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1、The drug can’t cure your disease at all. It can provide only relief from pain.
A. temporary B. technical C. thorough D. tight
2、Life isn’t always beautiful, ________ the struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser.
A. or B. so C. but D. for
3、The news________ Ning Zetao won the gold medal in the swimming competition excited Chinese People.
A. which B. that C. what D. if
4、The newly discovered star was named _____ a Chinese astronomer ____ honor of his contributions to astronomy.
A．for; in
B．after; for
C．as; in
D．after; in
5、Young couples will be happy to see their babies _______ with good health and intelligence when they are born.
A. to bless B. blessing
C. blessed D. being blessed
6、 I want to tell you is the deep love and respect I have for my parents.
A．That
B．Which
C．Whether
D．What
7、A series of accidents caused by school buses will ______the pressure on the government.
A. come to B. turn to C. add to D. get to
8、It was already ten o'clock_____ we got to the museum this morning.
A．that
B．when
C．if
D．for
9、Louis Cha (金庸) passed away. As for his achievement, there is such a comment, “He ______ the Nobel Prize for Literature with his written works translated into English.”
A.could have been rewarded B.must have been rewarded
C.should be rewarded D.need have been rewarded
10、Although he is poor, you shouldn’t look down upon him. He is so and friendly.
A. foolish B. wild
C. rich D. honest
11、His father _________ him for his rudeness, for Tom looked happy.
A．could have forgiven
B．might have forgiven
C．must forgive
D．must have forgiven
12、There is frost on the ground and snow________ .
A．is forecast
B．is forecasted
C．will be forecast
D．was forecast
13、In bringing faraway places closer, VR encourages travelers to embrace sustainable practices ________they choose to go (or not go) in the future.
A．whatever
B．wherever
C．however
D．whichever
14、The chemistry teacher warns us ________ in the laboratory.
A. not to smoke B. against smoking
C. of smoking D. A or B
15、— Sorry to hear that Jack has failed the test again.
— That’s why he is ______. I think a walk to the playground will be a help for him.
A. down in the dumps B. over the moon
C. on cloud nine D. pulling his leg
16、The twin brothers look so alike that it is very difficult to tell one from .
A. other B. another
C. others D. the other
17、You are not ______ to take the newspapers and magazines out of the reading room.
A.hoped B.invited C.supposed D.wished
18、The reason ________ he offered to explain his being late was incredible.
A．that
B．why
C．where
D．what
19、—Mum, can you tell me______? I dreamed of him last night.
—Next week.
A.when my dad comes back B.where my dad goes
C.when my dad will come back D.where my dad will go
20、Is this school ________ we visited 3 years ago?
A.that B.where C.which D.the one
21、The forest of today will not be the forests of tomorrow. Rising temperatures, trees being cut down, development and climate-change-caused disasters are changing the very makeup of the Earth’s forests, new research published in Science finds.
Older, bigger trees are being lost at an alarming rate, making the planet’s forests shorter and younger. The change is being driven at different rates by different causes in different places, the study’s authors say, but the consequences will be global.
Old growth forests absorb and store massive amounts of climate-warming CO2. They provide habitats for rare and endangered species and promote rich biodiversity. Researchers found that the world lost roughly one-third of its old growth forests between 1900 and 2015. In North America and Europe, they found that tree mortality has doubled in the past 40 years.
“Warming temperatures, wildfires, logging and insect outbreaks were among the many causes of the decline,” says Nate McDowell, the study’s lead author. “What’s perhaps more concerning is that the trajectory of all these disturbances is generally increasing over time and is expected to continue increasing in the future.” he says.
McDowell’s focus is on how trees are affected by rising temperatures, arguably the biggest driver of forest change. To get a broader understanding of how forests are changing globally, he brought in more than 20 other researchers in different fields. Together, they examined more than 160 previous studies about tree mortality and its global causes, applying current satellite data and modeling to create a look at the Earth’s changing forests to date.
“It’s not a shock, but it’s very sad,” says Kristina, an ecologist and leader of the ForestGEO Ecosystems &Climate Program who helped with the research. “We as a human society are hitting these forests so rapidly with so many different changes that they can’t keep up.” she says.
【1】What can we know from the figures in the paragraph 3?
A．More trees should be planted in no time.
B．We are losing old growth forests quickly.
C．Forests are important habitats for wildlife.
D．Different trees can absorb CO2 differently.
【2】What can we say about McDowell’s research?
A．Timely and long-standing
B．All-sided and careful
C．Time-limited and regional
D．Traditional and extensive
【3】What’s Kristina’s attitude towards the findings of the research?
A．Worried
B．Optimistic
C．Supportive
D．Indifferent
【4】What’s the writer’s purpose of writing the passage?
