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Modern life can be stressful. It’s full of pressure and hardships, worries and annoyances. But after years of being dosed up by doctors and seeking solutions on the self-help shelves, can most common complaints be cured through your next holiday?

The festival doctor will see you now.

Complaint

Prescription(处方)

Dosage(剂量)

Guilty

Restart yourself at the

Wanderlust Festival.

A weekend at any Wanderlust Festival should restrain some of the shame you are feeling.

Empty your mind with meditation(冥想) sessions in the mountains of America or

adjust your feelings with a sound bath in Santiago, Chile.

Sad

A healthy dose of laughter at Just for Laughs in Montreal, Canada in July.

Have fun at the largest comedy festival, which attracts more than two million ha-ha hunters every summer. Apart from 250 comedy acts, there will be walkabout theatre, circus acts and lots of new comedy films to make you laugh to tears.

Over-

thinking

Get nourishing food for

your thought at the UK’s

How The Light Gets In

in May.

Spend a week or so in the company of like-minded individuals and you will see you are not the only one overthinking things. The world’s largest philosophy festival, held in Hareous Wye, will have talks, debates and classes on culture, philosophy, politics, art and science.

Heart-

broken

Find one of your favourite fish in the sea at Ireland’s matchmaking festival in June.

A week at Liverpool’s matchmaking festival could be a choice as Ireland’s mythical matchmakers(媒人) have been pairing lovers together for centuries. Try to find Willie Dally, a fourth-generation matchmaker, for your best chance of everlasting love. Those who touch his lucky book are said to fall in love and marry within six months.

1.When celebrating the festival Just for Laughs in Montreal, you will ________.

A. empty your mind with meditation sessions

B. be thrilled and your depression will be removed

C. burst into tears by watching comedy films

D. have discussions on the meaning of life

2.If you are thinking too much about work, you can spend a few days at ________.

A. the Wanderlust Festival

B. How The Light Gets In

C. Just For Laughs

D. Ireland’s matchmaking festival

3.According to the passage, we can learn the festival doctor specializes in ________.

A. treating people falling ill during festivals

B. listening to people’s complaints during festivals

C. offering a cure through the festival form

D. celebrating the festivals with the patients

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增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear cousin,

Long time no see! It has been almost a year ever since you move to London. I miss you a lot of. I’m writing the letter to ask you for help. As you know, I am eager to be a photographer like you, so I asked my parents to buy me the camera last week. But he told me I wouldn’t concentrate in my schoolwork if I got it. Oh, my God! What can I make them trust me? I’m not a kid any longer, but I can control myself. What’s worse, I have promised that I will take photos for the school’s newspaper next month. When asking by my classmates, I will be absolutely embarrassed. Therefore, would you like to lend me some money? If you’d like to, I will return it as soon as possibly.

Yours Sincerely,

Tom

As Artificial Intelligence（AI） becomes increasingly sophisticated, there are growing concerns that robots could become a threat. This danger can be avoided, according to computer science professor Stuart Russell, if we figure out how to turn human values into a programmable code.

Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks, it’s necessary to translate our morals into AI language.

For example, if a robot does chores around the house, you wouldn’t want it to put the pet cat in the oven to make dinner for the hungry children. “You would want that robot preloaded with a good set of values,” said Russell.

Some robots are already programmed with basic human values. For example, mobile robots have been programmed to keep a comfortable distance from humans. Obviously there are cultural differences, but if you were talking to another person and they came up close in your personal space, you wouldn’t think that’s the kind of thing a properly brought-up person would do.

It will be possible to create more sophisticated moral machines, if only we can find a way to set out human values as clear rules.

Robots could also learn values from drawing patterns from large sets of data on human behavior. They are dangerous only if programmers are careless.

The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to so sufficient testing and they’ve produced a system that will break some kind of taboo（禁忌）.

One simple check would be to program a robot to check the correct course of action with a human when presented with an unusual situation.

If the robot is unsure whether an animal is suitable for the microwave, it has the opportunity to stop, send out beeps(嘟嘟声), and ask for directions from a human. If we humans aren’t quite sure about a decision, we go and ask somebody else.

The most difficult step in programming values will be deciding exactly what we believe in moral, and how to create a set of ethical rules. But if we come up with an answer, robots could be good for humanity.

1.What does the author say about the threat of robots?

A. It may constitute a challenge to computer progranmers.

B. It accompanies all machinery involving high technology.

C. It can be avoided if human values are translated into their language.

D. It has become an inevitable peril as technology gets more sophisticated.

2.What would we think of a person who invades our personal space according to the author?

A. They are aggressive.B. They are outgoing.

C. They are ignorant.D. They are ill-bred.

3.How do robots learn human values?

A. By interacting with humans in everyday life situations.

B. By following the daily routines of civilized human beings.

C. By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.

D. By imitating the behavior of property brought-up human beings.

4.What will a well-programmed robot do when facing an unusual situation?

A. keep a distance from possible dangers.

B. Stop to seek advice from a human being.

C. Trigger its built-in alarm system at once.

D. Do sufficient testing before taking action.

5.What is most difficult to do when we turn human values into a programmable code?

A. Determine what is moral and ethical.

B. Design some large-scale experiments.

C. Set rules for man-machine interaction.

D. Develop a more sophisticated program.

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Most people feel lonely sometimes, but it usually only lasts between a few minutes and a few hours. 1. In fact, it is quite normal. For some people, though, loneliness can last for years. Psychologists are studying this complex phenomenon, and have identified three different types of loneliness.

The first kind of loneliness is temporary. This is the most common type. It usually disappears quickly and does not require any special attention. The second kind, situation-for example, family problem, the death of a loved one, or moving to a new place. 2.

