A robot is a computer-controlled machine that is programmed to move and handle objects. Robots are able to perform repetitive tasks more quickly, cheaply, and accurately (精确的) than humans. In 1995, about 700,000 robots were used－including over 500,000 in Japan, about 120,000 in Western Europe, and about 60,000 in the United States－all in the industrialized world. Many robots applications are designed for tasks that are either dangerous or unpleasant for human beings. Now, robotic technology can be used in more and more fields. Experts say in the future robots will be able to make new highways, construct steel frameworks of buildings, clean sewage (污水系统), and such physical work. Besides, another possibility is the development of robotic technology in medical surgery operations.

Perhaps the greatest changes in future robots will improve from their increasing ability to reason. The field of artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from university labs to practical application in industry, and machines of a new kind of robots are being developed, which can perform something involved in the process of understanding and planning, such as the management of a battlefield. Even the control of a large factory will be performed by intelligent computers. And there might be a possibility that these computers can design and make robots of their own.

Is there anything dangerous involved in this artificial intelligence progress then? Robot technology has been making people nervous ever since it was invented. Is it unreasonable to worry that robots will someday become too clever? Is it impossible that these human-like robots will start to think and plan for themselves? Will robots take over the world and force humans to give them energy to survive?

In 1995, about 700,000 robots were working in _____________.

A. Japan      B. the United States     C. Western Europe     D. the industrialized world

Which of the following do experts say robots won’t be able to do in the future?  

A. Take care of roads.                    B. Be used as medicine.

C. Used as underground pipeline cleaner.     D. Take up jobs of building construction.

What does the underlined word “which” in Paragraph 2 refer to? 

A. Greatest changes in future robots.        B. The field of artificial intelligence.     

C. Machines of a new kind of robots.        D. Practical application in industry.

What can we know from the 2nd paragraph？

A. It is possible that robots will be able to think like human beings.

B. It is sure that robots might be able to manage battlefields.

C. There is no doubt that computers can design and make robots of their own.

D. It is proved that computers can’t reason like human beings.

Which of the following makes people worried most?

A. Future robotic technology might cause dangers.

B. Future robotic technology might make people too clever.

C. Future robotic technology might help to do all dangerous jobs.

D. Future robotic technology might not survive because of its shortage of energy.

The student _________ forward to going abroad for further study.

A.referred to looks                             B.referred to look

C.refers to look                                  D.referring to look

——I want someone to write the composition for me.

——No．As a student，you           depend on yourself.

A．must                    B．will                        C．can                       D．may

Nothing can spoil a vacation quicker than losing your money or credit cards. A few simple steps before you head out of the door can help protect your cash, card and personal information while you’re traveling.

Paul Stephens, a policy analyst San Diego, notes that people spend a lot of time planning their trips, from buying guidebooks to finding just the right beach outfits（装备）.“But their eyes glaze（呆滞） over when the subject of keeping money safe comes up,” he said.

 “Why not take a few minutes to do something that could probably save your vacation?” Stephens asked．“In most cases, they can go on your to-do list with‘ buy travel bags’ and everything else,” he added.

The top recommendation is to clean your wallet. Remove unnecessary credit cards and any other unneeded documents that could compromise（危及...的安全）your identity if lost or stolen while you’re on vocation.

Then make a photocopy of the cards you’ve decided to take along and keep it in a secure location with you（not in your wallet）or leave it with a trusted relative or friend back home. Then you will know who you need to contact and how to reach it if your wallet is missing.

“Travelers should never leave their wallets or any identifying documents in their hotel room when they’re not there,” he said.” Choose a hotel with a safe to keep your valuable things in. Or keep your wallet and documents with you at all times. ”

56．According to passage, _______can destroy one’s vacation the most quickly.

     A．being lost on vacation        B．losing money or credit cards

         C．living in a bad hotel.       D．losing contact with family

57．What does the underlined word stand for?

     A．The people who are going traveling.

     B．The outfits that are prepare4d for traveling.

     C．The suggestions on what to buy when traveling.

     D．The steps to avoid losing money or credit cards.

58．What should people do with their wallet before they go on vacation?

     A．Take it with them all the time.

     B．Put it in a safe place at the hotel

         C．Remove unnecessary cards and documents.

