| 1. 阅读理解 | 详细信息 |
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Icehouse and ice ticket As early as Pre-Qin Dynasty, people used natural ice to keep food fresh and make cold drinks. The Zhou royal court had a specialized department called "ice administration". They collected natural ice blocks each December to store in the icehouse. During the Qing Dynasty, "ice tickets" were used and they were available only to officials and the rich. Ice container The most commonly used cooling tool is called "Jian", which is a big container filled with ice. It was made of clay in early Chinese history, and was later made of copper (铜). The "Jian" can be seen as an ancient refrigerator, which can be used to make cold drinks. Hiding food in the well During the Qin and Han dynasties, for common people, the most common way to cool off is by using their wells. Some families put a pot in the well as a cold closet, or put food in a basket and lowered the basket into the well with a rope. Herbal drinks During the Qing Dynasty, taking Chinese herbal medicine was popular in Beijing. In hot summer, some people preferred to drink ice water, some boiled perilla leaves, and liquorice as summer soup to keep off the heat. Ancient people also loved to make lotus seed soup in summer for the benefit of strengthening the body.
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| 2. 阅读理解 | 详细信息 |
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。When I set down a cup of soup in front of one of "The Party", she glanced down at it, and then frowned. "Hannah, I asked for a half cup of soup," she said, sounding angrily, "You are always so slow. I don't know how you always mess up our orders." I politely mumbled an apology. It was only a cup of soup, and an honest mistake, but I felt like such a disaster. The residents at the high-end senior living community, where I served as a waitress in the cafeteria, expected nothing less than a five-star dining experience and my small mistake was not to be tolerated. When I first started working there, I was already shy and couldn't stand the idea that someone didn't like me. Early on, when residents would scold or criticize me with or without reasons, I felt like crawling under a rock. The most difficult guests by far were a group of six women who the servers nicknamed "The Party." At first, they seemed friendly. But the truth is that they were rude and demanding. I would leave the dining room exhausted almost every night after serving them. Somehow those rough nights started to change me to become more outgoing and self-assured. The residents gradually depend on me and my "convinced" smile. I used to have trouble speaking in front of a group and would be shy when I did. Now, I have no problem walking up to a table of fourteen people and making conversation as if I had known them my whole life. I give credit to "The Party" for putting me in a situation where I had no choice but to smile and carry on. Today, when I see "The Party", I still flinch a little inside, but then I pull back my shoulders, lift my chin and march up to them ask, "What's it going to be today, ladies?"
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| 3. 阅读理解 | 详细信息 |
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Many animals depend upon sound to find food or communicate with one another. These species understandably suffer when loud motorways cut through their habitats. Scientists have long documented the ecological damage caused by noise pollution. It has always been assumed, however, that noise is a problem unique to animals. But a new study by Ali Akbar Ghotbi-Ravandi, a botanist in Tehran, has revealed that plants fell victim to it too. Working with a team of colleagues, Dr Ghotbi-Ravandi grew two species in his lab that are commonly found in urban environments. The plants were grown from seed and allowed to mature for two months in the same space before they were divided into two groups. One group was exposed to 73 decibels of traffic noise recorded from a busy motorway in Tehran for 16 hours a day. The other group was left to grow in silence. After 15 days had passed, samples were taken from the youngest fully expanded leaves on every plant in the experiment and studied. Analysis of their leaves revealed that the chemicals which are indicators of stress in plants were found at much higher levels in the species exposed to the traffic noise. The team also found that certain chemicals normally associated with healthy growth in plants were present at significantly reduced levels in the plants exposed to the noise. Even the weight of the freshly-cut leaves differed — leaves from plants exposed to noise consistently weighed less than those from plants grown in silence. Dr Ghotbi-Ravandi's findings make it clear that, though plants lack ears, the vibrations (震动) generated by the noise of traffic still bothers them enough to cause strong stress responses that are not much different to those that would be found in plants exposed to extreme conditions. The next question is whether all noise pollution affects all species in the same way. The natural world is by no means silent. Whether some plant species have evolved to adapt to the noisy environment, which might one day be collected and transplanted in urban areas, is a mystery worth exploring.
