Artificial intelligence （AI） （人工智能） is growing rapidly. We are living in a world that depends more and more on AI.（A） AI is a group of technologies to help machines get, understand and use information to do tasks.
AI’s recent developments have got a lot of social attention. Some people have welcomed AI because it makes things possible. For example, AI will have a big influence on areas like medicine and engineering. But this attention has also produced a lot of fear. （B） lose / because / many / jobs / their /may / workers / of/AI/ .
According to a recent study, nearly five percent of jobs will disappear with AI’s developing. In some industries, AI is already doing the work that people used to do, such as assembling （装配） cars, digging the coal and lifting goods. Self-driving cars and trucks controlled by AI will also take away the driver’s jobs in the future.
On the other hand, （C）________ ________ More people will be needed to write programmers for AI systems（系统） and they will set up and work on them, too. Meanwhile, jobs that require feelings, excellent communication skills with people will not be replaced （取代） by AI. These includes jobs in fields like teaching, nursing and personal training.
Al is here.（D） It is changing people’s ways of living and working. That makes AI important to watch, not to fear.
阅读短文，根据题目要求完成下列任务。（每小题2分，共10分）
1. 请将文中（A）处划线句子改为复合句, 每空一词:
Al is a group of technologies
2. 请将文中（B）处划线部分连词成句。
3. 请在文章第三段中找出与以下释义相匹配的一个单词。to become impossible to see:
4. 下列选项中适合填入文章（C）处, 使文章意思连贯的是:_________
| A．AI’s development is great. |
| B．Al is being used in many fields now. |
| C．AI will also create many new jobs for people. |
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【推荐1】Funny Inventions
Time Temp Glasses
Are you a person who wants to know the time and temperature during the day? You might like Time Temp Glasses. These special glasses show the time above your right eye and the temperature above your left eye. It is surely easier than wearing a wristwatch, and you never have to guess the temperature.
Alarm Fork
Do you eat too quickly? Do you eat too much? How can the Alarm Fork help you? Aren’t you curious? Well, this special fork has two lights: one green and one red. When the green light is on, it’s OK to take a bite of food. The fork “knows” when you take a bite, and soon the red light goes on. Wait for the green light before you take another bite.
Smell This
How do you know if your breath smells nice, or if it smells bad? It’s difficult to know, because it’s very hard to smell the air that comes out of your own mouth. Smell This is useful for this situation. Smell This covers your nose and your mouth, so it is easy to smell the air that comes out of your mouth. Does your breath smell nice, or do you need a piece of gum?
Banana Suitcase
Had this ever happened to you? You put a banana in your lunch bag in the morning, and when you open the bag at noon, the banana looks like someone drove a car over it. If you put your banana in the Banana Suitcase, this will never happen. It keeps a banana safe, delicious and looking like a banana!
1. How many funny inventions are mentioned in the passage?
2. When you wear Time Temp Glasses, can you see the time or the temperature above your left eye?
3. What should you do when the red light on Alarm Fork goes on?
4. What can Smell This help you do?
5. Can Banana Suitcase make the banana taste better than before?
6. Which of the inventions would you like to try? Why?
Could you imagine being in a car driven by a computer, not a human? Recently, China has made a big step toward self-driving technology. Since August, driverless taxis have run on roads in big cities like Shenzhen and Wuhan. Why do we develop self-driving cars?
Self-driving cars give us many benefit (好处). They use computers to feel the things around them and make better use of space. This means fewer traffic jams and better parking of cars. For disabled or blind people, self-driving cars can also help them get around more easily.
Every year, many road accidents happen around the world. The main cause of them is human error. With self-driving cars, road accidents can reduce by 90 percent. Because self-driving cars use computers to make good decisions, they won’t lose focus like humans do.
But self-driving cars aren’t perfect. If something unexpected on the road happens, self-driving cars can’t react as fast as a human driver can. Also, during weather events like heavy snow, self-driving cars will struggle to see the lines on the road. It might lead to an accident.
It’s clear that there is a lot of work to do to make self-driving cars a common and safe sight on our roads.
Luckily, China is taking the lead in making this happen.
1. How long have driverless taxis run on roads in big cities?2. Who can self-driving cars help to get around more easily?
