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1、高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练 七选五专题十九Last month, a guy was removed from a plane by police after throwing a tantrum because a baby near him was crying. This sort of thing seems to keep happening lately. _1_Videos of angry passengers yelling at or even physically assaulting gate agents and other airport and airline
2、employees on the ground keep spreading like wildfire on social media.A combination of political polarization, high travel costs, a turbulent economy and post-traumatic stress from the COVID-19 pandemic have all united to create tempests in the teapots that hurtle across our nations skies every day._
3、2_Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, said that might be due in part to a zero-tolerance policy the FAA enacted that year, which allows those incidents to be addressed more quickly and forcefully. Last month, the FAA said it was referring more cases to the FBI, including an in
4、cident in March in which a passenger tried to open the emergency exit and attempted to assault a flight attendant with a makeshift weapon._3_People need to be more ashamed. No, seriously. All these social media posts are not helping, and people who get violent on airplanes need to face stronger cons
5、equences for their actions.“If you had some real public consequences like people getting arrested, getting massive fines for this kind of thing, getting put on a blacklist, that would put some pressure to tamp down on this kind of thing,” Nelson said. _4_It would create a national no-fly list for pa
6、ssengers who act out onboard.Personally, I trust the experts. If they say harsher penalties are the way to go, Im all for it. Ive done plenty of flying and witnessed my fair share of misbehaving adults. _5_【USA Today (May 2, 2023)】A. How can air rage get addressed?B. What should other travelers know
7、?C. Its not just on the planes, either.D. To that end, a bipartisan group of legislators in Washington reintroduced a bill a few weeks ago.E. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the rate of unruly passenger incidents has dropped around 80%.F. It seems like behaving angry and belligeren
8、t has become more acceptable in the last five to seven years.G. It would be a confidence boost to know that there could be real consequences for those actions.Blue checkmarks are now gone from previously “verified” people on Twitter such as journalists, musicians, actors, sports celebs, and other hi
9、gh-profile tweeters unless those users cough up $8/month (or $84/year) for a Twitter Blue subscription._1_So how do you know if the person or organization youre following (or chatting with) on Twitter is legit or fake?Look at the handle and bioTwitter users, even famous ones, often have a different
10、Twitter name than their handle. LeBron James, for example, has the Twitter handle KingJames opposed to LebronJames, which is an advertising and marketing firm.“Verified” users cant change their handle, but its easy to change your Twitter profile name. _2_And if there is no bio or one filled with spe
11、lling and grammatical mistakes, or a broken URL to a website, thats suspect, too._3_Especially when it comes to following news organizations and celebrities, its easy to tell if its a phony account if the number of followers is next to nothing. Jack Black, for example, hasnt paid for the blue checkm
12、ark, but since his account has more than 578,000 followers, you can surmise its really the comedic actor and musician. On the flip side, you might find Bill Gates III on Twitter, with the handle BillGates2810 yes, even with the actual photo of the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropistb
13、ut this imposter account only has 5 followers, and so you know its not really *the* Bill Gates III, which has 62.5 million followers on his verified Twitter profile.Look at the tweets If youre trying to determine if an account is phony or not, look at their tweets and your Spidey sense should start
14、tinging if there are several repetitive tweets, if theyre fraught with spelling and grammatical errors, or if there are too few or too many tweets._4_Check for a missing photo or stock photo While fake accounts could have a photo, like the above-mentioned Bill Gates example, be suspicious if whom yo
15、ure following doesnt have a photo at all, which is a sign of a bot account, or lazy imposter._5_A quick glance at their followers, posts, bio, and actual Twitter handle could easily confirm or dispel if the person is who they claim to be.【USA Today (May 2, 2023)】A. What is the follower count? B. Why
16、 is Twitter removing blue check marks?C. Look for other info, such as whats on the Twitter users bio summary.D. Many users are pushing back publicly against paying for this little white tick in a blue circle.E. In other instances, the fake account may use a stock image or profile photo used on other
17、 accounts.F. If the user has a blue check, theyve been verified by Twitter.G. On a related note, if most tweets are all replies with the same text, you have also likely discovered a bot account.Cinematic portrayals like these have made us all familiar with the risks of artificial intelligence, where
18、 computers capable of thinking like humans pose a danger to us all. But thats simply science fiction, right? Perhaps not.The AI chatbot ChatGPT, launched by developer OpenAI in collaboration with Microsoft last November, has made headlines because of its conversational and writing abilities, which m
19、imic human speech and writing, respectively. _1_It can compose grocery lists, give you ideas about travel and can describe art in detail.ChatGPT is available for free on the OpenAI website. I have an account there and asked ChatGPT to compose a poem about Savannah, a haiku about enduring love and a
20、paragraph about pirates in the style of Ernest Hemingway. ChatGPT composed each of these in seconds. Both were passable, if not spectacular.As a writer, this frightens me. _2_In an era in which social media is filled with all sorts of misleading information, the ability of realistic AI-generated fak
21、es to be propagated in the media should arouse concern in all of us._3_This is the concern graphically illustrated in “The Terminator,” where Skynet decided that human beings were no longer necessary and exterminated them. This is especially concerning considering the increasing automation of the wo
22、rlds military. The U.S. Navy estimates that up to 60% of its carrier air fleet will be composed of AI-driven unarmed aerial vehicles in the next decade. _4_The advent of the internet in the early 1990s revolutionized commerce, communication and the dissemination of information. Today, with 63% of th
23、e globe connected via the web, most of us cannot imagine the world without it. _5_【USA Today International (May 2, 2023)】A. There are some researchers who claim that this sort of thing is already happening.B. This first deployment of such a vehicle is slated for 2026.C. A neural network is a mathema
24、tical system that finds statistical patterns in enormous amounts of data.D. ChatGPT can write business pitches, compose music and poetry, simulate an entire chat room, and write essays.E. Artificial intelligence holds similar promise, but greater peril.F. What might be even more frightening is the ability of AI programs to create misleading, but realistic-looking disinformation.G. Real concerns could arise if artificial intelligence becomes self-aware, or sentient.答案CEADGDCAGEDFGBE学科网（北京）股份有限公司