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阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

The concept of comfort zone (舒适区) refers to a psychological state in which we feel safe and do not experience anxiety or fear. It is a “space” that we know completely and in which we control almost everything.

Your comfort zone represents things you’re familiar with, your regular haunts, friends you’re at ease with, and activities you love doing. Your comfort zone’s risk free. It’s easy. It doesn’t cause you to stretch. Within these boundaries we feel safe and secure.

During my senior year in college I was short a few credits, and so I skimmed through the class schedule looking for something to fill the hours. When I came across “Private Voice Instruction” as in singing lessons, I thought, “Why not step outside my comfort zone and give it a try?”

I was careful to sign up for private lessons instead of group lessons because I didn’t want to make a fool of myself by singing in front of other students.

Things went fine until the end of the semester when my singing professor brought the shocking news. “By the way, Sean, have you decided which song you want to sing at the recital?” “What do you mean?” I asked in horror.

“Well, the class requirements state that you have to sing at least one time in front of the other private voice students.”

“That would not be a good idea,” I said emphatically.

“Oh, it’s no big deal. You’ll do fine.”

Well, to me it was a huge deal. The thought of singing in front of a group made me physically sick. “How am I going to get out of this one?” I thought. But I couldn’t allow myself to do that because I had been speaking to various groups over the past year advising them to never let fears make their decisions.

“Courage, Sean.” I kept saying in my mind. “You’ve got to at least try.”

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。

That frightening day finally arrived.

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I left the classroom as if a heavy load had been lifted.

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假定你是某中学高一学生李华。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，为校刊《英语园地》写一篇短文，讲述上周你校高一年级举行趣味运动会的过程。
注意：词数80左右

参考词汇：趣味运动会a fun sports meeting
两人三足赛跑three-legged race
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— Shall we go for a drink downstairs?
—       . Will two o'clock be OK?

A．Sorry, Ｉ’m not available now	B．Sure, no problem
C．Sorry, I can’t make it today	D．Sure, it’s up to you

假如你是李华，你的国外好友Alice将在校园艺术节开幕式上作为学生代表发言，想请你给她提供一些克服怯场的方法。请根据要点，给Alice回一封电子邮件，内容包括：
1. 给与安慰；
2. 提出建议。
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：怯场 stage fright
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阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

I was eating breakfast at home in Hampshire in March this year, scrolling (滚屏) through social media on my phone, when a story caught my eye. It was about a nine-year-old dog, Charlie, nicknamed the loneliest in Britain. He had been in a rescue center in Somerset for more than 500 days.

For some reason, nobody wanted to ad opt him. I clicked on the link and right away Charlie’ shuge, sad eyes stared back at me. I was attracted by him. I turned to my husband, Sam, and said: “We’ve got to have him.” He read the article over my shoulder and felt exactly the same way. We wanted to give Charlie a happy home and a new life. Over the past few years we have tried to adopt a few different dogs, but we haven’t had any luck—we were never top of the list. Sam and I got used to filling in forms and not hearing anything. We’d almost given up hope.

But Charlie is an older dog and we felt we’d be suited—even older dogs have a lot of love left to offer. So we took our time with the application, sent photographs of our house and garden. We explained why Charlie would be happy with us, and then forgot all about it.

A few days later we received an email from Brent Knoll animal center, saying we’d been shortlisted. We were so amazed! They asked us to visit Charlie and to see if he liked us. When we arrived, we were taken to the staff room. We didn’t know what to expect. We hadn’t been told much about Charlie’s circumstances, but as he had been given up for adoption and hadn’t been placed with a new owner for so long, we thought there might be issues. But the dog was full of joy and charisma (魅力).

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。

He came straight over to us, all curious.

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Day after day, we occupied ourselves in Charlie’s company.

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Ann has been severely paralysed (瘫痪)for more than 18 years. She cannot speak and normally communicates. But now, she has been able to speak through an image on the computer using technology that translated her brain signals into speech and facial expressions.

