相关试卷

4 of the best films to watch this May

Hypnotic 

A police detective, haunted by the disappearance of his daughter, is investigating a series of bank robberies when a mystery woman tells him about "hypnotics" (催眠): people who have the power to make others believe and do anything they want by uttering a single sentence.

Released on 11 May in Australia, 12 May in the US & 26 May in the UK

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

It's been six years since Marvel's second Guardians of the Galaxy film came out. Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, Drax and their buddies are finally back for more interstellar adventures — and this time they're up against the High Evolutionary.

On general release from 5 May 

The Little Mermaid

Another month, another live-action-and-CGI remake of a classic Disney cartoon. But this one is more distinctive than most, because a black actress, Halle Bailey, is playing the title character, who was white in the 1989 cartoon. Besides, the film's director, Rob Marshall argues that his version of The Little Mermaid is progressive in other ways, too. He said she and Prince Eric "really teach the world about prejudice and about breaking down barriers and walls between these two worlds." Also, there's a singing crab.

On general release from 24 May

Fast X 

Yes, it's the tenth film in the unstoppable petrol head series, which started with indie (独立小公司的) thrillers about undercover cops and illegal street racers and now becomes global science-fiction blockbusters featuring some of Hollywood's biggest names.

On general release from 17 May 

Max loved action comics and movies. He worked in the car park of a big supermarket. It didn't seem to be a good job, but Max didn't have any qualifications. This was the best job he could find. Max collected the shopping carts (购物车) that shoppers left in the car park. He took the shopping carts back to the entrance of the supermarket. It was sometimes hard work but it was not difficult. So Max had a lot of spare time to dream. He dreamed of being a hero, like Superman or Batman. Of course, his dreams were crazy but as Max told himself, dreams were free of charge.

Today it was very wet and windy. Max was wearing a long blue raincoat that had the name of the supermarket on the back. Max was standing next to a row of carts. He would push them together and then he would take them all back to the supermarket door. He looked around to see if there were any more left in the car park. Though there were designated (指定的) places for shoppers to leave the carts after shopping, some people were still so lazy that they just left them where they thought it was convenient for them. Just then Max saw two young boys in jackets wandering around aimlessly. 

"They seem like students. They should be in school," Max thought, "What are they doing here?" He then saw a small lady pushing a cart towards her car. The cart was full of shopping bags. She looked old and the weather was very bad. "I'll go and take her cart for her," Max said to himself.

Max started walking across the car park. The lady put her cart behind her car. She walked to her car door to unlock it when the two boys ran towards the cart. They immediately took the cart and quickly pushed it towards the road. The lady was terribly shocked and began to cry out. 

注意：    1. 续写词数应为150左右；2. 请按如下格式在相应位置作答。

"Hey, you! What are you doing?" shouted Max.

Max grasped the shopping cart and pushed it back to the car park of the supermarket. 

注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在相应位置作答。

参考词汇：emoji表情符号

Emojis make our language richer

Ladies and gentlemen，

That's all. Thanks for your listening!

Qiyuan Garden is a classical type private garden (locate) in Wuyuan Township of Haiyan County in Zhejiang Province. It is one of the top ten gardens in China. The old name of it is Feng's Garden. During the Qing Dynasty, owner of the Garden, Feng Zuanzhai, settled here.

The layout of the whole garden expresses the  (harmony) manner between water and mountains. The garden has a large area of water  it is dotted with a few constructions. The entrance of the garden is on the west side. In the middle of the garden is the flower hall with bridges in front. The  (flow) water goes around the hall to the north, and by the other side of the pool in front of the hall  (be) artificial hills. The layout of the garden is similar  the structure of the Humble Administrator Garden in Suzhou. The garden has various  (attract) with fancy names such as Butterfly Drops into Greens and the Setting Sun on the Lotus Pool. Pathways here consist of waterways, mountain holes, underground tunnels and fly-over beams (飞梁),  will bring you to a dreamland. Beautiful gloriettes (亭子) are evenly distributed in the garden  (provide) a place for relaxation. 

