1 . The maker of ChatGPT recently announced its next move into generative artificial intelligence. San Francisco-based OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator, called Sora, is a tool that instantly makes short videos based on written commands, called prompts.

Sora is not the first of its kind. Google, Meta and Runway ML are among the other companies to have developed similar technology. But the high quality of videos displayed by OpenAI — some released after CEO Sam Altman asked social media users to send in ideas for written prompts-surprised observers.

A photographer from New Hampshire posted one suggestion, or prompt, on X. The prompt gave details about a kind of food to be cooked, gnocchi (意大利团子), as well as the setting — an old Italian country kitchen. The prompt said: “An instructional cooking session for homemade gnocchi, hosted by a grandmother — a social media influencer, set in a rustic (土气的) Tuscan country kitchen.” Altman answered a short time later with a realistic video that showed what the prompt described.

The tool is not yet publicly available. OpenAI has given limited information about how it was built. The company also has not stated what imagery and video sources were used to train Sora. At the same time, the video results led to fears about the possible ethical and societal effects.

The New York Times and some writers have taken legal actions against OpenAI for its use of copyrighted works of writing to train ChatGPT. And OpenAI pays a fee to The Associated Press, the source of this report, to license its text news archive (档案) . OpenAI said in a blog post that it is communicating with artists, policymakers and others before releasing the new tool to the public.

The company added that it is working with “red teamers” — people who try to find problems and give helpful suggestions — to develop Sora. “We are working with red teamers-express in areas like misinformation, hateful content, and bias — who will be adversarially testing the model,” the company said. “We’re also building tools to help detect misleading content such as a detection classifier that can tell when a video was generated by Sora.”

1. What makes Sora impressive?

A．Its extraordinary video quality.	B．Its ethical and societal influence.
C．Its artificial intelligence history.	D．Its written commands and prompts.

2. What can we infer from the text?

A．Some disagreements over Sora have arisen.

B．Sora is the first text-to-video generator in history.

C．OpenAI CEO Altman wrote a prompt as an example.

D．All the details about how Sora was built have been shared.

3. What is the main idea of Paragraph 6?

A．The company’s current challenge.

B．The company’s advanced technology.

C．The company’s problems in management.

D．The company’s efforts for Sora’s improvement.

4. What is the author’s attitude towards Sora?

A．Neutral.

B．Optimistic.

C．Pessimistic.

D．Cautious.

2 . 读后续写

Jessie had two days’leave in January this year. She surfed the Internet for cheap travel deals and found the most impressive to be a two-day trip to Dublin. Jessie had never visited Ireland so she knew this was the destination for her.

She arrived in Dublin and headed for her hotel. She was excited. When she found her hotel, she paid her money for both nights in advance. The receptionist (接待员) said that was possibly the smartest thing she had done since she decided to take the trip. Jessie dropped her bags in her room and immediately went out to check out some of the sights. It was getting late as Jessie wandered in the streets and decided that even though she was starving, she would rather wait to have dinner later after having a drink.

She headed into the closest pub. Jessie noticed a rather strange-looking man staring at her from across the room. He walked to her table and asked her in his most polite manner if she would like to have a beer. After about ten seconds of thought, Jessie came to the conclusion that she would and accepted the offer. But she proposed that she should treat him to some fruits. The man smiled and accepted.

Their conversation was mainly about places they had been and places they wanted to go. Jessie soon found out that he was traveling alone too and as soon as he started mentioning that he was staying in the same hotel as her, Jessie swiftly rose from her seat to get another drink.

Searching through her bag Jessie found that her wallet was gone! Immediately she realized she took the wrong bag. Her wallet was in another bag. Jessie didn’t panic at first until it hit her that without it, she had not one penny in hand. She was starving. Worst of all, she had generously proposed a treat to the man.

注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:

Without explaining the situation, Jessie ran back to the hotel.

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Paragraph 2:

The man was still there.

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3 . “Can you say mama? Or dada?” If you’ve spent any time around a baby, chances are you’ve heard or said things like these.     1     For instance, baby talk, “parentese” (父母语), or, according to development specialists, child-directed speech. Although this kind of small talk might seem meaningless, the conversations are important.