A．To call on people to plant more trees.
B．To discuss the influence of climate change.
C．To warn against the loss of old growth forests.
D．To compare forests of today with those of the future.
22、It’s 10:30 pm, and 11-year-old Brandon Blanco is sound asleep at home. Suddenly, a loud noise wakes him up. Naturally, Brandon reaches for his cell phone. The message becomes clear: “R U awake?”
Brandon’s use of technology doesn’t stop there. He also has a computer, a TV and three video-game consoles (控制台) in his room. With so many choices, it’s no surprise that when he isn’t at school, he spends nearly every waking minute using one or more of these devices.
Brandon is hardly alone. According to a recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, kids aged 8 to18 are spending more time than ever before using electronic devices. How much time? More than seven and a half hours a day on average, the study found.
The jump is the result of a huge explosion in mobile devices, says Victoria Rideout, the lead author of the study. Today, nearly seven out of ten kids have cell phones. Just five years ago, it was four out of ten.
Often, kids multitask, or use more than one device at a time. “If you’ve got a chance to do something on your computer and take a phone call and have the TV on in the background, why not?” media expert Cheryl Olson says.
Most experts agree technology has much to offer kids. But some worry the kids could be missing out on other activities like playing outside or hanging out with friends. “It’s a matter of balance,” says Olson.
Multitasking while doing homework is another concern. Some kids listen to music, watch TV or use the phone while doing their homework. “It’s important to make sure that you can stop and concentrate on one thing deeply,” says Rideout.
With new and exciting devices hitting stores every year, keeping technology use in check is more important than ever. “Kids should try,” adds Rideout. “But parents might have to step in sometimes.”
【1】The text is mainly about kids’ ________.
A．using electronic device
B．various hobbies
C．favorite video games
D．cell phone uses
【2】What can we learn from the text?
A．Many teenagers lack friends in middle school.
B．Olson is against teenagers’ using mobile phones.
C．Brandon feels annoyed about his late-night messages.
D．Kids have too many electronic devices to choose from.
【3】Which can replace the underline phrase “in check”?
A．In order.
B．In store.
C．In control.
D．In sight.
【4】Rideout would probably agree that parents should.
A．stop kids from using devices
B．tell kids to use devices properly
C．ask kids to focus more on their homework
D．open up more opportunities for kids to use media
23、 A university in southwest China's Chongqing City set up a reading room as part of a campaign that stops students from taking their mobile phones with them in case the device prevents them from concentrating on their studies.
Reportedly a student named Hu Xiaopeng participating in the campaign studied 530 minutes without using his mobile phone. Unlike Hu, another one picked up his mobile phone in less than 20 minutes. “Having seen many students use their mobile phones in the library, a habit that shortens their study time and negatively impacts their learning, we decided to open this reading room,” said Zhang Shuran, the person responsible for the project at the university.
Zhang added that students can keep their phones in appointed bags with numbers on them. The bags are placed on a desk near the door of the reading room. “Staff members at the reading room will check the phones when there's a call,” said Zhang, adding that they will inform students when their parents or teachers call them, but will not tell students if an unknown person is calling or when there is a text message. Based on the time students hand in their phones when they come to the reading room and the time they get them back when they leave the room, Hu Xiaopeng from College of Animal Science and Technology of the university set a record of the longest time. Hu spent 530 minutes studying without using his phone. Though feeling somewhat surprised, Hu said, “It's bad to keep a mobile phone with you when you are reading or studying.”
The campaign has attracted nearly 200 students since it was launched a week ago. Some Internet users praised the campaign. One user named Liu Jingchang said, “It's good. I don't bring my phone when going to the library in case I get distracted(分心).”
【1】What is the purpose of opening the reading room here?
A.To encourage students to read more books.
B.To help students concentrate on their studies.
C.To prevent the mobile phones from being stolen.
D.To stop students using mobile phones in the library.
【2】What can we infer from Paragraph 3?
A.The bags are on the desk near the students.
B.Hu Xiaopeng thinks the campaign is a bad idea.
C.The student will be informed if a stranger calls him.
D.The longest time that the phone is not used is recorded.
【3】What is the attitude of the students toward the reading room?
A.Supportive. B.Cautious.
C.Doubtful. D.Anxious.
24、While ChatGPT successfully answered a variety of questions raised by testers, some responses were noticeably off. In fact, Stack Overflow — a Q&A website for coders and programmers — didn’t allow users to share information from ChatGPT, saying that it’s “harmful to the site and to users who are asking or looking for correct answers.”
Beyond the issue of spreading incorrect information, the tool could also be used to explain problematic thoughts, and as with all AI tools, spread biases(偏见) based on the pool of data on which it’s trained. Typing something involving a CEO, for example, could prompt(激起) a response assuming that the individual is white and male, for example.
