1 . What time is it? The answer you give can be different, because you are in different Earth’s time zones(时区). But how could you tell the time if you aren’t anywhere on Earth?
Scientists are now thinking of creating a lunar(月球的) time zone. They believe it would be better for astronauts to communicate by using Moon Time, as they travel to, from, and across the Moon. At the moment, astronauts are using time zones of their own countries. But there could be safety problems caused by the differences in time-telling.
________ Gravity(引力) influences how quickly or slowly time passes. Since gravity is weaker on the Moon, clocks run a bit faster there. After 24 hours, a lunar clock would be 56 microseconds ahead of a clock on Earth. Another point to consider is that a full day on Earth is about 24 hours between two sunsets. While on the Moon, it is nearly 709 hours, about 29.5 Earth days. This means that lunar nights can be around two weeks long, with only the Earth and the stars in the sky. With all this to think about, scientists need to decide whether it would be better to follow a time zone on Earth, or for the Moon to have its own special zone, which would have much longer days.
Scientists must consider other problems too. For example, who should be responsible for keeping the time zone going? And how can it be made practical for astronauts to use?
There are more countries planning Moon trips in the future. The idea of creating a time zone on the Moon would make these easier. And if a lunar time zone is set up, scientists could create time zones for other planets like Mars.
1. Scientists think that a lunar time zone can ________.| A．keep the Moon clean | B．keep astronauts healthy |
| C．make the Moon trips safer | D．make space travel faster |
| A．Setting up a lunar time zone is not easy. |
| B．Setting up a special time zone is important. |
| C．Scientists are holding different opinions. |
| D．Scientists need to do a lot of experiments. |
| A．56 microseconds | B．24 hours | C．two weeks | D．29.5 days |
| A．To give information about space travel. | B．To introduce the idea of Moon Time. |
| C．To describe an experience of time travel. | D．To share news about landing on Mars. |
Many people love sports — they love to play them, to watch them on television, and to talk about them. But this hobby sometimes has serious results — at least to the players. For example, when people play tennis, sometimes they hurt their elbow (肘部) and in this way they develop “tennis elbow”. Also it is easy to hurt a knee in a football game. These injuries (损伤) happen while the player is having fun, but they still hurt.
A few months ago, Kathleen Simmons, who loves playing volleyball, hurt her knee in a volleyball game. Her doctor told her that she needed a very difficult operation or she might not be able to play again. She felt very sad and didn’t know what to do.
Then Simmons learned about “video operation”. With the help of this new science in medicine, doctors can now repair many injuries and get people back on the playing field and back to their jobs much faster. Simmons found a hospital that was using this new science and went to see the doctor there. The doctors told her the operation could help.
For this operation, her doctor didn’t have to open her knee. Instead, he put a very small camera lens (镜头) inside her knee. The lens sent back pictures, which appeared on a television screen. As he worked, he could see the inside of her knee on the TV. With the help of the large pictures on the screen, the doctor knew exactly what to do when he was making the repairs.
Simmons started walking five days after her operation. “My knee hurt a lot the first few days,” she said. “But I felt better very quickly.” Now, six months after her operation, Simmons can do everything she did before her injury. “It feels like a new knee,” she said. “I can even play volleyball again.”
1. According to the passage, we know that many people love2. Simmons hurt her knee when she was
3. According to the passage, there is a new science in medicine called
4. The doctor put
5. With the help of the new science, Simmons could
3 . 
Diagram(图表) or Survey Result
①AI (artificial intelligence人工智能) and machine learning refer to the ability of machines to learn and act intelligently. It means they can make decisions, finish tasks, and even tell the possible future results based on what they learn from data(数据).
②AI and machine learning already play a bigger role in everyday life than you might imagine. Health care, banking, video games, every search on the Internet you make..., all are driven by AI.
③AI is going to change almost every field of modern life. Stephen Hawking said, “Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history.” And Hawking added at once, “Unluckily, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.”
