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There’s a new AI bot: ChatGPT, and you’d better pay attention, even if you aren’t into artificial intelligence. The tool is an AI chatbot system that OpenAI released in November 2022 to show off and test what a very large, powerful AI system can achieve.
ChatGPT remembers the thread of your dialogue, using previous questions and answers to inform its next responses. It derives its answers from huge volumes of information on the Internet. ChatGPT is built on top of the OpenAI GPT-3 family of large language models and is fine-tuned (a method of transfer learning) using both supervised and reinforcement learning (监督和强化学习).
You can ask ChatGPT anything, like explaining physics, asking for birthday party ideas and getting programming (编程) help. Perhaps it’s not smart enough to replace all humans yet, but it can be creative, and its answers can sound downright authoritative. A few days after its launch, more than 1 million people were trying out ChatGPT. UBS analyst Lloyd Walmsley estimated in February 2023 that ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly users in January, accomplishing in 2 months what took TikTok about 9 months and Instagram two and a half years.
ChatGPT is free to use at the moment because it is still in its research phase. But when too many people hop onto the server (服务器), it overloads and can’t process your request. It just means you should try visiting the site at a later time when fewer people are trying to access it. If you want to skip the wait and have reliable access, there is an option for you. As of Feb.1, 2023, OpenAI has a ChatGPT pro plan, ChatGPT Plus, which allows users to have general access even during peak times. This service does come at a cost of $20 / month.’
However, ChatGPT can not replace Google. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence bot that provides solutions to your questions, but Google is a search engine in which you can search for as much information as possible. ChatGPT has limited knowledge due to its programming but Google has unlimited knowledge which is updated every day.
1．What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about ChatGPT?
A．Its language model. B．Its working theory.
C．Its design inspiration. D．Its development process.
2．Why does the author list figures in paragraph 3?
A．To show the popularity of ChatGPT.
B．To stress the high cost of inventing ChatGPT.
C．To present the creativity of artificial intelligence.
D．To prove the necessity of developing tools for chatting online.
3．What is ChatGPT Plus intended for?
A．Guiding users to experience free services.
B．Allowing net surfers to skip advertisements.
C．Helping researchers detect the failure of the system.
D．Offering consumers priority access during peak hours.
4．What is a limitation of ChatGPT compared with Google?
A．It operates based on limited data.
B．It takes more time to search for solutions.
C．It can only update information at a fixed time.
D．It may provide replies unrelated to the questions.

Activities for National Manufacturing Day
The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Careers Coalition (职业联盟) offers students and families new STEM resources to explore the world of modern manufacturing. With over 4 million manufacturing roles predicted to be available in the next ten years, the new resources from the coalition connect today’s students to the manufacturing careers of tomorrow.
National Manufacturing Day occurs annually on the first Friday of October to motivate today’s students to become the next generation of innovator leading the manufacturing industry. In order to support this celebration, the coalition offers three different collections to all students, educators, and families on modern manufacturing that support learning wherever it takes place. The following resources are available to all at no cost:
Manufacturing focused Career Profiles (简介)
Explore the profiles of excellent manufacturing professionals who used the skills they learned at school to become the kind of problem solvers that make a difference. Make the connection from the classroom to careers and find out how all students can make it in manufacturing.
Hands-on Student Activities
From innovating food packaging to discovering the principles of accurate design to exploring water sustainability, at home, Hands-on learning activities help students take STEM skills from theory to practice.
Classroom Activities
Access the no cost, standard classroom activities to support future career success for all students. Each activity features important STEM skills and a step by step guide for promoting activities into classroom.
Virtual Interactive Field Trips
Each virtual experience features accompanying educator resources and student activities that make it easy for teachers to put these manufacturing events into the learning experiences they design and deliver daily.
All resources are available at no cost at stemcareerscoalition.org.
5．What is the purpose of the STEM Careers Coalition?
A．To count the vacant jobs in manufacturing.
B．To report the current state of manufacturing.
C．To guide students to work on manufacturing.
D．To offer students pre-job training in manufacturing.
6．Which activity will introduce manufacturing masters to students?
A．Classroom Activities.
B．Hands-on Student Activities.
C．Virtual Interactive Field Trips.
D．Manufacturing-focused Career Profiles.
7．What do the activities have in common?
A．All of them are virtual.
B．They are free of charge.
C．Only students practice in them.
D．They are only experienced online.

Around the world, rivers seem to be either flooding or shrinking (缩小). While Pakistan’s rivers have left one-third of that country flooded and millions of people without homes, a drought unseen for 500 years has left Europe’s major waterways almost dry. In the United States, the Kentucky River suffered deadly flooding this summer, while the Colorado River dropped sharply, which brought about water distribution cuts across several states.
There is little disagreement about what’s going on. Scientists have warned for years that our changing climate will cause the frequency of both rainfall and droughts to increase, making the wet wetter and the dry drier, with more extreme impacts on rivers. The question now may be how to manage those waterways affected by climate change and, specifically, what role dams (大坝) should or should not play in relieving the disasters we’ve been seeing lately and will see more of.
Advocates say water storage dams will become more significant which can stop water during flooding and allow it out in times of droughts. Dams, they say, can help relieve climate change by producing clean hydropower (水电). “Dams and hydropower are fundamental to climate relief and adaptation,” says Richard Taylor, a leading hydropower expert.
Not so. People holding opposite opinions claim that dams do more harm than good. Their arguments have long centered on the negative impact most dams have on biodiversity and river ecosystems, and increasing data show that dams actually worsen both floods and droughts. They also point out studies have shown that lakes created by dams often produce far more harmful greenhouse gases than people previously understood.
“Dams are thought to be a climate solution,” says Isabella Winkler, who co-leads International Rivers, a U.S.-based advocacy group. “They have been praised as a source of green energy but they are actually not.” Besides, scientists warn that many existing dams use operating rules based on old climate assumptions. New dams, experts agree, must be built for the worst cases.
8．Why did the author mention some rivers in Paragraph 1?
A．To compare the rivers. B．To describe the disasters.
C．To introduce the topic. D．To analyze some findings.
9．What has been a long-existing concern to scientists?
A．Building dams destroys the ecosystem.
B．Climate change worsens natural disasters.
C．Hydropower increases the impact on disasters.
D．Waterways are in terrible condition widely.
10．What’s Isabella Winkler’s attitude towards building dams?
A．Doubtful. B．Positive. C．Negative. D．Objective.
11．What is the main idea of the text?
A．The distribution of water in different areas.
B．The influence of hydropower on the environment.
C．Main causes of water shortage all around the world.
D．Different views on dams’ role in fighting climate change.

From the moment we are born, we interact with the world through movement. We move our lips to smile or to talk. We extend our hand to touch. How does our brain remember this wide range of motions? How does it learn new ones? How does it make the calculations necessary for us to grab a glass of water, without dropping it, squashing it, or missing it?
Technion Professor Jackie Schiller from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and her team examined the brain at a single-neuron (单神经元) level to shed light on this mystery. They found that calculation happens not just in the interaction between neurons, but within each individual neuron. It turns out that each of these cells is not a simple switch, but a complicated calculating machine.
This discovery, published recently in the Science, promises changes not only to our understanding of how the brain works, but better understanding of conditions ranging from Parkinson’s disease to autism. And if that isn’t enough, these same findings are expected to advance machine learning, providing inspiration for new architectures.
“We used to think of each neuron as a sort of whistle, which either rings, or doesn’t,” Prof. Schiller explains. “Instead, we are looking at a piano. Its keys can be struck at the same time, or in order, producing an infinity (无限) of different tunes.” This complex music playing in our brains is what enables us to learn and perform an infinity of different, complex and precise movements.
These same findings can also serve as an inspiration for the machine learning community. Deep neural networks, as their name suggests, attempt to create software that learns and functions somewhat similarly to a human brain. Although their advances constantly make the news, these networks are primitive compared to a living brain. A better understanding of how our brain actually works can help in designing more complex neural networks, enabling them to perform more complex tasks.
12．Why does the author raise the questions in paragraph 1?
A．To pursue answers. B．To raise his puzzles.
C．To introduce the topic. D．To share his interest
13．What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?
A．The result of the research.
B．The function of a single neuron.
C．The way the research was conducted.
D．The aspects the discovery can be applied to.
14．What does Schiller stress in her explanation in paragraph 4?
A．The way that neurons work.
B．The music that neurons play.
C．The difficulties that researchers encounter.
D．The process where neurons produce memory.
15．What might be the best title for the text?
A．Individual Neuron Works like a Piano
B．Calculation Happens Between Neurons like a Machine
C．Complex Neural Networks in the Brain Enable People to Learn
D．The Mystery of Learning and Remembering Movement Has Been Uncovered

Wildlife photographer Sam Turley and his wife Vera found a two-week-old blesbok (南非白面大羚羊)—whom they named Meme—on her own. She was spotted wandering around on her own after her mother passed away.
The pair took Meme in and raised the animal themselves for seven months before releasing her back out into the wild. Neither of them had ever raised a blesbok before. So it required a huge amount of patience and compassion to keep her fit and healthy but it deserved the effort. Meme would follow Vera wherever she went and sometimes the couple would have a blesbok, a dog and a cat all walking together. In the right areas, the blesbok is a really common antelope to see and is therefore often overlooked and under-appreciated. It was a privilege to be let into the blesbok’s secret world and they learned more about the blesbok than they thought was ever possible.
After releasing Meme back out into the wild, the couple were convinced they would never see her again, until several months later when they were driving around a reserve and happened to come across a herd of blesboks.
Vera called out Meme’s name in the hope of finding Meme. Blesboks all look very similar to one another, which makes it very difficult to distinguish individuals. When Vera started to talk, the herd raised their heads and looked over. Vera continued to call Meme and as all the other blesboks lost interest, one individual held her gaze and ran straight up to her.
After rescuing the lonely animal, Sam and Vera found it extremely emotional to have to release her back out into the wild to fend for herself—even though they knew it was the right thing to do. But after having such a strong bond with an animal, it was really difficult to see her go. They had put so much time, effort and energy into raising her but to see her walking in a herd of blesboks made it all worthwhile.
16．What happened to Meme when she was spotted?
A．She became an orphan. B．She was lost in the forest.
C．She was hunted by a couple. D．She was abandoned by her mother.
17．What was Meme’s life with the couple like?
A．She was rare to be seen outside.
B．She was hard to be artificially fed.
C．She fitted in well with the whole family.
D．She was under-appreciated in the family.
18．Which word can best explain the underlined word “fend” in the last paragraph?
A．Look. B．Care.
C．Search. D．Hunt.
19．Which of the following can best describe the act of rescuing the blesbok?
A．Effortless. B．Unsatisfactory.
C．Rewarding. D．Heartbreaking.

