1 . 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。

The Internet has clearly affected all     1     (level) of education by providing endless possibilities for learning. I believe the future of education is a networked future. People can use the Internet to create and share knowledge and develop new ways of teaching and learning that excite students’ imagination at any time, anywhere,     2     (use) any device. By connecting and empowering students and educators, we can speed up economic growth and enhance (增强) the well-being of society throughout the world. We should work together, over a network,     3     (build) a global learning society.

The Internet is an inexhaustible (无穷尽的) source of information. What’s     4     (much), the Internet has enabled users to move away from their former passive role as recipients (接受者) of messages     5     (give) by traditional media     6     an active role, choosing what information to receive, how, and when. The information recipient even decides whether     7     not they want to stay informed.

Today, you can use the Internet to access libraries, art galleries, news archives, and other information sources from anywhere in the world: I believe this is a key advantage in the education field. The web is a(n)     8     (amaze) resource for enhancing the process of building knowledge.

Besides its communicative purposes, the Internet     9     (become) an important tool for exchanging knowledge and education since it entered our lives; it is not just an information source, but a channel (渠道) for connecting other people and groups     10     are working on related research topics.

2 . 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。

In modern age     1     the Internet becomes an irreplaceable part of our daily life, people spend too much time on phones. We     2     (engage) in reading new messages, answering emails, as well as     3     (scroll) through social apps all the time, even when having a shower.

It seems that the Internet brings people closer to each other.     4    , it brings more depression and     5     (lonely) on people. On the one hand, social networking online has dominated most of our spare time, causing us     6     (delay) finishing the normal tasks and jobs. Day after day, we will experience     7     strong sense of dissatisfaction and depression from work. On the other hand, in a real face-to-face communication, we are often interrupted by the never-ending flow of updates in our phones, thus making others uncomfortable. It is not strange that we are bending over the phone, with our eyes     8     (fix) on the screen.

    9     (consequent), it is high time that we     10     (lift) our heads before we are too addicted to phones.

3 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.

OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Successor GPT-4

OpenAI has released GPT-4, the latest version of its hugely popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.

The new model can respond to images by providing recipe suggestions from photos of ingredients as well as writing captions and descriptions. It can also process up to 25,000 words, about eight times as many as ChatGPT. Millions of people have used ChatGPT since it     1     (launch) in November 2022. Popular requests for it include writing songs, poems, marketing copy, computer code, and helping with homework,     2     teachers say students shouldn’t use it. ChatGPT answers questions     3     (employ) natural human-like language, and it can also imitate other writing styles such as songwriters and authors, using the Internet as its knowledge database.

There are concerns that it could one day take over many jobs currently     4     (do) by humans. OpenAI said it     5     (spend) six months on safety features for GPT-4, and on human feedback. However, it warned that it     6     still be subject to sharing disinformation.

GPT-4 will initially be available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers,     7     pay $20 per month for easy access to the service. It’s already powering Microsoft’s Bing search engine platform. The tech giant has invested $10b    8     OpenAI.

GPT-4 has “    9     (advanced) reasoning skills” than ChatGPT, OpenAI said. The model can, for example, find available meeting times for three schedules.

OpenAI also announced new partnerships with language learning app Duolingo and Be My Eyes, an application for the visually impaired,     10     (create) AI Chatbots which can assist their users using natural language.

However, like its predecessors (被替代的事物), OpenAI has warned that GPT-4 is still not fully reliable and it may invent facts or make reasoning errors.

4 . 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。

Avatars are digital images     1     represent Internet users. Very few people knew avatars     2     (have)a wide variety of forms and uses in the future when the first simple 2D avatars appeared in     3     1980s. By the late 1990s, people had used avatars in web chats. And nowadays, people can choose an avatar     4     a selection of ready-made images.

Avatars let you express     5     (you)and give you lots of room for     6     (creative). But the use of avatars has also caused a few     7     (concern). Some users worry that if they spend too much time in virtual worlds, they will be afraid of     8     (meet)people in the real world. Avatars can also be used to cheat others online.     9     , many people see avatars in a more positive light. They hope that their avatars will act like a real person and travel around     10     (big), more exciting virtual worlds in the future.

5 . 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。

Don’t brag(炫耀), but be proud of what you have done. These two pieces of advice     1     (be) tough to balance before Facebook existed. Even today’s share-it-all social media haven’t made     2     any easier. We are     3     (able) to draw a line between a humble bragging and a straight-up bragging. But we certainly know that oversharing doesn’t do your friendship any favors.

Social media like Facebook bring us     4     (convenient). Meanwhile, they can put us     5     danger of oversharing. Once upon a time, only your family and close friends would be there     6     (see) you eagerly open presents on Christmas morning. Now the photo     7     you take on your iPhone will likely become a touch-up Instagram in about 15 seconds. Maybe you just post it subconsciously. But your sharing behavior could     8     (easy) be considered annoying or even narcissistic(自恋的).

To post or not to post? Maybe we should all be asking     9     (we) the question before hitting the share button. As our personal fame grows alongside our social media presences, so     10     (do) the number of people we could potentially(潜在地) impress or bother.

6 . 语法填空

Recent literature has put the spotlight on how technology and social media are shaping the next generation, and the consensus(共识)seems to be that it’s a sharp double-edged sword. New research published in Computers in Human Behavior is no exception.The study,led by faculty at Wellesley Centers for Women, found that     1     (join)social media specifically, Snapchat and Instagram before age 11 was significantly linked to more “problematic digital behaviors”     2     (compare) to those who joined the platforms when they were older.

The team surveyed over 750 middle schoolers in the Northeast United States, and found that those who joined these platforms at or below age 10 had more internet buddies that parents would disapprove of, and visited more social websites that     3     (frown) upon.They also showed more “unsympathetic online behaviors” and were more likely to become victims of online bullying or harassment. Altogether, it was a jumble of (一堆)problematic digital moods. Of course,that might not be news to social media giant Facebook. Some recent leaks in the Wall Street Journal revealed how the platform was aware for some time     4     it was “toxic” for teen girls, and also detailed its ambitions to lure teens and pre-teens with targeted kid-specific products.     5     almost all social media, including Twitter and TikTok, Facebook’s rules require users to be at least 13 years old to join. However, people     6     sign up self-report their own dates of birth, so it's hardly an effective firewall, and by commonsense, it's nearly a given that packs of children are roaming(漫游)the social media universe. In fact, “one-third of our sample had already started using social media at age 11 or 12 and another one-third had begun at age 10 or younger,” study author Linda Charmaraman said in a statement.     7     that doesn't mean it’s a lost cause. The study's findings also suggest parents can combat the harmful impacts by limiting how often their kids check social media, or restricting phone usage. Participants who reported such parental controls showed     8     (lessen) negative effects.

And it's not all bad: According to the research, those who joined social media before age 11also showed     9     (great) civic engagement within the online community--such as posting supportive content or fostering events and activism for social issues. Also,regardless of when they joined social media, early adolescents displayed more positive digital behaviors overall than negative ones.

As the first children raised in the social-media era grow into their 20s and 30s,the effects of the internet revolution will likely become more profound, and we can expect that the need     10     (understand) how tech shapes kids in their most impressionable years will only become more urgent.