The advance raises hopes that the technology could be on the edge of transforming the lives of people who have lost the ability to speak due to conditions like strokes (中风).

The latest technology uses tiny electrodes (电极) put on the top layer of the brain to detect electrical activity in the part of the brain that controls speech and face movements. These signals are translated directly into a digital avatar’s (化身) speech and facial expressions including smiling, frowning or surprise.

The team put 253 paper-thin electrodes on the top layer of Ann’s brain over an area important to speech. Afterwards Ann worked with the team to train the system to detect her unique brain signals for various speech sounds by repeating different phrases repeatedly. The computer learned 39 distinctive sounds and a Chat GPT-style language system was used to translate the signals into understandable sentences. This was then used to control an avatar with a voice personalised to sound like Ann’s voice before the injury, based on a recording of her speaking at her wedding.

The technology was not perfect, translating words incorrectly 28% of the time in a test run involving more than 500 phrases, and it generated brain-to-text at a rate of 78 words a minute, compared with the 110–150 words typically spoken in natural conversation. However, scientists said the latest advances in accuracy and speed suggest the technology is now at a point of being practically useful for patients. A crucial next step is to create a wireless form that could be put beneath the skull (颅骨).

1．How can Ann speak?

A．By tiny electrodes on her brain.

B．Through an avatar using the latest technology.

C．Through repeating different phrases repeatedly.

D．By a technology that detects her brain signals.

2．What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．How the technology works.

B．How the technology benefits the patients.

C．How the technology translates the brain signal.

D．How the technology is put into wide application.

3．Which is unnecessary to make the avatar sound like Ann?

A．Ann’s cooperation.	B．Ann’s facial expressions.
C．An AI language system.	D．A recording of Ann’s speaking.

4．What do we know about the technology according to the last paragraph?

A．It is a promising way to help patients.

B．Its translating speed is too slow.

C．It cannot be applied to patients.

D．It is not accurate in translating at all.

主题：How to set up a good parent-child relationship
良好的亲子关系应该建立在理解和尊重的基础上。父母和孩子可以齐心协力改善亲子关系。以下是建立良好亲子关系的建议：
1.父母应该把孩子当作独立的个体来对待。学会倾听孩子的想法，鼓励他们独立思考，而不是替孩子决定一切。
2.孩子与父母有分歧时，花点时间让自己冷静下来，尝试从父母的角度了解状况。
3.孩子和父母有必要进行定期、坦诚的沟通，有助于彼此和睦相处。
字数：100左右。

How to set up a good parent-child relationship

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假设你是李华，你所在的科技社团开展了一次以“科技与生活”为主题的社区服务活动。社团成员Tom因故未参加本次活动，发邮件询问你该活动的相关情况。请你回复邮件，内容包括：
1.活动时间和地点；2.活动的内容；3.活动的意义。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式作答。
Dear Tom,
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Yours,

Li Hua

The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003.

Sixteen minutes before touchdown on the morning of February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia (“哥伦比亚”号航天飞机)______ into the cloudless East Texas sky. All seven astronauts aboard were killed. As the shattered shuttle flew toward Earth in pieces, it looked to its live TV viewers like a swarm of shooting stars.

The immediate ______ of the disaster, a report from a NASA Accident Investigation Board determined that August, was a piece of insulating foam (绝缘泡沫胶) that had broken loose and damaged the shuttle’s left wing soon after liftoff. But the report also   ______ out a less direct, more surprising cause. Engineers had known about - and inappropriately______ - the wing damage long before Columbia’s attempted reentry, but the flaws in their analysis were ______ in a series of overstuffed computer-presentation slides that were shown to NASA officials.

By the start of 2003, the phrase “death by PowerPoint” had well and truly entered the ______ vocabulary. Edward Tufte was the first to have taken it literally: That spring, the Yale statistician published a booklet entitled The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, whose core argument was that the medium of communication influences the substance of communication. While PowerPoint, as a medium, did not ______ create unclear, lazy presentations, it certainly ______ and sometimes even masked them — with potentially deadly consequences. This is exactly what Tufte saw in the Columbia engineers’ slides.

