【题目】The history of chocolate begins with a plant whose name is cacao. For centuries, people worldwide have been enjoying the rich favor of chocolate, a product made from cacao. 1 Americans eat an average of more than five kilograms of chocolate per person every year. The specialty shop shows the culture of chocolate and sells chocolates from different areas of the world.

Historians believe the Mayan people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around 2,000 years ago. 2 Then they grew them around their homes. They cooked the cacao seeds and pressed them into soft powder. They mixed the powder with water to make a delicious chocolate drink. There are often images of cacao plants on Maya buildings and art objects. The rulers drank chocolate at ceremonies. 3

The Aztecs also valued chocolate in the Aztec culture. But the cacao plant could not grow in the area where they lived. 4 They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay or give as offerings to the gods. Only the very wealthy people in Aztec societies could afford to drink chocolate because cacao was so valuable.

The explorer Christopher Columbus brought cacao seeds to Spain after his trip to Central America in 1502. The wealthy people of Spain first enjoyed the chocolate drink. 5 Nowadays, the English, Dutch and French all plant cacao trees in their own countries.

A. Chocolate is very sensitive to temperature.

B. The Mayan took the cacao trees from the rainforests.

C. Chocolate is especially popular in the United States.

D. Chocolate has been prepared as a drink for nearly all of its history.

E. So they had to exchange goods with other societies for cacao seeds.

F. Since then, the popularity of the drink has spread throughout Europe.

G. And even poorer members of Mayan society could enjoy the drink sometimes.

【题目】
Parents who help their children with homework may actually be bringing down their school grades. Other forms of prenatal involvement, including volunteering at school and observing a child's class, also fail to help, according to the most recent study on the topic.
The findings challenge a key principle of modern parenting(养育子女) where schools except them to act as partners in their children's education. Previous generations concentrated on getting children to
school on time, fed, dressed and ready to learn.
Kaith Robinson, the author of the study, said, "I really don't know if the public is ready for this but there are some ways parents can be
involved in their kids' education that leads to declines in their academic performance. One of the things that was consistently negative was
parents' help with homework." Robinson suggested that may be because parents themselves struggle to understand the task." They may
either not remember the material their kids are studying now, or in some cases never learnt it themselves, but they're still offering advice."
Robinson assessed parental involvement performance and found one of the most damaging things a parent could do was to punish their children for poor marks. In general, about 20% of parental involvement was positive, about 45% negative and the rest statistically
insignificant.
Common sense suggests it was a good thing for parents to get involved because "children with good academic success do have involved
parents ", admitted Robinson. But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success." A big
surprise was that Asian-American parents whose kids are doing so well in school hardly involved. They took a more reasonable approach, conveying to their children how success at school could improve their lives."
(1)The underlined expression "parental involvement " in Paragraph 1 probably means .
A.parents'expectationonchildren'shealth
B.parents'participationinchildren'seducation
C.parents'controloverchildren'slife
D.parents'planforchildren'sfuture
(2)What is the major finding of Robinson's study ?
A.Modernparentsraisechildreninamorescientificway.
B.Punishingkidsforbadmarksismentallydamaging.
C.Parentalinvolvementisnotsobeneficialasexpected.
D.Parentsarenotabletohelpwithchildren’shomework.
(3)The example of Asian-American parents implies that parents should .
A.helpchildrenrealizetheimportanceofschooling
B.setaspecificlifegoalfortheirchildren
C.spendmoretimeimprovingtheirownlives
D.takeamoreactivepartinschoolmanagement

【题目】完形填空。
Dad had a green comb. He bought it when he married Mum. Every night, he would hand me his 1 and say, “Good girl, help Daddy clean it, OK?”
I was 2 to do it. At age five, this dull task brought me such3. I would excitedly turn the tap 4 and brush the comb carefully. Satisfied that I'd done a good job, I would happily return the comb to Dad. He would 5 affectionately at me and place the comb on his wallet.
Two years later, Dad started his own 6, which wasn't doing so well. That was when things started to 7. Dad didn't come home as early and as much as he used to. Mum and I became 8with him for placing our family in trouble. With 9 , an uncomfortable silence grew between us.
After my graduation, Dad’s business was getting back on track. On my 28th birthday, Dad came home 10. As usually I helped him carry his bags into his study. When I turned to leave, he said ,“Hey, would you help me11 my comb?” I looked at him a while, then12the comb and headed to the sink.
It hit me then: why, as a child, 13 Dad clean his comb was such a pleasure. That routine(习惯) meant Dad was home early to 14 the evening with Mum and me. It 15 a happy and loving family.
I passed the clean comb back to Dad. He smiled at me and 16placed his comb on his wallet. But this time , I noticed something 17. Dad had aged. He had wrinkles next to his eyes when he smiled, 18 his smile was still as 19 as before, the smile of a father who just wanted a good 20 for his family.
(1)A.bag B.wallet C.comb D.brush
(2)A.annoyed B.relieved C.ashamed D.pleased
(3)A.joy B.sadness C.courage D.pain
(4)A.out B.over C.in D.on
(5)A.stare B.smile C.shout D.laugh
(6)A.family B.business C.task D.journey
(7)A.progress B.change C.improve D.form
(8)A.satisfied B.delighted C.mad D.strict
(9)A.time B.patience C.speed D.ease
(10)A.occasionally B.early C.frequently D.rarely
(11)A.sharply B.repair C.clean D.keep
(12)A.dropped B.took C.handed D.threw
(13)A.watching B.letting C.helping D.hearing
(14)A.find B.lose C.waste D.spend
(15)A.affected B.broke C.meant D.supported
(16)A.firmly B.hurriedly C.casually D.carefully
(17)A.different B.exciting C.interesting D.urgent
(18)A.for B.or C.so D.yet
(19)A.convincing B.heartwarming C.cautious D.innocent
(20)A.origin B.life C.reputation D.education

【题目】Whether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years. Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company Jibo.
While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools. For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad. This allows them to respond more appropriately to the user.
The Jibo robot, arranged to ship later this year, is designed to be a personalized assistant. You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks. The robot doesn’t just deliver general answers to questions; it responds based on what it learns about each individual in the household. It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.
Social robots are not just finding their way into the home. They have potential applications in everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.
Fellow Robots is one company bringing social robots to the market. The company’s “Oshbot” robot is built to assist customers in a store, which can help the customers find items and help guide them to the product’s location in the store. It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.
The more interaction the robot has with humans, the more it learns. But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees. “We have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us, but with us,” said Breazeal.
(1)How are social robots different from household robots?
A.They can control their emotions.
B.They are more like humans.
C.They do the normal housework.
D.They respond to users more slowly.
(2)What can a Jibo robot do according to Paragraph 3?
A.Communicate with you and perform operations.
B.Answer your questions and make requests.
C.Take your family pictures and deliver milk.
D.Obey your orders and remind you to take pills.
(3)What can Oshbot work as?
A.A language teacher.
B.A tour guide.
C.A shop assistant.
D.A private nurse.
(4)We can learn from the last paragraph that social robots will ______.
A.train employees
B.be our workmates
C.improve technologies
D.take the place of workers
(5)What does the passage mainly present?
A.A new design idea of household robots.
B.Marketing strategies for social robots。
C.Information on household robots.
D.An introduction to social robots.

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