1 . The Art Institute of Chicago
Visitor Information
Museum Hours
Members: The first hour of every day, 10 a.m. —11 a.m., is reserved for member-only viewing.
Monday—Wednesday Closed
Thursday: 11 a.m.—8 p. m.
Friday—Sunday: 11 a.m.—5 p. m.
●Audio GuideAudio guides can be rented at the admission counter, audio counter and outside some special exhibitions. The guide is free to visitors with visual or hearing disabilities.
●Journey MakerWith the digital interactive JourneyMaker, you can build custom family guides based on your child’s interests-from superheroes to strange and wild creatures. Start your museum journey in the Family Room of the Ryan Leaning Center, and make your visit to the Art Institute an adventure for the whole family.
●Official Mobile AppYour personal, pocket-sized guide to the collection, this new iOS app features podcast-style audio tours, location-aware technology, access to the digital member card, and so much more. Download it today from the App Store.
●PhotographyWe encourage you to take pictures of the collection and special exhibitions for personal use. Signs indicate the few works that are not allowed to be photographed due to a lender requirement.
●PhonesYou are welcome to use your phone to take pictures, text, and use the museum’s app-anything that does not disturb other visitors. If you need to make a phone call, please do so in a non-gallery space.
●Valet ParkingArt Institute visitors can drop off their cars at the Modern Wing entrance (159 East Monroe Street) and walk right into the museum. The valet service is available daily from 10:30 a. m. until one-half hour after closing.
●AdmissionAdult: $ 32
Student: $ 26
Child (aged 13 and under): Free
Help us protect the collection-please do not touch the art.
1. How long at maximum can a visitor stay in the museum per day?| A．1 hour. | B．6 hours. | C．9 hours. | D．10 hours. |
| A．Valet parking is not available after closing. | B．All artworks are encouraged to be pictured. |
| C．Audio guide is free to every museum visitor. | D．Family guides can be tailored to visitors’ needs. |
| A．$ 64. | B．$ 90. | C．$ 116. | D．$ 128. |
1. What did Margaret do last summer?
| A．She stayed at her home. |
| B．She did a summer job. |
| C．She went on a vacation. |
| A．The man’s professor. | B．Margaret’s mother. | C．Eric’s employer. |
| A．It seems reasonable. | B．It sounds troublesome. | C．It is wild. |
| A．Make an application. | B．See a homeowner. | C．Give three references. |
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4 . If sales generally feel hard to to resist, the sale in front of Aarron Schurevich was the ultimate test: new Kia Soul just like the one he’d had and loved, at a dealership he trusted, at a moment when he really needed a car. And it was priced $4,000 off more than a 20% discount. However, after he sped through paperwork and drove the car off the lot, the deal turned soul. Schurevich now jokes that he paid a tax for being a fool.
This big-ticket example shows vividly all the dynamics that play out in a sale. The discount itself often registers as a win, delivering the joy of both getting the product and the reward that we discovered something, and we’ve earned this extra thing. Thus, spotting something we’d like to buy on sale activates our brain’s reward system. Then there’s the fight in the brain between what can be described as its emotional and rational(理性的)parts. A sale lands like the thumb that tips our mental scale toward buying.
Stores, of course, know all this and try to push our buttons.
Experts say we often subconsciously believe popular things to be more valuable or more rewarding. Plus, there’s our urge to avoid loses — the fear of missing out (FOMO). So stores appeal to our crowd mentality: It’s Black Friday, ana everyone’s shopping, buying that thing you’d like. They create urgency: Your favorite car is on sale today only! And they create scarcity: Shop now while supplies last!
Stores also try various pricing tricks. “How do we make more customers go to the more expensive option? We add a decoy,” says Savannah Wei Shi, who researches pricing and decision-making. For example, picture s store shelf where a medium bag of candy sits next to a larger bag of the same candy. The medium-sized bag is much smaller than the other bag, but only slightly cheaper. It makes the big bag look like the best deal, so shoppers buy that one-the most expensive option on the shelf.