Baby talk is an important piece of speech and language development. Studies show that when babies are exposed to such talk every day throughout their first year of life, they develop stronger vocabularies than other kids. And the little ones are eager for it.     2     So when parents apply it, they help their babies learn more words and promote social interaction.

Child-directed speech wasn’t always valued. Before the middle of the 20th century, researchers largely ignored it as a subject of study. Until the early 1990s, many developmental psychologists and linguists believed that without any help, we would learn how to speak and form complete sentences by ourselves.     3    

But over the past few decades, numerous studies have found that throughout their first year of life, when babies are regularly exposed to such talk in addition to normal speech, they process, learn, and remember words presented to them in singsong tones (语调) better. One reason may have to do with how babies interact with the world.     4     However, but their ears perk up (竖起来) when a caregiver makes that singsong tone.

    5     In a 2020 study, researchers found that bat parents also used a different tone to communicate with their babies. Baby talk has also been observed in a few other species like squirrel monkeys.

A．Baby talk tends to be spoken at a slower rate.

B．Humans aren’t the only ones that use baby talk.

C．They tend to ignore adult conversations and other background noises.

D．Luckily, parents can be taught methods to improve their parentese skills.

E．Some doctors even advised parents to avoid using baby talk, thinking it too silly.

F．The distinct tone of parentese catches their attention, allowing them to benefit from it.

G．The singsong tone we switch to when interacting with young children can have many names.

4 .    

The Southwest Museum

The collections of the Southwest Museum represent Native American cultures from Alaska to South America. The museum contains some of the finest examples of Indian art and artifacts in the Unites States.

EXHIBITIONS

In its permanent exhibitions, the Southwest Museum presents the remarkable cultural diversity of America’s earliest residents. The museum’s four main exhibit halls focus on the native people of the Southwest, California, the Great Plains, and the Northwest Coast. Visitors may survey prehistoric Southwest painted earthenware, and enjoy temporary exhibitions and exhibitions that are moved between museums.

PROGRAMS

Throughout the year the museum offers a wide range of programs including: performances, classes, lectures, festivals, films and demonstrations by noted artists and other educational programs for members and the general public. Guided gallery tours are offered by reservation, for student and adult groups.

MEMBERSHIP

Museum membership provides individuals and families with many chances to participate in the active and exciting Southwest Museum community. The membership benefits include: free admission to the Museum; invitations to exhibition openings and special events; reduced rates on programs and classes; discounts in the Museum Store; calendars of events;members’ newsletter and subscription to the museum’s magazine, Masterkey.

   
MUSEUM STORE

The museum store offers beautifully made Southwest silver jewelry, Pueblo earthenware, and kachina dolls. It also offers folk art from Mexico and Peru. The store carries a large selection of publications on Native American history, and on several famous Native American and Western artists. Museum members receive a 10% discount on all in-store purchases and a 20% discount on all museum publications.

Museum Hours:

Tuesday——Sunday

11:00 a.m.to 5:00p.m.

Telephone: 213-221-2164

Museum Location:

234 Museum Drive

Los Angeles, CA 90065

1. The collections of the Southwest Museum focus on _______.

A．lifestyles of American residents

B．native cultures of the Americas

C．diversity of American festivals

D．development of American arts

2. What can a visitor do at the Southwest Museum?

A．Interview noted artists.

B．Try painting earthenware.

C．Appreciate traveling exhibitions.

D．Survey modern American folk art.

3. Which benefit can a museum member enjoy?

A．Free classes and programs.

B．A 10% discount on kachina dolls.

C．The priority to reserve guided tours.

D．The right to invite friends to exhibition openings.

5 . Danish architecture studio Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has designed Terminus AI City Operating System as a campus in Chongqing, China, which will be operated by an artificial intelligence system. Everything in the city will be operated by this system.

BIG has drawn up the plans for Teminus Group, which will have its headquarters at the centre of the artificial intelligence-run city campus.

