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1、I had to catch my flight. That was ________ I left Tom’s party so early yesterday.
A. what B. how C. why D. when
2、The time he has devoted in the past 10 years______ the disabled is now considered__________ of great value.
A. to helping; being B. to helping; to be
C. to help; to be D. helping; being
3、—I can't believe you took my phone! Give it back!
—________!It was Tony.
A.You are killing the fatted calf
B.You are barking at the wrong tree
C.You are the pot calling kettle black
D.You are making a mountain out of a molehill
4、You are hardworking and surely most of you _____ a college admission notice by the end of September this year．
A. will receive B. will be receiving
C. will be received D. will have received
5、The train is ________ schedule. You’ll have to wait another fifteen minutes.
A. in B. behind
C. across D. off
6、In the USA in the last 100 years, 23 men _______ to death wrongly.
A.have transformed B.had announced C.had been condemned D.have been sentenced
7、British government is planning to run a pilot scheme that will allow Chinese tourists to get a two-year tourist visa for £85—these ______ cost £324．
A． currently B． apparently
C． frequently D． similarly
8、 Not until I successfully land my university______free time to relax myself.
A. will I have B. I will have
C. won’t I have D. I won’t have
9、I thought we’d be late for the concert, ______ we ended up getting there ahead of time.
A.but B.or C.so D.for
10、Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but ________, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
A. that B. which C. one D. whose
11、—I heard Back Street Boys would sing at the New Century Theater.
—Where did you ______?
A．put that up
B．pick that up
C．make that up
D．take that up
12、Yangzhou, ________ the amazing gardens capture the hearts of visitors, has been modernizing its transportation.
A.whose B.which C.of which D.of whom
13、The ______ boy was last seen ______ near the bank of the lake.
A.missing; playing B.missing; play C.missed; played D.missed; to play
14、A man ought to follow his heart when reading, or _____ he reads as a task will do him little good.
A.that B.how C.why D.what
15、2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil，which attracted the whole planet，________on the 12 th of June．
A． fell B． set
C． lay D． happened
16、Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, ________ contact is lost.
A.even so B.even though C.in case D.as though
17、He decided to adopt a different ___________ to teaching the language in a natural way.
A. method B. means C. way D. approach
18、— I’m sorry to tell you that you made a mistake in your test．
— How can that be? I did it _______ in class．
A．as told B．as am told
C．as telling D．as I told
19、A lot of language learning, has been discovered, is happening in the first year of life, so parents should talk much to their children during that period.
A. as B. it
C. which D. this
20、Having finished the work，__________．
A． it was almost six o’clock
B． supper was ready
C． a postman came and delivered some letters．
D． we had a rest and then had supper
21、 Mauro Colagreco is the only Argentinean chef who has been awarded three Michelin stars, the highest distinction for international cuisine(烹饪). His restaurant on the French Riviera, Mirazur, is considered one of the best in the world, but when it was forced to close its doors temporarily, Colagreco found a way to use his cooking skills to serve the community.
During normal times, Mirazur does great business. But in March, Mirazur had to close its doors due to the coronavirus lockdown. Within days of the reopening in June, Mirazur had already filled up all its reservations for the rest of the year.
The months of closed doors were not a rest for Mirazur’s staff, however. Colagreco and part of Mirazur!s team, instead of standing by, used this time and their talents to aid in the fight against the virus. On April 2, Mirazur’s kitchen, so unique that its menu is a surprise every day, moved its headquarters to nearby La Palmosa Hospital to cook for the health care staff.
Twice a week for two months, the cooks prepared meals to honor those who were facing the pandemic on the front lines. They gave these hospital meals the same elegance and combination of flavors as their dishes at Mirazur. Everything was made with products from the restaurant’s garden, from which its menu is usually nourished, and donations from local suppliers.
A native of La Plata, and trained by Argentine chefs Beatriz Chomnalez and Carlos Alberto “Gato” Dumas, Colagreco has been living in France since 2001. As time went by, his name began to stand out and great new restaurants started to bear his signature. In addition to Mirazur, for example, he opened Grand Coeur in Paris, and L'Estivale by Mauro Colagreco at Nice Airport, Cote d'Azur.
Although he has been an expert in cooking, Colagreco’s work for good causes shows that, like the produce he grows, his roots are firmly in the ground.
【1】What can we know about Mirazur?
A.It has enjoyed its popularity. B.It set limits on reservation.
C.It was a non-profit restaurant. D.It was only nationally famous.
【2】What did Mauro Colagreco and his staff do during the pandemic?
A.They turned a restaurant into a care center.
B.They stood by and ran their own restaurant.
C.They sold hospital meals to the community.
D.They offered to cook for the health care staff.
【3】Which of the following best describes the underlined “nourished" in Paragraph 4?
A.Designed. B.Consumed.
C.Supported. D.Stored.
