三、七选五 Many teenagers feel it hard to get on well with their parents. ___1___ You may feel your parents cannot understand your inner world. In fact, your parents also go through pressure when you grow into a teenager. ___2___ You want more freedom to make choices while your parents still worry about your safety and future. Your feelings of anger often come from this gap. Sometimes you shout at them without thinking. Later you may feel regretful, but you do not know how to fix it. Before you start a talk with your parents, do not speak when you are filled with anger. ___3___ Give yourself several minutes to cool down. Never say hurtful words that you will regret later. When you begin to talk, share your real thoughts honestly. ___4___ Try to look at matters from their point of view. Parents have more life experience. They may have met similar troubles long ago. They do not hope you go through the same pain. ___5___ It takes time for both sides to change. Do not expect all problems to disappear in one single talk. Small improvements step by step will finally make your home a warmer place. A. Conflicts come from different needs between you and your parents. B. It is normal to experience misunderstanding within the family. C. Once you get angry, stop the conversation right away. D. Also, remember to listen carefully to what your parents say. E. You should argue loudly so that your parents will listen to you. F. Solving family problems cannot be finished in a short time. G. You should give up all your own opinions to please your parents.

**Realizing your potential** Senior high school is \_\_\_\_\_\_ world full of challenges, such as new subjects, new experiences and new ways of \_\_\_\_\_\_ (think). \_\_\_\_\_\_ you work hard to rise to the challenges, you will have the opportunity to acquire great knowledge and enjoy personal \_\_\_\_\_\_ (grow). At senior high school, you should try your best to discover your potential. To \_\_\_\_\_\_ (full) realize your potential, you ought to make the most of your school resources. Of equal importance \_\_\_\_\_\_ (be) your good study habits, positive \_\_\_\_\_\_ (attitude) and useful skills. As a senior high school student, you must be active and \_\_\_\_\_\_ (responsibility). In time you will find \_\_\_\_\_\_ growing into a well-rounded person. It's very important for you \_\_\_\_\_\_ (make) continuous efforts to train your mind \_\_\_\_\_\_ develop your character. Senior high school will help you grow, realize your great potential and become confident.

【篇章一】\nMy first day at senior high school\nI've just finished my first day of senior high school and I really enjoyed it. I ______ (tell) that schoolwork will present more of a challenge in the years ahead, and that ______ teachers will hold us to higher standards. This means I'll have to put a lot of effort into my studies. I'll also need to be very careful about ______ (balance) my schoolwork and hobbies. This is all quite new and different ______ my life at junior high school, I'm sure I'll rise to all these ______ (challenge).\nIn fact, I'm looking forward to being more ______ (independence) and responsible for my own learning. There is so much knowledge I need to acquire, so I'll work ______ (hard) than ever. I also plan to take advantage of every opportunity ______ (improve) my communication skills. I'll make more friends by joining some clubs. I have confidence in ______ (I) ability to do well at senior high school!\n\n【篇章二】\nGrammar\nGoals are important in many ways. ______ (set) goals gives you a focus in life. By setting goals now, you are deciding ______ you want to achieve in the future. Then you know where you are going in life and can work hard to get there. Setting goals also helps you develop good ______ (habit). To realize your goals, you need to have a good plan, manage your time well and pay attention to details. Finally, setting goals makes you more confident. When you achieve a goal, you see ______ result of your hard work and know how much progress you have made.\nIt is important to set goals that can be achieved. That is to say, you should set goals ______ (base) on your abilities and skills. Try to break big goals down into small ones to make them ______ (easy) to reach. You will be proud of ______ (you) when you realize each small goal. It is also a good idea to put your goals where you can see them, which will remind you ______ what you are working for and keep you focused.\nA goal is a dream that ______ (need) action. As a result of your action, your dream will come true and ______ (hopeful) you will live a happy life.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. It 1_______ (fall) on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. On this night, the moon is 2_______ (bright) than usual, and families gather 3_______ (admire) it together. Mooncakes are a must-eat food during the festival. They 4_______ (be) usually round, standing for reunion. People give mooncakes to relatives and friends as gifts 5_______ express good wishes. In recent years, mooncakes 6_______ (become) more varied, with flavors like ice cream and fruit. The festival is also 7_______ time for storytelling. Children listen to the story of Chang'e, 8_______ flew to the moon after taking magic medicine. The story 9_______ (pass) down from generation to generation. Although celebrations have changed, the love for family and the wish for 10_______ (happy) remain the same.

