1 . One day, you might be ordering your favorite pizza from a robot.Researchers at a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are working on creating a pizza-making robot.

“Robots are basically preprogrammed to repeat the same actions over and over,” says David Held, a robot expert from Carnegie Mellon University, and one of the members of a pizza-making team．But making pizza has challenges.For instance, the flour (面粉) will become squishy when meeting water, with a shape that can change in many ways.Also, pizza-making requires many steps—such as rolling and cutting—and several tools, including a rolling, a knife and so on.In what order should the steps be done? Which tools should be picked, and when? “If you need to do a cooking task, there are several levels that you have to reason about,” Held says.Once people get the hang of it, “We don’t even need to think about exactly how we’re doing it- it sort of just happens.But robots can’t really “understand what to do on their own”.

To start, the team used a computer to consider how a robot could lift, fatten, gather, move and cut dough (生面团).The method has two levels of robotic reasoning: one that thinks how it should approach the overall task, and the other that thinks how it should move its “hands” to perform each action．The result was better than with the usual programming techniques.“We got a little bit closer to the right shape than the former methods,” Held says．“‘But there’s still a lot of room for improvement.”

For now, people will continue to make pizza the old-fashioned way: with their own hands.Sill, a pizza-making robot is a good goal.And if a robot could deal with dough, it could also work with other objects that can change shapes.“You can imagine robots helping in hospitals, or robots that clean up toys in day cares,” Held says.“The general goal is to eventually have robots that can help with whatever the task may be.”

1. What does the underlined word “squishy” in paragraph 2 mean?

A．Soft.

B．Dirty.

C．Plain.

D．Precious.

2. What is a challenge for pizza-making robots?

A．Separating flour from water.

B．Doing all the steps in order.

C．Using several tools at once.

D．Repeating the same actions.

3. What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A．Methods of moving a pizza.

B．Problems with pizza making.

C．Improvements to the pizza robot.

D．Suggestions on how to make pizza.

4. What does Held say about the development of robots in the future?

A．They will help humans in different fields.

B．They will replace humans to do all the work.

C．They will do better than humans in day cares.

D．They will do whatever task as well as humans.

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入括号内单词的正确形式。

I still remember last winter, when I     1     (wake) up in the morning, it     2     (stop) snowing. Looking outside of the window, the shiny white snow on our lawn     3     (clean) by my father. I closed the book that I     4     (borrow) from our local library and went downstairs for breakfast. Then my little brother came to tell me that he     5     (finish) all his homework and he     6     (have) a very nice dream the night before. During the breakfast, one of my best friends came to visit my family. She     7     (go) to Australia last year. Before that she     8     (prepare) for the examination of University of Sydney for half a year. During her study, she     9     (learn) the culture and     10     (profession) knowledge in her field.

3 . 随着全球数字化，人工智能产品已悄然融入我们的生活。假如你是李华，近期你班英语课前一分钟汇报的主题是“AI与我们”，请你写一篇汇报稿，主要内容包括：
1.简要介绍AI(应用、影响等)；
2.你认为未来人们该如何与AI共存。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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Thanks for your listening!

4 . 假定你是生活在2120年的李华，请给现在的你写一封信介绍一下你居住的房子及其优点。
注意：词数80左右。
参考词汇：eco-friendly环保的
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5 . 语法填空

Good morning! Today I     1     (speak) to you about drones, also known as UAVs.     2     (fly) around on their own, drones have already been used for photography, scientific research and military operations. They will come into     3     (wide) use in various fields in the near future.     4     (deliver) drones now are mainly used for military action and disaster relief. It can be predicted that before long many people     5     (use) drones to deliver daily supplies like food and drink. Some companies are also developing passenger drones,     6     carry people in crowded cities. We can assume that with     7     (improve) technology in passenger drones, we     8     (enter) the age of personal flying vehicles. There can be no denying     9     the technology will have a huge impact     10     everyday life.

