Choose the best answer to fill in each blank:
Robots are amazing machines (I)______ can be programmed to copy people’s basic actions and movements. They can do (II)_______ any kind of work. Robots have cost some people their jobs, (III)_______ there are advantages to using them.
After World War II George Devol invented a device that could (IV)________ a machine to do the same task repeatedly. Devol designed the first programmable robot in 1954 and started his company Universal Automation. In 1961, robots were used (V)_____ together cars, and not long afterwards , robots were used in automobile factories around the world.
(II)




A.utmost
B.most
C.mostly
D.almost

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Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. As a brilliant student, she harboured the dream of a scientific career, which was impossible for a woman at that time. To save money for a study tour abroad, she had to work as a private tutor. Finally, in 1891, Marie, with very little money to live on, came to Paris to realize her dream at the Sorbonne. Despite her difficult living conditions, she worked extremely hard. She earned a physics degree with flying colors, and went on to take another degree in mathematics. She met Pierre Curie in the School of Physics in 1894 and in the following year they got married. From then on, they worked together on their research. In 1903, Marie became the first woman to receive a PhD from the Sorbonne. She was the first woman in France to be a university professor. Soon after, she was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the atomic weight of radium.
What does the phrase ‘with flying colors’ mean?




A.Specially
B.colorfully
C.Satisfactorily
D.Successfully

His choice of words _________ very good.




A.are
B.be
C.is
D.being

Choose the best answer.
His main interest lies ...........research, not ............managerial work.




A.on/in
B.in/in
C.on/on
D.in/on

Choose the best answer.
Next summer, we're .....................a swimming pool built in our back garden.




A.making
B.deciding
C.letting
D.having

Choose the best answer.
The class stands up as you enter the room and you say, "................."




A.Take a sit
B.sit yourselves
C.Take your seat
D.sit you

Pick out the word whose stress is placed differently.




A.disappear
B.engineer
C.education
D.attachment

Pick out the word whose stress pattern is different
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A.diversity
B.opportunity
C.revolutionary
D.reservation

Helen left her camping _______ behind when she went camping.




A.packet
B.tools
C.gear
D.kit

Many people get sick after ______ the fish ______ in the polluted waters.




A.they eat – catching
B.having been eaten – being caught
C.having eaten- are caught
D.eating – caught