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阅读下面短文，根据所给内容进行续写，使之构成一个完整的短文。

Here’s the truth: robots are already starting to take jobs from hourly human workers, and it’s going to continue. Research from McKinsey found that 45% of current jobs can be automated. We need to stop avoiding the situation and create real solutions to help displaced workers. And there are a number of ways displaced workers could survive. To name but a few:

 Not everyone will work

A potential idea is that not everyone will work. Perhaps it will be more of a sci-fi situation where only people who want to work will work. All other tasks will be done by robots, and those who choose not to work can enjoy other activities. That extreme possibility is definitely a long way off, though it can still be considered.

AI and robots are the inevitable future. They will play a role in everyone’s future jobs, whether that means they make it easier or replace it. We need to have conversations now about what to do with displaced workers so we can be prepared when the time comes.

 Move them to other jobs

Instead of learning new skills, this solution encourages workers to use their existing skills in a new industry. While it’s true there are often plenty of jobs available in these areas, unfortunately these important jobs often don’t pay well. In large cities, working in these jobs simply wouldn’t give people enough money to live without a universal basic income. However, these positions are fairly safe from being displaced by robots and can provide job security.

 The technologies create new jobs for both the short and long-term

New inventions could be introduced that turn everything on its head and require new skills. Some experts have predicted that soft human skills like communication, creativity and empathy will always be needed because robots can’t replicate those skills. However, new inventions could open the door to other hard skills that could be required and in high demand in the future.

 Re-train displaced workers

注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2. 续写部分分为两段，每段开头语已为你写好。
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Many experts think that robots can’t be in place of all human jobs, so robots need to work alongside with humans.

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Even employees who aren’t at risk for being displaced should expand their skills.

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Winter goes and summer comes. The tides_______; the tides withdraw. All nature is a circle of moods and I am a_______of nature. It is one of nature’s_______, little understood, that each day I_______with moods that have changed from yesterday. Inside me is a wheel,_______turning. Like the flowers, today’s full blossom will_______, yet I will remember today’s dead flower carries the seed of tomorrow’s blossom.

And how will I master these emotions so that each day will be_______? Trees and plants depend on the weather to_______, but I make my own weather. I_______it with me. If I bring enthusiasm to my customers, they will________with enthusiasm and my weather will produce a harvest of sales and a lot of gold for me. I will learn this secret: weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who________his actions to control his thoughts. Each day I will follow this plan of battle before I am________by the forces of sadness,________and failure. I will know only those with inferior(较次的) ability can always be________, and I am not inferior. If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel________I will remember my goals.Yet, some emotions approach me with a smile, which can also destroy me. If I become overly proud, I will remember my weaknesses. If I feel my skill is________, I will look at the stars.

With this new knowledge I will make________of a person’s anger of today, for he doesn’t know the secret of controlling his mind. No longer will I judge a man on one________. This secret will be my key to great wealth. From this moment I am________to control whatever personality awakes in me each day. I will control my fate, which is to become the greatest________in the world!

1．

A．advance

B．disappear

C．exist

D．fall

2．

A．native

B．colleague

C．supporter

D．part

3．

A．jokes

B．secrets

C．experiences

D．awards

4．

A．break in

B．wake up

C．take off

D．give out

5．

A．constantly

B．temporarily

C．casually

D．elegantly

6．

A．appear

B．blow

C．fade

D．spread

7．

A．anxious

B．natural

C．additional

D．productive

8．

A．sow

B．grow

C．separate

D．shelter

9．

A．fold

B．follow

C．carry

D．load

10．

A．react

B．review

C．recite

D．repeat

11．

A．obtains

B．regards

C．allows

D．observes

12．

A．chosen

B．seized

C．received

D．witnessed

13．

A．self-awareness

B．self-control

C．self-esteem

D．self-pity

14．

A．behind the scene

B．on the bottom line

C．at the end of the rope

D．out of sight

15．

A．insignificant

B．improper

C．impolite

D．unconscious

16．

A．concrete

B．inadequate

C．abstract

D．unmatched

17．

A．use

B．fun

C．sure

D．sense

18．

A．view

B．meeting

C．experiment

D．idiom

19．

A．limited

B．reserved

C．prepared

D．afraid

20．

A．salesman

B．player

C．architect

D．designer

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It was a peaceful night. I was sleeping with my brothers, feeling warm and comfortable. Mama was sleeping nearby, covered by snow. Papa was somewhere nearby, watching over us. There was a bright moon and we all had had a good meal of venison (鹿肉)．

“Uncle Louis is coming, ” Papa said. We loved Uncle Louis. He was a funny wolf, and always had interesting things to tell us and show us.

