1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why does Vivian call Roger?

A．To ask for help.

B．To express thanks.

C．To make an apology.

2. What is the problem with Vivian’s apartment?

A．It’s too expensive.

B．It has no furniture.

C．It’s not near school.

3. What is Roger going to do after class today?

A．Visit an apartment.

B．Go to meet Vivian.

C．Stay at the school.

2 . In the chaos of modern living, maintaining balance denting patterns within shifting schedules and various family favourites can seem like a huge challenge.     1     Below are some tips to help find an appropriate approach.

Embrace (拥抱) mindful eating

Mindfulness transform seating into a nurturing practice, encouraging a deep connection with how food affects your body and mood.    2     Eat slowly and avoid being disturbed by the surroundings. This attentiveness contributes to a high respect for your body’s needs, and recognizes your body’s hunger and satisfaction signals more accurately.

Have mealtime house rules

Consider establishing guidelines that encourage eating without distractions such as TVs, phones or other electronic devices. That helps everyone at the-table to fully engage with their food and with each other, promoting a more connected and present eating experience.     3    

Establish a flexible meal routine

Being flexible with mealtimes is important if you have busy schedules. Finding a common mealtime can be challenging.     4     If you’re hungry earlier, empower yourself to eat when you feel the need. There’s beauty inflexibility; you can still share quality time with loved ones by sitting together at the table when they eat, even if you’re not eating yourself.

Set boundaries on body talk

    5     Setting boundaries around body image comments is essential, as these can significantly impact eating patterns and self-perception. This approach helps reduce the negative influence such comments can have on eating habits and fosters a positive, body-neutral environment where personal worth isn’t tied to physical appearance.

In navigating (导航) the complexities of modern home life, let these strategies be your guide to developing a peaceful and satisfying relationship with eating in your family.

A．It’s crucial to honour your own hunger signals.

B．When you eat, take the time to really notice your food.

C．Yet, you can establish a peaceful relationship with food easily.

D．Family discussions should be about health and well-being, not appearance.

E．It’s about finding balance between personal nutrition needs and favorite foods.

F．Body image is a common topic to strengthen the family bond during home eating.

G．Such rules will enhance the enjoyment of meals and support healthier eating habits.

3 . 阅读下面10个句子，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A few days ago, I began reading a story,     1     young people in Beijing are getting or creating digital “companions” to ease their loneliness over a romance gone bad. The avatars are perfect “boyfriends” or “girlfriends”. They can hold a conversation, are “cute” and never lose     2     (they) temper.

For someone who just got out of a relationship, the benefits     3     (provide) by the digital relationship are comforting.  

In a lot of science fiction, visionary writers “explore” a world where cybernetic organisms, which is a fancy way of saying a robot, wed or become lovers to     4     human being. They see that as the future and the reality is     5     (probable) closer than we think. The future seems to be already here in Beijing.

In the science-fiction TV series The Orville, a series created by     6     (comedy) Seth MacFarlane partly based     7     the popular and long-running Star Trek, the ship’s doctor marries a robot/cyborg at the end of the     8     (three) season in the 10th episode finale.

The whole thing came off naturally. The groom’s family     9     (compose) entirely of a robot species called the Kaylon. They all showed up at the wedding.

It seems robots, AI or cyborgs will fundamentally change the way we grow crops, fight wars or even entertain ourselves.

The way science is going, AI and robots     10     (be) in every part of our daily lives within the next decade.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does the speaker’s father do?

A．A chef.

B．A waiter.

C．A restaurant owner.

2. Who is the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge open to?

A．Children.

B．Parents.

C．Grandparents.

3. How old may the speaker be?

A．Twelve years old.

B．Ten years old.

C．Eight years old.

4. What did the speaker do last Friday?

A．He visited the White House.

B．He took part in a cooking contest.

C．He gave a speech on healthy eating.

5 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What’s Alva’s attitude towards Colin’s writing the book?

A．Doubtful.

B．Uninterested.

C．Admirable.

2. What can we learn about Alva?

A．She dislikes taking pictures.