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| 4. 阅读理解 | 详细信息 |
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。OpenAI has announced a major upgrade to the technology that reinforces ChatGPT. If you think of ChatGPT as a car, the new language model known as GPT-4 adds a more powerful engine. It opens up a new era of super-efficiency, where professionals will have to work smarter and faster – or be knocked out. There is no better example of this than Morgan Stanley which has been using GPT-4 since last year. The bank trained GPT-4 on thousands of papers published by its analysts to create a chatbot for its own wealth advisers. About 200 staff at the bank have been using it daily. One analytics chief said the effort would also further enrich the relationship between Morgan Stanley advisors and their clients by enabling them to assist more people more quickly. How much more quickly? What used to be done in half an hour can now be done in seconds. Powerful AI systems like GPT-4 aren't going to replace large numbers of professional workers. But they will put them under greater pressure to be more productive and faster at what they do. That is what partly happened to professional translators and interpreters. As artificial intelligence tools like Google Translate and DeepL grew in popularity among business customers, many translators feared they would be replaced. Instead, they were expected to increase their output. AI will also raise the bar on the human's performance. With the extra help, people have no excuses to leave anything out. Much of this is typical of the march of technology. Smart phones allowed us to be connected to work at all times. Slack allowed us to communicate with more people inside a company. But such tools also kept us further chained to work, squeezing (压榨) out minutes in the day that workers might have used in the past for deep-thinking or just taking a breather. GPT-4 clearly has the potential to squeeze more value out of human workers, but it may well come at the cost of our mental energy. However brilliant these models become, watch out for how they might take you a tiny step closer to burnout.
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| 5. 任务型阅读 | 详细信息 |
根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为多余选项。Here are some tips to get your little ones to help you do housework naturally. Expose kids to housework as much as possible When they are young, let them watch you cook, wash clothes or walk the dog, or let them help make a bed. . Especially during the early years, give children the opportunity to wander over and watch what's going on with the adults. . No lecturing or explanation is needed. This psychological integration (融入) into the family is really important for kids to learn to work together with others later in life. . A big motivating force for young children is being around their family, working on a common goal. This motivation is lost if we divide up housework so everyone is working alone. Therefore, if you're doing laundry, be sure everyone is folding everyone's clothes. If you have the children just fold their own clothes, the task becomes more about working independently. Don't force it Sometimes people think that to get children to do housework, the parents must be doing a really good job of controlling the kids. . The aim is not to control the kids, but rather to develop the children's own initiative (主动性). Forcing the child actually has the opposite effect. It can generate resistance. . Asking a little kid "Could you help me with this?" often gets them on board more often than simply saying "You must do this". A. Actually, the opposite is true. B. Always aim to work together. C. The goal is to control the parents. D. Change your mind about young children. E. Just like adults, kids don't like being bossed around. F. You'll be surprised by how much children learn by simply observing what you do. G. Basically, be sure they're around anything you want them to help you later in life. |
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| 6. 完形填空 | 详细信息 |
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Today is really special for Tony but two years ago, when he spoke before the whole class, he always made a 1 sound while saying the letter "W". Everyone laughed at him and he hasn't spoken in class since. But it's been going really 2 lately. When he listens to music in the background he can speak without stuttering (结巴)! That's why he 3 to talk at the science fair today. After breakfast, he got to school early to practise his speech. Some boys were waiting by the entrance when Tony arrived. Suddenly, one of them 4 and said, "Hey, Tony, guess what?" Tony didn't think. He tried to say, "What?" and of course got 5 on the "W". The boys started 6 . Tony became sad, but thinking of Dad's encouragement during breakfast, he turned and ran 7 ! Unfortunately, when it was his turn to speak, he was so 8 that he chose the wrong music. So 9 Mozart, he was listening to his dance collection. 10 , when he heard dance music he couldn't help 11 with it, which sounded like he was rapping (说唱)! Most people weren't 12 a rap in a speech. Tony could see some were whispering, but he didn't 13 . And when he finished, all stood up and 14 . Happy and excited, he knew he had passed the 15 . (1)
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loud
B .
