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1.On a cold r__________ night, he was found sleeping at a street corner, wet all over.
2.I'd like to emphasize the i__________ of reading exam questions carefully.
3.The stranger spoke in such a f__________ voice that the frightened child began to cry.
4.The boss dismissed the e__________ immediately he saw him smoking in the office.
5.At last, he was reduced to b___________ on the streets, homeless.
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As an adult, she tried hard to become American’s first woman architect (建筑师).
Young architects at that time 1. (usual) learned their skills by working in the drafting rooms of professional architects. Most architects didn’t want women working for them. But Louise 2. (manage) to make a well-known architect give her a chance.
She worked 3. six in the morning to six in the evening. She wasn’t paid much. 4. she learned a lot as she worked, and her employer allowed her to use 5. (he) large library. In 1881, after five years of work and study, Louise set up her own office. She advertised, “The first 6. (profession) woman architect in the country 7. (be) ready for business.”
Louise believed that she should not be limited to designing private 8. (home) just because she was a woman. She looked for a variety of jobs and designed storage buildings, factories and schools. She did very well, inspiring other women 9. (become) architects. She often spoke out for 10. fair treatment of women and equal pay for equal work.
Falling off a box car and landing on my head, I lost my sight when I was four years old. Now I am thirty-two. I can _______ remember the brightness of sunshine. It would be wonderful to see again, _______ a tragedy can do strange things to people.
It occurred to me that I might not have come to _______ life as I do now if I hadn’t been blind. My parents and my teachers saw something _______ me, and they made me want to _______ against blindness.
The hardest _______ I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have _______ down and become a chair rocker for the rest of my life. When I say _______ in myself, I am not talking about _______ the kind of self-confidence that ________ me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. But I mean something bigger than that: I am a real positive person ________ imperfections.
It took me years to obtain this ________. It had to start with the ________. Once a man gave me an indoor ________. “I can’t use this,” I said. “Take it with you,” he ________ me, “and roll it around.” The ________ stuck in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ________. At the School for the Blind I ________ a new kind of baseball called ground ball.
All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my ________. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made ________.
1.A. clearly B. hardly C. roughly D. completely
2.A. so B. and C. thus D. but
3.A. love B. hate C. ignore D. miss
4.A. of B. for C. to D. in
5.A. get B. fight C. find D. drop
6.A. method B. experience C. lesson D. manner
7.A. broken B. put C. settled D. lay
8.A. courage B. ambition C. belief D. power
9.A. firmly B. simply C. fairly D. slightly
10.A. stops B. gives C. pushes D. helps
11.A. despite B. except C. unless D. unlike
12.A. description B. existence C. intelligence D. recognition
13.A. problem B. trouble C. incident D. event
14.A. chair B. baseball C. game D. design
15.A. urged B. blamed C. greeted D. teased
16.A. goals B. words C. baseballs D. ideas
17.A. valuable B. reasonable C. impossible D. unbearable
18.A. discovered B. equipped C. formed D. invented
19.A. limitations B. advantages C. puzzles D. personalities
20.A. sense B. progress C. mistakes D. friends
Create Beauty Yourself
In itself life is neutral (中立的). We make it beautiful, we make it ugly; life is what energy we bring to it.
1. If you simply sit there and you want it to be beautiful, then it will not be --- you have to create beauty. Beauty is not there like an object or a rock. Beauty has to be created. You have to give a sight to reality, you have to give color to reality, you have to give a song to reality --- then it is beautiful.
So whenever you participate in creating beauty, it is there; whenever you stop creating, it is not. 2. Happiness is a creation; so is misery. You get only that which you create, and you never get anything else. That is the whole philosophy of karma: 3.
Life is just a blank cloth---you can paint a beautiful scene, or you can paint black ghosts (鬼) and dangerous people. 4. You can make a beautiful dream or a bad dream.
Once this is understood, things are very simple. You are the master; it is your responsibility. Ordinarily we think that life has some objective beauty and objective ugliness.5. It gives you all that is needed: Now do it yourself! It is a do-it-yourself affair.
A. You get only that which you do.
B. What is beauty?
C. If you pour beauty into life, it is beautiful.
D. It's up to you.
E. No! Life is just an opportunity.
F. Life is not what you think it is.
G. Beauty is a creation; so is ugliness.
Four out of the 48 self-driving cars on public roads in California have been involved in accidents in the last eight months, according to the state's Department of Motor Vehicles.
