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Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
AlphaGo has struck again, defeating Ke Jie, the world’s number one Go player, 3-0. After his defeat, the young Chinese prodigy said AlphaGo sees the ___41___ of Go while he could only see a small area around him. This win, coupled with last year’s victory over Lee Se-dol, shines a light on the awe-inspiring ___42___ of technology and places AlphaGo among the greatest Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems created to date.
The AI industry is certainly making great advancements, constantly surprising the public with new and interesting tools and making life ___43___. Twenty years ago, just connecting to the Internet was a ___44___. Now, we can do just about anything on our phones, from online banking to ___45___ shows. The shifting sands of technology have placed so many paths in front of humanity that it is hard to ___46___ even the immediate future.
We may talk about how AI can make our lives better, but we also consider the risks. Many stories and films ___47___ around the theme of AI vs. human. One that comes to my mind now is The Terminator. The film is about an AI system called Skynet, which was ___48___ to protect humans. What the programmers did not expect was that Skynet began to think. It came to the conclusion that humans were a danger to its existence, so it started a global nuclear war and tried to “___49___” humanity.
AlphaGo’s recent achievements highlight the ___50___ that technology and AI can bring about. They also serve to remind us of the ___51___ and risks we may not have had time to think about. Some of us used to ___52___ the possibility of creating an actual “thinking” AI system, or believe that humans will always be able to ___53___ an AI system, but certain facts have now been placed in front of us. All that’s left to be done is to ___54___ the actual “thinking” part of advanced AI systems like AlphaGo to more fields. Once that happens, human beings will be pretty much ___55___. If we do not fully understand the risks of AI systems, we might be flying too close to the “sun”, and like Icarus in Greek mythology, we will fall.
41. A. fun
B. secret C. universe D. potential
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42. A. intelligence B. advancements C. risks D. threats 43. A. easier B. slower
C. harder D. faster 44. A. mess B. headache C. loss
D. leisure 45. A. live B. instant C. immediate D. direct 46. A. tell
B. frame C. predict D. encounter 47. A. reveal B. reverse
C. resolve
D. revolve 48. A. processed B. modified C. introduced D. developed 49. A. help
B. isolate
C. terminate D. investigate 50. A. benefits B. possibilities C. signals D. incident 51. A. questions B. tragedies C. treasures D. disasters 52. A. analyze B. develop
C. doubt
D. preview 53. A. outsmart B. overhead C. outnumber D. overtake 54. A. adopt
B. shrink
C. adapt D. control 55. A. intelligent B. powerful
C. patriotic
D. outdated
Keys:
41--45: CBABA 46--50: CDDCB 51--55: ACACD
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Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
The notion of building brand personality is promoted by Starbucks as a part of company culture to embed meaning in their products and thus attract more customers.
Starbucks literally changed the definition of “a good cup of coffee”. For Starbucks, the brand had three elements: coffee, 41 and stores. Strict control over the quality and processing of the beans 42 that the coffee would be of the highest possible quality. Outstanding store personnel were employed and trained in coffee knowledge and 43 service. Store design, atmosphere and aroma (浓香) all 44 the “Starbucks Experience”.
Almost all Starbucks stores were corporately owned and controlled. Starbucks prided itself on the “Starbucks Experience”, 45 coffee to provide a unique experience for its customers.
46 those traditional coffee houses providing you with the grab-and-go service, Starbucks provides you with more than coffee. You get great people, first-rate music, a comfortable and upbeat meeting place, and 47 advice on brewing excellent coffee at home. At home you’re part of a family. At work you’re part of a company. And somewhere in between is a place where you can sit back and be yourself. That’s what a Starbucks store has been 48 to creating for its customers — a kind of “third place” where they can 49 , reflect, read, chat or listen.
The green Starbucks logo is a mermaid that looks like the end of the double image of the sea. It was designed by Terry Heckler, who got the 50 from the wooden statue of the sea. Mermaid logo also 51 original and modern meanings: her face is very simple, but with modern abstract forms of packaging; the middle is black and white, the only color on the outside surrounded by a circle.
Starbucks makes the typical American culture gradually broken down into elements of 52 : the visual warmth, hearing the way, smelling the aroma of coffee and so on. Just think, through the huge glass windows, watching the crowded streets, 53 sipping a coffee flavor, which is in line with the “Yapi”, the feeling of experience in the 54 life.
But the 55 of Starbucks is not about the coffee, although it’s great coffee. Coffee is
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only a carrier. Coffee consumption, to a great extent, is an emotional and cultural level of consumption.
41. A. people 42. A. assured
B. managers B. promised B. environment
C. customers C. ensured
D. clients D. predicted D. customer
43. A. emergency 44. A. consisted of 45. A. going beyond 46. A. With regard to 47. A. general
C. employment
B. benefited from B. coming across B. In addition to B. reasonable B. alerted B. perform
C. contributed to D. headed for C. making up
D. depending on D. In terms of
C. Compared with
C. legal
D. fascinating
D. required D. escape
48. A. committed 49. A. negotiate
C. subjected C. conceal C. patent C. credits
50. A. imagination 51. A. creates 52. A. brand 53. A. greedily 54. A. busy
B. inspiration B. cultivates B. logo B. gently B. easy
D. philosophy
D. conveys D. experience
C. possession
C. persistently
C. miserable
D. indifferently
D. energetic
55. A. product Keys:
B. vision C. essence D. importance
41-45 ACDCA 46-50 CBADB 51-55 DDBAC
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