【推荐1】阅读短文，回答问题

Imagine the situation. You are an exchange student from China and now you are learning French in a university in Paris, the capital city of France. One day, you come into the kitchen of your flat. Twenty minute later, you cook several delicious French dishes. To everyone’s surprise, you learn the French language at the same time! This kind of wonderful kitchen is called a French Digital Kitchen or a “talking kitchen”. What do you think of the “talking kitchen”? A French Digital Kitchen was invented at Newcastle University in the UK. It teaches students how to cook French food and speak French at the same time. For the first time, students can learn the language by following cooking steps.

All grammar and vocabulary have been carefully chosen to make sure the users can understand French well. After learning for some time, the users can test themselves by doing a short test on the computer.

The kitchen project was started by Professor Paul Seedhouse. He began to show interest in the idea after he visited another kind of talking kitchen. He said, “The purpose of the French Digital Kitchen is to make learning a language more interesting and more educational.”

How does the kitchen work? There is a computer in the kitchen. With this computer, the users can first choose a French recipe（菜谱）that they want to follow. Using information in the computer, the kitchen starts to teach the users how to make a French dish. If you follow the instruction（说明）on the computer, it moves on to the next. If you go wrong, the program goes back and repeats the recipe or information.

The new kitchen can be used in schools, universities and even people’s homes. The researchers are working hard to develop the Digital Kitchen that can speak different languages.

1. Where did Professor Paul Seedhouse get the idea of French Digital Kitchen?

A．From a university in Paris.

B．From a flat in France.

C．From a grammar book.

D．From another kind of talking kitchen.

2. If users don’t follow the instruction on the computer, the kitchen ________.

A．goes to the next step

B．stops working at once

C．chooses another recipe

D．shows the recipe or information again

3. In the first paragraph, the underlined word digital means ________ in Chinese.

A．传统的

B．数码的

C．纳米的

D．科技的

4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．The users of digital kitchen can learn language by following cooking steps.

B．The inventors choose the easiest grammar and vocabulary for users.

C．The Digital Kitchen are used all the places and it can speak different languages now.

D．The digital kitchen is also named a talking kitchen.

5. The passage is mainly about ________.

A．introducing the exchange life in France

B．teaching how to cook and speak French at the same time in the Digital Kitchen

C．using the digital kitchen to cook French food

D．showing how to develop the Digital Kitchen

【推荐2】Most people have flown a kite or have seen one ride and dip(下降) in strong spring wind. Not so many people know that kites were first made in China thousands of years ago. The ancient (古代的) Chinese were making and flying kites even before they were writing.

A long time ago, the Chinese made kites to use in wars. They would fly these war kites in the dark. The kites were fixed (固定) so that they made strange sounds. Men who were at war with them would hear these sounds and run away. They thought those strange sounds were made by gods(神) in the sky.
The ancient Chinese also flew kites to bring good luck and to make their crops（农作物） grow rich and tall. Sometimes they tied long strings (细绳) and hooks (钩) to their kites. Then they would fly the kites over water, letting the hooks hang down to catch fish.
The Chinese use sticks（树枝）, strings（线） and paper for their kites. Some of these kites look like animals or trees. Others look like birds or houses.
1. The main idea of the first paragraph（段落) is that

A．kites were first made in China

B．most of us have flown or seen a kite

C．the ancient Chinese were making kites before they were writing

D．the ancient Chinese were good at making kites

2. In ancient China kites could be used for ___.

A．catching fish	B．helping people fly
C．watering the crops	D．helping people walk in the dark

3. The ancient Chinese used kites in wars because the kites ____.

A．could bring good luck	B．looked like animals
C．could help them win a war	D．could fly high

4. The Chinese usually use ____ for their kites.

A．sticks, strings and grass	B．strings, hair and wood
C．paper, strings and sticks	D．paper, ropes and hooks

【推荐3】

ChatGPT, a smart AI chatbot　(聊天机器人) has become popular in the past few months. According to a US survey of more than 1,000 students, over 90% of them have used ChatGPT to help with homework. Educators and students have different ideas about the use of ChatGPT.

1. How many students took part in the survey?

A．More than 1,000.

B．Over 900.

C．About 660.

2. Which of the following about ChatGPT is TRUE?

A．72% of students used it to write an essay.

B．Most educators disagree with use in school.

C．People have different opinions about its use.

【推荐1】There are four seasons in a year in China. Spring comes in February. May, June and July make the summer season. August, September and October are the autumn months. Winter is from November to January.

But near the North Pole (北极) there are only two seasons. They are winter and summer. In winter, nights are long. For more than two months, you can’t see the sun, even at noon. In summer, the days are long. For more than two months, the sun never goes down and there is no night.

The people living near the North Pole are called Inuit (因纽特人). In summer, they live in tents (帐篷) and catch deer for food. In winter, they live in small round snow houses. They travel around by using dogs to carry their things. They make holes in the ice and catch fish and seals (海豹).

1. In China, spring is from February to ________.

A．May

B．March

C．April

D．December

2. The two seasons near the North Pole are ________.

A．spring and autumn

B．summer and winter

C．spring and summer

D．spring and winter

3. The Inuit live in ________ in winter.

A．tents

B．snow houses

C．big houses

D．holes

【推荐3】Every morning, the newspaper chief editor (主编) holds a meeting with the reporters. They discuss the main events of the day. Reporters are then sent to cover (报道) the events.

As soon as the reporters know what to write about, they get down to work. They telephone people and fix a time for a face-to-face interview with them. Sometimes they do telephone interviews. Checking information is very important. They go to the newspaper’s own library to look up any information that they need. This is called “doing one’s homework.”

At the same time, the picture editor decides which photographs will be used for the next day’s paper. All the people who work on a newspaper must be able to work fast. Reporters have to stop working on one story and start working at once on the important new one. They must find out the new information as quickly as possible. Later in the day, everything is put together at the new desk. Reporters return, type their stories into the computer and hand them to the editor.

The chief editor decides which will be the most important story on the front page. Sometimes this will have to be changed if something more important happens late in the day. Other editors read the stories which the reporters have written and make any necessary changes.

Finally, there is no more time left for adding new stories, and the time for printing the newspaper has come. This is done on fast-moving printing machines. The newspapers are then delivered (发送) by truck, plane or rail. Speed is important. People want to buy the latest newspaper; nobody wants to buy yesterday’s.

1. What is the work in a newspaper office like?

A．Interesting and confusing.

B．Important and patient.

C．Particular and necessary.

D．Fast and busy.

2. According to the passage, the right order for a reporter’s work is         .
a. writing stories
b. doing interviews
c. joining in a discussion
d. doing homework
e. handing stories to the editor

A．c-b-a-d-e	B．c-d-e-a-b
C．c-b-d-a-e	D．c-a-d-b-e

3. The front page contents (内容) are decided by         .

A．the importance of the events

B．how well the stories are written

C．the knowledge of the chief editor

D．whether they are the latest

4. The best title for the passage is         .

A．How a newspaper is produced

B．How newspapers are delivered

C．What kind of papers readers like

D．Whose work is more important