1 . UK taxpayers will pay tens of millions of pounds towards the cost of the King’s coronation.     1    , including fans of the royals, who feel the expense particularly upset.

    2    , which has stood above 10% in March, down slightly from the month prior, but still far higher than in the United States and Europe.

    3    . They were rising at their fastest rate in more than 45 years in March as high input and labor costs have hurt domestic producers, and as a weaker pound has made imports more expensive.

The strain has pushed record numbers of people toward the UK’s legions of food banks providing free groceries as wages have failed to keep pace with inflation.

The Trussell Trust, which distributes groceries to about 1,200 food banks, said last week that its network had handed out nearly 3 million emergency food parcels in the year to the end of March.    4    , and a 37% rise on the previous 12-month period.

“We are experiencing an unprecedented rise in the number of people coming to the food bank.    5    .” Brian Thomas, chief executive at South Tyneside Foodbank, located in England’s northeast, said in a statement.

A．That’s a record for a single year

B．Food price rises show no signs of pulling back

C．Inflation in the UK has rocketed over the past year

D．The increasingly higher prices are beyond people’s expectations.

E．Food banks have finally removed those long-accumulated products.

F．But millions of people are struggling to make ends meet as prices rise

G．They are no longer able to balance a low income against rising living costs

2 . AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas man went next door with a rifle and began shooting his neighbors, killing an 8-year-old and four others inside the house, after the family asked him to stop firing in his yard because they were trying to sleep, authorities said Saturday.

Sheriff Greg Capers said authorities were still searching for the 39-year-old suspect following the night shooting in the town of Cleveland, about 45 miles north of Houston. He said the suspect used an AR-style rifle in the shooting.

Capers said there were 10 people in the house and that no one else was injured. He said two of the victims, believed to be from Honduras, were found laying over two children inside.

“The Honduran ladies that were laying over these children were doing it in such an effort as to protect the child,” Capers said.

The conflict followed family members walking up to the fence and asking the suspect to stop shooting rounds, Capers said. The suspect responded by telling them that it was his property, according to Capers, and that one person in the house got a video of the suspect walking up to the front door with the rifle.

Three of the victims were women and one was a man. Their names were not released. Capers said the victims were between the ages of 8 and about 40 years old.

Authorities have previously been to the suspect’s home, according to Capers. “Police officers have come over and spoke with him about the shooting his gun in the yard,” he said.

Capers said some of those in the house had just moved from Houston earlier in the week, but he did not know whether they were planning to stay there.

The US is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023. The violence is sparked by a range of motives: murder-suicides and domestic violence; gang revenge ; school shootings and so on. All have taken the lives of four or more people at once since Jan 1.

1. Where was the suspect when the conflict started?

A．In his own yard.	B．In the police office.
C．In the neighbor’s house.	D．Together with the policemen.

2. How many victims lost their lives in the shooting accident?

A．4.

B．8.

C．5.

D．10.

3. How did the suspect possibly look at the firing rounds?

A．He hates neighboring others.

B．He owns the freedom of doing so.

C．He is willing to give up if warned.

D．He speaks up for the mass violence.

4. What is possible to be implied in the last paragraph?

A．More firings may happen in the area of Honduras.

B．More victims may lose their lives in social violence.

C．Immigrants will be mostly targeted in mass killings.

D．The Honduran family will suffer a violent revenge.

4 . 近年来，越来越多的人支持具有中国元素的国货，请以 “Let’s support our national brands”为题写一篇英文短文，向学校英文报投稿，内容包括：
1、此类品牌的特点；
2、原因分析及你的看法。
注意：
1、词数100左右；
2、可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3、题目已为你写好。

Let’s support our national brands

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6 . A new study finds that less than seven percent of the adult population in the US have what health experts consider good cardiometabolic (心脏代谢) health.

Using information on roughly 55,000 people over the age of 20, the results show just 6.8 percent of American adults reached optimal (最佳的) levels of health in 2018. Moreover, the study found American health has been in sharp decline over the last 20 years. In 1999, one in three adults had a healthy weight. By 2018, that number fell to just one in four Americans. At the same time, three in five people were free of diabetes in 1999. By 2018, however, more than six in ten adults had the condition!

“These numbers are striking. It’s deeply problematic that in the United States, fewer than 1 in 15 adults have optimal cardiometabolic health,” says Meghan O’Hearn, one of the researchers from Tufts University. “We need a complete overhaul (革新) of our healthcare system, food system, and living conditions, because this is a crisis for everyone.”

