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1、Only after I went up further ________ that under the tree ________, obviously sound asleep.
A．that I saw; did a boy lie
B．I saw; lay a boy
C．did I see; did a boy lie
D．did I see; lay a boy
2、His doctor suggested that he a trip abroad.
A.will take B.would take C.take D.took
3、The financial problem is difficult ________. It needs efforts made by all the people.
A. dealing with B. dealt with
C. to be dealt with D. to deal with
4、The silence of the library ______only by the sound of pages being turned over.
A. had been broken B. breaks
C. broke D. was broken
5、For personal safety, I prefer ______ at home rather than ______ out during winter vacation.
A．to stay; go
B．staying; to go
C．to stay; to go
D．staying; go
6、It was President Xi Jinping_______visited the navy troops on April 19 and urged that naval force_______.
A.who; strengthen B.whom; strengthen
C.who; be strengthened D.who; to strengthen
7、----Catherine, I have cleaned the room for you.
---- Thanks. You _______ it. I could manage it myself.
A. needn’t have done B. needn’t do
C. mustn’t do D. shouldn’t have done
8、--- I so busily recently that I no time to help you with your maths.
--- That’s OK. I can manage it by myself.
A. have been working; have B. have worked; had
C. am working; will have D. had been working; had had
9、Unless______ to speak, you should remain silent at the conference.
A. invited B. inviting
C. being invited D. having invited
10、--- You didn't sleep well yesterday?
--- No, it was so cold. The fire in the fireplace________.
A．burnt out
B．put out
C．died out
D．went out
11、They asked him to tell them everything ________ he saw at the front.
A. what B. that C. which D. where
12、______ is a fact that English people and American people share a lot of customs.
A．There
B．It
C．That
D．that
13、Cambridge University says it ________ gaokao scores for years, requiring the admitted students to rank in the top 0.1 percent on the test in their province.
A．has been considering
B．had considered
C．is considering
D．considers
14、Mike does his exercises______ seven_____ the evening.
A．on；to
B．at；in
C．by；of
D．at；on
15、It was obvious that the meeting was concerned ________ the housing reform and everyone present was concerned ________ their own interests.
A. with; with B. with; for
C. for; about D. about; with
16、The ability to keep calm is one of her many ________. Owing to her excellent trait, she was promoted to deal with the emergency.
A.bases B.challenges C.benefits D.strengths
17、The film “The Eight Hundred” is well worth ________a second time.
A．to see
B．to be seen
C．seeing
D．being seen
18、It is believed that if a book is ________,it will surely ________ the reader.
A．interested; interest
B．interesting; be interested
C．interested; be interesting
D．interesting; interest
19、When the girl opened the window the next morning,she was excited to find the ground ________ with snow.
A．covered
B．covering
C．to cover
D．to be covered
20、No one knows who will be the first ________ on Mars.
A．landing
B．to land
C．landed
D．lands
21、My best friend came to stay with my family last weekend. When she arrived, she went straight to the kitchen and, without asking, ate some dried fruit. She wasn’t being rude. I knew she would do this. We’ve known each other for almost 20 years. She can eat anything she wants from my kitchen. Indeed, I bought her favorite fruits and snacks at a shop that morning.
Our long weekend together was simple. I was recovering from surgery and couldn’t go to shopping malls. We passed the time at home, but there was never a quiet moment. We’ve lived in different cities for almost a decade. Reunion (相聚) needs conversation.
Our personalities are matched and a shared history is extremely valuable. We were opponents at high school before bonding. Then we discovered the many interests that we had in common. Our friendship developed quickly. We accompanied and supported each other through law school and through our first jobs. As my long weekend shows, with such friends we don’t have to “do”, but we simply have to “be”. We drop the act, the performance and the public version of ourselves.
There is something special about friends who know everything about you. They are rare. They have seen your happy moments of achievements and the depths of your desperation(绝望). The special friendships are those which never fail to bring happiness, and whose continuation is worth the extra effort, despite distance and difference in separate lives. I had the very great joy of being with this friend last weekend. I’m lucky to have found this friend, and to see a future where her companionship remains. Being together is perfection.
【1】What does the underlined sentence indicate in Para. 2?
A．They quarreled at times.
B．They had a noisy weekend.
C．They enjoyed staying at home.
D．They talked a lot about their lives.
【2】What does the author appreciate about their friendship?
A．They help each other achieve in their fields.
B．They’re best friends despite different hobbies.
C．They inspire each other to be their best selves.
D．They’re comfortable just being themselves.
【3】What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A．Real friends are easy to make.
