2024届新高考英语高频考点专项练习：专题十五 考点26 概要写作B卷（含答案）
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2024届新高考英语高频考点专项练习：专题十五 考点26 概要写作（B卷）
1. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Technology is forever changing the way we get our news. Many people now get a lot of news on electronic devices, instead of traditional media, such as newspapers, television or radio. According to a report, an increasing number of people are also turning to social media for information.
Now, there is a new technology that could greatly change the way we get news: computer-created news readers. Recently, China launched what it called the world's first artificial intelligence, or AI news presenters.
The news readers, supported by machine learning technology, are based on two real-life Chinese newsmen. One is able to present newscasts in English, and the other, in Mandarin. Chinese reports said machine learning was used to examine video images and sounds of the two newsmen. The similar technology has been used to create video products, known as "deepfake" videos. A deepfake video looks real, but is electronically changed. Such videos can make people appear to say things they have never said before.
It was said that the AI presenters would be a great improvement to the news team because they "can work 24 hours a day" on its website and on social media. One of the presenters even promised to work "tirelessly" to keep people informed. Some machine learning experts said the system showed China's latest progress in voice recognition, text-to-speech technology and data analysis.
Others wondered about the effects robots might have on employment and workers. Some people argued that only low-level jobs requiring heavy labor would be easily replaced by robots. Others praised the technology as a way for companies to make money from low-cost labor machines. Some businesses have experimented with similar technology for possible use in news operations.
Britain's BBC recently released a video that used machine learning to make it look like one of its news readers speaking different languages. The London-based company that developed the system said its goal is to "remove the language barrier" for many different kinds of video across the Internet.
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2. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
With more cellphone companies designing models for children, many parents are attracted to buy their kids phones, and pay the bill. According to a July 2012 study, 56% of parents of children aged 8 to 12 have given their children a cellphone. According to a recent YouthBeat survey, 12 is the magic number. It is the most common age for kids to get their first cellphone. But 13% of children aged 6 to 10 already have one. That's more than one out of every 10 kids.
Cellphone supporters, including many parents, note that cellphones help kids keep in touch with their friends and families, whether to ask for a ride home from football practice or to call for help when stuck in an emergency(紧急情况). Besides, some cellphones designed for kids can be controlled with settings that allow the phone to only be used in parent-permission ways. What's the harm in that
However, other people are worried about the effects of cellphones on kids' health and safety. They believe that sending text messages or fielding phone calls while doing homework makes it difficult for kids to stay focused, thus resulting in their poor school work. They also say that kids are spending too much time texting instead of talking to each other. "Our brains evolved(进化) to communicate face to face," says Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, in California. "A lot of this is lost with texting."
And some experts are also concerned about possible health risks. They worry that radiation(辐射) released by cellphones could be harmful to young people. To be safe, they advise limiting talk time.
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3. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Choosing the right college can be a difficult task. There are thousands of colleges and universities for you to choose from and many are worthy of being considered. For each potential college, find out the success rate of students' getting their jobs, especially those related to your majors. Here are some strategies(策略) for you to make the right choice.
Colleges which offer practice in some of the fields are worthy of your attention. It can provide you with a large amount of information on job-panies often prefer employees that perform well. Practice gives you the valuable experience and necessary opportunities. Some practical skills that you learn will really prepare yourself for certain jobs. Besides, choosing a college that has teacher members with good reputations in their fields can also be very useful since these teacher members can provide you with steps towards the working world by practice.
School rankings and a national reputation for academic success are often important factors(因素) for your potential employers. This type of information can be found easily on the Internet and in magazines. To the employers, graduates from colleges ranking high are often considered more reliable. They usually have a stronger ability to learn and are more likely to create wealth for the company. Sometimes it can even be a more important factor in looking for a job than the actual quality of education the college provides.
After narrowing down your choices to a few colleges, it's time to visit them. Taking a look at the campus(校园) can change your attitude to a particular school. Plan your tour and then do some research on your own. It is also important to talk to as many students as you can and find out if earning a degree from the school is helpful in getting a job. Meanwhile, you can speak to the students in the majors you're considering to know what the courses are like, what you'll learn, and what your expected outcome will be.
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Emotions are "the glue" that connects people to one another. They are the foundation of your ability to understand yourself and relate to others. When you are aware of your emotions, you can manage stress and communicate well with others. Without emotions and an awareness of them, it's impossible to build or maintain strong, healthy relationships.
