1 . 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。

Do you want to learn     1     foreign language? Choose one of the most useful languages suggested below to learn.

In most places all over the world, English is the most widely used second language of all the languages. Whether a person is traveling to a foreign country     2     communicating with people from other countries     3     business purposes, English is one language which will come in handy at every step.

Spanish is the language of business in about twenty     4    (country). There are many jobs in other nations, which specially ask for people     5     know how to speak and write Spanish.

The Chinese economy is booming! In the future, China     6     (become) the economic world leader, which makes it the perfect time to learn Mandarin Chinese, a language     7    (speak) by millions of people.

French     8     (recognize) as one of the top languages to learn,     9    (simple) because it is a chief language in northern and western Africa. Anyone trying to understand     10    (Europe) history can benefit a lot from learning this language.

2 . Will the AI chatbots eat search engines’ lunch? For more than 20 years, search engines have been the Internet’s front door. Google has dominated the field in most of the world. But nothing lasts forever, particularly in technology.

Just ask IBM, which once ruled business computing or Nokia, once the leader in mobile phones. Both fell behind because they didn’t follow big technological transitions. Now another tech innovation might announce a similar shift and a similar opportunity. ChatGPT has put itself on center stage, by letting people chat with an AI directly. ChatGPT can write essays in various styles, explain complex concepts, summarize texts and answer questions. And it can collect, process and combine knowledge from the web: for example, listing holiday spots that match certain criteria, or suggesting menus or schedules. If asked, it can explain its reasoning and provide details. Many things that people use search engines for today, in short, can be done better withchatbots.

Will ChatGPT help students cheat better? Yes, but as with many other technology developments, it’s not a simple black and white situation. Decades ago, students could copy encyclopedia entries, and more recently, they’ve been able to search the Internet and explore into Wikipedia entries. ChatGPT offers new abilities for everything from helping with research to doing their homework for them. Many ChatGPT answers already sound like student essays. Ask the new artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT   to write an essay about the cause of the American Civil War and you can watch it produce a persuasive term paper in a matter of seconds.

It can even pass a number of exams. It scored 60% on the United States Medical Licensing Examination, 70% on an exam for lawyers, 78% on New York state’s high school chemistry exam’s multiple-choice section, and ranked the 40th on the Law School Admission Test.

A high school teacher concluded ChatGPT already writes better than most students today. He’s torn between admiring ChatGPT’s potential usefulness and fearing its harm to human learning: “Is this moment more like the invention of the calculator, saving me from the boredom of long division, or more like the invention of the player piano, robbing us of what can be communicated only through human emotion?”

1. What is the reason why some tech companies fail to develop?

A．The sharp rising market cost.	B．The negative impact of local economy.
C．Their shift to other business fields.	D．Their failure to keep pace with tech changes.

2. What is ChatGPT unable to do according to the text?

A．Write various articles.	B．Schedule a holiday trip.
C．Play the piano.	D．Explain complex concepts.

3. What is the purpose of the percentages mentioned in Paragraph 4?

A．To explain a rule.	B．To illustrate a fact.
C．To make a prediction.	D．To clarify a concept.

4. What is the author’s attitude towards ChatGPT?

A．Neutral.

B．Positive.

C．Critical.

D．Ambiguous.

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
When I was a little girl, my family moved to a tiny town at the bottom of a big mountain. One day after school, while     1    (explore) the green woods of this magnificent mountain, I almost     2    (fall) on a set of stairs. What could these steps lead to?     3     (curious) got the best of me as I knew it would be starting to get dark soon. I started climbing up those strangely     4    (mystery) steps.
I climbed and climbed. There was nothing but just green bushes and these steps. I had to reach the top! However, it was now getting really dark. My mum     5     (be) worried sick if I didn’t come home soon. So I ran back home almost in     6     dark and tried not to get too scared.
Anxiously I went to bed dreaming about     7    I would find at the top of this magical mountain. Could there be a castle up there? Maybe I would find a monster. Maybe I was taking the risk of never coming back home. Or, maybe all I would find was     8    (absolute) nothing! But something inside me was going to climb that mountain     9    all cost. I couldn’t wait     10     (try) this adventure again.

4 . Nixon, 59 years old, was born and grew up in St. Petersburg. Each morning, he sits on a bench, watches the sunrise, and connects with _________ from all walks of life.

Eight years ago, he decided to begin each day from a bench (a kind of chair) with an impressive view of the St. Petersburg waterfront (圣彼得堡海滨), because it made him feel calm and _________ before starting his day.

About a year later, a woman stopped to say hello, and she said something that _________ Nixon’s view on his daily visit. She said, “Every morning when I see you sitting here, I know everything is going to be OK.” That’s when Nixon _________ he needed to pay attention to the people walking past.

Instead of staring straight ahead at the waterfront, Nixon started _________ at people and talking to them. And pretty soon, some early risers began _________ him on the bench, sometimes sharing their pressure and asking him for advice about personal problems.

