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How could I lie to her____ she lived for the truth, whether it was found in music or people?

A. unless B. when C. while D. though

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As I rushed among the tables, suddenly, a ________ asked if I could mind a child. I was quite ________ but I could tell the man was quite desperate. So I had to make a________ with him that if he wanted his son to stay and wait for him, he had to ________ something in the shop．

This was quite ________ for the man to do; I could ________ he was quite poor by the ________ he was dressed. It looked as if he had tried to come in his ________ clothes. But they still looked a bit old and worn out ________ he had often worn them, just to make himself look best. Looking down I could see his________ were also a bit torn and the heels were in a terrible state. I thought he was going for a job interview. In the end he bought a small box of ________ for his little son and seated him down in the corner. I could tell the boy was feeling down and only could ________with a bit of cheering up．

Seeing that the kid sat there for quite a while, I was a bit ________ as the poor little kid was sitting________ his own. People watched him and some kids even came over to pick on him. I was ________ to see one of them even knocked his cookies off the table．He quickly went and got them back without saying a word．I was hoping his father would________ up and come back for his son's ________ .

At closing time, the only person left was the little boy．After a while, the father finally came in with a tiresome look. I ________ he didn't get any job．As they were leaving, I offered the kid a little cake, but the man rejected it. I________ he felt as if I had just abused him．Of course I didn't mean to．But I could understand why he felt like that．I only wished them good ________ whatever happened．

The man opened the door to leave－father and son hand in hand．

1.A. good B. bad C. new D. casual

2.A. commitment B. appointment C. preference D. success

3.A. managed B. agreed C. hesitated D. decided

4.A. did B. mentioned C. shared D. missed

5.A. greet B. inspire C. introduce D. remember

6.A. kindness B. happiness C. stories D. sadness

7.A. still B. often C. never D. even

8.A. whispered B. explained C. reported D. replied

9.A. surprise B. challenge C. concern D. moment

10.A. cashier B. customer C. beggar D. secretary

11.A. mark B. sign C. symbol D. flag

12.A. paying for B. picking up C. paying off D. picking out

13.A. occasionally B. usually C. probably D. hardly

14.A. unoccupied B. unnoticed C. unorganized D. unquestioned

15.A. wisdom B. existence C. generosity D. appreciation

16.A. society B. love C. holiday D. family

17.A. encouraging B. inviting C. helping D. affecting

18.A. dropped B. bought C. found D. fell

19.A. strange B. lucky C. cool D. funny

20.A. after B. though C. unless D. when

Almost everyone stood when the bride walked down the aisle in her white dress，but not the wedding conductor，because she was fixed on her chair.

The wedding was led by “I?Fairy”，a 1.5?meter tall seated robot with flashing eyes and plastic hair. Sunday's wedding was the first time a marriage had been led by a robot，according to manufacturer，Kokoro Co.

“Please lift the bride's veil (面纱)，” the robot said in a tinny voice，waving its arms in the air as the newly?married couple kissed in front of about 50 guests.

The wedding took place at a restaurant in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo，where the I?Fairy wore flowers and directed a rooftop ceremony. Wires led out from beneath it to a black curtain a few feet away，where a man clicked commands into a computer.

Japan has one of the most advanced robotics industries in the world，with the government actively supporting the field for future growth. Industrial models in factories are now standard，but recently Japanese companies have been making a push to inject robots into everyday life.

Honda makes a walking child?shaped robot，and other firms have developed robots to entertain the elderly or play baseball. Kokoro，whose corporate goal is to “touch the hearts of the people”，also makes giant dinosaur robots for exhibitions and lifelike Android models that can smile and laugh. The company is a sub?company of Sanrio Co.，which owns the rights to Hello Kitty and other Japanese characters.

“This was a lot of fun. I think that Japanese people have a strong sense that robots are our friends. Those in the robot industry mostly understand this，but people mainly want robots near them to serve some purpose，” said the bride，Satoko Inoue,36，who works at Kokoro.

The I?Fairy sells for about 6.3 million yen ($68,000) and three are in use in Singapore，the US and Japan，according to company spokeswoman，Kayako Kido.

1.The conductor of the wedding .

A．was controlled by Android system

B．was seated in a chair

C．can give an order herself

D．was the only I?Fairy in use

2.Which of the following products is NOT made by Kokoro?

