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1.Surrounding yourself with people who’ll provide you with respect support can be very b___________.
2.She a___________ the singer on the piano.
3.They a___________ carrying out the plan for lack of money.
4.Now it o___________ to him that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.
5.You should ___________ with your friend in his sufferings.
6.So we think it is reasonable to ___________ (推测、认为) they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold.
7.She is ___________ (承认、公认) as an expert on the subject.
8.A snowball ___________ (打中、击中) him on the back of the head.
9.I can’t ___________ (忍受) young people casting away their youth.
10.She was a casual ___________ (熟人) of my family in Vienna.
When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in late October 1931, he had no way of knowing that his life was about to change completely. The class ____ that day was to show how ____ a container of water would bring oxygen bubbles(气泡) to the surface. The container John was about to heat, ____ , was not like the containers students everywhere had used. Someone had been ______ and put the wrong label(标签) on the bottle. And ____ John heated it with a Bunsen burner, the container ______ , sending the liquid flying in all directions. John Wilson came away from it, completely ______.
Wilson spent the next two months in hospital. After he returned home, his parents ______a hard time to find a way to deal with the ____ that had happened to their lives. But Wilson did not ____ the accident as a disaster. He knew he had the rest of his life to live. He learned Braille(盲文) quickly and continued his ____ at the esteemed Worcester College for the disabled. There, he not only ____ as a student but also became an accomplished rower, swimmer, actor, musician, and orator.
Many people, faced with the _____ John Wilson met with, would have _____of their experience. Perhaps they would have considered themselves to be ____ by ill fortune and discouraged in their ____ to do anything significant with their lives. Wilson, however, lost his sight but found a ____. Through his practical action and life attitude, he proved to us ____ that it’s not what happens to us that _____our lives — it’s what we make ______ what happens.
1.A. experiment B. discussion C. analysis D. management
2.A. bringing out B. turning over C. heating up D. picking on
3.A. therefore B. instead C. besides D. however
4.A. light-hearted B. absent-minded C. cold-blooded D. bad-tempered
5.A. as B. if C. once D. though
6.A. leaked B. exploded C. collapsed D. melted
7.A. dumb B. lame C. deaf D. blind
8.A. called for B. drove off C. went through D. depended on
9.A. catastrophe B. coincidence C. dilemma D. drawback
10.A. elect B. appoint C. regard D. recommend
11.A. education B. occupation C. contribution D. recovery
12.A. survived B. shone C. competed D. registered
13.A. discrimination B. resistance C. circumstances D. uncertainties
14.A. dreamed B. thought C. approved D. complained
15.A. criticized B. motivated C. surrounded D. interrupted
16.A. preferences B. requirements C. failures D. attempts
17.A. bridge B. vision C. reward D. cure
18.A. dramatically B. occasionally C. abruptly D. roughly
19.A. limits B. predicts C. determines D. replaces
20.A. of B. from C. for D. up
As a senior year student, you may have so many pressures coming from so many directions that you can't figure out what to do first.
1..
When you have many things to do and a lot of demands on your time, you can lose sight of what's important. One of the best ways to see the big picture — what you want out of life — is to lay out your goals.
Pressure Points and How to Deal With Them
Confused or overwhelmed — 2.. Discuss your concerns with a friend, parent or teacher. They may help you find solutions to your problems and worries.
Being too hard on yourself — ease up, take a break and do something you enjoy. Daydream, read a book, go out with friends — anything that helps you relax.
Problems, problems, problems — recognize your limits. It's too stressful to try to deal with all your problems at once. 3..
Goal-Setting Tips
It's important to remember that goals belong to you — not to your parents, your teachers, or your friends. After you've set your goals, identify the skills you have to achieve those goals. 4., do some research. Try the library, your guidance adviser and teachers, and other people who could help you.
5.. If your goal is something you no longer want, change it. Identify the barriers to getting your goals. Consider ways to overcome them. Don't get depressed by a big, long-term goal — see what steps you can take to achieve it and set those steps down as short-term, "do-able" goals.
A. Too much to do
B. Balancing goals in life
C. Goals exist to serve you
D. Talk to someone you trust
E. If you're not sure what skills you'll need
F. As long as you know what skill is important and what isn't
G. Choose what's most urgent and set aside the rest until later
Imagine you’re standing in line to buy a snack at a store. You step up to the counter and the cashier scans your food. Next, you have to pay. But instead of scanning a QR Code(二维码) with your smart phone, you just hold out your hand so the cashier can scan your fingerprint. Or, a camera scans your face, your eyes or even your ear.
Now, this type of technology might not be far away. As technology companies move away from the traditional password, biometric (生物特征识别的) security, which includes fingerprint, face and voice ID, is becoming increasingly popular.
In 2013, Apple introduced the iPhone 5s, one of the first smart phones with a fingerprint scanner. Since then, using one's fingerprint to unlock a phone and make mobile payments has become a commonplace, bringing convenience to our lives. And since 2016, Samsung has featured eye-scanning technology in its top smart phones, while Apple's new iphone X can even scan a user's face. But despite its popularity, experts warn that biometrics might not be as secure as we imagine. " Biometrics is ideally good in practice, not so much," said John Michener, a biometrics expert.
When introducing the new iPhone's face ID feature, Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice-president, said. "The chance that a random person in the population could look at your iPhones X and unlock it with their face is about one in a million." But it's already been done. In a video posted on a community website Reddit, two brothers showed how they were each able to unlock the same iPhone X using their own face. And they aren't even twins.
