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1. Words fail to________________(表达)my meaning.

2. We admire him for his________________(勇敢的)conduct.

3. Please treat people and animals with________________(人性).

4. What the Great Wall is like is beyond________________(描述).

5. They set up a monument in________________(纪念)of the well-known hero.

6. The student answered the question with c    (自信).

7. If you don’t help me, I’ll h    (缠绕)you after my death.

8. He p    (参加)in their discussion last weekend.

9. After he came to himself, he found all his b   (财物)gone.

10. He is a man of w   (智慧).

 

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1. convey  2. courageous  3. humanity  4. description  5. memory  6. confidence  7. haunt  8. participated  9. belongings  10. wisdom

 


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When I was growing up, I seldom heard the words “I love you” from my father. If your father never   1  them to you when you are a   2 , it gets more and more   3 for him to say those words as you get older. To tell you the truth, I could hardly   4  when I heard those words from my father. Neither could I remind when I had last said those words to 5  . I decided to   6 my shyness aside and make the first move. 7  hesitating for some time, in our next  8 conversation, I spoke out the words suddenly, “Dad ... I love you!”
There was a  9 at the other end. It wasn’t after a while did he awkwardly(笨拙地) reply, “Well,  10 to you!” I laughed and said, “Dad, I  11  you love me, and when you are ready, I know you will say what you want to say.”Fifteen minutes later my mother called and  12  asked, “Paul, is everything okay?”
A few weeks later, Dad  13 our phone conversation with the words, “Paul, I love you.” I was at work during this conversation and the 14  was (were) rolling down my cheeks as I finally “  15  ” the love. As we both sat there in tears, we  16  that this special moment had taken our father and son  17 to a new level.
A short while after this special moment, my father  18 escaped death from the following heart surgery. Many times since his return to the usual state of health, I have  19  , if I did not take the first step and Dad did not  20 the surgery, I would have never heard him say those words.

【小题1】
A.speaksB.saysC.offersD.provides
【小题2】
A.manB.motherC.childD.father
【小题3】
A.easyB.possible C.delightedD.difficult
【小题4】
A.forgetB.remember C.mindD.decide
【小题5】
A.himB.herC.meD.them
【小题6】
A.dropB.letC.setD.lose
【小题7】
A.BeforeB.AfterC.When D.Since
【小题8】
A.phoneB.emailC.letterD.record
【小题9】
A.smileB.voiceC.cryD.silence
【小题10】
A.sameB.difficultC.true D.similar
【小题11】
A.hopeB.knowC.wonderD.doubt
【小题12】
A.crazilyB.delightedlyC.nervouslyD.terribly
【小题13】
A.concludedB.disturbedC.brokeD.carried
【小题14】
A.hairsB.waterC.sweatD.tears
【小题15】
A.understoodB.expressed C.heardD.saw
【小题16】
A.discussedB.consideredC.believed D.realized
【小题17】
A.decisionB.developmentC.relationshipD.situation
【小题18】
A.narrowlyB.easilyC.unlikely D.generally
【小题19】
A.saidB.thoughtC.dreamedD.apologized
【小题20】
A.thinkB.fightC.fail D.Survive