The agency began issuing permits for the testing of self-driving vehicles in September 2014.
Three of the four cars belonged to Google, the fourth to parts supplier Delphi.
Both firms denied their vehicles had been at fault.
Under Californian law, details of car accidents remain secret.
However, Google said its driverless cars had never been the cause of an accident and that the majority of "minor fender-benders(擦撞)" had been in the form of rear-end(后尾) collisions from other drivers.
"Safety is our highest priority. Since the start of our programme six years ago, we've driven nearly a million miles automatically, on both freeways and city streets, without causing a single accident," said a spokesperson.
Delphi told the BBC its vehicle was hit while still at a crossroads and was in human driving mode at the time.
"A police report indicates the fault of the accident is with the second vehicle, not Delphi. No-one was hurt in the incident," said a spokesperson.
An unknown source told the Associated Press that two of the accidents occurred while the vehicles were occupied by human drivers, and all four vehicles were going very slowly at the time of the collisions.
Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car programme, wrote in a blog post that there have been 11 accidents involving Google cars since the project began six years ago but not one has been caused by one of its vehicles.
"Rear-end crashes are the most frequent accidents in America, and often there's little the driver in front can do to avoid getting hit," he said.
1.What is the passage mainly about?
A. Self-driving car accidents. B. Motor vehicle problems.
C. Self-driving vehicle problems. D. Traffic accidents in California.
2.We can learn from the passage that the self-driving cars ______.
A. caused the accidents when driven by human drivers
B. hit other cars and caused the accidents
C. were responsible for the accidents
D. were knocked into from behind
3.The passage intends to tell us that the self-driving cars ______.
A. are just road killers B. need to be improved
C. are in good quality D. shouldn’t be produced
What will the future be like? Good or bad? A lot of science-fiction writing imagines a world which is dark and scary. In Blade Runner, Harrison Ford hunts robots in a chaotic (混乱的) Los Angeles. Planet of the Apes shows a hopeless future for humankind.
There's a word to describe the kind of future world which often appears in science fiction: dystopia. It means an imagined place where things are unpleasant or bad. The opposite is utopia. But does tomorrow's world have to be so disappointing?
No. A new project wants to use the power of science fiction to inspire people to create a better future. Project Hieroglyph brings together writers, scientists, engineers and artists to create optimistic stories about things which really could happen in the next 50 years.
It's just a matter of making an effort. Experts say it's easier to create a dystopia than write a feel-good story. There's more conflict in a world full of problems, and stories are interesting when there are a lot of problems to solve. No challenge, no story!
But the project produced a book with some promising plots. One of them is about environmentalists who fight to stop entrepreneurs (创业者) from building the first hotel in Antarctica. Well, there's conflict there and it seems reasonable, so it could be a good story.
But will these stories actually change anything or just keep us entertained? Ed Finn, the book's editor, thinks the former. He says: "A good science-fiction story can be very powerful. It can inspire hundreds, thousands, millions of people to do something that they want to do."
The influence of science fiction can already be seen in modern research, says Professor Braden Allenby. He asks: "Why are people working on, for example, invisibility cloaks (斗篷)? Well, it's Harry Potter, right?"
Time will tell how far we can go. Let's dream big and think outside the box. Who knows the wonderful things we can come up with?
1.The underlined word “utopia” in paragraph 2 most probably means “______’.
A. a real world where people can do anything they like
B. an imagined place where things are unpleasant or bad
C. an imaginary perfect world where everyone is happy
D. a wild and terrible place where no one can live happily
2.Experts say it’s easier to create a dystopia than a feel-good story because ______.
A. a dystopia needs less imagination
B. a feel-good story is more interesting
C. there is no conflict in a feel-good story
D. there are more problems to solve in a dystopia
3.Professor Braden Allenby takes “invisibility cloaks” as an example ______.
A. to cause readers’ attention
B. to amuse science fiction readers
C. to introduce a science fiction story
D. to show the influence of science fiction
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A. What is science fiction?
B. Can science fiction help us?
C. What will man do in the future?
D. Shall we live a better life in the future?