1. Why is Aarron Schurevich’s story mentioned?| A．To illustrate why we fall for a sale. | B．To present how our brains are activated. |
| C．To stress the importance of rational decision. | D．To prove the flexibility of marketing strategies. |
| A．FOMO postpones decisions. | B．Sales play on people’s fears. |
| C．Subconsciousness determines everything. | D．Scarcity promotion leads to wise purchases. |
| A．Using Pricing tricks. | B．Dealing with emergencies. |
| C．Creating scarcity. | D．Appealing to crowd mentality. |
| A．A candy. | B．A shelf. | C．A larger bag. | D．A medium bag. |
5 . Dallas-based Knit Wits is made up of a group of grandmothers with a strong love for knitting (编织) who tum their love for crafting into a purposeful attempt. Meeting regularly, they pour their collective love into every stitch (针法) they make. The group has been working for over ten years, meeting every Friday, to support organizations that help others, locally and around the world. Over the years, they’ve crafted thousands of items insupport of the important things.
Recently the Knit Wits member Mary Ann Stover was inspired to have the group knit hats for infant (婴儿) patients with heart disease at Children’s Health Hospital. The hats, each a unique work of art, designed with holiday themes, reflect the skill of the Knit Wits. More importantly, the special of Knit Wits is its understanding of the emotional effect these small objects can have on the infants experiencing medical treatments.
Bealle, a certified child life specialist at Children’s Health Hospital, explained how the hats are making a difference to the tiny patients and their families. “Caregivers are able to wear the hats on their body to move their smells before placing the hats back on the infants, encouraging connecting and making the infants less stressful,” he said.
Throughout the infants’ admission, many holidays are celebrated. At times, some infants are seriously ill and unable to dress up for holiday photos the families have planned. Thanks to the donations from Knit Wits, the hospital team is able to prove the family with a suitable themed infant hat the family can use for their photos and holiday celebrations.
1. What do we know about the hats from paragraph 2?| A．They centre on spiritual comfort. |
| B．They have holiday food subjects. |
| C．They are knitted by the caregivers |
| D．They are worn on child parents’ birthdays. |
| A．To hold an artistic activity. |
| B．To see off the recovered patients. |
| C．To relax the infants for treatments |
| D．To welcome the arrival of various holidays. |
| A．Why some holiday celebrations are held. |
| B．What the hats can be used as on holidays. |
| C．Why some special photos are important. |
| D．What the hats can be matched with. |
| A．Unsuccessful | B．Impractical. | C．Warm-hearted | D．Dishonest. |
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| A．A sports meeting. | B．A hiking trip. |
| C．A press conference. | D．A surprise party. |
8 . A language corpus (语料库) is a huge collection of texts taken from print, video, audio and other sources. It is a powerful tool that can help you learn more about English words and phrases.
The Corpus of Contemporary American English, or COCA, contains over one billion words from 1990 to 2019. And it has many ways to help learners find out more about how words are used.
How to use COCA
First, you will need to register with COCA to use the collection. You can register for two kinds of accounts. A free account limits you to 20 searches for words within any 24- hour period. A paid account will give you 200 searches within any 24-hour period.
Here are the steps for using COCA to find examples of how a word is used. We will use the word profound to show this.
·On the home page. type the word profound in the white search box on the left side of the screen.
·Click “find matching strings” just below the search box. This will take you to a new web-page.
·On this new page. you will see the word profound in blue. Click on it.
·You will now see a page with 100 examples using the word profound, and the word profound is shown in green. The source of each example is shown on the left side.
·If you click on the source on the left, COCA will show you a larger part of the text containing the example.
·If you want to see more examples, click the two forward page arrows >>at the top or bottom left. This brings you to the next 100 examples. In this way, you might find more kinds of sources for the examples.
1. What is COCA?| A．A textbook on American English changes. |
| B．A report about the development of English. |
| C．An Essential tool for beginners of English. |
| D．A database of Contemporary American English. |
| A．Only 200 searches available. | B．Less usage within 24 hours. |
| C．Only 20 examples per word. | D．Difficulty in applying for an account. |
| A．Reenter this word on the home page. | B．Click another page with 100 more examples. |
| C．Click on the left side of the relevant example. | D．Click page arrows at the top or bottom left. |
9 . All day, every day, we are hit by images promoting food of every type: television commercials for pizza, online ads for cheeseburgers, billboards for fried chicken, ad nauseam. This might evoke our potential appetite to eat, but a new research shows these images, if viewed often enough, actually satisfy our cravings and diminish (降低) our desire to eat. This discovery may come as a shock to snack-makers and food manufacturers, who invest heavily in ads that are supposed to stimulate our hunger.