B．She has just moved to New York.

C．She has adapted to New York customs.

3. What does Colin want Alva to do?

A．Hide her right hand.

B．Look at a high building.

C．Adopt a proper pose.

4. When can the woman first read the book?

A．In August.

B．In September.

C．In October.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Why does Tony have to go to his parents?

A．To have a vacation.

B．To take them to the party.

C．To help them build a house.

2. What is the woman going to wear to the party?

A．Casual clothes.

B．Formal dress.

C．Work suit.

3. What will the woman bring?

A．Some soft drinks.

B．A bottle of wine.

C．A side dish

7 . The Symbolism of Chinese Foods

China is a country with a long history, and food has played an important role in the development of Chinese culture. Every year many traditional festivals and events are celebrated with special foods. Some of these foods have particular meanings, such as good luck, best wishes, unity and commemoration (纪念).

Chinese New Year

Spring Festival(Chinese New Year)is the most important traditional festival in China. So New Year foods usually symbolize good luck and best wishes.

·Year cake (niángāo) means “increasing prosperity (繁荣)” because the name sounds the same as “year high” or “yearly increase”.

·Dumplings mean “wealth”, due to their traditional gold / silver ingot (锭) shape.

Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is the first full moon night in the Chinese calendar year, and the full moon as well as the food symbolizes family reunion.

·Sweet round sticky rice balls in soup (tāngyuán) mean “togetherness and reunion”.

Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is an important celebration in China to commemorate Qu Yuan, a famous patriotic poet of China in ancient times.

·Glutinous rice dumplings (zòngzi) wrapped in bamboo leaves symbolize Qu Yuan commemoration.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is the second most important traditional Chinese festival. It is a time for family members and loved ones to get together to celebrate family reunion. Therefore, people celebrate it by preparing foods with family-reunion symbolic meanings.

·Mooncakes mean “family unity”, as they’re round, like the harvest moon.

·Pomeloes (yòuzi) mean “family unity” and “abundance”, as they’re round, too, and the Chinese sounds like the word for “to have”.

1. What makes dumplings symbolic?

A．The size.

B．The color.

C．The history.

D．The shape.

2. Which festival is celebrated to honor a poet according to the text?

A．Chinese New Year.	B．Lantern Festival.
C．Dragon Boat Festival.	D．Mid-Autumn Festival.

3. Which of the following is a traditional food for Mid-Autumn Festival?

A．Year cake.	B．Sweet round sticky rice balls in soup.
C．Glutinous rice dumplings.	D．Pomeloes.

8 . 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

Yangko, a rural Chinese folk dance with a history     1     (date) back thousands of years, originates from farming life in ancient times. The dance relates to sacrifices to the farmland god when people prayed for a good harvest. As time passed, the     2     (origin) dance developed, taking in various artistic forms and skills, including opera, acrobatics and martial arts, and eventually turned into the type of Yangko     3     is seen today.

    4     (preserve) this Chinese folk culture, it was included in the inaugural(首批的)items of national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. It is     5     (common) performed in northern China during festivals, especially for Chinese New Year and the Lantern Festival. Performances or competitions     6     (organize) in towns and villages to express people’s joy and their hope for a better life.

Yangko employs drumming, Suona, dancing and singing. Content is based     7     folk stories and legends. Costumes are richly-colored and opera-styled, enabling     8     (character) to be easily identified. During a performance, the actors will dance and sing, following lively rhythms. Highly. skilled and interesting acts such as stilt(高跷)walking     9     carrying a wedding sedan chair(花轿)are also included. As a part of traditional Chinese culture, Yangko     10     (concentrate) the group consciousness of the Chinese people, and has outstanding historical and cultural value.

9 . Artificial intelligence (AI) is showing promise in earthquake prediction, challenging the long-held belief that it is impossible. Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, have developed an AI algorithm (算法) that correctly predicted 70% of earthquakes a week in advance during a trial in China and provided accurate strength calculations for the predicted earthquakes.

