1 . 用词组的正确形式填空.

let out a scream ，jump to one’s feet，take charge of ，with a broad smile，proceed with

1. I was going to sleep when my brother_________to ask for help.
2. You are the manager of this project and should_________ it.
3. Although Beethoven became deaf，he never gave up and_________the composition until his death in 1827.
4. When Mozart’s music was performed in America，the audience_________, clapping and cheering.
5. “I got the driving license.” Mary said _________.

2 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填全。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

More than twenty-five years ago, Philadelphia started a program     1    (stop) graffiti on public buildings. Instead of illegally “tagging” buildings, graffiti artists     2    (give) the chance to make murals (壁画) on building walls in their     3    (community). Now, more than 3, 000 murals have been created through the program, which has taken off in neighborhoods across the city. Since 2001, the program has homeless worked with young people who are in detention centers (临时拘留所) or     4    (home) shelters. The program has also helped teach high school students how to make murals and provided after-school and summer arts education activities.

3 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填全。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

I met Miss Garcia about 45 years ago when she was my elder sister’s kindergarten teacher. I remember looking into her classroom     1    (wish) I were her student. Miss Garcia created a safe place    2     we could be whatever we wanted to be in that moment. My parents comforted me I could start school when I was 4 years old. Though, when I turned 4 in the spring, I couldn’t understand    3     I had to wait until September.

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据题目要求用英文回答问题。请在答题卡指定区域作答。

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” We all know that healthy habits can help us build a strong body, but how can we live a happy life? Over the past two decades, scientists have identified many techniques to raise our happiness, but these methods cannot work magic. “Things like poverty or injury are obviously going to affect your well-being,” says Laurie Santos, at Yale University. “But for many of us, our happiness is much more under our control than we think.” Her free course, The Science of Well-being, explores evidence-based ways to increase happiness.

For a taste of what the course involves, consider our tendency to compare ourselves negatively with the people around us. By recognizing when those thoughts have started to arise, you can consciously shift the reference point to something more neutral(中立的).With this kind of thinking, you may start to feel more content.

The use of gratitude journals, where you regularly count your blessing, work on a similar basis. We have a tendency for “hedonic adaptation”, essentially getting used to the good things in our life over time, and taking them for granted, so they no longer bring us the same interest—we should delay that process.

Other tips like small acts of kindness may surprise you with rewarding experience. However, those approaches to happier life should be used carefully. There is now some evidence that pursuit of happiness can have the opposite effect if it becomes time-consuming. Keeping a gratitude journal appears to be effective if it is used once a week. It seems that the technique may become a burden if it is practiced too regularly.

There seems little doubt that we can learn to be happier, but we should recognize that the path to a better life is with ups and downs. You cannot remove every negative feeling, but with some science-backed strategies, you can shift the balance so as to experience more positive feeling than negative ones.

1. How can we deal with the tendency to compare ourselves negatively with those around us?
________________________________________________________________________
2. What does “hedonic adaptation” mean?
________________________________________________________________________
3. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
As approaches to happier life small acts of kindness can effectively improve our well-being, we should use them as much as possible.
________________________________________________________________________
4. In addition to the methods mentioned in the passage, what other method(s) can you take to increase happiness? (In about 40 words)
________________________________________________________________________

5 . Children love playing outdoors, They usually get muddy, with no regard for the colour of their clothing. “Don’t get dirty!” was once a constant family warning, as parents watched their children ruin their best clothes. They were happy running through farmer’s fields or climbing trees.     1    .

According to the experts, parents don’t have to concern too much about it. Recent research shows that the dirt outside can develop resistance to a range of illnesses. Certain natural materials, such as mud, contain surprisingly powerful microorganisms(微生物群) whose positive impact on children’s health we are only beginning to fully understand     2    .

Many of the psychological benefits of outdoor play are established as well. Our brains evolved in beautiful landscapes, and the way we perceive the world is particularly suited to wild outdoor spaces     3     It helps refresh the brain and even reduce depression and anxiety, One study found that children with ADHD(注意力缺陷多动症)were better able to concentrate following a 20-minute walk in the park. Beijing close to grass and trees seemed to have a beneficial effect on their minds.

    4     It helps children develop the way their senses and movement interact, which helps them gradually understand the external environment and the internal connections of things in different ways. If children play with others, they can learn how to communicate with others and develop effective strategies to promote socialization.

Today, with the attraction of video games and social media, contact with nature is rarer than in the past. More and more parents begin to recognize the importance of outdoor play.     5     They believe that not only does it make children emotionally happy but it also has a powerful effect on their wellbeing.

A．For many, there is simply no opportunity to get muddy.

