题目内容

The Shanghai Center, to be environmentally friendly, will be completed this year.

A. designed B. designing

C. being designed D. having designed

 

A

【解析】

试题分析:考查非谓语动词。Shanghai Center与design是动宾关系,即design the Shanghai Center,应该使用过去分词,排除B、D;根据will be completed this year可知,“设计”这个动作已经完成,而C项表示进行,排除C,故选A。

考点:考查非谓语动词

 

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I was in the ninth year at St Joseph’s High School, when I began to suffer depression. My parents noticed, but felt that since I’d always been a responsible girl and a good student, this was just a temporary 21 .

Unfortunately, that was not to be. I didn’t have many friends. I could never share my 22. A deep insecurity destroyed my self-confidence. Soon I 23 to attend classes for many days. I would shut myself in my room for hours.

The examinations were approaching, 24 I simply didn’t care. My parents and teachers were surprised at my bad performance.

One morning, after a particularly 25 lecture from Dad, I stood depressed, in the school assembly. 26 , as the other students marched to their classroom, our principal 27 me. I made my way to Sister Sylvia’s office.

The next 45 minutes were the most 28 moments of my life. Sister Sylvia said she’d noticed a big 29 in me. She wanted to know why I was lagging in studies, so frequently 30 and unhappy. She took my hand in hers and 31 patiently as I spilled out my worries. She then 32 me as I sobbed my pent-up (压抑的)emotions out. Months of frustration and loneliness 33 in her motherly hug.

No one had tried to 34 what the real problem was, but my principal had done it with her simple act of just listening to me with such 35 and caring.

As the examinations approached again, I studied 36 . When the results were 37 , everybody was pleased, but happiest of all was my principal.

I soon made new friends and was happy 38 . But whenever I had a problem, I could always slip into Sister Sylvia’s office for a(n) 39 .

Today I’m a 40 young woman doing my MA and hoping to become a writer. I’ve become an inspiration to several of my friends and cousins, thanks to a kind nun who cared.

1.A. basis B. stageC. adjustment D. solution

2.A. viewpointsB. experiences C. problems D. dreams

3.A. skipped B. refused C. regretted D. forgot

4.A. otherwiseB. thoughC. butD. or

5.A. severe B. public C. popularD. formal

6.A. Also B. Therefore C. Still D. Then

7.A. attractedB. accompaniedC. calledD. instructed

8.A. preciousB. curious C. anxious D. serious

9.A. quality B. change C. mistake D. faith

10.A. absent B. dishonestC. aggressiveD. calm

11.A. looked B. waited C. listened D. worked

12.A. hugged B. acknowledge C. observed D. educated

13.A. passed awayB. rode awayC. drove awayD. melted away

14.A. reveal B. understand C. realizeD. doubt

15.A. dignityB. courageC. attentionD. satisfaction

16.A. hard B. aloneC. closelyD. abroad

17.A. declaredB. obtainedC. appliedD. compared

18.A. foreverB. againC. anyhowD. instead

19.A. requestB. effectC. reasonD. chat

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Can software bring dead tongues back to life? Probably yes.

A computer algorithm(计算程序)works almost as well as a trained linguist(语言学家) in reconstructing how dead "protolanguages" would have sounded, says a new study.

"Our computer system is doing a basic job right now," says Alex Bouchard-C?té, an assistant professor in the department of statistics at the University of British Columbia and lead author of the paper describing the algorithm. But the program does a good enough job that it may be able to give linguists a head start, the statistician added.

For centuries, scholars have reconstructed languages by hand: looking at the same word in two or more languages and making educated guesses about what that word's "ancestor" may have sounded like. For example, the Spanish word for man ("hombre") and the French word for man ("homme") developed from the Latin word "homo." The way linguists compare words from descendant(后代)languages to reconstruct the parent language is called, appropriately, the comparative method.

The early 19th-century linguist Franz Bopp was the first to compare Greek, Latin and Sanskrit using this method. Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm of fairy tale fame, used the comparative method to show how Germanic languages developed from a common ancestor.

The difference between that and Bouchard-C?té's program, the statistician says, "is we do it on a larger scale." As a proof of concept, Bouchard-C?té fed words from 637 Austronesian languages (spoken in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and more) into the new algorithm, and the system came up with a list of what the ancestor words of all those languages would have sounded like. In more than 85 percent of cases, the automated reconstruction came within one character of the ancestor word commonly accepted as true by linguists.

The algorithm won't replace trained human linguists, but could speed up language analysis.

Using a computer to do large-scale reconstruction offers another advantage. Bouchard-C?té says, “With big data sets, you can really start finding regularities … You might find that certain sounds are more likely to change than others."

So Bouchard-C?té's team tested the "functional load hypothesis(假设)," which says that sounds that are more important for two clearly different words are less likely to change over time. A formal test of this hypothesis in 1967 looked at four languages; Bouchard-C?té's algorithm looked at 637.

"The revealed pattern would not be obvious if we had not been able to reconstruct large numbers of protolanguages," Bouchard-C?té and his coauthors write in the new study.

In addition to simply helping linguists understand how people spoke in the past, studying ancient languages can perhaps answer historical questions. For example, Bouchard-C?té says, "Say people are interested in finding out when Europe was settled. If you can figure out if the language of the settling population had a word for wheel, then you can get some idea of the order in which things occurred, because you would have some records that show you when the wheel was invented.”

1.The underline word “protolanguages” in the first paragraph probably refers to __________.

A. the languages that couldn’t be reconstructed by hand

B. parent languages that existed in the past

C. languages developed from a common ancestor

D. languages used to explain things that occurred in the past

2.We can learn from the fourth and fifth paragraphs that the reconstruction of “protolanguage” by scholars __________.

A. is commonly accepted as false

B. dates back to the 19th century

C. focuses on European languages

D. is conducted using the comparative method

3.According to Bouchard-C?té, reconstructing the dead "protolanguages" might _______.

A. arouse people’s interest in when Europe was settled

B. allow us to find answers to some historical questions

C. enable us to picture the way linguists communicated

D. help figure out how the wheel was invented

4.The author probably wants to prove the computer algorithm program led by Bouchard-C?té ___________.

A. will bring every dead language back to life

B. can take the place of linguists in language analysis

C. is of great help to promote language analysis with big data sets

D. can merely reconstruct Asian-Pacific “protolanguages”

 

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