【推荐1】请阅读下列五则发明的描述，将其与下面的图片相匹配，其中有一项为多余选项。

1.It was invented in 1923 by Fred W.Wolf. This is a large piece of electrical（有电的）kitchen equipment（设备）and it is used for keeping food and drinks cold so that they can stay fresh.     1

2.It is said that it was invented by Lu Ban's wife. She didn't want her husband to get wet in the rain what he worked outside. So she used bamboo and oilpaper to make it. Now it is popular all over the world and it is made stronger and more convenient for people to see.     2

3.It is traditional musical instrument. You can play it by beating it with sticks（棒子）or with your hands. People in the northwest parts of China often play it together during big festivals or weddings（婚礼）.     3

4.It is a large square electrical machine which was invented by an American scientist Alva J. Fisher. It can be used for washing and drying dirty clothes. It can help people save a lot of time.     4

5.it first appeared as big as at house, so it was not convenient for people to use it. But with development of science and technology, we can use it almost everywhere. We can carry it with us and use it to store（储存）or search for information, send emails and play online games.     5

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【推荐2】When people eat, western people are used to using knives and forks. but Chinese people are used to using chopsticks. More than 3000 years ago, ▲ . Who invented the chopsticks?

Long ago, Chinese people used to eat with their hands. In Shang Dynasty, the last king, Zhou was cruel. He always killed people because the food was too hot or too cold. It made people afraid to serve him. His favorite Daji was also afraid.

One day Daji served King Zhou his meal. When she tried the dish for the king, she found that it was too hot. Daji felt very nervous because the king would be angry. Suddenly she had an idea and she used two pieces of her long hairpins (发簪) to put the food to the king’s mouth.

The King Zhou found it so interesting to eat with two long sticks that he forgot how hot the food was. After that, Daji thought it was a good way to solve this problem and asked people to make two long-thin gold sticks. People found it better to eat with sticks than with their hands. But they were too poor to afford the gold sticks. Then they found bamboo was good material to make chopsticks. Since then, people have invented chopsticks.

1. Which of the following can be the missing sentence in Paragraph 1?

A．western people didn’t like forks.	B．Chinese people ate with chopsticks.
C．food was cut into small pieces.	D．chopsticks were easy to be found.

2. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．King Zhou made people afraid.	B．Daji was excited to find the food was hot.
C．King Zhou was interested in sticks.	D．King Zhou ate with bamboo chopsticks.

3. Which of the following can best describe Daji?

A．Patient.

B．Careless.

C．Smart.

D．Impolite.

4. The text mainly talks about ________.

A．Daji’s long hairpins	B．two long-thin gold sticks
C．the function of chopsticks	D．the invention of chopsticks

【推荐1】Developed by US company OpenAI, ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm, winning 100 million users since it came out in November 2022. People can ask the robot to write stories and emails, create instructions for cooking a certain food, translate languages, and answer all kinds of questions. In its own words, it is “a language model trained in a large amount of internet text to help users get human-like text.”

Compared with Siri or other chatbots, ChatGPT uses a much bigger information center for training. It also uses stronger software (软件) and hardware to learn things by itself. For example, if it provides a wrong answer to your question, you can tell it the right one and it will correct itself. “It’s a totally different chatbot,” computer scientist Liu Xiaoguang from Nankai University told Tianjin Daily. “The knowledge level ChatGPT shows is the same as a university student. That’s why it shocked the world.”

But one big problem with ChatGPT is that it makes mistakes or even gives false information. When Rezza, a 28-year-old from Indonesia, used the robot to write an essay (论文), it “gave out many examples which other writers actually hadn’t mentioned at all”, he told The Guardian. Since the robot is trained using words from the internet, it can also pick up biases (偏见) about certain groups. These are all things that need to be dealt with.

1. Which can replace the underlined part in Paragraph 1?

A．Succeeded greatly online.	B．Done harm to the internet.
C．Brought strong wind and heavy rain.	D．Caused serious changes of the weather.

2. Why did ChatGPT shock the world?

A．It can find mistakes by itself.

B．It works differently from other chatbots.