In order to know your level of emotional awareness, ask yourself the following questions. If you answer no, you may need to work on raising your emotional awareness: Can you tolerate strong feelings, such as anger and sadness Do you feel your emotions in your body Are you comfortable with all of your emotions Do you pay attention to your emotions and use them to guide your decisions
Raising your emotional awareness begins with managing stress. The ability to quickly reduce stress allows you to safely face strong emotions, secure in your ability to regulate your feelings and behave properly. Also, the process of raising emotional awareness involves reconnecting all of the main emotions, including anger, sadness, fear, disgust, surprise, and joy. So get back in touch with your emotions and feelings. Another key to raising emotional awareness is practice. Like building muscles in a gym, you wouldn't expect to be a bodybuilder after just five minutes. The more consistently you practice, the greater the changes you'll experience in what you feel, think, and do.
We are all born with a capacity to freely experience the full range of human emotions — joy, anger, sadness, and fear. Yet many people are trying to avoid them rather than experience them. If you avoid emotions, you will lose the good, along with the bad. Moreover, it's exhausting. You can change or turn a blind eye to your emotions, but you can't get rid of them entirely. It takes a lot of energy to avoid having emotional experiences and the effort leaves you exhausted. What's more, it damages your relationships. The more you distance yourself from your feelings, the more distant you become from others. You lose the ability to build strong relationships and communicate effectively, both of which depend on being in touch with your emotions.
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5. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Will your job he done by a robot in the future Bank of England economists predict that almost half of all UK jobs are under threat of automation. Those most at risk involve repetitive manual labour, such as factory positions. But could even the venerable profession of teaching soon have to compete against powerful electronic educators
At first glance, teaching might seem to be unaffected to replacement by robots. Teachers use a range of soft skills that machines find hard to replicate. They judge pupils' needs and adapt feedback accordingly. They adapt materials to make them more attractive and effective. And they provide pastoral care: looking out for students who lag behind or disrupt the class.
However, some believe the future of education will be technological. In an interview with Business Insider magazine, futurist Thomas Frey predicts that by 2030 the largest company on the Internet is going to be an education-based company that we haven't heard of yet.
He thinks that "bots"—online robot teachers—will make education so efficient that students will be able to compress an entire undergraduate degree into six months of learning. "A hot learns what your 'interests' and 'reference points' are, and it figures out how to teach you in a faster and faster way over time," according to Frey.
Whether or not such incredible speeds will be reached, over the last decade there has been a huge increase in online learning panies such as Udemy and Khan Academy produce courses that allow millions to learn at home for free at their own pace. But there are limitations. Without the face-to-face stimulation of a classroom environment, the overwhelming majority of students fail to complete online courses. How to sustain motivation to learn is one more skill that online teachers will need to master. Indeed, Frey admits there is some way to go, "Nobody has quite cracked the code for the future of education." What do teachers themselves think about this Professor Donald Clark from Derby University in the UK thinks that we should welcome change, even though people will lose their jobs.
"Artificial intelligence will destroy jobs, so why not use it for a social good such as learning " he asked.
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6. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the opposite. Listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, or because they are not willing to do the work, that most people do not listen well.
Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as "bracketing". Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else's world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to open up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be accomplished only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.
Most of the time we lack this energy. Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we don't want to hear.
It wasn't until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic(有效的). In about a quarter of the patients I saw, surprising improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy (心理疗法), before any of the roots of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient's sense that he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.
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7. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
It was the old lady's birthday. She got up early to be ready for the post. From the second floor flat she could see the postman when he came, and the little boy from the ground floor brought up her letters on rare occasions when anything came.
Today she was sure there would be something. Myra wouldn't forget her mother's birthday, even if she seldom wrote at other times. Of course Myra was busy, and she herself had got a medal for her work for the aged. The old lady was proud of Myra. And Myra had been to see her mother three times since two years ago.
The old lady was eighty today. She had put on her best dress. Perhaps Myra might come. After all, eighty was a special birthday. Even if Myra did not come, she would send a present. She was excited, like a child.
Mrs Morrison had cleaned the flat, and she had brought a bunch of flowers when she came to do the breakfast. Mrs Grant downstairs had made a cake. Little Johnnie had been up with a packet of mints, and said he wouldn't go out to play until the post had come.
"I guess you'll get lots of presents," he said.
What would it be A pair of slippers, a table lamp, or a travel book She stood by the window, watching. The postman turned round the comer on his bicycle. Her heart beat fast.
Johnnie knocked at her door. "Granny, granny." He shouted, "I have got your post.''