Some 20 percent of adults are procrastinators (拖延症患者). Everyone might put off a task or two, but long-term procrastinators do it at home, at school, at work and in their relationships.
For years, researchers have focused on the personalities of people who procrastinate. The results suggest procrastinators may be impulsive (冲动), worriers and have trouble regulating their emotions. But procrastinators are not lazy. They’re actually very busy doing other things than what they’re supposed to be doing. Though procrastinators may think they perform better under pressure, studies have reported the opposite. And when deadlines are uncertain, procrastinators tend to delay their work.
When people put off a tough task, they feel good-in the moment. Procrastinating is a way to avoid the negative emotions linked to the task. But the relief it provides is only temporary, and many seek out ways to stop procrastinating.
In fact, most research today suggests procrastination is a behavioral pattern, which means it’s something you can change, regardless of whether you’re impulsive. What works best is still under research. Some scientists have reported success with time management. But the evidence for that is all over the map. That’s because poor time management is a symptom not a cause of procrastination.
For some procrastinators, seemingly obvious tips can work. Researchers advise students to simply put down their smartphones. Silencing notifications or studying in the library rather than at home can regulate distractions and keep people on task. But that won’t be enough for many people. Stubborn procrastinators may benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy (认知行为疗法). This type of therapy, which involves managing thoughts and emotions and trying to change behavior, seemed to be the most helpful. Still, not many studies have examined treatments, and there’s room for improvement.
20．What does procrastination mean to longtime procrastinators?
A．A personal advantage. B．A habitual behavior.
C．A working motivation. D．An excuse for laziness.
21．What do experts think of procrastinators?
A．They are inactive. B．They are efficient.
C．They are anxious. D．They are careful.
22．What causes people to procrastinate?
A．Their temporary relief from the stress.
B．Their imperfection in personalities.
C．Their poor time management at work.
D．Their high ability to deal with hard work.
23．What may be the best procrastination treatment according to the text?
A．Avoiding smartphones. B．Proper studying places.
C．Good time management. D．Cognitive behavioral therapy.

Arizona’s Best Outdoor Dining
For office workers, they may want to hide somewhere to enjoy their own free time. Places combining good food with great weather and remarkable views may be their top choice. Here are four of the best restaurants in Arizona that serve up a side of the great outdoors with every meal
Pizzeria Bocce Patio Bar
This pizza bar shows the city’s rising scene. Chef Michelle Jurisin traveled to Italy to become certified by Verace Pizza Napoletana. Pizzas are made in the traditional way. The most popular dish is the Cire’s with homemade Italian sausage, mushrooms and fresh cheese.
Address: 1060 N. Main St., Cottonwood. Tel: 928-202-3597.
Burgers By the Bridge
Located at the base of London Bridge, this open-air restaurant serves as Lake Havasu City’s room. Sitting right at the water’s edge, diners enjoy beautiful views of the boats, the bridge and palm trees from their tables. The juicy Black Angus burgers are tasty; the lightly salted fish and chips may be the best in the town.
Address: 401 English Village, Lake Havasu City. Tel: 928-302-6780.
Mariposa Latin-Inspired Grill
Natural stones, rusted metal panels (镶板) and window walls, which is unlike anywhere else in Sedona. Sitting outside, Mariposa provides red-rock views to accompany the excellent South American- inspired food. It is especially impressive at sunset.
Address: 700 State Route 89A, Sedona. Tel: 928-862-4444.
The House
Dining at The House feels like hanging out at a friend’s backyard barbecue. The wood-framed building is simple inside. There’s a big garden with picnic tables outside. The menu is a mix of salads, sandwiches, chili and some burgers. Try the House Burger, cheese and fried onion strings. They are served with homemade chips.
Address: 1191 E. Hall, Show Low. Tel: 928-537-927.
24．What is special about Pizzeria Bocce Patio Bar?
A．It lies near London Bridge. B．It offers traditional Italian pizza.
C．It is popular for homemade salted fish. D．It serves meals in a wooden house at sunset.
25．Which is the best choice for diners fond of the river view?
A．Pizzeria Bocce Patio Bar. B．Burgers By the Bridge.
C．Mariposa Latin-Inspired Grill. D．The House.
26．Where can diners have a picnic?
A．1060 N. Main St., Cottonwood. B．401 English Village, Lake Havasu City.
C．700 State Route 89A, Sedona. D．1191 E. Hall, Show Low.

Beth Booker of Florida, turned to Twitter for help last week after seeing the images of her 78-year-old grandmother’s home in Fort Myers Beach, Florida being in water. In the days before Hurricane Ian struck her grandmother’s community, Beth and her husband helped her granny, Carole McDanel, prepare herself and her home for it.
Her granny wanted to stay where she had been living for more than two decades. She felt safe to stay because Ian was heading north for another city and the house had survived quite a few major hurricanes in history. In addition, the home contained priceless family memories and heirlooms (传家宝), among which were photos of Booker’s dad, who passed away when she was only five years old. After her dad’s death, Booker had to live with her grandmother, McDanel.
Once the storm struck, Booker received updates from her granny, who shared photos and videos showing flood started to fill the home. In her last phone call with granny, Booker told her granny to climb on the roof if the flood waters continued to climb. Unable to communicate with her granny any longer, Booker turned to Twitter for help with everything from searching for her granny to contacting local emergency officials.
The Fort Myers area was left devastated Wednesday after Hurricane Ian. On Thursday, as rescue crews came over to search for survivors, Booker’s husband and friend began their own search for her granny by boat. Just a few hours later, at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Booker tweeted the news that her husband and friend found granny sitting on her own sofa, where she was able to remain safe during the storm.
McDanel and Booker, who declined to be interviewed, said in a statement that they felt grateful for the support they had received and that they are calling for the world to continue the same energy and love into recovery and relief efforts for their community.
27．What does the underlined word “devastated” mean in paragraph 4?
A．Disturbed. B．Rebuilt. C．Destroyed. D．Attacked.
28．Where was Carole McDanel found?
A．In her home. B．In a very small boat.
C．In an emergency office. D．Among the flood victims.
29．Which of the following can best describe Booker?
A．Powerful. B．Responsible. C．Hard-working. D．Humorous.
30．What can be inferred from the text?
A．Natural disasters had ever struck the Earth frequently.
B．Booker had a good relationship with her grandmother as well.
C．Booker knew nothing about Hurricane Ian ahead of time.
D．Social media play a very great role in people’s daily life.

A team of researchers at Harvard University and Emory University have created a school of robotic fish. They can swim by recreating the contractions (收缩) of a pumping heart. Researchers say the experiment could advance pacemaker (心脏起搏器) technology and improve the development of artificial hearts for humans.
Researchers built the zebrafish-based fish using paper, gelatin (明胶), plastic fin, and two layers of human heart muscle cells. One ran along the robot’s left side, while the other along the right. When the muscle cells on one side contracted, the tail moved in that direction. This allowed the fish to swim in the water. The opposite side’s muscle cell layer similarly stretched as a result of the action. This stretching then sent a signal to the cells, causing them to contract, which kept the swimming motion going. The researchers also created an autonomous pacing node (节点), similar to a pacemaker, which controls the frequency and rhythm of these contractions.
The fish moved autonomously for over 108 days, equal to 38 million beats, the study stated. “Because heart cells constantly rebuild themselves, which takes about 20 days, the fish cells rebuild themselves about five times,” says Kit Parker, a professor from Harvard University who led the research. The fish eventually reached speeds and swimming efficiency comparable to wild zebrafish.
“Though the researchers say the fish is a step forward for heart research, it could be years before it leads to the creation of an artificial heart,” says Michael Schneider, a professor at Imperial College London, who wasn’t involved in the study. But that doesn’t dishearten Parker. “I think other methods will be faster than us,” says Parker. “But in the long run, creating tissue that relies on the patient’s own cells could offer unexpected benefits.”
31．What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us?
A．Why the robotic fish was created. B．What enabled the robotic fish to swim.
C．Who got involved in the experiment. D．How fast the robotic fish could swim.
32．Which is true about the robotic fish according to Paragraph 3?
A．They were rebuilt by human doctors.
B．They didn’t move as Parker expected.
C．They finally swam as fast as wild zebrafish.
D．They grew into the size of wild zebrafish.
33．What does the underlined word “dishearten” mean in the last paragraph?
A．Discourage. B．Surprise. C．Amuse. D．Relieve.
34．What can we learn from the text?
A．The findings may aid in heart research.
B．The first artificial hearts have been created.
C．Parker got no support from other scientists.
D．The researchers were upset about the findings.

One man’s white bread is another man’s green vegetables.
That’s the key from The Personalized Diet, a new book from Israeli authors Eran Segal and Eran Elinav. The authors say it’s time to admit to ourselves that one-size-fits-all diets don’t work, and when it comes to nutrition, it’s about doing what works best for your body, not catching the latest diet fashion.
“For years, we’ve been trying to search for that silver-bullet diet and we’ve been miserably failing,” Segal said. “And that’s because the best diet for each person really has to be tailored to that individual.”
They conducted a personalized nutrition project at Weizmann, where hundreds of volunteers agreed to have their blood sugar tested after meals. One participant in the study, a woman named Ruti, said she was surprised that it was tomatoes — not ice cream or candies — that were raising her blood sugar level. Ruti recalled, “I have now significantly reduced my intake of tomato and I’m feeling much more energetic, which still surprises me. I have already lost a couple of pounds, and I have high hopes that I have finally found the answer to my weight struggle, too.”
The Israeli scientists found that some people can consume traditionally unhealthy foods with little  or no rise in their blood sugar levels, while others have a stronger response, and therefore shouldn’t eat those foods. It’s those kinds of results that you can only find from a personalized diet.
“What we were surprised to find out was just like any other food, there is no such thing as good bread,” Elinav said. “The response to bread was completely individualized.”
35．What is suggested in the first sentence?
A．Everyone has their own tastes.
B．Nutrition serves your body best.
C．The latest diet doesn’t fit each person.
D．People’s response to the same food is different.
36．What kind of diet have we continuously pursued?
A．A diet that is low in fat and sugar.
B．A diet that works best for everyone.
C．A diet that begins a new diet trend.
D．A diet that provides all the nutrition.
37．Ruti’s example suggests that to control weight, one needs to________.
A．eat much fewer tomatoes
B．control their blood sugar levels
C．struggle for weight loss constantly
D．eat according to his or her blood sugar level
38．Why is Elinav’s opinion on bread mentioned in the last paragraph?
A．To show the importance of good bread.
B．To explain the popularity of white bread.
C．To stress the need of the personalized diet.
D．To advise people not to eat unhealthy food.

