Reuben sat on the bench during gym class, daydreaming. As his classmates fought comparatively up and down the basketball court, he was imagining a different game — one in which a group of colorful bricks turned around quickly and side-stepped and dunked (扣篮). At the center of this spinning circle he could see a giant basketball… made out of Lego bricks(乐高积木).
A few weeks earlier, he had built exactly that kind of huge Lego basketball. It was for a city-wide art contest that everyone was excited about: the prize was a $100 check for the student artist and a visit to the winner’s school by the world-famous basketball team — The Lakers. Since he had submitted his entry, Reuben kept dreaming about his creation, imagining it would show his classmates how good he was. at something!
Reuben was caught up in his basketball ballet, imagining the bricks move closer ... and closer ..Suddenly, a sharp whistle abruptly interrupted his thoughts, followed by an urgent shout from the teacher: “Reuben!”
Surprised, he jumped to his feet.
“Where is your attention, young man? I had to call you three times. Now go take Lamar’s place.” “Who, Reuben? He’s too busy building Lego things in his head,” Lamar yelled as their classmates laughed.
Of course Lamar was right. Worse still, Reuben was the tallest boy in his class, and his combination of his height, long arms, and wiry fingers screamed “basketball player”. Therefore, Reuben was expected not just to be good at basketball, he was expected to be great!
But he was neither. Chasing and shooting balls was not his thing. He was clumsy (笨拙的) on the court. He loved to build and design and draw things. Once, he even recreated a mouse trap, making it humane (人性化的).
“Why worry about mice?” mom complained. “They eat our rice!”
“But mice sing to communicate and feel empathy for other mice, Mom. And that some carry seeds to other parts of the environment, which helps things grow!”
“Huh,” his mom said, then frowned and replied, “Even so, mice are no use to no one.” “Mice matter too, Mom!” Reuben replied.
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Paragraph 1: Back on the court today, Reuben felt like an oversized mouse himself.
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Paragraph 2: Just after the gym class, an excited voice came over the loudspeaker.
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Dear friends,
We are writing this letter to call on everyone to take part in the Healthy Eyes, Healthy Life campaign.
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The Students’ Union
Did you ever imagine that one day we could enjoy the benefits of Traditional Chinese Medicine in a cup of coffee?
Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM, is
But if you ask younger generations of Chinese, few visit TCM shops nowadays, let alone brew these time-tested remedies for
The concept of combining TCM herbs
As Traditional Chinese Medicine becomes more
4 . Jim Quick grew up on a farm in Orchard Hill, Georgia. There he learned how
“Forty-two years later, and I’m still
Quick is still learning about bees on the farm where he grew up. But he is worried: The bee
The declining bee population can be
Scientists are searching for
| A．vital | B．friendly | C．addicted | D．sensitive |
| A．bees | B．bushes | C．crops | D．roots |
| A．trying | B．working | C．learning | D．teaching |
| A．growth | B．migration | C．diversity | D．population |
| A．lost | B．moved | C．collected | D．discovered |
| A．disappoints | B．concerns | C．shocks | D．challenges |
| A．safety | B．storage | C．flavor | D．production |
| A．relying on | B．resulting in | C．speeding up | D．controlling over |
| A．caused | B．identified | C．worsened | D．limited |
| A．enemies | B．disasters | C．diseases | D．chemicals |
| A．size | B．life | C．diet | D．memory |
| A．clues | B．solutions | C．volunteers | D．donations |
| A．job | B．idea | C．choice | D．schedule |
| A．help | B．remember | C．decide | D．communicate |
| A．decorated | B．designed | C．started | D．bought |
5 . A future where insects make up a large part of the world’s diet is on the horizon. Despite the unpleasant nature of such cuisine, insects have been considered a delicacy in some parts of world for centuries. Their being low-fat and high-protein makes them a perfect choice for reducing hunger.
Animal protein from livestock (家畜), such as cows, chicken and pigs, takes up 80 percent of the entire world’s farmland, despite only making up less than one-fifth of calories consumed globally.
Insects such as grasshoppers, meal worms and crickets are packed full of protein with much higher vitamin levels than pork or beef.
It seems that insects are an ideal solution for many issues the world today is faced with.
