A smiling face with tears, or “Tears of joy”, was chosen as the most popular emoji globally in 2016, according to a report1.（publish）by Chinese tech startup Kika.
In 2015,emoji was the country’s fastest-growing language in the UK and “Tears of joy”also became the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year, 2.（make）it popular on social media worldwide.
As a language expert pointed out, the reasons3.this are as follows. For one thing, with the development of the Internet, especially the 4.（popular）of smartphones, English alone is proving not enough to meet the needs of 21st-century digital communication. For5., emojis can offer greater freedom than verbal language. Meanwhile, compared with text messages, they are often more intuitive（直观的）and 6.（simple）,which is also the reason why more and more People choose7.（express）their emotions and ideas by using emojis.
Even if you don’t send emojis yourself, you will8.（probable）receive them.
However, nobody can definitely-tell 9.emojis will finally come to look something more like traditional language that we understand and use daily some day or they are just in fashion for10.while like many things. “After all, it’s an addition to language rather than a language itself,”Dr Drummond says.
Recently, a picture of a soaking wet father holding an umbrella for his son in New York street has spread widely on the Internet. The _______moved countless netizens, commenting “Father’s love is as ________as a mountain.”
The name of “Father Umbrella”is Liu Qiao,_______told the reporter the photos were _____on September 10th. Because of the sudden rain, he only took a(n)_______umbrella in the office to _______his son at the kindergarten gate. “My home is near, so there is no need to_______rain.”Liu Qiao said giving the only umbrella to his son in the rain was a very_______instinct（本能）and getting praised so widely was _______his expectation.
Some netizens questioned, “Why didn’t he _______his son?”Liu Qiao thinks he has been creating the best _______for this son instead of doing all the things for him and let him_______for himself.“I want him to do things_______, so I did not hold him and the schoolbag was also_______him. But after all he was too young to _______cold, so I held an umbrella to _______him from the rain.”
Netizen’s interpretation of this picture is:“As a father, he can_______his son, but his son must walk himself. Dad’s _______hand is the cause, the right hand the _______, backing on the wind and rain…The ‘umbrella father’ shows ‘Dad can’t give you the best,_______gives you all!”And this also lets countless friends say,“It melts the heart down.”
1.A. scenery B. signal C. scene D. sign
2.A. amazing B. great C. proud D. hard
3.A. who B. that C. whom D. which
4.A. taken B. chosen C. brought D. bought
5.A. useless B. extra C. common D. spare
6.A. bring up B. take up C. pick up D. turn up
7.A. stop B. avoid C. frighten D. worry
8.A. willing B. strange C. natural D. curious
9.A. within B. under C. on D. beyond
10.A. hold B. tell C. help D. consider
11.A. needs B. dreams C. belongings D. conditions
12.A. change B. work C. earn D. battle
13.A. by himself B. of himself C. to himself D. from himself
14.A. in B. on C. by D. at
15.A. refuse B. defeat C. ignore D. resist
16.A. stop B. break C. protect D. ban
17.A. shelter B. understand C. raise D. concern
18.A. warm B. big C. left D. calm
19.A. patience B. hope C. diligence D. honesty
20.A. then B. but C. and D. thus
In 2017, AlphaGo defeated Chinese player Ke Jie to become the world’s No 1, ending thousands of years of human dominance（控制）in the game. AlphaGo is an artificial intelligence（AI）Go-playing program.1.
Artificial intelligence（AI）is usually defined as the science of marking computers do things that require intelligence when done by humans.2.These include learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and language-understanding.
3.In fact we are increasingly depending. upon computer-based artificial intelligence. As Charlie Qrtiz said, head of AL at the Massachusetts-based software company Nuance Communication, “It has opened a window for us.”Smartphones, self-driving cars, intelligent robots，etc. are constantly coming into our life. According to a recent survey, half of the world’s AI experts believe human level machine intelligence will be achieved by 2040. This will open up huge possibilities for the enrichment of mankind, from tackling climate change and treating disease to labour- saving devices.
4.Physicist Stephen Hawking last year warned that unless we take care, board games might be the least of it. “The development of full artificial intelligence could mean the end of the human race.”5.They believe AlphaGo’s victory is a reminder of how fast the world is overcoming the obstacles in the way of AI, and its distribution in the world about us. Although there may yet be no evidence that computers will ever shake off their human masters, we should still treat these development with the humility and caution they deserve.
A. Other scientists have also expressed the concern.
B. Artificial intelligence has both advantages and disadvantages.
C. Defeating a human Go master is not the only thing AI can do.
D. Artificial intelligence will bring us disasters instead of benefits.
E. It was designed by an American Artificial intelligence company.
F. Not all experts hold the optimistic attitudes to the development of AI.
G. Research in AI has so far focused on some special fields of intelligence.
A 16-year survey on the arctic Norwegian island of Svalbard found the reindeer（驯鹿）there have declined in weight by an alarming 12 percent. The reduction in average body-mass is being blamed on global warming.
In research presented lately at a meeting of the British Ecological Society in Liverpool, scientists will explain how rising temperatures are making female reindeer difficult to obtain nutrients during important periods of being pregnant.
Snow in Svalbard typically covers the ground for eight months of the year, which, combined with low temperatures, limits grass growth to June and July. But as summer temperatures have increased by around 1.5℃, grasslands have become more productive, allowing female reindeer to gain more weight by the autumn and therefore to conceive（孕育）more calves.
However, warmer winters have brought with them greater rainfall which freezes when is settles on the snow, therefore locking out the reindeer from the life-supporting food below. As a result, female reindeer are becoming starved, causing them to give birth to much lighter young. The average mass of an adult reindeer in 1998, when the survey began, was 55kg, but by 2016 IT had dropped to 48kg.
