1 . 假如你是李华，今年你开始了新的高中生活。请以“Hi, Senior High”为题写一篇文章， 回顾过去， 展望未来。内容如下：
1．回顾初中生活(收获、遗憾)；
2．高中生活及展望(现状，计划，期望)。
注意：词数不少于80词，可适当增加细节使行文连贯。
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3 . 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。

On November 15th, 2022, the world’s population reached 8 billion people, a milestone in human development. While it took the global population 12 years to grow from 7 to 8 billion, it     1     (take) approximately 15 years—until 2037—to reach 9 billion,     2     sign that the overall growth rate of the global population is slowing down.

    3     (current), China and India are the most populated countries in the world,     4     1. 4 billion people in each country. However,     5     (base) on UN projections, India will surpass

China for the first time in 2023. More than half of the predicted increase in the global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in eight countries. On November 15th, China Daily published United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s article,

    6     title was “Eight billion people, one humanity”.     7     he puts it, with our human family growing larger, our world is growing more divided, challenged by food insecurity, deepening inequalities, the climate crisis and an unequal COVID-19     8     (recover). He stresses that global gatherings in November— COP 27 and the G20—are chances     9     (bridge)divides,

Restore trust, and ensure that our 8-billion-strong world could yield enormous     10     (opportunity) for some of the poorest countries.

5 . THE TIME MACHINE

It was at ten o'clock today that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last check, and sat myself in the leather seat. I pushed the starting lever (操纵杆) on the main panel forwards an inch then immediately backwards again. Looking around, I saw my laboratory exactly as before. Had anything happened? I thought my mind had tricked me. Then I saw the clock. A moment before, it was a minute or so past ten; now it nearly half past three!

I drew a breath, gripped(紧握) the lever and pushed it forwards. The laboratory went hazy around me. My niece came in to fetch something, maybe her handkerchief, apparently without seeing me. It probably took her a minute, but to me she moved like a rocket! I pushed the lever further. Night came as if a lamp was being turned out, and in another moment came the day. Tomorrow night came, then skipped to day, again and again, faster and faster still.

It is hard to explain the strange and unpleasant feeling of time travelling. It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road. As my pace grew faster, the walls of the laboratory fell away, and I was left in the open air. The sun and moon looked as if they were being thrown across the sky, but soon there was division between night and day. Around me I saw trees growing like puffs of smoke; they grew, spread, and died in moments. I saw huge buildings rise up, then disappear like in a dream. The whole surface of the earth was being changed, melting and flowing before my eyes. I calculated that I was being pushed through time at hundreds of years a minute.

I had a strong urge to look at the random things that were being flashed before my eyes! I had thought about the risk of stopping the Time Machine many times. So long as I travelled at maximum speed, it didn't matter. But if I stopped and the same space was being occupied by something else, we would be forced together and explode like a bomb! Like an impatient fool, I pulled the lever backwards hard. With a sudden jolt, the Time Machine was flipped on its side, and I was thrown through the air.

I was stunned for a moment, and then heard the sound of thunder. I was sitting in the rain in some mud next to the machine. “A fine welcome,” I said, “for a man who has travelled thousands of years to be here!”

(Adapted from the novel The Time Machine written by H.G.Wells, a novelist famous for the science fiction)

1. How does the Time Traveller first know he has travelled through time?

A．He saw the clock move forward.

B．He noticed the tomorrow night came.

C．He spotted his niece moving like a rocket.

D．He was being driven fast on a winding road.

2. How does the Time Traveller feel when travelling through time?

A．Doubtful and depressed.	B．Safe and happy.
C．Strange and unpleasant.	D．Excited and joyful.

3. Why is the Time Traveller worried about stopping the machine?

A．Because he would be forced together with something else and explode like a bomb.

B．Because he was being pushed through time at hundreds of years a minute.

C．Because some random things would be flashed before his eyes.

D．Because the same space would be destroyed by something else.

4. Where does the Time Machine arrive when the man finally stops it?

A．On a winding road.	B．In some mud in the rain.
C．In the muddy leather seat.	D．Along the walls of the laboratory.

6 . 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。

What will your future life look like? Let’s have     1     look.

In 3000, medical technology will be     2    (good) than ever. When you get up in the morning and look into the mirror, your face will be beautiful and young-looking. Many people at your age could live to be 120, and your parents will just have an anti-aging (抗衰老的)     3    (treat). All of you will look the same age!

Besides, “smart clothes” will contain special particles (粒子),     4     will be much smaller than the cells in your body. They can     5    (design) to change your clothes’ color or pattern. When you say to your shirt, “Turn red”, it will change from blue     6     red.

There will also be a great change in your house. If you get into the kitchen, you     7    (find) a special food machine that will tell you what your body needs and help you eat     8    (healthy).

In 3000, cars will drive     9    (they). You can just tell your “smart car” where to go. On the way, it will be possible     10    (change) the color of cars at the flick of a switch.

Such “smart technology” will be all around you, and let’s look forward to it.

