And then she _____ the most welcome sentence I had ever heard at that mean-spirited place.
A、came across as
B、came out with
C、came up with
D、came in for
A、came across as
B、came out with
C、came up with
D、came in for
A. She appreciated the man's help.
B. Her presentation was somewhat long.
C. She needed more time to prepare.
D. She worked hard on her presentation.
What kind of person does the writer seem to be? ()
A.She is mainly interested in making money.
B. She thinks running a business a different job.
C. She seems to be successful but unhappy.
D. She seems to be someone with strong confidence.
Why did she ask her teachers to teach her at home?
A.She was busier than before.
B.It was more convenient.
C.She liked to exercise at home.
D.She was given a promotion.
The Li Yuchun phenomena, however, goes far beyond her 【S1】______
voice, which even if the most enthusiastic fans admit is pretty 【S2】______
weak. As a dancer, she's not much better. Hei Nan, one of the
event's judges, told the Guangzhou Daily that Li was "the worst
of the top six in terms of singing skills", so noted that she reaped 【S3】______
the most audience votes.
That Li did possess was attitude, originality and a proud 【S4】______
androgyny (双性性格) that challenged Chinese norms. During
the tryouts, Li wore loose jeans and a black button-down shirt,
with no make-up. She auditioned (预演) with In My Heart
There's Only You, Never Her, an oldie (老歌) made famously 【S5】______
by Liu Wenzheng a man. In the main competition she sang
other songs written for female performers and called herself "a 【S6】______
tomboy". For an ordinary Chinese audience, Li's disregard for
the rule book produced an unfamiliar knee-weakening. Her fans
wept openly and frantically shrieked when Li took the stage.
Li's victory was unusual in other. ways. "Super Girl's Voice"
is run democratically. Eight million of SMS votes flooded in 【S7】______
on the night of the finale. For a few weeks after, the mainland
press debated the relevance of this format. "Only something
that smashes social norms could elicit such a response," Yu
Guoming, a media expert at People's University, told the Beijng
News. "After all, the opportunities to use votes to choose in
such events are relative few." An editorial in the China Daily 【S8】______
wondered: "How come an imitation of a democratic system
ends up selecting the singer has the least ability to carry a me?" 【S9】______
But she is more: Li represents un-embarrassed individuality, and
that' s how she's a national icon. 【S10】______
【S1】
根据下列文章,请回答 41~45 题。 Controlling Robots with the Mind
Belle, our tiny monkey, was seated in her special chair inside A cha mber at our Duke University lab. Her right hand grasped a joystick (操纵杆) as she watched A horizontal series of lights on adisplay panel. She knew that if alight suddenly sho, ne and she moved the joystick left or right to correspond to its position, she would be sent adrop of fruit juice into her mouth.
Belle wore A cap glued to her head. Under it were four plastic connectors, which fed arrays of microwires - each wire finer than the finest sewing thread- into different regions of Belle's motor cortex, the brain tissue that plans movements and sends instructions. Each of the 100 microwires lay beside A single motor neuron (神经元) When aneuron produced an electrical discharge, the adjacent microwire would capture the current and send it up through asmall wiring bundle that ran from Belle's cap to A box of electronics on A table next to the booth. The box, in turn, was linked to two computers, one next door and the other half acountry a way.
After months of hard work, we were about to test the ide athat we could reliably translate the ra w electrical activity in aliving being's brain - Belle's mere thoughts - into signals that could direct the actions of arobot. We had assembled a multi jointed robot arm in this room, a way from Belle's view, which she would control for the first time. As soon as Belle's brain sensed alit spot on the panel, electronics in the box running two real-time mathematical models would rapidly analyze the tiny action potentials produced by her brain cells. Our lab computer would convert the electrical patterns into instructions that would direct the robot arm。 Six hundred miles north, in Ca mbridge, Mass, adifferent computer would produce the sa me actions in another robot arm built by Mandaya m A. Srinivasan, If we had done everything correctly, the two robot arms would beha ve as Belle's arm did, at exactly the sa me time.
Finally the moment ca me. We randomly switched on lights in front of Belle, and she immediately moved her joystick back and forth to correspond to them. Our robot arm moved similarly to Belle's real arm. So did Srinivasan's. Belle and the robots moved in synchrony (同步), like dancers choreographed (设计舞蹈动作) by the electrical impulses sparking in Belle's mind.
