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1、阅读理解-词义猜测一1、He was once referred to as the Picasso of poetry. Beloved by Chileans of all classes, he is one of the most widely read and respected poets in history. And this year is the 108th birthday of Pablo Neruda (1904 1973). Born with the name Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto,he was a tall.shy and
2、 lonely boy. He loved to read and started to write poetry when he was ten. The American poet Walt Whitman, whose framed picture Neruda later kept on his table.became a major influence on his work. However, his father did not like the idea of having a poet for a son and tried to discourage him from w
3、riting. To cover up the publication of his finst poem,he took the pen name Pablo Neruda. In 1924 Neruda gained fame with his most widely read work Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Yet his rich experience as a diplomat and exile(被流放者) made him go beyond the theme of love. His work also reflec
4、ted the political struggle of the left and development of South America. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda loved the sea which he saw as creative, destructive and forever moving. He found inspiration in the power and freedom of the waves and the seabirds on the coast. .I
5、need the sea because it teaches me,” he wrote. I move in the university of the waves. He loved how the sea forever renewed itself,a renewal echoed in his work.1.The underlined word “Picasso” can probably be replaced by _A.most important personB.famous person from PicassoC.freedom fighter in PicassoD
6、.poem fan2.Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto took the pen name Pablo Neruda because_.A.literary greats usually used the pen nameB.his father encouraged him to use the nameC.he wanted to prevent his father knowing the publicationD.he was greatly influenced by other poets3.Which of the following is not t
7、he theme of his works?A.Love.B.Political struggle.C.Social reform.D.Development of South America.4.The last paragraph mainly tells us_.A.the sea gave Neruda vast writing inspirationB.the beautiful scenery along the Chile coastC.Nerudas poems were widely read overseasD.Neruda loved to write his poems
8、 near the sea2、 American high school students are terrible writers, and one education reform group thinks it has an answer: robots, or, more accurately robot-readers-computers programmed to scan student essays and spit out a grade. Mark Shermis, professor of the College of Education at the Universit
9、y of Akron, is helping to hold a contest, set up by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation(WFHF), which promises $ 100,000 in prize money to programmers who write the best automated grading software. “If youre a high school teacher and you give a writing task, youre walking home with 150 essays,”
10、Shermis said. “Youre going to need some help. ” Automated essay grading was first proposed in the 1960s, but computers back then were not up to the task. In the late 1990s, as technology improved, several textbook and testing companies jumped into the field. Today, computers are used to grade essays
11、 in South Dakotas student writing assessments and a handful of other exams, including the TOEFL test of English fluency, taken by foreign students. The Hewlett contest aims to show that computers can grade as well as English teachersonly much more quickly and without all that depressing red ink. “Au
12、tomated essay scoring is objective,” Shermis said. “And it can be done immediately. If students finish an essay at 10 p. m. , they get a result at 10: 00 p. m. Take, for instance, the Intelligent Essay Assessor, a web-based tool marketed by Pearson Education, Inc. Within seconds it can analyze an es
13、say for spelling, grammar, organization, and help students to make revision. The program scans for key words and analyzes semantic(语义的) patterns, and Pearson claims that it can understand the meaning of a text much the same as a human reader.1.The text is written to introduce_.A.Hewlett contestB.the
14、 education reform in AmericaC.robot-readersD.William and Flora Hewlett Foundation2.What does the underlined phrase “spit out” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?A.Analyze.B.Organize.C.Give.D.Check.3.What does Paragraph 4 focus on?A.The application of automated essay scoring.B.The advantages of automated e
15、ssay scoring.C.The prize of Hewlett contest.D.Teachers opinions about Hewlett contest.3、 Steven Stein likes to follow garbage trucks. His strange habit makes sense when you consider that hes an environmental scientist who studies how to reduce litter, including things that fall off garbage trucks as
16、 they drive down the road. What is even more interesting is that one ofSteins jobs is defending an industry behind the plastic shopping bag. Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year. So many end up in tree branches or along highways that a growing number of cities do not allow them at c
