题目内容
5. Be certain to eat slowly and (咀嚼) your food extremely well.
5. chew
The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells (细胞）and each of these may have a thousand connections. Such great numbers used to discourage us and cause us to stop thinking about the possibility of making a machine with humanlike ability,but now that we have grown used to moving forward at such a speed we can be less sure. Quite soon,in only 10 or 20 years,perhaps,we will be able to build a machine as complex（复杂） as the human brain,and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to make it as intelligent as the human brain by properly programming it.
I think it is certain that in decades,not centuries,machines of silicon (硅) will arise to compete with their human ancestors. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon's long control. And we will no longer be able to consider ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the world.
As the intelligence of robots increases and their cost goes down,we may achieve a lot with their help,first on the earth through their ability to complete any kind of work in harmful environments. In the end deserts(沙漠) may turn into gardens. Further ahead,by a combination of;the great wealth this new age will bring and the techpology it will provide,the creation of a huge, man-made world in space,home to thousands or millions of people,will be within our power.
33. In the author 's opinion,the human brain
A. is complex and intelligent
B. is too complex to be reproduced
C. may change a lot in 10 or 20 years
D. will soon be replaced by machines
34. The underlined word “carbon” in Paragraph 2 stands for.
A. human beings
B. an old machine
C. an ocean animal
D. intelligent robots
35. In the last paragraph,the author mainly.
A. talks about the intelligence of robots
B. explains how to create a world in space
C. describes what our future life might be
D. shows his worry about the environment
What's more important: Your employee or your customer? A popular business expression is, “The customer is always right." But you should never say “always."
The owners of a restaurant in Alaska won international praise after protecting their autistic (自闭的) employee.
When the employee delivered the wrong food to a customer's house,that customer reacted violently and unkindly. Even after the employee corrected the mistake,the customer continued to shout. And that same customer was even rude to the restaurant owners,daughter. So the owners “fired” the customer.
Restaurant owners P.J. and Spiro Gialopsos have added the customer to the restaurant,s “Do N〇t Deliypr” lilt. That customer is now gm/a,Latin for “an unwelcome person."
P.J. Gialopsos wrote on the restaurant's Facebook page, “you would think in the year 2015 the majority of the population would have learned or at least heard about autism."
Gialopsos said, “The employee has worked at the Little Italy Restaurante in Anchorage,Alaska,for two years. He was very upset about the angry customer."
Gialopsos describes the employee as a seriously gifted university student who is curious about the world. She adds that the employee also has aan amazing personality,great sense of humor and a strong work ethic(职业道德) .”
“This employee is also one who will not have to deal with that rude customer anymore ,” added Gialopsos.
Reached at home by reporters,Gialopsos said she is happy about the positive comments she and her husband are receiving. By Tuesday afternoon,her Facebook posting about the incident received more than 30 ,000 “Likes” and hundreds of positive comments. Comments and emails came from Australia,the United Kingdom,Ireland,Namibia and the United Arab Emirates.
Gialopsos said she spent a couple of emotional days crying over the posts on the Facebook page. She adds that many parents from around the country who have children with autism wrote to her about the incident. “Their stories broke my heart/' she said. Another comment on Facebook that she found “striking” is a woman who thanked them for hiring someone who is “differently-abled. ”
6. The owners of the restaurant were praised because they.
A. would always put their customers first
B. had a uDo Not Deliverw list in their restaurant
C. fired a customer for hurting their autistic worker
D. promised to deliver food to their customers’ house
7. What made the customer angry?
A. The employee acted unkindly.
B. He didn't get the food he ordered.
C. The owners’ daughter was very impolite.
D. He was considered as an unwelcome person.
8. We can infer from the text that the employee.
A. began to work at the restaurant in 2015
B. was difficult to get along with
C. would leave the restaurant
D. was an excellent worker
9. Why did Gialopsos cry when she read the posts on Facebook?
A. Because she was moved by others,comments.
B. Because nobody understood .what she had done.
C. Because children with autism were thankful to her.
D. Because stories on the Facebook page hurt her feelings.
10. Where is the text most probably taken from?
A. A restaurant guide. B. A personal diary.
C. A research paper. D. A news report.
用括号内动词的正确形式(包括动词-ing形式和不定式) 完成下面短文。
It isn’ t 1. (surprise) that Jim Thompson isn't liked in our company. His job is
2. (manage) the sales department. He claimed to have worked in several different countries before he came here. But when we asked him where exactly,he kept 3. (change) the subject.
What he did was really 4.(disappoint) . When we walked past his office,we often heard him 5. (talk) to his friend on the phone. When we needed to discuss marketing plans with him,he was often busy with computer
games and kept us 6. — (wait) for a long time. Then one of my colleagues caught him 7. (steal) some money from the cash box. Eventually,a group of us went to the Managing Director of the company and advised the MD 8. (have) Thompson dismissed. But he said that he couldn 't agree 9. (dismiss) his own son.
[即学即练]翻译下面句子。
1. We had to adapt our plans to fit Jack's timetable.
7. We saw a quick film showing the stages in the (生产) of glass.
2. The young man was a better songwriter than(perform) .
2. My family (很穷) in those days.
2. The woman hired a private (侦探) in an attempt to find her daughter.