8 . It’s 6 A.M., and the alarm clock is ringing earlier than usual. It’s not a malfunction (故障): the smart clock scanned your schedule and adjusted because you’ve got that big presentation first thing in the morning. The electric car is ready to go, charged by the solar panels on your roof. When you get home later, there’s an unexpected package waiting. You open it to find cold medicine. Turns out, health sensors embedded (嵌入) in your bathroom detected signs of an upcoming illness and placed an order automatically.

That, at least, is the ideal design of the smart home that exists 10 years out. But a decade from now, we’ll dip into the Internet of Things (IoT) totally.

A range of technological developments will drive smart—home technology well beyond what’s available on store shelves today. Innovations in AI stand to change almost everything in our lives. You might already be using some kind of AI—powered voice—assistant device to get the latest news or weather forecast every morning. IoT company Crestron, for example, is working on software that follows a person’s habits, like which music they want to hear in the morning or which lights they want to be on at a certain time of day. Then, once it gets the hang of a user’s preferences, it automatically plays just the right playlists or makes the lights less bright before bedtime.

All this learning that the smart home of the future will be doing may raise privacy concerns. In 2016, hackers took over hundreds of thousands of secure IoT devices, then used them to send fake Internet traffic, the incident broke Internet connections for a moment throughout parts of North America and Europe. A bill put forth by Virginia Senator Mark Warner would push the government to set up minimum security requirements for smart devices used by federal agencies; such requirements could eventually become standard for the industry at large.

You’re more likely than not to end up in a connected home one day, whether you mean to or not. Ultimately, people will come to see smart—home technology as essential as electricity, refrigeration or air-conditioning. People will rely on it.

1. What is the purpose of paragraph 1?

A．To reveal people’s busy life in ten years.

B．To display pollution-free homes in ten years.

C．To show how people will cure illness in the future.

D．To describe how smart the home can be in the future.

2. What can AI do in the future?

A．Push your preferences towards green living.

B．Play your favorite songs with voice control.

C．Provide the latest news and weather automatically.

D．Make home devices function according to your habits.

3. What does the author want to tell us by the event in 2016?

A．The IoT devices were of low quality.

B．The government made a law because of it.

C．Security problems from smart devices were urgent.

D．Hackers were common in North America and Europe.

4. What does the author think about the smart home in the future?

A．It’s electrical and reliable.	B．It’s attractive and necessary.
C．It will not need much designing.	D．It will not be affected by evil hackers.

9 . Brain aneurysms (脑动脉瘤) affect about one in every 50 Americans and can lead to serious medical emergencies, including stroke, brain damage and death if they burst. Existing treatment options are limited and often invasive(扩散), and surgical outcomes can vary widely from person to person.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have become the first team to produce a living, bioprinted aneurysm outside of the human body, perform a medical procedure on it and observe it respond and heal as it would in an actual human brain.

“While there are a lot of promising treatment options, some still have a long way to go,” said Moya, the project’s principal investigator. One common treatment is “clipping”-attaching a metal clip to the base of the aneurysm to redirect blood flow away and keep it from bursting. The procedure is highly invasive, requiring surgeons to open up the skull and expose the brain. A more common and less invasive treatment is the metal coiling (缠绕) approach. The downside to “coiling” is that success is highly dependent on a variety of factors, including the geometry of the patient’s blood vessels, which differ from one person to the next, researchers said.

Animal models aren't necessarily the best way to try out these options, as they lack direct observation of treatment effects and have uncontrollable aneurysm geometries. Unlike animal models, LLNL’s platform allows scientists to directly measure the liquid.

To take some of the guesswork out of aneurysm treatments, Hynes, the original principal investigator, realized researchers would need a way to validate more predictive 3D models that take patient geometry into account by bioprinting with human cells.

By combining the 3D-printed platform with computational models, researchers said they've developed a potential tool for surgeons to pre-select the best coil types, and perform “testruns” of procedures before attempting them on the human patient “What’s exciting is that this platform copies the actual blood vessels and also is strong enough to handle a coiling procedure. This makes it ideal to be used as a training platform for surgeons.” Moya said.

In addition to a testbed for surgical training, researchers said the platform has potential for improving the understanding of basic biology and the post-surgery healing response. While early results are promising, the researchers cautioned there's a long way to go before the platform sees application in the clinical environment.

1. What is the living, bioprinted aneurysm?

A．It’s a set of surgical instrument.

B．It’s a tissue transplanted in human body.

C．It’s a training platform for surgeons.

D．It’s a treatment option for brain aneurysms.

2. What’s the disadvantage of the “coiling” treatment option?

A．The procedure is highly invasive.

B．It may lead to serious medical emergencies.

C．Surgical outcomes vary widely from person to person.

D．It completely depends on the geometry of the patient’s blood vessels.

3. What makes animal models imperfect to try out the treatment options?

A．It’s difficult to observe and gather data on them.

B．They are not strong enough to handle a coiling procedure.

C．Their aneurysm geometries are totally-different from human's.

D．The potential response to the treatment options are uncontrollable.

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．The previous experiments have been in vain.

B．The platform has improved the understanding of basic biology.

C．Brain aneurysms can be cured without any risk with the platform.

D．More needs to be done before applying the platform in the clinical environment.