-
冲刺套题
完形填空
A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling
Last week I was invited to
a doctor‘s meeting at the Ruth hospital for
incurables. In
one of the wards
a patient, an old man, got up shakily
from his bed and moved towards me. I could see
that he hadn't long
to
1
, but he came
up to me and placed his right foot close mine on
the floor.
―Frank
！
‖ I cried
in astonishment. He couldn‘t
2
,
as I knew, but all the time pressing
his foot
against mine.
My memories raced back more than thirty
years to the dark days of 1941, when I was a
student in
London. The
3
was an air-raid shelter, in which I and
about hundred other people slept every night.
Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and
her son Frank.
w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m
4
wartime
problems,
we
shelter-dwellers
got
to
5
each
other
very
well.
Frank
West
6
me because he
wasn‘t normal, not even at birth. His mother told
me he was 37 then, but he
had
7
of a mind than a baby
has. His ―
8
‖ consisted of rough
sounds——
sounds of pleasure or anger
and
9
more.
Mrs.
West,
then
about
75,
was
a
strong,
capable
woman,
as
she
had
to
be,
of
course,
because Frank
10
on her
entirely. He needed all the
11
of a baby.
One night a policeman came and told
Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a
500-pounder.
She
12
nearly
everything she owned.
When that sort of
thing happened, the rest of us helped the unlucky
ones. So before we
13
that
morning, I
stood beside Frank and
14
my right foot against his.
They were about the same size. That
night, then, I took a pair of shoes to
the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he
came running and
placed his right foot
against mine. After that, his
15
to me was always the same.
w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m
1. A. work
B.
stay
C. live
D. expect
2. A. answer
B. speak
C. smile
D. laugh
3. A. cave
B. place
C. sight
D. scene
4. A. Discussing
B. Solving
C. Sharing
D. Suffering
5. A. learn
from
B. talk to
C. help
D. know
6. A.
needed
B. recognized
C. interested
D. encouraged
7. A. more
B. worse
C.
fewer
D. less
8. A. word
B. speech
C.
sentence
D. language
9. A. not
B. no
C. something
D. nothing
10.
A. fed
B. kept
C. lived
D. depended
11. A. attention
B. control
C. treatment
D. management
12. A. lost
B. needed
C.
destroyed
D. left
13. A. separated
B. went
C.
reunited
D. returned
14. A. pushed
B. tried
C. showed
D.
measured
15. A. nodding
B. greeting
C.
meeting
D. acting
1-5:CADCD 6-10:CDBBD 11-15 :AAADB
语法填空
(
共
10
小题；每小题
l 5
分．满分
l5
分
)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使
用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为
16
—
25
的相应位置上。
In social life, time plays a very
important part
．
In the
U.S.A.,guests tend to feel they are not highly
regarded
if
the
invitation
16
a
dinner
party
is
extended
only
three
or
four
days
17
the party
date
．
But it is not true in
all countries
．
In
18
areas of the world, it may
be considered
foolish
to
make
19
appointment
too
far
in
advance
because
plans
that are
made
for
a
date
more than
a week away tend
20
(forget)
．
The
meaning of time differs in
different
parts
of
the
world
．
Thus,
misunderstandings
arise
between
people
from
cultures
21
time is treated
differently
．
Promptness is
valued highly in American life, for
example
．
If people are not
punctual, they may be regarded as
impolite or not fully
22
(responsibility). In the U.S.A.
no
one
would
think
of
keeping
a
business
associate
23
(wait)
for
an
hour
;
24
would
be
too
impolite
．
A
person
who
is
5
minutes
late
will
say
a
few
words
of
explanation,
25
perhaps he will not
complete the sentence
．
16
．
to
17
．
before;
18
．
other;
19
．
an;
24
．
that;
20
．
to
be forgotten;
25
．
though
21
．
where;
22
．
responsible;
阅读理解
23
．
waiting;
1
In a few
years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean,
Japanese, French,and English
—
and all
at the
same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex
Waibel, a computer science professor at US's
Carnegie
Mellon University (CMU) and
Germany's University of Karlsruhe, announced last
week that it may soon
be reality. He
and his team have invented software and hardware
that could make it far easier for people
who speak different languages to
understand each other.
?
One application, called Lecture
Translation, can easily translate a speech from
one language into
another. Current
translation technologies typically limit speakers
to certain topics or a limited vocabulary.
Users also have to be trained how to
use the programme. Another
prototype(
雏形机
) can send
translations
of a speech to different
listeners depending on what language they speak.
―It is like having a simultaneous
translator right next to you but
without disturbing the person next to you,‖ Waibel
said.
?
Prefer to
read? So-called Translation Glasses
transcribe(
转录
) the
translations on a tiny liquid
–
crystal
(
液晶
) display(LCD)
screen.
?
Then
there's the Muscle Translator. Electrodes capture
the electrical signals from facial muscle
movements made naturally when a person
is mouthing words. The signals are then translated
into speech.
The electrodes could be
replaced with wireless chips implanted in a
person's face, according to
researchers.
?
During a demonstration held last
Thursday in CMU's Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese
student named
Sang Jun had 11 tiny
electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks,
neck and throat. Then he mouthed
—
without speaking aloud
—
a few words in
Mandarin(
普通话
) to the
audience. A few seconds later, the
phrase was displayed on a
comput
er screen and spoken out by the
computer in English and Spanish: ―Let
me introduce our new
prototype.‖
?
This
particular gadget(
器械
),when
fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in
any number of
languages or, as Waibel
put it, ―to switch your mouth to a
foreign language‖. ―The idea behind the
university's prototypes is to create
?good enough‘ bridges for
cross
-cultural exchanges that are
becoming
more common in the world,‖
Waibel said.
?
With
spontaneous(
自发的
)
translators, foreign drivers in Germany could
listen to traffic warnings on
the
radio, tourists in China could read all the signs
and talk with local people, and leaders of
different
countries could have secret
talks without any interpreters
there.
?
36. Which
of the following statements is not true ?
A. A lecture translation can translate
what you said into other languages
easily.
?