A robot created at Stanford University in California is diving down to shipwreck and sunken (沉没的) planes in a way that humans can’t do. Known as OceanOneK, the robot allows its operators to feel like they’re underwater explorers, too.
OceanOneK is similar to a human diver from the front, with arms and hands and eyes that have 3D vision, capturing the underwater world in full color. The back of the robot has computers and eight multi-directional thrusters (推进器) that help it carefully explore the sites of fragile sunken ships. When an operator at the ocean’s surface uses controls to direct OceanOneK, the robot’s touch-based feedback system causes the person to feel the water’s resistance as well as the forms of artifacts (人工制品).
OceanOneK’s realistic sight and touch capabilities are enough to make people feel like they’re diving down to the depths-without the dangers or immense underwater pressure a human diver would experience.
The idea for OceanOneK came from a desire to study coral reefs in the Red Sea at depths beyond the normal range for divers. While OceanOneK was designed to reach maximum depths of 656 feet, researchers had a new goal: 1 kilometer, hence the new name for OceanOneK.
The researchers changed the robot’s body by using special foam (泡沫) to increase buoyancy (浮力)and fight the pressures of 1,000 meters-more than 100 times what humans experience at sea level. OceanOneK also got two new types of hands and increased arm and head motion.
During OceanOneK’s deep dive in February, team members discovered the robot couldn’t rise when they stopped for a thruster check. Floatation on the communications and power line had collapsed, causing the line to pile on the top of the robot.
They were able to pull the loose parts, and OceanOnek’s going down was a success. It dropped off a memorial marker on the seabed that reads, “A robot’s first touch of the deep seafloor-A vast new world for humans to explore.”
Khatib, a professor, called the experience an “incredible journey”. “This is the first time that a robot has been capable of going to such a depth, interacting with the environment, and permitting the human operator to feel that environment,” he said.
39．What can we know about OceanOnek?
A．It works underwater with remote control.
B．It works underwater like a human diver.
C．It can repair fragile sunken ships underwater.
D．It can make human divers work better underwater.
40．Where does the idea for OceanOnek originate from?
A．The failing experience of previous experiments.
B．The eager desire of deep sea exploration.
C．The academic research into treasures from shipwrecks.
D．The inspiration from coral reefs in deep oceans.
41．What problem did the researchers meet during OceanOnek’s deep dive in February?
A．Failure to go up normally.
B．Loss of touch with the operators.
C．Floatation with sea current.
D．Collapse of a thruster at the seafloor.
42．What’s the text mainly about?
A．Robots help people become ocean explorer.
B．Robots explore shipwrecks on the ocean bottom.
C．Robots search the ocean floor for sunken treasures.
D．Robots dive into the deep ocean to locate minerals.

It’s that time of year, again, somehow time for the list of UK LEGO events of this year 2023. Here is a rough guide.
Discovery Brick Show
Date:30th, April-1st, May
Place: Discovery Museum
Description: This LEGO show in central Newcastle returns, with LEGO models from builders across the UK, activities and a marketplace for LEGO-lovers.
Cost: Some free activities; entry to the marketplace requires a paid ticket.
Thirsk Brick Show
Date:12th February
Place: Thirsk& Sowerby Town Hall
Description: A small LEGO show in this town hall, back for its third year. The money that is made from the show goes to an aged care centre in the town. LEGO displays and some activities.
Cost: A small entry fee in aid of charity.
Hull Brick Festival
Date:13th-14th August
Place: Guildhall
Description: This show is in its seventh year and this time it’s in town for the whole weekend! Awesome
LEGO creations from the best builders in the UK, fun activities plus several specialist
LEGO traders with everything from new bargain sets, loose bricks to custom accessories.
Cost: Free entry; ticket booking is recommended.
Caterham Model Show
Date:17th September
Place: Sacred Heart Centenary Hall
Description: This remarkable LEGO and model show is back again this year. LEGO as well as non-LEGO displays, activities and traders who buy and sell a lot of unique LEGO creations.
Cost: Paid tickets are required for entry; see the event page for details.
43．Whose profits will be used to help people in need?
A．Discovery Brick Show’s.
B．Thirsk Brick Show’s.
C．Hull Brick Festival’s.
D．Caterham Model Show’s.
44．Where will a free but ticketed LEGO event be hosted?
A．In Discovery Museum.
B．In Thirsk& Sowerby Town Hall.
C．In Guildhall.
D．In Sacred Heart Centenary Hall.
45．What do the four events have in common?
A．They have been held before.
B．They are aimed at selling LEGO models.
C．They have their marketplace.
D．They include some non-LEGO activities.

Humans have two different ages. There is chronological age(时序年龄), which measures how much time a person has spent on Earth, and then there is biological age, referring to how old a person seems. Many lifestyle factors like diet, exercise and psychological state can impact someone’s biological age.
A new study from Deep Longevity, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Stanford University found that feelings that cause poor mental health like sadness, loneliness and general unhappiness add an extra 1.65 years to a person’s biological age. Meanwhile, smoking can add up to 1.25 years and suffering from restless sleep can add 0.44 years to a person’s biological age, according to the study.
As part of the study, researchers said they came up with a new “aging clock” based on data from 4,846 Chinese adults in 2015 as part of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS).
The data included 16 blood biomarkers like cholesterol and glucose levels as well as other health information like blood pressure, body mass index, lung function and sex.
Researchers compared the chronological age of CHARLS participants with the ages predicted by their new “aging clock.“ The results found that the new age was roughly 5.6 years older than the CHARLS participants’ actual ages. The team also found that smokers and those with a history of stroke, liver or lung disease were predicted to be older than the remaining 4,451 healthy adults in the cohort.
“Chronological age isn’t how old we really are,” said Professor David Sinclair, co-director of the Paul F.Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School. We all age biologically at different rates according to our genes, what we eat, and how much we exercise. Biological age is what determines our health and ultimately our lifespan. Biological age is a number of candles we really should be blowing out. In the future, with advances in our ability to control biological age, we may have even fewer candles on our cake than the previous one.“
46．Which of the following has the biggest negative effect on our biological age?
A．Smoking. B．Poor sleep. C．Being married. D．Feeling lonely.
47．What’s Professor David Sinclair’s attitude to the future of human’s biological age?
A．Concerned. B．Indifferent. C．Optimistic. D．Ambiguous.
48．Where can the text be found?
A．In a novel. B．In a health magazine.
C．In a biography. D．In a travel brochure.
49．Which can be a suitable title for the text?
A．What Decides a Person’s Chronological Age.
B．What Adds Years to a Person’s Biological Age.
C．Chronological Age-How Old Are You Really?
D．Biological Age-You May Be Older than You Are.

Seagrass meadows(海草床) are wonder plants growing beneath the sea. They feed and shelter sea life and are masterful at storing carbon. Thanks to the assistance of tiger sharks, a huge seagrass meadow in the Bahamas Banks was recently discovered, offering the world a tool to fight climate change.
Seagrass has usually been detected by Earth-orbiting satellites that identify darker patches in the blue water. In this study, tiger sharks were selected as research tools due to their highly consistent associations with seagrass ecosystems. They spend 70% of their time in seagrass meadows. The team equipped eight tiger sharks with satellite tags (电子跟踪器), seven sharks with camera tags, and used a 360-degree camera on a shark for the first time ever.
The data researchers collected was astonishing. The world’s largest seagrass ecosystem, measuring at least 66,900 square kilometers, has been discovered. This reflects a 41% increase from previous estimates of global seagrass. Seagrass can capture (捕获) huge quantities of carbon by photosynthesis (光合作用) and stores it on the seafloor. In terms of climate change, this is excellent news; seagrass is 35 times faster a removing carbon than tropical rainforests. When referred to global seagrass carbon stock estimates, the study indicates that seagrass in the Bahamas may contain 19.2% to 26.3% of all the carbon stored in seagrass meadows on Earth.
Yet seagrass meadows are rapidly disappearing, with over 92% of meadows in the UK gone, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Scientists are collecting seeds and trying to grow new seagrass meadows through restoration projects. This new discovery offers optimism and proves the importance of the ocean for healing.
The sharks led us to the seagrass ecosystem in the Bahamas, which we now know is likely the most significant blue carbon sink(蓝色碳汇) on the planet. What this discovery shows us is that ocean exploration and research are essential for a healthy future. The untapped potential of the ocean is limitless. These meadows can be protected and can be replicated (复制,仿制), offering hope for climate change around the globe.
50．Why were tiger sharks chosen as research tools?
A．They are more flexible than other sea animals.
B．They can quickly adjust themselves to the deep sea.
C．They have a strong connection with seagrass ecosystems.
D．They can be easily equipped with experimental devices.
51．What are the numbers in paragraph 3 mainly about?
A．The decline of global seagrass meadows.
B．The impact of climate change on sea life.
C．The rapid increase in the amount of carbon on Earth.
D．The potential value of the world’s largest seagrass ecosystem.
52．What are scientists doing to protect seagrass?
A．Planting more seagrass meadows.
B．Developing new technology to collect seeds.
C．Mapping the distribution of seagrass meadows.
D．Encouraging people to join in restoration projects.
53．Which could be the best title for the text?
A．The New Way of Removing Carbon
B．The Significance of Ocean Exploration
C．A New Discovery: World’s Largest Seagrass Meadow
D．Tiger Sharks: Scientists’ Essential Helper to Study Climate

When I was a kid, my mother used to tell me Chinese folk stories before bedtime. My mother is an immigrant. She told me those stories so that I wouldn’t forget the culture that she had left. Even though I hadn’t ever experienced that culture at firsthand, she wanted me to remember it.
Of all her stories, my favourites were about Sun Wukong, the monkey king who had many superpowers. Eventually, though, I moved on to other kinds of heroes. When I was in the fifth grade, I bought my first American comic book. Afterwards, Superman, Spider-man and Captain America replaced Sun Wukong in my heart.
I became crazy about comic books. I loved them so much that I went on to work towards a career in comics. Today I am a professional graphic novelist. My most well-known book is American Born Chinese, published in 2006. Monkey King is one of my main characters, but the book isn’t direct adaptation of my mother’s stories. Instead, I invited Monkey King into my story so that I could talk about the uneasiness of growing up as an Asian American. The character I knew from my childhood expressed his emotions without reservation. I needed him to emote on my pages.
For research, I tracked down an English translation of Journey to the West, the centuries-old Chinese classi that first told the monkey king’s story. As I read it, I realized that American superheroes hadn’t replaced Sun Wukong in my heart after all -they were simply Western expressions of everything I loved about the monkey king. The monkey king’s story has lasted for centuries and travelled across continents and cultures. Journey to the West is the very definition of “timeless”.
My mother now has Alzheimer’s. She’s forgotten all of the stories she used to tell me, but I remember. In many ways, I’ve built my whole career on those moments before bedtime. With every comic book I create, I am trying to relive the wonder I felt when my mother told me the stories of Sun Wukong.
54．What did the author’s mother expect him to do?
A．Earn a living by writing. B．Keep their cultural root.
C．Experience Chinese art first hand. D．Remember all the stories she told him.
55．What can we learn about the book American Born Chinese?
A．It uses the character Sun Wukong as a symbol.
B．It reflects the growing pains of American children.
C．It is the best-seller among American born Chinese.
D．It encourages people to seek their roots back in Asia.
56．What did the author think of Journey to the West?
A．It’s really a popular classic works. B．It’s more attractive than western comic books.
C．It’s easy to understand. D．It’s a book reflecting the real world.
57．What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A．The author’s concern for his mother.
B．The approach to creating comic books.
C．The author’s memory of his childhood experience.
D．The influence of the stories of Sun Wukong on the author.

