上海市曹杨第二中学2022-2023学年高一下学期英语期中试...

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Delivering Food by Drone

A Singapore restaurant plans to use drones(无人机)to transport food and drinks the kitchen to a wait station near customers' tables.

Infinium Robotics, the Singapore company that's developing the drones for restaurant chain Timbre, has spent the past two weeks testing the technology at the restaurant before it opens each night for business and hopes to have it in place by the end of the year.

But how does the drone know where to land? What if someone bumps into the drone or is standing in its way? "There's no chance at all it will hit anything," says Infinium Robotics chief executive Junyang Woon.

The drones automatically charge while (wait)in the kitchen. the chef puts an order on the drone, he hits a button on a keypad and the drone automatically flies to one of two wait stations. Sense-and-avoid technology (build)into the drone won't allow it to land at the wait station if anything is in its way. The drones (equip)with sonar and an infrared sensor, too.

A waiter then removes the food or drink from the drone and hits a button sends it back to the kitchen. The drones, weighing a little over five pounds, carry just over four pounds of food. Infinium Robotics is working on a model that will carry twice as much food.

"Its job is to help the waiters to reduce some of their boring tasks," Woon said. "If they let the robots do the job, they can concentrate on interacting with customers to bring about (high) customer satisfaction and dining experience." Since it drew recent media attention, Woon (hear) from resorts and restaurants in 10 countries, including the United States.

With so much fake news online, it can sometimes be hard to figure out the truth. Concern about the phenomenon led some tech companies to that they'll crack down on fake news sites. Fake news is a(n) common occurrence — you see it on your social media feeds, and even on forwarded messages on your phone's group chat. There's always one person in your group who likes to send news from what can only be described as doubtful origins.

It was even named 2017's word of the year by dictionary , Collins, which describes fake news as "false, often sensational, information spread under the guise of news reporting".

Here's our advice on how to a fake.

First, check the website and quality of the articles. Look at the of the story and read other articles on the site — are they well written with proper citations or are they full of grammatical errors? You should also make sure that you're on a legal news site. Some fake sites use and even logos that are similar to those of real news organizations. For example, abcnews.go.com is real, while abenews.com. co is not.

Second, is it the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Sometimes a fake news story can have a sliver of truth to it, but most of the facts and figures are plotted from imagination. To make sure, search for the same story on several websites to ensure nothing has been misrepresented.

Third, make sure it's not satire (讽刺). If the story is on a satirical website, you should be aware that the is humour and satire, and not misled

Being able to detect fake news is a crucial part of digital and is an important aspect of life in the digital age. However, not all of the misinformation being passed along online is completely fictional, though some of it is. Snopes. com has been exposing false viral since the mid-1990s, whether that's fabricated (编造的) messages, distortions containing bits of truth and everything in between. Founder David Mikkelson warned in a Nov. 17 article not to sort everything into the "fake news" category. In one word, stay alert and objective.

Your Accomplishments and You

An interview requires that you show your qualifications, skills, and job experience. Discussing your accomplishments during an interview is a typical requirement and a great way to 1 yourself from other candidates. Your individual personal achievements tell the hiring managers what you value and allow your 2 to come through in unique ways. Personal achievements are a powerful source of information to discuss because they provide 3 and often quantifiable(可以计量的)information about your skills.

Tips for explaining your personal achievements

When explaining your personal achievements, it is best to give a(n) 4 that relates to your job performance, duties, or specific industry. Keep the following in mind when providing an employer with some quality examples of your own personal achievements:

Be specific. When discussing your personal accomplishments, be specific and give 5 information to help the interviewer 6 the importance of your achievement. You can consider using the STAR interview technique. STAR is an acronym that stands for situation, task, action, and result. It provides a framework for your 7 when you are asked about your achievement.

Use 8 verbs. The key here is to use language that shows your devotion rather than just telling them your 9 . You can consider saying something like, "I stayed late at work for three weeks and 10 10 overtime hours to creating a campaign strategy that met all of our client's requirements," rather than, "I worked hard to come up with a campaign strategy." These action verbs express your 11 to your job and can help an interviewer have a better understanding of your devotion to quality work.

Have an assertive(肯定的)tone. When explaining your personal achievements, be sure to make eye contact and speak 12 and directly. Having a(n) 13 tone will express confidence and show your strong communication skills. Include numbers and data when possible.

Prepare to explain your steps. A smart interviewer will probably have some 14 questions and want to further know about your process. Showing that you consistently take steps to 15 your skills is a characteristic of a growth mindset and shows a potential employer that you are a good candidate.

After bouncing my rental car across several miles of red-dirt roads, I walked for nearly another mile down the beach to a deserted valley. It was comforting to think that at the very least I was finally out of cell-phone range.

However, even on Kauai, Hawaii's 'Garden Island', complete escape wasn't all that easy to achieve. Noisy helicopters full of tourists flew overhead like so many dragonflies. Every 20 minutes or so the comforting sounds of wind and water were broken by the noise of a speeding tour boat racing to complete another lap around the island. Worst of all, not more than five minutes by car from the resort where I was staying, the Atomic Clock Internet Cafe signaled with promises of instant email.