He gave her four envelopes. Three were unsealed cards from old friends. The fourth was sealed, in Myra's writing. The old lady felt a sudden feeling of disappointment.
Almost reluctantly she tore the envelope open. Folded in the card was a piece of paper. Written on the card was a message under the printed Happy Birthday—Buy yourself something nice with the cheque, Myra.
The cheque dropped to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. Slowly the old lady picked it up. With trembling fingers she tore it into pieces.
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8. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Although being famous might sound like a dream come true, today's stars, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine. They are at the center of much of the world’s attention. Paparazzi(狗仔队)camp outside their homes, cameras ready. Tabloids (小报) publish thrilling stories about their personal lives. Just imagine not being able to do anything without being photographed or interrupted for a signature.
According to the psychologists, celebrities(名人) worry constantly about their public appearance. Eventually, they start to lose track of who they really are, seeing themselves the way fans imagine them, not as the people they were before everyone knew their names. Over time, they feel separated and alone.
The phenomenon of tracking celebrities has been around for ages. In the 4th century BC, painters followed Alexander the Great into battle, hoping to picture his victories for his admirers. When Charles Dickens visited America in the 19th century, his sold-out readings attracted thousands of fans, leading him to complain about his lack of privacy. Tabloids of the 1920s and 1930s ran articles about film-stars in much the same way that modern tabloids and websites do.
Being a public figure today, however, is a lot more difficult than it used to be. Superstars cannot move about without worrying about photographers with modem cameras. When they say something silly or do something ridiculous, there is always the Internet to spread the news in minutes and keep their “story” alive forever.
If fame is so troublesome, why aren't all celebrities running away from it The answer is there are still ways to deal with it. Some stars stay calm by surrounding themselves with trusted friends and family or by escaping to remote places away from big cities. They focus not on how famous they are but on what they love to do or whatever made them famous in the first place. With these effective approaches, some celebrities relieve the stress and remain popular with fans. Consequently, though being famous is driving some stars crazy, some wise ones enjoy what reputation brings them.
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答案以及解析
1. 答案：
Technology has been updating our source of information. Now, one technology, so-called AI news reader, has become a hit. This new invention is based on two great Chinese newsmen, broadcasting both in English and Chinese. One advantage of the technology is that it can work non-stop. Many companies, including BBC, are trying to produce better learning machines.
2. 答案：
Many parents tend to buy cell phones for their kids. Supporters think phones, with security settings, are a good tool for kids to contact others, especially in an emergency. However, others argue being attached to phones may harm both kids' school work and their real communication skills. Therefore, worried about potential health risks, some experts advise the youth to reduce their time on the phone.
3. 答案：
Challenging as it is to choose an ideal college, there're some tips that may help. First, colleges that provide practice and have distinguished teachers in certain fields are worth considering. Second, it's advisable to search for academic rankings and reputations, which your future employers may care about. After you have candidates, visit them and enquire more of related students.
4.答案：
Emotions refer to the basic ability to know yourself and other people. To test whether you need to raise your emotional awareness, you can ask yourself some questions. If you need to raise it, first manage stress and then insist on practicing. You shouldn't avoid emotions because if so, the good emotions will be lost, you'll feel exhausted and it will be harmful to your relationships too.
5. 答案：
The article introduces the possibility of a robot teacher in the future. As robots may replace humans in factories, it is possible that teaching will be done by robots. Teachers use soft skills such as feedbacks and personal care in classrooms. However, online robot teachers will know a learner's weakness and strengths, so they provide efficient panies like Udemy and Khan Academy provide free courses online but students lack motivation to finish their lessons. Anyway, AI is welcomed lo do good lo learning.
6. 答案：
Contrary to common belief, listening well is an active process calling for focus and effort. Bracketing, a principle to follow in listening well, means listening with empathy and acceptance. However, few can become good listeners because they are somewhat self-centered and tend to listen purposefully. Based on the previous medical practice, the author thinks that doctors' attentive listening may aid patients' recovery.
7. 答案：
The old lady was very excited on her 80th birthday, because she was sure that her daughter would come for a visit or send a parcel to her. So the old lady waited eagerly for the postman. But what her daughter sent was not a present but a printed card with a cheque. The old lady felt so disappointed that she lore up the cheque.
8. 答案：
Living in the public gaze, stars suffer from great pressure. What's worse, anxiety over their public appearance robs them of the objective self-image, which leads to the feeling of isolation in the long term. Though being tracked has been a headache to celebrities for centuries, modern cameras and the Internet make it harder to be famous nowadays. However, by dealing with the stress wisely, stars still can stay popular and happy.