3. What is the main cause of many road accidents?
4. How many reasons are mentioned to prove self-driving cars imperfect?
5. What do you think of the development of self-driving cars?
【推荐3】Teenagers are known for being creative and full of new ideas. Let’s have a look at these teenage inventions that might change the world.
Banana leaves usually go bad in two or three days. Tenith Adithyaa，a teenager from India，used UV to make the leaves stay fresh for a year. Tenith thinks that one day the leaves will be used for making plates，cups and other things.
David Cohen，an American teenager，built an earthworm（蚯蚓）robot. It is able to go into the smallest places，where humans or dogs can’t go. It will be used for finding people in a fire or an earthquake.
Remya Jose，a 14-year-old from India，found it tiring and boring to handwash clothes in the nearby river. She reused some bicycle parts and created a washing machine that saves time, energy and keeps river. She reused some bicycle parts and created a washing machine that saves time，energy and keeps people fit at the same time.
Kenneth Shinozuku，a 15-year-old from London，noticed that his grandfather who got Alzheimer’s disease（老年痴呆）would often leave home and get lost. So he invented the wearable the wearable sensors（感应器）to help people find their family members like his grandfather.
1. What is the passage mainly about？2. How long can UV make banana leaves stay fresh？
3. Which invention did the American teenager build？
4. Who are from India？
5. What was wrong with Kenneth’s grandfather？
【推荐1】You would see a robot when you were reading a story or watching a movie, such as Star Wars. Today, however, science stories are becoming true. More and more robots are starting to be used in factories and our homes. These robots are different in size, shape and colour, but all of them have the same type of man-made “brain”. The robots that work in factories are called industrial robots.
These kinds of robots are cleverer and faster than the old ones. Industrial robots can do jobs that are often boring and sometimes dangerous.
Robots are already coming into American homes, though not as quickly as they are going into factories. We have made robots work at home. They can do some housework like cooking, or playing with people just for fun.
These robots aren’t as friendly and clever as those in Star Wars. But their makers say, today’s home robots can “walk” and find objects in their way, though sometimes they may knock into (撞上) those objects. They can even carry objects, though sometimes they may drop those objects. Well, nobody is wonderful. We may laugh at home robots today, but some day they will do better than humans. We humans can only see certain length of light, and hear certain sounds, while robots may see and hear better than we do.
In a word, robots will be widely used in our lives in the future.
1. Where are more and more robots starting to be used?2. What do all kinds of robots have?
3. What kind of jobs can industrial robots do?
4. What do the robots makers think of today’s home robots?
5. What else do you want home robots to do for you?
【推荐2】With schools closed and restrictions (限制）on public activities, it can be a difficult time for young people, who suddenly can’t spend time with their friends and family in person.
However, the situation has already led to some creative ways of using technology to keep in touch with those people, from video calls and group chats(聊天) to online games. Experts say that young people might find the social restrictions on seeing their friends in real life stressful, which is why technology can be helpful.
“Keeping relationships is very important for health,” says Dr Amanda Gummer, creator of Dr Gummer’s Good Play Guide. She adds that this is more important the older you get. “Not keeping these friendships can make it more difficult for you to get back into school when the time comes,” she says.
Messaging apps and video calls are good for checking in with friends, or organizing group chats to keep in touch. “Video chats are a great way to keep connected with your wider friendship group,” says Gummer. Experts agree that there are plenty of ways to be creative with video chats besides talking to friends. Gummer suggests, “A virtual(虚拟的) film and pizza night can work well.”
Sharna Jackson, an expert on young people and technology, has lots of ideas too. She suggests taking turns to teach friends something you’re really good at such as painting. She also thinks that online games, including Fortnite and Minecrgfi, can play a really good role. “It’s good to play together. It’s social and it helps you develop different skills,” she says.
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1. Young people will experience
2. Young people might find the social restrictions on seeing their friends in real life
3. What will happen if you don’t keep your friendships?
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（1至4题每题答案不超过3个单词，5题需用完整句子回答。）
The Wuzhen World Internet Science and Technology Museum, the first of its kind in the world, was open to the public in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province on Nov. 17 of 2023.
The museum is mainly white, and its design combines the elements of Jiangnan water town and the future science and technology, which makes it stand out from the buildings around it.
The museum covers a building area of nearly 43,000 square meters and its exhibition area is 7,000 square meters. The museum has six standing exhibition areas, which use advanced technologies—AR glasses, Intelligent guidance, AI digital human dialogue, immersive interactive experiences (沉浸式体感交互) and a UMAX cinema.
