29. What does Barnaby Bicken’s story imply?
A. The food served was awful. B. Not all reviews are believable. C. Many people are easily cheated. D. He likes to write bad reviews. 30. What reviews of products are useful?
A. Those by competitors. B. Those by different users. C. Those with good comments. D. Those with related information. 31. How does Amazon deal with the customer reviews?
A. Helps to finish the reviews. B. Pays attention to the bad reviews. C. Offers gifts for the good reviews. D. Tries to make the reviews objective.
D
As missing children age, they outgrow their last known photographs, which makes finding them tough. Now AI(Artificial Intelligence) could make it quicker to match any found children to those old photos.
Police can use software to age photos of people who have been missing for a while, but these tend to work best in adults, as age-related changes to adult faces are more predictable and so easier to make.
With children, these aged images(图像) don’t tend to resemble the older child, and matching photos of found children to old images in a database of missing children is difficult. “Given a recent face image of a child, it is extremely hard for a human to recognize, visually, who the child is from a large data set of child face images,” says Debayan Deb at Michigan State University.
Now Deb and his colleagues have created an algorithm(算法) to do this for them. They created a face-recognition algorithm on data sets, which contains images of nearly 1000 children between 2 and 18 years old. Each was photographed at least four times over a period of six years.
The AI learned to match recent photographs of children with images taken 2.5 years earlier80 percent of the time.
With one year between the two photographs, the method was 90 percent accurate a recognizing faces. This dropped to 73 percent after three years. The approach beats comparing children with photos taken when they were aged 0 to 4 that have been aged by software, which stays at 50 percent recognition after six months. The new AI might help to improve accuracy of this kind of software as well.
Deb’s next goal is to make the age gap wider. His team also hopes to develop an app that could be used to fight child trafficking. 32. What is suggested in Para.1?
A. The old photos are hard to read. B. Found children change greatly
C. Children’s faces are unpredictable. D. Photos of children are easy to match.do the research? 33. Why do Ded’s team do the research? A. To prove the advantages of AI function B. To help the police change their software C. To build a data base to find the missing children. D. To improve the accuracy of children’s face-recognition.
34. What does the underlined word “trafficking” in the last paragraph mean? A. Image matching B. Comparing C. Recognizing. D. Illegal trade. 35. What is the main idea of the text? A. Al could match missing kids to old photos. B. Age-related changes to faces are predictable. C. A face-recognition algorithm has been created. D. A new software is improved to find missing kids. 第二节(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
根据短文内容,从短文后的选次中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 The holiday season is supposed to be the most festive and fun time of the year, but all those plans and expectations of joy can turn tougher and more stressful than they sound. This is especially true for those of us who struggle with mental illness.
36. Sometimes you’re forced to spend time with family you rarely see and don’t always get along with. Or you are off from work, with more time to think troubling thoughts. Or you are put into party situations that you don’t like.
When you have a routine, it’s easier to manage whatever mental struggles you may face, and when that routine is broken, it can(引发)things you may not be ready to face. 37 . It was during the holidays when I hit a low moment and, with the help of my mother, decided to seek help for my eating disorder.
Around the holidays, I often feel like I’m supposed to be everywhere with everyone. 38 .To fight this, I’ve developed a mantra(咒语): is nod selfish to take time for yourself.
Take a walk in nature. Talk to a friend you trust. Sit out one of the holiday gatherings in favor of some personal time, 39 . Trying to spend all of your time pleasing everyone else is not only exhausting—it’s impossible. And you know what? 40. A. I know it has for me.
B. The holidays break your routine.
C. There are many things crowding in your mind. D. I will accompany my friends to go wherever they like. E. I have the added guilt of knowing it’s the season of giving
F. Just do whatever helps you calm down and gives you a break from the stress.
G If you take a little time for yourself, you will be much better company for those around you.
第三部分 语言知识运用(共两节,满分45 分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1. 5分,满分30分)
阅读下面的短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和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。
I was once in an unusual sociology(社会学) class at Brandeis.Each week we studied the 41 we interacted with one another, and how we 42 to anger, envy, attention. We were human lab rats. More often, someone 43 crying. I referred to it as the “touchy-feely” course. Mr. Brown said I should be more 44. One day, Mr. Brown said he had an 45 for us to try. We were to stand, facing away from our classmates and 46 backward, relying on another student to 47 us. Most of us were 48 with this, and we couldn’t let go for more than a few inches 49 stopping ourselves. We laughed in 50. Finally, a thin, quiet girl, whom I noticed almost always wear the same clothes, crossed her arms over her chest, 51 her eyes and leaned back, just like one of those Lipton tea ads 52 the model dived into the pool.