The development will be located in Chongqing Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone and will include Cloud Valley, the campus style headquarters of Terminus Group. “We have over the recent years worked with several of the world’s leading technology companies. We are thrilled to bring our experience to Chongqing,” said Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG. “Cloud Valley is imagined as a city where people, technology and nature live together in harmony — with spaces designed for all types of life: human life, plant life, animal life and even artificial life.”

BIG’s design for Cloud Valley is intended to demonstrate the environmental goals of the project. Green roof panels will create open-air courtyards throughout the campus. These courtyards will host art exhibitions and sporting events. At night, the underside of the roof panels will be transformed into what BIG described as “the largest digital display in China.”

In AI City, people will live in homes with automatically adjusting solar panels and have a digital assistant to run their lives. Buildings will have power systems controlled by Terminus Group software.

“As sunlight hits the houses, bedroom windows become transparent to allow the natural light to wake sleepy residents,” said Terminus Group. “Once the light has filled the room, an AI housekeeper selects your breakfast, matches your outfit with the weather, and presents a full schedule of your day using Terminus Group’s smart transportation solution.”

AI City will have e-bikes and self-driving cars to cut down on traffic jams.

1. What is Cloud Valley according to Bjarke Ingels?

A．A smart city with all life in harmony.

B．A campus known for high technology.

C．A space intended for wildlife protection.

D．A zone with leading technology companies.

2. What’s the aim of BIG’s design for Cloud Valley?

A．To produce the largest digital display.	B．To host art and sports events.
C．To show its environmental objectives.	D．To create open-air courtyards.

3. Who are responsible for the housework in Cloud Valley?

A．Digital assistants.	B．The residents.
C．Terminus Group.	D．Hired workers.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title of the text?

A．Modern Life in Cloud Valley	B．An Oncoming AI-run City in China
C．Buildings Controlled by Software	D．The Development of AI in Chongqing

6 . Personalized medicine changes conventional medicine which typically offers blanket recommendations and offers treatments designed to help more people than they bam but that might not work for you. The approach recognizes that we each possess unique characteristics, and they have an out size impact on our health.

Around the world, researchers are creating precision tools unimaginable just a decade ago: superfast DNA sequencing(排序); tissue engineering, cell reprogramming, gene editing, and more. The science and technology soon will make it possible to predict your risk of cancer, heart disease, and countless other illnesses years before you get sick. The work also offers prospects for changing genes in removing some diseases.

Last spring, researchers at the National Cancer Institute reported the dramatic recovery of a woman with breast cancer, Judy Perkins. The team, led by Steven Rosenberg, an immune(免疫的) treatment pioneer, had sequenced her cancer cells’ DNA to analyze the sudden change. The team also removed a sampling of immune cells and tested them to see which ones recognized her cancer cells' genetic faults. The scientists reproduced the winning immune cells by the billions and put them into Perkins to attack her cancer cells. More than two y cars later. Perkins, a retired engineer from Florida, shows no signs of cancer.

Thirty years ago, scientists thought that it would be impossible to understand our genetic rules and sequence the 3.2 billion pairs of different elements in our DNA. “It was like you were talking fairytales,” Kurzrock said. “The conventional wisdom was that it would never happen. Never And then in 2003, never was over.”

It took the Human Gene Project 13 years, roughly one billion dollars, and scientists from six countries to sequence one gene complex. Today sequencing costs about a thousand dollars. The latest machines can produce the results in a day. The technology, combined with advanced cell analysis, clarifies the astonishing biochemical variations that make every human body unique.

1. What can we know about personalized medicine?

A．It has emerged a decade before.

B．It offers blanket recommendations.

C．It uses genetic information to help patients.

D．It administers treatment intended for most people.

2. Which best describes those precision tools?

A．Promising.

B．Highly risky.

C．Fruitless.

D．Strictly confidential.

3. What happened in the process of treating Judy Perkins' breast cancer?

A．Sequencing her immune cells.

B．Reprogramming her cancer cells

C．Analysis of her life style changes.

D．Identification of cancer-fighting cells.