In the two years since that day, our labs and several others ha ve advanced neuroscience, computer science and microelectronics to create ways for rats, monkeys and eventually humans to control mechanical and electronic machines purely by"thinking through," or ima gining, the motions. Our immediate goal is to help A person who has been unable to move by A neurological (神经的) disorder or spinal cord (脊髓) injury,but whose motor cortex is spared, to operate A wheelchair or A robotic limb.
第11题:Belle would be fed some fruit juice if she
A.grasped the joystick.
B.moved the joystick to the side of the light.
C.sat quietly in A special chair.
D.watched lights on A display panel.
听力原文:M: Hi, Clare.
W: Hello, Alan, how are you?
M: I'm fine, where are you going?
W: Oh, I'm on my way home from work.
M: I didn't know you had a job.
W: Yeah. I got a part-time job at the supermarket.
M: What do you do there?
W: I work in the produce section, cleaning and wrapping fresh fruits and vegetables. Sometimes when it really gets busy, I work at the check-out counter. Have you got a job, Alan?
M: Yeah, I do yard work for people. You know, cutting grass, pruning trees, planting flowers, things like that.
W: I'd like doing that. It must be nice to work outdoors.
M: Sometimes it is, except when it rains, snows or gets too hot or too cold.
W: I guess every job has its drawbacks. There are times when I get pretty tired of carrying things around at my job. A job is a job. Got to earn money for school.
M: Me too, tuition sure is high, isn't it? Well, I'd better go now I have to plant some trees for my neighbors this afternoon.
W: Well, don't work too hard, holding a job, going to class, studying, sometimes can become mo much for one person. Take it easy.
M: You too. it was great seeing you. Clare.
(20)
A.She was going to the supermarket where she worked.
B.She was going home from the supermarket.
C.She was going to a store to buy some groceries.
D.She was returning to school.
An Observation and an Explanation
It is worth looking at one or two aspects of the way a mother behaves towards her baby. The usual fondling, cuddling and cleaning require little comment, but the position in which she holds the baby against her body when resting is rather revealing. Careful studies have shown the fact that 80 percent of mothers hold their infants in their left arms, holding them against the left side of their bodies. If asked to explain the significance of this preference most people reply that it is obviously the result of the predominance of right-handedness in the population. By holding the babies in their left arms, the mothers keep their dominant arm free for manipulations. But a detailed analysis shows that this is not the case. True, there is a slight difference between right-handed and left-handed females; but not enough to provide adequate explanation. It emerges that 83 percent of right-handed mothers hold the baby on the left side, but so do 78 percent of left-handed mothers. In other words, only 22 percent of the left-handed mothers have their dominant hands free for actions. Clearly there must be some other, less obvious explanation.
The only other clue comes from the fact that the heart is on the side of the mother's body. Could it be that the sound of her heartbeat is the vital factor? And in what way? Thinking along these lines it was argued that perhaps during its existence inside the body of the mother the unborn baby get used to the sound of the heart beat. If this is so, then the re-discovery of this familiar sound after birth might have a claiming effect on the infant, especially as it has just been born into a strange and frighteningly new world. If this is so then the mother would, somehow, soon arrive at the discovery that her baby is more at peace if held on the left against her heart than on the right.
16. We can learn a lot by observing the position in which a mother holds her baby against her body.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
Working an eight-hour day is a luxury for most professional people. Nowadays, the only way to guarantee an eight-hour working day is to have the kind of job where you clock on and off. Those professionals who have managed to limit their hours to what was, ~0 years ago, the average do not wish to identify themselves. "I can quite easily achieve my work within a normal day, but I don"t like to draw attention to it," says one sales manager."People looked at me when I leave at 5 o"clock. Now, I put paperwork in my bag. People assume I"m doing extra hours at home. "
But more typical is Mark, who works as an account manager. He says, "My contract says I work from 9 until 5 with extra hours as necessary. It sounds as if the extra hours are exceptional. In fact, my job would be enough not only for me, but also for someone else part- time. The idea of an eight-hour day makes me laugh!" He says he has thought about going freelance but realizes that this doesn"t guarantee better working hours.