Climate Acts Must Focus on Youth
Children and young people are bearing the burden of climate change. However, they are consistently overlooked in the design and content of climate policies and related measures. The rights of the youth need to be put in a central place in a country’s climate change plan as extreme weather events are threatening their lives and destroying the infrastructure critical to their well-being.
The scientific community has sounded the alarm that climate change is a global emergency, and the risks of deadly drought, frequent floods, heat waves, extreme weather, and poverty will significantly worsen.
Over half a billion children live in high flood zones and nearly 160 million live in areas of extremely high drought, said a report released in 2015 by the United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF. Polluted air has a huge impact on children’s brain development. It is estimated about 2 billion children live in areas with air quality that is well above international pollution standards. Air pollution, lack of safe water, undernutrition is strongly linked to pneumonia, a leading cause of death among children, killing nearly 2, 400 children a day. The increase of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever have the greatest impacts on children, for example, 90 percent of the disease burden that is attributable to climate change is born by children under the age of five. The UNICEF report said all these challenges are exacerbated by climate change.
Through the intergovernmental cooperation on climate change, the UN has made it clear the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in raising. Actively responding to climate change is not only imperative, but also key to sustainable development for generations to come as children and young people are the future of mankind.
We are all glad to see children and young people are encouraged to play a key role in addressing climate-related risks by promoting environmentally sustainable lifestyles and setting an example for their communities.
58．What’s the author’s main purpose in the first paragraph?
A．To give a summary. B．To give some evidences.
C．To express his emotions. D．To put forward his view.
59．How does climate change impact young children?
A．It harms children’s health. B．It has a huge impact on children’s education.
C．It reduces births of new babies. D．It leads to the change of children’s lifestyle.
60．What is the author’s attitude towards the issue?
A．Approving. B．Intolerable. C．Concerned. D．Indifferent.
61．Who are probably the intended readers of the text?
A．Engineers. B．Environmentalists. C．Sports fans. D．Music lovers.

The world has faced a food crisis of unprecedented(前所未有的) proportions in 2022—the largest in modern history, as conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis and rising costs have combined to pose great risks for hungry people across the world. As many as 828 million people go to bed hungry every night. The number of those facing acute food insecurity has risen from 135 million to 345 million since 2019. A total of 49 million people in 49 countries are suffering hunger, according to figures from the United Nations’ World Food Programme.
“We are facing an unprecedented global food crisis and all signs suggest we have not yet seen the worst. For the last three years, hunger numbers have repeatedly hit new peaks,” WFP Executive Director David Beasley said. He warned that things can and will get worse unless there is a large-scale and coordinated(协调一致的) effort to address the causes of this crisis.
There are many reasons for prevailing high levels of food insecurity. These reasons include conflicts, climate changes and weather extremes, economic slowdowns and downturns. In addition, these drivers often do not act alone. For instance, conflicts are often accompanied by economic downturns, which affect livelihoods and the ability of people to earn resources, leading to increasing poverty levels and higher prevalence(流行) of food insecurity.
Unfortunately, the main reasons for high levels of food insecurity have not improved this year. People in the Horn of Africa are facing a fifth consecutive(连续的) failed rain season in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, which will constrain their production, and is likely to push many people deeper into food insecurity.
Moreover, there is uncertainty about the weather. And climatic shock affecting any major producer or exporter will introduce additional uncertainty into production and consequently prices, which in turn impact the ability to purchase food, particularly of the most vulnerable people.
62．How does the author lead in the topic?
A．By making a comparison. B．By sharing personal experience.
C．By giving opinions with evidence. D．By listing facts and accurate figures.
63．What can we know from David Beasley’s words?
A．This global food crisis won’t last longer.
B．It’s certain that the global food crisis will get worse.
C．We need to work together to deal with the global food crisis.
D．There will be another new peak of hunger numbers in three years.
64．What does the underlined word in Paragraph 3 mean?
A．Characters. B．Operators. C．Factors. D．Activities.
65．What is the best title for the passage?
A．The Issue of Food Safety B．The Unprecedented Food Crisis
C．Conflicts Causing Food Shortage D．Efforts Put into the Study of Food Insecurity

Here are some of the world’s most unusual events.
World Ice Golf Championship, Greenland
For more than 10 years the World Ice Golf Championship has been seen as the most extreme golf competition in the world. In 1997, architect Rolf Henning-Jensen was asked to design the world’s first ice golf course among huge iceberg and heavy snows of Uummannaq, a small town on the west coast of Greenland-600 km north of the Arctic Circle. There golfers face extreme temperatures as their first task to deal with. Then it will take players time and patience to accommodate themselves to white “green” and orange balls to play with. Determined by weather conditions, this event is scheduled for March each year in Greenland.
Balloon Fiesta, the United States
Have you ever been taken to the sky in a hot air balloon? The yearly Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta gives you the chance to enjoy a bird’s-eye view of the city and countryside. Since 1972, perfect October weather, blue skies and wind known as the “Albuquerque box” have worked together to allow balloonists to control their way thanks to the direction of blowing winds. This is the only place in the world to enjoy balloons flying in the blue skies each October.
El Colacho, Spain
The world’s most dangerous festival takes place every year in a small Spanish village Castillo de Murcia near Burgous. El Colacho means the devil’s jump and in fact this is the act of baby-jumping. Its purpose is to force a devil to leave the child’s body. Men dressed as devils jump over small babies to guard them against illness and bad spirits. Many consider the festival to be dangerous as “jumping devils” could hurt babies. But locals believe the action protects their babies from bad things and organize the jump in the streets, so people can watch or even join.
66．What does the schedule of World Ice Golf Championship depend on?
A．Transport. B．Economy. C．Weather. D．Golfers’ time.
67．What can we learn about Balloon Fiesta?
A．It is usualy held in spring. B．It is held in every October.
C．It is known as “Albuquerque box”. D．It is the only place to watch birds in balloons.
68．Why is the festival El Colacho celebrated?
A．To wish babies good health. B．To celebrate babies’ birthdays.
C．To attract visitors around the world. D．To catch the bad spirits hidden in babies.

British teen Kitty Tait wakes up at 5 am every day to bake bread, but it’s not just any old bread. The young girl who runs the Orange Bakery in her home town, with her dad Alex, adds a little humor to her bakes.
“If something is fun to eat, it makes it even tastier!” the teen baking star, who overcame depression after discovering the art of bread making, said. It was watching her dad make a simple loaf of white bread that changed her life forever. “Something that was so unpromising — a bit like how my brain felt at the time — had turned into something so magical,” she recalls.
Soon, Kitty was baking loaves for her neighbors. And before she knew it, there was a subscription service followed by a pop-up in her neighbor’s garage where she sold almost 100 loaves of bread and doughnuts (甜甜圈) in half an hour. “At that moment, I realized that this was what I wanted to do with my life,” she says.
A few months later, after raising enough money through crowdfunding,the teen rented a small retail space in town and her dad quit his job to become her business partner. They’ve been running the Orange Bakery ever since, selling everything from Marmite and cheese swirls to Danish pastries.
“I’m just really excited about people eating good bread, whether it is made by themselves or bought from a bakery,” says Kitty. “My main mission is to make bread inclusive and joyful because I have found so much joy in it.”
Today, the Taits are part of the global baking community, running baking classes at local schools.
69．What can we learn about Kitty before her picking up baking?
A．She worked part-time at a bakery.
B．She suffered from a mental illness.
C．She turned something magical into reality.
D．She learned baking from her mom and neighbors.
70．Which word can describe Kitty’s bread in her neighborhood?
A．Popular.
B．Graceful.
C．Updated.
D．Ordinary.
71．What can we conclude about Kitty’s father from paragraph 4?
A．He had ever been a good teacher.
B．He bought the Orange Bakery for Kitty.
C．He made a contribution to Kitty's cause.
D．He had ever done foreign trade in a company.
72．What is Kitty’s main focus?
A．Making baking a fun thing.
B．Earning as much as possible.
C．Running joyful baking classes.
D．Thinking up better ways of baking.

When you want advice to achieve something, whom would you rather ask: the top performer in that area or someone barely getting by? Most people would choose the top performer. That person’s advice, however, may not be any more helpful.
“Skillful performance and skillful teaching are not always the same thing, so we shouldn’t expect the best performers to necessarily be the best teachers as well,” said David Levari (Harvard Business School), lead author of a recent Psychological Science article.
Across four studies, he and co-authors found that top performers don’t give better advice than other performers, at least in some domains(领域). Rather, they just give more of it. “Our studies suggest that at least in some instances, people may overvalue advice from top performers,” the researchers wrote.
“In our experiments, people given advice by top performers thought that it helped them more, even though it usually didn’t. Surprisingly, they thought so even though they didn't know anything about the people who wrote their advice,” said Levari. “Top performers didn’t write more helpful advice, but they did write more of it, and people in our experiments mistook quantity for quality,” Levari added.
So, why wasn’t the advice more helpful? Levari and colleagues have a few ideas. First, skilled performers may overlook fundamental advice because natural talent and extensive practice have made conscious thought unnecessary. Second, top performers may not be skilled communicators. Even when an excellent performer does have explicit information to share, they may not be especially good at sharing it. Finally, a large quantity of advice may be more than what can realistically be carried out.
“We spend a lot of time and money looking for good advice, whether from coworkers and coaches, teachers and tutors, or friends and family,” said Levari. “The next time you get advice, you should think less about how much of it there was, and more about how much of it you could actually use.”
73．How did the author introduce the topic of the text?
A．By comparing data.
B．By raising a question.
C．By describing a definition.
D．By presenting the survey result.
74．Which of the following agrees with Levari’s opinion?
A．Top performers give poor advice.
B．Top performers give better advice.
C．Top performers give useful advice.
D．Top performers give more advice.
75．What did Levari suggest people do when getting advice?
A．Learn about its writer.
B．Consider its practicality.
C．Think less about its quality.
D．Find more related information.
76．What is the best title for the text?
A．Top Performers Can Be Trusted
B．Trying Common Performers' Advice Is Great
C．Common Performers May Give More Advice
D．Top Performers Don't Always Give Better Advice