A little while later, Uncle Louis appeared. We did not approach him with respect the way we approached Papa. We flew at him, jumped all over him, and rolled him in the snow. Uncle Louis laughed and patted us with his paws. He is black all over, with yellow eyes, and he is very tall.

“It’s the longest night of the year, ” Uncle Louis said.“Does everyone feel like taking a run through the woods? I want to show you something unusual.”

Hearing that, Papa warned that it was dangerous to go near that pack of humans who lived in the woods.

“They are hardly dangerous,” Uncle Louis laughed. “They are so clumsy and make so much noise. They are not able to get near us — or even see us if we don’t want them to.Besides, this is their special night. They are quite peaceful and won't be bothering wolves.”

“Oh, please, Papa, let us run through the woods with Uncle Louis and see something unusual！” we all begged.

“It is a fine night,” Papa smiled. “I must admit. I do feel like running.”

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式作答。

And we were off, all of us, heading towards the woods.

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We stopped and sat on a hillside and below us was the humans' place.

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假定你是李华，你的外国朋友Jessie写信给你，向你倾诉她深受不良生活习惯的困扰，请你根据下列要点给她写一封建议信。内容包括：
1.不良生活习惯的危害；
2.你的建议，如定期锻炼，保证睡眠等；
3.你的祝愿。
注意：1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 信的开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jessie,
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Yours,

Li Hua

Being a social butterfly just might change your brain: In people with a large network of friends and excellent social skills, certain brain regions are bigger and _______ connected than in people with fewer friends, a new study finds.

The research suggests a _______ between social interactions and brain structure. “We’re interested in how your brain is able to allow you to _______ the right way in complex social environments,” Mary Ann Noonan said, a neuroscientist (神经学家) at Oxford University. Studies in monkeys have shown that brain areas involved in face processing and in predicting the _______ of others are larger in animals living in large social groups than in ones living in smaller groups.

To investigate these brain _______ in humans, Noonan and her colleagues found 18 participants for a structural brain-imaging study. They asked people how many _______ they had experienced in the past month, in order to determine the size of their social networks. As was the case in monkeys, some brain areas were _______ and better connected in people with larger social networks. “These different brain regions are all singing _______ songs,” Noonan said. “ _______ areas are all singing the same song, and when they’re connected better, they’re singing more harmoniously with each other.”

The researchers also tested whether the size of a person’s social network was connected with ________ in white-matter pathways, the nerve fibers (纤维) that connect different brain regions. ________ , they found that white-matter pathways were better connected in people with bigger social networks. “The nerves were more like a Los Angeles freeway than a ________ road,” Noonan said.

The researchers couldn’t say whether social interaction ________ these changes in brain structure and connectivity, or whether the brain determined how social someone was. In the case of the monkeys, the researchers asked and wrote down the size of the animals’ social network, so they ________ that social-group size was causing the brain differences. It can be inferred that a similar process takes place in human brains, but to prove the ________ , long-term studies are needed, Noonan told Live Science.

1．

A．better

B．more directly

C．less closely

D．worse

2．

A．conflict

B．similarity

C．link

D．contrast

3．

A．tell

B．show

C．ask

D．find

4．

A．intentions

B．preferences

C．behaviors

D．habits

5．

A．structures

B．highlights

C．differences

D．origins

6．

A．academic difficulties

B．social interactions

C．personal problems

D．career advances

7．

A．removed

B．adapted

C．replaced

D．enlarged

8．

A．joyful

B．familiar

C．inspirational

D．distinct

9．

A．Networked

B．Remote

C．Respective

D．Functional

10．

A．positions

B．changes

C．roles

D．compositions

11．

A．However

B．Again

C．Therefore

D．Rather

12．

A．urban

B．smooth

C．twisty

D．country

13．

A．minimized

B．drove

C．eliminated

D．demonstrated

14．

A．assumed

B．rejected

C．concluded

D．announced

15．

A．causality

B．feasibility

C．productivity

D．effectiveness

Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success ________ fundamentally on our view of ourselves and of the ________ in our lives.

When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no ________ of knowing that his life was to change ________ . The class experiment that day was to ________ how heating a container of water would bring air bubbling（冒泡）to the surface. ________ , the container the teacher gave Wilson to heat ________ held something more volatile（易挥发的）than water. When Wilson heated it, the container ________ , leaving Wilson blinded in both eyes.

