阅读理解 Dulas is a computergenerated(计算机生成的) character created by Julia Borboll
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Dulas is a computergenerated(计算机生成的) character created by Julia Borbolla, a Mexican child psychologist.It is one of several "emotional agents" Borbolla has invented that are being recognized in Mexico City as capable of gaining access to the inner lives of children. Dulas, like all of these characters, has big eyes and radio antennas(天线). The characters collectively go by the name Antenas because they all have antennas and come from a planet called Antenopolis. Dulas knows nothing about life on earth, not even what a mother or father is. Wearing rabbit slippers in hospital, he doesn"t like to talk with adults-so children can trust his companionship. Over the past five years, Borbolla"s characters have been used to assist 2,000 children from 3 to 14 years old, and have been employed in three Mexico City hospitals and a center for disabilities in another city, Morelia. Researchers have been using puppets(木偶) to help children express and process their feelings for decades. But Borbolla, who has been working with children for 30 years, has taken this kind of work a step further. The children meet the characters in a room, without adults present; doctors monitor with cameras. They have to handle the information carefully. One principle of the work is that a doctor must not make it known that he knows something that was said to an Antenas character privately. This preserves the trust of the child"s relationship with the character. Borbolla originally got the idea to use a drawing of a cartoon character to communicate with children when she was working as a school psychologist in the 1980s. Years later, in private practice, she worked with a puppet maker to develop a software version.She spent six years improving the tool. "The psychologists I spoke with said the tool creates an environment of trust and understanding that enables them to understand children"s issues more quickly than they imagined possible," said Borbolla. To date, Antenas hasn"t been carefully studied, and Borbolla is working with researchers to examine its effect. "I see how powerful it is," she told me. "It can be used to get into the souls of children." |
1. According to the passage, Dulas ______. |
A. knows a lot about life on earth B. was developed by a Mexican child C. likes chatting with doctors and patients D. is a cartoon character created by a psychologist |
2. We learn from the passage that Borbolla ______. |
A. hopes to study Antenas further B. developed Antenas all on her own C. spent sixteen years improving Antenas D. started to create Antenas in the 1990s |
3. When children meet the characters, ______. |
A. their parents should be present B. their doctors have to stay with them C. the characters will handle the information D. doctors" involvement should be kept secret from them |
4. The psychologists mentioned in Paragraph 7 think that ______. |
A. Antenas is impractical B. it is expensive to use Antenas C. Antenas is helpful to children D. it is difficult to control Antenas |
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Around 200 people who thought their only experience of the London 2012 Olympic Games would be minor heats of synchronized swimming (花样游泳) have received an unexpected change to the men"s 100m final because of an embarrassing ticketing mistake. The London 2012 Organizing Committee (Locog) confirmed on Wednesday that an error in its ticket selling had led to four synchronized swimming competitions being oversold by 10, 000 tickets. Locog and its ticket agent spent the Christmas period contacting ticket holders and offering them alternatives that included the tickets they had applied for but unsuccessful. The changes need no additional cost. It has also offered to return any discrepancy (差额) if the new tickets cost less than the originals. Locog said the replacement tickets would come from a number of unsold seats across the Olympic Games and that it was doing all it could to make up the error to the fans who bought tickets. Locog said the error occurred in the summer, between the first and second round of ticket sales, when a member of staff made a mistake, entering “20,000” into the computer rather than the correct figure of 10,000 remaining tickets. The error was discovered when Locog checked the number of tickets that had been sold against the final seating numbers, and began contacting ticket holders before Christmas. Thousands of ticket holders have already struck lucky, changing to tickets for major events including swimming and athletics finals, and in around 200 cases the hottest of all, the men’s 100m final. Locog said the decision to award 100m final tickets was made because one of the synchronized swimming competitions was on the same afternoon as the event, August 5. |
1. As a result of the ticketing mistake, about 200 people ____. |
A. will luckily be able to watch the men’s 100m final B. will not enjoy the synchronized swimming events C. will have to change their tickets to other games D. have applied for tickets to the men’s 100m final |
