橱) and in my case will be put on one side for a special occasion.
I enquired at all the local music shops but was unable to get the Messiah or Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in stiff covers in clean, secondhand copies, and then I found they were available from the publisher in new editions. Their prices seemed a bit high, but I thought I had better get them and they have been sent by Book Post a few days ago, so should arrive any day now. Our invoice，total $4.20, is enclosed with the books.
We are sending you a little gift for Christmas. We do hope you will not have to pay any duty on it. We will mark it “Christmas Gift” and keep our fingers crossed. Anyway，we hope you will like it and accept it with our sincere best wishes for Christmas and the coming year.
My name is certainly not of Welsh origin. As it is pronounced to rhyme with the French word “Noel”，I think there may be a possibility that it originated in France.
Yours sincerely,
Frank Doel
24. What can we infer from ihc text about Frank and his colleagues? A. They lived a busy life. B. They were treated badly. C. They were in poor health. D. They lacked living materials. 25. What was Miss Hanff expected to receive? A. Tasty food. B. Some money. C. Copies of music. D. Secondhand books.
26. Why was Frank going to mark the gift with the words “Christmas Gift”? A. To avoid tax.
B. To make a wish.
C. To show the content. D. To declare its value. 27. Whom did Frank most probably write to? A. A friend.
B. An assistant.
C.A customer. D.A workmate.
C
Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci ... the art world has never lacked talent. And now, a new painter is ready to join the list although this one
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isn't even human.
Next month, auction house Christie's Prints and Multiples will make history by offering the first piece of art created by artificial intelligence (AI) for sale. The painting is a portrait of a man called Edmond De Bela- my，and is expected to be sold for up to $10,000.
The work, which features a man with a mysterious look on his face, was created by software developed by the French art group Obvious. Laugero-Lasserre, an art collector, called the work \the same time\the first example of Al-produced artwork, as AI has already been used to write poems and compose .songs. However, many people doubt whether it should be called art at all. According to Russian writer Leo Tolstroy (1828 -1910)，art is about creating emotion (情感). It's “a means of …joining people together in the same feelings' he once said.
So, if the emotion behind art is what makes it，the ability to create and use tools is what makes human Icings different from other species. And as a tool itself, the AI technology used to create the portrait is the result of a lot of effort made by several designers. Together, they “fed” the AI a huge collection of paintings from the 14th to the 18th centuries, until it was able to work out how to make similar paintings of its own.
The introduction of AI art could be the beginning of a new artistic movement. However, not everyone is ready to welcome these high-tech artists just yet. “The human mind is what's behind the AI technolagy. And the human mind is no! a cold, hard fact,” said Oscar Schwartz, a profrssor of AI. “Rather, it in something that's created with our opinions and something that changes over 28. Why does the author mention the artists in Puragraph 1? A. To intruduce their works.
B. To make an advertisement.
C. To present a piece of news. D. To focus the topic on the AI. 29. What does the underlined would “grotesque” in Paragraph 3 mean? A. Strange. B. Simple.
C. Messy. D. Undrrstandable.
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30. What can we learn about the AI-produced artwork according to Paragraph 5? A. It comes from human works. B. It shows human abilily to creute. C. It expresses human feeling effectively. D. It is beyond the imagination of humans.
31. Compared with the AI, Oscar Schwartz thinks the human mind its. A.limited B. decisive
C. changrable D. meaningful
D
A team of engineers at Harvard Universty in trying to create the first robotic fly. Desgned to do what a fly dos naturally, the tiny is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks. \components is off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own/’ said Robert Wood, a Harvard engineering professor.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies (相互依赖）on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it d connected to,” said Wood. While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform daia-gathering work at rescue sites，in farmers fields or on the battlefield. \，” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications.“You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animal，but using these robots instead he said. \technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives ua on a day-to-day basis.”
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32. What is the typical characteristic of the robotic fly? A. It's automatic. B. It's very small. C. It's controllable. D. It's quite powerful.
33. We can infer from the passage that the robotic flyer can . A. act as a spy plane B. help do farm work
C. fly at a very high speed D. answer many scientific questions
34. What is Wood's ider about the robotic fly according to the last paragraph? A. It is highly questionable.
B. It has wide practical applications.
C. It gives scientists interest in flying machines. D. It points to a new direction in studying biology. 35. What can be the best title for the passage? A.Harvand's Study in the Field of Insects. B. A Breakthrough in Engineering Science C.An Interesting Invention 一 Robotic Fly D. Robotic Fly 一 a Copy of Real Life Insect 第二节（共5小超;每小題2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的鼓佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
It's a dream come true for many fans to get a close view of their favorite stars and take pictures with 36 However, sometimes their enthusiasm can cause troubles for others.
Al Hong Kong International Airport on Dec. 15, three young Chinese people boarded a Korean Aircraft.37
The three people -two from the Chinese mainland and one from Hong Kong — were fans of Wanna One，a Korean band, who were on the same flight.However, immediately after taking pictures with their “idols (偶像),the fans asked to gel a repayment and got off the plane. 38 They had to go through security checks again, which delayed the flight by over an hour.
According to the flight regulations, all passengers need to get off and go through
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