25. What does the last sentence in Para. 3 mean?
A. A small action can make a difference. B. Actions speak louder than words. C. Love makes the world go round. D. Great minds think alike. 26. What can we learn from Waldron’s words?
A. He likes to flicker lights. B. He is frightened of treatment. C. He gets warmth from the lights. D. He likes the boat light. 27. Which of the following can be the best tile for the text?
A. Treatment for Sick Children B. A Warmhearted
C. The powerful Lights D. Lights Flickering in the Hospital
C
With the ever-increasing popularity of online shopping, users’ reviews are becoming more and more important. Given that you can’t actually touch, see, smell or hear the product you’re buying online, these reviews provide buyers valuable information on the product itself. But how far can you trust them? Barnaby Bicken had an unpleasant experience. “I took some friends to a restaurant in Manchester that had excellent review on a food website. However, the service was awful and we were ignored most of the time. Later, I wrote a review to the same site only to be told that the review site owner would not accept and bad reviews—only the good ones.
So, how can you get a useful review? Web expert Hilary Saunders has a few top tips. “If there are only a few reviews of a place, there is a good chance they have been planted by friends or enemies. If there are many reviews, start by dropping the most extreme comments. Also, watch out for similarities in style between reviews from people with different usernames, particularly if those reviews were placed about the same time. The best thing is to look for reviewers who show some relevant knowledge of the product they are reviewing.
Some companies seem to be contributing to the problem. A publishing house offered gift vouchers(礼券) to anyone who would give their textbook a five-star review. But not all online companies operate like this. “Amazon works hard to keep the completeness of its customer reviews,” said a spokesperson for the company. “We have very clear guidelines, and when a customer reports a review that they feel is inappropriate, we check, and may take it down.
So, next time you see that 5-star review for something you want to buy, be aware—it could be the work of a false reviewer!
28. What does “them” in Para. 1refer to?
A. Products. B. Users. C. Reviews. D. Buyers.
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
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