Times are changing. The European Union last year declared that meal worms were safe for human consumption. Cricket protein powder is also increasing greatly in popularity, with Canada rapidly becoming the largest market for the product.
| A．They also have a host of environmental benefits. |
| B．Insects reproduce quickly and have high growth rates. |
| C．Unlike agriculture, insects produce far fewer greenhouse gases. |
| D．They require little space, water and technology to raise compared to livestock. |
| E．However, making them a delicious cuisine can be a challenge in several cultures. |
| F．By freeing up livestock space, huge expanses of land could be returned to nature. |
| G．A future where insects will become invaluable to space exploration is also upcoming. |
6 . Network-based technologies have become increasingly widespread, and they are now being used by countless individuals, professionals, and businesses worldwide. Despite their advantages, most network-based systems are highly at risk of malicious (恶意的) attacks.
The consequences of a malicious attack on network-based systems can be extremely harmful. For instance, an attack on a power plant network could leave millions of individuals and offices without electricity, while attacks on social media networks can lead to exposure of user information.
To overcome the weaknesses of network-based systems, computer scientists worldwide have been trying to develop advanced intrusion detection systems (IDSs) (入侵检测系统) that could help to identify malicious attacks, increasing a network’s safety. In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms (机器学习算法) have been found to be particularly promising for automatically detecting attacks and intrusions on a network’s functioning.
An important step in the development and training of ML-based IDSs is the selection of data features that a model can rely or focus on when making predictions. Ideally, by analyzing large datasets, researchers should be able to identify the most suitable features for solving a given task using ML tools, and this can also be applied to intrusion detection.
Researchers at Canadian University Dubai in the UAE have recently developed a new feature selection method that could enable the development of more effective ML-based IDSs. This method was found to perform remarkably well when compared with other commonly employed feature selection techniques. Using the features they identified as most important for intrusion detection, the researchers created a highly efficient ML-based detection system. This system was found to be capable of distinguishing between DDoS attacks and harmless network signals with 99% accuracy.
In the future, the feature selection method developed by the researchers and their findings could help the development of new, highly effective IDSs. In addition, the system they created using the features they identified could be applied in real-world settings to detect malicious attacks on real networks.
1. What does paragraph 1 focus on about network-based technologies?| A．Their targeted users. | B．Their popularity. |
| C．Their potential risk. | D．Their advantages. |
| A．By tracking malicious attacks. |
| B．By starting anti-virus programs. |
| C．By sorting out user information. |
| D．By recognizing malicious attacks. |
| A．Solving given tasks. | B．Selecting reliable data features. |
| C．Making accurate predictions. | D．Analyzing large enough datasets. |
| A．To introduce a new technique for IDSs. |
| B．To promote network-based technologies. |
| C．To raise people’s awareness of network safety. |
| D．To discuss ways to deal with malicious attacks. |
7 . Young and old alike can be crazy about a new finding by researchers at Ohio State University and the University of Chicago. There is hope for us all when it comes to creativity, they say.
According to the study, which focused on the 31 most notable Nobel Prize winners in economics, there are two types of creativity that can blossom at different points in a person’s life. Conceptual innovators tend to do their best work in their mid-twenties, while experimental innovators peak in their fifties.
They explain in the paper that there are conceptual thinkers, who seek to communicate specific ideas or emotions and have precise goals for their works, planning them carefully in advance, and carrying them out systematically. Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein both did their greatest work in youth. However, experimental innovators build on their knowledge and accept theories throughout their careers and ultimately find new and innovative ways to analyze that knowledge. These thinkers tend to do their best work later in life. The paper cites Virginia Woolf and Charles Darwin as late bloomers.
The study states, “Many scholars believe that creativity is only associated with youth. Two 54-year-old Harvard scholars were denied offers of tenured professorships (终身教授) due to concerns of the so-called problem of “extinct volcanoes.”
Their findings suggest that this kind of biased (有偏见的) thinking leads to bad decisions. It ignores the fact that there are different types of innovators and that different problems demand different kinds of contributions and solutions. They hope their work will gradually remove the world’s favoritism for precocious geniuses(早熟的天才) and its ignorance of the creativity that comes with age. Weinberg, the co-author of the study, said,“We believe what we found in this study isn’t limited to economics, but could apply to creativity more generally.”
1. Which of the following can replace the underlined “blossom”?| A．Fully develop. | B．Suddenly change. |
| C．Gradually fade. | D．Repeatedly emerge. |
| A．Age or career. | B．Education background. |
| C．Type of thinking. | D．Exposure to diverse ideas. |
| A．Creativity breeds success. |
| B．Creativity knows no age limit. |
| C．Solutions need diverse creativity. |
| D．Favoritism for geniuses limits creativity. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Objective. | C．Positive. | D．Critical. |
8 . Massimo Bottura, a three-Michelin-Starred chef, has extended his culinary(烹饪的) empire globally. However, he says that the peak of all of his achievements is Milan’s Refettorio Ambrosiano and the following 12 global branches.
