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Not even Dan Brown and his Da Vinci code—breakers(密码破译者)dared deal with the mystery of Mona Lisa，s smile．But Nicu Sebe，a computer expert the University of Amsterdam，the Netherlands，did．He used’emotion recognition’software to process the famous painting and found Mona Lisa happy(83 per cent)and slightly disgusted(厌烦的)(9 per cent)．
Faces show emotions. Psychology，computer science，and engineering researchers are joining forces to teach machines to read expressions．If they succeed，your computer may one day“read”your mood．Machines equipped with emotional skills could also be used in teaching，gaming，mind－reading，etc.
“Mind Reader”，a system developed by Rosalind Picard at MIT(the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, uses input from a video camera to do real—time analysis of facial expressions. It reports on whether you seem interested or agreeable or if you’re confused．The system can help people recognize others’emotions．Picard says this means we could teach a machine to be as sensitive as a human．In fact，a machine can be even smarter than people since it can tell if a person is lying or just “performing”by analyzing one’s facial movements．
Jeffrey Cohn，a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh，uses the Facial Action Coding System to recognize human emotions．The system sorts more than 40 action units(AUs)of the face to tell people’s real emotions．He studied a videotape of a criminal who said to be sad about the murder of several family members and tried to pin the blame on someone else．But Cohn saw no real sadness in the woman’s face.
Sadness is a group of AUs that is difficult to do at the same time．You have to pull down the woman’s of your lips while bringing your eyebrows together and raising them．What the woman did was raise her cheeks to make a lip cud(撇嘴)。Her brows stayed smooth．
72．The best title of this passage is“ ”．
A．The emotion on your face B．Look at your face
C．Your face tells a story D．Telling a lie
73．The missing sentence“This means，even though your mouth lice，your face doesn’t，and the machine will know it all. ”should be put at the end of ．
A．Paragraph 2 B．Paragraph 3
C．Paragraph 4 D．Paragraph 5
74．How many facial emotion analyses are mentioned in this passage?
A．Four． B．Three． C．Two． D．One
75．The underlined word“it”refers to——．
A．MIT B．the video camera
C．one’s face emotion D．the real—time analysis
Poor parenting is to blame for a major deterioration（变坏） in the behavior of primary school pupils over the past five years,a study suggests.
Classroom disorder is a big problem for teachers, according to researchers ar Cambridge University.In interview with teachers, Professors Maurice Galton and John Macbeath found that many blamed their pupils’ bad behavior on the inability of parents to control children at home.
Many pupils lacked the social skills required to get on in class, said the researchers. “The teachers describe ‘highly permissive’ parents who admitted to indulging(纵容) their children,often for the sake of peace,” the author added.
Examples included a mother who,after great effort,succeeded in getting her five-year-old son to bed at 1 am instead of 3 am,and a boy of seven who broke his Sony PlayStation in a tantrum(发脾气),and then would not behave for a week until his mother bought him a new one.
Professors Galton and Macbeath were also told of parents who would do anything to shut their children up”just to get some peace”.
The researchers,who visited schools they studied five years ago,added,”There appeared to have been a bad influence on school life from a rapidly changing social scene”
“Motivating certain children, it was claimed, had become more difficult because by the time they came to school many of these children had become expert in dealing with adults.”
According to Galton and Macbeath, the top five difficulties to teaching are poor pupil behavior, lack of time for reflection, large class sizes, too many initatives and an overloaded curriculum. “Children arrive at school knowing too much and not enough.”They said.According to many teachers, some students behave badly at school because___.
| A．teachers didn’t give them an interesting lesson |
| B．they lack parental control at home |
| C．their parents have a poor education themselves |
| D．they can’t receive enough attention from teachers. |
Why are some parents highly permissive according to the passage?
| A．To show their strong love to their children. |
| B．To encourage their children to do what they like |
| C．To give their children freedom to choose what they are interested in |
| D．To avoid being disturbed by children. |
Which of the following is the most suitable title for the passage?
| A．Teachers have the duty to control their students |
| B．Parents get the blame for bad behavior of children |
| C．Teachers are responsible for what their students do |
| D．Parents are the models for their children |
Babies as young as 5months can distinguish a happy tune, such as Ode to Joy, from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony,from sad tunes.
