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Language performance and language acquisition are the two principle concerns of the psych
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1)Students who reflect on their own () will be more successful in learning.
A、thinking
B、evaluation
C、performance
D、activities
2)Which of the following statements is true? ()
A、Students learn learning strategies from the teachers only.
B、Learning strategies are completely unobservable.
C、Students need to explore new learning strategies for themselves.
D、Teachers are the sole judges of students’ progress.
3)Teachers should encourage students to rely more on().
A、books
B、notes
C、tutors
D、themselves
4)Better learning strategies can make language learning more().
A、fun
B、interesting
C、efficient
D、exciting
5)Learning strategies are unobservable mental processes, so teachers should make them ().
A、simpler
B、more familiar
C、more concrete
D、more applicable
Artificial Speech
Because speech is the most convenient form. of communication, in the future we want essentially natural conversations with computers. The primary point of contact will be a simple device that will act as our window into the world. It will have to be small enough to slip into your pocket, so there will be a screen but no keyboard., you will simply talk to it.The device will be permanently connected to the Internet and will beep relevant information up to you as it comes in. Such devices will evolve naturally in the next five to ten years.
Just how quickly people will adapt to a voice-based internet world is uncertain. Many believe that, initially at least, we will need similar conventions for the voice to those we use at present on screen: click, back, forward, and so on. But soon you will undoubtedly be able to interact by voice with all those IT-based services you currently connect with over the Internet by means of a keyboard. This will help the Internet serve the entire population.
Changes like this will encompass (围绕, 包围) the whole world. Because English is the language of science, it will probably remain the language in which the technology is most advanced, but most speech-recognition techniques are transferable to other languagesprovided (假如,若是) there is sufficient motivation to undertake the work.
Of course, in any language there are still huge problems for us to solve. Carefully dietated, clear speech can now be understood by computers with only a 4~5 per cent errorrate, but even the most advanced technology still records 30~40 per cent errors with spontaneous speech. Within ten years we will have computers that respond to goal-directed conversation, but for a computer to have a conversation that takes into account human social behaviors is probably 50 years off. We are not going to be chatting to the big screen in the living room just yet.
In the past insufficient speed and memory have held us back, but these days they are less of an issue. However, there are those in the IT community who believe that current techniques will eventually hit a brick wall. Personally, I believe that incremental (不断增长的) developments in performance are more likely. But it is true that by about 2040 or so, computer architectures will need to become highly parallel (并行的) if performance is to keep increasing. Perhaps that will inspire some radically new approaches to speech understanding that will replace the methods we are developing now.
第 16 题 In the future, people will talk to computer instead of typing and clicking.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
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•Read the text below about marketing information.
•In most of the lines 34—45 there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct.
•If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet.
•If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.
Marketing Information
Correct Sales and marketing messages are illegal if they falsely advertise prices,
the performance capability, quality, or the other product characteristics, or deceive
34 the buyer in what any way. A Western Canadian electronics firm was convicted
35 recently of bait-and-switch selling (selling products with deceptive advertising).
36 This practice occurs when a company advertises at a very low price on a
37 product, but the customer has great many difficulty getting the special price.
38 Rather that, the company attempts to sell the customer a similar but
39 higher-priced product or offers a rain check that it will not be honored. This
40 tactic for attracting customers is a form. of deceptive marketing. Furthermore,
41 sellers of services must also be cautious about how the language they use to
42 describe what they will do. Letters, reports, and proposals that they describe
43 services to be performed are interpreted as contracts in courts. Sales and
44 marketing messages must not make claims that cannot be verified, so that
45 language must not promise more than which intended.
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For most women, the language of conversations is【B6】a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and【B7】relationships. Emphasis is【B8】on displaying similarities and【B9】experiences. From childhood, girls criticize peers who try to stand【B10】or appear better than others. People feel their closest connections at home, or in setting where they feel at home—with one or a few people they feel close【B11】and comfortable about—in other words, during private speaking.【B12】even the most public situations can be approached like private speaking.
For most men, talk is primarily a means to【B13】independence and negotiate and【B14】status in a hierarchical social order. This is done by exhibiting knowledge and skill, and by【B15】center stage through verbal performance such as storytelling, joking, or【B16】information. From childhood; men learn to use talking as a way to get and keep【B17】. So they are more【B18】speaking in larger groups made up of people they know less well, in the broadest【B19】"public speaking". But even the most private situations can be approached like public speaking, more like giving a report than【B20】rapport.
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A.Compromised
B.consolidated
C.reinforced
D.reconciled
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Tests show girls have increased skin sensitivity, particularly in the fingertips, and are better at fine motor performance. Female infants speak sooner, have larger vocabularies and rarely show speech mistakes. (Stuttering, for instance, occurs almost only among boys.) Girls exceed boys in language abilities, and this early linguistic bias(倾向) often continues throughout life. Girls read sooner, learn foreign languages more easily and, as a result, are mole likely to enter to occupations involving language mastery.
Boys, in contrast, show an early visual superiority. They are also clumsier, performing poorly at something like arranging a row of beads, but excel at other activities calling on total body coordination. A study of preschool children by psychologist Diane McGuinness of Standford University found boys more curious, especially in regard to exploring his environment. Her studies also confirmed that males are better at manipulating three-dimensional space.
There is evidence that some of these differences in performance are differences in brain organization between boys and girls. Overall, verbal and spatial abilities in boys tend to be "packaged" into different hemisphere: the right hemisphere for nonverbal tasks, the left for verbal tasks. But in girls nonverbal skills are likely to be found on both sides of the brain. The hemispheres of women's brains may be less specialized for these functions.
This passage is mainly about that ______.
A.there exist the psychological differences between boys and girls
B.boys are wiser than girls
C.the male and female brain differences
D.the structures of the brains of children are the same
Shakespeare, more perhaps than any other writer, made full use of the great resources of the English language. Most of us use about five thousand words in our normal, employment of English; Shakespeare in his works used about twenty-five thousand! There is probably no better way for a foreigner to appreciate the richness and variety of the English language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare used it. Such a study is well worth the effort (it is not, of course, recommended to beginners), even though some aspects of English usage, and the meaning of many words, have changed since Shakespeare's day.
The passage tells readers that English people ______.
A.have never discussed who is the world's greatest poet and greatest dramatist
B.never discuss the world's great poets or dramatists
C.do not care who is the world's greatest poet and greatest dramatist.
D.are sure who is the world's greatest poet and greatest dramatist