假设你是明启中学高三学生吴磊，你的英国朋友迈克尔(Michael)来信说他打算参加所在城市伦敦举办的中国文化节活动，并在活动中用汉语介绍中国文化，但他似乎信心不足，且就主题的选择犹豫不决。请你从下列主题中推荐一项：中国传统节日、中国文字发展、中国民族音乐。请你给他回信，内容需包括：
1. 帮助他树立信心；
2. 你的推荐及理由。
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2 . 虽然任务艰巨，我们仍愿同合作伙伴一起把“一带一路”打造成应对挑战的合作之路、维护人民健康安全的健康之路、促进社会经济发展的复苏之路。(make) (汉译英)
3 . 我们要关注的不是孩子们的言语，而是他们在创造性地解决问题的情况下的行动。(not...but) (汉译英)
4 . 房租和人力成本依旧是便利店发展面临的最大障碍。(remain) (汉译英)
5 . 网络社交并不能代替现实生活。(substitute n.) (汉译英)
ChatGPT Helps People a Lot
In real life, robot customer service in various applications are broadly similar to ChatGPT’s Al products. It is ChatGPT’s ability to learn the most with the highest level of intelligence that has made it a global hit. At the end of November 2022, AI research lab OpenAI launched AI chat software ChatGPT. So what exactly can ChatGPT do, and how can it help us ordinary people?
First, chat with ChatGPT as if it were your friend when you’re bored, and it will constantly revise its parameters (参数) and behavior with your advice and guidance. So the more you talk to it, the more it knows what you want, and the more it responds to you. Take travel as an example. While there are a lot of travel recommendation sites out there right now, they can’t be customized to the individual, but you can ask ChatGPT for very specific information to get suggestions.
Second, ChatGPT can be used when you want to create content but lack ideas. It can open your mind to ideas as well as create ideas for you. Children in the growth always like to listen to parents tell new stories, and story-telling gives a lot of parents a headache. What should we do when we run out of storybooks? ChatGPT is a great story generator, which generates a whole new story, as many as you want, based on the themes and characters you provide. It’s perfect.
Third, let ChatGPT help you out when you’re not sure how to get started with a paper, or an article. Of course, it doesn’t always provide the right content, so we can learn from its framework, and it’s much easier to fill in the content from there. Enter information about the type, title, column name, data, and so on, and ChatGPT will generate the table with one click. You can add columns and rows and do in-table calculations.
According to ChatGPT’s own answer, it’s just an unconscious computer program. It can carry on self-active learning and realize task transfer under the regular instruction. Docs the answer ChatGPT gives you have to be the right answer? For conscious humans, it might be better to pick from all the possible answers.
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7 . Is Human Brain Too Full?
The brain is a seemingly endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime’s knowledge. But is there a point where it reaches capacity? The answer is no, because brains are more complicated than that. Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form. Previous behavioral studies have shown that learning new information can lead to forgetting.
In daily life, forgetting actually has clear advantages. Imagine, for instance, that you lost your bank card. The new card you receive will come with a new personal identification number (PIN). Each time you remember the new PIN, you gradually forget the old one.
A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life.
| A．While it may sound like an advantage to many, people with this rare condition often find their unusual ability stressful. |
| B．But in a new study researchers demonstrated for the first time how this effect occurs in the brain. |
| C．In the future, with the deepening of brain science research, human beings will eventually unlock the secrets of the brain. |
| D．This process improves access to relevant information, without old memories interfering. |
| E．When we obtain new information, the brain automatically attempts to make it into existing information by forming associations. |
| F．The outside world is a judgment of the brain, but humans just don’t realize it. |
8 . In recent years, the International Space Field set off a new round of exploration craze, hoping to further master the space secrets and resources. Countries are busy developing rockets and satellites, developing manned space technology, formulating plans to explore the moon and Mars, and conquering space “One step ahead?”.