6 . 人工智能时代已悄然来临，科技的进步给人们的生活带来了许多的变化。假如你是李华，将参加2023年广州科技活动周的英语演讲比赛活动。请你按以下要求完成一篇演讲稿。内容包括：
1. 描述或畅想未来人工智能的发展状况；
2. 你对这些变化的看法。
Ladies and gentlemen,
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7 . We asked Professor John Williams, a futurologist, for his expert predictions on life in the next few decades.

“Unfortunately, it looks quite likely that the climate may ________significantly (显著地), with hotter summers, colder winters and more flooding. At the same time, fuel for heating or air conditioning will probably become much more expensive. For these reasons, our houses will certainly have to become much better ________. People are already building so-called ‘passive houses’, which have little or no central heating at all, ________ the body heat of the people who live there.

“Homes probably won’t be as big, and so we will need more adaptable (可改变的) furniture, such as sofa beds, and when we are not ________ our furniture we will be able to fold it away into wall cabinets (壁橱). Houses could have moveable walls so that the same space can be ________ in different ways.”

“New technology will make us more self-sufficient (自给自足的). Kitchens may have fish tanks which, as well as providing fish to eat, also ________ fresh vegetables. The plants will ________ oxygen for the fish. These tanks will be powered by household waste and create ________, which can then be used to run the family car—________ we might not all have cars!”

“Water will be more expensive and the home of the future will probably be designed to use much ________ water. Washing machines and dishwashers might use sound waves to shake ________ off. We may even take showers using sound waves. What water we do use will be recycled and used again round the house and private swimming pools will become a thing of the ________.”

“We will also ______ ) have more robots in our houses, though they won’t look like the ones in films. There will probably be small robots ________ to clean the fridge or open the curtains. ________ fridges will tell us when food is about to go out of date and even suggest recipes, and we will be able to communicate with our homes by mobile phone wherever we are.”

1.

A．change

B．improve

C．respond

D．cool

2.

A．prepared

B．placed

C．qualified

D．equipped

3.

A．dealing with

B．relying on

C．focusing on

D．giving out

4.

A．using

B．moving

C．cleaning

D．selling

5.

A．demanded

B．arranged

C．measured

D．enlarged

6.

A．produce

B．wash

C．store

D．cook

7.

A．find

B．save

C．provide

D．test

8.

A．spaces

B．energy

C．systems

D．material

9.

A．as

B．if

C．unless

D．though

10.

A．more

B．warmer

C．less

D．slower

11.

A．dirt

B．water

C．leaves

D．hair

12.

A．future

B．past

C．life

D．imagination

13.

A．regularly

B．suddenly

C．nearly

D．certainly

14.

A．designed

B．discovered

C．repaired

D．collected

15.

A．Old

B．Additional

C．Common

D．Clever

8 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Take a moment     1     (imagine) yourself in ten years. You might have a few more grey hairs and wrinkles, and hope to change your material circumstances, too. But does the person you imagine feel very close to the person you are today.

Some people have a vivid sense of future self, which feels     2     (extreme) close to their current identity. These people tend to be more responsible for their money     3     they are keen to act in a way     4     will make life easier in the years ahead than present. Many other people see their future self as a separate person that has little     5     (relevant) to their present identity and,     6     consequence, they are far less worried about the long-term consequences of their actions.

You could almost think about your future self as a relationship that should     7     (pay) great efforts to develop. Thinking more about whom we will be in the future has a profound effect on our health, happiness and     8     (finance) security. You might consider a simple imaginative exercise—writing     9     letter from the future. This encourages people to feel a greater sense of link with their future self, thus     10     (prepare) for positive behavioral change.

9 . 假设你是明启中学高三学生李明，暑假在一份英语电影杂志上看到如下信息：

Have you ever wanted to be Spiderman or Harry Potter? Imagine you could live the life of any film character for one day. We would like our readers to write an article telling us: ·Which character from a film you would like to be; ·Why you would like to be this character; ·What your day as your character would be like.

你对此话题很感兴趣。请根据杂志上的要求写一篇文章。（字数100-120）
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10 . 根据下列六幅图所反映的内容，结合写作提示，以“Changes In Our Life”为题写一篇短文。

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