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湖南省株洲市荷塘区2020年中考英语一模试卷

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    Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn't always come home with them. Airline identification tags (标签) can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.

    The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They don't keep them, since they're not in the warehouse business. And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.

    So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them. The "Unclaimed Baggage Center," is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store's shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.

    Each day, clerks bring out 7,000 new items, and veteran (老练的) shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half-used tubes of toothpaste.

    The store's own laundry washes or cleans all the clothes found in luggage, then sells them. The Unclaimed Baggage Center has found guns, illegal drugs and even a live rattlesnake.

    The store has a little museum where some of its most unusual acquisitions (获得物) have been preserved. They include highland bagpipes, a burial mask from an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, and a medieval suit of armor.

    Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost and available to the store.

(1)、The airlines may keep the lost items for the passengers for      .
A、one month B、two months C、three months
(2)、The reason why the airlines cannot sell the bags is that       .
A、they have to find the owners B、they are likely to make a profit on the bags on purpose C、some bags are expensive
(3)、The Unclaimed Baggage Center is very popular because      .
A、there's a large variety of goods. B、all the things there are very cheap. C、visitors may purchase something undervalued.
(4)、What can we infer from the passage?
A、A little museum will keep all the precious unclaimed baggage. B、The percentage of passengers who lose their baggage forever is small. C、The things in the Unclaimed Baggage Center are articles for daily use.
(5)、What is the main purpose of the passage?
A、To introduce how the unclaimed baggage in the airports is handled in America. B、To introduce an attractive place to tourists. C、To advise the airlines to find the owners of the unclaimed baggage.
举一反三
 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中, 选出最佳选项。

 Type in"A cat wants to go to space" and ask ChatGPT to write a bedtime story. Just one second later, you' ll get the story of the cat Max, who makes his way to the space after many difficulties and is finally able to sing among the stars. ChatGPT is a new artificial intelligence(AI) tool. It answers questions. And it can write long articles and stories. 

ChatGPT is developed by a US company OpenAI, and it has taken the Internet by storm,  winning 100 million users since it came out in November 

2022. People can ask the robot to write stories and emails, create menus, translate languages, and answer all kinds of questions. 

 Compared with Siri or other chatbots(聊天机器人), ChatGPT uses a much bigger database(数据库) for training. It also uses stronger software and hardware to learn things by itself. For example, if it provides a wrong answer to your question, you can tell it the right one and it will make corrections. " It's a totally different product. " the computer scientist Liu Xiaoguang from Nankai University told Tianjin Daily. " The knowledge level ChatGPT shows is almost the same asa university student. That's why it shocked the world. "

 But one big problem with ChatGPT is that it makes mistakes or even gives fake information. When Rezza, a 28- year- old man from Indonesia, used the robot to write a passage, " It gave out unreal academic(学术的) speech. " he said. Since the robot is trained using words from the Internet, it may also have an unfair opinion about certain groups. These are all things that need to be solved. 

 Although the latest AI product helps a lot, we should still think twice before using ChatGPT for help. Whether that's a good or bad thing needs to be seen. 

 阅读短文,回答问题

Say you're sitting around with some friends playing video games and someone mentions a game that happens to be one of your favorites. "Oh, that game's easy. So not worth the time, " one of your friends says. The others agree. Although you enjoy the game quite a lot, not wanting to argue with them, you go along with the crowd.

You have just experienced what is commonly referred to as peer pressure, also called peer influence. You will adopt a certain type of behavior, dress, or attitude in order to be accepted as part of a group of your "peers". As a teen, you are likely to have experienced the effect of peer pressure in a number of different areas.

We are all influenced by our peers at any age. For teens, as school and other activities take you away from home, you may spend more time with your friends than with your family. As you become more independent, your peers naturally play a greater role in your life.

According to Dr. Casey from Cornel University, teens are very quick and accurate in making decisions on their own and in situations where they have time to think. However, when they make decisions in the heat of the moment or in social situations, their decisions are often influenced by factors like peers. In a recent study, teen volunteers played a video driving game, either alone or with friends watching. The researchers discovered that the number of risks teens took more than doubled when their friends were watching, compared with when they played alone. This shows that teens may find it more difficult to control risky behavior when their friends are around, or in situations where they are extremely angry.

Just as people can influence us to make unwise choices, they can also influence us to make good ones. A teen might join in a volunteer project because his or her friends are doing it, or get good grades because his or her friends think getting good grades is important. In fact, friends often encourage each other to study, or try out for sports.

While we are always influenced by those around us, the decision to act or not is up to us. So when it comes to decision making, the choice is up to you.

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