1 . 在日常生活中，互联网变得越来越重要。请根据表格中的提示，以“On the Internet”为题写一篇短文。 内容必须包括表格中的要点，可适当发挥，文章条理清楚、意思连贯、语句通顺。

信息	查找信息，更多了解世界
通讯	收发电子邮件
学习	网上学校，阅读电子书，自学外语
娱乐	听音乐，观看体育比赛，下棋，打牌
生活	……

注意：1. 词数80左右，短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数；

2. 文中不得提及有关个人身份的任何信息，如校名、人名等。

On the Internet

Now the Internet is becoming important in our daily lives.

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3 . 阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词，每个空格只填1个单词。

Helpful Hotline

A telephone hotline has recently gone viral (走红). It was created by students at West Side Elementary School in Healdsburg, California. People can call to get cheerful advice from students.

The hotline is in English and Spanish. Children with happy voices share positive (积极的) messages with callers. For example, by pressing “3”, you can hear a group of kids say, “You can do it! Keep trying! Don’t give up!” Pressing “4” triggers the sounds of children giggling (咯咯笑) and laughing—a sound certain to bring a smile to anyone’s face.

Most people agree that with concerns (担心) like COVID-19 and extreme (极端的) weather, recent years have been stressful (令人有压力的). “To hear the pure joy from kids is comforting,” Jessica Martin told local news website 10TV News. She teaches art at West Side Elementary School and worked with the students on this project.

The basic question she had for them was: “What could you say to help or encourage someone else?” Students thought of what they would like to say. Then Martin recorded each one and sorted out (分类) the recordings into different parts of the telephone hotline.

Pressing “1” brings up ideas for people who feel upset or nervous. Helpful suggestions include punching (击打) your pillow, doing flips (翻转) on a trampoline (蹦床) or getting a cookie.

Pressing “2” results in “words of encouragement and life advice”, like “The world is a better place with you in it.”

The hotline soon got thousands of calls an hour. Words of the hotline spread on social media. The hotline is popular with stressed adults, hospital patients, older people in nursing homes and others who just want to hear some happy voices.

Title: Helpful Hotline
Introduction	Students from California created the project to give cheerful advice to people. It is both in English and Spanish. By     1     different numbers, callers can hear children’s encouraged words and sounds which make them     2    .
Background of the project	Worrying about COVID-19 and extreme weather, people face a lot of     3    . With the help of hotline, they can feel     4     from sounds of kids.
The process of making the hotline	Think of what they would like to say to help     5    .     6     each one. Put the recordings into different parts.
7     to use the hotline	If you press “1”, you can get helpful suggestions,     8     punching your pillow, doing flips on a trampoline or getting a cookie. If you Press “2”, you can hear children encourage or     9     you to face life bravely.
Influence of the hotline	The spread on social media     10     to its popularity among different kinds of people who wants to get happiness.

5 . I ordered some snacks on my phone before leaving my office. When I got home, I saw they were already at my door. So fast!

Have you ever thought about how people in the past communicated and did things without mobile phones?

Take the post for example. Before phones, if you wanted to stay in touch with someone far away, you needed to send them a letter in the mail. When my mom was in primary school, she used to do this with her “pen pal”. A pen pal is a name for a person you keep in touch with mainly through postal mail. My mom would write to her pen pal every few months, and then, after a little while, her pen pal would write back.

Later, once email became a common thing, sending letters in the post felt so slow to people. It became known as “snail mail”.

What if you were at an airport in the time before mobile phones? My dad said that in the 1970s there used to be message boards at some airports. If you needed to exit (离开) the airport and wanted to leave a message for a friend who would be arriving later, you could write them a message and stick it on the message board. Then, your friend could go to check the board later and see what you wrote to them!

1. How did the writer’s mom keep in touch with her pen pal?

A．By writing diaries.	B．By mailing letters.
C．By talking on phones.	D．By visiting every few months.

2. Why does the writer use “snail mail” in Paragraph 4?

A．To say that postal mail was famous.

B．To say that email was a common thing.

C．To make fun of people still sending letters.

D．To say that postal mail was very slow.

3. Where could people leave messages at some airports in the 1970s?

A．At the information desk.	B．On the door of the exit.
C．On the message boards.	D．On the boarding gate of the plane.

4. What is the story mainly about?

A．How people stayed in touch before.	B．The importance of communication.
C．Ways of making friends in the past.	D．How fast it is to buy things nowadays.

7 . While many American people were enjoying their holidays, a 22-year-old Edward Tian, a senior student at Princeton University,     1     (work) on a new app, an intelligent tool named GPTZero.

Does its name sound familiar(熟悉) to you? That’s probably     2     you’ve heard about ChatGPT. It’s a popular AI chat robot. The technology has     3     (surprise) changed the whole Internet, reading the collective works of humans and     4     (learn) patterns(模式) in language that it can recreate. All you have to do is give it a requirement, and ChatGPT can do     5     (end) things for you: write a story in a special style, answer a question, explain a difficult problem, compose an email, write an article for college students, and it will spit out a clear thinking, seemingly human-written text in     6     (second).

“This technology is amazing and unbelievable,” said Tian. “I do believe it’s the future. But at the same time it’s like we’re opening a Pandora’s Box. And we need to build the safeguards to enter that future.”