        D．Leave it with family or friend.

59．What is the topic of the passage?

     A．How to prepare for travel.

        B．How to be happy during your vacation.

     C．How to keep cash and cards safe on vacation.

     D．How to protect your luggage on vacation.

60．According to the passage, we know ______.

         A．people don’t always know how to protect their money or credit cards

         B．people should take a lot of money with them while traveling

         C．people can leave their identifying documents in rooms, if the hotel is expensive

         D．people can spend a few minutes preparing the luggage for travelling

  D

  As school fl,tats again，there’s SO much mole for an American parent to nag(唠叨)about，like

 homework，bedtime and lost hours on the Intemet．But in the age of digital childhood，Jacky Long-well，45，of McLean，Virginia，often text—messages(发短信)what she OnCe told her children bymouth_"Be nice to your brother；walk the dog；remember your reading．

  This is the world of the modem family，in which even reminding children to do something has

 become electronic．

  There  are changes in how parents nag and in what they nag about and in the frequency of their

 nagging．

  With technology，“you nag more，and you are a little bit more：precise with your nagging．’’said

 Reginald  Black，46，of Woodbridge，Virginia．

  For many young people，electronic nagging is part of the experience of growing up．Charles Flowers，17，131．$enior at St．John“College High School in Washington．says his mothel-reminds him about everything from laundry，being Oil time to baseball practice and mowing the lawn by text．

   When she uses capitals he knows she is serious：GET HOME!

  Some say technology has made nagging less annoying．

  Jaeky Longwell thinks texts ale less emotional than spoken messages and less likely to be resisted by teenagers．

  It’s not as painful for them to hear it by text．It becomes grouped with the friendly communication，”she said．“They can’t hear the nagging．”

  She thinks a good way to do it is to mix friendliness with nagging．A parent Call always start by

saying hello．

  Not all parents like the new electronic r,agging．Joyce Bouehard，51，a mother of four in Fairfax，Virginia，texts her 14一year—old son but says that for many  things — chores，homework— the

old—fashioned way works better．Nagging by text has risks，she notes：I always think，if you are texting them something and they are with their friends，they ale getting a big laugh out of it．’’

68．We can conclude from the first two paragraphs that————————．

  A．American children often stay up late studying

  B．Jacky Long'well had a happy aigital childhood

  C．American parents pay too much attention to their children’s studies

  D．American parents think a lot about their children’s characters

69．The example of Reginald Black is used to show readers————————．

  A．that her nagging is thoughtful

  B．how the amount and kind of nagging have changed with the arrival of the digital age

  C．the kind of skills a parent needs to nag effectively

  D．that she likes nagging her children very much

70．We can infer that—————————．

  A．It’S better for parents to nag in a friendly,way

  B．whether、nagging is e]ectronic or not，it is annoying

  C．American parents generally don’t like to nag

  D．American parents like to llse capital letters in messages

 7 1．The main idea of the article is———————一．

  A．the subjects American parents like to nag about

  B．the reaSOliS American parents like to nag their children

  C．that electronic nagging is becoming commoll in the U．S

  D．how American parents began to nag their children by text messages

第二节 短文写作（共1题；满分25分）

　　假如你是李华，在最近的研究性学习当中，受《21世纪中学生英语报》（The 21st Century）之邀，你对你所在的班60名同学（男女各半）进行了上网目的的调查。现将调查结果（如下表所事，以引起舆论的关注，并提出你的观点和建议。

　　注意：1．报道应包括图表所示全部内容，可适度发挥；

　　　　　2．文章的开头与结尾已给出，不计人总词数；

　　　　　3．词数120个左右。

Dear editor,

　　I have recently made a survey among 30 boys and 30 girls in my class about their purpose of getting on the Internet.

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    Not even Dan Brown and his Da Vinci code—breakers(密码破译者)dared deal with the mystery of Mona Lisa，s smile．But Nicu Sebe，a computer expert the University of Amsterdam，the Netherlands，did．He used’emotion recognition’software to process the famous painting and found Mona Lisa happy(83 per cent)and slightly disgusted(厌烦的)(9 per cent)．

    Faces show emotions. Psychology，computer science，and engineering researchers are joining forces to teach machines to read expressions．If they succeed，your computer may one day“read”your mood．Machines equipped with emotional skills could also be used in teaching，gaming，mind－reading，etc.

