Exercise1
A) 选择填空。
1. If he denied ____ with you, no one could help you.
A. go B. went C. going D. to go
2. Be careful with the vase. He purchased it ____ 200, 000 yuan.
A. at B. for C. from D. on
3. Three men ____ my house and stole some money when I wasn’t in.
A. broke down B. broke into
C. knocked on D. dealt with
4. — Let’s go hiking ____ staying at home, shall we?
— A good idea.
A. as well as B. in order to
C. instead of D. as well
B) 用所给单词的适合形式填空。
5. My ______ are mainly based on three years’ study of those animals.
6. The boy admitted ______ the window with a stone.
Grammar·语法课堂
跟踪训练
A) 用所给动词的正确形式填空。
1. He decided ______ us to his birthday party.
2. Mrs Green found a job ______ in a hospital.
3. Let us watch them ______ football on the playground.
4. His plan is ______ Canada this summer.
5. Could you ask him _______ me, please?
6. Simon went ______ Amy with her maths.
7. It is impossible ______ so much work in a day.
8. The students are discussing whom ______ as their monitor.
9. He wears small, round glasses and they make him ______ smart.
10. Many buses go to the beach. It is difficult to decide which ______ .
B) 用动词不定式合并句子。
1. He went to England. He wanted to learn English.
___________________________
2. The robber took out a knife. He wanted to frighten the traveller.
___________________________
3. I tell the truth. I am not afraid of it.
___________________________
4. He wants to be a millionaire. He works hard for that reason.
___________________________
5. He has three children. He must look after them.
___________________________
6. He collects old stamps. It is his hobby.
___________________________
7. Every cricket team has a captain. He leads other players.
_____________________________________
8. He did not have even a penny with him. He could not buy a loaf of bread.
_____________________________________
9. After Anna explained the math problem to me, I ______ understood it.
10. — What were you doing at the time of ______?
— I was watching TV at home.
11. House prices have kept rising in ______ years.
More and more people can’t afford to buy one.
12. Detective Ken examined the room ______ in order to find some clues.
13. I enjoy ______ clocks and now I have had thousands of clocks.
14. Though not large, my room is well decorated with flowers and ______ by my mother.
15. Though we showed some proof, the suspect still denied ______ the pearl.
16. I advise you to think very carefully before making any ______.
阅读表达：
Robots and humans will probably work together to create jazz in the near future. A singing robot is being taught to create jazz with a human in a project.
Antonio Chella from Italy is working with a Telenoid robot. To start with, the Telenoid will be trained to copy the movements and simple sounds made by a human singer, and then connect music with different human emotions.
Previous robots have the ability to find common connections between things. But Chella suggests that a conscious robot should be able to go a step further and find new connections, and the Telenoid is of this kind.
Some jazz musicians interviewed by Chella said, “For us human musicians, having a library of musical phrases in our minds is very important, because we are able to combine them in new ways.”
“This work raises interesting questions about the connection between consciousness and music creating,” says Philippe Pasquier, a musician and computer scientist. He is now copying the library of musical phrases in the Telenoid robot. He is also considering whether a robot musician needs a physical body.
Pasquier argues that the robot musician is faced with a big challenge. Software has already been developed and it can copy The Beatles, a famous band. “What made The Beatles famous was not only their music, but the fact that the play of their music was wonderful,” he says.
It is not clear how a robot would play music in a new way. But by copying humans, the Telenoid robot could provide some useful information. What is important is that human musicians often listen to and compare music made by others for a long time before creating music. So the Telenoid robot had better listen to more jazz music now.
1. What will the Telenoid robot be taught to do first?
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2. What makes the Telenoid robot different from previous ones?
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3. What does the work raise?
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4. How many people are there in the project according to the passage? Who are they?
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5. What does the writer suggest the Telenoid robot should do now?
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6. Do you think robot can replace people do many thing in the future? What do you think of it?
