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湖南省益阳市资阳区多校联考2024-2025学年九年级开学考试英语试题
Do you know what is the smallest bird in the world? The answer is" The hummingbird (蜂鸟)". How small is it ? Even the largest one in western South America is only about 20cm long. Its body weigh about 20g. The smallest hummingbird is the bee hummingbird. It lives in Cuba. It is about
5.5cm long and weighs about 2g. They are the smallest living birds. The funny thing is that people often mistake them for bees.
Although hummingbirds are small, they have strong bodies. They are good at flying as well. One more interesting thing fact is that the humming bird is the world's smallest dinosaur(恐龙)." Birds are just one lineage(家系) of dinosaurs that happened to live to present. Julia Clark, a scientist at North Carolina State University, told Live Science.
What should mobile phone buttons(按键) look like? What are Shakespeare's artistic achievements? {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
As new technologies continue to develop, many students are choosing to study STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math) so they can get good jobs later. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}They need ideas from artists, historians and sociologists(社会学家)— in other words, people who major in liberal arts(主修文科).
Learning how to program is not enough. The US writer Scott Hartley mentioned it in his book. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} He points out that soft skills, including communication, collaboration(合作) and understandings of social problems, are of equal importance.
One possible solution is to put liberal arts and STEM studies together. In fact, Lewis University in the US has started to offer a set of courses called " CS + X".{#blank#}4{#/blank#} At the University of Vermont, a program called Engineering Management connects engineering with business. Engineers need to understand markets while business people need to learn engineering.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#}Only when we know this, can we create the greatest technology with humanity.
A. Perhaps liberal arts and science should never be separated. B. Students had better study both STEM subjects and liberal arts majors. C. If a driverless car is forced to run into someone, should it have a choice? D. But questions like the ones above are hard for STEM students to answer. E. Some students prefer STEM subjects while others prefer liberal arts majors. F. He argues against the idea that liberal arts are no longer useful in today's world. G. These courses connect computer science with a liberal arts major. |
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