④ ▲ , especially when you consider some countries are racing to develop AI-enabled autonomous weapons(人工智能自主武器). It is also going to change and take the place of many human jobs. The same worries also come from the public. According to the survey result from Centre for the Governance of AI, 91% of the people (tend to and totally) agree that “AI is a technology that requires careful management” in Europe.
⑤But rather than agreeing with an idea of a helpless future where all human jobs are given over to robots, some people believe AI will make on working lives better. It will improve the work of humans, and new jobs will appear to take the place of the old ones.
⑥What’s more, machines become more intelligent and they are able to finish more human tasks. Things which only belong to humans lie creativity and critical(批判性的) thinking, will become even more valuable in the future.
⑦Like it or not, AI is here. Maybe changing ourselves and managing it well are the best way out. Just as Benjamin Franklin once said, “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.”
1. Which paragraph does the diagram mainly support?| A．② | B．③ | C．④ | D．⑤ |
| A．As we know, there are possible huge risks for society and human life |
| B．Also, you can find AI serving our daily life in every possible field |
| C．Without doubt, AI is a fantastic technology to lead us into the future |
| D．Humans are surely more creative and better at many things than AI |
| A．To warn us that AI will take humans’ place. |
| B．To show us that there are a lot of uses of AI. |
| C．To tell us that many people are worried about AI. |
| D．To suggest we prepare for the changes brought by AI. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
A powerful robot named ChatGPT has been made by a US company Open AI. It is developed to make up human-like texts. It can translate languages, talk with people and write songs, poems and even jokes.
The power of ChatGPT lies in its speed and understanding of difficult maters. We may spend hours researching, understanding and writing an article on a certain topic.
ChatGPT appears at a time when AI is becoming better at doing creative tasks. The system can produce something similar to human’s own works.
| A．People around the world tried ChatGPT. |
| B．It has the writing skills of a real person. |
| C．We expect the problems to be solved over time. |
| D．People start depending on ChatGPT for art works. |
| E．Nowadays few people use ChatGPT to write or draw. |
| F．But ChatGPT can produce a well-written article at once. |
5 . Recently, a research on how a new virtual reality (VR虚拟现实) experience educated children about the fire disasters (灾害) was done. The new VR experience was developed by the University of South Australia, hoping to educate children to learn how to be safe in a fire. It presents a situation for children aged 10—12. In the situation, they are tasked to look after a friend’s dog just before a fire event begins. They take part in a set of problem-solving activities to help save and protect themselves and the dog.
The findings showed that over 80% of children could calmly tell the advantages and disadvantages of different choices. They also learned to make wise decisions to protect themselves from a fire. Children thought it especially important and meaningful, because 91% of them didn’t have knowledge of fires at the beginning, and 67% had said that they were too young to make safety decisions in a fire.
The researchers believed such VR experiences made it possible to engage, educate and empower the young. “As children born in modern times, they are interested in such technology and they can experience events in a real situation yet within the safe environment,” said Delene Weber, one of the researchers. “Well-designed VR can provide children with surprisingly valuable learning tools.” Meanwhile, because children have fewer life experiences, aren’t as physically strong, and are less likely to have learned much about fire safety, they’re often most at risk. However, the role that children play in the fire safety at their homes should not be underestimated (低估). “Children don’t need to be always waiting for help in disasters. With these VR experiences, we can make children understand the risks and realize they can help,” said Weber.
1. What’s the purpose of the new VR experience?| A．To describe children’s reactions to fire disasters. |
| B．To teach children to save themselves in a fire. |
| C．To introduce ways of avoiding a fire to children. |
| D．To increase children’s interest in VR experiences. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Worried. | C．Uncertain. | D．Supportive. |
| engage /εn’geɪdʒ/ verb en·gaged, en·gag·ing. ①to draw one’s attention and keep them interested ②to give somebody a job ③to begin fighting with somebody ④to fit one part of a machine into another so they can work |
| A．① | B．② | C．③ | D．④ |
| A．Development | B．advantages | C．quality | D．introduction |
| A．Children make no difference in the fire safety at their homes. |
| B．VR experiences are mainly designed for children in high school. |
| C．Well-designed VR can offer children amazingly valuable learning tools. |
| D．91% of children believed they weren’t old enough to make safety decisions. |
Imagine having an ear made out of an apple. It seems like a crazy idea from a horror movie. But it could happen in the near future.
