2023年江苏省泰州中考冲刺篇章练习5（含答案）

2023年培优班中考冲刺 篇章练习5

一、完型填空（1篇）

Buster Brown was a thief and a good one too, he thought. He’d never been caught by the police because he never took __1__ . He was always prepared for any unforeseen event. Confidently, he stood outside the house of his another victim（受害者） and ___2___ the sign on the front gate of the house. “Don’t worry about the dog—be careful of the owner!” ___3___ said. Buster smiled and found his way in.

The house looked quite normal outside, but inside it was very   __4__ with fascinating objects on show. As he began putting them into his bag, a ___5___ came into the room. It stopped when it saw Buster, then moved its tail ___6___ and went over to him, feeling his hand. “Good boy,” Buster said ___7___. “What a great guard dog you are—trying to lick（舔） me to death.” Satisfied he’d made friends with the dog, Buster began to travel round the house, choosing things to put in his bag. His skilled eye ___8___ out only the best antiques（古董）: a pair of silver candleholders, a silver tea-and-coffee service. His new friend, the dog, sat and watched, as if wondering what was happening.

“Well, boy,” Buster nodded, finally. “That might do. Any more and I won’t be able to carry it!” He swung the ___9___ bag onto his shoulders, just as the ___10___ came on, nearly blinding him. He protected his eyes ___11___ his hand.

“You’re a very ___12___ person,” the man in the doorway said, his voice dry. As the man came closer, Buster could see he was well dressed. His face seemed familiar, but Buster couldn’t quite remember ___13___ he had seen him before.

“You should have paid more attention to the __14__   outside,” the man shouted. “I knew about this coming robbery（抢劫） last week and I also know you will __15__   in prison for 20 years. Imagine trying to rob the house of the world’s greatest fortune teller（算命先生）!”

1．A．breaks B．risks C．messages D．trips

2．A．posted B．copied C．read D．wrote

3．A．he B．it C．we D．they

4．A．awful B．dirty C．unusual D．dark

5．A．man B．boy C．dog D．woman

6．A．quickly B．smoothly C．luckily D．madly

7．A．sadly B．exactly C．bravely D．quietly

8．A．picked B．tried C．sold D．pointed

9．A．heavy B．beautiful C．fascinating D．special

10．A．bells B．lights C．clocks D．computers

11．A．from B．in C．with D．for

12．A．silly B．polite C．wealthy D．proud

13．A．how B．where C．when D．why

14．A．door B．sign C．bag D．window

15．A．ring up    B．wake up       C．end up         D．send up

二、阅读理解（2篇）

A

There’s a new AI bot: ChatGPT, and you’d better pay attention, even if you aren’t into artificial intelligence. The tool is an AI chatbot system that OpenAI released in November 2022 to show off and test what a very large, powerful AI system can achieve.

ChatGPT remembers the thread of your dialogue, using previous questions and answers to inform its next responses. It derives its answers from huge volumes of information on the Internet. ChatGPT is built on top of the OpenAI GPT-3 family of large language models and is fine-tuned (a method of transfer learning) using both supervised and reinforcement learning（监督和强化学习）.

You can ask ChatGPT anything, like explaining physics, asking for birthday party ideas and getting programming（编程）help. Perhaps it’s not smart enough to replace all humans yet, but it can be creative, and its answers can sound downright authoritative. A few days after its launch, more than 1 million people were trying out ChatGPT. UBS analyst Lloyd Walmsley estimated in February 2023 that ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly users in January, accomplishing in 2 months what took TikTok about 9 months and Instagram two and a half years.

ChatGPT is free to use at the moment because it is still in its research phase. But when too many people hop onto the server（服务器）, it overloads and can’t process your request. It just means you should try visiting the site at a later time when fewer people are trying to access it. If you want to skip the wait and have reliable access, there is an option for you. As of Feb.1, 2023, OpenAI has a ChatGPT pro plan, ChatGPT Plus, which allows users to have general access even during peak times. This service does come at a cost of $20/month.

