---What's up, Jimmy? ---Oh dear, my kite ________on top of a tree.

A. stopped B. reached C. flew D. landed

--- Yangtse Evening Post, please.

--- There is only one left. Would you like it?

A. copy B. piece C. paper D. set

The piano_________ most of his study so there isn’t enough space for such a big desk.

A. takes up B. takes off C. makes up D. makes up of

— I’m afraid that you look a bit fatter than before.

— Yeah. I need to start exercising and get back in ______

A. size B. height C. style D. shape

---I think there is little that robots will take the place of humans in the future.

---I agree with you. After all, the smartest robots are made and controlled by people.

A. experience B. accident C. change D. chance

---I’ve heard you went to the cinema for the film Wonder again,last weekend, right?

---Yes, it is very moving. Goodness, courage, self-confidence, and respect are____________introduced in it

A. probably B. naturally C. usually D. hardly

---Excuse me, would you mind helping me with the math problem?

---I’m sorry. _______, I’m in a hurry.

A. In general B. In fact C. In all D. In detail

How often do you let other people’s rude actions change your mood? Do you let a bad driver or an impolite waiter make your day in a mess? However, the mark of your wise reply to the actions is how _____ you can come back to smiling to them. Sixteen years ago, I learned this _____ at the back of a taxi in New York.

We were driving fast in the right lane (車道) when suddenly, a black car jumped _____ a parking space right to front of us. My taxi driver stepped on the brake (剎車) as hard as possible, and at the _____ moment our car stopped just one inch from the back of the other car.

I couldn’t believe what happened next. The driver of the car turned his head around and started _____ bad words. But then here’s what really _____ me. My taxi driver just smiled and waved (揮手致意) at the guy. I said, “Why did you just do that? This guy nearly _____ us!” He told me what I now remember “The Law of the Garbage (垃圾)Truck.”

He said, “Like garbage trucks, many people run around full of garbage, full of anger, and full of regret. _____ their garbage increases more and more, they look for a place to pour it. If you let them, they’ll pour it on you. So when someone wants to pour it on you, don’t feel hurt. Just smile, wave, and move on. You will be _____.”

I started thinking: how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and ______ it to other people? Then I knew clearly what I should do.

I began to see Garbage Trucks. I see the bad mood people are carrying. I see them coming to pour it. And like my taxi driver, I don’t feel hurt. I just smile, wave, and move on。

1.A. clearly B. quickly C. exactly D. correctly

2.A. example B. experience C. lesson D. case

3.A. out of B. across C. next to D. far from

4.A. next B. busy C. right D. last

5.A. shouting B. telling C. whispering D. expressing

6.A. cheered B. encouraged C. surprised D. satisfied

7.A. attacked B. killed C. warned D. beat

8.A. Since B. While C. As D. Before

9.A. happier B. busier C. safer D. luckier

10.A. donate B. lend C. spread D. hang

1.he topic of the postings (帖子) is _____.

A. school problems B. home remedies

C. food and drink D. outdoor sports

2._____ gave a tip for toothache.

A. Hell from Australia B. Norma ’s kids

C. A friend of Monica’s D. Lameed’s grandmother

3.According to the postings, you can _____ if you have a headache.

A. tie half an onion to your feet

B. put a wet teabag on your head

C. eat a piece of bread with honey

D. drop warm salt water in your ears

US poet Allen Ginsberg once said, “Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original(獨(dú)創(chuàng)的) human mind.”

To know the special ability of poetry to catch the human spirit, World Poetry Day is held by the United Nations on March 21 each year.

The magic of poetry lies in the connection built up through words between the writer 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, as if we’d written the poem ourselves.

But in the age of artificial intelligence (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, including research papers, books, news stories and even poems.

In 2013, Australian researcher Oscar Schwartz and his friend Benjamin Laird created a website called “bot or not”, where readers can read poems and guess whether they were written by a human or a computer. During a recent speech at TedX Sydney, Schwartz said that all over the years, some of the website’s poems were able to fool（欺騙）65 percent of human readers into thinking they were written by a human.

By creating the website, Schwartz and Laird hoped that people would doubt the difference between humans and machines – and be able to tell what makes us human.

“The human mind is not a cold, hard fact,” Schwartz said during his speech. 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, now AI software creates poems based on ones that have already been written by humans. As Schwartz noted, “The computer works like a mirror that reflects (反映) any idea of a human.”

1.The purpose of the first three paragraphs is to ___________.

A. introduce where World Poetry Day comes from.

B. show how popular poetry is around the world.

C. show the importance and beauty of poetry.

D. give some tips on enjoying poetry.

2.What did the data（數(shù)據(jù)）from “bot or not” show?

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.

3.According to the article, computers can’t match humans in creating poems because they_____.

A. fail to use the correct grammar and style

B. can’t create poems that are meaningful

C. can’t show feelings as well as humans

D. only know how to follow humans’ poems