The third kind of loneliness is the most severe. Unlike the others, chronic (the opposite of "temporary")usually lasts more than two years and has no specific cause. 3. Unfortunately, many chronically lonely people think there is little or nothing they can do to improve their condition.

Psychologists agree that one important factor in loneliness is a person's social contacts, for example, friends, family members, co-workers, etc. We depend on various people for different reasons. For instance, our families give us emotional support, our parents and teachers give us guidance, and our friends share similar interests and activities. However, psychologists have found that, though lonely people may have many social contacts, they sometimes feel they should have more.4..

Psychologists are trying to find ways to help habitually lonely people for two reasons. They are unhappy and unable to socialize and there is a connection between chronic loneliness and serious illness as heart disease. 5.

A. It is very difficult to deal with.

B. What's more, temporary and situational loneliness can be a sad, and sometimes dangerous condition.

C. Although it can cause physical problems? such as headaches and sleeplessness, it usually does not last for more than a year.

D. This kind of loneliness is not serious.

E. They don' t think they are in need of them.

F. People who experience it have problems socializing and becoming close to others.

G. They question their popularity.

The house where I lived before was near a railway station. I had become so familiar with the sound and sight that I took little interest in 1. . However, when my father decided to take up a new 2. (appoint) in another town, he intended to travel by train. It was only then 3. I discovered how pleasant a journey by train might be.

We 4. (board) the train one afternoon. As the train moved out of the station, I began to think of the days I had spent in our old house, which soon went out of sight.

The train was now moving quite fast. The first thing that impressed me was the beauty of the landscape. There were green valleys. Tropical plants could 5. (see) everywhere, which reminded me of the geography lessons I had in the classroom.

About four hours 6. (late), it became dark. The moon appeared and the landscape looked romantic. I felt a thrill 7. admiration for the great artistry of nature.

After passing several stations, I felt 8. (sleep) and closed my eyes. When I opened them, I saw the dim light of the dawn. Looking outside, I saw mist-covered plants. The air was fresh, and birds 9. (fly) about. 10. a beautiful scene! I was lost in admiration of it.

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1. Mohandas Gandhi gave up a rich life for his ideas and fought for his country to be free from the UK in a p____________ way.

2.Neil Armstrong said, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for __________.”

3.Nelson Mandela once said, “... we were put into a p____________ in which we had either to accept we were less important, or fight against the government. ”

4.The design of the Amber Room was in the f________ style popular in those days.

5.The Amber Room was also a treasure d____________ with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make.

6. In ___________, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers.

7. By studying the old photos of the ___________Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old one.

8.A fact is a____________ that can be proved.

9. In a ____________, a judge must decide which eyewitnesses to believe and which not to believe.

10.Suddenly Jan Hasek saw some German soldiers by the ________ of the moon and they were taking wooden boxes from trucks and putting them in the mine.

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1、 未及时回信的原因；

2、 你假期的打算（如做兼职、旅行、做志愿者等）；

3、 希望有时间来中国玩。

注意：

1、字数：120左右；

2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Jack,

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

Yours truly,

A drunken burglar（盗贼）in the Orrell Park area of Liverpool, ended up leaping out of a window after a 10-year-old girl asked him to prove he was a superhero. The drunken thief who pretended he was Superman to stop a child raising the alarm has been caught after he leapt from the apartment building in his pants to make the girl convinced.

Thief Ethan Adamson, 25, told police that he had broken into a fifth-floor flat after a drinking session, believing it was empty. But he was horrified when the owner’s 10-year-old daughter woke up while he was there.

From his hospital bed, the thief told reporters, “To keep her quiet, I told her I was really Superman and I’d soon be flying off back to my secret headquarters.” “She called my bluff (吓唬) and told me, ‘If you’re Superman, show me you can fly or I’ll scream’ ”.

“I had no choice so I stripped to my pants to look more like a superhero and went to the window. I saw another roof below and I thought I could make it but it turned out to be a lot further down than thought. I know it doesn’t make sense but it did to me when I was drunk.”

Police later found him on the roof in just his yellow pants, covered in cuts and bruises after a baffled neighbor heard his cries of pain. He now faces seven years behind bars for burglary.

Police spokesman Frank Amado said, “He was in quite a serious state and couldn’t move until we got up there using ladders. He was treated for his injuries and we got him some fresh clothes before taking him to hospital, where he is being kept under guard until he is well enough to be arrested.”

1. What does the underlined part in the passage mean?

A. I could make the girl trust me.

B. I could prove I was a superhero.

C. I could land safely on the roof.

D. I could make a successful escape.

2. What’s the right order of the event?

a. Ethan Adamson told reporters of the burglary.

b. The 10-year-old girl called Ethan Adamson’s bluff.

c. Ethan Adamson attended a drinking session.

d. Ethan Adamson leapt out of a window.

A. cbda B. cabd C. dbca D. dcab

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Adamson was being watched while he was in hospital.

B. Adamson was set free a few days after staying in hospital.

C. Adamson was badly treated before he was rushed to hospital.

D. Adamson was sent to the police station before he’s taken to hospital.

4. What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

A. To call our attention to the burglary.

B. To explain how the burglar was caught.

C. To report on a joking burglary

D. To look back on an adventure story.

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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。

Dear John,

Yesterday I had read a notice on the Internet. You wanted to look for a Chinese friend online who can actual help you learn the Chinese language, cultures or customs.

I’m looking forward to be your friend on the Internet but I wonder whether or not you would like to accept me. If I become our friend on the Internet, I’ll try my best to help you for Chinese in my spare time. At same time, I’ll introduce some cultures and custom of China to you step by step.

So if you are interesting in this, please let me know your QQ number and I really expect what we can make good friends soon.

Love,

Li Hua

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