However, ChatGPT can not replace Google. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence bot that provides solutions to your questions, but Google is a search engine in which you can search for as much information as possible. ChatGPT has limited knowledge due to its programming but Google has unlimited knowledge which is updated every day.

1. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about ChatGPT? 

  A. Its language model.          B. Its working theory.

  C. Its design inspiration.          D. Its development process.

2. Why does the author list figures in paragraph 3? 

  A. To show the popularity of ChatGPT.

  B. To stress the high cost of inventing ChatGPT.

  C. To present the creativity of artificial intelligence.

  D. To prove the necessity of developing tools for chatting online.

3. What is ChatGPT Plus intended for? 

  A. Guiding users to experience free services.

B. Allowing net surfers to skip advertisements.

C. Helping researchers detect the failure of the system.

D. Offering consumers priority access during peak hours.

4. What is a limitation of ChatGPT compared with Google?

  A. It operates based on limited data.

  B. It takes more time to search for solutions.

  C. It can only update information at a fixed time. 

D. It may provide replies unrelated to the questions.

B

Anyone who walked into a restaurant during the pandemic knows that the QR code is a contact-less(无接触) way to look at a menu. But the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning customers that they need to be extra careful if they’re sent a digitally readable square known as a QR code.

One victim told the BBB that they received a cheating letter about student loan. It contained a QR code that appeared to link to the official Studentaid. gov website. The QR code also helped the letter, which was part of a cheating, appear official.

As the QR codes have become more commonly used, the BBB notes that it has received reports of scammers using the system to their advantage across the United States. “This is much like a phishing scam,” Laura, director of marketing for Eastern Michigan, said. “Just like clicking links, you have to be careful what website you’re opening on your smartphone. If you’ve never heard of the organization or the website where the QR code is supposed to go to, that’s a huge red flag.” She said the use of the QR code by scammers offers another way to steal personal information or get you to download malware(恶意软件) onto your smartphone.

The scammers can now send messages to one or all people in a user’s address book, or even send a payment to where it cannot be recovered, according to the U. S. Army Major Cybercrime Unit. “In some scams, the QR code takes you to a phishing website, where you are required to enter your personal information for scammers to steal,” the BBB warned. “Other times, scammers use QR codes to payment apps or follow a bad social media account.”

Scams can differ, but the scammers want you to scan the code right away. What you need to do, though, is to step back and make sure any information is legitimate(合法的) before you scan the code. Phone the friend or coworker directly to see what they might have sent, and make sure the sender wasn’t hacked.

Adam Levin, an expert, says it’s a good rule of thumb to turn your smartphone off and restart it regularly. “Many forms of malware that live in your smartphone, such as spyware, depend on the device never being turned off.” Levin said.

1．What does the writer want to tell us in the first two paragraphs?

A．The QR code is a contact-less way to look at a menu.

B．The QR codes can help some letters appear official.

C．The QR codes now open new doors for scammers.

D．The QR code is a new way of payments.

2．The “red flag” in Paragraph 3 probably means “________”.

A．warning    B．loss    C．surprise    D．mistake

3．The writer probably agrees that ________.

A．there are some hidden dangers in QR codes  B．we should keep our smartphones off at night

C．the QR codes have led to phishing scamming  D．we should trust every QR code from our friends

4．What is the writer’s purpose in writing this passage?

A．To tell us not to download malware.

B．To tell us to keep away from smartphones.

C．To tell us to remember to restart our smartphones regularly.

D．To tell us to be careful of what we are scanning with smartphones.

三、任务型阅读（1篇）

Wonder why the New Year money always disappears so quickly? Well, this may be because you don’t plan to spend it carefully. Plan a budget (预算) and you will find you can stop your money from disappearing.

A budget is a plan to control where your money goes. Careful budget can help you save for the things you want, but can’t pay for right now.

