[单项选择]Identical twin sisters have led British scientists to a breakthrough in leukemia research that promises more effective therapies with fewer harmful side-effects.
A. administers
B. nurtures
C. inspires
D. ensures

[单项选择]Except for the appearance, the twin sisters have nothing ______.
A. in pain B. in general C. in addition D. in common

[判断题]The British usually have more opportunities to see their country than foreign visitors.

[填空题]British people have the habit of reading newspapers in the ...............

[填空题]British companies have proposed designs that are more suitable than the X - 33 and X - 34, but the government does not support it.

[填空题]The British predecessors have been displaced or annihilated by waves of invaders.

[单项选择]British scientists have found how to diagnose the disease, which causes loss of memory and personality change.
A. control
B. determine
C. prevent
D. treat

[单项选择]Text 4 British scientists have been given £ 1 million by the European Commission to find out if a robot (机器人) can safely be employed to stir (搅拌) soup. The research, based at the Bristol Robotics Lab (BRL), will look at the problems of a human and a robot working together in the same space; for example, in a kitchen where the service robot is performing a task such as stirring soup while you add cream. Professor Chris Melhuish explained, “When we work with other humans, we are trying to understand facial expression, body movements, quality of voice, as well as sharing a goal and understanding and following spoken instructions.” “For example, in the soup situation, not only does the robot need to know what the goal is (making the soup)but he also needs to know how hard to stir the soup, what it means when you hold up your hand to say enough ^ to understand the look of pain on your face if you accidentally get wet with hot soup, and to stop stirring when told. The res
A. understand human instructions
B. show feelings by the looks on its face
C. follow the thoughts in its master’s mind
D. express itself through body movements

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British scientists have been given ￡ 1 million by the European Commission to find out if a robot (机器人) can safely be employed to stir (搅拌) soup.
The research, based at the Bristol Robotics Lab (BRL), will look at the problems of a human and a robot working together in the same space; for example, in a kitchen where the service robot is performing a task such as stirring soup while you add cream.
Professor Chris Melhuish explained, "When we work with other humans, we are trying to understand facial expression, body movements, quality of voice, as well as sharing a goal and understanding and following spoken instructions. "
"For example, in the soup situation, not only does the robot need to know what the goal is ( making the soup) but he also needs to know how hard to stir the soup, what it means when you hold up your hand to say enough, to understand the look of pain on your face if you accidentally get wet with hot soup, and to stop stirrin
A. understand human instructions
B. show feelings by the looks on its face
C. follow the thoughts in its master’s mind
D. express itself through body movements

[单项选择]How many sisters does the woman have
A. One.
B. Two.
C. Three.

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Archaeological discoveries have led some scholars to believe that the first Mesopotamian inventors of writing may have been a people the later Babylonians called Subarians. According to tradition, they came from the north and moved into Uruk in the south. By about 3100B.C, They Were apparently subjugated in southern Mesopotamia by the Sumerians, whose name became (5) synonymous with the region immediately north of the Persian Gulf, in the fertile lower valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates. Here the Sumerians were already well established by the year 3000B.C. They had invented bronze, an alloy that could be cast in molds, out of which they made tools and weapons. They lived in cities, and they had begun to acquire and use capital. Perhaps most important, the Sumerians adapted writing (probably from the Subarians) into a flexible tool of (10) communication. Archacologists have known about the Sumerians for over 150 years. Archacologists working at Nineveh in northern Mesopotamia in
A. Living
B. digging
C. assembling
D. building