Wired ran an excerpt (节选) from Tufte’s booklet in September 2003 under the headline “PowerPoint Is Evil.” A few months later, The New York Times Magazine included his assessment — summarized as “PowerPoint Makes You Dumb” — in its ______ of the year’s most important ideas. “Perhaps PowerPoint is uniquely suited to our modern age of confusion,” the entry read.

Despite the backlash it inspired in the ______, the presentation giant rolls on. The program has more monthly users than ever before, well into the hundreds of millions. During lockdown, people ______ PowerPoint parties on Zoom. Kids now make PowerPoint presentations for their parents when they want to get a puppy. If PowerPoint is evil, then evil ______ the world.

On its face at least, the idea that PowerPoint makes us stupid looks like a textbook case of misguided technological doomsaying. Today’s concerns about social media somehow resemble the PowerPoint critique. Both boil down to a worry that new media technologies ______ form over substance, that they are designed to hold our attention rather than to convey truth, and that they make us stupid.

______, concerns about new media rarely seem to make a difference. If the innovation did change the way we think, we are measuring its effects with an altered mind. Either the critical remarks were wrong, or they were so right that we can no longer tell the   ______.

1．

A．disappeared

B．disintegrated

C．distributed

D．disappointed

2．

A．side

B．cause

C．feature

D．issue

3．

A．collected

B．unified

C．dropped

D．single

4．

A．discounted

B．viewed

C．accessed

D．founded

5．

A．muted

B．absorbed

C．buried

D．sunk

6．

A．technical

B．popular

C．negative

D．special

7．

A．possibly

B．reasonably

C．ordinarily

D．necessarily

8．

A．accommodated

B．combined

C．distinguished

D．enhanced

9．

A．abstract

B．repetition

C．review

D．brief

10．

A．press

B．publication

C．media

D．criticism

11．

A．opened

B．created

C．threw

D．jumped

12．

A．rules

B．harmonizes

C．impacts

D．roars

13．

A．feature

B．encourage

C．value

D．defend

14．

A．Therefore

B．However

C．Certainly

D．Surprisingly

15．

A．difference

B．truth

C．time

D．concern

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Charles Dickens

It has been 150 years since Charles Dickens died, 184 years since his first work was released to the public and 156 years since his last completed book came out. In all of this time, these novels have never been out of print. Dickens may have left us, but his work remains timeless, 1． (fascinate) the majority of those who open their pages.

Most people have read, watched or at least heard of Dickens’ stories, but what makes him and his work so popular? Since he began novel writing in his 20s, Dickens constantly produced quality classics. Year after year his awaiting fans were not left 2． (disappoint) as their minds were fed with complex tales of romance, crime, hope and despair.

In the Victorian era he lived in, much of the work Dickens produced 3． (model) on the literature before him. He was one of the first writers of the time 4． (portray) honest examples of working-class people, giving many something to relate to. He focused on unfolding the good and bad qualities of characters which allowed his readers to follow their journeys and understand 5． they may have acted in the unusual or shocking ways that they did.

Any Dickens fans will know the diverse and outrageous (耸人听闻的) characters coming to life between the pages. 6． was special about this novelist’s ability in imagining these characters’ stories is that it comes from his own life’s path. 7． a young boy left to take care of himself in a workhouse to the wealthy figure he became through his writing successes, he knew what it was like to see in different lights. This deep understanding of his characters gave his fictional stories the strong element of believability 8． is needed in a good novel.

Over a century and a half later, Dickens’ themes can be relevant to today’s world problems. His words and imagery have been transformed further into the media of modern film, television and even musical adaptations. 9． set in a time unfamiliar to readers today, his work still enables everyone to relate to the love, hardship and sense of family that pours from the narratives. It is this aspect 10． has carried Charles Dickens into the 21st century.