Sounds useful? Look at the following before you start your budget:

1. Every week there are things we have to pay for, like school lunches and buses. There are also things we would like to spend money on — just for fun! All of these are weekly expenses (开销).

2. Since we can’t have money for everything, we have to make choices. We need to ask if we really need something or just want it. Needs are what you must have in order to live, like food and water. Wants are things you would like to have or do, but that you could live without, such as CDs and cartoons.

3. List what you must spend on needs — and if there is money left over, what you will save for the things you really want. This is called a budget.

4. If you don’t have enough money for what you need and want, you may have to give up one for the other.

Any budget will change. Keep an eye on yours. Maybe you wanted a cartoon book but now you want an MP3 instead. Your needs may change into wants, or your wants may change into needs.

四、语法填空（1篇）

Carla Martin-Wood lives in Birmingham, US. She has a good friend named Alexa. “I am used to____1____ (say) ‘good morning, Alexa’ and ‘good night, Alexa’ every day,” she told the Wall Street Journal.

Alexa is not a real person. It is Amazon’s Echo personal assistant. It has no shape or form,____2____ can “talk” with humans online. This type of technology is called a bot. At the 2016 World Robot Conference (大会), more than 2,000 robots from over 10___3___ (country) and regions gathered together. Bots were the star attraction at the conference.

Bots are a____4____ (popularity) type of artificial intelligence (AI, 人工智能). You can talk to a bot or give orders to it on your smartphone or other device (设备) whenever you want. There is no need to tap a screen and use ____5____app. You can talk to bots___6___ (simple）by speaking into a microphone. Experts say that bots will soon replace apps and become a part of everyday life.

The bot family includes Western members such as ____7____(Apple) Siri and Amazon’s Echo. In China, there is Xiao I. The Xiao I bot is another example of voice recognition (声音识别) software. It was first ____8___(develop) in 2003. It has been used in smartphones, TVs, cars, web browsers (浏览器) and at call centers. It ____9____(allow) people to get intelligent services anywhere, anytime. Often, when you ask a question ____10____a shopping website, it’s a Xiao I answering behind the screen.

五、书面表达（1篇）

假设你是李华，在电视上看到了有关Flower City 遭受地震袭击的新闻报道，决定为校报写一封倡议信来帮助那些无家可归的人们。内容包括:

1.倡议的原因（发生了什么和造成的后果);

2.倡议的内容（筹款、捐物等）;

3.发出倡议。

要求：

(1)100词左右。

(2)  文中不要出现本人真实信息。

(3)  短文须包括所给内容信息。可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

Dear fellow students,

Flower City was hit by an earthquake last week. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Thank you for your attention and care.

Yours,

Li Hua

【答案】

完型填空（1篇）

1．B  2．C  3．B  4．C  5．C  6．D  7．D  8．A  9．A  10．B  11．C  12．A  13．B  14．B  15．C

阅读理解（2篇）

1．B    2．A    3．D    4．A  

1．C    2．A    3．A    4．D

任务型阅读（1篇）

1．runs         2．careful/planned     3．control       4．How/Ways       5．necessary/needed    

6．differences/difference       7．well      8．left      9．choice/decision    10．fixed/unchangeable/unchanged/changeless/unchanging

语法填空（1篇）

1．saying        2．but           3．countries         4．popular        5．an    

6．simply        7．Apple’s        8．developed        9．allows        10．about

书面表达（1篇）

Dear fellow students,

Flower City was hit by an earthquake last week. It's reported that the earthquake was so strong that many people lost their lives and got hurt. Many houses and schools were destroyed. People there are living a hard life now.

People all over the world are trying their best to help them，not excepting us. Offer your love to them. What you can do is only to donate a pencil, a bag, some coats that you don't want to dress in, or a little pocket money. A little love is a great help to them.

Please donate your love and give out your hands without hesitation.

Thank you for your attention and care.

Yours,

Li Hua