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When you are back home, it just takes a few words to wake up the Back Home Model. In this model, air conditioner and lights are turned on, and even curtains are closed. Relaxing music plays softly. In the kitchen, cookers and other tools have cooking plains, making it easier than ever to cook like a master cook. They are all powered by Huawei’s self-developed operating system Harmony OS with 5G and AI wireless technologies. By simply touching phones for once, all connections are built. 

However, before this creative system, traditional smart home products are not as smart as they should be. Su Ying, living in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, has more than 50 smart products in his home. “Though I can use an app to turn off the lights in the living room while I am in the bedroom. I have met several problems，” Su said. “It is difficult to connect the phone with 50 home products. Different apps are needed but many of them are less used, and end up as just being useless，” he added. 

But now, these above problems are solved. Shao Yang, chief officer of Huawei, said the company aims to provide the most intelligent service in an orderly manner, unlike the traditional ways of managing independent and unconnected products. In July more than 300 million of the company’s products have been with HarmonyOS, which makes it the world’s fastest-growing operating system. 

It is in line with a world report by US communication service company Plume. The company found that world users have growing interest in the things of Internet and smart home technologies. The number of connected products per home stood at about 17.1 at the end of June 2022, up 10 percent compared with the same period of last year. 

Shenzhen government also takes action to promote green and smart home appliances, as part of efforts to be ahead of the trend.

1．What smart home products is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．Cooker. B．Curtain. C．Air conditioner. D．Fridge.

2．What’s the relationship between paragraph 2 and paragraph 3?

A．From fact to opinion. B．From problem to solution.

C．From main idea to details. D．From cause to effect.

3．Which word can be used to describe Hua Wei’s smart home technologies?

①comfortable        ②advanced        ③orderly        ④connected

A．①②③ B．②③④ C．①②④ D．①③④

4．What can we infer from the paragraph 4?

A．More and more people are interested in smart home products.

B．Smart home products will face a lot of challenges in the future.

C．Compared with 2021, every home has 10 more smart home products.

D．Smart home technologies are more popular than Internet technologies.

5．Which website is the text probably taken from?

A．https：//www. szscience. com. cn/ B．https：//www. szbookfair. com. cn/

C．https：//www. szculture. com. cn/ D．https：//www. sztravel. com. cn/

Nowadays, virtual（虚拟的）idols（偶像）have been taking online platforms by storm at home and abroad. At the New Year’s Eve gala staged by Bilibili, a short-video sharing platform popular with young people, Luo Tianyi, one of the earliest Chinese virtual idols, performed five songs in 10 minutes and appeared alongside real-life dancers, which attracted more than 1.4 billion views. Another virtual idol, Xi Jiajia created by Chinese tech giant Baidu, became well-known in an online virtual fashion show during China Fashion Week last September. A group of virtual models led by Xi Jiajia dressed in sports outfits in the show presented the latest clothes of Anta Sports in different virtual places. The videos got more than 150，000 likes on Xi Jiajia’s Douyin account.

 ▲ Virtual idols can not only talk and act like humans, using languages, facial expressions and gestures, but also do something that common people cannot do in the real world, such as time travel. “Unlike real idols, virtual idols could communicate more closely with their young fans and even provide 24-hour service. What’s more, virtual idols may hardly cause any scandals（丑闻）which often happen to stars in the real world.”said Liu Qian, general manager of AI Applications at Baidu Al Cloud. 

According to Liu, around 60 percent of Xi Jiajia’s fans are young people under 30, most of whom live in first and second tier（二线）cities. “But one of our goals of developing virtual idols is to make them more inclusive（包容性强的）so that people of all ages and walks of life can take advantage of AI technology in the future.” she said. 

Apart from creating virtual idols, AI technology has continued to develop new uses. A company has introduced a new service called AI clones（克隆）of stars, in which users can talk to AI clones of their idols both in audio and video medium. This is clearly good news for fans, as the idols they follow can now take the form of a friend who is available on their smartphone. However, for those who make rules for society, this might raise some new challenges.

6．Both Luo Tianyi and Xi Jiajia____________ according to Paragraph 1. 

① are not real idols              ② can sing and dance

③have good taste in fashion        ④ got popular on the Internet

A．①② B．②③ C．③④ D．①④

7．Which sentence can be put in the ▲ ?

A．Virtual idols are active in many areas such as radio, television, and Internet.

B．The development of AI technologies makes it possible to create virtual idols.

C．Yet such AI virtual idols bring their own set of problems at the same time.

D．Virtual idols have won the hearts of young people for their own strong points.

8．What can we infer from the passage?

A．Douyin and Bililbili are popular short-video sharing platforms among Chinese people.

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