The research team believes their method succeeded because they stuck with a relatively simple machine learning approach. The AI was provided with a set of statistical features based on the team’s knowledge of earthquake physics, and then instructed to train itself using a five-year database of earthquake recordings. Once trained, the AI provided its prediction by listening for signs of incoming earthquakes within the background rumblings (隆隆声) in the Earth.

This work is clearly a milestone in research for AI-driven earthquake prediction. “You don’t see earthquakes coming,” explains Alexandros Savvaidis, a senior research scientist who leads the Texas Seismological Network Program (TexNet). “It’s a matter of milliseconds, and the only thing you can control is how prepared you are. Even with the 70% accuracy, that’s a huge result and could help minimize economic and human losses and has the potential to remarkably improve earthquake preparation worldwide.”

While it is unknown whether the same approach will work at other locations, the researchers are confident that their AI algorithm could produce more accurate predictions if used in areas with reliable earthquake tracking networks. The next step is to test artificial intelligence in Texas, since UT’s Bureau TexNet has 300 earthquake stations and over six years worth of continuous records, making it an ideal location for these purposes.

Eventually, the authors hope to combine the system with physics-based models. This strategy could prove especially important where data is poor or lacking. “That may be a long way off, but many advances such as this one, taken together, are what moves science forward,” concludes Scott Tinker, the bureau’s director.

1. How does the AI predict earthquakes?

A．By identifying data from the satellites.

B．By analyzing background sounds in the Earth.

C．By modeling data based on earthquake recordings.

D．By monitoring changes in the Earth’s magnetic field.

2. What does Alexandros Savvaidis intend to show in paragraph3?

A．The ways to reduce losses in earthquakes.

B．The importance of preparing for earthquakes.

C．The significance of developing the AI prediction.

D．The limitation of AI algorithms in earthquake prediction.

3. What does the follow-up research focus on?

A．Conducting tests in different locations.

B．Applying the AI approach to other fields.

C．Building more earthquake stations in Texas.

D．Enlarging the database to train the calculation accuracy.

4. Which words can best describe the earthquake-predicting technology?

A．Stable but outdated.	B．Effective but costly.
C．Potential and economical.	D．Advanced and promising.

10 . Since childhood, London-based artist Josh Gluckstein has been fascinated by the incredible diversity of our planet’s wildlife and inspired to make sculptures of animals from found materials. He often uses abandoned or recycled materials like clothing from junk shops or wood from old furniture. An important aspect of his practice is concern for the environment. “I have traveled through Asia, Latin America and East Africa, and have been fortunate enough to have some incredible wildlife encounters,” he says. “However, on my travels, even in the most remote locations, I was shocked by the huge amounts of plastic waste.”

Mach of the garbage that washes up on shorelines around the world is due to an unregulated (未受监管的) system in which richer countries export waste to developing countries because it is often cheaper than developing better infrastructures (基础设施) to handle it. Many of the thousands of shipping containers exported each year are often dumped illegally.

“I remember going to the Galapagos Islands and visiting a beach famous for a large population of sea lions. It was indeed incredible to see them in the wild, but on every inch of sand not covered by sea lions, there were plastic bottles and cans. It was a heartbreaking sight. I knew I wanted to create artworks that didn’t create waste or harm our planet,” Gluckstein says.

Gluckstein hopes his works will raise people’s awareness about the importance of protecting endangered species. His new series called “Gold” focuses on illegally hunted animals by applying gold leaves to their bodies. He plans to donate some of the sales of his sculptures to the world Wide Fund for Nature.

1. What do Gluckstein’s sculptures focus on?

A．Fashion.

B．Animals.

C．Sports.

D．Travel.

2. What does the underlined word “dumped” in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Poured,

B．Protected.

C．Sold.

D．Used.

3. What does Gluckstein mainly want to say in paragraph 3?

A．Where he has toured.	B．How sad he was.
C．How he found sea lions.	D．Why he created eco-friendly sculptures.

4. What does Gluckstein expect of his works?

A．They can bring him financial benefits.

B．They can make him famous as an artist.

C．They can help protect endangered animals.

D．They can improve people’s ability to appreciate art.