And then he came     7     with an idea on New Year’s Day. He decided to design an app to help the public to find out whether a text     8     (write) by a machine or not.

GPTZero was born three days later. Now it has quickly reached     9     large number of users across the world. It seems that everyone is talking about     10     uncommon this new technology was. New technology is here to stay, but how we use it depends on ourselves.

8 . Thanks to the mass media（大众传媒）, information travels fast. Reporter Xu interviews Dr. Gu, a mass media expert.
Xu: Good morning, Dr. Gu. People like to share information, don’t they?
Dr. Gu: Yes. Long ago, when early humans made a discovery, they told their friends. Information spread from person to person. However, mass media is different. It brings news and information to many people very quickly.
Xu: When did mass media begin?
Dr. Gu: In Tang Dynasty, people had the first newspaper. And in Song Dynasty, Bi Sheng invented the Movable Type Printing. His invention could quickly print many copies of a book. So today, millions of people can read newspapers around the world. Magazines are also popular because they focus on（专注于）one subject such as movies, fashion, or sports. Advertising helps to pay for the cost of publishing newspapers and magazines.
Xu: What happened next?
Dr. Gu: Movies, or “moving pictures”, were invented over 100 years ago. At that time, people started to film news and events from around the world.
Xu: And then the television came next, right?
Dr. Gu: In fact, the radio came next. It began about the same time as movies, but the first radio station didn’t start until 1920. Today, there are over 44,000 radio stations around the world. People can listen to the news while they drive or work.
Xu: When did television start?
Dr. Gu: It started in the 1930s. Now, television is everywhere, bringing entertainment to people. Some events are broadcast live while they are happening.
Xu: So people have a lot of ways to get the latest news, don’t they?
Dr. Gu: They do, but you mustn’t forget the latest way—the Web! Today, around 40% of the people in the world use the Web. The Web uses the Internet to give us 24-hour news. Also, with smartphones, people can access（访问）the Web wherever they go.
Xu: We live in very interesting times.
Dr. Gu: That’s true. It will be exciting to see what’s next in the world of mass media.
1. What is the difference between magazines and newspapers according to Dr. Gu?

A．Newspapers have more topics.	B．Newspapers can spread information faster.
C．Magazines are more expensive.	D．Magazines appeared later than newspapers.

2. Which of the following is the correct order of the history of mass media?
① television       ② the Web       ③ newspapers       ④ radio       ⑤ movies

A．④ ③ ⑤ ② ①

B．⑤ ③ ④ ① ②

C．③ ⑤ ① ④ ②

D．③ ⑤ ④ ① ②

3. What do we know about mass media from the interview?

A．It mainly spread information from person to person.

B．Bi Sheng made great contributions to the mass media.

C．It’s very easy for people to access the Web while driving.

D．Readers should pay for the cost of publishing newspapers.

4. What is the purpose of the interview?

A．To show how many ways we have for news.

B．To show how important mass media is to us.

C．To show how mass media developed for years.

D．To show how fast we spread information today.

10 . Research done by Common Sense Media looks at how teenagers in the US experience social media (社交媒体) in their social lives. The study of more than 1,000 teenagers — aged 13 to 17 years old — shows that nine out of ten teenagers have used some forms (形式) of social media, with Facebook being the most popular social network. Over half of the teens in the study say that they visit social websites every day. However, what is surprising is that only seven percent (百分比) of them say that it is their favourite way to communicate (交流) with their friends.

Despite (无论) a love of technology and the wish to have the latest thing —including smartphones and iPads — it seems that social media is not the most popular form of communication. The study shows that 49 percent of teenagers are still happy to get away from the computers and talk to their friends in person.

But why do teenagers still like face-to-face communication better, when a digital (数码的) method can be quicker? Nearly four out of ten teens think that talking in person is more fun than talking on the phone. Other teenagers say that it is easier to understand what people really mean if you see them in person.

Interestingly, some teenagers think that there can be harmful results of using social media rather face-to-face communication. A third of teenagers agree that using social media takes up (占据) time that they could spend with their friends and nearly half say that social media is distracting (令人分心的) when they’re with other people. One teenager says, “It’s really boring to talk to someone who has to check Facebook every five minutes.” When you think about it, although today’s teenagers are always with technology and social media, it’s not surprising when a quarter say they wish they could “unplug” themselves from the Internet and go back to a time when we didn’t have Facebook.

Social media and mobile technology happen every day. It is too easy to be always checking messages, but face-to-face communication may still be the best way to talk to people.

1. What does the writer think is surprising in the first paragraph?

A．Social media is not very popular among teenagers.

B．Most teenagers like to use social media to communicate.

C．Facebook is the most popular site among teenagers.

D．So few teens enjoy communicating through social media.

2. What does the underlined phrase “in person” in paragraph 3 mean?

A．face to face	B．on the Internet
C．in a group	D．with the cellphone

3. What can we learn about social media from this passage?

A．It may bring harmful information.

B．It brings more fun to our talking with friends.

C．It makes it difficult for us to focus on our talking.

D．It makes our communication much easier and quicker.

4. Why does the writer write this passage?

A．To ask more teenagers to talk more on the Internet.

B．To tell why teenagers use social network every day.

C．To encourage teenagers to talk to their friends in person.

D．To report the results of a study on teens using social media.