1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the woman ask for?

A．Some empty seats.

B．A ride home.

C．A free lunch.

2. What do we know about the man?

A．He is a cook.

B．He lives nearby.

C．He has lots of work to do.

3. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A．On a train.

B．In an office.

C．In a restaurant.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where is Jennifer studying?

A．In Rome.

B．In Paris.

C．In New York.

2. Who advises holding a welcome party?

A．Jennifer.

B．Leo.

C．Sara.

3. When will Sara come back?

A．This Sunday.

B．Next Monday.

C．Next Tuesday.

3 . 假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Peter对中国文化很感兴趣。他写信询问你最喜欢的中国传统节日的信息。请你给他写一封回信，向他介绍这一传统节日，内容包括：
1.节日的时间；
2.庆祝该节日的主要活动。
注意：写作词数应为80左右。
Dear Peter,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

4 . 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。

New Year was just around the corner. I was second grade then, 7 years old. One day, on my way home from school, a lady gave me a piece of paper     1     (say) that the neighborhood was asking people to give New Year presents to those     2     needed them. When I showed my mom this paper, she encouraged me to take part in it and spread     3     (kind) to others less fortunate than us. She said we would become “Neighborhood Angels”.

Several days later, my mother     4     (drive) me to the store and gave me $20 to pay for neighborhood present. Then she said, “I’ll see you outside in the car.” She left me alone to do the shopping. I was not used to buying things on my own, as I had always been with one of my     5     (parent) before. Everything seemed very strange and confusing to me,     6     I carried on. Suddenly, I remembered the poor boy     7     (call) Jack who lived in our neighborhood. I used to see him     8     a jacket during the freezing winter months, so I decided, then and there, to buy him a warm jacket.

I looked at many jackets and     9     (final) chose a heavy blue one. That evening, I sent the present to him with my mom.    10     (see) the tears in his eyes, I felt as if I were a real “Neighborhood Angel”.

5 . It ______(以……为特点) a parade and a great feast with music, dancing and sports. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

6 . ChatGPT maker OpenAI from the United States stepped up the global artificial intelligence race in mid-February when it released its text-to-video generation tool Sora. That made me wonder — how long before China develops its own Sora? And, will AI become China’s critical new productive force?

According to OpenAI’s explainer, Sora is capable of generating complex scenes with a very high degree of accuracy, including multiple characters, specific types of movements, themes and backgrounds. It understands not only what the user requests, but also how these things exist in the physical world.

On Feb 16, Zhou Hongyi, founder of cybersecurity firm 360 Security Technology, said Sora may bring a huge disruption to the advertising industry, movie trailers and the short-video industry; what’s more, the realization of generative AI may be shortened from 10 years to one or two years.

“Although the development level of large-scale models in China seems to be close to GPT-3.5, there is still an 18-month gap compared to GPT-4.0. OpenAI should still have an ace or two up its sleeve, whether it is GPT-5.0 or machine self-learning to generate content,” Zhou said, adding that it is worth paying attention.

According to a report by the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, China had developed at least 254 AI large language models by October last year. Currently, most domestic large models still have a huge gap with GPT-4.0.

But the country could make use of such frontier AI technologies in more industry-specific fields. Or, to put it simply, China needs to apply such technologies to real use, to develop them into productive forces and narrow the gap between itself and the US.

Though China still has a gap with the US in such a large model, Chinese AI startup ModelBest Inc launched last month its latest lightweight large model, an emerging less expensive AI technology that aims at more targeted commercialized fields.

1. What is Sora according to the passage?

A．It is a kind of new productive force for China.

B．It is an AI tool to produce videos out of texts.

C．It is an Internet user in the physical world.

D．It is a latest large-scale security model.

2. Which of the following is consistent with Zhou Hongyi’s opinion?

A．Sora will bring both challenges and chances.

B．Sora can understand users’ feelings at ease.

C．Sora has totally changed the movie industry.

D．Sora will soon be replaced by other AI tools.

3. What’s the author’s suggestion for China?

A．China’s domestic large models should be used in education.

B．China should take advantage of present AI technologies.

C．China should develop less expensive AI technology.

D．China should speed up its development in OpenAI.

7 . One example is the t_________ Chinese Spring Festival custom of lighting firecrackers to drive away the evil spirits and celebrate the new year. (根据首字母单词拼写)

8 . Customs play a _________ (显著的) role in festivals, but sometimes they can change over time. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

9 . Online shopping websites and social _________ (媒介) apps have made it much easier for the public to spend more on gifts for their loved ones. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

10 . There is no d_________ (怀疑) that if she had not lost her rudder (舵), she would have won the race easily. (根据中英文提示单词拼写)