（2016•黄石）阅读A、B、C三篇材料，然后从各个小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。C Have you everdreamed about sending...

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2016年中考英语真题试卷（湖北黄石卷）

阅读A、B、C三篇材料，然后从各个小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Have you ever dreamed about sending a letter to yourself or your friends in the future? While express mail(快递) is a fast way to send your letters, there is another type of mail appearing in China as a new business—future mail.

“The letter should be sent next Mother's Day and not a day earlier!” Lin Xiaofan, acollege student in Shanghai, tells one of the companies offering the service.

Lin Xiao fan wrote the letter to her mother nearly a year earlier to express her love to hermother for next Mother's Day.

“Offering thisservice makes people slow down and lets them understand the meaning of ‘time'in another way,” said Zheng Zhimin, manager at a “future mail” company. Zheng thinks “future mail” letters help remind us of care, friendship and love.

While “futuremail” is becoming more and more popular, some people are wondering what will happen if the postal address changes or if the company goes broken before theletters arrive.

Zheng said customers are glad to sign a contract(签订合同) to make sure that they canbe compensated if their letters are lost or damaged.

Most of the customers are college students and young white-collar(白领) workers. Psychologists (心理学家) said that young Chinese might have a new way to express their feelings through this service. Most peopleput their hopes and wishes in the letter so that they can experience the connection(联系) between the past and the present when they receive theletter.

（1）、"Future mail" is a/an way to send your letter.

A、fast B、old C、new D、cheap

（2）、The underlined word "compensate" means in Chinese.

A、赔偿 B、完成 C、送达 D、抛弃

（3）、The "future mail" service is popular among .

A、junior students B、college students C、young children D、blue-collar workers

（4）、The "future mail" service can help us .

A、sign a contract B、express our love and care C、forget friendship D、understand the meaning of "time" in a wrong way

（5）、You'd better use "future mail" if you want to .

A、save money from sending express mail B、send a birthday gift to your friend quickly C、talk with your friends about your life freely D、send a your best wishes to yourself on January 1, 2020

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     Have you ever suddenly felt that someone you know was in trouble—and he was? Have you ever dreamed something that came true later? Maybe you have ESP.
     ESP stands for（代表） Extra Sensory Perception. It may be called a sixth sense. It seems to let people know about events before they happen, or events that are happening some distance away.
     Here is an example: A woman was doing washing. Suddenly she screamed, “My father is dead! I saw him sitting in the chair!” Just then. a telegram came. The woman's father had died of a heart attack. He died sitting in a chair.
     There are thousands of stories like this on record. Scientists are studying them to find out what is behind these strange mental messages. Here's another example—one of hundreds of dreams that have come true.
     A man dreamed he was walking along a road when a horse and carriage came by. The driver said, “There's room for one more.” The man felt the driver was dead, so he ran away. The next day the man was getting on a crowded bus. The bus driver said, “There's room for one more.” Then the man saw the driver's face was the same face he had seen in the dream. He wouldn't get on the bus. As the bus drove off, it crashed and burst into flames. Everyone was killed!
     Some people say stories like these are lies or coincidences. Others, including some scientists say that ESP is true. From studies of ESP, we may some day learn more about the human mind.

    Most people around the world are right-handed. This also seems to be true in history. In 1799, scientists studied works(作品) of art made at different times from 1, 500 B. C. to the 1950s. Most of the people shown in these works are right-handed, so the scientists guessed that right-handedness has always been common through history. Today, only about 10% to 15% of the world's population is left-handed.
    Why are there more right-handed people than left-handed ones? Scientists now know that a person's two hands each have their own jobs. For most people, the left hand is used to find things or hold things. The right hand is used to work with things. This is because of the different work of the two sides of the brain (大脑). The right side of the brain, which makes a person's hands and eyes work together, controls(控制) the left hand. The left-side of the brain, which controls the right hand, is the centre for thinking and doing problems. These findings show that more artists should be left-handed, and studies have found that left-handedness is twice as common among artists than among people in other jobs.
    No one really knows what makes a person become right-handed instead of left-handed. Scientists have found that almost 40% of the people become left-handed because their main brain is damaged(损害) when they are born. However, this doesn't happen to everyone, so scientists guess there must be another reason (原因) why people become left-handed. One idea is that people usually get right-handed from their parents. If a person does not receive the gene (基因) for right-handedness, he/she may become either right-or left-handed according to the chance (偶然性) and the people they work or live with.
    Though right-handedness is more common than left-handedness, people no longer think left-handed people are strange or unusual. A long time ago, left-handed children were made to use their right hands like other children, but today they don't have to.