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1. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Technology is forever changing the way we get our news. Many people now get a lot of news on electronic devices, instead of traditional media, such as newspapers, television or radio. According to a report, an increasing number of people are also turning to social media for information.
Now, there is a new technology that could greatly change the way we get news: computer-created news readers. Recently, China launched what it called the world's first artificial intelligence, or AI news presenters.
The news readers, supported by machine learning technology, are based on two real-life Chinese newsmen. One is able to present newscasts in English, and the other, in Mandarin. Chinese reports said machine learning was used to examine video images and sounds of the two newsmen. The similar technology has been used to create video products, known as "deepfake" videos. A deepfake video looks real, but is electronically changed. Such videos can make people appear to say things they have never said before.
It was said that the AI presenters would be a great improvement to the news team because they "can work 24 hours a day" on its website and on social media. One of the presenters even promised to work "tirelessly" to keep people informed. Some machine learning experts said the system showed China's latest progress in voice recognition, text-to-speech technology and data analysis.
Others wondered about the effects robots might have on employment and workers. Some people argued that only low-level jobs requiring heavy labor would be easily replaced by robots. Others praised the technology as a way for companies to make money from low-cost labor machines. Some businesses have experimented with similar technology for possible use in news operations.
Britain's BBC recently released a video that used machine learning to make it look like one of its news readers speaking different languages. The London-based company that developed the system said its goal is to "remove the language barrier" for many different kinds of video across the Internet.
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2. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
With more cellphone companies designing models for children, many parents are attracted to buy their kids phones, and pay the bill. According to a July 2012 study, 56% of parents of children aged 8 to 12 have given their children a cellphone. According to a recent YouthBeat survey, 12 is the magic number. It is the most common age for kids to get their first cellphone. But 13% of children aged 6 to 10 already have one. That's more than one out of every 10 kids.
Cellphone supporters, including many parents, note that cellphones help kids keep in touch with their friends and families, whether to ask for a ride home from football practice or to call for help when stuck in an emergency(紧急情况). Besides, some cellphones designed for kids can be controlled with settings that allow the phone to only be used in parent-permission ways. What's the harm in that
However, other people are worried about the effects of cellphones on kids' health and safety. They believe that sending text messages or fielding phone calls while doing homework makes it difficult for kids to stay focused, thus resulting in their poor school work. They also say that kids are spending too much time texting instead of talking to each other. "Our brains evolved(进化) to communicate face to face," says Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, in California. "A lot of this is lost with texting."
And some experts are also concerned about possible health risks. They worry that radiation(辐射) released by cellphones could be harmful to young people. To be safe, they advise limiting talk time.
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3. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Choosing the right college can be a difficult task. There are thousands of colleges and universities for you to choose from and many are worthy of being considered. For each potential college, find out the success rate of students' getting their jobs, especially those related to your majors. Here are some strategies(策略) for you to make the right choice.
Colleges which offer practice in some of the fields are worthy of your attention. It can provide you with a large amount of information on job-panies often prefer employees that perform well. Practice gives you the valuable experience and necessary opportunities. Some practical skills that you learn will really prepare yourself for certain jobs. Besides, choosing a college that has teacher members with good reputations in their fields can also be very useful since these teacher members can provide you with steps towards the working world by practice.
School rankings and a national reputation for academic success are often important factors(因素) for your potential employers. This type of information can be found easily on the Internet and in magazines. To the employers, graduates from colleges ranking high are often considered more reliable. They usually have a stronger ability to learn and are more likely to create wealth for the company. Sometimes it can even be a more important factor in looking for a job than the actual quality of education the college provides.
After narrowing down your choices to a few colleges, it's time to visit them. Taking a look at the campus(校园) can change your attitude to a particular school. Plan your tour and then do some research on your own. It is also important to talk to as many students as you can and find out if earning a degree from the school is helpful in getting a job. Meanwhile, you can speak to the students in the majors you're considering to know what the courses are like, what you'll learn, and what your expected outcome will be.
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Emotions are "the glue" that connects people to one another. They are the foundation of your ability to understand yourself and relate to others. When you are aware of your emotions, you can manage stress and communicate well with others. Without emotions and an awareness of them, it's impossible to build or maintain strong, healthy relationships.