Canadian biophysicist Andrew Pelling used an apple to grow a human ear. He thinks fruit and vegetables can be used to cheaply repair human body parts in the future.
Scientists have been trying to grow organs in labs to replace our old ones. But it is a hard job. For example, liver cells can grow in a lab, but the cells still need things like blood vessels to actually work. These things have to grow inside a scaffold called the extracellular matrix.
In the past, scientists have used man-made materials, animal parts and even dead people as scaffolds. But that has proved to be complicated and expensive.
Pelling and his team, however, found the apple to be a cheap and easy-to-use scaffold.
They first cut an apple into the shape of an ear. Then they used a special way to take out the apple’s cells and make it a scaffold. The team then added human cells to the apple, and watched it grow.
“You can implant these scaffolds into the body, and the body will send in cells and a blood supply and actually keep these things alive,” Pelling said during a Ted Talk speech.
The team put the apple scaffold inside a living mouse and the mouse’s cells slowly took over the pieces of apple.
Now Pelling is thinking of other fruit, plants or vegetables to use.
He says that the shape of flower petals could be perfect for repairing skin. And asparagus could fix a broken spine.
1. Pelling’s idea of a man-made ear seems crazy because he uses ________ as scaffolds．| A．animal parts | B．dead people | C．man-made materials | D．ordinary apples |
| A．apple’s cells | B．human cells | C．the scaffold | D．the apple |
a. put the apple scaffold inside a mouse b. add human cells to the apple scaffold
c. cut an apple into the shape of an ear d. make the apple ear a scaffold
e. take out the apple’s cells in a special way
| A．a-b-c-d-e | B．b-c-d-a-e | C．c-e-d-b-a | D．c-d-a-e-b |
| A．to make human ears | B．to repair burnt skin |
| C．to fix a broken spine | D．to make human body parts |
| A．A new use of fruits and vegetables | B．How to replace organs |
| C．The cheapest way to use apples | D．A crazy idea from horror movies |
7 . ChatGPT is a powerful chat robot developed by OpenAI. The company has introduced a new language model: GPT-4.
On March 14, GPT-4 showed the world how smarter it is than GPT-3. It can understand pictures. For example, if you show a picture of a phone using the wrong charger (充电器), GPT-4 can tell why the picture is strange or funny.
GPT-4 can code (用代码编写) games and make the code for a website based on a hand-made drawing. It can also change the style if you ask it to do that. CPT-4 is much better than the older GPT at passing tests.
GPT-4 will also be used as a tool to power other apps and services. For example, the language learning app Duolingo plans to use GPT-4. Users can learn languages by talking with AI. Another app, Be My Eyes, will have a digital assistant (数字助手) to help blind people better understand the world around them.
However, there are still problems with GPT-4. It can’t get right answers, especially with newer information after September 2021. GPT-4 also sometimes “hallucinates (产生幻觉)”. It will be sure that wrong information is true.
1、2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主题句；5题将画线句子译成汉语。1. GPT-4 can tell why the picture is
2. GPT-4 will also be used as
3. What will blind people do with the help of the digital assistant?
4.
5.
8 . On April 18th—the International Day for Monuments and Sites, China Daily’s digital employee Yuanxi and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes’official virtual（虚拟的) cartoon figure Jiayao together introduced an interactive digital platform(数字化互动平台) that hosts a virtual copy of the Mogao Grottoes’ Library Cave to the world.
The platform was developed jointly by the Dunhuang Academy and the Chinese tech firm Tencent. It uses gaming technologies to show the historical scenes of the Library Cave in the digital world.
