1 . “While extroverts (性格外向者) often make great first impressions with their outgoing manner and lively personalities in interviews, that value and reputation at work diminish (削减) over time.” says Corinne Bender, an associate professor of management.

“Extroverts disappoint us over time when they’re part of a team,” Bender says. “On a team you’re expected to work hard and contribute a lot. But they’re often poor listeners, and they don’t cooperate.”

“On the other hand, introverts (性格内向者) work hard on a team because they care what others think of them. They don’t want to be seen as not pulling their weight or contributing 100%,” Bender says.

So while companies may be attracted to hiring extroverts because they impress managers greatly in job interviews, bosses also may want to consider whether the extrovert they are considering will be a valuable team player, Bender says.

Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins, two writers, agree and say managers should recognize the strengths of introverted employees, such as their ability to put themselves in others’ shoes.

“These team members are often easygoing, which can make them exceptional mentors (良师益友) to more junior staff or particularly good sounding boards when you interact with them in one-on-one situations,” Su says.

“Managers must try to help introverts find their voice,” Wilkins says. “Help them see that speaking up is not about self-promotion or being in conflict but rather about offering the team key insights, making better decisions or increasing the efficiency for all.”

What about those extroverts who never seem to be at a loss for words? Should managers cut them off? Managers definitely should weigh in on how an extrovert is affecting others. Wilkins suggests saying something in private to make adjustments.

1. What do we know about outgoing people according to Bender?

A．They are often good listeners.

B．They tend to perform well in interviews.

C．They often make great contributions.

D．They are often good at cooperating.

2. Which can best replace the underlined part “pulling their weight” in Paragraph 3?

A．Doing their full share of work.

B．Making good choices.

C．Trusting others.

D．Trying to share their thoughts.

3. What is Su’s attitude towards Bendersky’s words?

A．Critical.

B．Approving.

C．Doubtful.

D．Indifferent.

4. What does Wilkins advise managers to do?

A．Promote more introverts.

B．Learn to work more efficiently.

C．Avoid conflict among employees.

D．Encourage introverts to speak up.

2 . One of the easiest things in the world is to become a fault-finder. However, life can be great when you are not busy finding fault with it.

Several years ago I _________ a letter from seventeen-year-old Kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always _________ by things. People were always doing things that annoyed her, and _________ was ever good enough. She was highly self-critical and also found fault with her friends. She became a really boring person.

Unfortunately, it took a horrible accident to change her _________. Her best friend was seriously hurt in a car crash. What made it almost impossible to deal with was that the day before the _________, Kerry had visited her friend and had spent the whole time criticizing her _________ of boyfriends, the way she was living, the way she related to her mother, and various other things she felt she needed to _________. It wasn’t until her friend was badly hurt _________ Kerry became _________ her habit of finding fault. Very quickly, she learned to appreciate life rather than to judge everything so harshly. She was able to transfer her new wisdom to other parts of her __________ as well.

Perhaps most of us aren’t extreme at fault-finding, __________ when we’re honest, we can be sharply __________ of the world. I’m not suggesting you __________ problems, or that you pretend things are __________ than they are, but simply that you learn to allow things to be as they are—at least most of the time, and especially when it’s not a really big deal.

Train yourself to “bite your tongue”, and with a little __________, you’ll get really good at letting things go. And when you do, you’ll get back your enthusiasm and love for life.

1.

A．answered

B．received

C．expected

D．rejected

2.

A．threatened

B．interrupted

C．spoiled

D．bothered

3.

A．nothing

B．everything

C．something

D．anything

4.

A．measure

B．plan

C．attitude

D．explanation

5.

A．occasion

B．accident

C．event

D．adventure

6.

A．memory

B．notice

C．choice

D．evidence

7.

A．hear

B．contribute

C．admit

D．express

8.

A．what

B．when

C．where

D．that

9.

A．afraid of

B．aware of

C．curious about

D．confused about

10.

A．life

B．family

C．career

D．education

11.

A．so

B．or

C．for

D．but

12.

A．proud

B．sure

C．critical

D．hopeful

13.

A．face

B．create

C．ignore

D．solve

14.

A．rarer

B．worse

C．stranger

D．better

15.

A．pity

B．speech

C．rest

D．practice

3 . Why does the man make the call?

A．To change an appointment.

B．To ask about work.

C．To arrange a trip.

4 . 自从进入高中以来，你感到学习的任务增加了，而且学习的压力也更大了。请你结合以下要点写篇英语短文，谈谈如何正确面对和释放压力。
要点包括：
1. 以正确的态度对待压力；
2. 通过与人沟通交谈等来释放压力；
3. 积极参加体育活动来释放压力。
要求：
1. 80词左右；
2. 题目自拟；
3. 内容包括以上要点。
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5 . 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。

Two disabled Chinese citizens who have planted trees     1    (voluntary) in Northern China have been voted (投票) by Chinese citizens as their inspiring heroes.