    “Mind Reader”，a system developed by Rosalind Picard at MIT(the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, uses input from a video camera to do real—time analysis of facial expressions. It reports on whether you seem interested or agreeable or if you’re confused．The system can help people recognize others’emotions．Picard says this means we could teach a machine to be as sensitive as a human．In fact，a machine can be even smarter than people since it can tell if a person is lying or just “performing”by analyzing one’s facial movements．

      Jeffrey Cohn，a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh，uses the Facial Action Coding System to recognize human emotions．The system sorts more than 40 action units(AUs)of the face to tell people’s real emotions．He studied a videotape of a criminal who said to be sad about the murder of several family members and tried to pin the blame on someone else．But Cohn saw no real sadness in the woman’s face.

      Sadness is a group of AUs that is difficult to do at the same time．You have to pull down the woman’s of your lips while bringing your eyebrows together and raising them．What the woman did was raise her cheeks to make a lip cud(撇嘴)。Her brows stayed smooth．

72．The best title of this passage is“            ”．

      A．The emotion on your face                      B．Look at your face

      C．Your face tells a story                          D．Telling a lie

73．The missing sentence“This means，even though your mouth lice，your face doesn’t，and the machine will know it all. ”should be put at the end of              ．

      A．Paragraph 2                         B．Paragraph 3   

    C．Paragraph 4                          D．Paragraph 5

74．How many facial emotion analyses are mentioned in this passage?

      A．Four．                B．Three．               C．Two．          D．One

75．The underlined word“it”refers to——．

      A．MIT                                  B．the video camera

    C．one’s face emotion             D．the real—time analysis

第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)   

第一节、单项填空(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)

    从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Is         two hours          the boy      family is poor to come to school on foot?

    A．it；that；whose                        B．it；when；that

    C．it for；that it takes；whose          D．it；that it takes；whose

Armed police and railway workers were removing snow from the track to _______ a train stuck near Jining in Inner Mongolia.

       A．recover     B．free   C．protect      D．clear

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and knowing his father could well  41  it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs  42  his father had bought the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private   43  . His father told him how   44   he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He   45   his son a beautiful wrapped gift box. Curious, but   46   disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man’s   47   embossed (压印浮凸)in gold.

Angrily, he   48   his voice to his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible（圣经）?" He then stormed out of the house,   49  the Bible.

Many years  50   and the young man was very   51  in business. He had a beautiful home and a wonderful family, but realizing his father was very   52  , he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day.   53  he could make the arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had   54  , and willed all of his possessions to his  55  . He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

When he arrived at his father’s house, sudden sadness and   56   filled his heart. He began to search through his father’s important papers and saw the   57   new Bible, just as he had left it years ago.

With   58  , he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he was reading, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer’s name, the   59  dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the word “PAID IN FULL”.

How many times do we miss blessings   60   they are not packaged as we expected? What may appear as bad fortune may in fact be the door that is just waiting to be opened.

41. A. buy                    B. afford                      C. make                       D. pay

42. A. that                    B. which                     C. what                       D. where

43. A. house                 B. office                     C. study                     D. car

44. A. proud                 B. hopeful                  C. eager                     D. anxious

45. A. showed            B. handed                 C. brought                    D. provided

46. A. anyway               B. somewhat                 C. somehow               D. somewhere

47. A. number               B. hand                     C. hair                        D. name

48. A. risen                   B. rose                       C. arose                    D. raised

49. A. leaving               B. left                          C. leave                        D. to leave

50. A. past                 B. passed                   C. went                     D. flied

51. A. satisfied                     B. busy                     C. successful                D. lucky

52. A. old                            B. selfish                      C. mean                       D. lonely

53. A. After               B. When                    C. Before                         D. Since

54. A. passed by            B. passed away           C. passed down             D. passed out

55. A. daughter       B. son                          C. grandson                  D. wife

56. A. regret                 B. anger                    C. disappointment         D. annoyance

57. A. even                   B. also                         C. still                      D. yet

58. A. smiles                 B. tears                      C. hearts                    D. glasses

59. A. same                  B. different                   C. familiar                    D. similar

60. A. before              B. if                             C. though                          D. because