IMAGINE if there was a device that could do everything for you – wake you up every morning, chat with you and type your e-mails.
The piece of technology in question would be smart, able to tell you about the weather and where the nearest restaurants are.
The good thing is you no longer need to wonder, because something like this already exists. And its name is Siri.
Siri is a voice recognition application designed for Apple products and the concept has been around for almost a year.
When Siri first came out it could only speak English, but now it has “learned” lots of new languages, including Chinese, Cantonese and Taiwanese, reported The Wall Street Journal. So, you can give it orders in your mother tongue.
But how could a cell phone or a computer “hear” what you are saying and understand it? This is all because of voice recognition technology.
When you speak, your voice creates vibrations (振动) in the air – a bit like waves in the water when you throw a rock into the lake. The microphone receives the vibrations and the computer changes them into digital data that is then divided into many parts. They are analyzed one by one to see what pronunciations each part stands for. The computer then puts these pronunciations together into possible words according to its built-in dictionary.
But figuring out the words is far from enough; building words into meaningful sentences is the most difficult part. The computer has to compare what it hears to a large library of known phrases and sentences to determine what the user is saying.
However, people don’t always talk in the most standard way and sometimes make grammatical mistakes. This is why traditional voice recognition software always requires you to remember keywords and to speak in a certain way.
Fortunately, Siri isn’t like that. It’s not just “voice recognition”; it’s “natural language understanding (NLU)”. You can ask it things like “Do I need an umbrella today?” and it will know that you are asking about the weather, according to ABC News.
“The key thing is NLU – understanding what you mean and what you want,” Neil Grant from Nuance, a software company in the US, told The Guardian. “Historically, you had to learn a huge long list of commands . As NLU progresses, you can say what you want in a way that’s natural to you.”
【小题1】What is the function of the first two paragraphs?

A.To show that invention usually results from need.
B.To clear doubts about voice recognition technology.
C.To introduce something that offers these helpful services.
D.To show how the voice recognition works.
【小题2】Which step is the most complicated in the process of voice recognition according to the article?
A.Changing the received vibrations into digital data.
B.Analyzing the digital data to see what pronunciations it represents.
C.Putting the pronunciations together into possible words.
D.Figuring out meaningful sentences based on the words.
【小题3】How can you get Siri to respond according to the article?
A.You can speak in a natural way as you would to a person.
B.You can only speak English and Chinese.
C.You have to say things in a certain way.
D.You have to remember keywords and speak specific commands.
【小题4】What can be concluded from the article?
A.Siri can record and save what you say frequently into a computer dictionary.
B.Siri will fail to understand what you say if you make grammatical mistakes.
C.The biggest advantage of Siri is that it’s NLU is rather than just voice recognition.
D.Since first applied to Apple products a year ago, Siri has made great improvements.
【小题5】The text is mainly about ________.
A.the convenience of future life.
B.an introduction to the Apple products.
C.the working system of voice recognition
D.the introduction to Siri

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     The gift of being able to describe a face accurately is a rare one, as every experienced police
officer knows to his cost. As the Lancet put it recently, "When we try to describe faces precisely,
words fail us, and we resort to identikit (拼脸型图) procedures."
     Yet, according to one authority on the subject, we can each probably recognize more than
1,000 faces, the majority of which differ in fine details. This, when one comes to think of it, is a
tremendous feat, though, curiously enough, relatively little attention has been devoted to the
fundamental problems of how and why we acquire this gift for recognizing and remembering faces.
Is it an inborn property of our brains, or an acquired one? As so often happens, the experts tend
to differ.
     Thus, some argue that it is inborn, and that there are "special characteristics about the brain's
ability to distinguish faces". In support of this, they note how much better we are at recognizing a
face after a single encounter than we are, for example, in recognizing an individual horse. On the
other hand, there are those, and they are probably in the majority, who claim that the gift is an
acquired one.
     The arguments in favor of this latter view, it must be confessed, are impressive. It is a habit that
is acquired soon after birth. Watch, for instance, how a quite young baby recognizes his mother by
sight. Granted that his other senses help - the sound, his sense of smell, the distinctive way she
handles him. But of all these, sight is predominant. Formed at the very beginning of life, the ability
to recognize faces quickly becomes an established habit, and one that is, essential for daily living,
if not necessarily for survival. How essential and valuable it is we probably do not appreciate until
we encounter people who have been deprived of the faculty.
     This unfortunate inability to recognize familiar faces is known to all, but such people can often
recognize individuals by their voices, their walking manners or their spectacles. With typical human
ingenuity, many of these unfortunate people overcome their handicap by recognizing other
characteristic features.