B．Good friendships need effort.
C．Friendships bring only delight.
D．Distance and difference affect friendships.
【4】Why does the author write this text?
A．To express thanks to her best friend.
B．To share the friendship she treasures.
C．To describe the appearance of her best friend.
D．To explain how she offers help to her friend.
22、Book reading is certainly one of the most absorbing habits.For young adults who love to read, finding some good books to read is very essential.Writing a book comment can develop your understanding of the book and it also helps you to enhance your language and writing skills.
The Book Thief
Listed on the New York Times Children's Bestseller List for over 100 weeks, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is the story of a young girl in the Nazi camps set during World War II.So, if you love history and wish to learn how the life was during Adolf Hitler's time, read this historic book.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Even Anne Frank can not have imagined that her personal diary, written during World War II would become such a popular book.It is a must read and a reread that describes the situation of a family in the evils of wars through the eyes of a teenager.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the great American novels in the history, and is certainly a great pick for young adults.Young HuckFin and his mischief (恶作剧) along with the colorful description of people around the Mississippi River make this novel a great book to read.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is an amazing fictional work by J.R.R.Tolkien, and is certainly a treat to read.While reading, you almost feel that you are right there in the battle.
【1】What does the underlined word “enhance” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A．Admire
B．Improve
C．Show
D．Teach
【2】If Linda has a fancy for fiction novels, which book does she most likely choose?
A．The Book Thief
B．Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
C．Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D．The Lord of the Rings
【3】What’s the main purpose of the passage?
A．To show youngsters how to write a book review.
B．To teach youngsters how to improve writing skills.
C．To introduce some good books for youngsters.
D．To help youngsters form a good reading habit.
23、Blake Mycoskie set up five businesses, but later he sold them all at a profit. Feeling a bit burned out from work, Mycoskie decided to give it a break for a while and headed down to Argentina for some rest. But rest isn't really part of a businessman's make-up. It's in their nature to keep having good business ideas.
On a visit to a village outside Buenos Aires, he was shocked to see that many children didn’t have any shoes or, if they did，the shoes were badly worn. Since shoes—particularly the local farmers，canvas(帆布的)shoes—can be bought cheaply in Argentina, Mycoskie5s first instinct(本能) was to set up a charity to donate shoes to the children. But after giving it some thought, he realized that this was not a model that would work. One pair of shoes per child would not make that much difference，because they wear out(磨损). And if he asked people to donate repeatedly —to provide new shoes for the same child every six months—the donors，sympathy(同情)for the cause might also wear out pretty quickly.
Instead he came up with the idea of 'TOMS: one-for-one shoes'. He would take the canvas shoe to America, manufacture it and sell it as a high end fashion item at around $ 50 a pair. For each pair he sold he would donate one pair to shoeless village children. That way he could guarantee a continual supply.
Several years on，the business is very successful, supplying shoes not only to children in Argentina but also other parts of the world. But is the one-for-one model one that can be repeated with other products? Mycoskie is doubtful. TOMS is a for-profit business, but does not yet make a profit. He says one-for-one is not an offer that you can just add to your existing business model; you have to build it in from the beginning.
Some would also argue that the charity aspect is just a marketing tool，but in the end does that matter? TOMS is making a real difference to poor children all over the world and Mycoskie is enjoying being a businessman more than ever.
【1】Why did Blake Mycoskie go to Argentina?
A．To go for relaxation.
B．To seek business cooperation.
C．To look for new business ideas.
D．To learn to make canvas shoes.
【2】Why didn’t Blake Mycoskie set up a charity?
A．He wasn't interested in running a charity.
B．He had no real experience of running a charity.
C．A charity would make no difference to the children.
D．A charity could not donate shoes to the children continually.
【3】Why did Blake Mycoskie set up TOMS?
A．To help poor children.
B．To support a charity.
C．To win national fame.
D．To expand his business.
【4】What do we know about TOMS?
A．It has made a profit.
B．It only supplies shoes to children in Argentina.
C．It gives Mycoskie a sense of achievement.
D．It can be a model for other kinds of products
24、It all started when I typed a perfectly reasonable prompt (提示词) into one of several apps on the market that can create an image based on text. “Skull space laser dinosaur starship explosion,” I wrote. The app processed for a few seconds, and returned four images, one of which was strangely accurate: a dinosaur-looking skull screamed out of an empty space, trailing fire. It looked like an illustration from the art magazine, and perhaps art from the magazine influenced its creation.
