Accident rates for self-driving cars have been much lower than the rate, for human-driven cars. 【1】

As humans, we can make moral choices in avoiding accidents. To avoid hitting a child, for example, human drivers might sharply turn a car away from the child even if others may be injured. 【2】 Researchers studied this issue. They have developed the Moral Machine website to help explore the choices self-driving cars should make.

【3】. You are shown two possible traffic situations and you choose between them. An accident will take place. You choose how many living beings would be hurt or killed.

In one situation there may be a female doctor, a child, two dogs and a homeless person who would be killed. In the other situation, you might have two babies and a cat who would be killed. 【4】

The Moral Machine website has many situations and many possible outcomes. When you click on the situation of your choice, it will be highlighted. 【5】 At the end of the situation, you are shown the results, based on the choices you made. The results show which character you were most likely to save and which character you were most likely to have die.

A. Who should those victims be?

B. Then the next situation appears.

C. You choose who lives and who dies.

D. You can use the Moral Machine to be the judge.

E. But what moral choices can self-driving cars make?

F. The Moral Machine website lets you choose how you would react in a collision.

G. Google’s self-driving car has had only 13 collisions after traveling 1.8 million miles.

【題目】根據(jù)所給中文填寫單詞
（1）Nowadays, mobile phone plays a (主要的) role in everyone’s daily communication.
（2）High school students sleep in (宿舍) when they study at school.
（3）Maria came (猛沖，突進(jìn)) down the stairs as soon as she heard her mother back home.
（4）During that times, I always went to the (食堂) with my best friend Louisa.
（5）Do this for your child, and for the (成人) you love in your life as well.
（6）They needed more soldiers to (保衛(wèi)) the country border.
（7）I’d very (可能的) have done the same thing in your situation.
（8）We all know that it is very important for us to learn (口語的) English.
（9）There must be some (誤會(huì)) between you and you classmates.
（10）I really enjoyed the long (飛行) with him last week.

【題目】句意及漢語提示完成單詞。
（1）He made an a that he wouldn’t take part in the election.
（2）He’s got a really (逗人喜愛的) baby brother.
（3）He failed in his a (嘗試) to win the first prize.
（4）The teacher c me for being late again.
（5）Webster wrote a dictionary in order to sthe spelling of English words.
（6）The (聯(lián)合) of the north and the south increased the power of the nation.
（7）A Bao’s (與眾不同的) voice made him a very famous singer.

【題目】閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（不多于3個(gè)單詞）或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。
Once there was a free bird. She floated in the sky,(catch) worms for lunch and swam in the summer rain trickles(滴), like many birds. But she had a habit:some event occurred in her life, whether good or bad, the bird would pick up a stone the ground to memorize it. Every day she sorted out her stones, laughed remembering joyful events, and cried remembering the sad ones.
The bird always took the stones with her, whether she was flying in the sky or walking on earth, and she never forgot about them. Years had passed the free bird got a lot of stones, but she still kept on sorting them out, remembering the past. It was becoming more and more difficult for her to fly.
The bird was unable to move on her own，could she catch worms anymore. Only rare rain gave her the necessary energy.But the bird (brave) endured all the hardships, (guard) her precious memories. After some time the bird died of (starve) and thirst.

【題目】北京是中國的首都，也是一個(gè)有著悠久歷史的城市，每年都會(huì)吸引世界各地的大批游客來此觀光。請依據(jù)以下要點(diǎn)以Beijing為題用英語寫一篇介紹北京的短文。 ①地理位置、面積、人口以及氣候；
②其他基本情況。
注意：
① 詞數(shù)100左右；
② 可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫；
③ 標(biāo)題已為你寫好。
Beijing

【題目】閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car and landing on my head. Now I am twenty-two. I can vaguely(模糊地) remember the brightness of sunshine and what red color is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people.
It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don't mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy, but I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me — a potential to live — which I didn't see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have collapsed(倒塌) and become a chair rocker on the front porch(門廊) for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person； that somewhere in the sweeping, complicated pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
（1）From the first two paragraphs, which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.The writer lost his sight in an accident when he was a little kid.
B.The writer appreciated what he had owned very much.
C.The writer thought he would love his life more if he hadn't been blind.

D.The writer thought it would be wonderful to see again
（2）The underlined word “calamity” in the first paragraph probably means __________.
A.misfortune
B.failure
C.reality
D.belief
（3）In the third paragraph, the writer said he was lucky because__________.
A.he had a potential to live
B.he made good adjustment
C.his parents and teachers helped him a lot
D.he could fight to live with his blindness
（4）In the writer's opinion, the most difficult thing for him was __________.
A.to start with elementary things
B.to have faith in himself
C.to fight with blindness
D.to make adjustments to reality
（5）What does the writer mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?
A.He failed sometimes but he still made progress.
B.It is very common for us to fail with our limitations.
C.We should try for something out of reach.
D.We should never give up and gradually make progress.