When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents ________ to find a way to deal with the disaster that had ________ their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident as ________ . He learned braille（盲文）quickly and continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became an accomplished public speaker.

Later, he worked in Africa, where many people suffered from blindness for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to ________ his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue when it could be ________ so easily. This moved him to action. And tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the commitment Wilson made to preventing the preventable.

Wilson received several international awards for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a ________ . He proved that it’s not what happens to us that ________our lives — it’s what we make of what happens.

1．

A．depends

B．holds

C．keeps

D．reflects

2．

A．challenges

B．adventures

C．events

D．steps

3．

A．way

B．hope

C．plan

D．strategy

4．

A．continually

B．gradually

C．finally

D．completely

5．

A．direct

B．show

C．recommend

D．declare

6．

A．Anyway

B．Moreover

C．Somehow

D．Thus

7．

A．mistakenly

B．especially

C．amazingly

D．incredibly

8．

A．reacted

B．exploded

C．emptied

D．exposed

9．

A．managed

B．attempted

C．cared

D．agreed

10．

A．added to

B．focused on

C．impressed on

D．happened to

11．

A．normal

B．awkward

C．impressive

D．disastrous

12．

A．decide

B．revise

C．control

D．accept

13．

A．fixed

B．improved

C．defeated

D．prevented

14．

A．fortune

B．goal

C．dream

D．vision

15．

A．cures

B．determines

C．differs

D．limits

Driverless Automobiles-The Car That Parks Itself

Autonomous vehicles are arriving piecemeal, as more and more driving tasks are taken out of human hands. CARS that need no driver are just around the corner according to Google, which has been testing vehicles bristling with aerials and cameras on public roads in America. But Google does not make cars, so it will be up to firms that do to bring the _________ to market. And carmakers are a conservative bunch. Still, slowly and _________ the autonomous car will arrive, with the help of an increasing number of automated driving aids.

Volvo recently _________ one such feature: a car that really does park itself. Some cars already have systems that assist with parking, but these are not completely autonomous. They can _________ an empty parallel-parking space and steer into it while the driver uses the brake. The Volvo system, however, lets the driver get out and use a smartphone application to _________ the vehicle to park, then sends a message to the driver to inform him where it is. The driver can collect the car _________ or use his phone to call it back to where he dropped it off. Autonomous parking could thus be provided at places like shopping centres and airports, which are controlled areas in which automated vehicles can be _________ more easily than on open highways.

In the past, _________ for doing this have relied on car parks being fitted with buried guide wires that a vehicle can follow to an empty bay. That, _________, creates a chicken-and-egg problem: car-park operators will not invest in such infrastructure until there is a(an)__________ number of suitably equipped cars on the road. Drivers, conversely, will not want to buy self-parking cars if there is nowhere to use them. This means, as Mikael Thor, a Volvo safety engineer working on the project, __________, that for autonomous parking to work most of the technology will have to be in the car itself.

The Volvo test car, which looks like a(an) __________ car, therefore uses on-board GPS mapping, cameras with image-recognition software, and radar sensors to find its own way around a car park and __________ pedestrians and non-autonomous vehicles. Mr. Thor says the system is five to ten years from commercial deployment. If it proves a success then infrastructure might __________ it.

Driverless cars would also need to communicate with one another, to __________ safety. That, too, is coming. A number of carmakers are developing wireless networking systems through which vehicles can exchange data, such as their speed, their steering angle and even their weight, to forewarn anti-collision systems and safety devices if an accident looks likely.

1．

A．benefit

B．technology

C．reality

D．priority

2．

A．steadily

B．suddenly

C．surprisingly

D．necessarily

3．

A．delivered

B．transported

C．demonstrated

D．eliminated

4．

A．appoint

B．purchase

C．exchange

D．identify

5．

A．expect

B．instruct

C．advise

D．forbid

6．

A．in person

B．in advance

C．in general

D．in all

7．

A．forced

B．possessed

C．launched

D．managed

8．

A．prices

B．locations

C．designs

D．figures

9．

A．besides

B．though

C．likewise

D．furthermore

10．

A．limited

B．different

C．unsustainable

D．sufficient

11．

A．observes

B．experiences

C．suspects

D．assumes

12．

A．unique

B．original

C．imaginary

D．normal

13．

A．appoint

B．avoid

C．appreciate

D．advocate

14．

A．object to

B．stick to

C．adapt to

D．apply to

15．

A．escape

B．exclude

C．enhance

D．engage

Humanities departments(人文院系)in America are once again being cut down. Earlier this month, the State University of New York(SUNY)StonyBrook announced a plan to abandon several of the college’s well-known departments for lack of fund. The University of Pittsburgh has cut its German and classics. 1．In the UK, Middlesex University decided to gradually get rid of philosophy department. In June 2015, the Japanese minister of education sent a letter to the presidents of the national universities of Japan, suggesting they close their graduate and undergraduate departments in the humanities and social sciences and focus on something more practical.