C．Its information center is easier to control than Siri’s.

D．Its knowledge level is as high as a university student.

3. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Anybody can make mistakes.	B．Anybody may give false information.
C．ChatGPT needs improvement.	D．ChatGPT can’t get on well with humans.

4. What might be the best title of the text?

A．ChatGPT is Coming!	B．ChatGPT is Catching the World’s Eyes!
C．Can ChatGPT Take the Place of Humans?	D．Can ChatGPT Avoid Biases Properly?

【推荐3】Many companies have created apps to help blind people. Microsoft created an app that can describe a photo. Huawei made an app that uses sounds to tell users if people they are talking to look happy, sad or angry. Now, Google is testing an app that will allow blind people to run alone.

At a Google event in 2019, a blind runner, Thomas Panek, asked a group of experts whether they could create something to help blind people run on their own without a guide dog or human assistant.

Panek, CEO of Guiding Eyes for the Blind, had always loved running. But he started losing his eyesight when he was 8, and by his early 20s he was blind. Later in life, he started running with other people or a guide dog to help him. But he didn’t like being dependent on others.

The Google team soon created Project Guideline. The Guideline app uses a smartphone camera to recognize a line painted on the ground. Through headphones, the app makes sounds when a person moves away from the line. The sounds get louder in either the left or the right ear the further the person moves away from the line.

After first trying the app inside, Panek used it while running outside in a park last August. “For the first time in my life, I didn’t feel like a blind man. I felt free,” Panek said. In November, 2020, Panek successfully ran 5 kilometers around New York City’s Central Park using the app.

Panek hopes the app Project Guideline can help more people like him. And Google will also continue to work hard to develop the app.

1. The app which helps the blind know people’s feelings was made by ______.

A．Microsoft

B．Google

C．Huawei

D．Apple

2. Which is NOT true about the Guideline app?

A．It can help blind people run inside and outside.

B．It uses a smartphone camera to recognize the line.

C．It makes sounds when people move away from the line.

D．Another person needs to hold the phone for the blind person.

3. What’s the purpose（意图）of writing the passage?

A．To introduce a blind runner Thomas Panek.

B．To introduce the Guideline app created by Google.

C．To show some great apps that can help blind people.

D．To show blind people how to use the Guideline app for running.

【推荐1】

When we see young people sitting there, looking at the screen of a mobile phone and smiling, we may think nothing is wrong. But when we come to the question “how much time do they spend on media (传播媒介) daily?”, the answer is surprising: young people spend about nine hours every day using media, and this only includes media used for enjoyment.

Today’s young people seem to have become crazy multitaskers. They often use media when doing other activities. Some watch TV when doing homework, some text (发短信), and others listen to music. But what do young people think of this? The research showed that two thirds of them believed watching TV or texting had no influence on their schoolwork. Half of them thought using social media made no difference. However, researchers have given a different answer: “media multitaskers” did worse in tests.

Scientists did the research among more than 400 students. It showed that those who texted a lot had more trouble sleeping and did worse in their study. In another research, students who didn’t text during a lesson took down a lot more notes than those who texted.

According to the research, if a kid uses social media a lot, he or she will sleep worse at night and feel more nervous and depressed (消沉的). And sitting too much can lead to health problems like a sore back or neck, heart problems and some kinds of illness. On the one hand, young people stay up late to check messages and information. They may also be woken up by messages they receive. On the other hand, even the light from a screen could influence their sleep. They may become sleepy more easily during the daytime.

1. How many hours do the young people spend using media every day?

A．8.

B．9.

C．10.

2. The underlined word “multitaskers” in Paragraph 2 refer to people who ________.

A．ask a lot of questions

B．have several mobile phones

C．do several things at the same time

3. From the passage we can learn that a kid will probably ________ if he or she uses social media a lot at night.

A．do the best in tests

B．sleep much better

C．feel more nervous and sicker

4. The writer wrote this passage in order to ________.

A．tell young people not to spend too much time on mobile phones

B．tell young people about using social media made no difference

C．tell young people about using mobile phones can help with study or work

【推荐2】Paper or plastic? _________________.