【原文】 M: Jasmine, it's been six months since I last saw you, and you seem to be more energetic and stronger. W: Yes, I felt burnt-out at work and was really stressed out in the city, so I decided to quit. Now I can see that coming back to my hometown was the right decision. I'm enjoying my life to the full. M: That's true. Long exposure to stress will cause harm to your health. Wow, you've done a great job with your backyard! So many roses, and you even have an artificial pond with my favorite water lilies! W: I also ordered some peach trees, which will be delivered tomorrow. Look, here's our vegetable garden. We hardly ever have to buy vegetables. M: Great. So, what do you do for a living? W: I'm working at my parents' grocery store. Since there's a famous tourist attraction nearby, we also have the idea of starting a guesthouse business in the future. 17. A 18. A 19. C 20. B

It was then that I started to appreciate the tough choices she had to make on ______ family and work. A. abandoning B. balancing C. focusing D. improving

My phone buzzed with a video titled “WARNING: 5 Foods That Are Actually Plastic.” My mother doesn't offer advice; she issues warnings. I suspect her phone has declared war on me. Every time she scrolls, the feed whispers to her that my favorite snack is a “poison”. I never challenge her claims, since she trusts a forwarded article more than my college degree. One day, she was telling me about a fitness contest at her gym, and I started lecturing about body fat percentages. While I was spreading all this wisdom, I was glued to the sofa, extending one leg like a crane to grab the remote with my big toe to avoid sitting up. She was watching me with a blank expression, “If you worked out as hard as you avoided standing up, you would be in great shape now.” To my face, she's a critic, but I caught her describing me as a “highly intellectual, talented person” on a call with my aunt. From the next room, I wondered, “Wait, who is she talking about? Am I that person?” She is the only one allowed to roast her children. It's a “membership-only” club. Even when she praises me, it's her way of saying, “I raised this, so of course it's excellent,” although she just told me five minutes ago that my room looks like a disaster zone. Despite her warnings, she's always the first I run to when I need help. Every festival or family event becomes her next design assignment. I send her screenshots of high-fashion looks, like a creative director with impossible demands. She looks at the picture, gives her signature nervous laugh and says, “I'm not a certified fashion designer.” But then she spends hours on the floor with chalk and a measuring tape. She eventually creates her own edition, and somehow, her version always turns out better than the original. And maybe that's just another way mothers say they love you. 24. Why does the author avoid challenging her mother's claims? A. It will hurt her mother's feelings. B. She respects her mother's authority. C. It is useless to argue with her mother. D. She believes in warnings from her mother. 25. How does the mother sound in paragraph 3? A. Deeply annoyed. B. Playfully mean. C. Genuinely proud. D. Bitterly jealous. 26. What does the “membership-only” club indicate? A. Only the mother can criticize the author. B. Family members get automatic membership. C. The mother only praises the author in private. D. Club members are encouraged to judge the author. 27. What can be inferred about the mother from paragraph 6? A. She enjoys assigning festival tasks. B. She values professional certification. C. She takes pride in raising a designer. D. She expresses love through practical acts.

C AI data centers will consume as much water as the water needs of 1.3 billion people by 2030, according to a new report from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health. The report found that the environmental cost of AI is being "systematically mismeasured" because current assessments focus on the carbon emissions from training language models while overlooking its water and land footprints. The water footprint comes from cooling the data centers, and the land footprint comes from the energy infrastructure (基础设施) and supply chains that go into building and running them. In reality, the report stresses, these initial training costs are dwarfed by inference costs, the cost of running models to answer prompts (提示词), which account for 80% to 90% of total AI energy use. Training GPT-4 consumed 70 GWh, for example. But running ChatGPT uses a monstrous 383 GWh to answer billions of prompts. Factoring in inference costs, AI data centers will use 945 TWh of electricity by 2030, three times the combined use of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria, which have a total population of over 650 million. That brings us to the water footprint. By that same year, AI's thirst will see it consume 9.3 trillion liters of water, which equals the basic annual water needs of all 1.3 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa. Addressing AI's environmental impact won't be as straightforward as shifting to greener sources of power, the report warns. "What surprised us most is how often the choices that look greenest from a carbon perspective end up worse for water or for land," lead author Miriam Aczel said. The bad news keeps piling up: Surprisingly, making AI more energy efficient may actually increase its environmental footprint. "People think that the footprint of AI reduces, as technology improves. But that is only a partial picture of the overall problem," noted co-author Kaveh Madani. "More efficient and affordable AI and energy mean more consumption of AI, making the overall footprint far bigger than what we save through efficiency gains." 28. Why is AI's environmental cost "systematically mismeasured"? A. Water and land footprints are neglected. B. The statistics are outdated. C. The measurement tools are questionable. D. Carbon emissions are overstated. 29. What does the underlined word "dwarfed" in paragraph 3 probably mean? A. Reduced. B. Outweighed. C. Doubled. D. Underestimated. 30. What is the author's main purpose in listing the figures in paragraph 4? A. To predict AI's future development. B. To stress AI's huge resource consumption. C. To prove AI's benefit to developing countries. D. To compare AI's application in different regions. 31. What is Kaveh Madani's attitude towards the future environmental impact of AI? A. Concerned. B. Unclear. C. Optimistic. D. Defensive.