Instead of just looking for signs of disease, the team focused their study on the signs of good, moderate, and poor cardiometabolic health. “Disease is not the only problem,” O’Hearn explains. “We don’t just want to be free of disease. We want to achieve optimal health and well-being.”

Researchers also found large health gaps between US adults of different genders, ages, and education levels. Specifically, the study found Americans with less education were half as likely to be in peak cardiometabolic health.

O’Hearn adds, “Identifying these individuals and addressing their health conditions and lifestyle early is critical to reducing growing healthcare burdens. Its impacts on national healthcare spending and the financial health of the entire economy are enormous. And these conditions are largely preventable. We have the public health and clinical interventions and policies to be able to address these problems.”

1. What percentage of American adults had optimal cardiometabolic health in 2018?

A．Over 7 percent.	B．Just 6.8 percent.
C．Around 33 percent.	D．About 60 percent.

2. What does O’Hearn think of the results of the study?

A．They’re unreal.	B．They’re acceptable.
C．They’re expected.	D．They’re shocking.

3. What is the purpose of the team’s research?

A．To find the big age gap.	B．To help people keep fit.
C．To develop new drugs.	D．To earn lots of profits.

4. What can we infer from O’Hearn’s words in the last paragraph?

A．Joint effort is needed to improve public health.

B．Economic growth affects personal health condition.

C．America saw a slow decrease in healthcare costs.

D．Rich people tend to suffer from health problems.

7 . Activities such as art classes could be recommended as an alternative to medication for patients in England as part of a major initiative to reduce the number of people becoming dependent on prescription drugs.

The Times newspaper quotes figures showing that in the past 12 months,8.4 million adults in England were taking antidepressants(抗抑郁药)，which is 8 percent higher than 2019,which has resulted in the new advice.Around 23 percent of women are on antidepressants, and 12 percent of men.

“Medicines offer a fantastic range of tools for NHS staff to provide care that can be positively life-changing,” said Tony Avery, the national clinical director for prescribing at NHS England. “However, we need to be alert to the risks of some medicines, and the framework we are publishing today empowers local services to work with people to ensure they are being effectively supported when a medicine is no longer providing overall benefit.”

The NHS report drew particular attention to projects carried out in the county of Glouc-ester shire. One service, called Art on Prescription, was described as “a form of social prescription and is a non-clinical intervention delivered by art practitioners for therapeutic benefit”. Another, a course called Artlift, begins with “a personalized ‘What Matters To You’ conversation prior to the start of the program and (we) agree a personalized support plan and goals with each participant”. They all reported improvement in participants’ mental well-being.

Actually, as long ago as September 2018, then health secretary Matt Hancock said, “The evidence increasingly shows that activities like social clubs, art, ballroom dancing, and gardening can be more effective than medicines for some people and I want to see an increase in that sort of social prescribing.”

1. Why does activities such as art classes are recommended for patients in England?

A．Because they are more effective than medicines.

B．Because people in England prefer to attend art classes.

C．Because they can replace medication for patients in England.

D．Because they may help reduce the people’s dependence on certain drugs.

2. What can we learn from Tony Avery’s words?

A．Medicines can provide life-changing effects all the time.

B．We need to be cautious about the dangers of some medicines.

C．The framework published is greatly supported by the local people.

D．Local services can work with patients to provide them with overall benefit.

3. What do you know about the projects carried out in the county of Gloucester-shire?

A．The two projects were carried out in the rural areas of Gloucester-shire.

B．Art on Prescription was a clinical intervention delivered by art practitioners.

C．The patients’ mental health in the two projects were both reported to be improved.

D．A personalized “What Matters To You” conversation started after the start of the program Artlift.

4. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A．To persuade people to stop taking medicine.

B．To introduce a new kind of life-changing medicine.

C．To appeal to the government to organize more social activities.

D．To recommend a way to reduce patients’ dependence on prescribed drugs.

8 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

I had always enjoyed living in my flat on the top floor of a Victorian building in Wimbledon. Being so high up made me feel safe and secure, and I enjoyed wonderful views across the tree tops. I had never expected that I would experience a fire in the flat.

One night I went to sleep as usual after setting my alarm clock for 7 am and switching off the bedside light. A few hours later, I woke up puzzled. I could smell smoke and I could see that the bedroom was extremely dark. Then I realized the room was so dark because it was filled with smoke. I immediately left my bed and stood by the door. I was in panic. I was also convinced that I had somehow caused the fire without knowing it. I thought, “What will my neighbors think? I must get rid of the smoke before it gets into their flats.”

