1 . 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。

Located in the northwest of Hunan Province, about 300 kilometers away from Changsha, capital of Hunan, Zhangjiajie,     1     covers a total area of 9,563 square kilometers, is a tourist city for its unique natural scenery and abundant tourism resources. Zhangjiajie     2     (award) the title of “World Geological Park” in 2004.     3     (actual), Zhangjiajie, honored as “the most fantastic mountain under heaven” and “a walking Chinese landscape painting”, is also widely praised as “    4     enlarged potted landscaping”, “a mini fairyland” and “a maze (迷宫) of nature”.

Since it was discovered in the 1980s, tourism industry     5     (become) the leading industry in Zhangjiajie, which has stimulated the development of other industries related to tourism,     6     (attract) a growing number of tourists     7     home and abroad.

At the same time, ecotourism has been developed rapidly in Zhangjiajie. When you come to Zhangjiajie, you can fully appreciate     8     (it) magnificent natural scenery and experience appealing folk custom as well as other thrilling tourist     9     (activity), and you will be deeply impressed by     10     the local people performed.

It must be an exciting, joyful and unforgettable tour to Zhangjiajie.

2 . My life as an exchange student finally began! It was only a short 20-minute drive from the airport to Queensland University of Technology (QUT), but I _________ it a lot. My driver was very _________and told me a lot about Australian culture along the way.

Before _________ home, I had a fair idea of what my _________ would be like. When O-Week at QUT finally happened, I felt that my life here really lived up to my first _________.

The week-long event not only _________ me to engage indifferent clubs and societies, it also gave me a chance to _________ QUT’s campus.

I loved the _________ of O-Week. It was really lively, and I got the _________ to meet so many people. Interacting with different cultures first-hand was really a(n) __________. I felt this was exactly how I __________ life in Australia would be like. I was really __________ to finally experience this!

After ________ my new home, I found that living in Brisbane was quite different. I had the __________ to do a lot more and had no limits on __________ I could do them. For example, have you ever wanted pancakes at 6 am? Say no more -- one of my favorite restaurants was only a 2-minute walk away from my __________. Besides, I found it quite __________ to meet and work with the locals, and learn about their __________ attitude to life and work.

I loved Australia so much that I felt very __________   when my experience came to a(n) __________. I made so many friends there and I hope to see them all again on my next world tour!

1.

A．enjoyed

B．predicted

C．suspected

D．planned

2.

A．curious

B．strange

C．friendly

D．lonely

3.

A．arriving

B．returning

C．moving

D．leaving

4.

A．experience

B．behavior

C．position

D．result

5.

A．requirements

B．expectations

C．challenges

D．grades

6.

A．warned

B．forced

C．taught

D．allowed

7.

A．expand

B．explore

C．compare

D．contact

8.

A．atmosphere

B．invitation

C．purpose

D．origin

9.

A．responsibility

B．stability

C．opportunity

D．ability

10.

A．green-hand

B．trouble- maker

C．record-holder

D．eye-opener

11.

A．denied

B．pictured

C．declared

D．misunderstood

12.

A．embarrassed

B．shocked

C．excited

D．relaxed

13.

A．settling into

B．figuring out

C．paying a visit

D．getting around

14.

A．patience

B．power

C．excuse

D．freedom

15.

A．why

B．where

C．when

D．how

16.

A．laboratory

B．destination

C．accommodation

D．company

17.

A．interesting

B．inconvenient

C．demanding

D．ordinary

18.

A．sudden

B．positive

C．different

D．foolish

19.

A．proud

B．confused

C．satisfied

D．sad

20.

A．point

B．end

C．crisis

D．choice

3 . How to Make Friends

Good friendship has many advantages.     1     But for many of us it is difficult and requires courage. Below are some helpful suggestions on how to make and keep friends.

Start a conversation.

Starting a conversation is an important step in making new friends.     2     You can always start the conversation. Being able to make a small talk is a very useful skill.

    3    

Choosing friends with common interests is important in building friendship as these interests would always bring you and your friends together. Hanging out will always be a pleasant experience.

Let it grow.

It is a good thing to stay in touch. However, try not to disturb your new friend with too many calls, messages or visits as this would likely make him or her upset and finally you may lose your friend.     4    

Enjoy your friendship.

The best way to enjoy your friendship is to allow your friends to be themselves.     5    

A．Be cheerful.

B．Do things together.

C．Do not wait to be spoken to.

D．Making new friends comes easy for some people.

E．For a friendship to develop you need to stay in touch.

F．The best friendships are the ones that grow naturally.

G．Try not to change them from who they are to what you want them to be.

4 . 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.”

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 equal to 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 about certain groups. These are all things that need to be dealt with.

1. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1can be replaced by?

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 is the author’s attitude towards ChatGPT?

A．Subjective.

B．Objective.

C．Positive.

D．Negative.

5 . How would you feel if moving to a new town meant ______ ______ ______（失去联系）your friends? (根据汉语提示完成句子)

6 . She ______ (徘徊) aimlessly around the streets and didn’t know where to go. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

7 . You can also ______ (拓宽) your knowledge by reading posts from other English learners around the world. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

9 . As humans encroach (侵入) more and more on wildlife habitats, animals are finding that the best way to survive isn’t to pack up and move — it’s to adapt to the night life. A variety of previously daytime animals such as foxes, deer and boars have become active at night to avoid human activity out of fear. But this nighttime switch comes with its own risks.

Researchers looked at how 62 species of animals on six continents changed their behavior in response to human activities such as hunting, farming, and development. The studies employed various technologies to follow the animals, from GPS trackers to motion-activated cameras.

Once night falls, the animals surveyed became far more active than they were before humans arrived, bunting and looking for food in the dark. For example, animals that used to split their activity evenly between day and night typically increased their nighttime activity to 68%.

The team also found the animals responded similarly to these human encroachments, regardless of whether human activity directly affected them. So, a deer might become more active at night simply because it sees humans hiking nearby, not because it’s being hunted.

The researchers believe these nighttime behaviors not only allow humans and animals to coexist more peacefully, they may be able to give us hints as to how to plan conservation efforts accordingly, such as limiting human activity during times when a specific species is more active. But moving to the nightlife could also have downsides for these animals. A nighttime lifestyle can reduce an animal’s ability to hunt and find food successfully and can even affect its ability to find a mate. Switching to a nighttime lifestyle can affect natural patterns of life even if these animals are doing so to reduce their interaction with humans. So, just because animals are becoming more active at night doesn’t mean they’ve escaped the influence of humans.

1. Why are animals becoming more active at night?

A．It is easier to find food at night.

B．It is easier to escape being hunted.

C．They can be less affected by human.

D．They have got used to nightlife.

2. How did the researchers find the animals’ behavioral changes?

A．They followed and watched the animals.

B．They used modern technologies.

C．They compared different animals.

D．They found more animals at night.

3. What can we infer from the fourth paragraph?

A．Any human encroachment can affect animals.

B．Animals can be affected only when being hunted.

C．Deer can get used to nightlife easily.

D．Animals should stay away from humans.

4. Which word can possibly replace the underlined word in paragraph 5?

A．dangers

B．strengths

C．possibilities

D．disadvantages

10 . They argue persuasively in ______ (支持) of a total ban on handguns. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）