1 . Eileen Gu ________（获得两枚金牌）at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and she said that it was ________（激情、努力、坚持和勇气）more than talent that ________her success（导致／通向成功）。（根据汉语提示完成句子）

2 . Europe is the perfect place for a holiday. Every corner of the continent is bursting with history, culture and sights. The countries are so very close to one another, and yet so completely different.

Sweden

Sweden is a brilliant destination for a campervan (露营车) holiday, with hundreds of well-appointed camping sites suitable for vehicles. Head north to Lapland in the Arctic Circle and you’ll find true wildernesses where you can truly get close to nature. Head here between June and mid-July and you’ll be able to take in the midnight sunshine. If you’re looking for great nightlife, head to Gothenburg, Stockholm or Malmo.

Germany

There are massive industrial cities, rolling plains, towering mountains, deep forests and long, sparkling rivers. It’s not just what’s to see that makes Germany so great, but the ease of seeing everything. All these wonderful locations are all linked by one of the world’s best road systems.

Scotland

Scotland has something for everyone: cities with rich nightlife, incredible scenery, wonderful lochs and medieval (中世纪的) castles. If you want to get away from it all, then the Highlands are one of the least populated areas in the whole of Europe. Hikers will love the Cairngorms – the largest national park in the UK.

Spain

Spain’s famous for its beach holidays, but it offers so much more than that. With a lovely climate, rich history, excellent architecture, delicious cuisine and friendly locals, Spain has long been a favoured destination for holiday.

1. What is the purpose of this text?

A．To explain why the attractions in Europe are world-famous.

B．To show the rich history and culture of the European countries.

C．To tell about the differences between the European countries.

D．To introduce some great European holiday destinations.

2. What can you enjoy only in Sweden?

A．Beautiful scenery.	B．Midnight sunshine.
C．Medieval castles.	D．Great nightlife.

3. For a lover of seaside holiday, which country is a good choice?

A．Sweden.

B．Germany.

C．Scotland.

D．Spain.

3 . Artificial intelligence is one of the most concentrated industries in the world, which influences education, criminal justice, hiring and welfare, But so far the industry has escapedregulation (管理), despite affecting the lives of billions of people, even when its products are potentially harmful.

The COVID-19 pandemic has sped this up. Many Al companies are now promoting emotion recognition tools (ERTs) for monitoring remote workers. These systems map the “micro-expressions”in people’s faces from their video cameras. Then they predict internal emotional states drawn from a list of supposedly universal categories: happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise and fear. However, there is scientific doubt whether emotional states are accurately detected at all. “It is not possible to confidently infer happiness from a smile, or sadness from a frown,” a 2019 review stated.

Resistance to this highly controversial (有争议的) technology is growing; the influential.

Brookings Institute suggested ERTs be banned completely from use by law. The European Union becomes the first to attempt a proposal to regulate AI, but the draft AI act has its problems. It would ban most “real-time” biometric ID (生物识别) systems — but fails to define what exactly real-time means.

Clearly, we need far stronger protections and controls that address such harmful effects on society. However, too many policymakers fall into the trap of “enchanted determinism”: the belief that AI systems are magical and superhuman — beyond what we can understand or regulate, yet decisive and reliable enough to make predictions about life-changing decisions. This effect drives a kind of techno-optimism that can directly endanger people’s lives. For example, a review in the British Medical Journal looked at 232 machine-learning algorithms (算法) for predicting outcomes for COVID-19 patients. It found that none of them were fit for clinical use. “I fear that they may have harmed patients,” said one of the authors.

Many countries have strict regulations and thorough testing when developing medicines and vaccines. The same should be true for AI systems, especially those having a direct impact on people’s lives.

1. What can be inferred from paragraph 2?

A．The COVTD-19 pandemic has sped up the regulation of AI.

B．The internal emotional states are only limited to six basic categories.

C．There is no reliable link between facial expressions and true feelings.

D．People’s micro-expressions accurately reveal their internal emotions.

2. Why does the author mention the problems of the draft AI act?

A．To show EU’s resistance to AI technology.

B．To show the difficulty in regulating AI.

C．To prove AI technology should be banned.

D．To prove the act is completely ineffective.

3. Which of the following is the effect of “enchanted determinism”？

A．It shakes people’s confidence in technology.

B．It enables people to correctly predict future.

C．It misleads policymakers in making decisions.

D．It helps predict outcomes for COVID-19 patients.

4. What is the best title of the article?

A．AI: Products in Demand

B．AI: Strict Rules in Place

C．AI: Tight Control in Need

D．AI: Technology in Danger

4 . Fleanor Love knows that weddings create a lot of leftover flowers. That means more opportunities for her to collect after-wedding bouquets (花束) and give them to her lonely hospital _______, many of whom don’t often have visitors, let alone expensive _______.

The flowers are still in good shape, and the patients are pleased to have them. “I was so _______ that I cried,” said patient Connie Melzer, who was recovering from a heart problem when Love walked into her room with a bouquet in early 2020.

