阅读理解+语法填空+书面表达分类综合训练
一、阅读理解
A
Google’s new camera, called Clips, is a small, smart device. It comes with a case that has a clip, but it’s not designed to be worn on your clothing. Most interestingly, it uses artificial intelligence to take photography out of your hands so it can capture moments on its own.
This roughly 2-inch by 2-inch camera, with a three-hour battery life and Gorilla Glass for toughness, is intended for candid moments, like when a child does something cute that may happen too quickly for you to pull out your smartphone.
Onboard the Clips device, it uses machine learning algorithms (计算程序) to help capture scenes. Those algorithms include face recognition. “Once it learns that there’s a face you see frequently, it’ll try to get nice photos of those faces,” said Justin Payne, the devices product manager. And they also want it to recognize facial expressions. The Google team also trained it to recognize what not to shoot—like when a child’s hand is over the lens (镜头).
The only way to see the images is by connecting the camera with your phone, as it has no screen for viewing or editing.
Were people concerned it could seem strange? Yes, Payne admitted. But they said they addressed that by making it obvious what it is. A green light on the front signals that it is on. Besides, unlike a camera meant to monitor your home, it is not connected to the Internet.
“This product is only possible because of the way that silicon has advanced,” Payne said. Going forward, were likely to get more assistance from the artificial intelligence packed into our apps and gadgets (小装置).
1. What is the most outstanding feature of Clips?
A. It enables easy Internet access.
B. It is equipped with tough glass.
C. It can be worn on your clothing.
D. It allows of hands-free photography.
2. What does the underlined word “candid” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. Brief. B. Touching.
C. Unforgettable. D. Embarrassing.
3. What makes Clips a reality according to Juston Payne?
A. The advance in technology.
B. The popularity of the Internet.
C. The reduction in the price of lens.
D. The rise of the smartphone industry.
B
Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States, yet she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said of herself, “I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.” No one could have had a more productive old age.
She was born Anna Mary Robertson on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls. At 12 she left home and was in domestic (家庭的) service until, at 27, she married Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children 7, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1927.
Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery (刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils (油画) in old age because her hands had become too stiff (硬的) to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought everything she painted.
Three of the pictures exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930s and her death she produced some 2,000 pictures: detailed and lively portrayals (描绘) of the country life she had known for so long, with a wonderful sense of color and form. “I think really hard till I think of something really pretty, and then I paint it.” she said.
4. What word can best describe Grandma Moses according to Paragraph 1?
A. Independent. B. Pretty. C. Rich. D. Patient.
5. Grandma Moses spent most of her life ___ .
A. painting B. farming
C. nursing babies D. doing domestic service
6. Why did Grandma Moses begin to paint, according to Paragraph 3?
A. To keep active. B. To make a living.
C. To earn more money. D. To make new friends.
7. What can be the best title for the text?
A. The Children of Grandma Moses
B. Grandma Moses: Her Best Exhibition
C. Grandma Moses: Her Life and Pictures
D. Grandma Moses and Other Older Artists
C
Obviously, art always amuses children and they can easily engage in it. This only proves that introducing art education at an early age is a great way to let children express what they see in their environment. Art activities give your children pleasurable experiences.
Art education helps children learn and improve communication skills. Apparently, there are children who find difficulty in communicating in words. In this sense, expressing their feelings through art is an excellent outlet. Art for kids offers a lot of important skills in life that will lead them to the right path. Simply watching television can teach them to read and count. Therefore, allowing your kids to paint can tell the thought in their mind.
Every child should learn problem solving naturally and on his own. In fact, when children are making something like drawing or painting, it is one way of problem solving. It is because art gives more realistic models that are stable. Likewise, art education can also help in developing critical-thinking skills, music, dance and theater arts.
Moreover, creating arts in groups is an ideal way of mastering skills and in the same way they also learn from their peers without pressure unlike the formal teaching lessons. That is why adult supervising children engaging in art should know that art is not all about expressing talent but it is a skill of creativity.
Also, engaging in art education can help building confidence. It is because even if they do not make it the right way, yet they feel proud on their artistic creations. Since art is a good start to collaborate (合作) with others, children can easily learn the cultures from different parts of the world.