参考答案：
1．B 2．A 3．D 4．A

【导语】这是一篇说明文。介绍了ChatGPT的出现，市场反应，并对它的优点及弊端进行分析。
1．主旨大意题。根据第二段“ChatGPT remembers the thread of your dialogue, using previous questions and answers to inform its next responses. It derives its answers from huge volumes of information on the Internet. ChatGPT is built on top of the OpenAI GPT-3 family of large language models and is fine-tuned (a method of transfer learning) using both supervised and reinforcement learning (监督和强化学习). (ChatGPT会记住你对话的线索，使用之前的问题和答案来告知它的下一个回答。它从互联网上的海量信息中获得答案。ChatGPT建立在OpenAI GPT-3家族的大型语言模型之上，并使用监督学习和强化学习进行了微调)”可知，本段描述了ChatGPT的操作使用，告诉我们它的工作原理。故选B项。
2．推理判断题。根据第三段中“A few days after its launch, more than 1 million people were trying out ChatGPT. UBS analyst Lloyd Walmsley estimated in February 2023 that ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly users in January, accomplishing in 2 months what took TikTok about 9 months and Instagram two and a half years. (ChatGPT上线几天后，就有超过100万人在试用。UBS分析师Lloyd Walmsley在2023年2月估计，ChatGPT在1月份的月用户数达到了1亿，只用了两个月的时间，就完成了TikTok大约9个月和Instagram两年半的任务)”可知，本段所列数字显示ChatGPT非常受欢迎。故选A项。
3．推理判断题。根据第四段中“As of Feb. 1, 2023, OpenAI has aChatGPT pro plan, ChatGPT Plus, which allows users to have general access even during peak times. This service does come at a cost of $20/month. (截至2023年2月1日，OpenAI推出了aChatGPT专业计划ChatGPT Plus，允许用户在高峰时段也能进行一般访问。这项服务的费用是每月20美元)”可知，ChatGPT Plus的目的是在高峰时段给予用户优先访问权。故选D项。
4．细节理解题。根据最后一段中“ChatGPT has limited knowledge due to its programming but Google has unlimited knowledge which is updated every day. (由于它的编程，ChatGPT的知识有限，但谷歌有无限的知识，每天都在更新)”可知，与谷歌相比，ChatGPT局限性是基于有限的数据进行操作。故选A项。
5．C 6．D 7．B

【导语】本文是一篇应用文。文章介绍STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）职业联盟为学生和家庭提供的一些制造业活动。
5．推理判断题。根据第一段“National Manufacturing Day occurs annually on the first Friday of October to motivate today’s students to become the next generation of innovator leading the manufacturing industry. In order to support this celebration, the coalition offers three different collections to all students, educators, and families on modern manufacturing that support learning wherever it takes place.(每年10月的第一个星期五是国家制造日，旨在激励今天的学生成为引领制造业的下一代创新者。为了支持这一庆祝活动，该联盟为所有学生、教育工作者和家庭提供了三种不同的现代制造业系列，以支持学习。)”可知，STEM职业联盟目的是引导学生从事制造业工作。故选C。
6．细节理解题。根据Manufacturing focused Career Profiles (简介)中的“Explore the profiles of excellent manufacturing professionals who used the skills they learned at school to become the kind of problem solvers that make a difference.(探索优秀的制造专业人士的个人资料，他们利用在学校学到的技能成为解决问题的人，发挥了作用。)”，可知Manufacturing-focused Career Profiles活动会向学生介绍制造大师，故选D。
7．细节理解题。 根据第二段“The following resources are available to all at no cost:(以下资源可供所有人免费使用:)”可知这些活动都是免费的，故选B。
8．C 9．B 10．C 11．D

【导语】本文是一篇议论文。对于是否在受到气候变化严重影响的河流上建造水坝，科学家们的意见不一，支持的一方认为修建水坝可以缓解气候变化，反对的一方认为修建水坝会破坏生态系统且加剧气候变化。
8．推理判断题。根据第一段“Around the world, rivers seem to be either flooding or shrinking (缩小). While Pakistan’s rivers have left one-third of that country flooded and millions of people without homes, a drought unseen for 500 years has left Europe’s major waterways almost dry. In the United States, the Kentucky River suffered deadly flooding this sunmer, while the Colorado River dropped sharply, which brought about water distribution cuts across several states.(在世界范围内，河流要么泛滥，要么萎缩。巴基斯坦的河流使该国三分之一的土地被洪水淹没，数百万人无家可归，与此同时，一场500年未遇的干旱使欧洲的主要水道几乎干涸。在美国，肯塔基河今年夏天遭受了致命的洪水，而科罗拉多河的水位急剧下降，导致几个州的供水中断)”可知，本段提到多条河流或发洪灾或干旱，或水位急剧下降，目的是为了引出话题：为应对该问题，专家们对修建水坝持不同看法。故选C。
9．细节理解题。根据第二段中“There is little disagreement about what’s going on. Scientists have warned for years that our changing climate will cause the frequency of both rainfall and droughts to increase, making the wet wetter and the dry drier, with more extreme impacts on rivers.(人们对正在发生的事情几乎没有分歧。多年来，科学家们一直警告说，不断变化的气候将导致降雨和干旱的频率增加，使潮湿的地方更潮湿，干燥的地方更干燥，对河流产生更极端的影响)”可知，气候变化加剧了自然灾害，这是科学家们长期以来的担忧。故选B。
10．推理判断题。根据最后一段中Isabella Winkler的话“They have been praised as a source of green energy but they are actually not.(它们被誉为绿色能源的一种来源，但实际上并非如此)”可知，Isabella Winkler认为水坝并不是解决气候问题的方法，无法带来绿色能源。因此，Isabella Winkler对建设水坝持否定态度。故选C。
11．主旨大意题。通读全文可知，文章前两段介绍了气候变化使洪涝和干旱灾害频发，并提出了科学家们争论的焦点：水坝的作用，第三段介绍了支持者的观点，第四、五段主要介绍了反对者的看法。由此可知，本文主要呈现的是科学家们对修建水坝是否对气候变化起作用的不同观点。故选D。
12．C 13．D 14．A 15．D

【导语】本文是一篇说明文。我们的大脑是如何记住每一个动作的呢？它如何学习新的知识？Jackie Schiller教授和她的团队在单神经元水平上检查了大脑，揭开了谜团。
12．推理判断题。根据第一段“From the moment we are born, we interact with the world through movement. We move our lips to smile or to talk. We extend our hand to touch. How does our brain remember this wide range of motions? How does it learn new ones? How does it make the calculations necessary for us to grab a glass of water, without dropping it, squashing it, or missing it? (从我们出生的那一刻起，我们就通过运动与世界互动。我们动嘴唇是为了微笑或说话。我们伸出手去触摸。我们的大脑是如何记住如此广泛的动作的呢？它是如何学习新知识的？它是如何进行必要的计算，让我们抓起一杯水，而不掉到地上，压扁它，或者错过它？)”，第二段第一句“Technion Professor Jackie Schiller from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and her team examined the brain at a single-neuron (单神经元) level to shed light on this mystery. (以色列理工学院鲁斯和布鲁斯·拉帕波特医学院的杰基·席勒教授和她的团队在单个神经元水平上检查了大脑，以揭示这个谜团)”可知，作者从我们日常生活中所做的动作开始，提出了几个问题，是为了引入话题——我们的大脑是如何记住如此广泛的动作的呢？故选C项。
13．主旨大意题。根据第三段“This discovery, published recently in the Science, promises changes not only to our understanding of how the brain works, but better understanding of conditions ranging from Parkinson’s disease to autism. And if that isn’t enough, these same findings are expected to advance machine learning, providing inspiration for new architectures. (最近发表在《科学》杂志上的这一发现，不仅有望改变我们对大脑工作方式的理解，还有望更好地理解从帕金森病到自闭症等各种疾病。如果这还不够，这些相同的发现有望推动机器学习，为新架构提供灵感)”可知，这一发现有助于我们对大脑工作方式的新的理解，还可帮助我们更好地理解各种疾病、推动机器学习，因此本段主要介绍了该发现可以应用的方面。故选D项。
14．推理判断题。根据第四段“‘We used to think of each neuron as a sort of whistle, which either rings, or doesn’t,’ Prof. Schiller explains. ‘Instead, we are looking at a piano. Its keys can be struck at the same time, or in order, producing an infinity (无限) of different tunes.’ (席勒教授解释说：‘我们过去把每个神经元看作一种哨子，要么响，要么不响。相反，我们看到的是一架钢琴。它的琴键可以同时敲击，也可以按顺序敲击，从而产生无限不同的曲调。’)”可知，Schiller推翻了以往的对神经元的工作原理的理解，而是把神经元比喻成一架钢琴，强调的是神经元的运作方式。故选A项。
15．主旨大意题。通读全文，尤其是根据第一段“How does our brain remember this wide range of motions? How does it learn new ones? (我们的大脑是如何记住如此广泛的动作的呢？它是如何学习新知识的？)”，第二段“Technion Professor Jackie Schiller from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and her team examined the brain at a single-neuron (单神经元) level to shed light on this mystery. They found that calculation happens not just in the interaction between neurons, but within each individual neuron. It turns out that each of these cells is not a simple switch, but a complicated calculating machine.(以色列理工学院鲁斯和布鲁斯·拉帕波特医学院的杰基·席勒教授和她的团队在单个神经元水平上检查了大脑，以揭示这个谜团。他们发现，计算不仅发生在神经元之间的相互作用中，而且发生在每个单独的神经元内部。事实证明，这些细胞中的每一个都不是一个简单的开关，而是一个复杂的计算机器。)”可知，科学家揭开了人脑学习和记忆动作的奥秘，“The Mystery of Learning and Remembering Movement Has Been Uncovered (学习和记忆运动的奥秘已被揭开)”适合作本文标题。故选D项。
16．A 17．C 18．B 19．C

【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。野生动物摄影师Sam和妻子Vera救了一只两周龄的南非白面大羚羊并为其取名Meme，七个月后把她成功放归野外，几个月后再次与她意外相遇。
16．推理判断题。根据第一段“Wildlife photographer Sam Turley and his wife Vera found a two-week-old blesbok (南非白面大羚羊)—whom they named Meme—on her own. She was spotted wandering around on her own after her mother passed away. (野生动物摄影师萨姆·特利和他的妻子维拉发现了一只两周大的南非白面大羚羊独自（呆着），他们给它取名为Meme。在她母亲去世后，有人看到她独自四处游荡。)”可知，野生动物摄影师Sam和他妻子Vera发现了一只南非白面大羚羊独自在周围游荡，她的母亲已经去世。所以Meme在被发现时成了孤儿。故选A项。
17．推理判断题。根据第二段第四句“Meme would follow Vera wherever she went and sometimes the couple would have a blesbok, a dog and a cat all walking together. (无论薇拉走到哪里，Meme都会跟着她，有时，这对夫妇会带着一只南非白面大羚羊、一只狗和一只猫一起散步。)”可知，Meme在这个家里很适应。故选C项。
18．词句推测题。根据划线词所在句“After rescuing the lonely animal, Sam and Vera found it extremely emotional to have to release her back out into the wild to fend for herself—even though they knew it was the right thing to do. (在拯救了这只孤独的动物之后，山姆和维拉发现，不得不把她放回野外让她自己fend，这让他们非常激动——尽管他们知道这是一件正确的事情。)”，及上下文可知，夫妇俩把一个两周龄的南非白面大羚羊救回并抚养长大，最终要放归大自然，目的是让它能自己照顾自己，此处fend意为“照看，照料”，与Care意思相近，故选B项。
19．推理判断题。根据第二段第三句“So it required a huge amount of patience and compassion to keep her fit and healthy but it deserved the effort. (所以这需要极大的耐心和同情心来保持她的健康，但这是值得的。)”，第二段最后一句“It was a privilege to be let into the blesbok’s secret world and they learned more about the blesbok than they thought was ever possible. (被允许进入南非白面大羚羊的秘密世界是一种特权，他们对南非白面大羚羊的了解比他们想象的要多。)”，以及最后一段最后一句“They had put so much time, effort and energy into raising her but to see her walking in a herd of blesboks made it all worthwhile. (他们花了那么多的时间、精力和精力来抚养她，但看到她在一群南非白面大羚羊中行走，这一切都值得了。)”可知，救下这只南非白面大羚羊以及之后的一切付出都是值得的，故选C项。
20．B 21．C 22．A 23．D