These are hard times. Instead of Shakespeare or French, there will be(perhaps there already are)college classes in how to cut corporate spending. 2．But the only opportunity has been lost if they are denied the opportunity to study foreign languages, the classics, literature, philosophy, music, theater and art in the university. When else in their busy lives will they get that chance?

3．. Essays explain why we need these subjects, and what their loss will mean. These areas of learning provide us with the ability to think critically and independently; to see both sides of an issue;to look beneath the surface of what we are being told; to appreciate the ways in which language can help us understand one another more clearly.

I don’t believe that the humanities can make you a decent person. 4．. Studying philosophy teaches us about those who have gone before us. A foreign language brings us closer to those with whom we share the planet. The humanities touch those aspects of awareness that we call intellect and heart. 5．

A．These subjects are under attack

B．Students need practical skills to find jobs

C．Defenses of the humanities have appeared

D．This problem has also arisen internationally

E．Therefore, courses in the humanities are beneficial

F．It helps us learn how to think and live in a harmonious society

G．But they can expand our sense of what humans can accomplish and create

Tariq Qaiser, an architect, is trying to protect mangroves (红树林). The trees could save Pakistan’s largest city Karachi, sitting on the Arabian Sea, from natural disaster. He comes to Bundal Island several times a week to document the illegal cutting of mangrove trees. Very often, “You can’t hear a single bird because the chain saws are so loud. The trees are cut down illegally for firewood,” he says, shaking his head. Besides, developers clear the mangroves to make room for construction.

Karachi has a hot climate, and its concrete buildings and paved roads make it even hotter. Offshore, there are islands where mangroves grow. They could be the key to slowing climate change. Mangrove forests pull carbon dioxide out of the air, holding four times as much of the planet-warming gas as other forests can. They support diverse ecosystems. As sea levels rise with global warming, the trees could play a big role in protecting coastal cities like Karachi from flooding. Karachi’s mangroves are disappearing. But its numbers are rising in other parts of Pakistan. With replanting efforts, the country has tripled (三倍于) its mangrove coverage over the past 30 years．

Qaiser’s work may have worked. Recently, a court in Karachi declared Bundal Island’s mangroves to be protected forests. But unforested parts of the island remain unprotected, and developers want to build there. City officials say this could provide much-needed housing and bring in billions of dollars. They claim that some of that money could be used to plant mangroves in other parts of Pakistan.

Ecologist Rafiul Haq appreciates Qaiser’s “extraordinary work” educating the public about mangroves. But he wishes Qaiser would look at the bigger picture. “Only 7% of Pakistan’s mangroves are in Karachi,” Haq says. He thinks it’s wrong to focus on the losses in 7% of the country while ignoring the success in 93% of it. But Qaiser believes it’s important to protect every bit.

1．What do we know about Karachi’s mangroves?

A．They occupy the building land.	B．They’re home to various birds.
C．They’re primarily being used as firewood.	D．They protect the city from climate catastrophe.

2．Why are efforts made to conserve the mangrove trees?

A．Their birthplaces meet crisis.	B．They boast huge diversity.
C．Their bonds with nature are close.	D．They grow at a rapid speed.

3．What does the Karachi government plan to do?

A．Grow mangroves in other areas.	B．Destroy buildings to grow mangroves.
C．Build more mangrove reserves.	D．Use mangroves to make profit.

4．What does Haq think of Qaiser’s work on Karachi’s mangroves?

A．Challenging.

B．Effective.

C．Insignificant.

D．Partial.

假设你是李华，你的英国笔友Chris刚刚上高中，感到一切都很陌生。他在邮件中向你询问如何尽快融入新环境，请你根据以下信息给他写一封建议信。
1. 多跟同学交流沟通；
2. 积极参加学校活动；
3. 向老师寻求帮助。
注意：1. 词数100左右；提示词：沟通：communicate with sb，积极参加:take an active part in...，向老师寻求帮助: ask teachers for help
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Chris，

I am sorry to hear that you are having trouble fitting in at your new school.

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Yours,

Li Hua