draw one thing to make the world a better place.”
Her piece, titled “Back to Mother Nature,” describes a detailed water-cleaning machine. Zhang worked with a team of artists at Google to animate(使……生动)her drawing.
“To make the world a better place, I came up with a transformative water purifier, a machine used to remove dirty or harmful substances,” Google quoted Zhang as saying. “It takes in dirty and polluted water from rivers, lakes and even oceans, then massively transforms the water into clean, safe and pure water. When humans and animals drink this water, they will live a healthier life.”
She created a whole world around the device—one populated by humans, a whale in a top hat and dragons.
Zhang, s piece is “so vivid and so rich and so full and so complete,’’ Google Doodle team leader Ryan Germick told the Washington Post. “Every leaf seemed to have life in it.”
Along with having her artwork featured on Google’s homepage, Zhang wins a $30,000 college scholarship. In addition, her school will receive a $50,000 Google for Education technology grant, and the company is donating $20,000 in her name to a charity devoted to bringing clean water to schools in Bangladesh.
On Sunday, the night before her work was revealed on net, Zhang told Newsday she was excited by the big win, but said she wouldn’t be awake when her art first went online at midnight.
“I have school-tomorrow, so I can’t stay up late,” she told the paper.
1.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. The winner and her work in the painting contest.
B. The team of artists at Google to animate drawings.
C. The painting contest of Google’s homepage in 2015.
D. The water-cleaning machine in the painting contest.
2.According to the passage, we know that______.
A. Audrey Zhang is creative and self-disciplined
B. a water-cleaning device was made in the contest
C. $50, 000 will be donated in Audrey Zhang’s name
D. Zhang’s piece was printed in all major newspapers
3.The underlined word in Paragraph l probably means “_____”.
A. put up with B. 1ook forward to
C. breakaway from D. focus attention on
你是高一年级的张洋，你的外教Anne打算暑假期间在四川旅游，请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：
1.推荐两个旅游目的地，并分别阐述理由；
2.感谢他一年来的教学；
3.期待下期的学习。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Anne,
Glad to know that you are planning to trip around Sichuan this summer vacation. ___________________
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Best wishes!
Yours,
Zhang Yang
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（＼）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仅限一词。
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Bruce,
I’m very excited to learn from that you will start an English magazine called New Babel. That sounds great and I definitely agree with you on that.
Some of the columns mention in the letter are really my cup of tea. “Cultural Express” gives us better understanding of the world. Unless people from different parts of the world have different value, it’s necessary to learn from each other. Apart from that, “Thoughts” is pretty good for us Chinese students to open our minds and practice their critical thinking. “Entertainment” is amazing! The stories about those popular celebrities are so attractively that we absolutely can’t miss this part. As is often the case, teenagers were fond of popular things.
Well, I can’t list less. I really look forward to read this magazine.
Yours,
Thomas
Two weeks ago, we reported about developments with 1. (electricity) planes and flying cars. That technology could bring change to commercial and personal travel. Last week, two 2.(company), Kitty Hawk and Uber, announced their plans to bring flying cars to reality. Sooner 3.you think, flying cars may appear in the skies. Imagine never 4.(have) to worry about traffic, stoplights, or road construction. A flying car could get somewhere much faster than one traveling by road.
Kitty Hawk is a start-up tech company supported by Google co-founder. Its first flying cars, 5.travel at a speed of up to 40 kilometers an hour, 6.(expect) to go on sale by the end of 2017. Uber expects to launch flying taxis in Texas and Dubai by 2020. 7.says its flying taxis could travel up to 241 kilometers an hour, with the travel time 8.(reduce) from 2 hours on the road to 15 minutes in the air between San Francisco and San Jose, California. Riders could use the Uber app 9.(book) a flying taxi to take them to their destinations. It is estimated that flying taxi travel will be much 10. (expensive) compared with road taxi travel.
A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For long he had _______a fancy sports car in a shop. Knowing his father could _______ afford it, he told him _______was all he wanted.
As Graduation Day _______, the young man waited signs of buying the car. Finally, _______the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study and told him how_______ he was to have such a fine son, and how much he loved him. Then he handed his son a beautiful wrapped(被包着的)gift box. Curious, but somewhat _______, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with his name carved in gold. _______, he shouted to his father “With all your money you give me a _______?”and ________out of the house, leaving the Bible.
Many years passed and he had not seen his father ________that graduation day. ________his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go home to see him. But ________he could make the arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had ________. When he arrived, ________sadness and regret filled his heart. He searched through his father’s important papers and saw the still ________Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn ________. Suddenly, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the ________of his graduation, and the words “PAID IN FULL”.
How many times do we ________blessings because they are not packaged as we expected? We don’t realize the good fortune we have or we could have because we expect “the packaging” to be ________.
1.A. accepted B. admired C. respected D. wished
2.A. hardly B. never C. greatly D. well
3.A. this B. that C. one D. which
4.A. passed B. went C. came D. approached
5.A. on B. in C. by D. to
6.A. wealthy B. proud C. great D. successful
7.A. disappointed B. delighted C. excited D. sad
8.A. Sadly B. Happily C. Gratefully D. Angrily
9.A. box B. book C. present D. praise
10.A. marched B. slipped C. stormed D. paced
11.A. since B. until C. at D. beyond
12.A. Realizing B. Seeing C. Hearing D. Feeling
13.A. after B. before C. as D. when
14.A. died out B. passed by C. passed away D. died away
15.A. quick B. sudden C. mild D. little
16.A. new B. old C. beautiful D. cheap
17.A. the pages B. the cover C. the book D. the back
18.A. morning B. date C. place D. memory
19.A. understand B. avoid C. escape D. miss
20.A. true B. smart C. different D. cute
