37. A. gave up B. ended up C. calmed down broke down 38. A. confused B. amused C. amazed concerned 39. A. cover
B. drive C march
D. measure
40. A. fast B. long C. far 41. A. unreliable
B. inaccurate
C. unprepared
D. impractical
42. A. repair
B. check C. fix
D lay
43. A. swore
B. concluded C. replied
D. added
44. A. pencil
B. cake
C box
fork
45. A. distributed B. attached C. applied attracted 46. A. functions
B. sizes C. shapes
D. models
47. A. bare
B. blank C. loose
D. incomplete
48. A. beside
B. behind
C. below
D. before
49. A. sick
B. thirsty C. hot hungry
50. A. consider B. withdraw C. resist make
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B. $9.99
C. $14.99
D. Being attracted by the
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B
Your glasses may someday replace your smart phone, and: some New Yorkers are ready for the switch. Some in the city can’t wait to try them on and use the mans and GPS that the futuristic eyewear is likely to include.
“I’d use it if I were hanging out with friends at 3 a. m. and going to the bar and wanted to see what was open,” said Walter Choo, 40, of Fort Greene.
The smartphone-like glasses will likely come out this year and cost between $250 and $600, the Times said, possibly including a variation of augmented (增强的) reality, a technology already available on smartphones and tablets (平板电脑) that overlays information onto the screen about one’s surroundings. So, for example, if you were walking down a street, indicators would pop up showing you the nearest coffee shop or directions could be plotted out and come into view right on the sidewalk in front of you.
“As far as a mainstream consumer product, this just isn’t something anybody needs.” said Jam Biddle, who writes for Gizmodo.com.” We’re accustomed to having
D. provide two ways
B. attract potential
one thing in our pocket to do all these things,” he added, “and the average consumer isn’t gonna be able to afford another device (装置) that’s hundreds and hundreds of dollars.”
9to5Google publisher Seth Weintraub, who has been reporting-on the smartphone-like glasses since late last year, said he is confident that this type of wearable device will eventually be as common as smart phones.
“It’s just like smart phones 10 years ago,” Weintraub said. “A few people started getting emails on their phones, and people thought that was crazy. Same kind of thing. We see people bending their heads to look at their smart phones, and it’s unnatural,” he said. “There’s gonna be improvements to that, and this a step there.”
54. One of the possible functions of the smartphone-like glasses is to . A. program the opening hours of a bar B. supply you with a picture of the future C. provide information about your surroundings D. update the maps and GPS in your smart phones
55. The underlined phrase “pop up” in the third paragraph probably means “ ”. A. develop rapidly
B. get round quickly D. go over automatically
C. appear immediately
56. According to Sam Biddle, the smartphone-like glasses are . A. necessary for teenagers consumers
C. available to people worldwide Yorkers
57. We can learn from the last two paragraphs that the smartphone-like glasses A. may have a potential market phones
C. are popular among young adults technology
C
D. will be improved by a new
B. are as common as smart
D. attractive to New
B. expensive for average
I was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenager girl, and I couldn’t bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible danger on the roads, coming across me wandering through the traffic; motorists probably would have to step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.
One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something. “I’m awfully sorry,” I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a 1amppost. This was just one of the stupid things that constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn’t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to guess if the bus had arrived.
Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.
But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop: it seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did. But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by. I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop. 58. After the girl got off the bus that evening she . A. hit a lamppost by accident C. began to run
B. hit a person as usual
D. was caught by something
59. At the request stop that evening, the girl A. made no attempt to stop the bus C. stopped a big lorry people
60. What was the problem with guessing at the sound to stop a bus?
B. stopped the wrong bus
D. was not noticed by other