第二部分阅读理解（共两节, 满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分, 满分30分）阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
From flowers and fresh produce to family-friendly entertainment-autumn is peak festival season in Victoria. Here are 4 autumn festivals that are well worth the drive.
Bright Autumn Festival, April 28-May 7, 2024
Nothing says autumn like red and orange leaves and comfort food. For a dose of wholesome fun, plan a weekend getaway to the Bright Autumn Festival in Victoria's High Country. The tree-lined avenues, small-town charms and delicious fresh produce won't disappoint, with everything from open gardens, historical tours, live music, markets and a dedicated Nut Festival to enjoy. Plus, you'll be venturing somewhere new and supporting regional businesses.
Kartini Waingi-Water Lights, May 4-7, 2024
Take a drive to Robinvale on the banks of the Murray River for the four-day Water Lights festival. Kids and adults alike will marvel at this unique laser show that showcases the vibrant, diverse and rich culture of the region.
Grampians Grape Escape, May 5-7, 2024
Food and wine devotees, you're in luck. The Grampians Grape Escape is an unforgettable weekend-long experience that's all about top-quality wines, gourmet food and live music- the perfect trio. You may even learn a few skills from one of the cooking demonstrations and masterclasses. From bread-making classes to cooking presentations and cider tastings, no one will be bored.
La Fiera Italian Festival, May 19-21, 2024
Every year in May, the Myrtleford community celebrates its Italian roots with a festival dedicated to all of the region's cultural and culinary delights. There are food stalls, wine tastings, a movie night, kids' activities and even a soccer tournament to look forward to, as well as markets, entertainment and a traditional grape stomp.
Since 2018, Jason has been helping sick kids become superheroes. After watching his then one-year-old daughter Angela undergo chemotherapy （化疗）, he came up with the idea of "Supertees". Designed with a cape, the shirts act as a virtual armour （盔甲） for children fighting the worst villain of all- cancer.
"Sitting by her hospital bed I. knew there was nothing I could do to help Angela, until I noticed how hard it was to change her clothes while she was connected to various monitors. This is when the idea for the Supertee was born, " says Jason, whose daughter had a rare cancer then.
Created to look like a superhero costume, for Jason, the medical garments are all about enabling children to see themselves as the strong superheroes they idolise. "We want these kids to feel like, and be recognized as, the heroes that we see them as, "he tells.
Now Jason has teamed up with Disney to launch a new Marvel Edition tee. And he's got some very "super" friends helping him out! Actors Larson and Chris have lent their support, sharing special video messages for the kids who receive a new Supertee modelled after their costumes.
The collaboration with Disney is special for Jason. "I promised I would take her to Disneyland the moment we could leave the hospital, " says Jason, a pledge they happily fulfilled.
Since June 2018, Jason and his team have delivered more than 13, 000 Supertees to sick children in hospitals around Australia, including Melbourne schoolboy Riley Sinclair, who was diagnosed with a serious disease at just seven years old.
For Riley's mum Tammy, the Supertee was a game changer for her son, now 11, helping him feel less afraid and making hospital visits more comfortable. "When Riley puts his tee on, his whole personality will change and he feels like he can face anything. It's amazing!" explains Tammy.
The latest housing trend in America has nothing to do with decoration, but rather the rise of intergenerational roommates. Described as separated by at least one generation, intergenerational roommate arrangements arc growing in the United States, and intergenerational houses have increased four times since 1971.
Pick your explanation- growing isolation among the elderly, rising rents, average life-expectancy increasing, an aging population, or rising college tuition, the fact of the matter is that older folks have space available, and tend to be happy to have a young person around.
In March 2021, there were 59. 7 million U. S. residents who lived with multiple generations under one roof.
"It was perfect-Judith has become like my family, " said Nadia Abdullah, a 25-year-old robotics student who in 2019 moved in with the 64-year-old lawyer, Judith. The arrangement of $700 a month plus help around the house has put her just 6-miles from Boston, and 30 minutes from her robotics job in Beverly Mass. Judith and Nadia were matched together thanks to Nesterly, a renting center specifically designed to create intergenerational roommates.
"Through Nesterly, I lived with Sarah while attending Harvard, " writes a young Nesterly reviewer named Kaplan who provided the exact sort of insight into the service one would imagine. "She provided the type of profound knowledge you just can't Google-showing me how to garden, to cut a fish, and inject French Romanticism into life. "
Biologically-speaking, an arrangement such as Sarah and Kaplan is kind of the natural state of humanity. Scholars believe this is because our intelligence and life experiences, passed down to the next generation, acts as a secondary way to ensure our genetics are passed on; i. e. if you can live long enough to explain to your children and grandchildren exactly which mushrooms they can eat, which snakes are poisonous, how to hunt with a bow and arrow, those offspring will have a better chance of survival.
A deep neural （神经系统的） network trained to restore ancient Greek texts can do so with 72% accuracy when used by historians, suggests a Nature paper. The findings could assist with the restoration and sort of newly discovered or uncertain inscriptions （碑文） with improved speed and accuracy, advancing our understanding of ancient history.
To understand the history of ancient civilizations, historians study the inscriptions created by past individuals, written directly on materials- such as stone, pottery or metal- that have survived until today. However, many inscriptions have been damaged over the centuries. Their texts are now vague and their date of writing is uncertain. Specialists in the study of inscriptions can reconstruct missing texts, but their traditional methods are highly complex and time-consuming.