4. What's the last paragraph mainly talking about concerning sequencing?

A．Its wide applications.	B．Its recent advances.
C．Its major disadvantages.	D．Its attractive prospects.

7 . The world produces around 359 million tons of plastics each year. Plastics are certainly a big problem, but they don’t necessarily have to be. There are many ways we could set plastics on a different lifecycle. One that I have been working on is turning plastics into a hardy, reliable and sustainable building material.

Most people believe that plastics recycling is severely limited: only a few types can be recycled at all. This is unsurprising. The proportion(比例)of plastics that are recycled is minimal. But all polymers(聚合物)are, technologically, recyclable. Some of them can be used again and again to produce the same goods. Some can technically be reprocessed into new materials for different applications.

The problem is that recycling much of this plastic waste is currently unprofitable. But the amount of these materials all over the world is large and keeps on growing. What if this plastic waste could be used to produce something useful to the society? Many universities and business people are attempting to do this. Most solutions target mixed plastic waste and suggest applications different from the original ones. For example, several groups have developed building materials made of plastic waste. Plastics are strong, durable, waterproof, lightweight and recyclable—all key properties for construction materials. So what if all of this plastic waste could be turned into building materials for low-income populations? Existing initiatives are promising, but not yet reproducible on an industrial scale.

I study plastic waste with the aim of finding interesting ways to remove it from the environment. From agricultural waste to concrete waste, mixed with recycled plastics, there are many ways to obtain materials to produce bricks and other useful elements for buildings. So perhaps plastics are not necessarily the problem. They can be part of a pathway towards a more sustainable way of living.

1. What’s people’s common belief about plastic recycling?

A．Almost all plastic waste can be reused.	B．The methods are quite limited.
C．Not many kinds of plastics are recyclable.	D．The amount is unbelievably large.

2. What can be learned from paragraph 3?

A．Plastic waste is on the decline globally.

B．Recycling plastics doesn’t make money now.

C．Plastic buildings have been largely constructed.

D．New applications of plastics haven’t been found.

3. Why can plastics make good building materials?

A．They can resist water and won’t last long.

B．They can be reproduced in large quantity.

C．They satisfy the needs of low-income people.

D．They meet most demands of building materials.

4. What’s the author’s attitude to plastic recycling?

A．Positive.	B．Anxious.
C．Doubtful.	D．Critical.

8 . I attend an Art School in Southern California for Musical Theatre and have always pursued artistic pursuits throughout my life. I have also had a lot of _________ experiences from working at food banks to _________ money to help patients suffering from blood cancer. All the things I mentioned above are what _________ me to be a more appreciative and better person.

The _________ that has been by far my favorite was the _________ I did last summer. I developed and carried out a Musical Theatre Summer Camp at a local community center that _________ low-income families. This camp allowed children, who _________ wouldn’t have an opportunity, to gain a basic _________ in singing, dancing, and acting while also allowing them to feel as though they were a _________ of something.

This camp completely impacted the way I __________ both the world and the profound impact people can have. The children came from all backgrounds, and we had some homeless children, undocumented children, and many children who had experienced __________ throughout their lives. I cannot fully __________ the happiness it brings me to be able to share a creative outlet (出路) for them. I __________ believe in the importance of art and I feel incredibly grateful to have been able to share that __________ with them.

Volunteering has reminded me how important it is to __________ to others and how lucky I have been to experience everything.

1.

A．reviewing

B．approving

C．volunteering

D．attempting

2.

A．raising

B．distributing

C．chasing

D．counting

3.

A．impressed

B．remembered

C．motivated

D．troubled

4.

A．experience

B．project

C．dream

D．schedule

5.

A．zone

B．work

C．line

D．secret

6.

A．chose

B．received

C．moved

D．served

7.

A．besides

B．otherwise

C．however

D．instead

8.

A．delay

B．comfort

C．joy

D．education

9.

A．part

B．center

C．reminder

D．burden

10.

A．cultivate

B．reason

C．view

D．conquer

11.

A．connection

B．touch

C．violence

D．witness

12.

