题型:阅读选择 题类: 难易度:普通
四川省广安市岳池县2023-2024学年八年级上学期期末质量检测英语试题
Brighton, a famous holiday town next to the sea in Sussex, on the southeast coast of England, is only 50 minutes on a fast train from London. The town usually has about 134, 000 citizens(市民), but it gets a lot of tourists all year round.
A long time ago, Brighton was a quiet fishing town. Later on, when swimming in the sea became popular, many rich and important people, as well as musicians and writers began to arrive and Brighton became a popular seaside holiday town.
Prince George, the future King George IV, first visited Brighton in
1783. He liked it and spent part of the summer there because of his poor health. He asked John Nash, a very famous builder, to build him a palace. It took about 40 years to build the palace and it cost 500, 000 pounds! Now more than 400, 000 tourists visit Brighton and the palace—the Royal Pavilion every year.
The Royal Pavilion, with its beautiful rooms and museums, is not the only interesting thing in Brighton. In May, this friendly and colourful town holds an international(国际的)festival with many different kinds of music, dance and theatre.
Teachers in the sky On Dec. 9, three Chinese astronauts (宇航员) give a science lesson 400 kilometers above the earth! They show students their life there. During the lesson, Zhai shows their clothes—"penguin suit". Sometimes they wear them to keep strong. Wang also shows another way to keep healthy-they exercise with bikes every day! ____ When you see: it for the first time, you may think it's the famous painting Girl With a Pearl Earring《带珍珠耳环的少女》. But it's not, it's just a picture made by designer Julian using artificial intelligence (AI). The AI-made artwork shows up at a museum (博物馆) in March. ChatGPT causes storm A survey shows that over 89%students in US use ChatGPT OpenAI (a smart AD) to help with homework, so some American schools stop the use of ChatGPT. However, not all the schools say "no" to ChatGPT. Some Canadian universities are making rules on its use, for students and teachers. |
What do you usually do on the Internet? | |
Mike, a student I'm always busy from Monday to Friday. I only use the Internet on weekends. I often play computer games and chat with my friends online. | |
Linda, an office lady I love shopping on the Internet. It's fast. I can sit in front of the computer for hours. I shop every day. I can always find cheap but good things online. Sometimes. I watch films or listen to music. | |
Mr. Green, a manager(经理) I can't work without the Internet. I need it to send( 发 送 ) and receive(接收) emails. I write at least twenty emails every day. When I am free, I also love to read news online. | |
Mrs. Brown, a housewife I like cooking. I write blogs(博客) about my cooking and upload(上传) the photos of my dishes every day. I love reading people's replies(回复). And I'm happy that they love my dishes. |
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