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1、每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。ALike any college student, Connor Cox was excited when he received a package from home. He assumed it was filled with food and other goodies. He toreopen the box and, indeed, found a surprise inside: garbage. It turned out that hed left home without taki

2、ng out the trash as hed promised his mother, so she mailed it to him. Source: A Florida man drove his 24-year-old daughter to a job interview. When she came back to the car with a large amount of cash, he figured shed gotten the job and this was her advance （预付钱）. Not quite. Unbeknown to the man, he

3、 had become his daughters getaway driver in her fifthand finalbank robbery.Source: Sun SentinelAn American French with his child made a trip to have the car washed. After he got home in Massachusetts, the six-year-old called 911 to report a crime. The perpetrator （犯罪者） was his father. The criminal a

4、ct? Dad ran a red light. Even though he was brought to light by his own kid, the father talked his way out of a ticket.Source: CBS BostonA grandfather labeled his three-month-old grandson a terrorist. A question on the visa waiver （放弃） to get into America asks Britons if theyve ever engaged in “robb

5、ery, murder, terrorism.” In filling out the form for his grandson, Paul Kenyon carelessly checked yes. After explaining the mess to the American embassy, some Kenyon family members missed their flight to Orlando because they had to wait for the babys visa to arrive in the mail.Source: Guardian21. Wh

6、at did Connor Cox find when he opened the package?A. Waste things.B. Food and sweets.C. A wooden box. D. Winter clothes.22. What does the underlined part in Paragraph Three probably mean?A. The father got a ticket.B. The father lost his way.C. The father didnt get fined. D. The father talked a lot w

7、ith his son.23. Why did Kenyon family members miss their flight?A. Because they had to wait for the babys visa.B. Because they failed to take visas with them.C. Because the flight was controlled by terrorists.D. Because they wanted to change other flights.24. What do the four stories have in common?

8、A. They all happened in America.B. They all came from the internet.C. They were all surprising and interesting.D. They all happened between parents and children.BTwo of the saddest words in the English language are “if only”. I live my life with the goal of never having to say those words, because t

9、hey convey regret, lost opportunities, mistakes, and disappointment.My father is famous in our family for saying, “Take the extra minute to do it right.” I always try to live by the “extra minute” rule. When my children were young and likely to cause accidents, I always thought about what I could do

10、 to avoid an “if only” moment, whether it was something minor like moving a cup full of hot coffee away from the edge of a counter, or something that required a little more work such as taping padding（衬垫） onto the sharp corners of a glass coffee table.I dont only avoid those “if only” moments when i

11、t comes to safety. Its equally important to avoid “if only” in our personal relationships. We all know people who lost a loved one and regretted that they had forgone an opportunity to say “I love you” or “I forgive you”. When my father announced he was going to the eye doctor across from my office

12、on Good Friday, I told him that it was a holiday for my company and I wouldnt be here. But then I thought about the fact that hes 84 years old and I realized that I shouldnt miss an opportunity to see him. I called him and told him I had decided to go to work on my day off after all.I know there wil

13、l still be occasions when I have to say if only about something, but my life is definitely better because of my policy of doing everything possible to avoid that eventuality. And even though it takes an extra minute to do something right, or it occasionally takes an hour or two in my busy schedule t

14、o make a personal connection, I know that Im doing the right thing. Im buying myself peace of mind and thats the best kind of insurance for my emotional well-being.25. Why does the writer regard “if only” as two of the saddest words in the English language?A. Because people use them when they feel s

15、ad.B. Because they express regret and disappointment in life.C. Because they remind the writer of some sad experiences.D. Because they mean sad in the English language.26. Whats the meaning of the underlined word “foregone” in Paragraph 3?A. Given up. B. Come across.C. Got through. D. Held back.27.

