浙江台州重点高中2025-2026学年高一上学期英语自主招生试卷

②When I was still studying in China, my school held a singing competition. I entered it because I really loved singing. I sang with a girl named Jenny. She's one of my best friends.

③Unluckily, I was nervous and I forgot the lyrics for a moment while we sang. I was standing on stage, looking pale on the face. We lost the competition. I felt terribly sorry, but Jenny tried to comfort me by saying "There will be another chance."

④After about a week, our school's art festival began. I decided to enter it. The first person I thought of to join me was Jenny, although I wasn't sure if she would want to. But while I was asking other people to join me, she said she would join as well. We decided to sing the song See You Again at the festival because I would leave for UK after I finished the performance. We prepared for it for a long time.

⑤Finally, the day of the festival arrived. As I walked into class, people started clapping for me. Someone had written "Sally, Come On!" on the blackboard. My classmates wrote cards for me. After I completed my performance, everyone cheered for me.

⑥It was a really unforgettable and touching afternoon. I want to thank Jenny, who didn't give up on me when I felt down. I want to thank my friends for helping me, and I really want to thank all of my classmates who were with me in my two middle school years as well.

And yet, some people believe that we can create machines that can think and feel just like we do. Artificial intelligence, or AI is around us every day. From Apple's voice-activated assistant (声控助手) Siri to the software algorithms (算法) that shipping companies use to deal with deliveries (投递), AI is very much a part of our lives.

But why do we work so hard to create machines that can think the way we do? For one thing, AI can make our lives much easier. Imagine being able to be in a car, tell it the place you want to go to, and sit back in comfort as the AI-guided self-driving car takes you there. We are already getting there—Changsha became the first city in China where we can take self-driving taxis in April 2020.

However, there are risks. What if we somehow produced an artificial intelligence that was smarter than us? How would it behave toward us? These are the kinds of difficult questions that AI researchers ask themselves all the time.

Except for the risks, it is already clear that AI is here to stay. Only time will tell if it will lead us into a new age of prosperity (繁荣), or be our end.

When you travel abroad by yourself for whatever reason—exchange program, internship, volunteering, or simply as a tourist—a new and fascinating world will open up for you. A world you would have never been able to see if you had just stayed at home.

People from a different country are not aliens. They are simply people like you who happened to be born in another region. They have pretty much the same wishes and worries as people from your own country.

I know that you see a lot of news on TV saying terrible things people do all the time. Your family may have spent a great deal of time telling you not to trust strangers. However, when you travel alone you will realize that people are just as good as you. Everyone is just leading their lives, working, studying and having a good time with their friends. Most people will be happy to help you and get to know you.

Maybe in the past when you would need months to travel from one place to another, traveling could be expensive. Nowadays, the world is just so connected that it is perfectly possible to find cheap flights, accommodation for all budgets and cheap and quality food.

You will get lost, but it's fine! I can't even count how many times I didn't know where I was going or how to find the right direction. Everything looks great on Google maps, but sometimes your phone will die or your data will end. Just calm down. Go to a store or stop someone in the street and ask! Or simply walk around and be curious.

First of all, the job made huge demands on my strength. For ten hours a night, I took boxes that rolled down a metal track and piled them onto a truck. Each box contained twelve heavy bottles of apple juice. I once figured out that I was lifting an average of twelve tons of apple juice every night.

I would not have minded the difficulty of the work so much if the pay had not been so poor. I was paid the lowest wage of that time—two dollars an hour. Because of the low pay, I felt eager to get as much as possible. I usually worked twelve hours a night but did not take home much more than $100 a week.

But even more than the low pay, what made me unhappy was the working conditions. During work I was limited to two ten-minute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch. Most of my time was spent outside loading trucks with those heavy boxes in near-zero-degree temperatures. The steel floors of the trucks were like ice, which made my feet feel like stone. And after the production line shut down at night and most people left, I had to spend two hours alone cleaning the floor.

I stayed on the job for five months, all the while hating the difficulty of the work, the poor money, and the conditions under which I worked. By the time I left, I was determined never to go back there again.

The head, dating back to the Sui Dynasty (581-618), was originally placed on the northern wall in the No 8 Tianlongshan Grottoes on the suburbs of Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, according to a statement from the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局).

It was believed to be stolen and lost overseas around 1924, along with about 240 Buddha images that were robbed in the 1920s. This 44.5-cm-high Buddha head is the first among these stolen items to be returned from Japan.

