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江苏省扬州市仪征市2017届英语中考二模试卷

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Gone with the Wind

Author: Margaret Mitchell

¥25 (in bookstores)   ¥18 (online)

Gone with the Wind is a best-seller, which tells a story that happened in the American Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara is a woman in the story who is full of energy. She is strong and saves her family but is very selfish at the same time.

A Little Princess

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

¥20 (online) A special offer: ¥18 (8:00a.m.-10:00 a.m. )

Motherless Sara Crewe's father was very rich and Sara lived a rich and comfortable life. Then her father died and she lost everything. Her strong character made her able to fight successfully against her poverty(贫穷) and the scorn(嘲笑). It's an excellent book for children.

Peter Pan

Author: J.M Barrie

¥15 (in bookstores)   ¥12 (online)

It is a children's story full of imagination and adventures(冒险), which is about Wendy, John, and Michael Darling's adventures in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. The children are happy and lovely.





(1)、What difficulty did Sara Crewe face in her life ?
A、The American Civil War B、The loss of her parents C、Adventures in Never-Never Land D、Her strong character
(2)、We can learn from the passage that _________.
A、we can buy all the above books in bookstores B、two of the books are written by J.M Barrie C、all the books have children as their main characters D、Peter Pan is ¥3 cheaper online than in bookstores
(3)、If you want to buy all the three books, you have to pay at least ______ online.
A、¥30 B、¥12 C、¥48 D、¥42
举一反三
 阅读理解

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. 

 阅读短文,回答问题

Shay can never hold her chopsticks (筷子) well. "Like this, Jiajia." her mother holds out her own chopsticks and called Shay's Chinese name. Shay tries but it's too difficult. She makes a face. "I don't want to. Everyone at Abigail's house uses spoons and forks (叉子)." she says and reaches for a spoon.

The next day, Shay's mother prepared noodles for her lunch. Chopsticks, too. Only chopsticks. "I have two forks," Abigail says, "You can borrow if you like." Abigail can't use chopsticks at all, but she doesn't have to. She is pretty and blond and has a last name that isn't Chinese. "Yes, please!" Shay says, "Thanks, Abigail!"

After dinner, Shay sits with her mother at the desk. she takes out some drawing things from the desk. "What do you want to draw?" Mom asks. "A dragon!" Shay says. At school, her class is reading stories and her favorite characters are always dragons. They are big and strong, and they breathe fire (喷火). Mother also draws quietly with Shay, side by side. Shay draws a fire-breathing dragon and she turns to her mother's drawing: a snakelike animal with big teeth. It's a Chinese dragon, a long.

"That's pretty, mom!" Shay says. "I wish long had wings (翅膀). Then they could fly like my dragon does." "They do fly and they can swim, too. The long is a dragon as I know it. And this is a dragon as you know it. But they are both dragons." Mom points to Shay's drawing. "Oh," says Shay, "So it's just like how I know forks and you know chopsticks?" Mother thinks for a while and laughs. "Yes. Just like that. There really is no wrong way to eat, you can use forks or you can use chopsticks."

The next day, Shay gets noodles again, ____.

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