When engineers develop a spacecraft, they ask a few key questions that guide their process, says David Klaus, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, who studies risk assessment and human spaceflight. They are, he explains, “What do we want to do? What does it take to do it? What can go wrong? And what can we do to reduce the chance of the bad things going wrong?” These questions seem simple enough, but the answers are essential.
When NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin or anyone else considers sending humans into space, the vehicle they build must do three things. First, it has to accommodate the crew members by meeting their basic needs such as oxygen, food and water. Second, it should allow them to accomplish mission objectives. Lastly, it must protect the people onboard and on the ground from the risks of spaceflight and reentry. Sometimes meeting one need introduces new risks. The crew needs to breathe, of course, but it was high-pressure tanks of liquid oxygen that caused an explosion on Apollo 13, and it was the fuel powering an oxygen generator that sparked a fire onboard the Mir space station in 1997.
Not only do astronauts float through a near vacuum (真空) filled with radiation, but in low-Earth orbit, where the International Space Station (ISS) operates, crews have to deal with a growing cloud of debris (碎片) circling Earth, which are usually from old satellites. The ISS’s debris protective covering can absorb impacts from particles smaller than half an inch, but between 1999 and 2022, the station had to fire pushers 32 times to avoid contact with larger objects. A single hit would be dangerous; at speeds of 17,500 miles per hour, even something the size of a softball can cause severe damage.
What is the point of looking decades into space and struggling to explore the vastness of the universe? The development of the space industry has brought humans many benefits, the most important of which is the spread of information. The cell phone signal and TV signal people use now are all benefiting from the development of the space industry. The ultimate goal of mankind is to go deeper into space, and to explore more unknown worlds, that is, the Moon, Mars and beyond, and what humanity is eager to achieve is a common home of freedom and equality.
1. Why did the writer mention the explosion on Apollo 13 in Paragraph 3 and the fire onboard the Mir space station?| A．To explain the high risks of the space industry. |
| B．To show the disadvantages of the space travel. |
| C．To prove the unexpected risks of the spaceflight process. |
| D．To describe the new risks involved in meeting the requirements. |
| A．The space environment itself piles on danger. |
| B．Any misstep on a space mission is fatal. |
| C．It is very difficult to complete the space mission. |
| D．Space engineers work hard to clean up space debris. |
| A．More unknown planets and stars. | B．Freedom and equality of human beings. |
| C．More protection against human diseases. | D．Space secrets and endless resources. |
| A．Studying space for countless years. | B．Living in space for many years. |
| C．Exploring space for some ten years. | D．Observing space for several ten years. |
9 .
| Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View- Return of the Jedi To mark the 40th anniversary of the release of Return of the Jedi, this selection sees 40 scenes from the movie recreated through the eyes of a supporting character, from robots to Mon Mothma. So, among the 40 writers and artists contributing, we have Olivie Blake giving a glimpse into the mind of Emperor Palpatine, Mary Kenney telling the story of Wicket the Ewok’s dream of a quiet day on the forest moon of Endor and Charlie Jane Anders looking into that terrifying open mouth in the desert of Tatooine. |
| Creation Node by Stephen Baxter Stephen Baxter is the author of one of my all-time favourite moments in a sci-fi novel: the oceans close over the top of Everest in Flood. I think of his drowned Earth relatively often - it is an image burned into my brain. His latest book sounds equally interesting and I’ll definitely be giving it a read. Set in 2255, it follows the discovery of an object called Planet Nine, which a woman named Salma spots from her spaceship. It’s not a planet, or the “ninth” of anything; it was briefly believed to be a black hole, but then it sends a message that there is something waiting on its surface. Meanwhile, a quasar(类星体)has appeared and is heating up the solar system. Lots to deal with, then. |
| Starter Villain by John Scalzi This is the sort of sci-fi novel that needs to be described as a joke, I feel. It’s set on Earth today and sees divorced substitute teacher Charlie inherit his long-lost late uncle Jake’s business. Unfortunately for Charlie, he also inherits his uncle’s enemies. We are also promised intelligent, talking spy cats and unionised dolphins - what’s not to like? |
| Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang I loved Zhang’s first novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, set in the 19th-century Old West. I highly, highly recommend it: Zhang is a phenomenal writer. Her second book moves the action to the near future, where food crops are disappearing and a smog is spreading. Hoping to escape her troubled reality, a chef takes a job in a mountaintop settlement for the global elite (精英) and discovers plans to reshape the world. |
| Edge of Here by Kelechi Okafor What a treat this sounds: a short story collection to dip into in this busiest of months. Okafor, who is host of the Say Your Mind podcast, sets out to explore contemporary Black womanhood, but sets her stories in a Black Mirror version of the near future. There’s one in which you can experience someone else’s emotions through a chip in your brain, one where you can view bits of a distant relative’s life with help from your DNA. |