The National Cultural Heritage Administration learned in September a Chinese Buddha head statue labeled as from Tang Dynasty (618-907) was about to be sold in Tokyo, and was thought to be a stolen piece from Tianlongshan.

The administration soon began the process of returning it home. In October, the auction house in Tokyo, whose board chairman Zhang Rong is a Chinese from Hangzhou, agreed to stop the auction.

After discussions between the National Cultural Heritage Administration, Zhang, and the local holder of the relic in Japan, the Buddha head was bought by Zhang and finally given away to the administration.

The transfer ceremony (交接仪式) for the statue was held in the Chinese Embassy (大使馆) in Tokyo in November, and it arrived in Beijing in December.

After being shown on the Spring Festival Gala, the Buddha head statue will be displayed in Beijing Lu Xun Museum from the first day of the Lunar New Year to Mar 14.

Quiet people think before they speak. In a work discussion with colleagues, the quiet men and women hardly speak suddenly, and instead, they listen carefully. With less time spent talking, quiet people have time to really think before they speak. Because they are so selective with words, when they speak, it seems like the whole world stops to listen to what they have to say.

. With their quiet, relaxed temperament (性情), quiet people are often the ears that others run to for advice, and are also respected for their good listening skills and cautious words. Additionally, quiet people rarely annoy others in their presence and they often make others feel at ease.

Quiet people work on a more productive basis. Quiet people tend to be free from the distractions (分心的事) that often come from being around people all day long.. It is common to observe a quiet co-worker, alone in his or her office for hours at a time working on the quiet focus.

A. Quiet people know how to listen.

B. Quiet people seem easy to get along with.

C. It is rare to see a quiet friend speak rudely.

D. So they are able to accomplish a lot on their quiet focus.

E. However, actually quiet people have their own strengths.

F. In this way, they will take the time to ensure what they are saying is true.

G. Less talking means more reflecting and observing, so they won't miss much.

In order to "reduce the carbon footprint" Stewart planned to produce enough solar energy to1 his school's science labs. Now his plan is2 to happen. The installation of 30 solar panels is3 for late November.

As he began his research on solar4, he discovered a useful phone app. By entering an address, he could5 how much sunlight the6 receives each day.

7 how much sunlight it receives, Stewart found that his school building was the8 location.

Suggested by his science teacher, Debbie Wheeler, Parker first9 an energy audit (测算) of the science lab to see how much energy a10 lab uses per day.

Then, he started his research and11 the head of his school to fund him. Now the project has grown to12 a total of 30 panels. They are13 to generate enough energy to run all four of the science labs on14.

"It feels surreal (犹如梦幻的) to think that an idea I had stemming from my AP Environmental class would have this kind of15," said Stewart, expressing16 for Wheeler's help. Wheeler said the success of the project was17 Parker's efforts and willingness to follow through on the18 from start to finish.

"I've had other students talk about environmental initiatives on campus, but Parker had the19 and tenacity to make it happen," she said.

Parker said he would ultimately like to study20 engineering at Stanford University in California.

The Buffett lunch is a charity auction (拍卖) beginning in 2000, where the bidder who offers the highest bid (出价) can have a lunch with Buffett. The profits from the auction will help support the Glide Foundation, a San Francisco-based charity organization helps San Francisco's most vulnerable (脆弱的) people, including homeless.

A Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur, Justin Sun Yuchen, founder of TRON and CEO of BitTorrent, has won the auction for this year's Buffett lunch with a $4,567,888 bid, a record high since the lunch(launch) 20 years ago.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett isn't a fan of investing in cryptocurrencies,(call) them "nonproductive assets", an Associated Press (AP) report said.

But Sun said in a telephone interview, "It is very common in investment circles people change their minds. Investment opportunities are best lots of people underestimate the technology."

As a response to the result of the auction, Buffett said in a statement(provide) by his assistant, I am delighted with the fact Justin has won the lunch and am looking forward to(meet) him and his friends."

Warren Buffett's charity lunch has been a hot ticket in Chinese business circles, with three Chinese people(put) in winning bids during past auctions, some bidders have had capital chain problems or been put under investigation for alleged violations of securities laws and regulations in subsequent business activities, the report said.

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Dear editor,

I'm writing to you to talk about my opinions about protecting the traditional Chinese culture.

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Yours,

Wang Hua