Love worked at the Virginia Commonwealth University Hospital as a(n) _______ student. She wondered how she could help _______ the patients’ suffering besides learning how to treat them as a student doctor.

“One of the _______ of being a medical student is that it can be very difficult to _______ to the care team,” said Love. “You are there as a learner, who doesn’t have as much knowledge as doctors. But you want to _______ your patients. How can I at this stage in my training make a(n) _______ for them?”

In 2019, she started The Simple Sunflower in Richmond, and so far has ________ more than 760 bouquets to patients. She brought fellow students and other people into her project, and now has more than 200 ________ on the email list.

When Love began the project, she called businesses such as wedding venues (场馆) and florists and asked them what events were scheduled. She then reached out to brides and grooms to ask them if they had ________ for their flowers after the big day.

For each wedding, she organized a team of eight people who helped ________ the flowers when the party was over and then spent time carrying them to individual patients.

People beyond the VCU community have heard about Love’s project and become part of it. “Once the word got out, people around the city started ________ us,” Love said. She wanted to bring the project to more cities and maybe open branches at other medical schools.

“I feel ________ when I see the patients who receive our bouquets,” she said. “It reminds me why we do what we do.”

1.

A．patients

B．cleaners

C．doctors

D．nurses

2.

A．cards

B．fruits

C．flowers

D．cakes

3.

A．tired

B．moved

C．worried

D．bored

4.

A．art

B．law

C．engineering

D．medical

5.

A．change

B．accept

C．improve

D．reduce

6.

A．dreams

B．skills

C．challenges

D．exams

7.

A．listen

B．contribute

C．respond

D．adapt

8.

A．help

B．check

C．study

D．guide

9.

A．difference

B．choice

C．impression

D．decision

10.

A．divided

B．thrown

C．delivered

D．applied

11.

A．customers

B．volunteers

C．managers

D．teachers

12.

A．means

B．goals

C．efforts

D．plans

13.

A．pick up

B．hold up

C．make up

D．give up

14.

A．greeting

B．contacting

C．trusting

D．considering

15.

A．stressed

B．confident

C．relaxed

D．satisfied

5 . 从方框中选择恰当的单词填入句子中，注意使用其正确形式。

establish       pick out       breathe       award       strike       admire       opportunity       shelter be curious about       apart from       make preparations for       fight for       be regarded as

1. Yesterday we went to the park, where we ________ the fresh air and enjoyed ourselves.
2. The mid-exam is coming. All the students are ________ it.
3. I think they are ________ because they’re brave to put out fires and save people’s lives.
4. Beethoven ________ one of the most famous musicians in the world.
5. Children always like to ask their parents questions because they ________ everything around them.
6. In 1969, Tu Youyou ________ a team to find a cure for malaria.
7. Mo Yan ________ a Nobel Prize the Nobel Prize in literature in 2012, which made one of the Chinese people’s long-held dreams come true.
8. A terrible hurricane ________ the small town last week.
9. There will be more ________ for you to improve yourself by taking the job.
10. All of a sudden, it began to rain heavily and we hurried to seek ________.
11. ________ the cost, we need to think about how much time the job will take.
12. There were so many cars in the parking lot that I had difficulty in ________ mine.
13. Once we set a goal, we should try our best to ________ it.

6 . Working from home has been a long-held dream for many employees craving more flexible work arrangements and comfort. With the fantasy coming true because of the outbreak of COVID-19, however, quite a few people find it less romantic than expected. Amid the ongoing epidemic, a large number of Chinese companies have ordered employees to work from home, looking to control the spread of the virus as staff members return from the Spring Festival travel rush.

Allowing employees to work from home-even if they are not symptomatic-and enabling virtual meetings could help limit the spread of the virus and assuage employees’ fears about exposure.

But there’s another side to the coin. As millions of people started to work at home, people found video communication difficult. Many telecommuting platforms, including DingTalk, an all-in-one mobile workplace from Alibaba, went through temporary outages due to surging demand.

Fu Yangang, a product manager at a house trading company in Beijing, found he couldn’t receive any messages from colleagues during an online meeting at home on Tuesday, and neither could they. Similar problems arose when they switched to Zoom, a California-based video communication app which provides remote conferencing services.

Residences filled with distractions such as spouses, parents, kids or pets set up another obstacle for many employees working from home. Xia Baigi, who works for an Internet company in Beijing, was required to stay at home in Jilin Province until Feb.10, but has found what was an oft-wished for working style a hindrance to productivity. Her parents, who don’t have much to do, suddenly became concerned about her job and asked many questions. “I love my mom and dad, but their current behavior just adds stress and strain,” she said. “Sometimes I have to lock myself in my own room to avoid their enthusiasm.”

For people who are able to stay as productive as they would in an office environment, they came across a different problem： “surprisingly” longer working time at home. Working for an investment company in Shanghai, Zhang Fei felt he could never escape from his job working at home in Shandong Province, which makes time management a whole lot messier. “There is no longer a’ work’ and’ no work’ time. My work comes calling at all hours, which can keep me at a frenetic pace,” he said. With the return date drawing closer, he said, he never felt so excited about being back at the office.