16、The author decided to go to her office on Good Friday to .A. see a doctor B. finish her workC. join a celebration D. accompany her father28. What is the best title for the passage?A. Advice from My FatherB. Avoidance of Saying “If Only”C. The “Extra Minute” RuleD. The Importance of Emotional Well-be

17、ingCYoull probably never go to Mars or sing on the stage with the Rolling Stones. But if virtual reality （VR） ever lives up to its promise, you might be able to do all these things and many more without even leaving your home. Unlike real reality, virtual reality means simulating bits of our world.

18、Apart from games and entertainment, its long been used for training airline pilots and surgeons and for helping scientists to figure out complex problems such as the structure of protein molecules （分子）. Then how does it work?Close your eyes and think of virtual reality and you probably picture somet

19、hing like this: a man wearing a wrap-around headset and data gloves wired into a powerful workstation or supercomputer. What distinguishes VR from an ordinary computer experience is the nature of the input and output. Where an ordinary computer uses things like a keyboard, mouse, or speech recogniti

20、on for input, VR uses sensors that detect how your body is moving. And where a PC displays output on a screen, VR uses two screens （one for each eye）, surround-sound speakers, and maybe some forms of touch and body feedback as well.VR has been routinely used by scientists, doctors, dentists, enginee

21、rs, architects,archaeologists, and the military for about the last 30 years. Difficult and dangerous jobs are hard to train for. How can you safely practice taking a trip to space, making a parachute jump, or carrying out brain surgery? Al these things are obvious candidates for virtual reality appl

22、ications.Like any technology, virtual reality has both good and bad points. Critics always raise the risk that people may be addicted to alternative realities to the point of ignoring their real-world lives but that criticism has been leveled at everything from radio and TV to computer games and the

23、 Internet. Like many technologies, VR takes little or nothing away from the real world: you dont have to use it if you dont want to.29. Paragraph 3 is mainly about . the principles of virtual realityB. the applications of virtual realityC. the history of virtual realityD. the influences of virtual r

24、eality30. According to the passage, virtual reality means .A. imagining beautiful things in our mindB. creating something that doesnt existC. experiencing things that dont really existD. cloning something that has died out31. What is the writers attitude towards VR?A. Appreciative. B. Cautious.C. Sk

25、eptical.D. Indifferent.DAccording to new research from the University of Cambridge in England, sheep are able to recognize human faces from photographs.The farm animals, who are social and have large brains, were previously known to be able to recognize one another, as well as familiar humans. Howev

26、er, their ability to recognize human faces from photos alone is novel.The recent study, the results of which were published in the journal Royal Society: Open Science. Show the woolly creatures could be trained to recognize still images of human faces, including those of former President Barack Obam

27、a and actress Emma Watson.Initially, the sheep were trained lo approach certain images by being given food rewards. Later, they were able to recognize the images for which they had been rewarded. The sheep could even recognize images of faces shown at an angle, though their ability to do so declined

28、 by about 15 percent the same rate at which a humans ability to perform the same task declines.“Anyone who has spent time working with sheep will know that they are intelligent, individual animals who are able to recognize their handlers,” said Professor Jenny Morton, who led the Cambridge study. “W

29、eve shown with our study that sheep have advanced face-recognition abilities, comparable with those of humans and monkeys.”Recognizing faces is one of the most important social skills for human beings, and some disorders of the brain, including Huntingtons disease, affect this ability.“Sheep are lon

30、g-lived and have brains that are similar in size and complexity to those of some monkeys. That means they can be useful models to help us understand disorders of the brain, such as Huntingtons disease, that develop over a long time and affect cognitive abilities. Our study gives us another way to mo

31、nitor how these abilities change,” Morton said.32. According to the new research, whats unusual about sheep?A. They have large brains.B. They can recognize their owners.C. They can tell animals from humans.D. They can recognize human faces from photographs.33. How did the researchers train the sheep?A. By guiding them to follow their handlers.B. By giving food rewards.C. By showing photos of humans and monkeys by turns.D. By showing photos of famous people.34. What can be inferred from the passage?A. Sheep have a higher face-recognition ability than mon