吴忠中学2023-2024学年高三年级第三次月考英语测试卷
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In ancient Egypt,the rich soils along the Nile River supported roughly 3 million people.Now there are
30 times that number of people living in Egypt,with the Egyptian population soaring from 45 million in the
1980s to over 100 million now.
Just 4%of Egypt's land is suitable for agriculture,and that number is reducing quickly due to the urban
and suburban development."It's not an overstatement to say that this is a crisis,"said Nasem Badreldin,an
expert at the University of Manitoba.Satellite data shows that Egypt is losing about 2%of its farmland per
decade due to urbanization,and the process is speeding.If this continues,Egypt will face serious food security
problems."According to one analysis,the amount of farmland near Alexandria dropped by 11%between 1987
and 2019,while urban areas increased by 11%.In recent years,the Egyptian government has promised to end
unlicensed building on farmland,which remains a difficult task to fulfill.
Urbanization isn't the only factor to reduce Egypt's farmland.Sea level rise of 1.6 millimeters per year
has contributed to the salinization()of farmland in Egypt.About 15%of Egypt's richest farmland has
already been damaged by sea level rise and saltwater intrusion().One response to the loss of farmland
has ineluded efforts to green parts of the desert.For instance,Farouk El-Baz Boston University scientist,has
planned to build highways,railways,water pipelines,and power lines to promote the establishment of new
farmiand in deserts west of the delta.
While that project hasn't been finished,much of desert has turned into farmland in recent decades.The
satellite photos show new farmland along the Cairo Highway.A mixture of center-pivot irrigation (and
drip irrigation makes farming in this area possible."It is certainly possible to establish new farmland from the
desert by tapping groundwater resources,though it's a little expensive process,"said Badreldin.
28.What does the underlined"this"in paragraph 2 refer to
A.The urban expansion.
B.The reduction of farmland.
C.The suburban development.
D.The growth of population.
29.How many factors are mentioned that have caused the loss of farmland
A.Four.
B.Three.
C.Two.
D.Five.
30.What is Badreldin's attitude to the establishment of new farmland
A.Uncertain.
B.Optimistic.
C.Disapproving
D.Unconcerned.
31.Which of the following could be the best title for the text
A.Food Security Problems in Egypt
B.Urbanization Along the Nile River
C.Agricultural Development Along the Nile River
D.Egypt's Disappearing Farmland
D
Artificial intelligence-powered chatbot,ChatGPT,has been a hot topic of online discussions mainly for
its"chatty"nature.The pre-trained,large-seale chatbot models,led by ChatGPT,could be one of the most
important developments in the field of AI and play a key role in future AI products and applications.
As a pre-trained AI model,ChatGPT is based on the GPT-3 family of large language models and is
fine-tuned tomonitor and reinforce learing techniques.The GPT-3or Generative Pre-trained Transformer3,
has already caused a sensation It has gained wide popularity since its debut in November and revolutionized
the AI fied due to itsadvaneed convrsational capabilities.Sowean say itisanoptimized language model
based on the development of AI technology.
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