"I can't wait to play in the backyard," said Ariel Hurley. Every day, Ariel watched with 1 as contractors rebuilt her backyard. Throughout December 2021, the Oakdale Elementary kindergartener observed the workers 2 her family's deck into a double-level extension to the porch (门廊) and build a swing set next to it. "I've been 3 for a plane, a slide and a swing for a long time. Now, my mom doesn't have to take me to the park," Ariel said 4 .

The 5-year-old likes to swing high, though her mother Terry Hurley tells Ariel not to do it to avoid 5 , because her daughter has an illness that has 6  her for much of her life. Now this backyard makeover could help her 7  her dream of playing at an amusement park just like other kids. 

Ariel's mother applied for Make-A-Wish last month and got 8 right away. After hearing about Ariel's illness, the Make-A-Wish coordinator Jane Walsh 9 Oakdale to see whether they would be interested in having a fundraiser, and the administrators of the school 10 the opportunity. Then Make-A-Wish and Oakdale set a(n) 11 goal of $3,000 for the fundraiser, but the school 12 that number within the first week, getting a total of $6,278.

Oakdale Elementary Principal Andrea Payne says she's 13 of the entire student body and their 14 . "I had no idea it would get that much attention, but they really made it," the principal said. She hopes that by 15 Ariel's wish, they can help make a big difference to her recovery.

Translation is an essential tool for effective communication. A common way of getting any translation done is to turn to human translators. However, machine translators have developed rapidly in recent years. Many people claim that they will replace human translators soon.  

Machines may fail to understand culture properly. Different cultures have different words that are unique to that specific culture. Machines cannot understand or recognize idioms, slang, and allusions (典故).  By contrast, human translators can find the suitable equivalent (对应物) in the target language based on the cultural background. 

 In different languages, there are words with various meanings, which can be a significant problem for machine translators. These words have to be placed in context to determine their true meanings and in many cases only human translators can do this. If you run a document with this kind of words through a machine translator, it may lead to inaccurate translations. 

It is difficult to localize machines for different languages. New phrases are being developed in almost all languages. If you feed new words into a machine translator, the machine might go "speechless" , trying to come up with the most appropriate way to translate the strange combination of words. Human translators, on the other hand, can pick up on the development in a language quickly.

It's difficult for machines to distinguish style and tone. Every written document has a different style and tone. A document can have poetic, funny or persuasive style and tone. Machine translators may lose the intended style and tone existing in the original document. And such a translation can hardly resonate (引起共鸣) with the person who reads it.

A. Machines can't relate words to the context.

B. Machines can't remember words of all languages

C. It doesn't actually hold up for some reasons.

D. Thus the result is a flat and soulless translation. 

E. Machine translators are unable to catch these changes in time. 

F. This is one challenge they may find very difficult to overcome. 

G. Machine translators are becoming more and more popular these days. 

From train tickets to doctor's appointments, there's a growing expectation that consumers should include technology in everyday life. We take it for granted that technology brings us closer and improve our access to essential products and services. But people who can't or don't want to engage with the latest technology are being left behind.

Technology should not be allowed to drive people to the side of their own lives, as many facts suggest is increasingly the case. For example, there have been reports that some elderly people no longer drive to their local park, because they cannot download the parking app required. Evidently, age is one big predictor of digital exclusion (排斥). Only 47% of those aged 75 and over use the Internet regularly. Out of the four million who have never used the Internet in the UK, only 300,000 people are under 55. But older people aren't the only ones feeling shut out.

Concerns about privacy can stop people using technology as well. A survey into consumers' trust in business showed no industry reached a trust rating of 50% for data protection. Some people view "forced" digitalization as a symbol of consumer culture and limit their contact with it; also, many people take a "less is more" approach to technology simply because they feel it offers a more meaningful existence. They all belong to a population group that often slips people's mind in related discussions. No one could discount, however, one factor－poverty. Some regions, particularly rural ones, even struggle for phone signals. The UK phone network's plans for a digital switchover could cut off people who rely on their landlines.

The solution is not simply to give devices to those without smart technology. While there's a need to provide affordable Internet access and technology, we need to recognize diversity in society. Services should provide non-digital selections that reflect equality. Local councils, healthcare providers and businesses should understand more about the diversity of consumers and develop services that meet the needs of all people. After all, access to and inclusion in society is a human right.