Researchers showed an emotionally-neutral(中立的)face to the babies while sad music played.When the babies looked away from the face, the music stopped Ode to Joy played, the babies stared at the face three to four seconds longer, suggesting they were interested in the change.
By nine months old, babies can do the opposite.
The finding is another example of how babies make sense of the world long before they can talk, said Brigham Young University psychology professor Ross Flom.
“One of the first things babies understand communicatively is emotion,so for them the melody(旋律)is the message,”Flom said. “Our study showed that by nine months, babies are classifying songs as happy or sad the same way that adults do”
So what makes a happy song?
BYU music professor Susan Kenney, who was not involved in the study, noted some of the technical difference between the happy and sad songs the babies heard.
“The happy songs were all in major keys with fairly short phrases or motives that repeated,”Kenney said, “The tempo(节拍)and melodic rhythms were faster than any of the sad ones,and the molodies had a general upward direction.The sad songs were in minor keys and all had a slower beat and long melodic rhythms.For a baby to notice those differences is interesting and attractive.”The phrase “the opposite”in Paragraph 3 refers to “___”.
| A．telling the difference between Ode to Joy and other songs |
| B．picking out a sad tune from happy ones |
| C．looking away from the face three to four sections longer |
| D．showing they’re not interested in the change of tunes |
This musical study shows that___.
| A．all babies are gifted in music |
| B．music represents what babies want to tell us |
| C．babies understand music emotionally even before they can talk |
| D．the behavior of babies should be further studied |
How do babies distinguish different tunes according to Kenny?
| A．By the tempo and rhythms |
| B．By their emotion |
| C．By their common sense |
| D．By their interest |
Which section of a newspaper does this passage probably belong to?
| A．Science |
| B．Culture |
| C．Education |
| D．Entertainment |
Among growing concerns about rising food prices and global warming, many Americans are taking a closer look at what they do and don’t eat.
Research in the US estimates that at least 14 percent of purchased food ends up in the garbage.Some way view this as a call to return to the”clean your plate” atiitude, which was popularized in the mid-twentieth century, but this would be unwise.With a rising overweight population and a growing national health crisis, it’s time for a new approach.Instead,we should view these figures as motivation to reduce waste,cut grocery costs and maintain our health by shopping and eating smarter.
Food waste reportedly makes up about 12 percent of waste material.Aside from the costly operation budgets of the equipment,the environment is paying the real price.As organic material(like vegetables,fruits and grains)decompose in the garbage,they release the greenhouse gas methane(甲烷)into the environment.
In fact,garbage is the largest source of methane emissions(散发)in the US.While composting plant food, which does not produce methane,is one solution,strategies for wasting less food shoule also be explored.
According to a survey in the UK,one major source of food waste is “over shopping”.Buying more food than we need is easy to do when we shop without a list or when “buy one,get one free”offers tempt us to put food that will often go to waste into our shopping baskets.
The solution: shop smarter.Check your refrigerator to see what needs to be used or frozen before it becomes bad.Check your calendar to see if there are meals that you know you will be eating away from home.
Before you go to the store,decide how many days worth of food you need.Then ,take a few minutes to prepare a shopping list.Don’t make things different—no need to decide what will be served each day—just plan enough breakfast,lunch and dinner meals to last until your next grocery run.How does food waste influence the environment?
| A．It makes up about 12 percent of waste materials |
| B．It costs a great deal to operate the equipment |
| C．It contains organic materials |
| D．It release the greenhouse gas |
How many solutions are mentioned to solve the food garbage problem?
| A．One |
| B．Two |
| C．Three |
| D．Four |
What can we know according to Paragraph 5?
| A．We usually buy some unnecessary food. |
| B．We tend to buy a lot of food that we can’t afford. |
| C．We usually buy one thing and are given one more for free. |
| D．We get the free food and soon throw it into the garbage |
The purpose of writing this passage is to ___.
| A．tell us what healthy foods should be bought |
| B．remind us to eat smarter to provide energy for our body |
| C．advise us to check our refrigerator before eating out |
| D．expect us to make efforts to avoid food waste |
Many English students did not realize that phrases such as “get off of” and “she was stood” were grammatically incorrect. It’s feared that the use of social networking websites and mobile phone text messaging is damaging children’s literacy(读写) skills.