I felt uncomfortable every time I drove by the Atomic Clock Cafe. I am a technology reporter for an online magazine—my life is driven and dominated by email. I'm drowned in it, usually 400 or 500 messages a day. The main reason for my visit to Kauai was to unplug, disconnect, log off, and get away from it all. No cell phone, no electronic organizer, no laptop. And definitely, no email.

Yes, my plan was to lie on the beach and not check my email. My friends and family were outraged as they could not understand how I could bear to live without email. But they didn't understand. In my job, I am online, all the time. Cyberspace is more familiar to me than my backyard. While I am awake, my email is always on. I don't like-to be-without it for too long. A few hours away from it, and I start to tremble. I am, however, no stranger to beaches and their relaxing qualities and so I knew, even when arriving well after dark at the comfortable cottage in the town of Waimea, that the island of Kauai gave me a good chance of beating my addiction to electronic devices.

Maybe it was full moon lighting the black-sand beach not 10 metes from my door. Or the mango trees casting shadows across the veranda(阳台). Or the driftwood piled in loose heaps for as far as I could see along the shore. Without question, the long, slow sound of the waves rolling in calmed my restless soul, and I found I could, in fact, log off.

"I've never met a human worth cloning," says cloning expert Mark Westhusin from his lab at Texas A& M University. "It's a stupid endeavor." That's an interesting choice of adjective, coming from a man who has spent millions of dollars trying to clone as 13-year-old dog named Missy. So far, he and his team have not succeed, though they have cloned two cows and expect to clone a cat soon. They just might succeed in cloning Missy this spring — or perhaps not for another five years. It seems the reproductive system of man's best friend is one of the mysteries of modern science.

Westhusin's experience with cloning animals leaves him upset by all this talk of human cloning. In three years of work on the Missy project, he and the A&M team has failed over and over again. The wastage of eggs and the many fetuses(胎) may be acceptable when you're dealing with cats or bulls, he argues, but not with humans. "Cloning is incredibly inefficient, and also dangerous," he says.

Even so, dog cloning is a commercial opportunity, with a nice research payoff. Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, Westhusin's phone has been ringing with people calling in hopes of duplicating their cats and dogs, cattle and horses. "A lot of people want to clone pets, especially if the price is right," says Westhusin. Cost is no obstacle for Missy's mysterious billionaire owner; he's put up $3.7 million so far to fund A&M's research.

Contrary to some media reports, Missy is not dead. The owner wants a twin to carry on Missy's fine qualities after she does die. The prototype is, by all accounts, athletic, good-natured and super-smart. Missy's master does not expect an exact copy of her. He knows her clone may not have her temperament. In a statement of purpose, Missy's owner and the A&M team say they are "both looking forward to studying the ways that her clones differ from Missy."

Besides cloning a great dog, the project may contribute insight into the old question of nature vs. nurture. It could also lead to the cloning of special rescue dogs and many endangered animals.

However, Westhusin is cautious about his work. He knows that even if he gets a dog pregnant, the offspring, should they survive, will face the problems shown at birth by other cloned animals: abnormalities like immature lungs and heart and weight problems. "Why would you ever want to clone humans," Westhusin asks, "when we're not even close to getting it worked out in animals yet?"

When asked in 1993 to comment on accusations that the movie In the Name of the Father distorts (曲解) contemporary British and Irish history, female lead Emma Thompson responded that she couldn't care less. Even since the premiere (首映) in 1915 of The Birth of a Nation, filmmakers have rewritten history to create top-dollar entertainment. The films are very persuasive: well-made movies hold your interest continuously, drawing your attention to "what happens next," and pulling you forward with no time to reflect on individual scenes until the final credits roll. The result: you don't remember much about a movie after watching it for the first time. For this reason, movies have extraordinary power - unmatched by any other medium - to leave you with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong, who is bad and who is good, even though critical details presented in the movies may be false.

Well, so what? They're just movies. In fact they're not just movies. Millions of Americans are devoted history lovers, and they pack theatres every time new movies about historical figures or events come to town. Saving private Ryan and Titanic drew viewers and cash for months. Many high school teachers screen movies in the classroom. Clearly countless Americans get most of their history from television and the big screen.

Some of the industry's finest historical and period films premiered during the past decades. But the 1960s also saw a number of politically charged history-based movies full of factual distortions and, occasionally, outright lies. Today the trend continues on a larger scale: many movies released in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21*t century reflect lack of respect for solid, reliable history.

History Goes to the Movies is a source of information and, it is hoped, entertainment for everyone interested in the actual history behind a wide selection of movies grouped into twelve sections--11 covering historical periods and events and twelfth containing biographies and period films. Each movie review includes an essay on the history covered in one or more movies, and a brief plot summary. Star ratings (five stars: don't miss it) reflect each movie's historical accuracy and - to a much lesser extent — its power to amuse.

Obviously, expecting textbook accuracy from movies would be ridiculous-and producers have delivered a remarkable number of historically faithful movies. But some of them get too much of their history wrong. History Goes to the Movies is a guide, however imperfect, for readers and viewers aiming to get it right.

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Yours faithfully,

Li Hua