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Unit1 单元限时作业

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A

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[重庆八中2021高三适应性考试]Next week，Pushpa Nagaraj will appear for

her 720th exam. But she won't be taking the exam for herself. Since 2007，she has

helped hundreds of visually challenged students take exams by acting as their scribe

（抄写员），reading them the questions and then writing down the answers they give.

When Ms Nagarai was growing up in Bangalore，the IT capital of India，her father

lost his job after a back injury. The family suddenly found itself struggling. She thought

she'd have to drop out of school. Luckily，her mother managed to raise enough money

to educate her through high school. Today，she's a project coordinator for an IT firm.

One day，as she was helping a few visually damaged children cross the road，it

struck her how difficult even everyday tasks could be for them，let alone finishing their

education. Ms Nagaraj wanted to help those children.

In India，most children with sight challenges do not have access to specialised

schooling. Even for those who attend mainstream classes，timed exams-key for Indian

educational institutions，where scores are especially important-present additional

difficulties. "Many of them balk at the thought of writing exams and drop out，"says

Ms Sundararaman，a local education expert. “And so，their education comes to a sudden

stop，midway.” Having a scribe can be the difference between passing and failing.

Over the past 12 years，word about Ms Nagarai's work has spread-so much that

she now gets requests from people from all over India. She has also set up a network of

volunteers that posts requests through a WhatsApp group.

Ms Nagarai is keenly aware of ongoing challenges，the chief of which is that，

every once in a while，she has to refuse requests from students to give them the answers

during exams. Another challenge is to expand the circle of scribes. Despite these，she

is very grateful for having the opportunity to help others. “I have no complaints.

Actually，I feel very blessed,” she says.

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do we know about Ms Nagarai from Paragraph 2？

A. She suffered from a back injury.

B. She struggled to finish her high school.

C. She raised enough money from an IT firm.

D. She had to work to help support her family.

2. What does the underlined word "balk" in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A. Become hesitant.

B. Feel unsatisfied.

C. Are hopeful.

D. Are surprised.

3. What challenge does Ms Nagaraj have to overcome?

A. The limited number of scribes.

B. The large quantity of exams to take.

C. The request to repeat questions in the exam.

D. The building of a network of volunteers.

4. What's the text mainly about?

A. An Indian woman breaking the record in taking exams.

B. The importance of setting up an organisation for scribes.

C. The problems of students dropping out of school in India.

D. An Indian woman helping disabled children by being a scribe.

B

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[湖北“荆、荆、襄、宜”四地七校2020高二期中联考]Ever called a movie theatre

to find out showtime？Or called a customer service centre for help？The chances are

you didn't speak to a human being. You probably gave commands to an Automatic

Speech Recognition（ASR）system. These types of systems are efficient money-saving

tools that allow companies to address many customers' concerns with minimum human

intervention.

The technology for such a system has advanced greatly since its appearance in the

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