一、(2025·南京市鼓楼区期中改编)用方框中所给单词或短语的适当形式填空。
a wealth of，why not，translate，open up，be，written by，communicate with，understand
A：Hi，Tom. What are you reading?
B：The Old Man and the Sea，an English novel 1. Ernest Miller Hemingway. It has 2. new words and I have difficulty 3. the long sentences.
A：4. try to use ChatGPT to help you 5. the foreign language into Chinese?
B：ChatGPT? What is that?
A：It is an AI chatbot and 6. quite popular online recently. It has a strong ability of word processing. It can not only 7. you in a way like a real human being，but also answer almost all kinds of questions you ask in just a few seconds.
B：It sounds like magic.
A：Exactly! I'm sure it will 8. a whole new world to you.
B：I can't wait to try it now!

二、(2025·苏州市星海中学期中)综合填空。
Travel helps kids learn more than textbooks. Travelling with kids is good 1. them. It lets them find new hobbies. Travel 2. (make)learning fun，which is more exciting than reading textbooks at school. When travelling，kids learn to deal with different problems. They also have more 3. (communicate)with others. Sometimes，they can't reach fun places quickly. So，they learn patience—it's 4. (possible)to get everywhere right away.
I've been travelling for many years. For me，to stop travelling feels like 5. (take)something from my soul(灵魂). Some parents think it's hard to travel by 6. (they)with kids. But my kids have already been to many places 7. they were three months old.
When we bring 8. new life into the world，we take on many duties. As a mum，I want to teach my kids well. I'm thankful that my parents took me on trips. I've 9. (learn)the world is much more colourful. I hope to pass on these travel 10. (experience)to my children.

三、首字母填空。
新素养 理性思维 What is social media? It 1. m all kinds of internet applications(应用)，such as QQ，blogs，WeChat and so on. Social media plays an important part in our daily lives. By using them，users can 2. s things like photos，videos and posts with other people.
Social media is certainly an interesting 3. p to learn others' opinions on the internet. But when you are reading so many opinions online，it's quite possible for you to see some opinions that you strongly disagree with. In fact，you might feel like you should reply to these opinions right away. You might do some research，4. f some facts and reply to them. You finish writing out your reply，5. c “post” and win the argument(争论)!
Most people don't like it when other people disagree with their ideas，6. e online strangers. It's not possible that they will 7. c their opinions just because you argued with them. In fact，you may make them feel more sure that they're 8. c.
And the thing is that，when you get in these kinds of fights online，it slowly influences you. You might not know it at first，9. b the argument that you take part in can easily make you feel unhappy. If you argue often，you start to enjoy arguing and then end up doing it even more. It's a dangerous cycle.
I guess the best thing to do is to tell 10. y that most arguments are meaningless. There are much better and more interesting things to do，both online and in real life.