The museum has over 130 valuable exhibits (展品) related to the Internet industry, which are placed in different exhibition areas. The content of them is mainly about these three parts—the key technologies, big events and important people of the global Internet industry, and a brief introduction of the Internet development process.
The museum shows the Internet’s important role in supporting global digital development. It also makes it clear that China decides to follow a path of global digital development alongside other countries worldwide.
“We hope to look through history to see the future, and make the Internet better serve humans,” Li Xiaodong, an expert of the museum, said. “We can let more Chinese people learn about the history and the progress of technology of the world Internet through the museum, and let foreign guests learn about China through the museum. We see the museum as a bridge connecting China and the world.”
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3. The museum shows China’s
4. According to Li, the museum
5. Among these 130 exhibits, which part of the content interests you most? Why?
【推荐1】At 00:23 on Oct 16, 2021, the Shenzhou XIII spacecraft rose into the sky in Gansu. Three Chinese astronauts (宇航员)—Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu will be in the space station for about 6 months. Shenzhou XIII is the fourth spacecraft (宇宙飞船) to visit the Tiangong station. The mission (任务) is a valuable chance for China’s science community.
The Shenzhou XIII mission has interested teenagers. On Dec. 9, the astronauts showed their space life to the students on Earth. Also, they did some fun science experiments. Among all the experiments, Wang’s was so interesting. She made a water ball to show that water in space is different from that on Earth. It will not run down if you try to pour it into a cup.
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3. The Shenzhou XIII mission has interested teenagers.
The Shenzhou XIII mission has 3
任务3：根据短文内容回答问题。
4. How long will the astronauts be in the space station?
5. What did the astronauts do for the students on Earth?
6. Is water in space different from that on Earth according to the experiment?
【推荐2】On September 3, 2003, Eileen Gu was born in the American city of San Francisco. She has an American father and a Beijing-born mother. Eileen can speak both English and Chinese.
Eileen’s mother loved skiing（滑雪）. In 2006, she put three-year-old Eileen in a ski school in Lake Tahoe. Eileen showed her talent in the sport. She picked up skiing easily. After one year, mother and daughter could ski together through the forest. From the age of eight, Eileen was in a free-skiing team. She often wore a cute frog helmet（青蛙头盔）for her ski lessons. The other kids called her “Frog Princess.” But Eileen looked more like a tomboy（假小子）than a princess. She was not afraid of the dangerous sport. Free—skiing gave her the feeling of flying over snow and she loved it! Eileen worked very hard. On weekends and holidays, she went to Lake Tahoe for skiing. It took eight hours to travel to and from training. Eileen learned to eat, sleep and do homework on car rides. When she was skiing, she put all her heart into it.
The “Frog Princess” won for China at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Now she wants to get more young people to join in snow sports in China!
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. When was Eileen Gu born?
2. How many kinds of language can she speak?
3. Who put her in a ski school?
4. Why did the other kids call her “Frog Princess”?
5. Did she win for China at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games?
【推荐3】Why do children need to read at least 20 minutes a day? Read it and you’ll know.
Reading is “brain（大脑）food”. Reading will improve many of the areas of the brain. Your eyes look at the words on the page. Your memory connects the words with what you already know about the story. Reading provides one of the most complex（复杂的）brain activities in life.
Reading improves listening skills. The experience of reading helps children develop good listening skills. Through reading they can know how to pronounce（发音）and learn new words to add to their vocabularies and connect written words to the things in their real world.
Reading prepares children for school. In this way, children are expected to come into school with high scores. There is a strong relationship（关系）between a child’s ability to read and his scores. Because so much of our studying depends on（取决于）our abilities to read, children must have strong reading skills to get good grades in school.
Reading improves relationships in our family. Because we are busy, it is difficult to have one-to-one time with our family member. Spending 20 minutes reading together each day provides this important time. There is nothing more wonderful than having the whole family together while reading wonderful books.
根据短文内容, 完成下面的表格。
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| Reading is “brain | Reading will make many of the areas of the brain Reading provides one of the most complex brain activities in |
| Reading improves | You can learn pronunciation and vocabulary. |
| Reading gets children | Your score also depends on your Reading can help children study |
| Reading improves relationships in our family | Getting together is not |