For a moment, I was 53 she was going to fall on the floor. At the 54 moment, her partner grabbed her head and 55 and pulled her up. “Whoa!” several students yelled. Some 56. Mr. Brown finally smiled.
“You see,” he said to the girl, “ you closed your eyes. That was the 57. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you 58. And if you’re ever going to have other people 59 you, you must feel that you can trust them, 60, even when you’re in the dark, even when you’re falling.” 41. A. behaviour 42. A. responded 43. A. went on 44. A. skillful 45. A. arrangement 46, A. jumped
B. ways B. objected B. gave up B. honest B. order B. moved
C. courses C. stuck C. put off C. open-minded C. instruction C. fell
D. relationship D. referred D. ended up D. energetic D. exercise D. ran
47. A. catch 48. A. dissatisfied 49. A. before 50. A. surprise 51. A. fixed 52. A. every time 53. A. sorry 54. A. unusual 55. A. shoulders 56. A. wept 57. A. success 58. A. feel 59. A. stand by 60. A. however
B. pull
B. uncomfortable B. after B. excitement B. opened B. as though B. shocked B. crazy B. attention B. clapped B. difference B. notice B. rely on B. too
C. control C. pleased C. while C. delight C. closed C. when C. sure C. exciting C. legs C. laughed C. result C. hold C. believe in C. though
D. support D. familiar D. until
D. embarrassment D. touched D. where D. puzzled D. last D. chance D. sighed D. requirement D. meet D. call for D. therefore
第二节(共10小题;每小题1. 5分满分15分)
阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Year of the dog began on Feb. 16, 2018 according to the Chinese Lunar calendar. Though dogs 61(see) as companions and part of the family today, China and Western countries do not have the same cultural 62 (belief) about dogs. In Chinese, some words 63(concern) dogs have not very good meanings, such as “No ivory(象牙)can come out of a dog’s mouth”. But in English, the situation is 64 (differ). “Every dog has his day” describes a person with a period of good fortune and “work like a dog” is used 65 (describe) a hard worker.
The dog-human relationship goes right 66 to the beginnings of Western civilization, and the friendship between humans and dogs was a common subject for artists.
67 facts, people were close to dogs in a way they weren’t close to cows, pigs or even horses. Farmers worked 68 (close)with dogs. But even after science came to agriculture and dogs lost 69 traditional roles, the relationship between man and dogs remained.
Nowadays in the West, millions of people keep dogs as pets. People food them, take them on holidays 70 look after them. In return, dogs are loyal(忠诚)in a way that friends sometimes aren’t. This loyalty is the origin of the English saying, “A dog is man’s best friend.”
第四部分 写作(共两节;满分35分)
第一节: 短文改错(共10小题; 每小题1分,满分10分)
假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌的以下作文,文中共有10 处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加,删除或修改。 增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号(/\\),并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除: 把多余的词用斜线(\\) 划掉。
修改: 在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意: 1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词:
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起) 不计分。
This summer, I attended a journalism-themed summer camp, where I learn a lot.
What impressed me most was the interviews carrying out in the street. In the beginning, I wasn’t used to talk to strangers. But with my teammates encouragement, I was able to communicate smooth with them. Then we were noticed most of the answers we got were brief. After a discussion, my teammates and I realized that was why our questions weren’t open-ended enough. So we changed their questions and our interviewees were more willing to share with us their ideas in end.
From this experience I’ve gained several skill for interviewing people as a journalist.
第二节 书面表达(满分25分)
假定你是李华,你的英国朋友Peter很想了解中国文物的故事,请你根据以下要点,写一封邮件向他推荐CCTV-3 的《国家宝藏》(National treasures)节目。
要点:
1. 节目内容:介绍中国重点文物的故事; 2. 节目目的:感受中国悠久的传统文化。 注意:
1. 词数100 左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯; 3. 开头语和结束语已为你写好。 Dear Peter,
How is everything going?