【推荐2】配对阅读。左栏是五人的兴趣爱好，右栏介绍了七种类型的展览会，请为每人匹配适合的展览会。

1     Mary is interested in science. She always wonders what the world will be like in the future.     2     Alice’s mom is a doctor in the People’s Hospital. She believes that medicine plays an important role in improving people’s lives.     3     Gina just finished reading the book The Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. She wants to know more about him.     4     Tom is from Switzerland. He is interested in collecting things like clocks and watches, especially those with a long history.     5     Jim needs to finish a project on space exploration. He just watched some news about China’s space mission (任务).

A. This exhibition shows some out-of-this-world objects. If you are interested in China’s space exploration, you can’t miss it. B. Photography fans must visit Camera Display Room. It shows camera development from the first camera to the latest one. C. In this exhibition, there are many VR machines. You will have a chance to explore the future world with the science of today. D. Explore unbelievable objects, including some never seen by the public before. These are all from Professor Stephen Hawking’s office. E. Visit our exhibition to explore science. It should show how science has influenced 100 years, including the first 10 inventions. F. Join one of our volunteer tour guides to explore the world’s oldest collections of clocks and watches. Some have a history of 200 years. G. This exhibition is a great new home for the most important medical collections in the world. It’s a must-go place for people working in the hospital.

【推荐3】My name is Dave. I have two good friends. On Saturday we usually go to see the animals in the zoo. Tom likes pandas, because they are kind of shy. He likes Ling Ling best. Ling Ling is three years old now. Tom often goes to see her. Mary likes to play with giraffes. There are two giraffes in the zoo. They’re friendly to people. My favorite animals are lions. I think they’re strong. But Mary doesn’t like them. She says lions are too scary. We have a dog. Its name is Bargo. It’s black and white. Bargo often goes with us to the zoo. It’s cute. We all love it very much.

1. Who are Dave’s good friends?

A．Ling Ling and Tom.	B．Tom and Mary.
C．Mary and Bargo.	D．Ling Ling and Bargo.

2. Why does Mary like giraffes?

A．Because they’re shy.	B．Because they’re friendly.
C．Because they’re scary.	D．Because they’re strong.

3. What are Dave’s favorite animals?

A．Pandas.

B．Giraffes.

C．Lions.

D．Dogs.

4. Why doesn’t Mary like lions?

A．Because they’re lazy.	B．Because they’re scary.
C．Because they’re strong.	D．Because they’re cute.

【推荐1】Recently Google has announced a series of new artificial intelligence(AI)（人工智能）tools designed to help users in organizing emails and creating business writings and meetings. These tools display important AI development progress in recent years. The tools are built by putting a great deal of data（数据）into machine learning computer systems. The data trains the AI systems to develop skills and produce human-like results.

The technology received wide attention last year after a company called Open AI announced a free writing tool called ChatGPT. That tool can quickly produce human-quality writings. Experts（专家）say such systems may bring great changes to many different industries and jobs. Now some companies are able to test Google’s new tools in their development and business activities.

Like ChatGPT, Google’s AI tools are designed to create completely written texts for many different purposes. For example, an office worker could enter some keywords of a kind of text they want. The tools could then create a full marketing email, training materials or a business plan in a while. Google sees the system being able to offer an “AI Helper” to help human workers in real time. Google wants to have its AI change the work of lawyers, scientists, teachers and more.

However, Google says it keeps developing AI products of high quality. That is why the company is inviting groups of “trusted testers” to use its AI tools rather than widely selling its new products. Google’s new AI tools are the company’s latest move to fight for business. Companies like Microsoft and Meta are also working on products about AI.

Technology experts have warned that while the new AI tools can produce human-like writings, the systems can also make mistakes.

Last month, Bard, Google’s new AI tool designed to give a better online search, made a mistake and caused a $100-billion drop. Microsoft users said the company’s new AI tools produced unfriendly and rude results.