1. If you want to know the life of a cook, which novel would you choose?
| A．Edge of Here by Kelechi Okafor | B．Starter Villain by John Scalzi |
| C．Creation Node by Stephen Baxter | D．Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang |
| A．A non-leading role. | B．A viewer. | C．A director | D．A writing style. |
| A．In Fiction 2, the Solar System is getting colder. |
| B．In Fiction 3, a single teacher inherited his uncle’s business. |
| C．In Fiction 4, the author described events in the remote area. |
| D．In Fiction 5, you can experience black life through brain chips. |
10 . The Adventures of Tom Sawyer changed the course of children’s literature in the United States as well as of American literature generally, presenting the first deeply-felt description of boyhood. Mark Twain published the novel in 1876, which centered on a smart naughty young boy living in a town along the Mississippi River. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer marked the further development of Mark Twain realism.
An orphan, Tom Sawyer lived with his Aunt Polly and half brother, Sid, in St. Petersburg, Missouri; the fictional town was based on Hannibal, Missouri. The first few chapters highlighted Tom’s troubled tendencies. He angered his aunt by eating jam, and then he got in a fight with another boy. As punishment for his various misdeeds, Aunt Polly ordered him to whitewash the fence. However, Tom managed to convince other children that whitewashing was fun, and they ended up giving him various items for a turn at the fence. Later in the book Tom went to the cemetery with Huckleberry Finn, a wanderer whose father was a heavy drinker. They came across three grave robbers, including Injun Joe and Dr. Robinson. The two men got into a fight, and Injun Joe murdered the doctor. Although Tom and Huckleberry promised never to tell anyone what they had seen, Tom eventually charged the escaped Indian Joc.
At one point, Tom, Huckleberry, and a third boy decided to run away from home and became pirates (海盗). While on an island in the Mississippi River, they discovered that people thought they had died. The three dramatically reappeared during their funeral services. Tom and Huckleberry then decided to look for buried treasure in an abandoned house. The boys were forced to hide when Injun Joe and a partner arrived to bury their own treasure there. However, the two men then came across a gold storage in the house and decided to hide it elsewhere. One night Huck followed them, hoping to find the gold. When he overheard their plan to attack the Widow Douglas, Huck got help, and the crime was prevented. Tom later went on a picnic with his classmates. While exploring a cave, they became lost, and Tom later realized that the gold was likely to be in the cave, and he and Huckleberry discovered it.
1. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?| A．The story outlines the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. |
| B．The story describes Mark Twain’s childhood. |
| C．The story tells the story of Huckleberry. |
| D．This passage comments on Mark Twain’s novels. |
| A．Tom’s helpfulness. | B．Tom’s honesty. | C．Tom’s friendliness. | D．Tom’s naughtiness. |
a. Huck followed those two.
b. Then Tom and Huckleberry found gold.
c. Tom and Huckleberry decided to search for buried treasure.
d. Tom, Huckleberry and another boy ran away from home.
| A．a-c-b-d | B．d-c-a-b | C．b-a-d-c | D．c-b-a-d |
| A．An interesting adventure novel. | B．The most humorous story of children. |
| C．The greatest works of children’s literature. | D．The most popular historical novel. |
