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广东省中山市2018-2019学年八年级下学期英语12校联合阶段性测试期中试卷

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    Mr. Ellis is very old. He has seen many changes in his hometown.

He knows that things are different now. But he never forgets the old days. He likes to talk about them. He often talks about his favorite birds , the robins (一种小鸟—鸫)."When I was a boy, these houses were not here. There were wide fields and tall trees. Every spring the robins would come. Thousands of them would fly up to the north from the south. They spent the winter in the south. Some would build their nests (巢) in the trees near our houses. Then people started to cut down trees, and built more houses. The robins stopped coming. They couldn't build their nests near our houses because there were no trees."

    "Now there are too many houses and too many roads. There are no places for the robins. They don't come any more."

(1)、Mr. Ellis often talks about__________.
A、his old house B、the old days C、his life now D、his family
(2)、The robins spent the winter in__________.
A、the south B、the west C、the north D、the east
(3)、__________ built the nests in the trees.
A、Mr. Ellis B、Some people C、The robins D、Some dogs
(4)、The robins hasn't come to the hometown because
A、people has built more houses. B、There are too many trees. C、it is colder in the north now. D、There are no places for the robins.
(5)、From the passage we can know that___________.
A、Mr. Ellis likes his new life now. B、there were many houses in the old days. C、the robins can make houses without trees. D、Mr. Ellis is not happy with the changes there.
举一反三
 阅读下面材料,从每篇材料后各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C、D) 中,选出最佳答案。

Free time is a good chance for teenagers to have fun. What about free time with parents around? Some teenagers want free play without parents' supervision (监管) while parents and experts may think differently. 

Lin Tao, a middle school student, thinks teenagers should be free to play. "Last time I played with my parents around, I was nervous (紧张) and just couldn't enjoy myself to the fullest." Lin says. "And my friend Chen Xiaoxin has similar experiences. Once, he went out to play with his classmates. Everyone felt uncomfortable with his mother's supervision."

Wang Min, a mother of a 14-year-old boy, thinks playtime needs supervision. She explains, "People usually say I like to control my kid, but that's not true. I am just worried that he will get into trouble. Some guys may have a bad influence on him and some games like LARP may mislead him. He might even get indulged in the stories and can't get back to real life."

Mr. Ma, a doctor of social studies, says it's understandable for teenagers to wish for freedom. Free play helps them to be independent. Parents can give them more space. They don't have to supervise them all the time. However, teenagers should find out the exact details (细节) about the activities before playtime. Then they can communicate with their parents and decide together whether they can go out to play alone. 

阅读下面短文,从每小题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Have you ever wanted to see your dreams after you woke up? Artificial intelligence(AI) technology may help you do this in the near future!

Researchers from Osaka University in Japan have trained an AI system to recreate pictures in people's heads. The pictures AI has created include a teddy bear, an airplane and a clock tower. The technology is 80 percent accurate (准确 的),reported Science Magazine.

Previously (先前) there have been AI models that can turn a word or phrase into pictures. The AI has studied lots of pictures and their text descriptions. Over time, the AI can find patterns (模式) and recreate pictures if you first input (输入) text.

This time, the researchers took a step further. They trained the AI to link people's brain scan data (扫描数据) with pictures. They asked four people to look at 10,000 different pictures, and let the AI find patterns of blood flow in the brain. Then the patterns could be related to the pictures.

If people looked at an airplane, the AI would use the brain scan data to create a picture of a very cloudy airplane. Then, it would turn on the previous "text-to-picture" model by inputting the keyword "airplane". Finally, the AI would improve the picture and make it more real.

"It's a new method that combines textual and visual information to ‛decipher (破译) the brain', "Ariel Goldstein from Princeton University told Science Magazine.

Researchers said the technology could someday help people with paralysis (瘫痪) to communicate. It might also help scientists understand dreams or even how other animals see the world.

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