To overcome the restrictions of current epigraphic methods, Yannis Assael, Thea Sommerschield and their colleagues tested a deep neural network （named Ithaca）, a type of artificial intelligence （AI） that was trained to restore, date and place ancient Greek inscriptions. The authors found that Ithaca could achieve 62% accuracy when used alone to restore damaged texts, and 72% accuracy when it is used by a historian. Additionally, Ithaca could also help to determine inscriptions' place and date of writing; in their experiments, it attributed inscriptions to their original locations with 71% accuracy and dated them to less than 30 years from the date ranges proposed by historians.
The findings could unlock the cooperative potential between artificial intelligence and historians, and improve our understanding of human history.
Common fields such as education, healthcare, catering, and industry have long been dominated by artificial intelligence, and this technology is now finding its way into relatively niche （小众） fields to more fully exploit its talents. Archaeology （考古学） is one of its latest fields.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分, 满分10分）
Wisdom is a good necessary quality to have. Let's discuss how you can gain wisdom in life!
• Try experiencing new opportunities
Variety is the spice of life but experiencing new opportunities is to gain wisdom. which is why you need to get out of it. This is the only way you will gain wisdom and become better. You can try learning new skills that you never thought of learning.
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We need to be receptive to different views, this will open up new pathways for us. Always develop a sense of curiosity, and observe the world from different angles, it will always help you out.
• Meet new people
Limiting yourself to only one type of people that share the same thinking as you can be comforting. . You need to meet and experience new people and learn what they have to offer. Cultivate new friendships, and this will be extremely beneficial for your future.
• Call upon the wisdom of others
The best way to grow and do better in life is to have wise people as your mentors. They can be teachers, family members, and even special friends. The more time you spend with them, the more transfer of knowledge there will be. .
• Learn and grow from your mistakes
All of us make mistakes in life, but it is the acknowledgement of mistakes that makes us grow and do better next. Whenever we make a mistake, we should learn from it. Stop blaming other people for your mistakes and admit where you went wrong. Do remember: .
A. Never back away from Learning
B. These will pave the path to success
C. Open yourself to diverse perspectives
D. You will never grow in your comfort zone
E Your best teacher will be your last mistake
F. However, it doesn't get you anywhere in life
G. So soak in their knowledge as much as you can
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节, 满分45分）第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分, 满分30分）
Growing up on a farm, Fritz enjoyed watching cows and horses. It was what he 1 in his boyhood that took root in his pursuit of becoming a（n）2 . After completing his university, Fritz 3 work at a famous research center, raising raven and teaching graylag geese how to open boxes. Working 4 with free-living animals was exactly what he'd dreamed of as a boy.
In 1997, the center was given its first ibis chicks（隐鹮）. Nowhere near as 5 as geese-and not even close to super intelligent ravens- the ibises frustrated many scientists. But Fritz was 6 . He devoted himself to looking after them. After the ibises were first 7 back into the wild 20years ago, Fritz learned that 8 generations in zoo hadn't reduced their 9 to migrate. In search for "south", some 10 in Russia. What the ibises needed, Fritz thought, was a 11 .
Fritz decided to teach the birds a new, safer migration 12 by guiding them himself in a tiny aircraft. And he was 13 he could succeed in this daring plan. When he announced that he'd guide the ibises, he was laughed at. But Fritz didn't 14 . He modified a tiny aircraft so it would travel at speeds 15 enough for his winged students to catch.
In 2004, after some rough 16 for about three years, Fritz successfully 17 the first birds from Austria to Italy, and has since led 15 such 18 . Over that time, he has 19 277 young ibises, many of which then started to 20 the route on to their own young.
第二节（共10小题；每小题1. 5分, 满分15分）
At the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, 2024 Spring Festival film season, after seeming lack of blockbusters, （set）some records so far beyond expectation. To begin with, the box office revenue during Spring Festival surpassed 8 billion yuan （$1. 11 billion）. This year's success story is different from of previous years which were marked by grand-theme, big-budget （scene） such as The Battle at Lake Changjin I in 2022 and The Wandering Earth I in 2023.（surprising）, the Spring Festival season saw medium-budget films with contemporary realistic themes dominating the market.
Jia Ling's YOLO, （ride） on the success of Hi, Mom during the 2021 Spring Festival season, captured audiences, especially young and middle-aged women, with its mature comedy and resonant theme of self （aware）through weight loss. The film started attracting widespread attention even before （release）thanks to social media discussions about it.
Five years after Pegasus, Pegasus 2 （star） by Shen Teng, showcased a higher level of craftsmanship and targeted the group of young and middle-aged men, significantly contributed to its box office success.
第四部分改错写作（共两节, 满分35分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。作文中共有10处语言错误, 每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改的词。
注意：
1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处, 多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan province, when the 31st FISU World University Games took place, have become more popular since its opening. I am -lucky enough to act as the cheerleading team's captain then. I have gained a lot of from the event. As a group, unity is absolute important for our team of which a good spirit requires our efforts. In the process of serve as the cheerleader, I learned get along well with my classmates. I also learned why to lead them to shout slogans. After all, our encouragement enhances athletes' confidence, and inspires them greatly, either.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
1. 简述尝试的过程；
2. 收获或感想。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
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