1、 Mexico/1962(black and white) Introduction: A party is organized in a high class society house. Many people are drinking and eating. Its getting late, but nobody is leaving. Even though the door is open, people seem to be locked in the house. They cant leave either the day or on the following days.
2、So a rescue began. The Net Irwin Winkler USA/1995 Angela Bennettt is a computer programmer who has devoted her life to computers and the Internet. She spends hours and hours in front of the screen. She does everything over the Internet, and she has some close friends in a chat room, though she has n
3、ever talked to her neighbors. Kung Fu Panda Mark Osborne & John Stevenson Mexico/2008 The leading character is a panda whose name is Po. He is lazy first but he has a great dream-to be a kung fu master. To make his dream come true, he goes to a faraway temple to learn kung fu from a master. However,
4、 one of his brothers, Tai Long wants to become the kung fu master, killing many of his brothers even the master. So Po fights against Tai Long and defeats him. The film is good especially for kids. Life is Beautiful Roberto Benigni Italy/1998 In 1939, during World War II in Italy, Guido, a hopeful m
5、an, the main character fell in love with Dora, and they got married. Five years later, their lives changed. Guido and Joshua were taken by Nazis(纳粹) to a concentration camp and Dora also went there with her husband and son. At that place, Guido tried his best to save his sons life in a special way.2
6、1Who is the director of The Net ?ALuis Bunuel BMark Osborne CIrwin Winkler DRoberto Benigni22Which film is black and white?AThe Net B. The Exterminating Angel CKung Fu Panda DLife is Beautiful23Which film is especially fit for kids?AThe Exterminating Angel B. Kung Fu Panda C The Net DLife is Beautif
7、ul24What can we learn about Life is Beautiful? A The story is set in World War II. BIt is about a rescue of people who cant leave a house. CIt was made in America in 1995. DThe main character is absorbed in computer.BWhen our daughter, Sandy, belonged to the St. Mark Evangelical Lutheran Girl Pionee
8、rs in sixth grade, the leaders thought it would be nice if the girls made pine cone wreaths for their families as Christmas gifts. So the group gathered pine cones, put them in water and bought wire wreath frames and adhesive(黏合剂) to hold everything in place. A few days before Christmas, they and th
9、eir leaders delivered the finished handiwork.Through the years, we proudly hung up her wreath each Christmas. In 1986, the wreath was hanging on our door as usual when the temperature on Christmas Day reached 80 degrees. The adhesive began to break down and the pine cones started falling all over ou
10、r front porch. We took the wreath down, planning to repair it, and gathered up the pine cones. That spring, as my husband, Don, was weeding the flower bed in front of our house, he was surprised to discover a small evergreen plant.We decided to leave it alone. The determined tree kept growing, makin
11、g it right through the long winter. When it got too big for the flower bed we moved it to the back of our lot. As the tree grew, so did our family, including four grandchildren. One day the men from the electric company came to trim our trees. One of them said it was a shame that someday our nice ev
12、ergreen would have to be cut down. We just couldnt letthathappen to our faithful if accidental Christmas tree.We decided to move it again, this time to Sandy and her husband Joels new house in the country. My husband helped Joel dig the evergreen out. It wasnt ready to let go without a fight. Finall
13、y, five hours later, the tree came loose. They wrapped the roots as best as they could and put the whole thing in Joels truck. After an hours drive they planted the tree. Im happy to report that our brave evergreen is still growing, now producing pine cones of its own.25.What was a Christmas traditi
14、on for the family?A. Making dishes with pine cones.B. Making wreaths together with Sandy.C. Hanging Sandys handiwork on the door.D. Decorating the Christmas tree together.26.What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?A. What the good old days were like.B. How the family took care of the wreaths.C. What their
15、attitude toward Christmas was.D. How the family treasure came into being.27.Which is the best title for the passage?A. My family tradition B. My daughters growthC.A beloved Christmas tree D.A special pine cone wreathC“At almost any given age,most of us are getting better at some things and worse at
16、others,”Joshua Hartshorne,an MIT cognitive(认知的)science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age,told Business InsiderHis team quizzed thousands of people aged 1090 on their ability to do things like remembering lists of words,recognizing faces,learning