In order to know your level of emotional awareness, ask yourself the following questions. If you answer no, you may need to work on raising your emotional awareness: Can you tolerate strong feelings, such as anger and sadness Do you feel your emotions in your body Are you comfortable with all of your emotions Do you pay attention to your emotions and use them to guide your decisions
Raising your emotional awareness begins with managing stress. The ability to quickly reduce stress allows you to safely face strong emotions, secure in your ability to regulate your feelings and behave properly. Also, the process of raising emotional awareness involves reconnecting all of the main emotions, including anger, sadness, fear, disgust, surprise, and joy. So get back in touch with your emotions and feelings. Another key to raising emotional awareness is practice. Like building muscles in a gym, you wouldn't expect to be a bodybuilder after just five minutes. The more consistently you practice, the greater the changes you'll experience in what you feel, think, and do.
We are all born with a capacity to freely experience the full range of human emotions — joy, anger, sadness, and fear. Yet many people are trying to avoid them rather than experience them. If you avoid emotions, you will lose the good, along with the bad. Moreover, it's exhausting. You can change or turn a blind eye to your emotions, but you can't get rid of them entirely. It takes a lot of energy to avoid having emotional experiences and the effort leaves you exhausted. What's more, it damages your relationships. The more you distance yourself from your feelings, the more distant you become from others. You lose the ability to build strong relationships and communicate effectively, both of which depend on being in touch with your emotions.
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5. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Will your job he done by a robot in the future Bank of England economists predict that almost half of all UK jobs are under threat of automation. Those most at risk involve repetitive manual labour, such as factory positions. But could even the venerable profession of teaching soon have to compete against powerful electronic educators
At first glance, teaching might seem to be unaffected to replacement by robots. Teachers use a range of soft skills that machines find hard to replicate. They judge pupils' needs and adapt feedback accordingly. They adapt materials to make them more attractive and effective. And they provide pastoral care: looking out for students who lag behind or disrupt the class.
However, some believe the future of education will be technological. In an interview with Business Insider magazine, futurist Thomas Frey predicts that by 2030 the largest company on the Internet is going to be an education-based company that we haven't heard of yet.
He thinks that "bots"—online robot teachers—will make education so efficient that students will be able to compress an entire undergraduate degree into six months of learning. "A hot learns what your 'interests' and 'reference points' are, and it figures out how to teach you in a faster and faster way over time," according to Frey.
Whether or not such incredible speeds will be reached, over the last decade there has been a huge increase in online learning panies such as Udemy and Khan Academy produce courses that allow millions to learn at home for free at their own pace. But there are limitations. Without the face-to-face stimulation of a classroom environment, the overwhelming majority of students fail to complete online courses. How to sustain motivation to learn is one more skill that online teachers will need to master. Indeed, Frey admits there is some way to go, "Nobody has quite cracked the code for the future of education." What do teachers themselves think about this Professor Donald Clark from Derby University in the UK thinks that we should welcome change, even though people will lose their jobs.
"Artificial intelligence will destroy jobs, so why not use it for a social good such as learning " he asked.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the opposite. Listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, or because they are not willing to do the work, that most people do not listen well.
Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as "bracketing". Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else's world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to open up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be accomplished only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.
Most of the time we lack this energy. Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we don't want to hear.
It wasn't until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic(有效的). In about a quarter of the patients I saw, surprising improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy (心理疗法), before any of the roots of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient's sense that he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.
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7. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
It was the old lady's birthday. She got up early to be ready for the post. From the second floor flat she could see the postman when he came, and the little boy from the ground floor brought up her letters on rare occasions when anything came.
Today she was sure there would be something. Myra wouldn't forget her mother's birthday, even if she seldom wrote at other times. Of course Myra was busy, and she herself had got a medal for her work for the aged. The old lady was proud of Myra. And Myra had been to see her mother three times since two years ago.
The old lady was eighty today. She had put on her best dress. Perhaps Myra might come. After all, eighty was a special birthday. Even if Myra did not come, she would send a present. She was excited, like a child.
Mrs Morrison had cleaned the flat, and she had brought a bunch of flowers when she came to do the breakfast. Mrs Grant downstairs had made a cake. Little Johnnie had been up with a packet of mints, and said he wouldn't go out to play until the post had come.
"I guess you'll get lots of presents," he said.
What would it be A pair of slippers, a table lamp, or a travel book She stood by the window, watching. The postman turned round the comer on his bicycle. Her heart beat fast.
Johnnie knocked at her door. "Granny, granny." He shouted, "I have got your post.''
He gave her four envelopes. Three were unsealed cards from old friends. The fourth was sealed, in Myra's writing. The old lady felt a sudden feeling of disappointment.
