1 . The guitar ___________ Dave played our first hit is in a music museum.

A．with which

B．by whom

C．on which

D．for whom

2 . 假设你是高一学生李华，你们班这学期读了一本英文小说WONDER，你非常喜欢，想要把这本小说推荐给你的英国朋友Jim。请你给他写一封信，内容包括：
1.故事梗概；
2.最喜欢的人物；
3.推荐理由。
注意：1.词数不少于100；2.开关和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
提示词：推荐recommend sth. to sb.; recommend sb. to do sth.
Dear Jim,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3 . How to d__________ ourselves from cyber bullying in the era of Internet has become a heated topic.(to protect sb/sth from attack) (根据首字母和英文释义单词拼写)

4 . 用方框中单词或短语的正确形式完成下列句子，每个单词(短语)只能用一次，有一个多余选项。

attend,       let off,     confident,     inspire, live up to,     previous,   surround,   apply for

1. The trees had been planted by the _____________ owner of the house.
2. The team is quite successful; all the players have _____________ in their manager.
3. As a lucky child I was _____________ by love and kindness.
4. He hopes he will be a(n) _____________ for other young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
5. The film was so attractive that it certainly _____________ my expectations.
6. _____________ firecrackers and fireworks is a traditional way to celebrate the Spring Festival.
7. Nowadays many university graduates are facing the dilemma about whether they should _____________ a job or continue further study.

5 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。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。

The term “multitasking” originally     1    (refer) to a computer’s ability to carry out several tasks at one time. So far, multitasking     2    (become) a way of life and even a key to success for many people. In fact, some excellent mental exercises involve engaging the brain in two or more challenging activities at a time.     3    checking e-mail while talking on a phone and reading the newspaper may be second nature for some people, many times multitasking can make us less productive. And studies show that too much multitasking can lead to increased stress, anxiety and memory loss.

6 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。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。

When I turned eighteen, I started working for my neighbors,     1    three children are all under 10 years old. The neighbors asked me if I had gotten my driver’s license. When I said yes, they were pleased because I could drive the kids to places     2     they could have fun. I never realized how hard it was to take care of so many kids. As soon as we get in the car, they ask. “Are we there yet?” They think that we should arrive immediately. When they’re thirsty, they ask me to buy them soda, but what I tell them is that it is healthier to drink water. However, they always say, “In our house we drink soda.” I don’t understand why their parents give them soda instead of water. Whether I should follow the rules of my house or theirs confused me a lot, so I asked my parents what I should do. My parents told me not to say anything     3     was about their parents’ rules but that I should try to encourage healthy habits by example. Little by little I’m learning how to take care of children. I hope that I     4     (be) as good a mom to my kids as my mom has been to me.

7 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。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。

New research into EQ and IQ suggests that success is not simply the result of a high IQ. While your IQ tells you     1     intelligent you are, your EQ tells you how well you use your intelligence. According to Professor Salovey, at work, it is IQ that gets you hired but it is EQ that gets you promoted. It is generally believed     2     people with high EQ are open to new ideas and have positive attitudes towards life. They are also less likely to be troubled by problems. Also most social scientists agree that EQ has a lot to do     3     education — improving a person’s EQ, especially in terms of “people skills”.

8 . The CAUSE Leadership Academy (CLA) for students is a paid nine-week internship (实习) program that connects college undergraduates to communities through local political experiences and prepares them to lead and advocate for the civic engagement.

General Information:

·Program Duration: June 24th, 2024 — August 23rd, 2024

·Location and Time Commitment: CLA will be an in-person, full-time program (5 days per week, about 40 hours per week).

·Payment: Each intern will receive $4,000 upon satisfactory completion of the program.

Program Goals:

·To gain new skills and knowledge

·To deepen understanding of issues that impact the local community

·To explore civic leadership career paths

·To develop professional experience and skills to be effective in political advocacy and campaign support

Program Components:

·Interns will work together to develop a project.

·Interns will be placed in a public, private, or non-profit host office.

·Interns will learn about and support civic engagement efforts with their Host Office.

·Interns will develop leadership skills and expand understanding of civic engagement.

Requirements for the applicants:

·Have a minimum GPA (Grade Point Average) of 3.0

·Be a current student with at least one year of college completed or a recent college graduate

·Be able to actively participate in all major events

For full consideration, applicants must ensure both Application and Letter of Recommendation are received by Sunday, January 28th, 2024 at 11:59 pm.

1. The program aims to help participants _______.

A．lead political campaigns	B．make high academic achievements
C．choose civic leadership career paths	D．deepen understanding of civic issues

2. CLA will provide interns _______.

A．a training online	B．a project to finish individually
C．a leader position in a Host Office	D．a $ 4,000 payment for great work

3. Which is a requirement for the applicants?

A．Participating in all events.	B．Having a GPA no less than 3.0.
C．Applying after January 28th, 2024.	D．Being a current high school student.

9 . Borders, departments, or issue areas all represent what systems analysts call system boundaries. System boundaries divide the big, messy, interconnected world into smaller subsystems. This is useful, even necessary. Our minds and our collective governance systems would be stuck if we had to always consider all the connections of everything to everything else. But dividing systems into subsystems can sometimes break a natural cooperativity. For instance, a decarbonizing country will spend money in its energy and transportation sectors and save money in its health system.