"We may expect too much from biometrics," Anil Jain, a computer science professor at Michigan State University, told CBS News. "No security systems are perfect."
Earlier last year, Jain found a way to trick biometric security. Using a printed copy of a thumbprint, she was able to unlock a dead person's smart phone for the police, according to a tech website Splinter. "It's good to see biometrics being used more," Jain told CBS News, "because it adds another factor for security. But using multiple security measures is the best defense."
1.Which is the latest identification technology in a smart phone according to the passage?
A. Face scanning. B. Eye scanning.
C. QR Code scanning. D. Fingerprint scanning.
2.What is a major problem of the iPhone X's face ID system?
A. It takes too long to unlock the phone.
B. It often fails to recognize its owner's face.
C. Face data can be used for other purposes.
D. Different faces can be used to unlock the same phone.
3.What is Anil Jain's opinion about biometric security?
A. It is as secure as traditional measures.
B. It is perfect without much improvement.
C. It has caused much trouble for the police.
D. It should be used with other security measures.
4.What does the author intend to tell us in this passage?
A. The popularity of biometrics.
B. Security problems of biometrics.
C. Various problems with biometrics.
D. Great changes caused by biometrics.
About 5,000 children die each day due to preventable diseases such as cholera and dysentery (痢疾) , which spread when people use unclean water for drinking or cooking. A lack of water for personal health leads to the spread of totally preventable diseases like trachoma, which has blinded some six million people.
Water troubles also trap many low-income families in a cycle of poverty and poor education and the poorest suffer most from lack of access to water. People who spend much of their time on ill health, caring for sick children, or collecting water at distances averaging 3.75 miles a day don’t have educational and economic opportunities to better their lives.
Agriculture is called the lion's share of freshwater worldwide, using some 70 percent, and industrial uses consume another 22 percent. Water areas have no political borders and nations don't always work together to share common resources, so water can be a frequent source of international conflict as well.
Day-by-day demand keeps growing, further needing water sources, from great rivers to groundwater. “We’re going deeper into debt on our groundwater use,” Postel said, “and that has very significant impacts on global water security. The rate of groundwater consumption has doubled since 1960.”
Some of Earth's groundwater is fossil water created when Earth's climate was far different. Today such water is as limited as petrol. “But we're pumping much of them out faster than ever,” Postel explained. “Humanity's growing thirst also causes a major problem about water and our ecosystems. And that also creates a cost to us, to our sons and to our grandsons, not just to nature.”
1.What does the author mainly discuss in the passage?
A. Water shortage has been a most serious challenge.
B. So many children die of polluted water every day.
C. Diseases should be properly controlled and treated.
D. Wasting water leads to the unrest of the world.
2.Why is agriculture called the lion’s share of freshwater ?
A. Because agriculture is much stronger than industry.
B. Because more people live on the agricultural produce.
C. Because agriculture uses about two-thirds of freshwater.
D. Because nations don’t always work together to save water.
3.According to what Postel said we can know ____________.
A. groundwater is rich for us to use
B. there is no need to dig deep for groundwater
C. we are consuming our next generations’ water
D. we should use river water instead of groundwater
4.What can we infer form the passage?
A. We shouldn’t use water from rivers.
B. We should protect our ecosystems.
C. Water should be distributed equally.
D. Laws should be passed for groundwater.
A video recording from Xinhua (9th, Nov. 2017) showing Arabella Kushner, US President Donald Trump's granddaughter, singing Chinese songs and reciting Chinese literary classics caused another Internet sensation (轰动) in China Wednesday night.
In the video clip, Arabella, wearing a traditional embroidered Chinese dress, greets President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan.
The sixyearold sings two songs Our Fields, Beautiful Fields, and My Good Mom. The former, written in 1953 and adored by Chinese teenagers for decades, expresses one's love and affection for the motherland and nature. The latter is a popular nursery rhyme widespread in China.
She also displayed knowledge about Chinese literature by reciting Three Character Classic, a Confucianist volume to educate young children, and two ancient poems of Li Bai, Watching the Fall of Lushan Mountain, and Departing from Baidi City in the Morning.
Xi spoke highly of the child's Mandarin abilities and said her performance deserved an “A Plus”. He said Arabella was already a star in China and hoped she would visit China one day.
Numerous media websites and netizens reposted the video. It has received 2.3 million clicks on Sina Weibo, China's popular social media platform, as of press time.
“What a talented and smart girl she is!” Weibo user Yumeiren said. “I hope she can make more contributions to fostering ChinaUS friendship in the future.”
Earlier this year, during President Xi's visit to the United States, Arabella has already performed for the president and his wife at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6. Standing alongside her parents, Arabella sang Jasmine, a Chinese folk song with her brother Joseph.
1.From the passage, we can learn that ________.
A. Arabella once sang Jasmine for President Xi in April alone
B. Arabella has a talent for singing Chinese songs
C. Arabella has some acquaintance with Chinese ancient poems
D. My Good Mom conveys one's love for his or her motherland
2.What does the underlined word in Para.7 probably mean?
A. Preventing. B. Proposing.
C. Protesting. D. Promoting.
3.What is the best title for the passage?
A. Arabella's Contribution to ChinaUS Relationship
B. Trump's Granddaughter Wins Chinese Hearts, Again
C. Trump and His Famous Granddaughter
D. A Little Shining Star in China