“While we’ve made efforts to make the model refuse unsuitable requests, it will sometimes respond to harmful instructions or exhibit biased behavior,” OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, said on its website. “We’re using the Moderation API to warn or stop certain types of unsafe content, but it still has some false negatives and positives for now. We’re eager to collect user feedback(反馈) to aid our ongoing work to improve this system.”
Still, Lian Jye Su, a research director at market research company ABI Research, warns the chatbot is operating “without understanding the context of the language.”
“It is very easy for ChatGPT to give plausible-sounding(听起来合理) but incorrect or senseless answers,” he said. “It guessed when it was supposed to explain and sometimes responded to harmful instructions or exhibited biased behavior. It also lacks regional and country-specific understanding.”
While ChatGPT is free, it does put a limit on the number of questions a user can raise before having to pay. When Elon Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI, recently asked Altman on Twitter about the average cost per ChatGPT chat, Altman said: “We will have to monetize(货币化) it somehow at some point; the compute costs are eye-watering.”
【1】Why does the author mention Stack Overflow?
A．To show how narrow-minded it is.
B．To illustrate the negative influence of ChatGPT.
C．To reveal the competition it has with ChatGPT.
D．To indicate ChatGPT’s strong ability in problem solving.
【2】What is the 3 paragraph mainly about?
A．The efforts OpenAI make for improvement.
B．The reason for the use of Moderation API.
C．The problem OpenAI is now facing.
D．The success in solving OpenAI’s problem.
【3】Why does ChatGPT have problems?
A．It does not understand human language.
B．It mainly works through guessing.
C．It cannot respond properly based on contexts.
D．It holds bias on some specific regions.
【4】What does the word “eye-watering” in the last paragraph most probably mean?
A．extremely high
B．very harmful
C．quite necessary
D．too average
25、One night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Many people put some money into the ____ of the young man.
The next day, the young artist came again, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. ____
from the day before, he took out a large piece of ____ and laid it on the ground. Then he began
____.
Before long, the young violinist was ____ with people, who were all attracted by the____on that paper, which said, “Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put something important into my hat ____. Please come to claim (认领) it soon.”
After half an hour, a middleaged man ran there in a hurry and ____ through the crowd to the violinist and said, “Yes, it's you. You ____ here. I knew that you're an honest man and would ____come here.”
The violinist ____ a lottery ticket on which George Sang's name was seen. George seized the lottery ticket and ____ it and danced happily.
George bought a lottery ticket which ____ him a prize of $500,000. He was so happy after work and felt the violinist playing so wonderfully that he put 50 dollars in the hat. ____， the lottery ticket was also thrown in.
When asked why he didn't keep the lottery ticket ____ himself, the violinist said，“____ I don't have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty, I won't be happy forever.”
We can gain and lose so much in our life. But being honest should ____ be with us. If we bear ourselves in a dishonest way, we _____succeed temporarily(暂时). However, from the longterm view, we'll be a loser. Such a person is just like the _____on the mountain. It's high above at first, but gradually it falls and loses the _____of going up.
【1】
A．box
B．hat
C．bowl
D．bag
【2】
A．Different
B．Away
C．Free
D．Far
【3】
A．cloth
B．stone
C．paper
D．wood
【4】
A．begging
B．shouting
C．singing
D．playing
【5】
A．crowded
B．surprised
C．surrounded
D．satisfied
【6】
A．picture
B．money
C．ticket
D．words
【7】
A．on purpose
B．by mistake
C．in advance
D．in a hurry
【8】
A．rushed
B．looked
C．broke
D．lived
【9】
A．didn't come
B．did leave
C．did come
D．did arrive
【10】
A．probably
B．certainly
C．recently
D．nearly
【11】
A．handed out
B．gave out
C．sent out
D．took out
【12】
A．tore
B．threw
C．kissed
D．hid
【13】
A．beat
B．won
C．took
D．sold
【14】
A．However
B．Fortunately
C．Otherwise
D．Generally
【15】
A．by
B．with
C．from
D．for
【16】
A．Although
B．Whenever
C．Unless
D．Until
【17】
A．often
B．always
C．seldom
D．never
【18】
A．must
B．should
C．may
D．need
【19】
A．water
B．air
C．grass
D．tree
【20】
A．road
B．chance
C．path
D．method
26、假定你是李华，你班最近组织了一次“尊老爱幼”的志愿服务活动，请你给你校英文报写一篇新闻稿，内容包括：
1. 活动时间和地点； 2. 活动开展的情况； 3. 同学们的感受。
注意：
1. 词数：80左右； 2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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