A. Open-minded and patient. B. Creative and helpful.

C. Talented and unsocial. D. Pioneering and determined. ( ) 37. What's the article mainly about? A. The inspiring life story of Earhart.

B. Some possible causes of Earhart's death. C. The discovery of Earhart's bones. D. What made Earhart a great pilot.

C

(One day, Gulliver was caught in a storm and his ship hit a rock, then damaged. He was washed to the beach. When he woke up, he found himself in Lilliput and a lot of' tiny people were around him.)

The Emperor spoke in a low voice but I could hear all the words clearly.

His Majesty and I often spoke to each other but neither of us understood a single word. I tried words from many languages. No one could understand me, not even the cleverest of the Emperor's followers.

After about two hours the Emperor left. His wife, children and their servants went also. There were strong guards around me. This was to stop the crowd of people from hurting me. An officer told the guards to hold six men who made me angry. These men were given to me and I had to choose their punishment. I put five of them in my pocket. Then I pretended（假装）to eat the sixth man.

The poor man screamed terribly. The guards were worried when they saw my knife in my hand. I only cut the rope round his hands. Then I put him on his feet and let him go. I lifted the other five men out of my pocket and put them gently on the ground too.

The people and the soldiers were very pleased with my great kindness. They told the Emperor about it immediately. Emperor ordered his men to make a bed for me and they had to join six hundred of their little beds together to make one bed for me.

At the same time the Emperor asked all his advisers for their advice on how to deal with me. They were very worried. If they set me free, I might be dangerous. I was eating so much food that soon all the people would be hungry. The farmers could not grow enough food to feed all of us.

The wise men thought that they should kill me. But they would not be able to bury(埋葬）me. My dead body would smell. This might cause much illness all over the country. ( ) 38. Why did the tiny people hurt Gulliver at first?

A. They just wanted to make fun of him. B. They thought he would attack the king. C. They wanted to kill him and got his knife.

D. They were afraid of him because he was too big.

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) 39. The underlined word \（指代）\A. the guards B. the six men C. the officers D. the Emperor's children ( ) 40. What do the last two paragraphs mainly talk about?

A. The Emperor and his men's decision to kill Gulliver.

B. The Emperor and his men's communication with Gulliver.

C. The Emperor and his men's difficulties in dealing with Gulliver.

D. The Emperor and his people's pleasure with Gulliver's great kindness. ( ) 41. What prevented the tiny people from killing Gulliver?

A. Gulliver's size and knife. B. Gulliver's strength and wisdom. C. The king and his wife's order. D. The trouble of his dead body.

D

US poet Allen Ginsberg once said, \original human mind.\

In celebrating World Poetry Day, March 21, UNESCO discovers the special ability of poetry to express the human spirit.

The magic of poetry lies in the connection built up through words between the author and the reader. When we read a poem, we often imagine what the poet was thinking when they wrote it, or what they were doing at the time. These thoughts let us connect with the words better.

But in the age of AI（人工智能）, would a poem still mean as much if it weren't written by a human at all? Today, computers can create all kinds of texts, even poems included.

In 2013, Australian researcher Oscar Schwartz and his friend Benjamin Laird created a website called \by a human or a computer. During a recent speech at TedX Sydney, Schwartz said that throughout the years, some of the website's poems were able to fool 65 percent of human readers into thinking they were written by a human.

By starting the website, Schwartz and Laird hoped that people would question the difference between humans and machines-and be able to find out what makes us human.

Unstableness（不稳定性）is part of the answer. \human is not a cold, hard fact,\Schwartz said. \it is something that's constructed with our ideas and something that changes over time.\

A computer may be able to create poems that are correct in both grammar and style, but it wouldn't be able to get the same meanings and feelings across as a human poet could. In fact, today's AI software creates poems based on ones that have already been written by humans. As Schwartz noted, \（反映）any idea of a human that developers teach it.\

So a new challenge arises: What kind of human mind do we want the computer to reflect back at us?

( ) 42. What's the purpose of the first three paragraphs?