Text-to-image AIs identify images by looking at the text that people have used to describe those pictures online. When the app got my prompt, it studied images that random people had described as “dinosaur” or laser and soon then used what is called a diffusion model (扩散模型) to add a bunch of random chaos to those pictures. Once they were suitably completed, it “upscaled” them, removing noise and sharpening focus. Its work is so good that an artist using it recently won first place for digital images at the Colorado State Fair.
But there are major ethical (道德的) issues raised by the success of such AIs. The biggest has to do with those training data sets. Reporters recently discovered that the data set used by Text-to-image AIs contained images of violence. Some companies are working on ways to prevent the public from seeing images based on offensive and illegal pictures in the data set. A representative of the companies also noted that the images in its data set are “already available in the public internet on publicly available websites”.
But even if this problem is fixed there is still the question of all the other pictures online that are being transformed into AI-generated masterpieces. As many artists have pointed out, their works are being used without payment. The image-generating algorithm (算法) creates illustrations and even movies by using data sets stocked with art stolen from artists who post their works online.
Some AI researchers argue that their algorithms aren’t stealing from artists so much as learning from them just as human artists learn from each other. But a more ethical approach would be for companies to acknowledge their debt to artists and create a model of voluntary collective licensing, much like what radio stations first did in radio’s early days. Back then, musicians created groups like BMI to collectively license their music to radio stations — then BMI would pay artists based on how often their songs were played. Perhaps artists and art institutions today could form a “collecting society” that would allow companies to license their artwork for data sets.
To create ethical AI systems, we need to acknowledge the people whose work makes those systems so magical. We can’t simply snarf up every image online — we need humans to manage those data sets and we need to pay them to do it.
【1】What can we learn about Text-to-image AIs from the first two paragraphs?
A．They are developed to process pictures.
B．They are used to describe online pictures.
C．They use a diffusion model to combine pictures.
D．They create their works based on online pictures.
【2】One of the issues raised by the success of Text-to-image AIs is ______.
A．the influence upon art creation.
B．the availability of online pictures.
C．the neglect of the artists’ copyright.
D．the prospect of artists being replaced.
【3】Why did the author mention BMI in Paragraph 5?
A．To introduce the role that BMI played in AI history.
B．To present a way to regulate the use of online pictures.
C．To prove the necessity of licensing music to radio stations.
D．To demonstrate the urgency of forming a collecting society.
【4】What can we infer from the passage?
A．It is not practical to improve the image-generating algorithm.
B．The function of Text-to-image AIs shouldn’t be underestimated.
C．Human efforts should be valued in the application of Text-to-image AIs.
D．Companies should be held responsible for the illegal pictures on public websites.
25、 When I was 16 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant ________Miller King, who was the best ______I have been admiring at our school.
Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for _______.
Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from _______. He looked very ______, but he didn’t cry.
That season, I______all of Miller’s records while he ______the home games from the bench. We went 10--1 and I was named most valuable player, ______I often had crazy dreams(噩梦) in which I was to blame(责备) for Miller’s ______.
One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller _____going over a fence—which wasn’t ______ to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept ______ from. But even that challenge he accepted. I ______ him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally ______ on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did ______.Thank you for filling in for _____.”
His words freed me from my bad ______. I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was______ahead of me. I was right to have_________him. From that day on, I grew _____and a little more real.
【1】A.cheering for B.beating out C.depending on D.staying with
【2】A.teacher B.player C.student D.coach
【3】A.show B.comfort C.pleasure D.practice
【4】A.school B.training C.vacation D.hospital
【5】A.calm B.selfish C.pale D.bright
【6】A.broke B.held C.set D.tried
【7】A.organized B.judged C.watched D.reported
【8】A.and B.but C.then D.so
【9】A.accident B.mistake C.demand D.decision
【10】A.hurt B.lost C.hit D.stuck
【11】A.hard B.clear C.heavy D.fit
【12】A.advice B.assistance C.praise D.trouble
【13】A.noticed B.heard C.caused D.helped
【14】A.safe B.trapped C.fallen D.ready
【15】A.wrong B.quickly C.regularly D.fine
【16】A.us B.me C.you D.them
【17】A.dreams B.ideas C.opinions D.attitudes
【18】A.also B.just C.still D.yet
【19】A.invited B.wasted C.admired D.charged
【20】A.healthier B.cleverer C.bigger D.cooler
26、假设你是学生李华，你的外国朋友Sam最近了解到中国的“新四大发明”，并对其中的手机支付（Alipay）非常感兴趣，他来信希望你能简单地向他介绍手机支付，并且谈谈你对手机支付的看法。请你用英语给他回信。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sam,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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