2. In order to solve the problem, the Locog ____. |
A. required the holders to return the tickets B. allowed the holders to apply for another ticket C. would charge the discrepancy for changing the tickets D. offered to change the tickets without any extra cost |
3. The underlined word “it” (Paragraph 3 ) refers to ____. |
A. Locog B. the ticketing mistake C. the Olympic Games D. the additional cost |
4. How many ticket holders will have to change their tickets? |
A. 200. B. 10,000. C. 20,000. D. 30,000. |
5. Which of the following is true according to the text? |
A. The synchronized swimming is the hottest of the Olympics. B. Thousands of ticket holders refused to change their tickets. C. The men’s 100m final will take place on August 5, 2012. D. The number of tickets for synchronized swimming is 10,000. |
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DOYLESTOWN STATION, Pa. (CBS)-Marie Buonanno has boxes of holiday lights to decorate her house. She already has one tree up in her living room and a nativity scene. But this holiday season, she would not dare decorate outside. " It is very disappointing that we can" t celebrate the Christmas holiday the way that we religiously choose to," says Buonanno. Her home only has a holiday wreath on the door, since the Doylestown Station Condominium Association told her the bylaws do not allow colored Christmas lights. Last year, she was fined $400, $ 10 for each day her lights were up. But she says she was the only one slapped with a fine. "One of my neighbors that I spoke to a few days ago, who decorates with multicolored lights, says he never got a letter of warning or a fine. " Only white, non-blinking lights are allowed outside. And you can only put up a single white, blue, or orange light in your windows. Neighbors collected 62 signatures to ask the Association board to allow colored Christmas lights. In response, the Association sent out a survey. Out of 38 total responses, 19 voted for white lights, 14 voted for colored non-blinking lights, and 5 voted for colored blinking. The board said the vote was 19-14 against colored lights, interpreting the 5 votes as a separate category. "As long as it" s tasteful," says neighbor Marc Udell, "let the community do what the community is going to do. " No one answered the door at the Association president* s house. Some neighbors say they like the look of white lights. "Some colored lights are pretty and they have their place in neighborhoods, but you never really know how far people are going to go with them," says Jeff Edwards. It will be a holiday of white lights for Buonanno and her neighborhood. She says for now she will miss her colored lights and the holiday cheer they brought to her home. |
1. This holiday season, Marie Buonanno has no choice but to _____. |
A. keep the colored lights in B. sell the colored lights out C. leave the Christmas tree out D. change all the attractive lights |
2. The underlined part in the 3rd paragraph means _____. |
A. she was the only rich woman in the neighborhood B. she was the only resident punished with a fine C. she was the only resident full of strange ideas D. she was the only person fooled by neighbors |
3. Which column does this passage belong to? |
A. Science B. Environment C. Education D. News |
4. According to this passage, colored lights are not allowed to decorate the outside of houses because _. |
A. they are too pretty to be stolen B. they waste a lot of energy C. they can trick passers-by D. they can make neighbors blind |
语法填空。 BEIJING-Worldrenowned Oxford and Cambridge have come to China __1_ (attract) toprank postgraduate students in cooperation with the China Scholarship Council. Oxford made its first __2__ (appear) at the China Scholarship Council"s annual International Graduate Scholarship Fair, __3__ opened on Saturday in Beijing. The school wants to encourage excellent Chinese students to consider __4__ Oxford can offer for 5 academic and professional careers. "The students came wellprepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance, "said Sherwood, director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford, who will make __6__ two stops for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai. The University of Cambridge __7 _ (attend) the fair since its first session in 2009, and stresses that it would continue to invest to train students to be problemsolvers. __8 _ Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in competition for __9_ best and brightest, Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities usually have more interest in cooperation __10__ competition, except in their traditional annual boat race. |