The vote     2    (organize) by Xinhua News Agency since 2011 to inspire moral strength in the public by highlighting the good deeds of ordinary people. The event is the first of its kind     3    (find) heroes among grassroots people.

Jia Wenqi and Jia Haixia, both of     4     are aged over 50, have arm and sight disabilities. Disabled     5     they are, they have planted over 10,000 trees in Jingxing County over the past 13 years, preventing their village from flooding and improving the environmental surroundings.

“I am his hands; he is my eyes,” says Haixia. “We are good partners.”

Fully     6    (devote) to protecting the environment, they have turned the wasteland into a green one, which attracts     7     large number of birds.     8    (plant) trees has become an important part of their life.

Despite their disabilities, they form a great team that makes a huge     9    (different). They deserve to be called heroes     10     their unusual effort and amazing deed!

6 . Laughter comes in many forms, from a polite and quiet laugh to a great hearty laugh. Scientists are now developing an AI system to recreate different laughs in proper social contexts. The team behind the laughing robot Erica said that the system could improve natural conversations between people and an AI robot. “We think that one of the important functions of conversational AI is empathy(共情),” said Dr Koji Inoue, the lead author of the research. “So we decided that one way a robot can empathize with its users is to share their laughter.”

The team have set out to teach their AI system the art of conversational laughter. They gathered training data from more than 80 daily dialogues between male subjects and the robot that was initially operated by four actresses remotely. The dialogue data was grouped into social laughs (where polite or embarrassed laughter isn’t involved) and laughter of joy. Based on the audio files, the algorithm(算法) learned the basic characteristics of social laughs, which tend to be softer, and merry laughs, with the aim of mirroring these inappropriate situations.

“Our biggest obstructor in the work was identifying the actual cases of shared laughter because as you know, most laughter is actually not shared at all,” said Inoue. “We had to carefully decide exactly which laughs we could use for our analysis and we couldn’t just assume that any laugh can be responded to. It was really not easy work.” The team said laughter could help create robots with their own distinct character although it could take more than 20 years before it would be possible to have a casual chat with a robot like we would with a friend.

“One of the things we’d keep in mind is that a laughing robot or algorithm will never be able to understand you or the meaning of laughter,” points out Prof. Sandra Wachter of the Oxford Internet Institute. “But with their development, they might get very good at tricking you into believing they understand what’s going on.”

1. Why did Inoue’s team develop the AI system?

A．To better understand human empathy.

B．To promote the social skills of robots.

C．To explore the differences between laughs.

D．To assist robots in identifying people's moods.

2. What can robot Erica probably do at present?

A．Repeat the details of the 80 dialogues

B．Distinguish people by hearing their laughs

C．Recreate a scene played by the four actresses

D．Master the features of laughs provided by data.

3. What does the underlined word “obstructor” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Potential.

B．Barrier.

C．Alternative.

D．Division.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．Are AI systems going beyond human ability?

B．Can conversational AI really understand us?

C．Laughing robots are round the conner.

D．Robots become laughing masters.

7 . Every fast-food employee knows that the drive-through window is the worst position. It was a freezing afternoon. Drivers _________ to stand outside in the cold and scream their orders into a speaker box. In such cases, most customers tend to take out their _________ on the employees. This woman was a(n) _________.

“I`ll get the next car’s order as well,” she said as she came up to the window to pay. She _________ outside, gathering snowflakes on her hair and eyelashes. “You can’t take their drinks,” I said, confused and tired. The lady laughed, her cheeks turning red with _________. “No, but I’ll buy them,” she said. “_________ it forward and all that.”

Completely shocked, I _________ her as requested, and when the next customer arrived at the window I _________ what had just happened. His facial expression changed like a chain of photographs on a slideshow—first _________ to be out in the cold, then surprised at the random act of ____________ and finally, delighted by his luck. “I suppose I’ll pay for the next order then,” he replied, nodding and waving at the ____________ driver behind him. He handed over the cash and received his pre-paid ____________.

The trend ____________ throughout the entire rush hour. Customers stood at my window emptying a handful of change to buy coffee for a complete ____________. Actually, it only takes one customer, one person, to change the entire flow of traffic. It only takes one moment, one smile, to ____________ even the coldest days.

1.

A．hate

B．refuse

C．hesitate

D．attempt

2.

A．worry

B．annoyance

C．fear

D．stress

3.

A．exception

B．witness

C．employer

D．victim

4.

A．nodded

B．stopped

C．stood

D．screamed

5.

A．hunger

B．pain

C．tiredness

D．cold

6.

A．Take

B．Pay

C．Put

D．Look

7.