The research, conducted at Aarhus University in Denmark, examined the different ways our perceptions of food affect our cravings. More than 1,100 people participated in a series of online studies led by Tjark Andersen, a Ph.D. candidate at Aarhus’ Department of Food Science. In one experiment, people were exposed to an online photo of orange M&M candies either three times or 30 times. Participants who saw the image 30 times had less desire to eat M&Ms than those who saw only three images of the candies. Additionally, people who saw 30 images stated they would choose a smaller portion of M&Ms than the group that saw just three images.
“Your appetite is more closely linked with your cognitive perception than most of us think,” Andersen said in a statement. “How we think about our food is very important. You will receive a physiological response to something you have only thought about. That’s why we can feel fully satisfied without eating anything,” he added.
The researchers, who published their results in the Journal Appetite, also looked at how the food’s color affected desire for it, by providing M&Ms in a variety of hues. The results didn’t change — people still wanted less of the food after viewing images of it 30 times. Even when colorful Skittles — candies that have a different flavor for each color — were introduced, the results of the experiment were largely the same. “If color did not have a significant impact, it implies that the perceived taste must be a contributing factor. However, our findings indicated that even the imagined taste did not have a major effect on satiety,” Andersen said.
The study may be of particular interest to advertisers, who have repeatedly come under fire for promoting foods that contribute to the obesity epidemic. “There are plenty of experimental studies showing these ads are affecting people and actually causing people to consume more unhealthy food,” Brennan Davis, a marketing professor at California Polytechnic State University’s Orfalea College of Business, said in a statement. “And we know that eating unhealthy food leads to higher rates of overweight and obesity,” Davis added.
1. What is the purpose of the research introduced by the author in the first paragraph?| A．To attract reader’s interest. | B．To illustrate a new concept. |
| C．To lead to the topic. | D．To deny a conventional opinion. |
| A．By drawing a parallel. | B．By making comparisons. |
| C．By studying statistics. | D．By doing different experiments. |
| A．It is an insignificant factor in influencing appetite. |
| B．It determines the physiological response to food. |
| C．It triggers overeating when viewing images of unhealthy foods. |
| D．It is more closely associated with appetite than previously thought. |
| A．Frequent exposure to food images does not affect our desire to eat. |
| B．Food manufacturers unintentionally suppress our appetite with their ads. |
| C．Our cognitive perception plays a significant role in controlling our appetite. |
| D．Colorful food images stimulate our appetite more than monochrome ones. |
10 . The poster child for generative Ai software is a shocking human mimic. It represents a potential new era in research, but brings risks.
It co-wrote scientific papers-sometimes secretly. It drafted outlines for presentations, proposals and classes, churned out computer code, and served as a sounding board for research ideas. It also invented references, made up facts and repeated hate speech. Most of all, it caught people’s imaginations. ChatGPT took on whatever role its interlocutors desired—and some they didn’t.
ChatGPT’s only objective is to plausibly continue dialogues in the style of its training data. But in doing so, it and other generative artificial-intelligence(AI) programme are changing how scientists work. They have also reopened debates about the limits of AI, the nature of human intelligence and how best to adjust the interaction between the two.
For some researchers ChatGPT has become an invaluable lab assistant—helping to summarize or write manuscripts, polish applications and write codes. ChatGPT and related software can help to brainstorm ideas, enhance scientific search engines and identify research gaps in the literature, says Marinka Zitnik, who works on AI for medical research at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
But the technology is also dangerous. Automated conversational agents can aid cheats and plagiarists; left unchecked, they could damage the well of scientific knowledge. Undisclosed AI-made content has begun to spread through the Internet and some scientists have admitted using ChatGPT to generate articles without declaring it.
No one knows how much more there is to get from ChatGPT-like systems. Their capabilities might yet be limited by the availability of computing power or new training data. But the generative AI revolution has started. And there’s no turning back.
1. Which aspect of ChatGPT is Paragraph 2 about?| A．Its potential. | B．Its influence | C．Its application. | D．Its working theory. |
| A．Secretly. | B．Fairly. | C．Reasonably. | D．Immediately |
| A．Positive. | B．Critical. | C．Concerned. | D．Unclear. |
| A．More Users’ Welfare: ChatGPT | B．AI Revolution; No Turning Back |
| C．ChatGPT: More Functions Developed | D．ChatGPT and Science: for Good and Bad |