【导语】本文是一篇说明文。本文介绍了拖延症的定义、原因以及疗法。
20．推理判断题。根据第一段“Some 20 percent of adults are procrastinators (拖延症患者). Everyone might put off a task or two, but long-term procrastinators do it at home, at school, at work and in their relationships. (大约20%的成年人是拖延症患者。每个人都可能会推迟一两个任务，但长期拖延者会在家里、学校、工作和人际关系中拖延。)”可知，长期拖延症患者不只是在任务上拖延，而是生活中的方方面面都是如此，这说明拖延已经成为他们的一种习惯。故选B项。
21． 推理判断题。根据第二段“The results suggest procrastinators may be impulsive (冲动), worriers and have trouble regulating their emotions. But procrastinators are not lazy. They’re actually very busy doing other things than what they’re supposed to be doing. (研究结果表明，拖延者可能很冲动，是个发愁的人，难以控制自己的情绪。但是拖延者并不懒惰。他们实际上忙着做其他事情，而不是他们应该做的事情。)”可知，专家们认为拖延症患者冲动而且焦虑（anxious.），管理不好自己的情绪，干活不偷懒，但是却是瞎忙。故选C项。
22．细节理解题。根据第三段“When people put off a tough task, they feel good-in the moment. Procrastinating is a way to avoid the negative emotions linked to the task. But the relief it provides is only temporary, and many seek out ways to stop procrastinating. (当人们推迟一项艰巨的任务时，他们在那一刻感觉很好。拖延是一种避免与任务相关的负面情绪的方法。但它提供的缓解只是暂时的，许多人都在寻找停止拖延的方法。)”可知，拖延会使人短暂地从压力中解脱出来，避免与任务相关的负面情绪，所以导致人们拖延。故选A项。
23．细节理解题。根据最后一段“For some procrastinators, seemingly obvious tips can work. Researchers advise students to simply put down their smartphones. Silencing notifications or studying in the library rather than at home can regulate distractions and keep people on task. But that won’t be enough for many people. Stubborn procrastinators may benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy (认知行为疗法). This type of therapy, which involves managing thoughts and emotions and trying to change behavior, seemed to be the most helpful. (对于一些拖延症患者来说，看似显而易见的建议是有效的。研究人员建议学生们放下智能手机。将通知静音或在图书馆学习，而不是在家里学习，可以控制干扰，让人们专注于工作。但这对很多人来说还不够。顽固的拖延症患者可能会从认知行为疗法中受益。这种类型的治疗，包括管理思想和情绪，并试图改变行为，似乎是最有帮助的。)”可知，相比于放下手机，选择适合的学习环境，包括了思想和情绪管理以及试图改变行为的认知行为疗法似乎是最有帮助的。故选D项。
24．B 25．B 26．D

【导语】这是一篇应用文。主要介绍了亚利桑那州最好的四家餐厅。
24．细节理解题。根据Pizzeria Bocce Patio Bar部分中“Chef Michelle Jurisin traveled to Italy to become certified by Verace Pizza Napoletana. Pizzas are made in the traditional way.(厨师Michelle Jurisin前往意大利获得Verace Pizza Napoletana的认证。披萨是用传统的方法做的)”可知，Pizzeria boce Patio Bar是特别之处是有传统的意大利披萨。故选B。
25．细节理解题。根据Burgers By the Bridge部分中“Sitting right at the water’s edge, diners enjoy beautiful views of the boats, the bridge and palm trees from their tables.(食客们坐在水边，坐在他们的桌子旁欣赏美丽的船、桥和棕榈树的景色)”可知，对于喜欢看河景的食客来说，Burgers By the Bridge是最好的选择。故选B。
26．细节理解题。根据The House部分中“There’s a big garden with picnic tables outside. (有一个大花园，外面有野餐桌)”以及“Address: 1191 E. Hall, Show Low. Tel: 928-537-927.(地址：1191 E. Hall, Show Low。电话号码：928-537-927)”可知，用餐者可以在1191 E. Hall, Show Low野餐。故选D。
27．C 28．A 29．B 30．B

【导语】这是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了佛罗里达州的贝丝·布克的祖母McDanel因留恋家庭记忆而在风暴来袭的时候选择留在家里，救援人员为她提供了帮助和支持，McDanel和Booker拒绝接受采访，他们在一份声明中表示，他们对自己得到的支持感到感激，并呼吁全世界继续以同样的精力和爱心为他们的社区进行恢复和救援。
27．词义猜测题。根据第四段划线词下文“On Thursday, as rescue crews came over to search for survivors, Booker’s husband and friend began their own search for her granny by boat.( 周四，当救援人员前来寻找幸存者时，布克的丈夫和朋友开始乘船寻找她的奶奶)”可知，奶奶所住的地区被飓风摧毁，所以划线词的含义应为“被摧毁”，故选C项。
28．细节理解题。根据第四段“Just a few hours later, at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Booker tweeted the news that her husband and friend found granny sitting on her own sofa, where she was able to remain safe during the storm.( 仅仅几个小时后，也就是周四下午4点，布克在推特上发布了她的丈夫和朋友发现奶奶坐在自己的沙发上的消息，在风暴期间，她可以在沙发上保持安全)”可知，Carole McDanel是在自己的家里被发现，故选A项。
29．推理判断题。根据第三段“Unable to communicate with her granny any longer, Booker turned to Twitter for help with everything from searching for her granny to contacting local emergency officials.( 由于无法再与奶奶交流，布克求助于推特，尽一切所能，从寻找奶奶到联系当地应急官员)”、第四段“On Thursday, as rescue crews came over to search for survivors, Booker’s husband and friend began their own search for her granny by boat.(周四，当救援人员前来寻找幸存者时，布克的丈夫和朋友开始乘船寻找她的奶奶)”以及最后一段“they are calling for the world to continue the same energy and love into recovery and relief efforts for their community(呼吁全世界继续以同样的精力和爱心为他们的社区进行恢复和救援)”可知，Booker是一个很有责任心的人，故选B项。
30．推理判断题。根据第二段“In addition, the home contained priceless family memories and heirlooms (传家宝), among which were photos of Booker’s dad, who passed away when she was only five years old. After her dad’s death, Booker had to live with her grandmother(此外，这所房子里还有价值连城的家庭记忆和传家宝，其中有布克父亲的照片，他在她五岁时去世了。父亲去世后，布克不得不和她的祖母麦克达内尔住在一起)”、第三段“Unable to communicate with her granny any longer, Booker turned to Twitter for help with everything from searching for her granny to contacting local emergency officials.( 由于无法再与奶奶交流，布克求助于推特，尽一切所能，从寻找奶奶到联系当地应急官员)”、第四段“On Thursday, as rescue crews came over to search for survivors, Booker’s husband and friend began their own search for her granny by boat.( 周四，当救援人员前来寻找幸存者时，布克的丈夫和朋友开始乘船寻找她的奶奶)”可知，Booker从小与祖母相依为命，在祖母遇到困难的时候尽全力寻找祖母，由此可推理出Booker与祖母的关系很好，故选B项。
31．B 32．C 33．A 34．A

【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章介绍了哈佛大学的科学家们设计了一群能自主游动的“鱼”。研究人员表示，这项实验可以推进心脏起搏器技术。
31．主旨大意题。根据文章第二段内容“Researchers built the zebrafish-based fish using paper, gelatin(明胶), plastic fin, and two layers of human heart muscle cells. One ran along the robot’s left side, while the other along the right. …The researchers also created an autonomous pacing node(节点), similar to a pacemaker, which controls the frequency and rhythm of these contractions.(研究人员用纸、明胶、塑料鳍和两层人类心肌细胞制作了以斑马鱼为基础的鱼。一个沿着机器人的左边跑，另一个沿着机器人的右边跑。当一侧的肌肉细胞收缩时，尾巴就向那个方向移动。这使得鱼可以在水里游泳。另一侧的肌肉细胞层也同样受到拉伸。这种拉伸会向细胞发送信号，导致它们收缩，从而保持游泳运动的进行。研究人员还创造了一个自主起搏节点，类似于起搏器，可以控制这些收缩的频率和节奏)”可知，第二段介绍了研究人员用纸、明胶、两层心脏肌肉组织来设计了“鱼”，以及如何通过一边的收缩导致另一边的肌肉伸展让“鱼”能自由游动。故选B项。
32．推理判断题。根据第三段的最后一句“The fish eventually reached speeds and swimming efficiency comparable to wild zebrafish.(这种鱼最终达到了与野生斑马鱼相当的速度和游泳效率)”可知，这种鱼最终游的和野生斑马鱼一样快。故选C项。
33．词句猜测题。根据最后一段Michael Schneider所说的话“Though the researchers say the fish is a step forward for heart research, it could be years before it leads to the creation of an artificial heart,(尽管研究人员说，这种鱼是心脏研究的一个进步，但它可能需要几年的时间才能导致人造心脏的产生)”以及Parker说的话“But in the long run, creating tissue that relies on the patient’s own cells could offer unexpected benefits.(但从长远来看，依靠患者自身细胞创造组织可能会带来意想不到的好处)”可知，Michael Schneider所说的话并没有让Parker感到沮丧，相反，他觉得长远来看会有意想不到的好处。由此推知，dishearten意为“使沮丧”。故选A项。
34．推理判断题。根据文章第一段“Researchers say the experiment could advance pacemaker technology and improve the development of artificial hearts for humans.(研究人员表示，这项实验可以推动起搏器技术的发展，并促进人类人工心脏的发展)”可推知，这一发现可能有助于心脏研究。故选A项。
35．D 36．B 37．D 38．C

