【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 and other branded facilities worldwide． Trump was born and raised in New York City and received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton Schoo1 of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968．In 1971，he was given control of his father Fred Trump’s real estate and construction firm．Trump has appeared at the Miss USA pageants，which he owned from 1996 to 2015，and has made cameo appearances in films and television series． Trump and his businesses，as well as his three marriages，have received prominent media exposure．He hosted a popular NBC reality show，The Apprentice，from 2004 to 2015．As of 2016，he was listed by Forbes as the 324th wealthiest person in the world，and 156th in the United States，with a net worth of $3．7 billion in October 2016． Trump first campaigned for the U．S．presidency in 2000，winning two Reform Party primaries．On June 16，2015，Trump again announced his candidacy for president，this time as a Republican．Trump became known for his opposition to illegal immigration and free trade agreements，as well as his frequently noninterventionist views on foreign policy，and quickly emerged as the Republican nomination frontrunner．As of March 23，2016，Trump has won 21 contests in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries．He was elected as the 45th U．S．president in the 2016 election on the Republican ticket，defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton，and took office on January 20，201 7．At 70 years old，he is the oldest person to ever assume the presidency．24．This passage is mostly probably taken from__________． A．a(chǎn) story book B．a(chǎn) biography book C．a(chǎn) science book D．a(chǎn)n advertisement 25．Where is Donald Trump’s hometown?A．London． B．Paris． C．New York． D．Beijing．26．From the passage，we can know that Donald Trump was________． A．wealthy and Successful B．intelligent but mean C．goodtempered and tolerant D．forgetful and sensitive 27．We can 1earn from the passage that_________． A．Donald Trump is only successful in business field B．Donald Trump was born in a poor family C．Donald Trump is in favor of illegal immigration D．Donald Trump is the oldest president of the United States C It is reported that in the near future robots and humans will probably work together to create jazz．A singing robot is being taught to create jazz with human being in a project．Antonio Chella from Italy is working with a Telenoid robot．To start with，the Telenoid will be trained to imitate(模仿)the movements and simple sounds made by a human singer，and then connect music with different human．Previous robots had the ability to find mon connections between things．But Chella suggests that a conscious robot should be able to go a step further and find new connections．The Telenoid is of this kind．“This work raises interesting questions about the connection between consciousness and music creating，”says Philippe Pasquier．A musician needs a physical body．Pasquier argues that the robot musician is faced with a big challenge．“Its software has already been developed and it can imitate The Beatles，a famous band．However，what made The Beatles famous were not only their songs but their wonderful performance of the songs，”he says．It is not clear how a robot would perform music in a new way．But by imitating humans，the Telenoid robot could provide some useful information．What is important is that human musicians often listen to and c ompare music made by others for a long time before creating music of their own．So the Telenoid robot had better listen to more jazz music first．28．What will the Telenoid robot be taught to do first? A．Communicate with human beings． B．Connect music with human emotions．C．Live and work fortably with human beings．D．Imitate the movements and simple sounds of a human singer． 29．In Pasquier’s opinion，the Telenoid ．will replace human musicians soon B．may have trouble performing music C．will bee more popular than The Beatles D．can find connections between things that humans cannot find 30．Which of the following could be the best title of the passage? A．The Telenoid，future robot musician． B．How to teach robots to perform music． C．The right music the robots should listen to．D．Differences between a human singer and a robot musician．31．In which part of a newspaper would we most probably read this passage? A．Arts． B．Entertainment． C．Science． D．Education． D I am reading a novel at the moment，a s tory set in Britain and India in the 19th century．It was written by an Indian author who now lives in Denmark，but neither in the language of Hindi nor Danish．Although the paperback edition I’m holding was published in New Delhi，India，four years ago，I(an American)purchased it recently from a secondhand bookshop in Tokyo，Japan．That’s quite a history already．But there’s more．The novel is a tale of various mysteries，all expertly put into a wellstructured story by a very，skillful author．Yet my particular copy presents even more mysteries than the tale．One summer morning in the year of my paperback’s publication—on July 15，2012—someone else was reading it while eating breakfast in a restaurant in Mumbai，India．I know this because I found a receipt(收據(jù))of coffee and bread inside．I also know that this person was not the owner of the paperback immediately before me．In fact，the owner before me was not Indian at all，but Japanese．I know this because in the book there are handwritten notes in Japanese—translations o