题目内容
________ and a woman made life even ________ difficult in America at that time.
- A.To be black; more
- B.Being black; much
- C.Being black; more
- D.Be black; quite
【巧解导析】分析句子可知:前面的空应填与a woman并列的成分作主语,后面的空应填一个恰当的adj. 与difficult构成比较级.据此分析,A,B,D均不合要求.
A new walking, talking robot from Japan which has black hair and a woman’s face that can smile will attend a fashion show. It has trimmed down(减少)to 43kg, but it still hasn’t reached the safety standards required to share the catwalk with human models.
Developers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, a government-backed organization, said their “cybernetic(全自动控制的)human” wasn’t ready to help with daily housework or work side by side with people—as many hope robots will be able to do in the future.
“In technology, it hasn’t reached that level,” said Hirohisa Hirukawa, one of the robot’s developers. “Even as a fashion model, people in the industry told us she was short and had a rather ordinary figure.”
For now, the 158 cm tall black-haired robot named HRP-4C—whose predecessor(前任)had weighed 58 kg — will mainly serve to draw and entertain crowds. Developers said the robot may be used in amusement parks or to perform human movement, as an exercise instructor, for instance.
HRP-4C was designed to look like an ordinary Japnese woman, although its silver-and-black body reminds people of a space suit. It will appear in a Tokyo fashion show — without any clothes — in a special part just for the robot next week.
The robotic framework(框架)for HRP-4C, without the face and other coverings, will go on sale for about 20 million yen(日元) each. Its programming technology will be made public so other people can come up with fun moves for the robot, the scientists said.
Japan is one of the leading robotics industries in the world, and the government is pushing to develop the industry as a road to growth.
【小题1】What do we know about HRP-4C’s predecessor?
A.It is shorter than HRP-4C . B.It is cleverer than HRP-4C .
C.It is taller than HRP-4C . D.It is heavier than HRP-4C .
【小题2】According to the passage, how many of the following could HRP-4C do?
a. drawing pictures
b. walking and talking
c. doing housework
d. working with people
e. smiling
| A.2 | B.3 | C.4 | D.5 |
| A.It wears a space suit. |
| B.Its price is 20 million dollars. |
| C.It can be used as an exercise instructor. |
| D.As a fashion model, it has a perfect figure. |
| A.make money | B.make new frameworks |
| C.let other people improve it | D.help make new face and coverings |
A.The purpose of making HRP-4C. B.Robotics industry in Japan.
C.A new Japanese robot. D.Japanese and robots.
England has been the birthplace of most of the great English-language theater written throughout history. Most of the plays in England that are truly famous have something in common. They usually come from a playwright(剧作家) with several famous plays.
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is considered the most famous British playwright. Shakespeare has a large catalog(目录) of tragedies, comedies and history plays, and each category is home to some of the most famous plays ever written. Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Julius Caesar are all tragedies and performed in theaters around the world every year. Famous comedies include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. In the history category, Richard Ⅲ and Henry Ⅴ are very famous.
Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw
Several hundred years after Shakespeare, English people began to enjoy the works of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Wilde’s plays are still popular now, and The Importance of Being Earnest is both performed and studied extremely frequently. A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband are among his other famous works. Shaw and Wilde were born within a few years of each other, but Shaw was a much more productive writer. His most famous plays include Pygmalion and Candida. Shaw’s plays are loved so much that an entire theater company is devoted to performing his work in Niagara-on-the-Lake in southern Ontario.
Harold Pinter
The plays of Harold Pinter certainly have an international presence. His writing was so widely recognized for its importance that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005. Pinter is especially known for his style of writing. Many of his plays such as Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter and his first play, The Room, are extremely well known.
【小题1】The writer wrote this passage to .
| A.advise us to spend more time enjoying plays |
| B.explain why England has so many wonderful plays |
| C.tell us about some famous British playwrights and their works |
| D.tell us the differences among some British playwrights |
| A.They are all Shakespeare’s early works. |
| B.They are all tragedies written by Shakespeare. |
| C.They are all Shakespeare’s famous comedies. |
| D.They all belong to the history category of Shakespeare’s plays. |
| A.The Dumb Waiter and A Woman of No Importance. |
| B.Richard Ⅲ and A Woman of No Importance. |
| C.An Ideal Husband and Candida. |
| D.Candida and Betrayal. |
| A.William Shakespeare. | B.Oscar Wilde. |
| C.George Bernard Shaw. | D.Harold Pinter. |