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A. To introduce how World Poetry Day was started. B. To show the popularity of poetry around the world. C. To show the importance and beauty of poetry. D. To give some tips on appreciating poetry. ( ) 43. What do the data from \

A. Computers are better than humans at writing poetry. B. Computers can also produce poems of high quality.

C. Readers don't really care whether the poems were written by humans. D. Few readers can tell poems written by computers from those by humans. ( ) 44. According to Schwartz, what makes humans different from machines?

A. We have changing ideas. B. We often make mistakes. C. We are stable in what we do. D. We value feelings over facts.

( ) 45. Why can't computers match humans in creating poems according to the article?

A. They can't express feelings as well as humans. B. They can't create poems that make sense at all. C. They fail to use the correct grammar and style.

D. They only know how to copy poems written by humans. 四、词汇运用（共10小题；每小题1分, 计10分）

根据句子意思, 用括号中所给汉语提示或英语单词的适当形式填空。在答题卡标有题 号的横线上, 写出空缺处所填单词的正确形式。（每空一词）

46. There's no doubt that smoking is ___________to your health. (danger) 47. I love volleyball, but I wasn't ___________ for the school team. (choose)

48. ___________, all the places of interest in Yangzhou will soon be open to local people for free. (hope)

49. The complete Manchu Han Imperial Feast includes 134 hot dishes, 48 cold ones as well as ______________ and fresh fruits. (dry)

50. I don't agree with zoos because animals need to be in their ____________ habitats. (nature) 51. Not until Columbus discovered America were bananas brought to ___________. （欧洲） 52. It's easy to compare ___________if you shop online.（价格）

53. It's clear to me that something needs to be done about ____________ in the city.（污染） 54. Sun Peiyuan hopes one day Wushu will be added to the ___________Games.（奥林匹克的） 55. In 1969 about 600 million people watched __________ most famous space mission.（历史） 五、任务型阅读（共10空；每空1分, 计10分）

阅读下面短文, 根据短文中的信息完成文后表格。在答题卡标有题号的横线上, 写出空缺处所填单词的正确形式。（每空一词）

Bananas are a perfect snack. Not only are they sweet and delicious, but they are easy to carry around, so you can take them anywhere. Best of all, bananas provide different things that the human body needs!

Bananas grow best in warm places that get lots of rain. They grow on plants that look like

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trees. The banana plant, however, is considered a herb rather than a tree because it doesn't have a strong, woody stem（茎）. The plants can grow as high as 30 feet. When they , reach their full height, flowers grow out from the stem. These flowers produce bananas.

Two or three times each year, the plants produce fruit. The bananas grow together, which seem like \（丛）of bananas has about 15 hands, and so a whole bunch may have as many as 200 bananas and can weigh more than 100 pounds.

After about three months, the bananas are ready to be picked. At this point, they still aren't the sunny yellow colour of bananas. Farmers pick them when they're green. That's how they're shipped to stores. They turn yellow along the way and are ready to be sold.

If you love bananas, you are not alone. Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit. The banana was a complete stranger to the USA till 1870. Today, every American eats over 26 pounds of bananas each year! Bananas first grew in Malaysia about 4, 000 years ago. They later spread to other parts of the world. Now, it is cultivated in more than 170 countries. Bananas ____56 Bananas are highly portable and full of nutrition, and 57 good, making them a 58 snack Bananas grow best in warm and 59 places. The banana plant 60 a tree but a herb. The banana plant 61 of 30 feet. After 62 grow out, they produce bananas, two or three times each year. A whole bunch can have 200 bananas. Bananas are harvested and shipped while still 63 . Bananas probably first grew in Malaysia about 4,000 years ago. America got its 64 taste of bananas in 1870. Now, bananas are 65 favourite fruit. Growth Harvest Interesting facts 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 六、缺词填空（共10空；每空1分, 计10分）

根据短文内容和首字母提示, 在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。在答题卡标有 题号的横线上, 完整地写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空一词）

Why do we always say things we later wish we could take back, and why do we only say the things we wish to say when it's too l 66 ? I often think of things I wish I had told my mother. I spent the l 67 few days of her life at her bedside telling her the things I'd wanted to tell her for years, that she was a good mother and I was proud to be her d 68 .

My dad was also a man of few words, but he m 69 what he said He always ended our calls with \

Those were the words I would cling to when I learned he had died. I had all sorts of

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