1 . 阅读下面的短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Honking cars, blasting stereos and babbling neighbors are     1     (whole) affecting people’s daily life: consider it all part of the symphony that plays daily on New York City streets. Everyone knows the city is loud, and a losing war against noise     2     (wage) for a long time. Now they have a new weapon     3     (invite) to many citizens: noise cameras.

The cameras     4     (pair) with a sound meter to detect noise of at least 85 decibels (分贝) from a source 50 ft or more away have recently been fixed on certain streets in Manhattan’s wealthy Upper West Side. It’s part of a program run by the city’s department of environmental protection.

However, Erica Walker, who studies the joint     5     community noise and health, believes most noise   comes from poor city planning rather than individual bad actions, and that noise cameras are merely Band -Aids for a more systemic issue. Actually,     6     (far) research still needs to be done on the economic effects of noise cameras. The public is supposed to zero in on the dangers and economic costs of noise pollution     7     can blight some proceeds and urge that appropriate actions     8     (carry) out.

On the other hand,     9     lecturer at Columbia University expressed concern about the surveillance (监视) capabilities of noise cameras. “It is being tried for the possibility     10     (leak) privacy still. Does this present a   privacy risk for residents of the city? ” she held the question.

2 . Chinese mainland, ________ is indicated in the chart, has risen to 11th place on the 2022 Global Innovation Rating. (用适当的词填空)

4 . 语法填空

ChatGPT could be better than GPs (全科医生) at treating depression (抑郁症). It is not affected by class and gender (性别),     1     study has found. Researchers discovered that the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot did not distinguish (区别) between men and women or economic status when     2    (decide) how to treat patients with mild and severe depression.

The study     3    (publish) in the British Medical Journal. It compared the treatment plans prescribed (开处方) by 1,249 doctors. They were in France. They compared them with that of the AI bot. It was for patients with depressive symptoms. These include sadness, sleeping and     4    (lose) of appetite. It said there was “no significant difference” in the treatment     5     the AI system recommended. It did not prescribe     6    (different) for men and women or white collar (白领) and blue collar workers.

    7    , it said doctors prescribed “significantly less” antidepressants (抗抑郁药) to women than men. They “commonly” prescribed antidepressants without therapy (疗法) to blue collar workers and a “combination” of both     8     white collar workers. For those with mild depression, ChatGPT prescribed therapy to 97.5 percent of hypothetical (假定的) patients presented with mild depression. This was in line with clinical guidance     9    (compare) with 4.3 percent of the same patients that were referred by GPs. For those     10     severe depression, ChatGPT recommended therapy and a drug to every single patient. GPs did this in less than half of the cases (44.4 percent). They opted for drugs only for four in 10 people.

10 . 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。

A young inventor from Canada is making headlines after she created a specialized set of contact lenses (隐形眼镜)    1    can correct color blindness.

Gabrielle Masone, 28, became inspired to create these contact lenses because of her own     2     (person) issues with her eyesight she experienced as a child. “When I was little, I had an eye condition    3     (call) amblyopia (弱视) and one of my eyes finally went blind,” she explained.

In 2017, Gabrielle     4     (start) Colorsmith Labs Inc. with the aim of    5     (create) corrective lenses. Less than two years later, after teaming up with    6     (scientist) from St Mary’s University in Halifax, Gabrielle accomplished this goal! Gabrielle is hoping that this     7     (invent) will save others from having to wear large, unfashionable glasses.

Danielle Tokarz, a professor with St Mary’s University Chemistry Department, is helping Gabrielle perfect the lenses. “We’ve made the functional nanoparticles (纳米颗粒), and we’re just perfecting them,” she said. “But we are in the testing stage of    8     (actual) starting to put them in contact lenses.”

Now, Gabrielle and her team are looking     9    a $1.5 million investment (投资) to help them finish this project and bring the lenses to the masses lenses could change millions of lives all over the world, and we thank Gabrielle and her team for figuring out     10    to make them!