【导语】本文是一篇说明文。当涉及到营养，一刀切的饮食并不奏效。文章介绍了以色列作家伊兰·西格尔和伊兰·伊莱纳夫的新书《个性化饮食》中的关键点——最好的食物因人而异，每个人的最佳饮食必须根据个人情况量身定制。
35．推理判断题。根据文章第一句“One man’s white bread is another man’s green vegetables. (一个人的白面包是另一个人的青菜。)”和第二段的“That’s the key from The Personalised Diet, a new book from Israeli authors Eran Segal and Eran Elinav. The authors say it’s time to admit to ourselves that one-size-fits-all diets don’t work, and when it comes to nutrition, it’s about doing what works best for your body, not catching the latest diet fashion. (这是来自以色列作家Eran Segal和Eran Elinav的新书《个性化饮食》的关键。作者说，应该承认，一刀切的饮食不起作用，当涉及到营养，关键是做对你的身体最有效的事情，而不是赶上最新的饮食时尚。)”可推断，第一句话的意思是人们对同一种食物的反应是不同的，故选D项。
36．细节理解题。根据第三段“‘For years, we’ve been trying to search for that silver-bullet diet and we’ve been miserably failing,’ Segal said. ‘And that’s because the best diet for each person really has to be tailored to that individual.’ (西格尔说：‘多年来，我们一直在努力寻找一种‘灵丹妙药’，但我们失败得很惨。这是因为最适合每个人的饮食确实需要根据个人情况量身定制。’)”可知，人们一直以来所追崇是普遍适用的饮食。故选B项。
37．推理判断题。根据第四段“One participant in the study, a woman named Ruti, said she was surprised that it was tomatoes — not ice cream or candies — that were raising her blood sugar level. Ruti recalled, ‘I have now significantly reduced my intake of tomato and I’m feeling much more energetic, which still surprises me. I have already lost a couple of pounds, and I have high hopes that I have finally found the answer to my weight struggle, too.’ (一位名叫Ruti的女性参与者说，她很惊讶是西红柿而不是冰淇淋或糖果提高了她的血糖水平。鲁蒂回忆说：‘我现在大大减少了番茄的摄入量，感觉精力充沛多了，这让我很惊讶。我已经减掉了几磅，我也对自己最终找到了减肥的答案抱有很高的希望。’)”可知，Ruti的血糖摄入来自于西红柿，她减少了西红柿的摄入量，也因此她的体重也有所减少，引出通过Ruti的例子可以看出，一个人控制体重需要根据他或她的血糖水平进食。故选D项。
38．推理判断题。根据最后一段的“‘What we were surprised to find out was just like any other food, there is no such thing as good bread,’ Elinav said. ‘The response to bread was completely individualized.’ (埃利纳夫说：“我们惊讶地发现，就像其他食物一样，没有所谓的好面包。人们对面包的反应完全是个性化的。’)”可知， 最后一段提到了Elinav对面包的看法的原因是强调个性化饮食的必要性。故选C项。
39．A 40．D 41．A 42．B

【导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了加州斯坦福大学制造的一个机器人OceanoNek的相关信息。
39．推理判断题。根据第二段中的“When an operator at the ocean’s surface uses controls to direct OceanOneK, the robot’s touch-based feedback system causes the person to feel the water’s resistance as well as the forms of artifacts(人工制品).(当海洋表面的操作员使用控件来指挥OceanOneK时，机器人基于触摸的反馈系统使人感受到水的阻力以及人工制品的形式。)”可知，当操作员在水面对OceanOneK进行控制时，机器人的反馈系统让人能感觉到水的阻力等，由此可推断，该机器人可以遥控它在水下工作。故选A项。
40．细节理解题。根据第四段中的“The idea for OceanOneK came from a desire to study coral reefs in the Red Sea at depths beyond the normal range for divers.(OceanOneK的想法源于研究红海珊瑚礁的愿望，其深度超出了潜水员的正常范围。)”可知，OceanOneK机器人的灵感来自于超出潜水员正常范围的深海红珊瑚礁的研究愿望。故选D项。
41．细节理解题。根据倒数第三段中的“During OceanOneK’s deep dive in February, team members discovered the robot couldn’t rise when they stopped for a thruster check.(在二月份OceanOneK的深度潜水期间，团队成员发现机器人在停下来检查推进器时无法上升。)”可知，二月深潜时，对推进器进行检查发现，机器人不能正常升起。故选A项。
42．主旨大意题。根据首段中的“A robot created at Stanford University in California is diving down to shipwreck and sunken(沉没的) planes in a way that humans can’t do.(加利福尼亚州斯坦福大学创造的一个机器人正在以人类无法做到的方式潜入沉船和沉没的飞机。)”以及全文对机器人OceanOneK的工作介绍可知，本文主要介绍的为机器人探索水下沉船的相关信息。故选B项。
43．B 44．C 45．A

【导语】本文是一篇应用文。主要列举了2023年英国LEGO活动的情况。
43．细节理解题。根据Thirsk Brick Show部分中的“The money that is made from the show goes to an aged care centre in the town.(从节目中赚到的钱流向了镇上的一家老年护理中心。)”可知，该活动中表演的收入帮助一家老年护理中心，由此可知利润用来帮助需要帮助的人的活动是Thirsk Brick Show’s。故选B项。
44．细节理解题。根据Hull Brick Festival部分中的“Cost: Free entry; ticket booking is recommended.(费用：免费入场；建议订票。)”以及“Place: Guildhall(地点：Guildhall)”可知，该活动是免费但有售票的LEGO活动，在Guildhall举行。故选C项。
45．推理判断题。根据第一段“It’s that time of year, again, somehow time for the list of UK LEGO events of this year 2023. Here is a rough guide.(又到了一年中的那个时候，不知何故，是时候列出 2023 年英国乐高活动清单了。这是一个粗略的指南。)”中的again可知，英国LEGO活动以前举行过。故选A项。
46．D 47．C 48．B 49．D

【导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍的是我们人类有两个年龄，而生理年龄可能会因为我们的基因、饮食、运动量以及所处的环境不同，生理年龄有可能落后于或者超过实际年龄。
46．细节理解题。根据第二段“A new study from Deep Longevity, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Stanford University found that feelings that cause poor mental health like sadness, loneliness and general unhappiness add an extra 1.65 years to a person’s biological age. Meanwhile, smoking can add up to 1.25 years and suffering from restless sleep can add 0.44 years to a person’s biological age, according to the study.(Deep Longevity，香港中文大学和斯坦福大学的一项新研究发现，导致悲伤，孤独和普遍不快乐等心理健康状况不佳的感觉会使一个人的生理年龄增加1.65年。同时，根据这项研究，吸烟可以增加1.25年，而睡眠不安可以使一个人的生物年龄增加0.44年。)”中的数据可知，人们诸如悲伤，孤独，不快乐等心理方面的感受会使生理年龄比实际年龄增加的最多，为1.65年，由此可推断，孤独对人的生理年龄影响最大。故选D项。
47．推理判断题。根据:尾段中的“In the future, with advances in our ability to control biological age, we may have even fewer candles on our cake than the previous one.(未来，随着我们控制生物年龄能力的进步，我们蛋糕上的蜡烛可能比以前的蜡烛更少。)”可知，David Sinclair教授认为，在未来，随着人们对生理年龄控制能力的增加，人们的生理年龄可能会比上一年要小，由此可推断，David Sinclair教授对未来人类生理年龄的态度是乐观的。故选C项。
48．推理判断题。根据第三段中的“As part of the study, researchers said they came up with a new “aging clock” based on data from 4,846 Chinese adults in 2015 as part of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS).(作为研究的一部分，研究人员表示，他们根据2015年4，846名中国成年人的数据提出了一种新的“衰老时钟”，作为中国健康与退休纵向研究（CHARLS）的一部分。)”以及全文讲述的人类生理年龄的问题可知，此文应出现在与健康杂志。故选B项。
49．主旨大意题。根据首段中的“Many lifestyle factors like diet, exercise and psychological state can impact someone’s biological age.(许多生活方式因素，如饮食、运动和心理状态都会影响一个人的生理年龄。)”以及下文中对生理年龄影响的各因素分析和研究可知，本文主要介绍的内容是受各因素的影响，人类的生理年龄可能要比实际年龄大或小，结合选项可知，本文题目为“生理年龄，可能比实际年龄更大”符合文章主题。故选D项。
50．C 51．D 52．A 53．C

【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章介绍了海草生态系统可以捕获光合作用产生的大量碳并将其储存在海底，为全球气候变化带来希望。
50．细节理解题。根据第二段“In this study, tiger sharks were selected as research tools due to their highly consistent associations with seagrass ecosystems.( 在这项研究中，虎鲨被选为研究工具，因为它们与海草生态系统的联系非常一致)”可知，虎鲨被选为研究工具的原因是它们与海草生态系统有着密切的联系，故选C项。
51．推理判断题。根据第三段“The data researchers collected was astonishing. The world’s largest seagrass ecosystem, measuring at least 66,900 square kilometers, has been discovered(研究人员收集的数据令人震惊。世界上最大的海草生态系统已被发现，面积至少为66900平方公里)”以及“When referred to global seagrass carbon stock estimates, the study indicates that seagrass in the Bahamas may contain 19.2% to 26.3% of all the carbon stored in seagrass meadows on Earth.(当提到全球海草碳储量估计时，该研究表明，巴哈马的海草可能含有地球上海草草甸中所有碳储量的19.2%至26.3%)”可知，第三段提到的数字是关于世界上最大的海草生态系统的潜在价值，故选D项。
52．细节理解题。根据倒数第二段第二句“Scientists are collecting seeds and trying to grow new seagrass meadows through restoration projects.(科学家们正在收集种子，并试图通过恢复项目种植新的海草草地)”可知，科学家们打算种植更多的海草草地以保护海草，故选A项。
53．主旨大意题。根据文章第一段“Thanks to the assistance of tiger sharks, a huge seagrass meadow in the Bahamas Banks was recently discovered, offering the world a tool to fight climate change.(在虎鲨的帮助下，最近在巴哈马群岛发现了一片巨大的海草草地，为世界提供了应对气候变化的工具)”、第三段第一句“The data researchers collected was astonishing. The world’s largest seagrass ecosystem, measuring at least 66,900 square kilometers, has been discovered.(研究人员收集的数据令人震惊。世界上最大的海草生态系统已经被发现，面积至少为66900平方公里)”以及最后一段“What this discovery shows us is that ocean exploration and research are essential for a healthy future.(这一发现向我们表明，海洋探索和研究对健康的未来至关重要)”可知，本文主要介绍了一项发现：世界上最大的海草生态系统，故选C项。
54．B 55．A 56．A 57．D

