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广东省广州市2019年中考英语试卷

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    Should Museum Entry Be Free

    With International Museum Day coming up, today we are asking readers: Should museums be free or should people have to pay for a ticket? Let us know your view.

    Comments

    Museums are not only there for enjoyment; they are education. This is why they must be free. While museums need a huge amount of money to operate, let the wealthy pay for it. The idea of a person or child interested in art not being able to view it because of cost is wrong

Krista Chen(US)-Age 15

    Free entry does not attract people or encourage them to appreciate art. Generally people respect things that are difficult or costly to get Museums should require regular visitors to pay a fee, but provide free tickets as prizes for high-achieving students who can appreciate them more

    Fred Smith(New Zealand)-Age 14

    Museums teach people about their past. This is part of our shared culture that should be available to everyone, rich or poor People should never be asked to pay an entrance fee.

    Rob Sanchez (Australia)-Age 17

    There are no simple answers. Low ticket prices could help museums stay open. But companies and businessmen should also provide museums with more money and other support. They have a social responsibility too.

    Amber White (UK)-Age 16

    I think museums and art galleries should all be free to the public. I do, however, think twice a year the museums should organize money-raising events to help pay for the cost of staying open.

Li Mishao(China)-Age 15

(1)、How many readers support the idea of free museums?
A、2. B、3 C、4 D、5
(2)、Who suggests museums should regularly hold special events to collect money?
A、Krista Chen. B、Fred Smith. C、Rob Sanchez. D、Li Misk.
(3)、Why does Fred Smith believe that free tickets should be given to high-achieving students?
A、Students will then study harder. B、Museums will attract more visitors. C、Museums can make themselves more famous. D、These students can better appreciate museums.
(4)、Which of the following does Amber White agree with?
A、Businesses should offer museums more help. B、People should only pay what they can afford. C、Free entry doesn't encourage visitors to museums. D、Everybody should have a chance to visit museums.
(5)、What can we know about the website?
A、It's quite a new website. B、It was started in Australia. C、It's generally for young readers. D、It mainly discusses scientific topics.
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After the Chengdu FISU World University Games ended, it's said that the venues(场馆)will be used for sports and public fitness.

The city had 49 venues for the events and 13 of them were newly built. Most of the old venues are located in universities and will be used for the development of sports between colleges.

While preparing for the games, Chengdu promoted the opening of the venues to the public and held sports events in them. In 2022 alone, venues were opened to the public for free or at low cost for nearly 80,000 hours. They served more than 5.09 million people, and more than 730 sporting events were held in them. These venues will continue to be used for sports and fitness.

In the short term, Chengdu will focus on opening venues to benefit its residents(居民). It can also meet their growing needs for sports and fitness to improve their health.

The athletes' village will also remain. During the games, it provided many services for athletes from more than 110 countries. After the games ended, all of the village's facilities(设施) will be under the control of Chengdu University, where the village is located. Gong Jia, a volunteer from the university, said she was proud that the village was located in her school.

The village covers 380,000 square meters of new buildings. "All of them will be turned into teaching and living space for teachers and students at the university," she said.

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For two centuries, the famous University of Cambridge debating society has hosted many prominent figures from world leaders to scientists to comedians.

On Nov 21, the Cambridge Union hosted another extraordinary guest—a non-human debater called Project Debater. Designed by IBM, Project Debater is a machine that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to form a spoken argument. It can even listen and answer to opposite statements, much like a real person.

In the Cambridge test debate, it argued the topic: AI will ultimately(最终)do more harm than good. Before the debate, more than 1,100 arguments for the positives and negatives of AI were submitted(递交)to the IBM website. The machine then analyzed these sources and formed the basis of its arguments in minutes. Project Debater then showed off its AI by arguing for both sides of the debate.

Over a four-minute speech, it argued first that, "AI can only make decisions that it has been programmed to solve while humans can be programmed for all situations."

In support of AI, it then argued that AI would create new jobs and "bring a lot more efficiency" to the workplace.

This isn't the first test for Project Debater. In June 2018, the machine went back-and-forth for 20 minutes against champion debater Harish Natarajan. 

According to New Scientist, on both occasions, Project Debater repeated points and didn't always sufficiently support them.

Speaking to Cambridge Independent, Noam Slonim, the project's lead engineer, said, "The AI is not perfect, but it's going in the right direction." The team hopes to improve the AI by researching why humans find certain arguments more persuasive than others. They also hope the test might provide well-informed viewpoints for society, governments and private companies. 

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Everyone makes mistakes. That's what this understanding English museum's worker wants one child to know after a careless mistake during his visit. 

When a young boy was visiting a museum named Christchurch Mansion with his family, he accidentally knocked a historic jug off the window edge (边缘). The jug broke into 65 pieces. The boy, who was about 4 or 5 years old at the time, was rather sad about the accident. 

The jug is about 221 years old. It is worth up to 2, 000 pounds. The jug has three spouts(壶嘴) and the user must guess which spout the water will pour from. 

Carrie Willis is the duty officer of the museum. Under the direction of the museum's conservation officer Bob Entwistle, she put back together the 18th- century Delft Puzzle Jug. 

"We want the young boy to know that all is well, "a spokesman of the museum said. "We would like to invite him and his family back to have a special tour and see the magically repaired jug. "

What do people think of this accident?

The museum workers dealt with the situation well in reaching out to the boy. The world needs more acts of kindness like this. 

— Sara(Bunbury, Australia)

Parents do not teach their children how to behave these days. It's the parents' job to look after their children. The parents were lazy and careless. 

— Elizabeth (Cape Town, South Africa)

The fault here lies with the museum. They should keep the jug in a safer place. They were being careless with the jug. 

— Neil (London, the UK)

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