A．The I?Fairy.

B．A walking child?shaped robot.

C．Giant dinosaur robots.

D．Lifelike Android models.

3.What do people mainly expect robots to do?

A．Act as a sign of technology development.

B．Be their friends.

C．Touch the hearts of people.

D．Meet their own requirements.

4.What does the text mainly convey?

A．Robot wedding conductors are becoming popular.

B．The manufacturing industry in Japan is booming.

C．The Japanese pay a lot of attention to robots.

D．Robots are increasingly entering everyday life.

It is true that world population is growing, but this is not the cause of our current and future global problems. Believing this will cause us to ignore the real problem and risk long-term damage to our planet.

Let me start by explaining why overpopulation is a myth. For one thing, the UN Population Division regularly predicts population growth but provides a low variant (变量), medium variant, and high variant to factor in various possibilities. In the 2010 revision, their high variant suggests that the world population will be almost 16 billion in 2100, but the low variant predicts it will peak at 8 billion and decrease to just over 6 billion by 2100. In most cases, it is the low variant that has come true in the past, suggesting the same will be true of their future population predictions. In addition to this, the size of families is actually decreasing.

For another, if the Earth is overpopulated, there needs to be insufficient (短缺) food, water, and space for humans to live. However, Indian economist Raj Krishna estimates that India alone is able to increase crop produce to the point of providing the entire world’s food supply. The World Food Programme confirms that there is sufficient food grown to feed the world and there is the same amount of fresh water on the planet now as there was 10,000 years ago. So how is it possible that the number of people in the world is affecting our planet?

Therefore, it is not an increase in population but an increase in consumption that is a severe threat. Materialism and overconsumption are facts of life for everybody in the western world, as possessions reflect a person’s status in society and people strive to obtain happiness through owning the latest fashionable goods. Not only that, but waste is a common occurrence which has a huge effect on our resources. It is a sad truth that 80% of the world’s resources are currently used by just 20% of the world’s population.

Our overconsumption must be addressed now to make our lives more sustainable (可持续的) and avoid continuing the terrible damage to the environment we are causing. The key is education. If we do not work towards this but instead focus on the wrong issue, we may find ourselves living on a planet that can no longer sustain human life.

1.According to the author, what causes our current and future global problems?

A. The increase in population.

B. Shortage of food and water.

C. The fast growth of material needs.

D. Failure to protect the environment.

2.The underlined word “myth” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _________.

A. fact B. misunderstanding C. possibility D. uncertainty

3.The author stresses that _____.

A. people should save food and water

B. economists are making wrong predictions

C. wrong judgment leads to serious consequences

D. measures should be taken to reduce population

4.What is mainly discussed in the passage?

A. The real cause of global problems.

B. The severe effect of overpopulation.

C. Reasonable use of natural resources.

D. Methods to reduce overconsumption.

"Over the years the unthinkable has become thinkable and today we sense we are close to being able to alter human heredity ?#)." These were the words of David Baltimore of the California Institute of Technology, on December 1st, when he opened a three-day meeting in Washington to discuss the morality and use of human gene editing. Dr Baltimore is an old hand at these sorts of discussions, for he was also a participant in the Asilomar conference, in 1975, which brought scientists together to discuss a safe way of using the then-new tcchnology of recombinant DNA, and whose recommendations influenced a generation of biotechnology researchers.

Four decades on, the need for a similar sort of chin-wag has arisen. The International Summit on Human Gene Editing has been held by the national scientific academies of three countries — America, Britain and China. They are particularly concerned about whether gene editing should be used to make heritable changes to the human germ line, something Dr Baltimore described as a deep and troubling question. Like those of Asilomar, the conclusions of this meeting will not be binding. But the hope is that, again like Asilomar, a mixture of common sense and peer pressure will create a world in which scientists are trusted to regulate themselves, rather than having politicians and civil servants do it for them. The meeting is being held against a backdrop of rapid scientific advance, Since 2012 research into a new, easy-to-use editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9 has blossomed. This technique involves a piece of RNA (a chemical messenger, which can be used to recognise a target section of DNA) and an enzyme (酶) called a nuclease that can snip unwanted genes out and paste new ones in.