Anyone who uses the ChatGPT website can ask the chatbot questions on any topic and get a speedy, detailed response in paragraph form. The website lists ChatGPT's positive features as its ability to "remember what users said earlier in conversation" and allow users to provide follow-up corrections", and how it's trained to "decline inappropriate requests".

The company OpenAI is honest about some of the technology's flaws. According to its website, the chatbot occasionally "generates incorrect information" and "produces harmful instructions or prejudiced content". It lists a third question: having "limited knowledge of the world and events after 2021".

The New York City Department of Education banned the use of ChatGPT this month on devices and networks owned by schools across the state. The department mentioned concerns from local school teachers about student success. Oakland Unified School District in California and Seattle Public Schools have moved against ChatGPT, because it creates human-like responses that can be difficult to detect. Other large school systems including Miami-Dade County and Houston haven't banned ChatGPT so far. Universities including Princeton are refusing to ban the chatbot; instead, they are advising professors to set their own rules.

Blocking a particular platform may be far less effective than schools think. "If students are not using it in their classes, they can use it at home or on their personal devices," said Adam Phyall, an education technology expert. "Are we going to have a conversation about how we are going to unblock it? Or is it going to be: If we're scared, let's give it up and move onto the next thing? Instead, schools could use ChatGPT to teach kids how to improve their writing, for instance," he said.

An OpenAI spokesperson said the company wants to help schools with their concerns and that users should reasonably use their AI-generated text. The company is hoping to work on a system for teachers to check whether students have used ChatGPT to cheat. 

A fisherman in northern Cambodia hooked what researchers say is the world's largest freshwater fish — a giant stingray (黄貂鱼) that scientists know relatively little about.

The fisherman, 42, caught the 300-kilogram fish, which measured about four meters in length, near a remote island on the Mekong River in the Stung Treng area. A team of scientists from the Wonders of Mekong research project helped tag (给…装标签), measure and weigh the fish before it was released back into the river. The research group believes it was healthy when released and expects it to survive. 

The tag—which emits an acoustic (声音的) signal — will allow researchers to track the fish's movements and they hope, learn more about its species' behavior in the Mekong.

The catch "highlights how little we know about a lot of these giant freshwater fish," said Zeb Hogan, a fish biologist at the University of Nevada. "You have a fish that's now the record holder for the world's largest freshwater fish, and we know little about it. "

The fisherman, Moul Thun, caught the giant stingray with a hook and line on the evening of June 13, and then contacted researchers the next morning. 

Researchers with the Wonders of Mekong were already in northern Cambodia to install underwater receivers as part of a project to track migratory fish in the river. 

"It's a particularly healthy stretch of the river with a lot of deep pools — pools up to 90 meters deep," said Hogan, who is also the host of National Geographic's "Monster Fish" television series. "We started focusing on this area as a stretch of river that's particularly important for biodiversity and fisheries, and as a last refuge (避难所) for these big species. "

For several months, the research group has been in contact with local fishermen, asking them to get in touch if they landed a significant catch. The group has helped with two other large giant freshwater stingray releases in recent months. The fisherman who caught the record fish was paid market price for his catch. "It works because the fish is not a highly prized food fish," Hogan said.

Hogan said little is known about the giant freshwater stingray. The creature has a mouth about "the size of a banana" with no teeth, but with "gripping pads" used to crush (压碎) prey. "They're on the bottom finding shrimps, mollusks and small fish. They can suck them up with this banana-shaped mouth and crush them," he said.

Heritage Open Days 2023

CITYWIDE *Sep 8th-17th, 2023 *free *family friendly 

Heritage Open Days is an annual celebration of England's architecture and culture that gives people access to historical buildings that either are not ordinarily open to the public or require an entrance fee. It also consists of architectural and cultural events and activities.

HISTORY

The history of Heritage Open Days can actually date back to 1994 when England joined European Heritage Days Community along with some other countries, but the first-ever Heritage Open Days was not held until September 2018. Heritage Open Days does not cover the entire UK; it only operates in England except for London. 

DATE

Every year, the dates of visit are announced and new activities and events are planned. Although the dates differ annually, the holiday usually lasts for 10 days in September. This year, it is held from September 8th to 17th. 

ACTIVITIES