intelligent(人工智能). Now the police station has Lamborghini, Ferrari and Bentley patrol cars pared in its garage. The officer droids(机器人), which still lac an official name, are the first of their ind in the United Arab Emirates
(阿联酉). They were made public a few years ago, but now they’re ready for duty.
The droids will not only wear pleasant and non-threatening facial epressions, but also eercise some mechanical(机械的)manners as well. They can greet people in Arabic and English, shae hands, salute(向……
敬礼)fellow officers, and will even scan faces from a distance of 60 feet. Touch screens are built in their
bodies ,and can be used by citiens to report crimes, request help, or pay traffic ticets. Microphones in the robot’s chests send records directly to Dubai police call centers. The droids also have scanner with a 30-foot range to monitor the surroundings. If some people want to spoil(破坏)them, droids will give a warning and strie bac. A game of tip-the-officer-droid isn’t liely. Bad guys, be warned. Al Raouqi, the General Director of Dubai's Smart Services Police Force program, told Gulf News that officer droids are just one part of a high-tech plan to mae Dubai one of the safest cities in the world. “By 2030, we will have the first smart police station which won’t require human employees.” 28. What can we learn from Paragraph 1? A. The droids have been on duty in Dubai. B. The droids were named a few years ago. C. Dubai officials are confident of the droids’ future.
D. Police force in Dubai will all be artificial intelligent by 2030. 29. What can we now about droids? A. They can chat with humans freely. B. They don't have friendly facial epressions. C. They can understand many different languages. D. They are connected to local police call centers. 30. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean? A. Officer droids lie playing games very much. B. It is impossible to noc down officer droids. C. Bad guys are advised to behave lie officer droids. D. It is interesting to design games for officer droids.
31. According to Al Raouqi, the purpose of the high-tech plan is to __________. A. improve the security level of the city B. attract more tourists from the world to Dubai C. mae Dubai the smartest city in the world D. reduce the heavy burdens on human police officer
D
Dreams are not just a product of the processing of information that our brain conducts while we sleep. It is from dreams that some of the greatest inventions have become a reality.
Tae for eample the famous chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, it was in his dream that he figured out how to place all the elements on a periodical table. Srinivasa Ramanujan discovered thousands of mathematical equations(方程式)from his dreams. Rene Descartes, the man who built much of the framewor of the modern scientific method
mentioned that the basis of the method came to him in a dream.
These are just a few eamples of how people got the answers to some of the most comple questions from their dreams. Our subconscious(潜意识的)mind eeps trying to give us answers to questions we may struggle with, and many of these answers come to us in the form of dreams. However, most of us may struggle with recalling them.
Here is a very simple eercise that can help you recall your dreams. Before going to bed, for at least 24 days (It taes around 24 days to form a habit), eep telling yourself that “I will remember all my dreams”. At first, you may not see any results at all, but don’t be affected by that. Just eep doing it. After some time you will notice that vague(模糊的)memories of your dreams will stay in your mind when you wae up. These may be forgotten after a while, so mae a note of it on your mobile phone or in a boo.
Now the fun doesn’t just stop there. Try to understand what your dreams mean; see if it applies to something that is happening in your everyday life. Many of the problems we struggle with have already been solved in our amaing mind. It is all loced away in our subconsciousness waiting to be discovered. These answers come to us in the form of dreams.
32. The eamples given in Paragraph 2 show that ______. A. successful people often dream B. dreams can help solve problems C. famous people wor hard at night D. great inventions are based on hard wor
33. According to the tet, most people have trouble ______. A. realiing their dreams
B. continuing their dreams D. remembering their dreams
B. eep it in mind
C. waing from their dreams A. forget it
34. When you recall a dream, you are advised to ______. C. share it with others A. Why do People Dream
D. mae a record of it
B. Inventions and Inventors D. How to Remember Dreams
35. Which of the following can be the best title for the tet? C. The Power of Your Dreams
第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to choose a good boo
You love reading and you’re dying to get your hands on a boo. But you’ve read all your boos four times, and tired of reading the same ones. You’re planning to go to the library, but don’t now what ind of boos to get. 36
Mae a list of answering these questions.
What genre(类型)of boos do you lie? Sci-fi, adventure, mystery, non-fiction, fiction or realistic fiction? What authors do you lie? Research boos by the authors you’ve enjoyed in the past. 37 And by searching by authors, you can get more of the same types of boos that the authors wrote.
Is there a type of boo, or a specific boo you would lie to try? If there is, search the boo and read its summary. This will help you decide if the boo is right for you.
38 You can as your older sibling(兄弟姐妹), your parents, your best friend, or even your English teacher. Friends or family with whom you have things in common can often mae ecellent boo recommendations(推
荐). Local, small boostores often have wonderful recommendations, and when they get to now you, it’s even better!
