【题目】A team of scientists from University of Freiburg in Germany are developing a shoe with a sensor to automatically tie its laces(鞋带)that could be taken off when users click their heels together.

Its been 26 years since we saw them magically tightening Marty McFlys Nike boots in the film Back to The Future.

Now,self-tying shoelaces could actually become a reality this year,proving right one of the films fantastical predictions for what 2015 would be like.

Engineers have designed a shoe that can automatically lace up,adjusting itself to the shape of your foot.

Simply slip the controller on and pressure sensors will tell the ‘smart shoe’ when your foot is in position,triggering(触发)a tiny motor in the heel that pulls the laces tight.

When you want to take off the shoes,you click your heels together twice and the motor will release a spring(弹簧)in the shoes tongue,which loosens the laces enough for you to slip them off.

And the invention doesn’t even need to be plugged in to charge or have its battery replaced because it runs on power generated by the swing of your foot as you walk.

Engineer K1evis Ylli,of the Institute for Micromachining and Information Technology in southern Gemany,said the shoes could help a variety of different people.

One focus is that it could be used in shoes for elderly people who have mobility problems,he said.But it could also work for children,or as a lifestyle product.

The design,which is still in a prototype(雏形)stage,cleverly gets the energy of the foots swing when opposing magnets in each shoe move past each other. It then uses that power to charge a battery.An hour of walking is enough to tighten the laces once,and it requires no energy to undo the shoes because that relies on the spring alone.

【1】Which of the following can be the best title of the text?

A.A fantastical prediction

B.A great invention in Germany

C.A shoe with self-tying laces

D.A popular lifestyle product

【2】What can we learn about the shoes?

A.They can automatically take off.

B.They can adjust themselves to your foot.

C.They need to be charged once.

D.They have been in design for 26 years.

【3】From the last paragraph we can know ____________.

A.the shoes have been put into use

B.the shoes need power to take off

C.the shoes promise to be popular

D.how the shoes work to produce energy

【题目】Cambridge graduates are the most employable in the world,according to a global league table.The ancient university is the best at producing graduates who areready to work,a poll of major employers found.

Oxford slipped to fourth place in the rankings having taken top spot last year.Harvard and Yalepart of the USIvy Leagueof universitieswere second and third respectively.

Five British universities were ranked in the top 20one more than last yearand 12 were in the full list of 150.

But the UK as a country came third—behind the US and Germany—when companies were asked to name the best nation for producing workready graduates.

The tablethe Global Employability(就业能力)University Ranking published by the International New York Timesalso showed that universities in Asian countries were rapidly gaining ground on their western counterparts (对手).

Asian universities claimed 20 percent of the top 150 places in 2014 compared with only 10 percent when the tables were first published in 2010.

The other British universities in the top 20 were University College London,in 14th place,Imperial College London,in 15th,and Edinburgh,18th.

The table showed the gap between a small number of top UK universities and less famous institutions.

Laurent Dupasquier,managing partner at Emerging,a French human resources consultancy,said:The top tier players.global brands (which tend to be all American and British).continue to lead,while other AngloSaxon universities,those that are mainly regional players,tend to develop less well,with an average of five places lost in comparison with last year.

Like the Premier League(英超联赛),the champions have an international community of students and think internationally,unlike their more locally oriented counterparts.

The table was made following a survey of 2,500 major companies in 20 countries.Employers were asked to rank universities against a range of criteria including their production of graduates who are ready to work and their links with business.

The study claimed thatthe days of ivory towers are over

【1】Which university had the best work-ready graduates last year?

A.Cambridge. B.Oxford. C.Harvard. D.Yale.

【2】The underlined phrasegaining groundin Paragraph 5 probably refers to ____________.

A.falling behind

B.coming into conflict

C.making room

D.becoming more successful

【3】What can we learn about the UK universities from the text?

A.There are many quality gaps between UK universities.

B.The UK produced the most work-ready graduates this year.

C.Universities in the UK make up most of the top 20.

D.Almost all UK university graduates are employable.

【4】Why do regional UK universities tend to develop less well this year?

A.They couldnt raise enough education fund.

B.They have students from all over the world.

C.They lack international students and think locally.

D.The UK government didnt support them at a11.

