词汇理解实战练习 passage 1 Did Sarah Josepha Hale write "Mary's Little Lamb," the eternal nursery rhyme ( 儿歌 ) about a girl named Mary with a stubborn lamb? This is still disputed, but it's clear that the woman 1 for writing it was one of America's most fascinating 2 In honor of the poem's publication on May 24, 1830, here's more about the 3 author's life. Hale wasn't just a writer, she was also a 4 social advocate, and she was particularly 5 with an ideal New England, which she associated with abundant Thanksgiving meals that she claimed had "a deep moral influence." She began a nationwide 6 to have a national holiday declared that would bring families together while celebrating the 7 festivals. In 1863, after 17 years of advocacy including letters to five presidents, Hale got it. President Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War, issued a 8 setting aside the last Thursday in November for the holiday. The true authorship of "Mary's Little Lamb" is disputed. According to the New England Historical Society, Hale wrote only part of the poem, but claimed authorship. Regardless of the author, it seems that the poem was 9 by a real event. When young Mary Sawyer was followed to school by a lamb in 1816, it caused some problems. A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herself seems to have helped write it. However, if a 1916 piece by her great-niece is to be trusted, Hale claimed for the 10 of her life that "some other people pretended that someone else wrote the poem". A) campaign F) inspired K) reputed B) career G) latter L) rest C) characters H) obsessed M) supposed D) features I) proclamation N) traditional E) fierce J) rectified O) versatile passage 2 When Elon Musk says that his new priority is using artificial intelligence to build domestic robots, we should look forward to the day in admiration. Mr. Musk is a guy who gets things done. The founder of two tech companies, Tesla Motors and Space X, is bringing electric vehicles to mass market and 1 humans to live on other planets. This sounds like so much hot air, but the near $13 billion fortune this entrepreneur has 2 comes from practical achievements rather than hypothetical ones. A lot of clever people are 3 about artificial intelligence, fearing that robots will one day become so 4 that they’ll murder all of us. These fears are mostly 5 : as with hysteria about genetic modification, we humans are generally wise enough to manage these problems with speed and care. And just think of how wonderful it would be if you had a live-in robot. It could, 6 , be like having a babysitter and a nurse rolled into one--or, if that required 7 intelligence beyond the power of Mr. Musk’s imagined machine, at least someone to chop the carrots, wash the car and mow the lawn. Once purchased and trained, this would allow the 8 user to save money and time, freeing up 9 space in our busy lives to read a good book. That is why we welcome Mr. Musk’s latest 10 , and wish him well. As long as robots add to the sum of human happiness, reduce suffering, and create time to read world-class journalism, we should be their fans. Especially since journalism is one job robots will never do . A ) amassed F) exaggerated K) reward B) casual G) extravagant L) smart C) emotional H) generously M) sphere D) enabling I) misleading N) terrified E) eventually J) precious O) venture