A．charged

B．aided

C．permitted

D．assessed

8.

A．presented

B．recalled

C．explained

D．claimed

9.

A．confused

B．excited

C．discouraged

D．disturbed

10.

A．honesty

B．kindness

C．bravery

D．integrity

11.

A．impatient

B．ashamed

C．polite

D．incredible

12.

A．sandwich

B．drink

C．fries

D．recipe

13.

A．disappeared

B．ceased

C．continued

D．varied

14.

A．rider

B．individual

C．passenger

D．stranger

15.

A．warm up

B．hold on

C．put aside

D．kick off

8 . Developed by US company OpenAI, ChatGPT has got viral, winning 100 million internet users since it came out in November 2022. People can ask the robot to write stories and emails, create instructions for cooking a certain food, translate languages, and answer all kinds of questions. In its own words, it is “a language model trained in a large amount of internet text to help users get human-like text.”

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Compared with Siri or other chatbots, ChatGPT uses a much bigger information center for training. It also uses stronger software and hardware to learn things by itself. For example, if it provides a wrong answer to your question, you can tell it the right one and it will correct itself. “It’s a totally different chatbot,” computer scientist Liu Xiaoguang from Nankai University said. “The knowledge level ChatGPT shows is the same as a university student. That’s why it shocked the world.”

But one big problem with ChatGPT is that it makes mistakes or even gives false information. When Rezza, a 28-year-old from Indonesia, used the robot to write an passage, it “gave out many examples which other writers actually hadn’t mentioned at all”, he told a local newspaper. Since the robot is trained using words from the internet, it can also pick up biases (偏见) about certain groups. These are all things that need to be dealt with.

1. What does the underlined part mean in Paragraph 1?

A．Done harm to the internet.	B．Brought strong wind and heavy rain.
C．Become popular overnight.	D．Caused serious changes of the weather.

2. Why did ChatGPT shock the world?

A．It can find mistakes by itself.

B．It works differently from other chatbots.

C．Its information center is easier to control than Siri’s.

D．Its knowledge level is as high as a university student.

3. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．ChatGPT needs improvement.	B．Anybody may give false information.
C．Anybody can make mistakes.	D．ChatGPT can’t get on well with humans.

4. What might be the best title of the text?

A．ChatGPT is Coming!	B．ChatGPT is Catching the World’s Eyes!
C．Can ChatGPT Take the Place of Humans?	D．Can ChatGPT Avoid Biases Properly?

10 . My 83-year-old mother came to live with me a year ago last November. She was very ill and I had to put my life on hold to care for her.

Each morning, I got her up and dressed her and made her breakfast and sat with her. I rushed for a bowl when she felt sick, and lit fires to keep her warm. I cooked and talked her into eating some. It’s a hard job caring for a sick or dying parent, whoever you are. But it was especially hard for me, I feel, because I am a doctor myself. I couldn’t help looking at her in two different ways. The medical professional saw a body and checked it with the cold heart that medicine requires. But the daughter saw the woman who had given birth to me, sent me off to college and had been an important role for a long time in my life for over half a century.

Also, my mother didn’t appreciate how hard it was for me to care for her. I remember an exchange between her and the nurse who came to see her once a week.

“You could get some more help with care.” “Oh, I don’t think I need that,” Mom said.

Mom didn’t understand that the help would have taken some of the hard work off me. None of the treatments her doctors gave her worked, and finally her life became about free of pain. She refused painkillers (止痛药) for a long time, but finally the pain beat her. And when she accepted painkillers she accepted the fact that she would die.

Illness and needs took us across personal boundaries (边界) I’d never considered before. And yet, while living and being and dying with Mom I saw something valuable coming. We became closer. We shared so many stories from our past that it was as if our memories had become one.

In the past our relationship had been difficult. We had often argued. But when the end came, both of us simply accepted that we looked at the world in different ways. We were daughter and mother and we loved each other. That was all that mattered.

1. Why was taking care of her mom especially hard for the writer?

A．She was too busy living her own life.

B．She and her mom had a difficult relationship.

C．She was too old to look after her mom carefully.

D．She regarded her mom both as a patient and a loved one.

2. When the writer heard the conversation between her mom and the nurse, ______.

A．she felt very upset.	B．she was surprised.
C．she showed her thanks to the nurse.	D．she thought she needed a more helpful nurse.

3. We can infer from the passage that ______.

A．the writer’s mom was a kind and gentle woman.

B．it was easier for the writer to take care of her mom as a doctor.

C．the writer was getting on better with her mom while taking care of her.

D．the writer’s mom had difficulty understanding what the nurse said.

4. What did the writer learn from the experience of looking after her sick mother?

A．Love was more important than differences.	B．Being alive was the most important thing.
C．We should learn to understand other people.	D．It was better for family members to live their own.