Decarbonization could be a win for the whole, but it might be experienced as a bother for particular subsystems.

Donella Meadows, the early systems modeler, wrote that system boundaries are “lines in the mind, not in the world.” And that is actually good news. If departments, and disciplines are just ideas, then there is nothing immovable about them. We can make these borders less obvious and conduct partnerships across them. We can even redraw them to include more of what matters in a single project or investment. That’s the premise of multisolving — using one investment of time or effort to achieve several goals at once.

For instance, Warm Up New Zealand (WUNZ) upgraded the energy efficiency of residential buildings and provided jobs in the building sector after a financial downturn. The project resulted in better health for residents, as well. That translated into health systems savings. Taken together, a 2011 study estimated that across all these benefits, the project saved $3.90 for every $1 invested.

Multisolving seems possible everywhere and like an obvious choice. Yet, it is very much the exception, not the rule. Why is multisolving still so rare when it has the power to boost progress on some of the most urgent issues we face?

Unfamiliarity stands in the way, as does an often-unexamined assumption that making issues smaller makes them easier to address. We often hear the viewpoint, “I already work on poverty (or climate, etc.) and that’s hard enough. Why should I add biodiversity or pollution to the mix?” Fundraising for crossing borders can be a struggle too. Funders want the “visible results” shown, but they don’t always see crossing borders as an essential part of achieving those results.

It is easy to devalue and underemphasize connection-building. After all, it can be delicate and not always visible. But to realize goals in today’s world, from equitable policies and low-carbon facilities to values like cooperation and fairness, we do need deep shifts, and we need them soon. And facilitating the flow of ideas back and forth across borders is one way to speed change.

1. As for systems boundaries, the author is ______.

A．critical

B．puzzled

C．supportive

D．unconcerned

2. What does the word “premise” underlined in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Prediction.

B．Precondition.

C．Prevention.

D．Presentation.

3. What can we learn from the passage?

A．People are familiar with multisolving.

B．WUNZ performed multisolving successfully.

C．Raising money helps to produce visible results.

D．Multisolving is widely used to address problems.

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

A．Multisolving: Hard to achieve soon

B．Multisolving: Essential to solve small issues

C．Multisolving: Conducting partnership across borders

D．Multisolving: Making systems whole, healthy, and sustainable

10 . Scientists are poor forecasters of the future. But two trends can be confidently predicted. First, the world will get more crowded. There’ll be more than 9 billion people by 2050. Second, the world will get warmer and some governments won’t prioritise the long-term measures needed to deal with climate change, even though science offers us a roadmap to a low-carbon future.

That’s why we should be promoters of new technology—without it the world can’t provide the food and sustainable energy needed for an expanding population. But we should also be cautious, as new technologies, such as AI, may be hard to control.

AI will undoubtedly become more intrusive in the future. Records of our movements, health and financial transactions will be stored in the cloud. The data may be used for justifiable reasons, such as protein folding and drug development, or to warn us of initial health risks, but its availability to Internet companies is already shifting the balance of power from governments to global-scale corporations.

Actually, it’s beyond Earth that AI has the most enormous potential. Humans may have established bases beyond Earth by the year 2100．But don’t ever expect mass emigration (移民) from Earth. It’s a false belief that space offers an escape from our problems. Dealing with climate change on Earth is a piece of cake compared to terraforming Mars.

Nevertheless, we should cheer on these brave human space adventurers. They’ll be ill-adapted to a Martian habitat, so they’ll have a super motive to redesign themselves. It’s they, not those of us adapted to life on Earth, who will pioneer the post-human era (时代).

If post-humans make the shift from flesh and blood to fully artificial intelligences, they won’t need an atmosphere of even gravity, so it’s in deep space — not even on Mars that non biological “brains” may develop powers that we can’t imagine. They may end up being mentally different from us. AI could jump-start a huge emigration and thus even more complex intelligence spreads through the universe.

But let’s re focus from the science fiction of the far future. closer to the here and now. This century is special. It’s the first, in Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history where one species-ours—holds the planet’s future in its hands. Our intelligence could initiate billions of years of post-human evolution (演化), even more amazing than that which led to us. On the other hand, humans could cause biological, environmental or cyber catastrophes that foreclose all this potential.

If science is to save us, we need to think globally, sensibly and long-term—empowered by science, but guided by values that science alone can’t provide.

1. Why does the author mention the two trends in the first paragraph?

A．To reply to governments’ decisions.	B．To show scientists’ prediction ability.
C．To present a call for scientific advances.	D．To highlight the challenges to scientists.

2. According to this passage, AI can ______.

A．put an end to climate change	B．make mass human emigration possible
C．speed up the competition in medical fields	D．bring about potential threats from big companies

3. As for the future, what does the author agree with?

A．Post-humans will repeat the history of humans.

B．Complex intelligence will dominate the universe.

C．Fully artificial intelligences may inhabit outer space.

D．Non-biological brains may invite unforeseen disasters.

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

A．Could AI Save Us?	B．Will Science Lead Evolution?
C．Arc Space Adventurers Pioneers?	D．Is Complex Intelligence Coming?