【导语】这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者小时候母亲通过给作者讲中国民间故事，来希望作者不要忘记自己的文化。其中作者最喜欢孙悟空的故事，孙悟空也很大程度影响了作者的人生。
54．细节理解题。根据第一段“She told me those stories so that I wouldn’t forget the culture that she had left.(她给我讲这些故事是为了让我不会忘记她留下的文化)”可知，作者的母亲希望他保持文化根基。故选B。
55．细节理解题。根据第三段“My most well-known book is American Born Chinese, published in 2006. Monkey King is one of my main characters, but the book isn’t direct adaptation of my mother’s stories. Instead, I invited Monkey King into my story so that I could talk about the uneasiness of growing up as an Asian American. The character I knew from my childhood expressed his emotions without reservation. I needed him to emote on my pages.(我最著名的书是2006年出版的《美国出生的中国人》。孙悟空是我的主要角色之一，但这本书并不是直接改编自我母亲的故事。相反，我邀请孙悟空进入我的故事，这样我就可以谈谈作为一个亚裔美国人成长的不安。这个我从小就认识的人物毫无保留地表达了自己的情感。我需要他在我的页面上表达)”可知，《美国出生的中国人》这本书用孙悟空这个人物作为象征。故选A。
56．细节理解题。根据倒数第二段“The monkey king’s story has lasted for centuries and travelled across continents and cultures. Journey to the West is the very definition of “timeless”.(孙悟空的故事已经流传了几个世纪，并跨越了大陆和文化。《西游记》正是“永恒”的定义)”可知，作者认为《西游记》是一部脍炙人口的经典作品。故选A。
57．主旨大意题。根据最后一段“My mother now has Alzheimer’s. She’s forgotten all of the stories she used to tell me, but I remember. In many ways, I’ve built my whole career on those moments before bedtime. With every comic book I create, I am trying to relive the wonder I felt when my mother told me the stories of Sun Wukong.(我母亲现在患有老年痴呆症。她已经忘记了以前给我讲过的故事，但我记得。在很多方面，我的整个职业生涯都建立在睡前的那些时刻之上。在我创作的每一本漫画书中，我都试图重温母亲给我讲孙悟空故事时我所感受到的惊奇)”可知，最后一段主要讲孙悟空的故事对作者的影响。故选D。
58．D 59．A 60．C 61．B

【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明了气候变化会危害儿童健康，并用具体的数据加以说明。
58．推理判断题。根据第一段“Children and young people are bearing the burden of climate change. However, they are consistently overlooked in the design and content of climate policies and related measures. The rights of the youth need to be put in a central place in a country’s climate change plan as extreme weather events are threatening their lives and destroying the infrastructure critical to their well-being.(儿童和年轻人正承受着气候变化的负担。然而，它们在气候政策和相关措施的设计和内容中一直被忽视。青年的权利需要在一个国家的气候变化计划中置于中心位置，因为极端天气事件正在威胁他们的生命，并破坏对他们的福祉至关重要的基础设施)”可推知，作者在第一段的主要目的是提出他的观点。故选D。
59．细节理解题。根据第三段“Polluted air has a huge impact on children’s brain development. It is estimated about 2 billion children live in areas with air quality that is well above international pollution standards. Air pollution, lack of safe water, undernutrition is strongly linked to pneumonia, a leading cause of death among children, killing nearly 2, 400 children a day. The increase of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever have the greatest impacts on children, for example, 90 percent of the disease burden that is attributable to climate change is born by children under the age of five. The UNICEF report said all these challenges are exacerbated by climate change.(污染的空气对儿童的大脑发育有巨大的影响。据估计，约有20亿儿童生活在空气质量远远高于国际污染标准的地区。空气污染、缺乏安全饮用水、营养不良与肺炎密切相关，肺炎是儿童死亡的主要原因，每天造成近2400名儿童死亡。疟疾和登革热等疾病的增加对儿童的影响最大，例如，90%可归因于气候变化的疾病负担是由5岁以下儿童出生的。联合国儿童基金会的报告称，气候变化加剧了所有这些挑战)”可知，气候变化危害儿童健康。故选A。
60．推理判断题。根据倒数第二段“Through the intergovernmental cooperation on climate change, the UN has made it clear the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in raising. Actively responding to climate change is not only imperative, but also key to sustainable development for generations to come as children and young people are the future of mankind.(联合国通过气候变化政府间合作，明确指出气候变化的影响是全球性的，是空前严重的。积极应对气候变化不仅势在必行，而且是子孙后代可持续发展的关键，因为儿童和青年是人类的未来)”可推知，作者对这个问题的态度是关心的。故选C。
61．推理判断题。根据第一段“Children and young people are bearing the burden of climate change. However, they are consistently overlooked in the design and content of climate policies and related measures. The rights of the youth need to be put in a central place in a country’s climate change plan as extreme weather events are threatening their lives and destroying the infrastructure critical to their well-being.(儿童和年轻人正承受着气候变化的负担。然而，它们在气候政策和相关措施的设计和内容中一直被忽视。青年的权利需要在一个国家的气候变化计划中置于中心位置，因为极端天气事件正在威胁他们的生命，并破坏对他们的福祉至关重要的基础设施)”结合文章主要说明了气候变化会危害儿童健康，并用具体的数据加以说明。可推知，文章的目标读者可能是环保人士。故选B。
62．D 63．C 64．C 65．B

【导语】本文主要介绍了世界面临着前所未有的食物危机，并分析了其产生原因。
62．推理判断题。第一段第一句中的“The world has faced a food crisis of unprecedented(前所未有的) proportions in 2022”点明本文主题，即2022年世界面临着前所未有的粮食危机比例。接着作者在下文中通过“As many as 828 million people”“from 135 million to 345 million”“A total of 49 million people in 49 countries”等数据和实例来支撑自己的观点。由此可推测出作者是通过罗列事实和精确的数据来引入主题的。故选D。
63．推理判断题。根据第二段最后一句“He warned that things can and will get worse unless there is a large-scale and coordinated(协调一致的) effort to address the causes of this crisis.(他警告说，除非有大规模协调一致的努力来解决造成这场危机的原因，否则事情可以并且将会变得更糟。)”可知，如果不努力解决产生危机的原因，全球食物危机将会变得更为严重，由此可推测我们应该共同努力来应对全球食物危机。故选C。
64．词义猜测题。根据前一句“These reasons include conflicts, climate changes and weather extremes, economic slowdowns and downturns.(这些原因包括冲突、气候变化和极端天气、经济放缓和衰退。)”可知，these drivers指代上文中的“这些原因”，由此可推测，driver意为“驱动因素”，与factor“因素”意思相近。故选C。
65．标题归纳题。通读全文可知，本文主要介绍了世界面临着前所未有的食物危机，并分析了其产生原因。由此可推测本文主要围绕食物危机展开，B项“前所未有的食物危机”符合题意。故选B。
66．C 67．B 68．A

【导语】这是一篇应用文。文章主要介绍了三个世界上最不寻常的活动。
66．细节理解题。根据第二段“Determined by weather conditions, this event is scheduled for March each year in Greenland.(根据天气情况，该活动定于每年3月在格陵兰举行)”可知，世界冰上高尔夫锦标赛的赛程如何安排取决于天气。故选C。
67．细节理解题。根据倒数第二段“This is the only place in the world to enjoy balloons flying in the blue skies each October.(这是世界上唯一一个每年10月在蓝天上放飞气球的地方)”可知，气球节每年十月举行。故选B。
68．细节理解题。根据最后一段“But locals believe the action protects their babies from bad things and organize the jump in the streets, so people can watch or even join.(但当地人认为这种行为可以保护他们的孩子免受坏事的伤害，所以他们在街上组织了跳跃，这样人们就可以观看甚至加入)”可知，庆祝El Colacho节是为了祝愿婴儿健康。故选A。
69．B 70．A 71．C 72．A

【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了一位英国少女在战胜了严重的抑郁症后，鼓励别人在烘焙中寻找乐趣。
69．细节理解题。根据第二段第一句““If something is fun to eat, it makes it even tastier!” the teen baking star, who overcame depression after discovering the art of bread making, said.(“如果某样东西吃起来很有趣，它就会更美味!”这位十几岁的烘焙明星在发现面包制作艺术后克服了抑郁症)”可知，Kitty之前患有抑郁症。故选B。
70．推理判断题。根据第三段第二句“And before she knew it, there was a subscription service followed by a pop-up in her neighbor's garage where she sold almost 100 loaves of bread and doughnuts (甜甜圈) in half an hour.(她意识到这一点之前，就有了订阅服务，然后在她邻居的车库开了一家快闪店，她在半小时内卖掉了近100条面包和甜甜圈)”可知，她的面包在半小时内就卖掉了近100条。由此推知，她的面包非常受欢迎。故选A。
71．推理判断题。根据第四段第一句“A few months later, after raising enough money through crowdfunding, the teen rented a small retail space in town and her dad quit his job to become her business partner.(几个月后，她通过众筹筹到了足够的钱，在镇上租了一个小零售店，她的父亲辞去了工作，成为了她的商业伙伴)”可知，Kitty的父亲辞去工作与她一起经营面包店。由此推知，Kitty的父亲对她的事业给予了帮助。故选C。
72．细节理解题。根据第五段最后一句“My main mission is to make bread inclusive and joyful because I have found so much joy in it.(我的主要任务是让面包变得包容和快乐，因为我在面包中找到了太多的快乐)”可知，Kitty说自己的主要任务是让做面包变得具有包容性和快乐性，因为她自己在烘焙中找到了快乐。故选A。
73．B 74．D 75．B 76．D

【导语】本文是说明文。最优秀的人并不总能给出更好的建议——-他们只是给出更多的建议。
73．推理判断题。根据第一段“When you want advice to achieve something, whom would you rather ask: the top performer in that area or someone barely getting by? ”（当你需要建议来实现某些目标时，你更愿意问谁：那个领域的顶尖人物还是勉强度日的人？）可知，作者通过提出问题来引出文章的话题。故选B。
74．细节理解题。根据第四段中“Top performers didn’t write more helpful advice, but they did write more of it, and people in our experiments mistook quantity for quality,” Levari added.”（最优秀的人并没有写出更多有用的建议，但他们确实写出了更多，而且在我们的实验中，人们把数量误认为质量,”Levari补充说。）可知，最优秀的人没有写更多有用的建议，但他们写的建议确实更多。故选D。
75．细节理解题。根据最后一段“We spend a lot of time and money looking for good advice, whether from coworkers and coaches, teachers and tutors, or friends and family,” said Levari. “The next time you get advice, you should think less about how much of it there was, and more about how much of it you could actually use.”（“我们花费了大量的时间和金钱来寻求好的建议，不管是从同事和教练，老师和导师，还是朋友和家人那里。”Levari说。“下次你得到建议的时候，你应该少考虑它有多少，多考虑你实际上可以使用多少。”）可知，在Levari看来，在人们需要得到建议时，应该考虑的是多少建议是真正可以利用的，而不是考虑有多少建议。故选B。
76．主旨大意题。通读全文，文章在第一段通过问题形式，引入文章讲述的话题：你可以通过问哪些人获得建议。进而在第四段中通过实验证明，最优秀的人没有写更多有用的建议，但他们写的建议确实更多。最终提出，人们需要得到建议时，应该考虑的是多少建议是真正可以利用的，而不是考虑有多少建议。所以本文的标题可以为“最优秀的人并不总能给出更好的建议”。故选D。