• 2022-06-10
    In this section, there is a passage with several blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage. The car, and the roads it travels on, will be 1 in the twenty-first century. The key to tomorrow’s “smart cars” will be 2 . “We’ll see vehicles and roads that see and hear and feel and 3 and talk and act,” predicts Bill Spreitzer, technical director of General Motors Corporation's ITS program, which is designing the smart car and road of the future. 4 ,000 people are killed each year in the United States in traffic accidents. The number of people that are killed or badly injured in car accidents is so 5 that we don’t even bother to 6 them in the newspapers anymore. Fully half of these fatalities come from drunk drivers, and many others from 7 . A smart car could eliminate most of these car accidents. It can sense if a driver is drunk 8 electronic sensors that can pick up alcohol vapor in the air, and refuse to 9 the engine. The car could also alert the police and provide its precise 10 if it is stolen.A) vice versa B) location C) sensors D) vastE) mobility F) mention G) duplicate H) start upI) carelessness J) fill out K) revolutionized L) smellM) Adversely N) Approximately O) via
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      I. Banked cloze. (10%)Directions: In this section, you are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in the word bank. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. ______

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      About drunk driving, a smart car can not________. A: pick up the vapor B: refuse to start the engine C: arrest the driver

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      Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the blank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. (填写相应的大写字母代号)A worthless B diversity C increasingly D beware E leadershipF commited G involved H collaboration I vice J searched K potential L despite M noted N criterion O exceptionallyStudentsaretoofocusedonobtainingtheirdegreeandgettingthroughthesystembutemployersarelookingformorethandegreeswithhighGPAsattachedtothem.“ItisimportanttohaveagoodGPA,butifallyoudoisstudyandhaven’t(1)yourselfinanythingelse,thatcandidateisnotasdesirable.Showingthe(2)ofyourexperiencesismoreimportantingettingajob.”(3)directorDr.DevetaGardnersaid.Butifemployersaren’tcheckinguponyourgrades,thenwhataretheylookingforina(n)(4)employee?Whenitcomestomakingyourselfseemdesirabletoanemployer,therearesevencompetenciesthatcollegegraduatesshouldbeabletodemonstrate(5)majororindustry:criticalthinking,oral/writtencommunications,(6),informationtechapplication,teamwork/(7),professionalism/workethicandcareermanagement.Duetothepopularityofsocialmediaandgrowingimportanceoftechnology,ithasbecome(8)importanttohaveanonlinepresencetostartacareer.Thoughnetworkingonlinetobuildconnectionsisessential,Gardner(9)thathavingthewrongonlinepresencecanshootyourselfinthefoot.“What’sonyourFacebookandTwittercanbe(10)byyouremployersevenifyouthinkyouhavethebestprivacysettings,”hesaid.“Howyoupresentyourselfinsocialmediawillbelookedatsomakesurethatyouarecleaningitupbecausethat’showpeoplelearnaboutyou.”

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      Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Just because they can't sing opera or ride a bicycle doesn't mean that animals don't have culture. There's no better example of this than killer whales. As one of the most ______ predators (食肉动物, killer whales may not fit the______ of a cultured creature. However, these beasts of the sea do display a vast range of highly ______ behaviors that appear to be driving their genetic development.The word "culture" comes from the Latin "colere," which ______ means "to cultivate." In other words, it refers to anything that is ______ or learnt, rather than instinctive or natural. Among human populations, culture not only affects the way we live, but also writes itself into our genes, affecting who we are. For instance, having spent many generations hunting the fat marine mammals of the Arctic, the Eskimos of Greenland have developed certain genetic______ that help them digest and utilize this fat- rich diet, thereby allowing them to ______ in their cold climate.Like humans, killer whales have colonized a range of different______ across the globe, occupying every ocean basin on the planet with an empire that ______ from pole to pole. As such, different populations of killer whales have had to learn different hunting techniques in order to gain the upper hand over their local prey (猎物). This, in turn, has a major effect on their diet, leading scientists to ______ that the ability to learn population-specific hunting methods could be driving the animals, genetic development.A) acquiredB) adaptationsC) brutalD) deliberatelyE) expressedF) extendsG) habitatsH) humbleI) imageJ) literallyK) refinedL) revolvesM) speculateN) structureO) thrive

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      Sensors in your smart car tuned to radio signals from orbiting satellites can l_______________ your car precisely and warn of traffic jams.