Governments around the world are pushing for an end to plastic straws and bags. More and more businesses are switching to paper products as an alternative (替代品). Paper is considered by many to be better than plastic. However, it, too, is harmful to the environment.

Firstly, paper bags and straws are made from trees. Trees, as you know, can reduce carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere. They can slow down climate change. An increase in the use of paper bags can cause more deforestation.

Secondly, the production of paper items requires more energy and water. About 10% more energy and four times as much water is used to produce a paperback than a plastic one. You might say that we can use recycled paper to save the energy and water. This seems to be a good idea. However, it takes even more energy and water to go through the recycling process than to make a brand new paper bag. Products made from recycled paper are also often short-lived.

Furthermore, paper products are heavier than plastic ones. That means they require more fuel to transport. Seven trucks are needed to transport 2 million paper bags, while only one truck is needed to transport the same number of plastic bags. The increased weight also leads to a large amount of waste once the bags are thrown away.

Paper products are actually a lose — lose for both the environment and businesses. They are more expensive than plastic products. A paper straw costs about 5 to 12 cents, while a plastic one usually costs only about 2 cents.

The most environment-friendly solution is to avoid single-use items altogether. Products like glass water bottles and steel straws can be used over and over again. They are much better than either paper products or plastic products. Through increasing the use of these items, you can greatly reduce your throw away waste and truly make our earth a greener place.

1. According to the article, we may fill in blanks in the title with “________”.

A．Both

B．Either

C．Neither

D．Any

2. The underlined word “deforestation” (in Para 2) probably means the act of ________.

A．planting trees

B．climbing trees

C．protecting trees

D．cutting down trees

3. According to the author, it’s not a good idea to use recycled paper to make paper bags because ________.
①the process takes much more time than the making of new paper bags
②the paper bags made in this way are less long lasting than new paper bags are
③the process requires more energy and water than the making of new paper bags does
④the paper bags made in this way are much heavier and may cause more waste in the end

A．①②

B．③④

C．②③

D．①④

4. Compare with transporting 2 million plastic bags, transporting 2 million paper bags requires ________.

A．fewer trucks	B．six more tracks
C．twice as many trucks	D．the same number of trucks

5. By writing this article, the author mainly wanted to ________.
①compare plastic products with paper ones
②correct people’s wrong ideas about paper products
③suggest people use reusable products like steel straws
④listed advantages and disadvantages of using paper products

A．①②

B．③④

C．②③

D．①④

【推荐3】We all know trees are important to people, but do you know something about tree rings (年轮)? Do you know they can tell us what the weather was like even hundreds of years ago?

A tree will grow well in a climate with lots of sunshine and rainfall. And little sunshine or rainfall will limit the growth of a tree. We can see the changes of climate by studying the tree rings. For example, to find out the weather of ten years ago, count the rings of a tree from the outside to the inside. If the tenth ring is far from the eleventh ring, we’re sure that it was sunny and rainy most of that year. However, if the tenth ring is near the eleventh ring, then the climate of that year was bad.

Tree rings are important not only for studying the history of weather but also for studying the history of man. Many centuries ago there lived a lot of people at a place in New Mexico. But now you can find only sand but no trees, no people. What happened to that place?

A scientist studied the rings of the dead trees there. He found that the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees to make fires and buildings. As all the trees had gone, the people there had to move.

1. According to the passage, people can find out the changes of climate by studying _________.

A．sunshine

B．rainfall

C．tree rings

D．tree leaves

2. The underlined word “limit” probably means _________.

A．stop

B．reduce

C．help

D．record

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Snow and wind will help the tree grow.

B．We can only count tree rings from the inside to the outside.

C．Tree rings can help us learn about the history of man.

D．Tree rings are important for studying the history of food.

4. According to the passage, people at the place in New Mexico left because _________.

A．they had no place to live	B．there was too much pollution
C．they had no food to eat	D．there were no more trees for them

5. This passage is mainly talking about _________.

A．ways to study tree rings	B．the importance of tree rings
C．the climate and tree rings	D．man and tree rings