Almost reluctantly she tore the envelope open. Folded in the card was a piece of paper. Written on the card was a message under the printed Happy Birthday—Buy yourself something nice with the cheque, Myra.
The cheque dropped to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. Slowly the old lady picked it up. With trembling fingers she tore it into pieces.
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8. 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Although being famous might sound like a dream come true, today's stars, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine. They are at the center of much of the world’s attention. Paparazzi(狗仔队)camp outside their homes, cameras ready. Tabloids (小报) publish thrilling stories about their personal lives. Just imagine not being able to do anything without being photographed or interrupted for a signature.
According to the psychologists, celebrities(名人) worry constantly about their public appearance. Eventually, they start to lose track of who they really are, seeing themselves the way fans imagine them, not as the people they were before everyone knew their names. Over time, they feel separated and alone.
The phenomenon of tracking celebrities has been around for ages. In the 4th century BC, painters followed Alexander the Great into battle, hoping to picture his victories for his admirers. When Charles Dickens visited America in the 19th century, his sold-out readings attracted thousands of fans, leading him to complain about his lack of privacy. Tabloids of the 1920s and 1930s ran articles about film-stars in much the same way that modern tabloids and websites do.
Being a public figure today, however, is a lot more difficult than it used to be. Superstars cannot move about without worrying about photographers with modem cameras. When they say something silly or do something ridiculous, there is always the Internet to spread the news in minutes and keep their “story” alive forever.
If fame is so troublesome, why aren't all celebrities running away from it The answer is there are still ways to deal with it. Some stars stay calm by surrounding themselves with trusted friends and family or by escaping to remote places away from big cities. They focus not on how famous they are but on what they love to do or whatever made them famous in the first place. With these effective approaches, some celebrities relieve the stress and remain popular with fans. Consequently, though being famous is driving some stars crazy, some wise ones enjoy what reputation brings them.
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答案以及解析
1. 答案：
Technology has been updating our source of information. Now, one technology, so-called AI news reader, has become a hit. This new invention is based on two great Chinese newsmen, broadcasting both in English and Chinese. One advantage of the technology is that it can work non-stop. Many companies, including BBC, are trying to produce better learning machines.
2. 答案：
Many parents tend to buy cell phones for their kids. Supporters think phones, with security settings, are a good tool for kids to contact others, especially in an emergency. However, others argue being attached to phones may harm both kids' school work and their real communication skills. Therefore, worried about potential health risks, some experts advise the youth to reduce their time on the phone.
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Challenging as it is to choose an ideal college, there're some tips that may help. First, colleges that provide practice and have distinguished teachers in certain fields are worth considering. Second, it's advisable to search for academic rankings and reputations, which your future employers may care about. After you have candidates, visit them and enquire more of related students.
4.答案：
Emotions refer to the basic ability to know yourself and other people. To test whether you need to raise your emotional awareness, you can ask yourself some questions. If you need to raise it, first manage stress and then insist on practicing. You shouldn't avoid emotions because if so, the good emotions will be lost, you'll feel exhausted and it will be harmful to your relationships too.
5. 答案：
The article introduces the possibility of a robot teacher in the future. As robots may replace humans in factories, it is possible that teaching will be done by robots. Teachers use soft skills such as feedbacks and personal care in classrooms. However, online robot teachers will know a learner's weakness and strengths, so they provide efficient panies like Udemy and Khan Academy provide free courses online but students lack motivation to finish their lessons. Anyway, AI is welcomed lo do good lo learning.
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Contrary to common belief, listening well is an active process calling for focus and effort. Bracketing, a principle to follow in listening well, means listening with empathy and acceptance. However, few can become good listeners because they are somewhat self-centered and tend to listen purposefully. Based on the previous medical practice, the author thinks that doctors' attentive listening may aid patients' recovery.
7. 答案：
The old lady was very excited on her 80th birthday, because she was sure that her daughter would come for a visit or send a parcel to her. So the old lady waited eagerly for the postman. But what her daughter sent was not a present but a printed card with a cheque. The old lady felt so disappointed that she lore up the cheque.
8. 答案：
Living in the public gaze, stars suffer from great pressure. What's worse, anxiety over their public appearance robs them of the objective self-image, which leads to the feeling of isolation in the long term. Though being tracked has been a headache to celebrities for centuries, modern cameras and the Internet make it harder to be famous nowadays. However, by dealing with the stress wisely, stars still can stay popular and happy.
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