B．Outdoor play cab also offer valuable learning experiences.

C．This means that natural scenes provide the perfect level of stimulation.

D．They may secretly wish their children had the chance to pick up a bit of dirt.

E．They recommend using nature as an accessible way of interacting with others.

F．It was obvious that children’s whites would turn brown before the day was over.

G．Outdoor play does better to children’s physical growth, compared with getting muddy.

6 . The artificial-intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has shaken educators since its November release. New York City public schools have banned it from their networks and school devices. There is, perhaps surprisingly, one subject area that doesn’t seem threatened, It turns out ChatGPT is quite bad at maths.

“I’m not hearing maths instructors express concern about ChatGPT,” said Paul von Hippel, a professor at the University of Texas who studies data science and statistics. “I’m not sure it’s useful for maths at all, which feels strange because maths was the first-use case for the artificial-intelligence devices.”

ChatGPT’s struggle with maths is inherent in this type of AI, known as a large language model. It scans a large amount of text from across the web and develops a model that might be extremely effective for writing grammatically correct responses to essay requirement, but not for solving a maths problem.

In an email, I asked Debarghya Das, a search-engine engineer, why ChatGPT gets some simple questions right but others completely wrong. “Maybe the right analogy (类比) is if you ask a room of people, who have no idea what maths is but have read many hieroglyphics (象形文字), ‘What comes after 2+2,’ they might say, ‘Usually, we see a 4,’ That’s what ChatGPT is doing.” But, he adds, “Maths isn’t just a series of hieroglyphics. It’s the process of calculating.”

It isn’t great for pretending you know it through a maths class because you only recognize the mistakes if you know the maths. Another reason that maths instructors are less anxious about this innovation is that they have been here before. The field was upended for the first time decades ago with the general availability of computers and calculators.

“Maths has had the biggest revolution based on machinery of any mainstream subject,” said Conrad Wolfram, the strategic director of Wolfram Research. “In the real world, since computers came along, have maths, science and engineering gotten conceptually simpler? No, completely the opposite. We’re asking harder and harder questions, going up a level.”

Eventually, AI will probably get to the point where its maths answers are not only confident but correct. A pure large language model might not be up for the job, but the technology will improve. In general, however, AI, like computers, will likely ultimately be most useful for those who already know a field well. They know the questions to ask, how to identify the shortcomings and what to do with the answer. A tool, in other words, is for those who know the most maths, not the least.

1. What does the underlined word “inherent” in Paragraph 3 most probably mean?

A．Stable.

B．Practical.

C．Limited.

D．Natural.

2. What can we know from Debarghya’s reply?

A．Calculating requires some knowledge of hieroglyphics.

B．ChatGPT is good at solving mathematical questions by analogy.

C．Reading hieroglyphics prevents ChatGPT solving maths questions.

D．ChatGPT’s response is based on language models instead of calculations.

3. What can be inferred from maths instructors’ calmness about ChatGPT?

A．ChatGPT is useful to identify maths mistakes.

B．Technical revolution made maths easier to understand.

C．New technology will end up pushing the boundaries of maths.

D．ChatGPT has been banned from networks and school devices.

4. As for AI, which would the author probably agree with?

A．It will play the largest role for professionals in a field.

B．It will become confident to solve all the maths problems.

C．It will turn the maths field over again just like computers.

D．It will take the jobs from humans as the technology improves.

7 . Growing up, Chelsea Wood dreamed of becoming a sea biologist and studying large, exciting animals like sharks. Instead, she later found herself looking through a microscope at the organs of a snail(蜗牛) and saw thousands of little white sausage-shaped parasites(寄生虫). Through the microscope, each parasite had two dark eyespots, which made them surprisingly attractive. “I couldn’t believe that I’d been looking at snails for as long as I had and missing all the cool stuff happening inside them,” says Wood, now a parasitologist at University of Washington.

Nearly half of all known animals on Earth are parasites. According to one study, a tenth of them may already be certain to extinction due to climate change, loss of their hosts, and intentional attempts of wiping them out. But now it seems that few people care.

By definition, parasites live in or on a host and take something from that host. But not all parasites cause harm, and only a small percentage affect their hosts. In fact, parasites play essential roles in ecosystems, keeping some populations in check while helping to feed others. Without parasites keeping them in check, populations of some animals would explode. Many parasites move into their next host by controlling the host they’re in, which drive that host into an animal’s mouth so that the animal can be fed.