任务型阅读。 BEIJING, March 9-The central government will require an additional three years of use for official vehicles for ministers (部长) and governors (政府官员) to reduce the costs of purchasing new cars, media have reported. The new rule has been applied among all Party and government departments nationwide, the Beijing News reported on Tuesday. The new rule has not yet been made public, said Li, a member of the Chinese People"s Political Consultative Conference National Committee. Under the old rules, the cars used by ministerlevel officials could be replaced as often as every five years, Li said. These officials will also continue to use the same cars when they take new posts, he added. The new rule also reiterated (重申) that officials ranking below ministeror governorlevels should not be allocated cars. The cars possessed by their departments should be used on demand. "It violates the rules for lowerranking-even countylevelofficials to be allocated cars," Li said. Purchases of vehicles for official use have been heavily investigated, as they account for a large expenditure of public funds every year. A survey on the Web news www.ifeng.com found 59 percent of respondents believed the new rule will be difficult to obey because it is related to officials" interests. Local government departments had stopped approvals for requests for such vehicles and had started to limit the number of such cars under the new rules, Li said. "The future reform of official vehicle use will introduce market systems", Li said. Premier Wen Jiabao said in the annual government work report on Saturday that expenditures on such vehicles will not increase in 2011 compared with a year ago. Beijing"s standing deputy mayor Ji Lin last week said the municipal government will release the number of vehicles for official use in the capital as early as at the end of this month. Earlier this month, the Ministry of Finance had published a rule regulating the budgets for such vehicles.
About the rules | Cars for official use should be replaced as often as 1.________ years. The 2.________ of cars to officials ranking below ministeror governorlevels should be banned. | The 3.________ of the new rule | To reduce the cost of buying new cars. | Reasons for 4.________ the new rule | The buying of vehicles for official use 5.________ for a large expenditure of public funds every year. | 6.________ taken and to be taken | Local government departments had started to 7.________ the number of cars for official use. The government will 8.________ public the number of cars for official use. The Ministry of Finance had published a rule 9.________ the budgets for such vehicles.
| Problem | Obeying the rule is 10.________ with officials" interests. | 阅读理解 | BEIJING-Pharmacologist Tu Youyou has become the first scientist on the mainland to win America"s respected Lasker Award for her discovery of a new approach to malaria (疟疾) treatment. The 81yearold was presented with the medical prize by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation on September 23, 2011 in New York. Tu, a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, was praised by the jury (评判委员会) for her "drug therapy (治疗) for malaria that has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world," according to a statement on the foundation"s website. In early 1969, Tu was appointed head of a government project that aimed to eradicate(消灭) malaria, and it was then that she began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug therapy for malaria. After detecting (检测) 380 extracts (提取物) made from 2,000 candidate recipes, Tu and her colleagues obtained a pure substance called "Qinghaosu", which became known as artemisinin in 1972. An artemisininbased drug combination is now the standard regimen (养生法) for malaria, and the World Health Organization lists artemisinin and related agents in its catalog of "Essential Medicines", said a statement from the foundation. The Lasker Awards are given annually to people who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of human diseases since 1945. Lasker Awards are known as "America"s Nobels" for their knack (熟练技术) of gaining future recognition by the Nobel committee. In the last two decades, 28 Lasker laureates (得奖者) have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize, and 80 since 1945. | 1.Which of the following statements about Tu Youyou is FALSE? | A.She is the first scientist on the mainland to win America"s respected Lasker Award. B.She is a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing. C.She is the first scientist in the world to win America"s respected Lasker Award. D.She began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug therapy for malaria in 1969. | 2.Lasker Award is awarded by _____. | A.New York Foundation B.the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation C.Chinese Medical Sciences D.Albert and Mary | 3.What"s the influence about Tu Youyou"s "drug therapy for malaria"? | A.It has surprised the people in the world. B.It has reduced malaria. C.It applied modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine. D.It has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world. | 4.What"s the main idea of the passage? | A.Tu Youyou won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery. B.An American won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery. C.Americans founded the Lasker Foundation. D.Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin. |
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