No matter what problem a person wants to _________, Nixon lends an ear. One day, a couple came by to talk about their problems. The husband was always working. It was destroying their _________. Nixon told him, “You have to know what’s really important.” The man admitted he’d put everything he had into his _________ for many years instead of focusing on his family. “He started to cry and agreed that he needed to __________,” Nixon says. “We hugged each other and became friends after that.”

Nixon was always happy to listen, and he listens without __________ and without any kind of return expected. “You have to listen with an open heart, because you never know who’s going to walk up,” Nixon says. He is a loving and loyal __________ to many. For those who walked past the bench, they were always __________ with a smile and asked how they were doing. No topic is off limits, but some people don’t want to talk. They simply want to sit next to someone and share the __________. Once a woman stopped and just sat with Nixon for an hour; then she said thanks and walked away. She just wanted a moment of peace and to know she wasn’t __________.

And at that moment, she truly wasn’t.

1.

A．teenagers

B．relatives

C．strangers

D．neighbors

2.

A．peaceful

B．excited

C．proud

D．surprised

3.

A．formed

B．changed

C．developed

D．supported

4.

A．agreed

B．realized

C．imagined

D．remembered

5.

A．pointing

B．laughing

C．shouting

D．smiling

6.

A．joining

B．noticing

C．leaving

D．praising

7.

A．say

B．face

C．hear

D．create

8.

A．fame

B．success

C．marriage

D．privacy

9.

A．health

B．hobbies

C．kids

D．job

10.

A．give up

B．calm down

C．speak up

D．slow down

11.

A．emotion

B．consideration

C．judgment

D．interest

12.

A．guide

B．teacher

C．friend

D．workmate

13.

A．hugged

B．greeted

C．competed

D．satisfied

14.

A．secrets

B．worries

C．happiness

D．silence

15.

A．sad

B．alone

C．stressed

D．hopeless

5 . 语法填空

Built in the 3rd century B.C, Dujiangyan Irrigation System,    1    still controls the waters of the Minjiang River and distributes it to the fertile farmland of the Chengdu plains, is a living heritage of 2,000-year-old design and engineering ideas. It has been     2     (complete) preserved, with all necessary features     3     (demonstrate) the outstanding universal value. They express the importance of using natural features to their fullest in constructing an irrigation system. The Dujiangyan irrigation system, located in the western part of the Chengdu flatlands at the meeting place     4    the Sichuan basin and the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, is     5    ecological engineering achievement originally constructed around 256 BC. Enlarged during the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming    6     (dynasty), it uses natural features to solve problems of making water change direction for irrigation, flood control, and flow control without the use of dams.

There are three major parts of this irrigation system. The first is a well-designed levee (堤坝)named Yuzui (Fish Mouth) in the middle of the river that was shaped     7     (control) the amount of water that enters the two channels. The second is a channel of the irrigation project called Baopingkou (Cherished Vase Mouth) whose narrow opening regulates the amount of water entering the system. The third is a spillway called Feishayan    8     (dig) to discharge water, sand and mud.

The system     9     (produce) comprehensive benefits in flood control, irrigation, water transport and general water    10     (consume) since it was begun over 2,250 years ago. It now irrigates 668,700 hectares of farmland.

6 . 假如你是李华，你的朋友Mary想加入社区志愿者协会(volunteer association)，但她的父母担心这会影响她的学业，所以不同意她参加，为此她和父母产生了矛盾。请你给她写一封邮件。内容包括：
1.表示理解；
2.提出建议；
3.表达希望。
注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在以下位置作答。
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7 . In 2014, Eve and Norman Fertig, a couple, saved a two-week-old shepherd (牧羊犬) named Shana.

One winter several years later, as the Fertigs, both then 81, ________ the injured and hungry animals housed in one of their buildings, a violent snowstorm blew in. When the couple went outside to check the weather, several trees fell, trapped them in a narrow path between two ________. Eve and Norman couldn’t climb over or duck (躲避) below the trunks. For the next two and a half hours, they crowded together for ________ as the snow piled higher. “We were________” Eve said. “I thought we could die out here.”

Around 9:30 pm, Shana, who was outside, began digging to ward Eve and Norman in the deep snow. It took her nearly two hours, but ________ she cleared a narrow tunnel (隧道) about 20 feet long ________the front door of the main house with the Fertigs’________.

When breaking through the snow and ________ the couple, the 160-pound dog barked and caught Eve’s jacket and ________ the 86-pound woman onto her back. Norman seized Eve’s ankles (脚踝), and for the next two hours, Shana pulled the couple through the tunnel.

Thanks to Shana’s ________ , they finally reached the house around 2 am., and the Fertigs ________ to get just inside the front door. Extremely ________, they lay there, still. The storm had ________ the electricity and heat,________ Shana slept next to them all night to keep them warm until the firemen found them.

After five months, Shana’s feet recovered from the injuries she ________ while digging.

1.

A．fed

B．found

C．saved

D．trained

2.

