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四川省泸州市2021年中考英语真题试卷
Boyan Slat has been dreaming of cleaning up the world's oceans for a long time.
In 2010, he went on a diving (潜水) vacation in Greece and was shocked. "I saw more plastic bags than fish in the water," he said.
From then on, Slat began to pay more attention to ocean pollution. He decided to give up higher education and set up the 0cean Cleanup, a non-government organization. Its purpose is to clean up ocean rubbish. He has set up the world's first ocean cleanup system (系统) with his team.
Every year, over 8 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans, and it can take up to 500 years to break down. In 2018, the World Economic Forum predicted that the weight of ocean plastic would match that of all the fish in our oceans by 2050. Sea animals easily get caught in plastic. They can't move. They can even die if they eat it. Smaller plastic pieces can also enter the food chain (链) and end up in our bodies.
Slat's plan was to create an environmentally-friendly, large system to clear out plastic rubbish from the ocean.
After seven years of tests, on October 2nd, 2019, a machine called System 001/B came out. It successfully caught and collected a large amount of plastic rubbish floating in the ocean.
Slat and his team are working to improve System 001/B. Their dream is to clear out 90 percent of all the ocean plastic by 2040.
Food waste is common in many schools. Students at Whitewater Middle School in the US once found 200 pounds (90. 7kg) of food had been thrown away after just one of their school's daily meals. They said it was both unpleasant and educational.
A student said, "You don't realize how much food waste you're making till you see it. " To deal with this problem, Whitewater has added environmental science as a new school program this year. Teachers will lead students to do research about how food connects with the environment, poverty (贫穷) and people's health.
Whitewater teachers make sure students know how their own eating habits are part of bigger problems. In environmental literature (文学) classes, students read books such as Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.
Teacher Lyman says that in language arts classes, students discuss why poor people often have less healthy food. Lyman says she wants students to ask themselves some basic questions: "What do we eat? What do we waste?
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A total of 28 ballet dancers from the National Ballet of China will take part in the concert. There will be ballet dancers onstage performing with musicians of the orchestra(管弦乐队), which will combine movement and music to tell stories.
Date | Jan. 31st (7:30 pm~9:30 pm) |
Ticket price | General Public: 100 yuan~1280 yuan Students: FREE (ID card needed) |
Place | Xi'an Play Theatre |
Call | 6556668 |
ChatGPT is back in the headlines! OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot, has now introduced a powerful new language: GPT-4.
Several months ago, GPT-4 showed the world how smarter it is than the previous (先前的) GPT-3.5. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}For example, if you show a picture of a phone using the wrong charger, GPT-4 can tell why the picture looks strange or funny.
But GPT-4's developments are far more than that. The new language model can code (用代码编写) classic games in only a few minutes, and it also can produce the code and layouts (布局) for a website with a hand-made drawing. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} According to some scientists, GPT-4 did really well on a school test, with a score in the top 10 percent of test takers. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
GPT-4 will also be widely used in other apps and services. For example, the language learning app Duolingo plans to use GPT-4 in their Duolingo Max Function. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Another app, Be My Eyes, will have a digital assistant to help blind people understand the world around them.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#}GPT4 still can't get completely correct answers sometimes, especially with newer information after September 2021. GPT-4 also sometimes "hallucinates (产生幻觉)", it means that GPT-4 will think the wrong information is true.
A. GPT-4 is very popular to young people. B. App users can learn language by talking with AI. C. But GPT-3.5 only got a score in the bottom 10 percent. D. There are still some problems with GPT-4, however. E. You don't need to pay anything when you use GPT-4. F. One of its advantages is that it can understand pictures. G. GPT-4 is also much better than the older GPT at taking tests. |
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