D Yellow fever mosquitoes exposed to the insect repellent (驱虫剂) DEET can learn to associate the off-putting chemical with food, researchers report. The finding suggests that mosquitoes can link unpleasant smells with rewards — turning a negative experience into a positive one. Clément Vinauger, a neuroethologist at Virginia Tech, and his colleagues housed mosquitoes in a central container connected to two bottles: One contained clean air, and the other contained DEET. The team allowed the mosquitoes to feed on blood from an artificial feeder while exposed to only clean air for 10 seconds. The researchers then increased the proportion of DEET, aiming to train the mosquitoes to associate the repellent with a meal. To test the association, the researchers put trained and untrained mosquitoes in narrow tubes. A team member held an untreated hand a few centimeters from one end of the tube and a hand treated with a DEET-containing repellent at the other end. Trained mosquitoes attempted to bite the repellent-treated hand, while untrained mosquitoes stayed clear. Anandasankar Ray, a neuroscientist, who was not involved in the work, notes that although the findings suggest mosquitoes are smelling DEET and that the chemical is not masking our scent (气味), mosquitoes also smell with their legs. The mosquitoes couldn't land on the repellent-treated hand in the experiments. "They'd be getting the smell of DEET being paired with a bitter touch contact," Ray says. "It would be a punishment for them rather than a reward." Vinauger suspects that mosquitoes could learn to associate DEET with a meal when its repellent effects have largely worn off, perhaps hours after people apply it to their skin. "There might still be some traces of DEET on the skin, but maybe not enough to create that repellency effect," Vinauger says. "Mosquitoes might still land, drink some blood and not be repelled." If they manage to get blood, the insects may learn to link the smell with the meal and begin hunting for a combination of human smell and DEET. The results certainly don't suggest that people shouldn't use DEET, Vinauger says. "It's still the gold standard in terms of protection." But the chemical is sold by different brands at varying concentrations, and each product may come with unique instructions. "Reading the label," he says, "is important." 32. How did the researchers train the mosquitoes to associate DEET with a meal? A. By placing a treated hand next to a feeder. B. By removing their ability to smell. C. By extending pre-feeding DEET exposure. D. By increasing DEET during blood feeding. 33. According to Ray, what is the punishment for the mosquitoes? A. Painful touch with DEET. B. Death from starvation. C. Reduced desire for blood. D. Decreased sense of smell. 34. What does Vinauger suggest people do? A. Apply the repellent more than it is recommended. B. Choose products with low DEET concentration. C. Follow the products' instructions accordingly. D. Stop using DEET immediately. 35. What is the best title for the text? A. Why does DEET still work? B. Why is DEET the best choice? C. Can DEET attract mosquitoes? D. Can mosquitoes survive DEET?

阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Efficiency optimises (优化) performance. But connection transforms people. A team can be perfectly scheduled, highly productive, and still unable to share what really matters. ____36____ But here's what I keep noticing: While we are getting better at moving fast, we are not always getting better at being close. A train arriving exactly at 8:02 is a measurable success. But what isn't measured? The conversation on the platform, the pause to help someone with their suitcase, and the eye contact. ____37____ It takes time. It interrupts the schedule. But it's the very thing that makes the journey human. The Swiss railways reported something beautiful — connection punctuality (准时率) reached 98.9%. Maybe there is a deeper metaphor, which is not about whether the train was perfectly punctual, but about whether people made the connection. ____38____ Who did I really notice today? Where did I slow down long enough to listen? When did I choose presence over productivity? Efficiency should serve connection, not replace it. Because a perfectly timed life that misses the people in front of you is still a missed connection. Before your next meeting or transition, pause for 30 seconds. Look up. ____39____ Ask one real question. Connection doesn't need more time — it needs more presence; let one moment run over. Choose one interaction a day where you don't rush. Stay a little longer. Efficiency can survive this. Relationship needs it. Finally, measure what can't be optimised. At the end of the day, ask: "Where did I choose presence over pace? When did I let myself be human?" Efficiency is important — it keeps things moving. ____40____ A. Make eye contact. B. Efficiency feels right. C. Connection is inefficient. D. Efficiency's victory raises questions. E. But connection tells us why it matters. F. What if we measured our days like this instead? G. However, connection comes at the cost of flexibility.