一、单项选择
she北京演唱会1．This is Mary’s English book. ________ is at home.
A．I B．My C．Me D．Mine
2．Our school library opens ________ on weekdays.
A．at B．for C．in D．of
3．—________ was your trip to Yunnan, Tom?
—It was wonderful.
A．How B．What C．When D．Where 4．—John, ________ you please take out the trash?
—OK, Mum. I’ll do it right away.
A．must B．should C．could D．need 5．Read these books, ________ you’ll get to know more about Chinese tea culture. A．though B．unless C．and D．but
6．Linda is ________ in art than her sister Lily.
A．creative B．more creative C．most creative D．the most creative 7．We ________ a survey about students’ reading habits last weekend.
A．do B．did C．have done D．will do 8．Millions of tourists ________ the Great Wall every year.
A．visit B．will visit C．visited D．have visited 9．I ________ a video call with Grandma when Dad arrived home.
A．have B．will have C．am having D．was having 10．Time flies. Mr. Smith ________ English in our school for three years. We all enjoy his classes.
A．teaches B．will teach C．has taught D．was teaching 11．The graduation party ________ in the school hall next month.
A．was held B．will be held C．held D．will hold 12．—Jack, do you know ________?
—Sure. Once a week would be OK.
A．how long should I water the plants
B．how long I should water the plants C．how often should I water the plants D．how often I should water the plants
二、完形填空
三、阅读匹配
A．Pet and Feed Animals
B．Pick Your Own
C．Grow Vegetables D．Buy Fresh Products
四、阅读单选
It was a school trip. My friends and I were taking photos in the street of Vienna, trying to record the beauty of a foreign country. The change in climate had made my contacts (隐形眼镜) dry out quite often, so I was wearing my glasses.
But I didn’t think the glasses looked good on me, so for any photo I was in, I would take them off. When I took them off in front of Vienna State Opera, I heard a tiny “ping!”—a screw (螺丝) fell off my glasses and they separated in half.
Hurriedly, my friends and I began to search for the tiny screw. We looked everywhere, but it was nowhere to be found. I was close to tears. How could I enjoy the rest of my trip if I could see nothing clearly?!
Just at that moment, my friend saw a store with a sign in German whose windows were full of various pairs of glasses. To try our luck, we raced into the store. Not speaking any German, we did our best to explain the situation. A friendly old man smiled gently and took my glasses into the back of the store.
After a while, he came back into the room. Smiling softly, he handed me my glasses, fully fixed. I tried to ask the man how much it would cost. However, the man just smiled at me and said, “For you? I will do it for free.”
That is the kindest thing a stranger has ever done for me. While I was in a foreign country and unable to even speak his language, this man, with a business to run, still gifted me that tiny, necessary screw—thus the ability to see for the rest of my trip and also a memory to be treasured.
24．What happened in front of Vienna State Opera?
A．The writer fell to the ground.B．The writer’s contacts dried out.
C．The writer made new friends.D．The writer’s glasses broke apart. 25．How did the writer feel when she found the store?
A．Regretful.B．Hopeful.C．Interested.D．Disappointed. 26．The writer will treasure the memory because ________.
A．she was moved by a stranger B．she was gifted a set of screws
C．she liked the view in Vienna D．she picked up a new language
Most kids know it’s wrong to shout at or hit someone. But what if that someone is Alexa—an AI (Artificial Intelligence人工智能) speaker, or Roomba—a robot cleaner?
A new study by Teresa Flanagan, a developmental psychologist from Duke University, found that kids aged four to eleven felt neither Roomba nor Alexa should be shouted at or attacked. However, that feeling weakened as kids grew into their teens.
Flanagan was inspired to do the research after watching some movies about robots. “In those movies, we see adults interacting with robots in terrible ways,” said Flanagan. “But how would kids interact with them?”
Flanagan invited 127 children aged four to eleven to take part in the study. The kids were asked to watch a video of the two devices (设备) and then answer a few questions, like whether it was wrong to attack AI devices and how smart and sensitive they thought Alexa was compared to Roomba. Flanagan studied the survey data and found something encouraging.
Overall, kids decided that both Alexa and Roomba, unlike humans, probably weren’t ticklish (怕痒) and wouldn’t feel pain when they got hit. However, they gave Alexa, but not Roomba, high marks for mental and emotional abilities, such as being able to think or getting upset when someone was mean
to it.
“Young children think Alexa, even without a body, has emotions and a mind,” Flanagan said. “But they don’t think Roomba does—maybe that has something to do with Alexa’s ability to have verbal(语音的) communication.”
Although they believed the two intelligent devices had different abilities, children across
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