At Refettorio Ambrosiano, dinner guests are greeted by name. They dine on fine china at tables created by the country’s most sought-after furniture designers. The waiters are polite, and the chefs have been trained under the finest restaurateurs in the world. The set menu changes every day, depending on what comes in with the morning’s delivery.
This morning’s delivery contains dry arugula(芝麻菜), chicken close to its sell-by date and too-ugly-to-be-sold oranges. By dinner, however, the supermarket castoffs have been transformed into a three-course meal. The 100 or so diners — refugees, the homeless, and the unemployed — enjoy the meal with obvious pleasure, laughing with the volunteer waiters, praising the volunteer chefs, and forgetting, at least for an hour, the challenges of a life lived on the streets.
The brightest gems in Bottura’s culinary empire are not restaurants at all. He thinks of them as spaces that shine a light on the dignity of their guests while focusing attention on the food-waste problem by turning foods that were otherwise going to be headed toward rubbish bins into Michelin Guide-worthy meals.
Botura first thought of Refettorio Ambrosiano as a pop-up concept for the 2015 World Expo in Milan. The organizers had invited him to cook for the grand opening. Bottura proposed something different. He wanted to invite the world’s best chefs to cook with him for the city’s homeless,using leftovers. That idea soon got supported and turned into something more permanent.
Today, the Refettorio is “a movement,” Bottura says. “It is a model for fighting food waste and isolation on the front lines. And it starts by looking at an old carrot or a piece of hard bread and catching sight of gold.”
1. How do the Refettorio Ambrosianos differ from Bottura’s other restaurants?| A．The waiters are well-trained. |
| B．The tables are custom-made. |
| C．They are three-Michelin-starred. |
| D．Daily delivery decides the set menu. |
| A．An evening gathering for local chefs. | B．A charity sale of supermarket castoffs |
| C．A wealthy meal for the less-fortunate. | D．A volunteer training for the homeless |
| A．It’s his best profitable restaurant. |
| B．It’s a good project for food safety. |
| C．It’s a pop-up concept to extend his business. |
| D．It’s win-win for the environment and society. |
| A．Less Waste, More Taste. | B．A Dinner of Dignity |
| C．Best Restaurant, Best Service. | D．The Power of Food |
9 . 2023 has arrived with a wealth of films scheduled to be released. Here are three of them that you might be interested in.
◆ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Directed by: Joaquim Dos Santos
Opening in: June 2023
The original Oscar-winning animated (动画的) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse was a big hit when released in 2018, and its sequel, Across the Spider-Verse is one of the most hoped-for films of 2023. The first trailer did not provide much insight into the story of the movie, but it did reveal the different Spider characters that Miles will be coming into contact with.
◆ Oppenheimer
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Opening in: July 2023
Oppenheimer is a new biopic (传记电影) on physicist and “father of the atomic bomb”J.Robert Oppenheimer. The director claims that it was quite the challenge indeed to attempt to simulate (模拟) a nuclear explosion without the use of CGI animation during one of the crucial scenes from the film. Like virtually all of Nolan’s films, this IMAX-shot film should be seen on the biggest screen available.
◆Dune: Part Two
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Opening in: November 2023
After the success of Dune:Part One, Dune: Part Two has been officially green lit. Except for the Star Wars film series, no other work has continued to have a bigger influence over the world of science fiction than this series. Director Denis Villeneuve claims the film will cover the rest of the writer’s 1965 masterpiece.
As Denis Villeneuve once said, “I’ve lived with Dune for most of my life. Being patient is part of the journey.” That patience should pay off with the second part of his sci-fi epic.
1. What challenged the director most during filming Oppenheimer?| A．Filming in tough landscapes. |
| B．Finding the right leading actor. |
| C．Creating realistic special effects. |
| D．Shooting battle scenes with IMAX. |
| A．A cartoon. | B．A sci-fi. | C．A biopic. | D．A thriller. |
| A．Film studio. | B．Main plot. | C．Running time. | D．Release time. |
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2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：吉祥物mascot；二十四节气24 solar terms；一起向未来Together For A Shared Future；雪如意Snow Ruyi — the National Ski Jumping Center。
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