Professor Steve Albon, an ecologist at the James Hatton Institute in Aberdeen , said that, because the mammals have a relatively high surface-area-to-volume ratio（表面积与体积比）, they are no particularly energy efficient.
Reindeer can often access the inadequate food sources beneath the snow by clearing IT away with their antlers（鹿角）, but they cannot break through the hard ice. Without access to the food in winter, calves are being born far lighter than they should be. Numbers of reindeer have also increased rapidly in the past 20 years, meaning that those which are born are facing greater competition for food. “The implication（含义）are that there may well be more smaller reindeer in the Arctic in the coming decades, but possibly at the risk of catastrophic die-offs because of increased ice on the ground,”said Professor Albon Despite the gloomy findings, reindeer appear to be suffering less from the impact of climate change than some other arctic species.
1.Which of the following may be the most important reason for the smaller reindeer?
A. Heavy snow.
B. Greater rainfall.
C. Hard ice.
D. Global warming.
2.According to the passage, rising temperatures will not lead to_________.
A. grass growing more rapidly in summer
B. more rainfall in the arctic area in winter
C. female reindeer’s gaining more weight in winter
D. female reindeer’s suffering from hunger in winter
3.What does the underlined word“gloomy”in the last paragraph mean?
A. Exciting.
B. Optimistic.
C. Disappointing.
D. Doubtful.
4.How does the writer develop the passage?
A. By analyzing the research.
B. By classification of reindeer.
C. By comparing opinions of experts.
D. By telling stories of different species.
Laziness is a state of inaction. It is something that you do, not something that you are. Being lazy means you have no motivation to do anything. Many people make the mistake that they view themselves as lazy.
Lazy people are often seen as useless. They are the ones who don’t do anything. They can be seen as underachievers or even bums（废物）. This can be a child or an adult. You can view a student who never studies as lazy. You can see an employee who doesn’t do his work as lazy. In all of these cases, what the lazy person is doing is being lazy. But are they really being lazy or are they acting lazy?
There is a huge different between saying you act lazy sometimes and you are a lazy person. One is suggesting that your laziness is temporary while the other suggests that it’s permanent. This is the myth of laziness. People who are lazy aren’t; they simply are people who are temporarily acting that way.
So that causes a person to be inactive? The answer is a lack of goals. If you give someone a good enough reason to do something, they will do it. People who don’t seem to do anything just haven’t found a good enough reason to do something. Lazy students don’t study because they don’t see the point in studying. If you give them a reason, a strong enough reason, they will take action.
For example, if you are too lazy to go to the gym, would you go if someone offered you a million dollars to go? If you are too lazy to go to clean out the garage, would someone pointing a gun to your head help you take action? The reason can be positive or negative as long as it’s strong enough to induce（引起）action.
To motivate someone who is lazy, what you need to do is to help them find purpose and enough reasons to work towards a certain goal.
1.According to the passage, who can be viewed as acting lazy?
A. A student who always cheats out the garage.
B. A husband who never cleans out the garage.
C. A clerk who si always scolded for being useless.
D. A mother who doesn’t feel like cooking on Sunday.
2.The main reason why people are not active is that___________.
A. they are aimless
B. they lack enough money
C. they have too many negative feelings
D. they find no point in learning new things
3.The purpose of the writing is to help readers___________.
A. to recognize one’s weakness
B. to see laziness in a different way
C. to have a clear idea about what a habit is
D. to inspire students to be hard-working
4.What is the best title for the text?
A. Being lazy and cat lazy
B. Laziness and motivation
C. Temporary and permanent.
D. Being positive and negative
Sonya and her family have been homeless since she was 3 years old. Over the years, they have moved more than 15times to different shelters around New York City. Moving around was hard on Sonya。At school, Sonya hid her homeless from teachers and other students. She didn’t want to be treated differently from other kids.
In sixth grade, Sonya discovered a way to deal with some of her stress. She began studying dance at her middle school. “IT was a way for me to express myself, instead of just holding everything in,”she explains. Soon, Sonya auditioned（试演）for a summer dance camp run by Alvin Alley, a famous dance company. She was accepted. “I was excited,”says Sonya.
Dancing became an even more important part of Sonya’s life in high school. But things were not going well for Sonya at school. Each time her family moved to a new shelter, Sonya often took care of her younger sisters and brothers. She helped them get ready in the morning and took them to school. They would be on time, but Sonya would be late.
Worrying about her family kept Sonya from thinking about her own future. That changed the summer after 11th grade. Sonya learned she would have to go to summer school to graduate. She became determined to succeed, no matter what. “It was a wake-up call,”she says.“I had to focus on school and on myself.”
Sonya made up the work that she had missed, and finally graduated from high school. No one in her family had gone to college before. But in September 2015, Sonya enrolled in the State University of New York at Potsdam. She plans to become a doctor for kids and to teach dance to children who have disabilities.
1.According to the text, Sonya_____________.
A. learned to dance at the age of 3
B. kept moving to a better school
C. hid to secrets from her teachers
D. became homeless at an early age
2.From Sonya’s experience, we can infer__________.
A. she could express herself by dancing
B. teachers and other students laughed at her
C. Sonya determined to be a doctor for people with disabilities
D. her sisters and brothers stopped her from thinking about her future
3.By saying“IT was a wake-up call,” Sonya means that__________.
A. she needed to teach herself
B. she must support her family
C. she should focus on dancing
D. she had to finish high school
4.What’s the main idea of the text?
A. A girl finds hope through dance.
B. Dancing makes people confident.
C. Sonya dreams of becoming a dance star.
D. More and more kids stay at shelters in New York.
