Your English teacher has introduced a play to your class. Read the play.

Characters: Bob, reporter, 25 years old

Jenny, student, 15 years old

Laura, student, 14 years old

Time: One Saturday morning in spring

Place: On the street

(Bob met Jenny and Laura in the street and began to have an interview with them)

Bob: Excuse me, would you mind me asking you some questions?

Laura: Of course not. And may I have your name?

Bob: I’m Bob. Your uniforms look so great. Which school are you studying in now?

Jenny: We are both from Highgate Junior High School. My name is Jenny and this is my classmate Laura.

Bob: How do you feel about your school uniforms?

Jenny: I think they are very good. Uniforms help the school look smart. I wear my school uniform every day.

Bob: What’s your opinion, Laura?

Laura: I can’t agree more. My father is a firefighter. Every time he wears his uniform, he says he feels a sense of duty. He is proud of the fact that he can help many people who are in need. He looks more handsome when he wears his uniform.

Bob: So you love uniforms because of your father’s influence on you.

Laura: I think so.

Jenny: Besides, when all students wear the uniforms, nobody needs to worry about fashion. In this way, students can pay more attention to learning.

Bob: I see. Both of you think school uniforms are good for you. I believe most students will agree with you. Thank you so much.

1.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A.Laura and Jenny don’t want to be interviewed by Bob at first.

B.Laura and Jenny don’t wear school uniforms on weekends.

C.Laura and Jenny are studying at the same school.

D.Laura and Jenny wear different school uniforms.

2.What can we know about Laura’s father?

A.He is proud of his work.

B.He likes Jenny’s school uniform.

C.He is more handsome than others.

D.He wants to be firefighter.

Sitting among the cheering fans of the Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team in Rio de Janeiro, a Polish fan caught a lot of attention. It is not because he is not Chinese, but because he has followed the team closely from the very beginning.

The 60-year-old Jozef fell in love with the Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team at the first sight when he he watched the girls at the London Olympics on TV in 2012. The Polish man was crazy about the performances of the young team, especially by its core player Hui Ruoqi. Before that Jozef was a loyal fan of his home team — the Polish men’s volleyball.

Since then, Jozef has become crazy about the team and has kept track of almost all their international competitions. Back in the 2013 Montreux Volley Masters of Switzerland, the Polish man, for the first time, came to cheer up for the team on site. He also drove all the way from Poland to Italy to lend support for the girls during the 2014 Women’s World Volleyball Championship.

The hardcore fan traveled hundreds of miles from Polancl to Brazil, and booked ticktes for all matches of the Chinese Women’s Volleyball.This time, Jozef was interviewed by TV and has been recognized by not just fans, but millions or Chinese TV audience.

The “Polish grandpa” was a nickname given by Chinese volleyball Fans. He has 18,000 followers on Sina Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter, where Jozef has been sharing his obsession with Chinese Internet users since 2013.

1.Why did Jozef get much attention?

A.He was interviewed by Chinese TV.

B.He is a famous and loyal Polish fan.

C.He has supported the Chinese team from the start.

D.He was sitting among the fans of the Chinese team.

2.When did Jozef first become interested in the Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team?

A.In 2012. B.In 2013. C.In 2014. D.In 2015.

3.How did Jozef come to Italy to support the Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team?

A.By car. B.By bus. C.By bike. D.By plane.

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A.Jozef has already had millions of fans in Poland.

B.Jozef has been a fan of his home team since 2012.

C.Jozef first cheered up for the Chinese team on site in 2014.

D.Jezef has followed most of the international matches of the Chinese team.

5.What has Jozef been doing on Sina Weibo?

A.Giving support to the Polish team.

B.Sharing his love for the Chinese team.

C.Answering quesitons about playing volleyball.

D.Booking tickets for matches of the Chinese team.

 Artificial intelligence (AI, 人工智能) can help us make phone calls. It can guide us to where we want to go. It can play games. And now, AI can do even more things.

Researchers from Microsoft have created the first machine translation system that can translate news articles from Chinese to English, Business Standard reported.

According to Microsoft's official website, researchers tested the system by asking it to translate hundreds of sentences taken from news stories. Then, language experts compared the results to two translations that were done by humans. The experts concluded that the system's translations were as good as the human translations.

Machine translation is always challenging. This is partly because different words can be used to express the same meaning. It can be hard to say which word is more “correct”.

Experts used several methods to improve the system's translation abilities. “Much of our research is really inspired (得到启发) by how we humans do things,” lead researcher Liu Tieyan said.One method is called dual learning. In this method, the system translates every sentence from Chinese to English, as well as translates the sentences back from English into Chinese. This way, the system can improve itself and learn from its own mistakes. This is similar to what humans do to make sure their translations are accurate (准确的).

Another method makes use of deliberation networks. The researchers taught the system to repeat the process of translating the same sentence over and over. Gradually, the system can improve the quality of its translations. This is similar to how people revise their own writing by going through it again and again.

1.Microsoft created a system that can _____.

A.make phone calls B.give people directions

C.play games with people D.translate news articles

2.What did the experts say about the system's translations?

A.They were not accurate.

B.They were as good as human translations.

C.They were better than human translations.

D.It's hard to tell whether the translations were correct.

3.Dual learning trains the system to translate _____.

A.more quickly B.different sentences

C.more accurately D.the same sentence repeatedly

4.What is the main idea of the story?

A.What artificial intelligence can do for us.

B.How sentences are translated from Chinese to English.

C.How the machine translation system was developed.

D.Why Microsoft created a machine translation system.

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