【推荐】四川省遂中实验校衡水中学分校2018-2019学年高二英语上学期第一学段考试试题.doc

推荐 习题 试卷 Apply to: Job center, Sogo Street, NO.18, Colton. PART-TIME DRIVERS WANTED Clean driving license. Must be of smart appearance.

Aged over 23. Apply to: Capes Taxi, 17 Palace road, Colton. AIR HOSTESSES

Southern Airlines require air hostesses for international flights. Applicants must be between 20 and 33 years old, height 1.60 m to 1.75 m, education to GCSE standard, two languages, must be able to swim. Apply to: Recruitment Officer, Southern Airlines, Heathrow Airport West, HR 37 KK.

MEN NURSES NEEDED For private hospitals

Education: (At least) graduate from Nursing School Working experience: unnecessary.

Apply to: The Personnel of Bear Hospital, 279 Canal Street, Colton. 21. Jack is excellent in appearance and an experienced taxi driver. Why is his application refused as a result?

A. Aged 32. B. Punished and fined because of speeding.

C. Unable to speak a foreign language. D. education.

22. Ben, aged 21, fond of swimming and driving, just graduated from a medicine college, Nursing Department , which job might be given to him? A. Driving for Capes Taxis. B. Working for southern Airlines.

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Not having college

推荐 习题 试卷 C. Nursing in Bear Hospital D. None of the three. 23. What prevents Mary, aged 52, becoming a babysitter? A. She once broke a traffic law and was fined. B. She can’t speak Japanese very well. C. She has before worked as a babysitter. D. She never receives education.

B

A taxi driver taught me a million dollar lesson in customer satisfaction and expectation. Excellent speakers charge thousands of dollars to give training to company leaders and staff. It cost me a $12 taxi ride.

I had flown into Dallas for the purpose of calling on a customer. Time was limited and my plan included a quick turn-around trip from and back to the airport. A spotless taxi pulled up. The driver rushed to open the passenger door for me and made sure I was comfortably seated before he closed the door. As he got in the driver’s seat, he mentioned that the neatly-folded Wall Street Journal next to me was for my use. He then showed me several tapes and asked me what type of music I would enjoy. I could not believe the service I was receiving! I took the opportunity to say, “Obviously you take great pride in your work. You must have a story to tell.”

“You bet,” he replied, “I used to be in Microsoft. But I got tired of it, thinking my best would never be good enough. I decided to find my position in life where I could feel proud of being the best I could be. I knew I would never be a rocket scientist, but I love driving cars, helping people and feeling like I have done a full day’s work and done it well. I thought about my personal strengths and ... wham! I became

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推荐 习题 试卷 a taxi driver. One thing I know for sure, to be good in my business I could simply meet the expectations of my passengers. But, to be GREAT in my business, I have to go above the customer’s expectations! I like both the sound and the return of being ‘great’ better than just getting by being ‘average’.”

24. What does the writer really want to say in Paragraph 1? A. The writer thought the driver motivational. B. The writer benefited a lot from the ride. C. The writer was over charged for the ride. D. The writer paid less for the ride.

25. What caused the writer’s curiosity about the taxi driver? A. His wonderful CD.

B. His touching speech.

D. His neatly-folded

C. His high-quality service. journal.

26．From the last paragraph we know that the taxi driver_______ . A. is enthusiastic about his work work

C. thinks too highly of himself expectations

27．Which of the following is the taxi driver likely to agree? A. Being great is a must in life. for all of us.

C. Don’t expect too much in life. strengths.

C

D．AI does better than humans in sight and balance. Who is smarter?

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B. expects much from his

D. goes above his own

B. Life is not easy

D. Every one of us has

推荐 习题 试卷 A human being or artificial intelligence（人工智能）?

The question swept the world last year when a Google-developed program called AlphaGo defeated the world top player, South Korean Lee Se-del, 4-1.

So, what comes next?

Some people have been arguing that artificial intelligence, or AI in short, will be a bad thing for humans. In an interview with the BBC in 2014, UK scientist Stephen Hawking warned that “the development of full artificial intelligence could mean the end of the human race.”

So are we really about to live in the world shown in the Terminator movies?

“Not quite,” answered The Economist. After all, it’s not hard to get a computer program to remember and produce facts. What is hard is getting computers to use their knowledge in everyday situations.

“We think that, for the human being, things like sight and balance（视觉平衡）, are natural and ordinary in our life.” Thomas Edison, founder of Motion Figures, a company that is bringing AI to boys, told the newspaper. “But for a robot, to walk up and down just like human beings requires various decisions to be made every second, and it’s really difficult to do.”

As The Economist put it, “We have a long way to go before AI can truly begin to be similar to the human brain, even though the technology can be great.”

Meanwhile, John Markoff of The New York Times said that researchers should build artificial intelligence to make people more effective.

“Our fate is in our own hands,” he wrote. “Since technology depends on the values of its creators, we can make human choices that use

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