Shirley Allen loved to sing and play the piano. She studied music in college. Her dream was to become a (21) or singer.
Everything (22) when she was 20 years old. She became sick with typhoid fever and almost died. Doctors gave her (23) to help her get well, but the medicine (24) her to become totally deaf. She could no longer (25) the music which she had always loved.
Shirley would never give (26) playing the piano, but she did decide to change (27) . She transferred to Gallaudet University and studied English. In 1966 Shirley (28) from Gallaudet and looked for a job. She wanted to be independent.
She was asked to work at Gallaudet University as a (29) supervisor. Shirley supervised young women who lived on campus during the school year. She also taught English. Somehow she found time to (30) graduate school at Howard University in Washington, D.C. In 1972, Shirley received her M.A. degree in counseling (31) that institution.
Always ready for a new challenge, Shirley became a professor at National Technical Institute for the Deal’ (NTID) in 1973 and she was also the (32) black and deal’ teacher on campus. NTID is located in Rochester, New York. This college offers (33) and hard-of-hearing students technical and professional training.
This (34) woman became the first black deaf female in the world to receive her Ph. D in 1992, the (35) degree in ’education from the University of Rochester in New York.

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A:pianist B:professor C:clerk D:supervisor

W: How did you do with your essay for Professor Black Scott
M:（）

A:Everything is OK. But I failed to finish it. B:Professor Smith Scott didn’t work successfully enough to let me believe in him. C:Nonsense. It’ s not your business. D:Not too bad, it took me almost 10 hours.

W: How did you do with your essay for Professor Black ScottM:______

A:Everything is OK. But I failed to finish it. B:Professor Smith Scott didn't work successfully enough to let me believe in him. C:Nonsense. It' s not your business. D:Not too bad, it took me almost 10 hours.

Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

A:pianist B:professor C:clerk D:supervisor

Driverless ears
Professor Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, wants to cut the number of ears on planet earth by 50%.
He said: "It’s a huge waste of money and resources to do so—we use ears about 3% of the time. "
Professor Thrun is a leader in the field of driverless Cars and has built two robotic vehiclescalled Stanley and Junior.
The cars have no human driver and no remote control system—everything from sensors to navigation is handled by an onboard computer.
They were both entered into the DARPA Grand Challenge—a race for autonomous vehicles. Stanley won in 2004 and Junior took second place in 2007.
But the ultimate goal is to create a world where self - aware vehicles can drive passengers around without hitting pedestrians or bumping into other vehicles.
"To be able to understand the environment as deep as humans do is the holy grail of artificial intelligence. "
"It’s a huge amount of work to make computers understand what is the behaviour of the two people on the right, both waiting at an intersection—will they walk or not It is a really hard question. "
Perfect missions
Researchers at Stanford are trying to program helicopters to fly perfect missions every time including loops.
Imagine, for example, a search and rescue chopper that can descend into a narrow canyon countless times without its rotors ever touching the edges.
Andrew Ng, an associate professor in the Computer Science Department, said it would be very difficult to write software to make a helicopter early out stunts in the air.
Instead, researchers asked a expert human pilot to demonstrate the stunts. The computer learned from the demonstrations how to fly by itself.
It is called apprenticeship learning—the computer figures out what the human pilot is trying to do and then uses algorithms to correct or perfect the operations.
Professor Ng said:" The accelerometers of the helicopter will feel the force of the wind pushing the helicopter aside and what the helicopter has learned to do is how to adjust the controls to move itself back onto the desired flight path. /
What description about Professor Sebastian Thrun is NOT fight

A:Professor Sebastian Thrun is from Stanford University. B:Professor Sebastian Thrun is interested in planes. C:Professor Sebastian Thrun has two autonomous ears, Stanley and Junior. D:Professor Sebastian Thrun wants to make intelligent cars.

下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。 ?

A:teacher B:instructor C:lecturer D:professor

Sending E-mails to Professors One student skipped class and then sent the professor an e-mail（51）for copies of her teaching notes. Another（52）that she was late for a Monday class because she was recovering from drinking too much at a wild weekend party. At colleges and universities in the US, e-mail has made professors more approachable(平易近人).But many say it has made them too accessible,（53）boundaries that traditionally kept students at a healthy distance. These days, professors say, students seem to view them as available（54）the clock, sending a steady stream of informal e-mails. “The tone that they take in e-mails is pretty astounding(令人吃惊的),”said Michael Kessler, an assistant dean at Georgetown University.” They’ll（55）you to help:’ I need to know this.’” “There’s a fine（56）between meeting their needs and at the same time maintaining a level of legitimacy(正统性)as an （57）who is in charge.” Christopher Dede, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said（58）show that students no longer defer to(听从)their professors, perhaps because they realize that professors’ （59）could rapidly become outdated. “The deference was driven by the （60）that professors were all-knowing sources of deep knowledge,” Dede said, and that notion has（61）. For junior faculty members, e-mails bring new tension into their work, some say, as they struggle with how to（62）.Their job prospects, they realize, may rest in part on student evaluations of their accessibility. College students say e-mail makes（63）easier to ask questions and helps them learn. But they seem unaware that what they write in e-mails could have negative effects（64）them, said Alexandra Lahav, and associate professor of Law at the University of Connecticut. She recalled an e-mail message from a student saying that he planned to miss class so he could play with his son. Professor Lana did not respond. “Such e-mails can have consequences,” she said.” Students don’t understand that （65）they say in e-mail can make them seem unprofessional, and could result in a bad recommendation.”

A:teacher B:instructor C:lecturer D:professor

下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。

A:teacher B:instructor C:lecturer D:professor