【4】What kind of person is Mauro Colagreco?
A.Imaginative and adventurous. B.Easy-going and hard-working.
C.Remarkably successful and modest. D.Professional and socially responsible.
22、Flooded by more information than we can possibly hold in our heads, we’re increasingly shifting from the job of remembering to search engines and smartphones. Google is even reportedly working on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever you’re looking at. But new research shows that outsourcing our memory -- and expecting that information will be continually and immediately available--- is changing our cognitive habits.
Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University, has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. First, her experiments have shown that when we don’t know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself. A second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find certain information again later on, we don’t remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable. And then there is the researchers’ final observation: the expectation that we’ll be able to locate information down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we’ll be able to find it.
But this shift comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts can’t be Googled as we go; they need to be stored in our internal long-term memory. Especially in the case of children, “factual knowledge must precede skill” says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology, at the University of Virginia -- meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents aren’t over quite yet. Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate the new information they encounter. You can’t Google context.
【1】According to the passage, the term “cognitive habits” (Paragraph 1) refers to __________.
A．how we deal with information
B．where we locate information
C．what we think of information
D．how we get rid of information
【2】Which of the following statements about Sparrow’s research is true?
A．We remember people and things as much as before.
B．We remember more internet connections than before.
C．We pay equal attention to the location and content of information.
D．We tend to remember where we can locate information rather than the core facts themselves.
【3】Google’s eyeglasses, as a search engine, are considered to __________.
A．function as a form of our external memory
B．improve our ability to remember things.
C．help us see human faces betters
D．work like smartphones
【4】What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Web connections aid our memory.
B．People differ in what they remember.
C．People store memories on smartphones.
D．People should exercise their memory more.
23、California start-up OpenAI has released a chatbot (chat robot) able to answer a variety of questions, but its impressive performance has reopened the debate on the risks linked to AI technologies.
Posted on Twitter by fascinated users, the conversations with the chatbot called ChatGPT show a kind of omniscient (无所不知的) machine, from explaining scientific concepts to writing scenes for a play, university essays or even functional lines of computer code.
“Its answer to the question ‘what to do if someone has a heart attack’ was incredibly clear and relevant,” Claude de Loupy, an expert in automatic text generation told AFP. “When you start asking very specific questions, ChatGPT’s response can be off the mark, but its overall performance remains ‘really impressive’ with a ‘high level’.” he said.
A few years ago, chatbots had the vocabulary of a dictionary and the memory of a goldfish. Now Chatbots are getting much better at the “history problem” where they act in a manner consistent with the history of responses. The chatbots have graduated from goldfish status.
However, like other programs relying on deep learning, ChatGPT has one major weakness: it doesn’t have access to meaning. The software cannot justify its choices, such as explaining why it picked the words that make up its responses.
AI technologies able to communicate are increasingly worrying some observers. They voice concern that these technologies could be misused to trick people. What does ChatGPT think of the risk? “There are potential dangers in building highly complex chatbots, particularly if they are designed to be indistinguishable from humans in their language and behavior.” the chatbot said.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman shared his ideas on the debates surrounding AI. “Interesting watching people start to debate whether powerful AI systems should behave in the way users want or their creators intend,” he wrote, “The question of whose values we adjust these systems to will be one of the most important debates society ever has.”
【1】How does paragraph 2 show ChatGPT’s wonderful performance?
A．By using figures.
B．By listing examples.
C．By giving definitions.
D．By making comparisons.
【2】What does the underlined phrase “off the mark” in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A．Creative.
B．Inaccurate.
C．Immediate.
D．Objective.
【3】Which statement is Sam Altman most likely to agree with?
A．The value that AI follows remains to be discussed.
B．Advanced AI should go after creators’ intention.
C．The function of AI relies entirely on users.
D．Debates on the application of AI are unnecessary.
24、 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed an order allowing online marriages, as many weddings are cancelled under lockdown restrictions.
From now on, people in the US state will be able to apply for marriage licences remotely and clerks allowed to conduct ceremonies online
Mr Cuomo joked that the decision meant there was now “no excuse” for couples not to tie the knot.
“You can do it by Zoom. Yes or no?” he said in his briefing on Saturday.
The decision comes after New York state extended lockdown measures until May 15. More than 13,000 people have died of coronavirus in New York city alone.
Social media reaction to the decision was mixed. Some questioned why couples would choose to hold weddings when their families and friends are unable to join them, or criticised the governor for not prioritising other decisions. But others pointed out that during a pandemic (流行病), marriage could offer practical benefits, such as allowing couples to share health insurance coverage.
New York isn’t the first place to turn to the internet to offer a legal solution. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently announced that citizens and residents would be allowed to get married online, after the justice ministry created a website for couples to submit required documents. A virtual ceremony, complete with a registrar and witnesses, can then take place. Similar measures have been introduced in the US state of Colorado, where couples are being allowed to apply for marriage licences online.
