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Moving to a foreign country is an amazing experience. It’s an opportunity to put yourself in 1. different culture. However, before starting your adventure, there are some decisions 2.(make).
One such decision is choosing where to live. Will you stay in your own apartment? Will you share a flat with other young 3.(foreign)? Or will you choose to live with a host family? For me, choosing to live with a French family was the 4.(good) choice, and here is why.
Firstly, a family can show you around the city and prevent you 5.(feel) lonely and lost. My host family was 6.(extreme) nice. They showed me which buses to take to get to work, 7.(cook) dinner for me and took me with them on trips to the beach. These were great opportunities to experience French culture, 8. in turn helped me feel more comfortable.
Moreover, living with French people was a great way to improve my language skills. My host family was happy to answer my questions and corrected me 9. I said something wrong, which made me a better French speaker.
Besides this, the experience of living abroad is one that you will remember forever. You might return 10. their birthdays, weddings and much more. It will be a precious memory for the rest of your life.
My name’s James and I’m an 18-year “Cancer Survivor”. When I was 15 years of age, I was at my house one day with my ________ and when I tried to run up the steps, I blacked out, and ________ the stairs very hard. When I ________ myself, I remembered my sisters saying “Are you all right?” and I replied “I think so, yeah.” But little did my sisters and I ________ that was the beginning of a(n) ________. When I began to try to climb the stairs, my whole right leg hurt seriously. I couldn’t move it ________ the assistance of my hands. The pain was horrible. I finally ________ my way upstairs and I hardly ________ I couldn’t move my leg. As time went on, it got ________, so a month later I ________ went to hospital. I was asked to go to the rooms ________ they treated me to the X-rays. One week later, I got my ________, but wasn’t clear on what was happening. They ________ us back home. Three days later, they ________ an expert from another continent or someplace and he looked at my rays one time and said “OH MY GOD, this young man has bone cancer.”
Once all of that got cleared up, they ________ my chemotherapy(化疗) treatments. I was told that I couldn’t ________ like a normal person any more, so ________ was impossible. Basically my ________ was over before it even got started.
I want to share this story with you guys because today I’m 84 kg with 2% body fat. I don’t smoke or drink. I can walk and even run. I’m so ________ to be here and forever to grace life with my presence each day. My dream is to become the “________” to everybody who ever thought about giving up on life because it’s so hard, or just simply not worth living.
1.A. sisters B. brothers C. parents D. cousins
2.A. beat B. climbed C. hit D. tapped
3.A. came over B. came out C. came back D. came to
4.A. recognize B. realize C. recover D. react
5.A. dream B. terror C. illness D. memory
6.A. without B. from C. with D. for
7.A. made B. felt C. found D. nosed
8.A. guessed B. noticed C. believed D. understood
9.A. better B. worse C. stranger D. clearer
10.A. absolutely B. abruptly C. fortunately D. eventually
11.A. that B. when C. where D. what
12.A. treatment B. needs C. recovery D. results
13.A. carried B. followed C. sent D. directed
14.A. flew B. promised C. allowed D. served
15.A. continued B. started C. postponed D. canceled
16.A. work B. walk C. think D. feel
17.A. playing B. stepping C. running D. learning
18.A. plan B. hope C. career D. life
19.A. nervous B. relieved C. curious D. grateful
20.A. inspiration B. instruction C. introduction D. information
Do you struggle to say no? If you can’t ever say no to anybody, then your relationships are not healthy.
1.. Imagine that you are a confident person who marries a very aggressive person. You love your partner very much, so when he or she suggests that you both move to an isolated (偏远的) island, you say yes.
Then you spend ten years on the island with your partner and you don’t see anybody else. 2., shouting at you and calling you stupid. You try to change your behaviour to avoid getting shouted at, so after a while you never do anything that you want to do. 3.. After ten years you return to the mainland. You are no longer a confident person because you have forgotten how to be yourself.
That is how our relationships with others can shape who we are in a bad way. Does this sound like you?
4.. An aggressive person uses dominating(专横的) behaviour to get what he or she wants without thinking of others. An assertive person is someone who is able to say what they want but also respect what others want. You could say that being assertive is about being true to yourself and who you are.
But being assertive doesn’t mean that you have to say what you want all the time. 5., you don’t have to stop in order to be true to yourself. Maybe your truth is that you are happy to sometimes do things you dislike if doing them helps other people.
A.You partner is very aggressive
B.Relationships shape who we are
C.Learning to deal with different relationships is important
D.Being assertive(坚定自信的) is not the same as being aggressive
E.Your entire life is about avoiding being shouted at
F.You often feel depressed because of her aggressive behavior
G.For example, if you strongly dislike playing chess every week with your recently divorced friend
The American self-image is spread with the golden glow of opportunity. We think of the United States as a land of unlimited possibility, not so much a classless society but as a place where class is mutable(可变的) -- a place where brains, energy and ambition are what count, not the environment of one’s birth. However, we are not who we think we are.
The Economic Mobility Project, an ambitious research led by Pew Charitable Trusts, looked at the economic fortunes of a large group of families over time, comparing the income of parents in the late 1960s with the income of their children in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Here is the finding: The “rags to riches” story is much more common in Hollywood than on Main Street. Only 6 percent of children born to parents with family income at the very bottom move to the top.
That is right, just 6 percent of children born to parents who ranked in the bottom of the study sample, in terms of income, were able to bootstrap their way into the top. Meanwhile, an incredible 42 percent of children born into that lowest are still stuck at the bottom, having been unable to climb a single rung of the income ladder.