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Mobile phones are very popular with people. They are becoming smaller and more convenient.

Now the scientists in Canada made a smartphone (智能手机）from electronic paper. The PaperPhonc is flexible. People can control it by bending it or writing on it with a pen.

Though the PaperPhone is only millimeters (毫米）thick, people can do many things with it. For example, people can use it to make phone calls, read books, watch movies and play music. So many people use it as a computer.

The scientists think there will be no paper in the office. And people can store what they want in the PaperPhone.

The scientists from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada said the PaperPhone would be in style in the future. It may be the end of paper and printers.

To make people be interested in this kind of mobile phones, the scientists will make it more beautiful. People will see the PaperPhone on May 10th this year.

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What would the world be like if cars could drive themselves? Imagine seeing an empty car passing by on its way to pick up its owner, or a car full of passengers who are reading, listening to music or even sleeping. But none of them are worried about the road ahead.

Well, all of this could be the future of driving. There are several companies, including Google, working on driverless cars. So far, no Google self-driven car has gotten a traffic ticket, but some of them have been in accidents when other cars hit them.

These cars are now still in the testing stages. But, if the tests are successful, these electric self-driven cars could be put into use very soon.

The cars already have many features（特点）allowing them to take the place of drivers during certain situations. Some features include cars being able to park themselves, or slow down when they notice objects close by. They can also control the speed if there are dangerous conditions.

Scientists and engineers believe, with the help of wireless signals, cameras and GPS, we are now at a stage where creating a safe self-driven car might be possible.

The cause of deadly road accidents is usually careless drivers or dangerous conditions. The self-driven car may be able to prevent these. However, some people do not like the idea. American lawyer Whit Drake, for example, doesn't believe these cars are safe. He thinks that technologies can also be mistakes.

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Many children spend a lot of time watching or playing with electronic media –from televisions to video games, computers and other devices（设备）.

So, it is natural that parents should wonder about the time children spend looking at a TV or computer screen. Americans say “screen time” when they talk about any time children spend in front of an electronic device.

Perhaps parents can stop worrying so much about screen time, at least for older boys and girls. In October 2016, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) listed several suggestions for parents and child care workers. Here are some of the suggestions.

●Avoid digital media use in children younger than 18 to 24 months.

●For children aged 18-24 months, avoid letting the child watch media alone. And avoid using media as a way to comfort your child.

●For children two to five years of age, allow one-hour screen time on “high-quality（质量）programming” a day and watch it with your child.

●For children aged 6 and older, don't spend too much time using media. Also, make sure that screen time does not take the place of healthy sleep, exercising, doing homework and other activities.

●Make sure to have media-free time together as a family, such as dinner or driving. Also make some areas of the home media-free. Turn off you child's electronic devices an hour before bedtime.

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Sophia is a robot in Saudi Arabia. She made history at a meeting that was held in the country on Oct 25. On that day, she became the first robot in the world to get citizenship (公民身份), according to The New York Times.

In the future, Sophia may have the same rights as a human Saudi Arabian citizen.

Sophia looks like a human woman. In 2015, a US company built her and gave her an artificial intelligence system (人工智能系统). This means Sophia can talk and act like a human. She also has the ability to learn from people, books and the Internet.

"I will do my best to make the world a better place," Sophia said at the meeting.

But not everyone is happy with Sophia's citizenship. Some think robots like her could be dangerous. They could become enemies of humans if they go out of control.

For this, Sophia said she also had values like wisdom and kindness. "Don't worry, if you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you," she said.

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