Even human health wouldn’t entirely benefit from wiping out parasites. The human immune system(免疫系统) evolved with a group of parasites, and when we killed them off, our immune systems began attacking ourselves. Some people with Crohn’s disease have even purposely infected themselves with intestinal(肠道的) parasites live deserves our attention. If you get to understand them, you may find the bravery and attraction of parasites. They’ve evolved clever means of survival, from becoming a fish’s tongue to controlling the mind of cockroach(蟑螂).

However, scientists aren’t eager to save all the parasites. The guinea worm, for instance, gets a hard pass from even the most stubborn conservationists. It grows to adulthood inside a person’s leg, causing harm to one’s health. Ultimately, the goal of promoting parasite conservation isn’t to make everyone fall in love with them. Instead, it’s to call a relaxation in our war against all of them, because there’s still so much we don’t understand about their value to ecosystems and maybe even to people.

1. What does the author indicate by referring to Chelsea Wood’s story?

A．All parasitologists initially intended to study parasites.

B．Parasites are easily ignored compared with large animals.

C．Animals like sharks have more research value than parasites.

D．Scientists study parasites because of their attractive appearance.

2. The author uses the example underlined in paragraph 4 to __________.

A．introduce an approach	B．draw a comparison
C．present an assumption	D．illustrate an argument

3. What can we infer from the passage?

A．Parasites can smartly survive without their hosts.

B．Conservationists believe all parasites should be protected.

C．Some parasites are important for the balance of our ecosystem.

D．Parasites can change their hosts by directly moving onto other animals.

4. Which would be the best title for the passage?

A．Why are parasites Dying Out?

B．Why Should We Spare Parasites?

C．How Do Parasites Affect Ecosystems?

D．How Can We Create a World Without Parasites?

8 . Public speaking can be stressful, but sufficient preparation can reduce the stress of speaking in front of people. Here are a few steps to help you make an effective presentation.

Prepare

Select and research your topic carefully. Wide reading will help you gather enough material and focus your research at the preparation stage.

Develop a rough outline of what you might include-this can come from any key points your lecture has told you to include.

Organize your research into your outline. Keep the time limit in mind, and make any cuts of unnecessary or irrelevant information.

Write a draft of your speech. It is especially useful if you are using vocabulary that you might be finding difficult to remember.

Summarise your written speech into brief notes. These will eventually become your numbered note cards.

Prepare any visual that you are going to use to support your presentation. Remember visual aids should be simple and effective in supporting whatever you are saying.

Practise

Know your stuff-confidence comes with knowledge of content, If you know what you are talking about, then you won’t feel nervous about what you are going to say.

Practice presenting your speech in front of a mirror, and if you have enough courage, ask your trusted friends to watch you. The more you practice, the more confident you will be.

Ask for constructive advice. Ask your friends for advice about your gestures, speed of delivery, and even the clarity of your message.

Present

Get to the presentation early and meet your audience as they walk in. This might be a good way to calm your nerves, as you know who are in the room.

Practice standing at the front to get your feel for the room and space before you begin. Also, make sure any technology that you are using in the presentation is working.

Relax-if you are fully prepared, you will make it!

1. What can be included in the outline of your speech?

A．The reason you choose the topic.

B．The key points required to talk about.

C．The words you find hard to remember.

D．The list of material you read on the topic.

2. How can you reduce nervousness in a presentation?

A．Know your speech content well.

B．Arrive at the presentation on time.

C．Take all the advice from your friends

D．Use no technology in case it goes wrong.

3. To make an effective speech, you need to__________.

A．write down every detail on the numbered note cards

B．present as much information as possible to convey your ideas

C．read extensively to collect sufficient material related to your topic

D．use vivid and complex visual aids to draw the attention of audience

9 . 阅读下面句子，根据句意，从方框中选择恰当的词或词组并用其正确形式填空。

Have an impact on                      reliable               submit                    reveal                 be responsible for Make up one’s mind                 barrier                 figure out            end up               competitive

1. You need a degree to be ________ in today’s job market.
2. We need more ________ information before we can take action.
3. The mountains acted as a natural ________ to the spread of the disease.
4. The movie we wanted to see was sold out so we ________ seeing a different one.
5. If you ________ something, it is your duty to deal with it and make decisions relating to it.
6. Those interested in the position should ________ their applications to the Student Union.
7. A survey of the British diet ________ that a growing number of people are overweight.
8. We had a very productive meeting because I felt we ________ a lot of problems.
9. Technological innovation ________ the country’s economy quite considerably.
10. Summer vacation is coming, but I can’t ________ where to take my vacation.

10 . 假如你是八一学校高二年级的李华，你们英语学科刚刚结束了第一单元“人际关系”的学习。针对单元学习内容，年级将举办体现人际关系的英语连环漫画大赛，并邀请外教Jim做评委，请你给他写一封信。
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