I managed to make my way to the curtains and tried to draw them open. This simple everyday act proved quite beyond me. When I finally opened the window, I saw all my neighbors standing on the lawn below, tightly wrapped up in their dressing gowns against the December cold. Then I realized it wasn’t me that had caused the fire. It was someone else.

Even though I had taken many fire awareness courses at work, I forgot everything I’d ever been taught at that time. My one instinct was to flee down the stairs.

“There’s a fire! Stay by the window!” someone shouted below the building. And that man’s words of warning stopped me and helped save my life. If I had opened my front door at the top of the stairwell to escape, the flames raging below would have been drawn upwards by the rush of oxygen and would have swept over me in an instant. I knew I should go to the kitchen and wait for help by the window there. I knew the firemen would save me using a ladder.

注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

So I went to the kitchen.

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Finally, the firemen arrived.

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9 . Schools in the US and elsewhere are announcing bans on the recently released AI — powered ChatGPT out of fear that students could use the technology to complete their assignments. However, bans may be practically impossible given how difficult it is to detect when text is composed by ChatGPT. Is it instead time to rethink how students are taught and evaluated?

Educators are starting to question what it means to assess student learning if an AI can write an essay or paper similar to, or even better than, a student would — and the teacher can’t tell the difference. Many teachers believe the time-honored learning tradition will be destroyed from the ground up by Chat GPT. The Los Angeles Unified School District in California first blocked the use of ChatGPT on networks and devices in December 2022.

However, removing technology from the classroom can mean undesirable consequences, such as creating more obstacles for students with disabilities, says Trust. Additionally, restricting the use of ChatGPT on school networks and devices can’t stop students from using ChatGPT at home and in libraries.

It is also unclear if anti-cheating software can reliably detect AI-assisted writing. OpenAI is working to develop a digital watermark that can help teachers and academics spot students who are using ChatGPT to write essays. Open AI’s attempts to watermark AI text, however, hit limits.

Instead of worrying about how ChatGPT could enable cheating, educators should ask what motivates students to cheat in the first place and work on developing relationships of trust, says Jesse Stommel at the University of Denver in Colorado.

“Talk to students really frankly about what ChatGPT’s capable of, what it’s not,” says Stommel. “Have students use it to write an essay about Jane Austen and gender dynamics, and then have them read that essay and peer review it and think about what ChatGPT gets right and wrong.”

1. What does the author suggest schools do?

A．Adjust teaching and assessment.

B．Meet different demands from students.

C．Prohibit the use of ChatGPT in classrooms.

D．Break with the traditional teaching method.

2. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．Dark future of ChatGPT.	B．Educators’ worrying concern.
C．Crisis of traditional learning.	D．Difficulty in telling AI’s writing.

3. What is the author’s attitude toward OpenAI’s watermark technology?

A．Amused.

B．Hopeful.

C．Shocked.

D．Doubtful.

4. What can be inferred from Jesse Stommel?

A．AI helps students tell right and wrong.

B．Students should write about famous writers.

C．Educators should guide students to use AI properly.

D．The trust between teachers and students is hard to form.

10 . There are a lot of reasons we fail to make effective decisions. Let’s take a look at some of the biggest ones:

We’re unintentionally stupid. I like to think that I’m rational (理智的) and capable of interpreting all information in a non-biased way but that’s a dream. Cognitive biases (偏见) are great at explaining how our evolutionary programming leads us wrong.    1     There are,however,many easily recognizable situations that increase the odds we’re about to do something stupid.

We use the wrong model.    2    The quality of those models determines the quality of our thinking. There are a variety of reasons that we use false, incomplete, or incorrect models. Beginners tend to use models that the expert knows are incomplete or irrelevant. The chance of employing the wrong models increases as the pace of environmental change increases.

We fail to learn. We all know the person that has 20years of experience but it’s really the same year over and over.    3    If we don’t understand how we learn,we’re likely to make the same mistakes over and over.

    4    Our evolutionary programming conditions us to do what’s easy over what’s right. After all it’s often easier to signal being virtuous (有道德的) than actually being virtuous. We unconsciously make choices based on optics (视觉),politics, and dependability. We hate criticism and seek the confirmation of our peers and superiors.    5    

Luckily, we can take steps to reduce the odds of stupidity and increase the chances of good decisions in each of these categories.

A．We overlook doing right.

B．We collected the wrong information.

C．Well,that person is sometimes us.

D．We use mental models to make decisions.

E．Knowledge of these biases in advance rarely helps us make better decisions.

F．Making decisions with the wrong assumptions or facts is likely to lead to disaster.

G．We often want to feel good about ourselves first and the outcome we desire second.