【題目】The ______ expression on her face showed that she ______ her manager’s idea.
A.confusing; wouldn’t quite understand
B.confused; hadn’t quite understood
C.confusing; hadn’t quite understood
D.confused; shouldn’t quite understand

【題目】根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。
Dear Sir，
I have to travel every day from Souk Road to the airport. Two buses travel along this route—No.49 and No.16. However, by the time No.16 reaches Souk Road, it's always full.The timetable states that there are buses from Souk Road to the airport every ten minutes.The instructions state that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting.
The instructions state that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday, I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport.There were 129 of them.
Clearly printed on the back of every bus is a sign that says “Maximum speed 50mph.” Saturday morning a No.49 bus travelled the distance in ten minutes, at an average speed of 60mph. At times it must have done it at least 80 or even 90 mph.
It is obvious that our bus companies have neither respect for the instructions nor consideration for their passengers. Can nothing be done about this?
Jeff
A I counted the other passengers as they got off.
B Is there anything we can do to change this?
C The problem is that we can have to pay more for our trip.
D The distance from Souk Road to the airport is 10 miles.
E This leaves No.49 which sometimes has empty seats on it.
F If this is so, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus nearly every day?
G Why is it that halfempty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop？

【題目】閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 The Chinese art of paper cutting has a long history. The earliest paper cutting was found in China 1,500 years ago. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has recognized the art, called Jianzhi, on its Intangible Cultural Heritage (非物質(zhì)文化遺產(chǎn)) list. But Jianzhi is at risk of disappearing. Voyo Woo, a Chinese immigrant to the US, hopes to bring the art back to life.
Voyo Woo loves paper cutting. And she works hard to celebrate the ancient art form. On a recent Saturday, Ms.Woo held a paper cutting show at a shopping center near Washington. She demonstrated the art to crowds for hours at the center.
Voyo Woo began to study the art of Jianzhi as a 14-year-old girl in her hometown in southeastern China. She said all the students at school had to learn the art. But she developed a special love for it, so her teacher gave her extra training after class. Later, she won second prize in a national painting and handwriting competition. Ms.Woo came to the US after she finished college in 2008. Soon after, she became involved in an event to support and expand understanding of Chinese paper cutting. She has been invited to demonstrate the art at a wide collection of events. She has also shown her skill at famous museums like Sackler art galleries in Washington. Ms.Woo says paper cutting represents Chinese cultural values, history and stories of people's lives. She uses the art as a tool to present Chinese culture to people who know little about it.
Ms.Woo placed examples of her art around her as she demonstrated paper cutting at the shopping center. Some shoppers, like Ann Russ, took part in a workshop. Ms.Russ was struck by the finely detailed nature of the work. She said it put her at ease. Voyo Woo says Chinese art is for all people. “It is amazing how Chinese art can echo with people from other cultural backgrounds.”
（1）What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A.Paper cutting is popular now in the US.
B.Jianzhi is regarded as a cultural heritage.
C.Paper cutting has a long history in the US.
D.Ms.Woo worries about the future of Jianzhi.
（2）Ms.Woo held a paper cutting show at a shopping center to__________.
A.earn more money
B.do her job for the United Nations
C.celebrate an art festival
D.make paper cutting well-known
（3）What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A.Ms.Woo's success as a paper cutting artist.

B.Ms.Woo's experience as a Jianzhi artist.

C.The story of Ms.Woo and her teacher.
D.The school life of Ms.Woo in China.
（4）The events mentioned in Paragraph 3 are developed__________.
A.by time
B.by space
C.by example
D.by comparison
（5）We can infer from Ann Russ's words that__________.
A.she was confused about paper cutting
B.she thought the art of paper cutting was too detailed
C.she admired the art of paper cutting very much
D.she wanted to popularize the art of paper cutting

NOAA officials are calling the new satellite GOES-R. That is short for a much longer name—the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series. NOAA said GOES-R could improve the nation's ability to observe weather conditions and make weather predictions. It said the satellite's operation would lead to more exact and timely weather forecasts watches and warnings.

The government agency said the satellite will require testing of its six instruments and will be ready to work “within a year."

"The next generation of weather satellites is finally here." said NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan. She described GOES-R as one of the most complicated Earth-observing machines ever created. Sullivan said its instruments will be able to study Earth five times faster and with four times more detail than any other NOAA satellite currently in operation. She believes this will make the United States an even stronger, more “Weather-Ready" nation.

A NOAA statement said the greater detail will help improve the agency’s study of ocean storms, as well as “the prediction and warnings of severe weather. "In addition, GOES-R will be able to provide improved rainfall estimates (預(yù)計(jì)), which will lead to more timely and detailed flood warning. The statement also said that GOES-R will give better estimates of wind strength, as well as better measurement of fog, ice or lightning strikes.

Craig Fugate serves as administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He says that the GOES-R satellite will improve the ability of people and organizations across America to prepare for, and react to, weather-related disasters.

【1】What’s the purpose of this new American satellite?

A. To test new instruments. B. To improve people’s lives.

C. To forecast weather disasters. D. To replace old weather satellites.

【2】What benefit will the U. S.

A. get from the satellite’s operation?

A. The advantages to own the most advanced technology.

B. More accurate and timely weather information.

C. The ability to monitor the earth from high space.

D. More powerful ability to control the weather.

【3】What do you know about the satellite from Paragraph 5?

A. Which aspects the satellite can improve.

B. When the satellite can find severe weather.

C. How the satellite helps to study the oceans.

D. How long the satellite forsees a weather disaster.

【4】Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Weather Predictions Expected to Improve with New U. S. Satellite.

B. Fighting Disasters Needs More Exact Weather Predictions.

C. New Science and Technology Used in New Weather Satellite.

D. American Weather Prediction Takes a Lead in the World.