The Library Cave in Mogao Grottoes was discovered in 1900, with more than 60,000 cultural relics dating from the 4th century to the 11th century unearthed. It was one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the 20th century.
On the platform, visitors can role-play and “time travel” to ancient dynasties and talk with eight historical figures. The public can enter the platform through the Digital Dunhuang website and its WeChat mini program.
In the digital age, the model of “culture + technology” has been adopted to promote(促进) the development of Chinese culture. The digitalization rate of China’s precious cultural relics has been more than 70 percent, according to the 2022 China Digital Collection Industry Research Report released by iResearch.
Institutions(机构) such as the Palace Museum have also launched online digital services of their own. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology allows the public to view the interior of the buildings through the Palace Museum’s WeChat mini program.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has also encouraged the development and transformation (转型) of cultural intellectual property by digital means. China Central Television has created a series of digital collections with different Dunhuang themes, such as the Dunhuang divine deer Youyou. It was created based on the image of the nine-colored deer from Dunhuang murals. The public can see the divine deer on CCTV’s own digital platform.
Digital collections cater to(迎合) the consumption habits of young people. They not only protect the intellectual property of the collections but also bring the public closer to China’s “excellent traditional culture”, noted Dunhuang Art Institute.
Su Bomin, director of the Dunhuang Academy, told Xinhua that more efforts will be made to explore new forms for showing cultural relics and offer the public more immersive cultural experiences to develop Dunhuang culture.
1. On the interactive digital platform for the Mogao Grottoes’ Library Cave, visitors can ________.| A．play role-playing games set in ancient times |
| B．play video games named historical characters |
| C．design digital caves showing historical culture |
| D．talk to the designer of the digital Library Cave |
| A．To show the latest gaming technologies. |
| B．To help cultural institutions make money. |
| C．To promote the development of Chinese culture. |
| D．To encourage people to explore new forms of digital collections. |
| A．Presenting Digital Collections | B．Experiencing History Online |
| C．Creating Mini Programs | D．Introducing Gaming Technologies |
9 . ChatGPT, a smart AI tool, has swept the education world in the past months. According to a US survey of more than one thousand
ChatGPT is a
Some schools in the US, Australia and
10 . ChatGPT was released late last year by company Open AI. The technology chats in a conversational way, answering questions from users. The online chatbot (chat robot) has been trained on lots of information from the Internet—it can have a human-like conversation answering questions.
Experts say it can be used to write articles, stories, poems and even solve computer problems. But there are limits to what it can do, which Open AI admits. Sometimes it writes answers which are incorrect or don’t make sense, and it sometimes guesses what the user has asked it instead of asking more follow-up questions to understand the questions better.
ChatGPT is getting mixed opinions in terms of learning. Some think students might use it to cheat, while others think they should use the tool in the classroom to help children learn. Some people believe that ________. In their opinion, just like when the calculator was created, people were unsure at first, but if teachers introduce the technology and teach students how to use it, that can help with their learning.
Even though ChatGPT can answer questions which may be able to help students out with homework, it might not always give the correct facts. This is because its main purpose is to create sentences that could have been written by a human—rather than searching on the Internet for facts. This means it can sometimes get things wrong, which wouldn’t be good for homework!
However, ChatGPT still has a long way to go. The developers of it and other chat robots using AI are always looking for ways of improving their accuracy(准确性).
1. ChatGPT can do a lot of things EXCEPT ________ according to the passage.| A．making and answering phone calls | B．writing essays and stories |
| C．chatting with users on the Internet | D．solving computer code |
| A．the chatbot might do harm to teaching |
| B．the chatbot should be welcomed |
| C．the chatbot has no meaning to students |
| D．the chatbot might be better than teachers |
| A．ChatGPT will bring problems and health risks to people. |
| B．ChatGPT still needs time to work for people in a better way. |
| C．Chat GPT will be never be used again. |
| D．ChatGPT is a perfect invention and brings benefits to the world. |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．Nature | B．Culture | C．Travel | D．Science |