17、names,and doing mathTheir results suggest that no matter your age,theres almost always a new peak on the horizonThe human brain has a remarkable capacity to recognize and identify faces,and scientists are just beginning to learn whyOn average,we know that our ability to learn and remember new faces
18、appears to peak shortly after our 30th birthdayHaving trouble focusing? The study suggests that our ability to maintain attention improves with age,reaching its peak around age 43While younger adults may excel in the speed and flexibility of information processing,adults approaching their mid-years
19、may have the greatest capacity to remain focusedDating is toughOne of the reasons could be that were generally bad at reading other peoples emotions until we reach our late 40sThats according to one component of Hartshornes study,which involved showing thousands of people images of faces cropped tig
20、htly around the eye areaParticipants were asked to describe the emotion the person in the photo was feelingPerformance peaked for people aged around 48Many people believe that their math skills decline after they leave school and stop practicing arithmeticBut the next time you try to split up a chec
21、k,keep this in mind:your ability to do basic subtraction and division doesnt reach its apex until your 50th birthdayEver wonder why you always lose at Scrabble? Good news:Your best days may be aheadAccording to peoples scores on multiplechoice vocabulary tests,most of us dont reach our peak wordsmit
22、hing abilities until were in our late 60s or early 70s28What did the scientists mainly test during the research?ACommunication ability BAthletic abilityCIntelligence ability DReading ability29What does the underlined word“apex”in paragraph 5 mean?ADestination BTop CGoal DMinimum30Who is most likely
23、to succeed according to the text?ALucy,72,trying to win at ScrabbleBTom,26,trying to identify strangers facesCJack,48,trying to focus his attention for a long timeDLily,43,trying to read the emotions in different eyes31What does Hartshornes study mainly tell us?AThere is no end to learningBConstant
24、dropping wears away the stoneCGenius is nothing but labor and diligenceDA foot may prove short while an inch may prove long DA new study has shown how computers and robots powered by artificial intelligence can read human eye movements to “read” human personalities.The eyes, they say, are the window
25、s to the soul. And if that is true, computers and robots powered by sophisticated(复杂的) artificial intelligence algorithms(算法) may soon have the ability to peer into your soul. That is the result of a new study on the connection between eye movements and personality, conducted by neuroscience researc
26、hers based at the University of South Australia and Published in the scientific Journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.“Eye movements during an everyday task predict aspects of our personality,” wrote the researchers, led by University of South Australia neuroscientist Tobias Loetscher, whose team follow
27、s 42 study subjects around the university campus recording their eye movements, then determines their personality traits(特点) with “well-established questionnaires” for determining personality type, according to a summary of the study published by the site Science Daily.The researchers fed the data i
28、nto their Al algorithms and found that computers running the algorithms were able to record human eye movements and immediately determine a persons major personality traits, such as “neuroticism, extraversion(外向), agreeableness, conscientiousness, as well as perceptual(感知的) curiosity”, the scientist
29、s wrote.“The new findings could improve the way human beings interact with their computers and other high-tech devices, even robots, allowing for more natural and realistic social interactions with machines,” Loetscher said.“People are always looking for improved, personalized services. Todays robot
30、s and computers are not socially aware, so they cannot adapt to non-verbal information,” Loetscher said in a statement quoted by Indian Express. This research provides opportunities to develop robots and computers so that they can become more natural, and better at interpreting human social signals.
31、”The study revealed previously undiscovered relations between specific personality characteristics and specific eye movement tendencies, according to a summary in Britains Daily Mail newspaper.32. What do the underlined words “peer into” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?A. understand B. stare at C. search for D. concern about33. How did the researchers conduct the research?A. It was carried out in
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