A．copy

B．express

C．indicate

D．present

13.

A．casually

B．temporarily

C．formerly

D．truly

14.

A．trade

B．trick

C．skill

D．gift

15.

A．give back

B．give in

C．get down

D．get across

9 . Eating a traditional Mediterranean-type diet-rich in foods such as seafood, fruit, and nuts- -may help reduce the risk of dementia (痴呆) by almost a quarter, a new study has revealed.

Experts at Newcastle University found that individuals who ate a Mediterranean-like diet had up to 23% lower risk for dementia than those who did not. This research, published today in the journal BMC Medicine, is one of the biggest studies of its kind.

Scientists analyzed data from 60,298 individuals from the UK Biobank, including individuals from across the UK, who had completed a dietary assessment. The authors scored individuals based on how closely their diet matched the key features of a Mediterranean one. The participants were allowed for almost a decade, during which time there were 882 cases of dementia.

The authors considered each individual’s genetic risk for dementia by estimating what is known as their polygenic (多基因的) risk-a measure of all the different genes that   are related to the risk of dementia. They found that there were similar associations between sticking to Mediterranean diet and dementia risk in individuals with higher and lower genetic risk for this condition, which may indicate that even for those with a higher genetic risk, having a better diet could reduce the likelihood of developing the condition.

Dr Janice Ranson, joint lead author on the paper, said: “Dementia impacts the lives of millions of individuals throughout the world, and there are currently limited options for treating this condition. Our study shows a Mediterranean diet that has a high intake of healthy plant-based foods may be important for future strategies to reduce dementia risk. For example, the dementia prevention efforts could go beyond general healthy diet advice and focus on choosing specific foods and nutrients.”

The authors caution that their analysis is limited to individuals who self-reported their ethnic background as white, British or Irish, as genetic data was only available based on European countries, and that further research is needed in a range of populations to determine the potential benefit.

1. What did scientists do during the study?

A．They scored the Mediterranean diet.

B．They tracked the participants’ health.

C．They collected data from 60298 families.

D．They selected 882 potential dementia cases.

2. What can we infer about the Mediterranean diet from paragraph 4?

A．Its effect is closely related to the polygenic risk.

B．It increases one’s chance of developing dementia.

C．It can reduce dementia risk regardless of one’s genetic risk.

D．It can provide protection against various genetic diseases.

3. What are Dr Janice Ranson’s words mainly about?

A．Values of the study.	B．Features of the study.
C．Elements of a healthy diet.	D．Ways to deal with dementia.

4. What will further research most probably focus on?

A．Finding out more benefits of the Mediterranean diet.

B．Applying the findings to the treatment of dementia.

C．Involving participants of diverse races and nationalities.

D．Studying the rate of dementia within different age groups.

10 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Years ago, a documentary series titled Masters in the Forbidden City     1     (release) in China and soon became a hot topic, bringing the profession of cultural relic (文物) restoration into the public spotlight. Given China's long history and rich collections,     2     takes years of experience and a deep understanding of history to become a qualified restorer.     3     backstage heroes, many of them have devoted their lives to protecting cultural relics.

In the Hubei Provincial Museum, Fang Guorong, 62, and Fang Chen, 32, jointly lift a 12-kilogram bronze object,     4     attempt to restore a huge and ancient chime bell (编钟). They both work as relic restorers at the museum. The chime bell they are taking care of is the     5     (heavy) one ever preserved there.

Fang Guorong has been engaged in restoration work for over 40 years. He enjoys it,     6     (treasure) every touch of the bells. According to Fang Guorong, some chime bells were thought too damaged to be restored. But     7     (fortunate), digital technologies like 3D scanning have been used     8     (preserve) them. “That’s something the older generation couldn’t even dream of,” he says.

Fang Chen began working in the museum in 2014. He has acquired new technologies his elder workmates may find quite     9     (challenge). “The restoration work should also keep pace with advances in technology,” says Fang Chen. “This doesn’t mean overturning traditional methods. It’s about the     10     (combine) of old and new methods.”