Professors Cary Cooper, occupational psycholo- gist at the University of Manchester, is the author of the annual Quality of Working Life survey. The most recent survey found that 77% of managers in Britain work more than their contracted hours, and that this is having a damaging effect on their health, relationships and productivity. Professor Cooper is critical of the long-hours culture. He says that while bosses believe long hours lead to greater efficiency, there is no evidence to support this. "In fact, the evidence shows that long hours make you ill. "
There am, he says, steps that can be taken. One is to accept that the in-tray will never be empty."There are always things to do. You just have to make the rule that on certain days you go home early. " Prioritising work and doing essential tasks first helps, he says. He also thinks it"s time to criticize bad employers and unreasonable terms of employment. " By all means, show commitment where necessary but when expectations are too high, people have to begin saying openly that they have a life outside of work. "
Personal development coach Mo Shapiro agrees that communication is important. Staff need to talk to managers about the working practices within a company. Both parties should feel that the expectations are realistic and allow them to have responsibilities and interests outside work. She recongnises, however, that in many organizations the response might well be, "If you want more interests outside work, then find another job. "
She believes that senior staff have a duty to set an example. "I recently worked for a finn of solicitors where the partners started at 7:30 a. m. What kind of message is that to send to the staff?" She believes there is no shame in working sensible hours in fact quite the reserve."Some people might be in at 7. 30 am but will be doing very little. You can work really hard from9 to 5 and achieve the same. If you find it difficult to achieve an eight-hour day, there is, as a last resort, the old trick of leaving your jacket on your chair and your computers switched on, even after you have left the building. "
What does the writer say in the first paragraph about people who work an eight-hour day? 查看材料
A.They are reluctant to admit to this.
B.They are disliked by their colleagues.
C.They are limited to certain professions.
D.They often catch up on work in the evenings.
根据下面资料,回答题
Morning,NoonandNight The long-hours culture at work
Working an eight-hour day is a luxury for most professional people. Nowadays, the only way to guarantee an eight-hour working day is to have a kind of job where you clock on and off. Those professionals who have managed to limit their hours to what was, 20 years ago, averagely do not wish to identify themselves. "1 can quite easily achieve my work within a normal day, but I don"t like to draw attention to it," says one sales manager. "People looked at me when I left at 5 o"clock. Now, I put paperwork in my bag. People assume I"m doing extra hours at home."
But more typical is Mark, who works as an account manager. He says, "My contract says I work from 9 until 5 with extra hours as necessary. It sounds as if the extra hours are exceptional. In fact, my job would be enough not only for me, but also for someone else part- time. The idea of an eight-hour day makes me laugh!" He says he has thought about going freelance but realizes that this doesn"t guarantee better working hours.
Professor Cary Cooper, occupational psychologist at the University of Manchester, is the author of the annual Quality of Working, Life survey. The most recent survey found that 77% of managers in Britain work more than their contracted hours, and that this is having a damaging effect for their health, relationships and productivity. Professor Cooper is critical of the long-hour culture. He says that while bosses believe long hours lead to greater efficiency, there is no evidence support this. "In fact, the evidence shows that long hours make you ill." There are, he says, steps that can be taken. One is to accept that the in-tray will never be empty. "There are always things to do. You just have to make the rule that on certain days you go home early. Prioritizing work and doing essential tasks first helps," he says. He also thinks it"s time to criticize bad employers and unreasonable terms of employment. By all means, show commitment where necessary but when expectations are too high, people have to begin saying openly that they have a life outside of work.
Personal development coach Mo Shapiro agrees that communication is important. Staff needs to talk to managers about the working practices within a company. Both parties should feel that the expectations are realistic and allow them to have responsibilities and interests outside work. She recognizes, however, that in many organizations the response might well be, "If you want interests outside work, then find another job".
She believes that senior staff has a duty to set an example. "1 recently worked for a firm of solicitors where the partners started at 7:30 am. What kind of message is that to send to the staff?" She believes there is no shame in working sensible hours - in fact quite the reverse."Some people might be in at 7:30 but will be doing very little. You can work really hard from9 to 5 and achieve the same. If you find it difficult to achieve an eight-hour day, there is, as a last resort, the old trick of leaving your jacket on your chair and your computer switched on, even after you have left the building.
What does the writer say in the first paragraph about people who work an eight-hour day? 查看材料
A. They are reluctant to admit to this.
B. They are disliked by their colleagues.
C. They are limited to certain professions.
D. They often catch up on work in the evenings.
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