1. Google’s new AI tools can help users ____________.

A．develop skills and produce human-like robots

B．create a complete business plan in a very short time

C．put a lot of data into any company’s computer system

D．send and receive emails at different business meetings

2. Google keeps developing AI products of high quality by ________.

A．asking experts from all industries for help

B．working together with Microsoft and Meta

C．allowing trusted testers to use new products first

D．widely selling its new products as soon as possible

3. What’s the relationship between the last two paragraphs?

A．Paragraph 5 is the purpose of what happens in Paragraph 6.

B．The two paragraphs have different ideas about AI tools.

C．Paragraph 5 gives a good example to support Paragraph 6.

D．Paragraph 6 gives an example to support Paragraph 5.

4. From the passage, we know ________.

A．“AI Helper” cannot change scientists’ work

B．Google’s AI tools display recent AI development

C．few companies can test Google’s new tools in business

D．Google will stop fighting for business with new AI tools

【推荐2】What do you think of a “talking kitchen”? A French Digital Kitchen has been developed 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 the following cooking steps.

All grammar and ________ 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 became interested 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 that they want to follow. Using information in the computer, the kitchen start to guide the users how to make a French dish. If you follow the instructions on the computer, it moves on to the next. If you go wrong, the program goes back and repeats the recipe or information. At any time, the users can ask the kitchen to repeat the recipe or any information.

The new kitchen can be used in schools, universities and even people’s homes. The researchers can also be developing the European Digital Kitchen, for the next three years.

1. After reading the passage, we know the digital kitchen ________.

A．is a “talking kitchen”

B．teaches students English

C．was developed in France

D．cooks all food for people

2. Which of the following can be properly put in ________.

A．food	B．vocabulary
C．recipe	D．instructions

3. Paragraph 3 is mainly tells us about ________.

A．how the kitchen works

B．where the kitchen can be used

C．when the kitchen can be bought

D．why the kitchen project was started

4. If the user don’t follow the instruction on the computer, the kitchen ________.

A．choose another recipe

B．goes to the next step

C．repeats the recipe or information

D．stops working at once

5. The passage is written to ________.

A．show you how computer works

B．introduce a French Kitchen

C．teach you how to cook French food

D．tell you the importance of language learning

【推荐3】People often say, “You can’t live only on air.” But Chinese scientists can now tell you: Maybe you can.

Scientists from Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made great progress. They have changed carbon dioxide, the “infamous” greenhouse gas, into starch (淀粉).

Starch is the main part of the flour, rice and corn that we eat every day. It’s created by plants through photosynthesis (光合作用). But according to the team’s director Ma Yanhe, plants do this in a complex (复杂的) and inefficient (低效的) way, which takes about 60 steps. The new study, after six years of hard work, has found a simpler way to do this, with only 11 steps.

“Our study shows that creating complex compounds (化合物) like starch is possible in a lab, and there are many areas that can benefit (受益) from this technology,” Ma told China Daily.

The scientists first turned CO₂ and H₂ gas into methanol (甲醇). Then they pieced (组合) these methanol molecules (分子) into bigger and more complex molecules. Finally the starch came out.

This method makes it possible to produce food in factories, instead of traditional farming. This will not only help make plenty of starchy crops (农作物) such as potatoes, but also save water, fertilizer (肥料) and land. It may also help recycle CO₂ to deal with climate change, according to China Daily.

The study can benefit space exploration too. Astronauts no longer need to worry about their food as they travel in space. They may simply turn the CO₂ they breathe into the food they eat!

1. What is starch?

A．Carbon dioxide.	B．Flour, rice and corn.
C．The main part of rice.	D．Methanol.

2. How many steps can starch be created by scientists according to the new study?

A．6.

B．11.

C．24.

D．60.

3. How did the scientists create the starch?
①Created by plants through photosynthesis.
②Changed CO₂ and H₂ gas into methanol.
③Turn the CO₂ human beings breathe into the food.
④Pieced the methanol molecules into bigger and more complex molecules.

A．①②

B．②③

C．③④

D．②④

4. According to the text, there are many areas that can benefit from the new technology except ________.

A．space exploration

B．farming

C．photosynthesis

D．climate change

5. What can we infer (推断) from the text?

A．Astronauts still need to worry about their food as they travel in space.

B．It’s possible to produce food without traditional farming.

C．It must take 60 steps to create starch.

D．We can’t live only on air.