8. Who is the text probably written for?
A. Parents. B. Artists.
C. Teachers. D. Scientists.
9. According to Paragraph 2, kids learning painting ___ .
A. gives them pleasurable experiences
B. helps show the feelings in their heart
C. offers them a different lifestyle successfully
D. makes them adapt to the competitive society
10. Why does art help solve problems?
A. It gives people more imagination.
B. It makes peoples brains work better.
C. It provides more materials to choose from.
D. It helps people know more about realistic models.
11. During the formal teaching lessons, children creating arts in groups may probably feel ___ .
A. creative B. stressed
C. proud D. curious
D
Working with a group of baboons (狒狒) in the Namibian desert, Dry Alicia Carter of the Department of Zoology, Cambridge University set baboons learning tasks involving a novel (新奇的) food and a familiar food hidden in a box. Some baboons were given the chance to watch another baboon who already knew how to solve the task, while others had to learn for themselves. To work out how brave or anxious the baboons were, Dr Carter presented them either with a novel food or a threat in the form of a model of a poisonous snake.
She found that personality had a major impact on learning. The brave baboons learnt, but the shy ones did not learn the task although they watched the baboon perform the task of finding the novel food just as long as the brave ones did.
The same held true for anxious baboons compared with calm ones. The anxious individuals learnt the task by observing others while those who were relaxed did not, even though they spent more time watching.
This mismatch between collecting social information and using it shows that personality plays a key role in social learning in animals. The findings are significant because they suggest that animals may perform poorly in cognitive (认知的) tasks not because they aren’t clever enough to solve them, but because they are too shy or nervous to use the social information.
The findings may impact how we understand the formation of culture in societies through social learning. If some individuals are unable to get information from others because they don’t associate with the knowledgeable individuals, or they are too shy to use the information once they have it, information may not travel between all group members, preventing the formation of a culture based on social learning.
12. What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A. The design of Dry Carters research.
B. The results of Dry Carters research.
C. The purpose of Dry Carters research.
D. The importance of Dry Carters research.
13. According to the research, baboons that are more likely to complete a new learning task are those that___ .
A. has more experience B. can avoid possible risks
C. like to work independently D. feel anxious about learning
14. Dry Carters experiment shows some of the baboons ___ .
A. is intelligent but slow in learning
B. is shy but active in social activities
C. observes others but don’t follow them
D. performs new tasks but don’t concentrate
15. Dry Carters findings indicate our culture might be formed through ___ .
A. our storing information
B. our learning from each other
C. our understanding different people
D. our traveling between social groups
二、语法填空
Mr. Johnson lived in the woods with his wife and children. He 1(own) a farm, which looked almost 2(abandon). Luckily, he also had a cow which produced milk every day. He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby 3 other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what 4(leave). The cow was their only means of support, in fact. One day, the cow was eating grass 5 it began to rain heavily. While 6(make) great efforts to run away, she fell over the hill and died.
Then the Johnsons had to make a living without the cow. In order to support his family, Mr. Johnson began to plant herbs (药草) and vegetables. Since the 7 (plant) took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees 8(sell) the wood. Thinking about his children’s clothes, he started growing cotton too. When harvest came around, he was already selling herbs, vegetables and cotton in the market 9 people from the towns met 10(regular).
Now it occurred to him that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
三、书面表达
假定你校讲举行以“My Favorite Sport”为题的英语演讲比赛,请写一篇演讲稿,内容包括:
1.你喜欢的体育运动项目;
2.你喜欢该运动的理由;
3.该运动的注意事项。
注意:
1.词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
My Favorite Sport
答案
阅读理解
A: 1-3 DAA B: 4—7 ABAC
C: 8—11 ABDB D: 12—15 ADCB
语法填空
1. owned 2. abandoned 3. for 4. was left 5. when
6. making 7. plants 8. to sell 9. where 10. regularly
书面表达
One possible version:
My Favorite Sport
My favorite sport is swimming. It was a very exciting experience to learn swimming with my parents when I was five years old.
Swimming is a really good sport. It makes me feel relaxed. It can also make me stay healthy and strong because I exercise almost every part of my body when I go swimming.
Before going to swim, we should pay attention to three points. The first is to make sure your body is in a good state. The second is not to eat too much. The last is that youd better swim with some friends, which can help you stay safe and enjoy yourself.