Read boo reviews in newspapers and magaines. Read the bestseller lists published in most newspapers or weely magaines. 39 Join a boo club. Being a boo club member is often a way to eperience new boos you might never have had the motivation to read otherwise. Joining a boo club helps you now who else lies the same boos as you. 40 A. Search your house.
B. As someone to suggest a good boo.
C. In fact, with the right nowledge, it’s easy to choose a good boo. D. Find out which new boos are maing headlines, and why.
E. Chances are that they’ll have other publications that you'll also enjoy. F. You can find some boos that you can read and won’t cost you any money. G. Also you can read boos that others have read and discuss them with other readers. 第三部分
语言知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When I was eleven years old, my family moved to a new home on the top of a mountain. It was a 41 house, but life was a little hard there. We could only get 42 from a nearby spring(泉水)and the only 43 of heat was a wood stove in the itchen. My Dad had become 44 with a bac injury so it was up to me and my brother to chop wood for the stove and 45 home five-gallon containers of drining water every day. I 46 both chores(家务活)and avoided them whenever I could. For the first few years there, my brother did most of the 47 .
When he left home for the army, 48 , it was up to me to 49 these chores. At first I 50 a lot, but after a while I found that I didn’t 51 doing them at all. Maybe I became 52 or maybe I was becoming a little less spoiled(被宠坏的). All I 53 was that it felt good to be able to help Mom and Dad. It made me feel alive, 54 and closer to my parents even while 55 was (were) dropping from my face.
Though many years have passed, I still 56 those boyhood chores. It isn’t the wor that matters. It is the way you 57 when you do the wor that matters. In this life we are all going to have 58 wor of one ind or another. It can bring us misery(痛苦)or 59 . When we do our wor with all our 60 , it becomes a gift that we give to ourselves and others. 41. A. cheap 43. A. source 44. A. busy 45. A. find 47. A. tass
B. lovely B. gas B. loss
C. special C. water C. end
C. annoyed C. save C. hated C. choices
D. comfortable D. heat D. change D. disabled D. store D. challenged D. responsibilities
D. lucily
42. A. electricity
B. disappointed B. carry B. shared
46. A. performed 48. A. besides
B. opportunities
B. however
C. surprisingly
49. A. give in to 50. A. shouted 51. A. mind 52. A. proud 53. A. epected 54. A. happy 55. A. concerns 56. A. suggest 57. A. pretend 59. A. joy
B. put up B. miss B. required B. nervous B. fear
C. tae over
C. imagine C. serious C. new C. curious C. tears
D. come up with
D. complained D. enjoy D. generous D. promised D. surprised D. sweat
D. remember D. spea D. decision
B. wept C. whispered
B. grown-up
B. refuse B. feel
C. recognie C. behave
C. comfort
58. A. dangerous 60. A. care
B. great B. heart
C. hard C. patience
D. creative D. ease
B. choice
第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Debbi is afraid of heights. She never planned to tae 61 ride in a hot air balloon. The idea of 62 (go) up hundreds of feet into the air frightened her. But last Saturday the ban 63 Debbi wors offered hot air balloon rides to its employees. The rides were free. So she decided to go ballooning. Debbi got a new view of Illinois!
“I loved riding in a hot air balloon. It was 64 (complete) different from anything else I’ve ever done. It was so eciting 65 I lost my fear of heights,” Debbi said.
Balloon rides are for people who want to have a new ind of eperience. Hot air ballooning 66 (be) usually done in the early morning or late afternoon. That is when there is not much wind. People who want to ride in a hot air balloon have to be 67 (patience). Weather conditions are very important. Sometimes you have to wait 68 the weather conditions to change. The ride taes about an hour. Then the pilot loos for a place 69 (land) the balloon. A car follows the balloon. The car meets the balloon when it lands.
Debbi felt very proud of 70 (she) after her first ride. In fact, she went up three times on Saturday! 第四部分
写作(共三节,满分35分)
第一节 完成句子(共8小题,20空;每空0.5分,满分10分) 71. 我们可以得出一个结论:在竞争社会中,合作和团队极为重要。
We may __________ __________ __________ that cooperation and team wor really count in this competitive society.
72. 汤姆一向乐于助人,值得赞扬。
__________ __________ __________, Tom is always ready to help others. 73. 王子试图在后面追逐灰姑娘,但是他看不见她了。
The prince tried to chase after Cinderella but he __________ __________ __________ her. 74. 我们的团队已经就位了。
We have already had our team __________ __________. 75. 我们碰巧选了同一个话题。
We chose the same topic __________ __________.