Public interest was aroused in April, when Chinese scientists announced they had edited genes in non-viable ( 无活力的) human embryos, and again in November when British researchers said they had successfully treated a one-year-old girl who had leukaemia ( 白血病), using gene-edited T-cells. T-cells are part of the immune system that attack, among other things, tumour cells. The researchers altered T-cells from a healthy donor to encourage them to recognise and kill the patient's cancer, to make them immune to her leukaemia drug, and to ensure they did not attack her healthy cells.

In another recent development, a firm called Edit as Medicine, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has said it hopes, in 2017, to start human clinical trials of CRISPR-Cas9 as a treatment for a rare genetic form of blindness known as Leber congenital amaurosis (伯氏先天性黑蒙). Though other companies are already testing gene-editing therapies, these employ older, clunkier forms of the technology that seem likely to have less commercial potential. Moreover, researchers at the Broad Institute, also in Cambridge, said this week that they had made changes to CRISPR-Cas9 which greatly reduce the rate of editing errors — one of the main obstacles to the technique's medical use.

On the subject of germ-line editing, Eric Lander, the Broad's head, told the meeting it would be useful only in rare cases and said it might be a good idea to "exercise caution? before making permanent changes to the gene pool. The need for caution is advice that might also be heeded by those pursuing work in animals other than people, and in plants — subjects not being covered by the summit.

1.Which ofthe following is TRUE about CRISPR-Cas9?

A. It has fewer side effects.

B. It can modify human gene.

B. It can protect immune system.

D. It has less commercial potential.

2.The underlined word "chin-wag" in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by______

A. discussion B. negotiation

C. argument D. comparison

3.What can be inferred from the passage?

A.Dr. Baltimore started his research on modiffing gene in 1975.

B. Scientists' opinions about the use of gene editing are consistent.

C. CRISPR-Cas9 has been applied to cure Leber congenital amaurosis.

D. More research should be made before the technology comes into wide use.

4.This passage is most probably a______.

A. science fiction B. scientific report

C. conference summary D. commercial advertisement

Passion is passion and it doesn't matter____ it's directed. Exactly, it can be coins or sports or politics.

A. why B. how C. whether D. where

____ an increase in foreign legal conflicts, China is expected to see the number continue to rise.

A. To witness B. Being witnessed

C. Witnessed D. Having witnessed

While most of us are happy to take the credit when things go well, few of us are willing to take the blame when things go wrong. Rather than trying to hide our shame or embarrassment, experts found that we are simply less aware when our actions result in a negative outcome.

The research may explain why we often feel it hard to take the blame for our actions.“Our result suggests that people may really experience less responsibility for negative than for positive outcomes,” said Patrick Haggard, leading researcher and professor of the institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.

In a series of tests, participants were asked to press a key. A sound then followed, either disapproving, neutral or approving, and they were then asked to estimate the time between the action and when they had heard the sound.

Researchers found that individuals experienced different levels of responsibility depending on the outcomes. They also discovered they were significantly slower to recognize if their actions had resulted in a bad consequence, compared to when they had done well.

“Effectively, we have found that we experience a negative outcome differently, not just retell it differently. We make a weaker connection when there is a bad result. And respond much more strongly when something good happens,”said Professor Haggard. When something goes right, everyone wants to take the credit, and when things go wrong, nobody is interested in putting their hands up.

The researchers said our brain is“very much concerned”with reward, as good results are key to survival. Although our own perception(认知) of whether we are guilty of something or not is changed by the outcomes, this does not provide a defense if we have done something wrong.“Our experience of our own responsibilities can be misleading and can be strongly colored by the outcomes of our actions.”said Professor Haggard.“We have to take responsibility for what actually do, not just for how we experience things.”

1.People who don’t take the blame for their actions .

A.always try to hide their shame or embarrassment.

B.are only willing to take the credit when things go well

C.feel less responsible for negative than for positive outcomes

D.are less aware of what to do when a negative outcome happens

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.Our level of responsibility can be strongly affected by the outcomes of our actions.

B.When something bad happens, nobody is interested in dealing with the problem.

C.People were quicker to recognize if their actions had resulted in a bad consequence.

D.Participants were asked to count the time between pressing a key and hearing the sound.

3.How is the passage developed?

A.By giving examples.

B.By quoting research findings.

C.By analyzing cause and effect.

D.By providing data.

4.According to the passage, a person who is concerned with reward is .

A.awkward B.natural C.absurd D.stubborn

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A. where B. which C. that D. as

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