Ministers have also complained that many young people spend too much time playing video games and watching TV instead of reading books.In the lastest study,Cambridge Assessment,one of the country’s biggest examination organizations,surveyed more than 2,000teenagers in 26 English secondary schools.
They were presented with various phrases and asked to mark out those with non-standard English. Only 41 percent realized that an adjective had been used in place of an adverb in the phrase “come quick”.
Fewer than six-in-ten pupils correctly identified “get off of” and “she was stood” as ungrammatical. Around a quarter of students failed to spot errors in the phrases “ it wasn’t me who done it” , “ couldn’t hardly move”, “Tom had gotten cold” and “three mile”. At least a fifth failed to recognize that “more easier” was incorrect. And most one-in-ten students failed to spot the use of a double negative in the phrase “I didn’t break no vase”
Ian McNeilly,from the National Association for the Teaching of English, told the Times Educational Supplement, “For a lot of people—not just young people—their daily use of English is in new media,where non-standerd grammatical constuctions are more acceptable.That’s unavoidably going to lead to an increased lack of awareness of more standard constructions.”
Dr Beth Black,author of the latest report,said,”It is possible that these less well-recognized nonstandard English forms will find their way into standard English,especially given the view that teenagers are linguistic innovators(语言创新者) who bring about change in standard dialect”.According to the first paragraph, what do people worry about?
| A．Text message cost students too much money |
| B．students can’t use standard English grammer |
| C．Students are annoyed through social networking websites. |
| D．Students become violent by playing video games |
From the result of the survey, about 10 percent of the students failed to___.
| A．understand the correct use of the tense |
| B．know the proper place of an adjective |
| C．know the use of the adverb |
| D．find the misuse of a double negative |
According to Ian McNeilly, which of the following caused the spread of non-standard grammer?
| A．Poeple use English in new media |
| B．People spend little time reading books |
| C．People didn’t learning grammar well at school |
| D．Poeple are too careless in their writing |
From the last paragraph, we can infer that___.
| A．standard English will probably be destroyed by teenagers |
| B．teenagers are likely to become experts in English language |
| C．non-standard English forms will probably be widely accepted |
| D．people will probably not use the standard English grammar |
On a cold evening of April our ship was sailing for Ireland. Suddenly a violent storm rose and overturned our ship. Fortunately I held a board and was washed up on an island.
It was completely dark. On reaching the island，I found a smooth place to lie down. Quite tired I slept for a long time. I woke up with a start when I was dazzled (使目眩) by glaring sunlight. How I felt hungry and thirsty！The island with its beautiful landscape at dawn appeared before my eyes.
I began to explore the island. It was an uninhabited island surrounded by trees. Yellow fruits on the trees made me feel hungry. I tasted one. How sweet and delicious it was！I ate greedily a lot then I lay down comfortably on the soft grass. Around me were fragrance (芳香) and singing of birds. There, far away, on the right, a waterfall was falling down the mountainside. I rushed toward it. In the afternoon when I was wandering around the island, I happened to find out a cave hidden behind the thick forest. It was convenient for me to turn it into a place for sleeping for the night.
Day in day out,nearly two weeks passed by. My food was mere fruit and some fish caught from the stream. Sometimes I tried to hunt some wild animals but in vain. Had I been equipped with necessary things，I would have enjoyed remaining here for food.
One morning I caught sight of a boat. I signaled and shouted loudly. I was rescued but so far I have had the memories of a fairy land which I had once happened to discover!What did the author do first after he was washed up on the island?
| A．He looked for a passing ship. |
| B．He found something to eat. |
| C．He found a place to take a rest. |
| D．He made the island clean. |
What is the RIGHT time order of the following things?
A.HE wandered around the island
B.He was dazzled by glaring sunlight
C.He ate a lot of wild fruits
D.He found the island’s landscape was beautiful
A.bdac B.cdab C.acdb D.bdcaWhat does the underlined part “an uninhabited island”in Paragraph 3 mean?
| A．An island with beautiful scenes but no fruit. |
| B．An island without humans living on it. |
| C．An island that no humans have visited. |
| D．An island with fresh air and trees. |
What does this passage specially describe?
| A．How the author overcame difficulties on the island |
| B．How the author spent the first night and the first day on the island |
| C．How the author got to the island |
| D．How the author escaped from the island |
The author wrote his experience in a ________ tone.
| A．light | B．serious | C．scared | D．sharp |