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I stopped. The officer came up to my open window and I handed him my license without even looking at him. He glanced at it, then asked, \trimming（修剪） there, ma'am? What's going on?\to school. I tried ... and ... oh ... I just needed to be on time. \on time because you're a good teacher. You were when I had you. \
And then I did look at him. A former student of mine. All grown up. Keeping people safe.
He gave me a warning - not different from ones I'd given him years ago - and sent me on my way. And at last I arrived at my classroom, wondering what I learned. 24．What did the writer judge before turning to the field? A．Whether she would break the law. B．Whether her car would be trapped. C．Whether students would follow suit. D．Whether she would be laughed at. 25．What did the officer's first question sound?
A．Serious. B．Humorous. C．Curious. D．Respectful. 26．What do we know about the writer? A．She was fined that morning. . B．She felt relieved when stopped.
C．She often drove across the grassy field. D．She once warned the student. 27．What did the writer learn that morning?
A．To be punctual as a teacher. B．To be kind to every student. C．To keep safe all the time. D．To play by the rules.
C
Scientist Stephen Hawking had to work really hard to speak. He chose letters and words from a synthesizer（合成器） screen controlled by twitches of a muscle in his cheek.
However, the painstaking process used by Hawking, who died in 2018, might soon be replaced. With a very different approach, doctors have found a way to get a person's speech directly from their brain. The breakthrough is the first to show how a person's intention to say specific words can be taken from brain signals and turned into text quickly. It is fast enough to keep pace with natural conversation.
Doctors wanted something that allows people who are paralyzed（瘫痪）to communicate more quickly than existing devices allow for. Today's devices pick up eye movements and muscle sudden movements to control a keyboard. \timescale of a human conversation,\
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In the research, Chang used the devices to record brain activity while each patient was asked questions. Using the recordings, Chang and his team built computer models that learned to match particular patterns of brain activity to the questions the patients heard and the answers they spoke. Once trained, the software could identify almost instantly, and from brain signals alone, what question a patient heard. It was accurate 76 percent of the time.
The work is still in its early stage. However, Winston Chiong, a scientist, said it was important to debate the moral problems such systems might raise in the future. For example, could such speech- devices by accident reveal people's private thoughts? Chang said that sharing their people's inner thoughts is almost impossible. His device works only as thoughts are turned into signals to drive muscles involved in speech. \communicate and can't, I think we have a responsibility as scientists to restore that.” He said. 28．Why does the writer mention Stephen Hawking? A．To introduce a breakthrough in communicating. B．To show honor to the famous scientist. C．To reflect his difficulty in speaking. D．To explain his special way of making sound. 29．How does the brain-reading software work?
A．By sensing the sound wave of words. B．By receiving brain signals. C．By moving muscle suddenly. D．By picking up eye movements. 30．What does the underlined word \
A．Remove.
B．Cover. C．Expose. D．Change.
31．What is the main idea of the text?
A．The patient communicates with doctors freely. B．A new software follows your words meanwhile. C．Others may read your inner thoughts.
D．Brain-reading software helps the paralyzed talk-
D
For a generation now, school reform has meant what students must be taught and carried out by standardized tests.
Here's a thought experiment. Suppose that next year almost every student passed the tests. What would the reaction be from people? Would they shake their heads in respect and say, \be good! \
Of course not. Such remarkable success would be used as evidence that the tests were too easy and it needs to raise standards. \meet\My little thought experiment uncovers a truth that we have been taught to respond with doubt whenever all members of any group are successful. In America, success doesn't count unless it is got by only a few.
technology to find out what people are thinking, even if it were possible. But if someone wants to
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Consider widespread complaints about \inflation (膨胀)\in higher education. Many people don't even bother to stress that grades have risen over time. They simply point to how many students get A's right now. The goal, in other words, isn't to do well but to defeat other people who are also trying to do well. Grades in testing should be used to announce who's beating whom. A school's final task, apparently, is not to help everyone learn but to prepare the game so that there will always be losers.
This makes no sense in any situation. Perhaps, for example, we can defend rating states or nations based on the quality of their air, health care or schools, but ranking them is foolish. School testing ranking doesn't lead to improvements in performance but tends to hold us back from doing our best. It makes productive teamwork less likely and leads all concerned to focus not on meaningful improvements but on trying to beat everyone else.
Most of all, it encourages the false belief that excellence is a zero-sum game. It would be more reasonable to rescue the spirit of the concept: Everyone may not succeed, but at least in theory all of us could.
32．What did the writer's thought experiment prove? A．Good teachers represent higher test scores. B．American tests are usually too easy. C．Excellence is regarded as a- rare thing.
D．Students don't meet the test standards. 33．What does the writer think American schools seem to do? A．Promote teachers to teach better. B．Remove the belief of beating others. C．Help all students do well at school. D．Ensure the existence of failures.
34．What is the writer's attitude towards schools testing ranking? A．Sympathetic. B．Ambiguous. 35．What is the best title for the text? A．Why Can't Everyone Get A's? B．How Can Students Succeed? C．What Standards Do Schools Set?
D．Who Get Best Grades at School? 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项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。 Do you think you've lost your inspiration? Maybe the ups and downs of life and work have affected you. You're not alone. The majority of people across the world are trying newer and easier ways to get inspired. 36 They start thinking to themselves that they are no good. And only a handful-of people can stay inspired for life. You can get inspired for life anytime you want. That's the potential of being human.
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C．Disapproving. D．Unconcerned.
Alone time is just as important as socializing time. It is important to stay alone for you to understand your thoughts and emotions at a deeper level. 37 It's always inside of you, waiting to be used.
Do you have goals? If you don't, now is the time to write them down. A person without goals has no direction. And he or she can never know if he or she is making progress or not. Create your life goals and then break them down to yearly goals, monthly goals, weekly goals and daily goals. You can even go deeper to hourly goals. 38
When socializing, listen to the stories of other people. You'll be happy to realize how fortunate you really are. Most of the people around you have gone through things you might never imagine. 39 Listen to their stories and how they settled their problems. You can also read an inspiring book or watch a movie to get the inspiration you need to move forward.
40 If you've lost your inspiration, you can put to practice these tips any time. It's time to start living with passion.
A．Inspiration comes from inside.
B．Inspiration also comes from your success. C．But they give up along the way gradually. D．And there they are standing in front of you.
E．Everyone needs inspiration to succeed in life: F．But they always keep their experiences a secret. G．Having a sense of direction will keep you inspired. 第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项。
First Failure
I leaned my head on my hand. I stared with blank eyes in Professor Gill's physics lecture for 41 . The drawings and lines are all complete rubbish to me. I can't 42 it.
After considering it for a long time, I came to Professor Gill's office to 43 her of my final decision to switch 44 . She warned me that l was too far into the 45 to drop. It means that l was going to have an F for big Fat 46 on my report card!
I called the only people who could possibly make me feel 47 ，my parents. The phone rang and my mom answered. Finally I 48 to say \m\ 49 physics.”
I explained to my mom about how engineering was not what I 50 .She replied that it was okay not to be 51 all of the time, and she and my dad would 52 me in whichever career（事业）path I chose. She 53 I go to the career advising center to take some career tests to give me ideas on other 54 ．
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