It is noted that even in Britain -- a nation we think of as burdened with a hidebound(顽固的，死板的) class system(阶层体系) -- children who are born poor have a better chance of moving up. When the studies were released, most reporters focused on the finding that African-Americans born to middle-class or upper middle-class families are earning slightly less, in inflation-adjusted(扣除通胀后的) dollars, than did their parents.
One of the studies indicates, in fact, that most of the financial gains white families have made in the past three decades can be attributed to(归功于) the entry of white women into the labor force. This is much less true for African-Americans.
The picture that emerges is of a nation in which, overall, “the current generation of adults is better off than the previous one”, as one of the studies notes.
The median(中值的) income of the families in the sample group was $55,600 in the late 1960s; their children’s median family income was measured at $71,900. However, this rising tide has not lifted all boats equally. The rich have seen far greater income gains than have the poor.
Even more troubling is that our nation of America as the land of opportunity gets little support from the data. Americans move fairly easily up and down the middle rungs(横档) of the ladder, but there is “stickiness at the ends” -- four out of ten children who are born poor will remain poor, and four out of ten who are born rich will stay rich.
1.What did the Economic Mobility Project find in its research?
A. Children from low-income families are unable to move up to the top.
B. Hollywood actors and actresses can get rich easily.
C. The rags to riches story is more fiction than reality.
D. The rags to riches story is only true for a small minority of whites.
2.According to the passage, the author probably agrees that America should____.
A. perfect its self-image as a land of opportunity
B. have a lower level of upward mobility than Britain
C. enable African-Americans to earn more than whites
D. encourage the current generation to work harder than their parents
3.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The US is a land where brains, energy and ambition are what count
B. Inequality remains between whites and blacks in financial gains.
C. Middle-class families earn slightly less with inflation considered.
D. Children in lowest-income families manage to climb a single rung of the ladder.
4.What might be the best title for this passage?
A. Social Upward Mobility. B. Incredible Income Gains.
C. Inequality in Wealth. D. America Not Land of Opportunity
Self-driving vehicles will rely on cameras, sensors(传感器) and artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize and respond to road and traffic conditions, but sensing is the most effective for objects and movement in the neighborhood of the vehicle. Not everything important in a car’s environment will be caught by the vehicle’s camera. Another vehicle approaching at high speed on a collision (碰撞) track might not be visible until it’s too late. This is why vehicle-to-vehicle communication is undergoing rapid development. Our research shows that cars will need to be able to chat and cooperate on the road, although the technical challenges are considerable.
Applications for vehicle-to-vehicle communication range from vehicles driving together in a row, to safety messages about nearby emergency vehicles. Vehicles could alert each other to avoid collisions or share notices about passers-by and bicycles.
From as far as several hundred metres away, vehicles could exchange messages with one another or receive information from roadside units（RSUs）about nearby incidents or dangerous road conditions through 4G network. A high level of AI seems required for such vehicles, not only to self-drive from A to B, but also to react intelligently to messages received. Vehicles will need to plan, reason, strategize(制定策略) and adapt in the light of information received in real time and to carry out cooperative behaviours. For example, a group of autonomous vehicles might avoid a route together because of potential risks, or a vehicle could decide to drop someone off earlier due to messages received, a foreseen crowding ahead.
Further applications of vehicle-to-vehicle communication are still being researched, including how to perform cooperative behaviour.
1.What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A. The reasons for the accidents by self-driving vehicles.
B. The importance of artificial intelligence of self-driving vehicles.
C. The reasons for developing communication between self-driving vehicles.
D. The research about applications for self-driving vehicles.
2.What does the underlined word “alert” mean in Paragraph 2?
A. Alarm. B. Blame.
C. Ignore. D. Govern.
3.What can we learn about roadside units (RSUs)?
A. They recognize the vehicles on the road.
B. They can improve bad road conditions.
C. They take control of the passing vehicles.
D. They serve as efficient information stations.
4.What is the main idea of the text?
A. Different kinds of vehicle communication.
B. Importance of high level AI.
C. Vehicle-to-vehicle communication.
D. Ways to improve our communication with vehicles.
Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future but with no real idea of what I wanted to do. My degree, with honors, in English literature had not really prepared me for anything practical. I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s when I learned about the Lighthouse Project.
I started my journey as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous volunteers. I knew it would be a lot of hard work, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time. In short, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project lightly. Neither did my family.
Eventually, however, I won the support of my family, and I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to stand out among the candidates(候选人) and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me to report for the duty. I would be going to a small village near Abuja, Nigeria. Where? What? Nigeria? I had no idea. But I was about to find out.
After completing my training, I was sent to the village that was small and desperately in need of proper accommodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they offered their homes, hearts, and food as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I taught in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes think I learned more from my students than they did from me.
Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longer did, though I did not get anywhere with the local language, and returned to the United States a different man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my life forever.
1.What do we know about the author in Paragraph 1?
A. His college degree focused on something not so practical.
B. His dream at university was to become a volunteer.
C. He took pride in having contributed to the world.
D. He didn’t like English literature.
2.According to Paragraph 2, it is most likely that the author____.
A. didn’t tell his family about his decision
B. asked previous volunteers about voluntary work
C. attended special training to perform difficult tasks
D. felt sad about having to leave his family and friends
3.In his application for the volunteer job, the author____.
A. went through challenging survival tests
B. participated in many interviews
C. wrote quite a few papers on voluntary work
D. faced strong competition from other candidates
4.What can we infer from the author’s experiences in Nigeria?
A. He had learned to communicate in the local language.
B. He found some difficulty adapting to the local culture.
C. He had overcome all his weaknesses before he left for home.
D. He was chosen as the most respectable teacher by his students.