【题目】In a class this past December, after I wrote some directions on the board for students about their final examination, one young woman quickly took a picture of the board using her smart phone. When I looked in her direction, she apologized: “Sorry. Was it wrong to take a picture?”

“I can’t read my own handwriting,”the young woman explained. “It’s best if I take a picture of your writing so I can understand the notes.”

That remark started a class-wide conversation about taking a picture instead of taking notes. For those in the photo-taking camp, motivations extended beyond their inability to comprehend their own handwriting. Some took pictures of notes because they knew their phone was a safe place to store material. They might lose paper, they reasoned, but they wouldn’t lose their phones. Some took photos because they wanted to record exactly the manner in which I had noted information on the board. Others told me that during class they liked to be able to listen to the discussion attentively.

Yet the use of cameras as note takers, though it may be convenient, does raise significant questions for the classroom. Is a picture an effective replacement for the process of note-taking?

Instructors encourage students to take notes because the act of doing so is more than merely recording necessary information—it helps prepare the way for understanding. Encouraging students to take notes may be an old-fashioned instructional method, but just because a method has a long history doesn’t mean it’s out of date. Writing things down engages a student’s brain in listening, visual, and kinesthetic(触觉的)learning—a view supported by a longstanding research. The act of writing down information enables a person to begin committing it to memory, and to process and combine it, establishing the building blocks of learning new concepts.

Taking a picture does indeed record the information, but it deletes some of the necessary mental engagement that taking notes employs. So can the two be equally effective?

I’m not sure how to measure the effectiveness of either method. For now, I allow students to take notes however they see fit—handwritten or photographed—because I figure that some notes, no matter the method of note-taking, are better than none.

【1】The woman apologized in the class because she____.

A. took a picture of the board

B. missed the teachers’ directions

C. had the bad handwriting

D. disturbed other students’ learning

【2】Students refuse to take notes by hand because_____.

A. they are unable to take notes

B. they are more likely to lose notes

C. they are interested in using their phones

D. they have a good memory of teachers’ instructions

【3】According to the passage, taking notes by hand_______.

A. requires students to think independently

B. is unsuitable for students to learn new ideas

C. helps students actively participate in learning

D. proves to be an old and useless learning method

【4】What’s the author’s opinion towards taking notes by phones?

A. Supportive. B. Neutral.

C. Doubtful. D. Disapproving.

【题目】Amazon just released its list of the 10 best-selling books of 2014,and chances all youve already seen people reading them on the train.It's not too late to reador rereadthe bestsellers of the year.The following are the top four of them.

The Invention of Wingsby Sue Monk Kid

Set in the south in the early 1800s,this Oprah Book Club book follows the complicated relationship between Handful,a slave,and Sarah,her owner,as they grow up together from childhood.Their confusing friendship,in the face of politics and societal norms,becomes a beautiful and difficult thing to watch as it changes over time.

Gray Mountainby John Grisham

When the economic recession(萧条)causes Samantha Kofer to lose her Wall Street law firm job.she takes a job at a legal aid clinic in Virginia until she can hopefully get back to big law.But while her new job,for the first time,puts her front and center in the court room,it also puts her in terrible danger.

All the Light We Cannot Seeby Anthony Doerr

This National Book Award Finalist follows both MarieLaure,a blind French girl living with her father during World War II,and Werner,a German orphan with a skill for building and fixing radios.As their paths cross,this moving story will question how life and art are influenced by war.

Twenty Seconds Ago(Jack Reacher,#19)by Lee Child

After years of being out of the Army,Jack Reacher is pulled back into service at the CIA and State Department after someone tried to shoot the president of France.In Childs latest Jack Reacher installment(系列丛书),Reacher finds himself face to face with all old enemy and old memories.

【1】If you prefer emotional(情感)stories,youll choose _______________.

A.The Invention of Wings and Gray Mountain

B.All the Light We Cannot See and Twenty Seconds Ago

C.The Invention of Wings and All the Light We Cannot See

D.Twenty Seconds Ago and Gray Mountain

【2】What is Samantha Kofer?

A.A lawyer. B.A doctor.

C.A merchant. D.An official.

【3】Which book has won the top honor?

A.The Invention of Wings

B.All the Light We Cannot See

C.Gray Mountain

D.Twenty Seconds Ago

【4】What type of writing is this text?

A.A test report. B.An announcement.

C.A book review. D.Introduction of books.

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