1. Why many people can work from home in China?

A．Because many employees think it is a fantasy idea.

B．Because the employers think more highly of working from home than traditional working.

C．Because the COVID-19 occurred.

D．Because large number of Chinese companies want to avoid the Spring Festival travel rush.

2. What’s the meaning of the underlined word in Paragraph 2?

A．Increase.

B．Ease.

C．Give up.

D．Find.

3. Which of the following statement is right?

A．After Fu Yangang and his partners switched to Zoom, their problem was solved.

B．Xia Baiqi’s parents could give her more constructive advice.

C．Xia Baiqi locked herself in her own room to avoid distractions.

D．By saying “There is no longer a ‘work’ and ‘no work’ time.”, Zhang Fei meant he can work less time when at home.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Working from home has unexpected challenges

B．Working from home can save you a lot of trouble

C．How to avoid distractions when working from home

D．More flexible, less work time

7 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

World Pangolin (穿山甲) Day is on the     1     (three) Saturday of February each year. This year, it fell on Feb 18. It’s a day     2     (help) people learn more about pangolins.

According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), more than 1 million pangolins have been killed or sold in the last 10 years. The growing demand for their scales and meat is the main reason for their decline.     3     (luck), this situation is getting better. The Chinese government has banned buying and eating the animal. Breaking this law will be regarded as a crime.

8 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Some years ago, writing in my diary used to be a usual activity. I would return from school and spend half an hour     1     (record) the day’s events and feelings. I gained great satisfaction from seeing my experiences forever recorded on paper. Now, I still     2     (write) in my diary when I need to write down a special thought or feeling. I still love to record ideas and quotations that strike me in books, or observations     3    are particularly meaningful.

9 . 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。

When I was young, I didn’t have a brother or sister, so I was always alone.

One day, something unexpected     1     (change) me suddenly, which is the best memory that I will cherish     2    my heart forever. That day I got up and opened the window of my bedroom, but the weather outside was very cold, so I decided     3     (close) the window. Just at that moment, a blue bird flew in. I was very     4    (surprise). Then it hit the door and fell onto the ground. I went over to look at it     5     (immediate). That bird was young, whose wings were hurt. I thought it was the reason     6     it got into my house.

I decided to help the bird. At     7     very beginning, it was very afraid of me and made loud noise, always       8     (refuse) to eat and drink. However, it slowly accepted me and the wounds got better day by day. I was glad about its     9     (recover). A few days later, the bird fully recovered, and I decided to let it go. When it left my hand and flew away, it looked back at me, just like expressing its     10     (thank) to me.

10 . 阅读下面的短文和问题，根据短文内容，在相应题号后的横线上写下相关信息，完成对该问题的回答。

Rounding the corner into the classroom to pick up my daughter, I heard the teacher tell her, "You've done the most beautiful tree. Well done." A few days later, she pointed to another of my daughter's drawings and said, "Wow, you really are an artist!"

Both times, when I heard my daughter being praised, I felt at a loss. As a mother, how could I explain to the teacher that I would prefer it if she didn't praise my daughter?

Nowadays, we give a lot of praise to our children. Praise, self-confidence and performance at school, it is commonly believed, rise and fall together. But the present research shows something else—over the past decade, a number of studies on self-confidence have suggested that praising a child as "clever" may not help her at school. In fact, it might cause her to underperform. Often a child will react to praise by quitting—why make a new drawing if you have already made "the best"? Or a child may simply repeat the same work—why draw something new, or in a new way, if the old way always gets praise?

In a now famous 1998 study of children aged 10 and 11, psychologists Carol Dweck and Claudia Mueller asked 128 children to solve a series of math problems. After completing the first set of simple exercises, the researchers gave each child just one sentence of praise. Some were praised for their intelligence—"You did really well, you're so clever"; others for their hard work—"You did really well, you must have worked really hard." Then the researchers had the children try a more challenging set of problems. The results were eye-opening. The students who were praised for their effort showed a greater willingness to work out new methods. They said they failed because of a lack of (缺少) effort, not a lack of intelligence. The children who had been praised for their cleverness worried more about failure and tended to choose tasks that they had done before. All in all, the excitement created by being told "You're so clever" gave way to an increase in anxiety and a drop in self-confidence and performance. When asked by the researchers to write to the children in another school, remembering their experience, some of the "clever" children lied about their scores. In short, all it took to knock these youngsters' confidence, to make them so unhappy that they lied, was one sentence of praise.

1. How did the author feel when she heard her daughter being praised? (不多于 5 个单词)
2. What have studies on self-confidence suggested? (不多于 11 个单词)
3. According to the study, what followed the children's excitement when they were praised for cleverness? (不多于 11 个单词)
4. What might the author say if her daughter really did a great job? (单词数不限)