correct
C .
strange
D .
beautiful
(2)
A .
worse
B .
well
C .
wrong
D .
wild
(3)
A .
agreed
B .
forgot
C .
happened
D .
feared
(4)
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turned up
B .
lay down
C .
showed off
D .
came up
(5)
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noticed
B .
stuck
C .
frightened
D .
prepared
(6)
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leaving
B .
running
C .
laughing
D .
praising
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bravely
B .
slowly
C .
anxiously
D .
happily
(8)
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excited
B .
nervous
C .
inspired
D .
angry
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just like
B .
instead of
C .
in honor of
D .
according to
(10)
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Happily
B .
Hesitantly
C .
Ultimately
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Surprisingly
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smiling
B .
dancing
C .
talking
D .
beating
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expecting
B .
planning
C .
learning
D .
recognizing
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refuse
B .
cry
C .
play
D .
care
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cheered
B .
left
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waited
D .
changed
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exam
B .
speech
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barrier
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trick
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| 7. 语法填空(语篇) | 详细信息 |
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。Yang Jingyu, (honour) as an anti-Japanese hero by the Chinese people, was born in Henan Province in 1905. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1927. In 1937 Yang became leader of the North-east Anti-Japanese United Army and (fight) a guerrilla war against the Japanese invaders. In 1938, the Japanese army offered a large sum of money Yang's head and a large number of troops surrounded his men. In early 1940, facing a (critic) lack of supplies, Yang decided to let his men break through in small groups, but his own section of 60 men was betrayed to the Japanese. After these men were killed, Yang kept on fighting alone for five days. He was (eventual) tracked down on 23 February by a large unit of Japanese troops. He killed more than 20 Japanese soldiers before (die) in a hail of machine gunfire. When the Japanese cut open his body, they discovered only tree bark, cotton and grassroots, not a single grain of rice in his stomach. Yang's death was huge blow to his loyal troops, but they turned sorrow into (angry) and continued to fight fiercely against the invaders. After the People's Republic of China (PRC) (establish), Yang was reburied with full military honours, in Tonghua, Jilin Province. |
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| 8. 书面表达 | 详细信息 |
你校正在组织以"The Most Beautiful Person I Know"为题的征文比赛,请你写一篇短文参赛。内容包括:1.人物描述; 2.你推荐的理由。 注意: 1.词数80字左右; 2.请在答题卡的相应位置作答。 |
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| 9. 短文续写 | 详细信息 |
读后续写It was a hot June day in the suburb of Austin, Texas, and Sammy Armstrong couldn't wait to get in the water. The ten-year-old was on a camping trip with his mom, Kelley, his dad, Stacey, and his brothers, Ben and Willy. Around 11 a.m., Sammy and Willy accompanied their dad to Upper Falls. Below is a swimming hole, 20 feet deep in some places. With his father watching from the rocks above, Sammy jumped in. He was a good swimmer — he had been on the swim team in his hometown of Cypress, Texas. Sammy played in the water for a while, eventually pulling himself out of the swimming hole and onto a warm big round stone and watching a group of children struggle through the river bed above. They were summer campers from Austin who, along with their coaches, were headed back to the visitors' parking lot after a morning hike. As the kids passed Father and Willy, a tiny five-year-old girl reached down to grab a water bottle and lost her balance. In an instant, she was swept over the falls. "A girl went over the waterfall!" Father shouted loudly. Sammy caught a glimpse(一瞥) of the girl's arm and the top of her dark head as the rapids pushed her into the hollow(洞) beneath the rock, hiding her from the crowd above. She was struggling up and down in the deep water. His father, with Willy firmly held under one arm, walked toward the edge of the waterfall to try to locate the girl, but Sammy was the one in striking distance. "You have to get her out of there!" Father yelled down to him. Sammy was nervous, but when he saw his dad just looking at him, he understood what he had to do. In fact, years in the Boy Scouts(童子军) had taught Sammy never to enter a dangerous situation without an exit strategy. 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。 The ten-year-old took a few seconds to consider the situation. Soon, someone threw them a swimming board from the bank. |
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