A．rooms

B．buildings

C．tunnels

D．animals

3.

A．fortune

B．warmth

C．freedom

D．inspiration

4.

A．in shock

B．in sight

C．in trouble

D．in panic

5.

A．carefully

B．eventually

C．actually

D．hopelessly

6.

A．contacting

B．providing

C．equipping

D．connecting

7.

A．position

B．section

C．exit

D．accommodation

8.

A．observing

B．approaching

C．reaching

D．passing

9.

A．threw

B．controlled

C．struck

D．guided

10.

A．efforts

B．effects

C．patience

D．eagerness

11.

A．managed

B．intended

C．reminded

D．sought

12.

A．stressed

B．astonished

C．tired

D．delighted

13.

A．focused on

B．knocked out

C．settle for

D．turned down

14.

A．rather

B．despite

C．somehow

D．but

15.

A．contained

B．destroyed

C．received

D．memorized

8 . Endangered polar bears are breeding (繁殖) with grizzly bears (灰熊), creating “pizzly” bears, which is being driven by climate change, scientists say.

As the world warms and Arctic sea ice thins, starving polar bears are being forced ever further south, where they meet grizzlies, whose ranges are expanding northwards. And with that growing contact between the two come increasing hybrids (杂交种).

With characteristics that could give the hybrids an advantage in warming northern habitats, some scientists guess that they could be here to stay. “Usually, hybrids aren’t better suited to their environments than their parents, but these hybrids are able to search for a broader range of food sources,” Larisa DeSantis, an associate professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, told Live Science.

The rise of “pizzly” bears appears with polar bears’ decline: their numbers are estimated to decrease by more than 30% in the next 30 years. This sudden fall is linked partly to “pizzly” bears taking up polar bears’ ranges, where they outcompete them, but also to polar bears’ highly specialized diets.

“Polar bears mainly consumed soft foods even during the Medieval Warm Period, a previous period of rapid warming,” DeSantis said, referring to fat meals such as seals. “Although all of these starving polar bears are trying to find alternative food sources, like seabird eggs, it could be a tipping point for their survival.” Actually, the calories they gain from these sources do not balance out those they burn from searching for them. This could result in a habitat ready for the hybrids to move in and take over, leading to a loss in biodiversity if polar bears are replaced.

“We’re having massive impacts with climate change on species,” DeSantis said. “The polar bear is telling us how bad things are. In some sense, “pizzly” bears could be a sad but necessary compromise given current warming trends.”

1. Why do polar bears move further south?

A．To create hybrids.	B．To expand territory.
C．To relieve hunger.	D．To contact grizzlies.

2. What makes “pizzly” bears adapt to natural surroundings better than their parents?

A．Broader habitats.	B．More food options.
C．Climate preference.	D．Improved breeding ability.

3. What does the underlined phrase “a tipping point” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A．A rare chance.	B．A critical stage.
C．A positive factor.	D．A constant change.

4. What’s the main idea of the text?

A．Polar bears are changing diets for climate change.

B．Polar bears have already adjusted to climate change.

C．“Pizzly” bears are on the rise because of global warming.

D．“Pizzly”bears have replaced polar bears for global warming.

9 . For people suffering from depression, there’s an all-natural treatment they should use — getting more exercise. It could help fight depression, even if people have a genetic risk, new research shows.

For the study, researchers collected information from nearly 8,000 people and found those with related genes were more likely to have depression over the next two years after examining them. But that was less likely for people who were more active at the study’s start, even if they had a family history of depression. Higher levels of physical activity helped protect even those with the highest genetic risk of depression.

Both high-intensity (高强度) exercise and low-intensity activities were associated with a reduced risk of depression. Adding four hours of exercise a week could lower the risk of a new episode (一段经历) of depression by 17%, according to the study. “Our findings strongly suggest that, when it comes to depression, being physically active has the potential to remove the added risk of future episodes in individuals who are genetically risky,” said lead author Karmel Choi. “On average, about 35 additional minutes of physical activity each day may help people to reduce their risk and protect against future depression episodes.”

Depression is a common mental illness globally, with more than 264 million people affected. “Depression is so ubiquitous, and that underlines the need for effective approaches that can impact as many people as possible,” Choi said. And mental health and primary care providers can use the findings to advise patients that there’s something meaningful they can do to lower their risk of depression.

1. How did the researchers reach their conclusion?

A．By analyzing a mass of data.

B．By conducting genetic research.

C．By comparing various levels of activity.

D．By tracking the subjects for many years.

2. What does the study show about depression?

A．Physical activity betters medical treatment.

B．Exercise is able to decrease and prevent it.

C．Different levels of exercise intensity matter the same.

D．Exercising 35 minutes daily is the most effective treatment.

3. What does the underlined word “ubiquitous” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Harmful.	B．Complex.
C．Unusual.	D．Common.

4. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To discuss a disease.

B．To introduce a method.

C．To analyze a genetic risk.

D．To explain a phenomenon.