Meanwhile, one county in Ohio is allowing people to obtain marriage licences online in limited circumstances, such as when one of the partners is a health care worker, suffers from a serious illness or has health insurance issues.
【1】Why was an order allowing online marriage signed by New York governor?
A.Because people preferred to apply for marriage license online.
B.Because under lockdown restrictions, many weddings can’t be held.
C.Because there was no excuse for couples not to get married.
D.Because it was new fashion to conduct wedding ceremonies virtually.
【2】What is social media reaction to the decision?
A.All people are in favor of the decision.
B.No one except young people likes the decision.
C.Not all people are for the decision.
D.All people are against the decision.
【3】Which state in the US has introduced similar measures as New York?
A.California. B.Ohio. C.Florida. D.Colorado.
【4】Which statement is wrong according to the passage?
A.In New York all people can apply for marriage licenses online.
B.In Colorado all people can apply for marriage licenses online.
C.In Ohio all people can apply for marriage licenses online.
D.In New York state people have to stay home until May 15.
25、What is it that you love to do but never feel that you get it quite right?Perhaps you don’t even try any more because you think what you do is not_______enough.
Discouragement seems to follow us a good part of the time,_______whatever it is that we work so hard doing.it seems that there is_______someone else who can do it much better.
I have always enjoyed music and it is_______to me that every musician has a_______of their own.My father_______several instruments and when he played with other people，it was not difficult to_______his sound in a group.Whether it was guitar or another instrument,he had his own_______sound.
I_______read of a music teacher who commented to a discouraged student,“____________ else can make the sound that you make.”“The sound that you make may not be the same as someone else's but who is to say which is____________?It is said that，“____________is in the eye of the beholder(观看者).”Perhaps it could be said that a delightful sound is“in the ear of the____________”.
Every person has a different tone of voice that____________ only to them,____________ we all know people with an unforgettable laugh or a way of____________that is unique to them.Perhaps it is not the sound of your music or your voice at all.It ____________be the way you whistle or the sound of your footsteps.
Each person has a(an)____________on the world in some way.Someone else can do what you do，but they cannot do it____________ the same way that you do it.The next time you feel____________, remember Nobody else can make the sound that you make.”
【1】A. easy B. good C. simple D. hard
【2】A. because B. although C. when D. if
【3】A. seldom B. always C. never D. merely
【4】A. satisfying B. frustration C. worrying D. interesting
【5】A. taste B. sound C. life D. song
【6】A. play B. designed C. created D. checked
【7】A. turn down B. let out C. pick out D. give off
【8】A. loud B. powerful C. pick out D. special
【9】A. once B. yet C. even D. still
【10】A. Anybody B. Somebody C. Nobody D. Everybody
【11】A. bigger B. better C. deeper D. lower
【12】A. Beauty B. better C. deeper D. lower
【13】A. speaker B. receiver C. listener D. looker
【14】A. devotes B. adds C. adapts D. belongs
【15】A. but B. yet C. and D. for
【16】A. hesitating B. spreading C. jumping D. speaking
【17】A. must B. might C. would D. should
【18】A. choice B. opinion C. advantage D. effect
【19】A. exactly B. skillfully C. cautiously D. seriously
【20】A. annoyed B. puzzled C. discouraged D. bothered
26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
When I was in seventh grade, my parents paid forty dollars a week for a tutor to come to my house and help me with math, which ended up raising my mark from fifty to fifty-five. OK, maybe it was partly my fault. Maybe I should have spent less time worrying about that important geography assignment and more time on math. But math is a tricky thing. And sitting down in a chair to work on confusing algebraic equations(代数方程) for two hours is a slow and painful process. Besides, people around tend to ask. “How’s your math this time?”
So I became afraid of anything to do with numbers. The thought of a teacher picking on me in class was terrifying. The red marking was like a component in a horror movie. It only got worse in ninth grade. Every report card I ever received was delivered with the comment: “Victoria needs to ask for assistance in class.” But I couldn’t tell my teachers the real reason why I didn’t ask for help: I didn’t want to be a fool. Every question I had was, in my opinion at the time, something that the entire class could understand but I couldn’t. So instead, I adopted the mindset of not caring about anything and concluding that everything would work out in the end.
It didn’t. After spending a semester not caring about homework and not trying on tests, still afraid of math and convinced that I would never succeed, my math teacher called one summer morning to tell me I would spend the next three weeks at school redoing the entire course so I could pass.
This news was met with sudden tears, and a loud “this can’t be happening to me!” That’s when it hit me. Why was I scared of a bunch of numbers, anyway? Why did I barely study for tests because I had convinced myself I would never do well? Who was this unconfident student and what happened to that determined and confident teenager I had once been?
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I finally realized that I had let math take over my life.
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So I was off to three weeks of summer school, three hours of math each day.
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