衡中同卷 2023-2024学年度上学期高三年级七调考试(新高考版B)英语试题
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subscription streaming model has kept them from directly buying music from their favourite artist.They pay a monthly fee to stream tens of millions of songs.When their favourite musician releases anew album,it's automatically uploaded to their phones at no extra cost.So"superfans"have respondedby buying physical music-such as CDs and tapes-as a show of support.It is emotional purchasing.It is logical,then,that the major music companies would seek to make more money from superfans.Some of them are discussing ideas such as asking "superfans"to pay an extra couple of dollars ad.monthin addition to their subseription fee to access content from their favouritemusicpany.What would these changes look like in practice?The details are still being worked out.But I'msure that a lot of people will happily pay $15 a month for Harry Styles or Billie Eilish subscription,ifely internationalthe artists ask them directly.On the face of it,the idea-trying to get more money from people who really love their favouriteuniforms for theartist-is not particularly groundbreaking.But it is predicted that these"superfans"could contributesays 69-year-old$4.2 billion in extra income to music companies.o and has played a8.Why do superfans pay $800 or $900 for a seat behind the stage?eut how we couldA They don't have enough money.C.They want to see the musicians clearly.B.They are cheated by advertisements.Ged dothing through9.What can we learn.from paragraph 2?DThey just care about showing their support.all year round.AMost Americans are superfans.ae and indigo-relatedB.Physical music usually comes out eadlier.ho opened BanmatjaiC.The streaming model ca satisfy superfans.University.Today,-D Superfans spend 80%of their money on music.workshops in Phrae.10.What does the author think of the ideas of getting more money from superfans?g sessions on how to人A,Natural.BCreative.C.Unfair.D.Udreasonable.y cut clothes.11.Where is the text most probably taken from?power and authority,A.A music review.B.A business magazine.ople can see it,”says0.A marketing plan.D.A psychology textbook.I thir differently.”eautifolIn a paper published on October 17th in Nature Communications,a group of researchers led byJorg Muller,an ecologist at the University of Wurzburg,describe a creative way to study thebiodiversity in the forests.They have succeeded in using artificial intelligence(AI)to monitorbiodiversity simply by listening to the sounds the apimals make.The researchers took recordings from across 43 sites in the Ecuadorean rainforest.Some sites wererelatively well protected.Others were areas that had recently been cleared for rice or cacao-planting.h4?And some had been cleared but then abandoned,allowing the forest to grow again.ctly.Sound recordings were taken four times every hour,over two weeks.The various sounds were1identified by experts,and then used te construct a list of the species present.As expected,the longerthe land had been free from agricultural activity,the greater the biodiversity it hosted.Then it was the AI's turn.The researchers fed their recordings to their AI models that had beentrained,using sound samples from elsewhere in Ecuador,to identify 75 bird species from their calls."We found that the AI tools could identify the sounds as well as the experts,"says Dr Muiller.prices requiredfuse,not everything in a rainforest makes a noise.Dr.Muller and his colleagues also used,000 for a seatight traps to monitor night-flying insects,and DNA analysis to identify insects in soil.To their6900 for a seatsuprise,they found that the diversity of noisy animals was a reliable measurement for the diversity ofthe quieter ones,too.US populationThe results may have applications outside ecological studies,too.Under pressure from theireners.But thecustomers,firms such as L'Oreal,a make-up company,and Shell,an oil firm,have been spending243247Dmoney on forest restoration projects around the world.Dr.Muller hopes that an automatic approach to【2024届高三联考卷（四）·英语第3页（共6页）】243247D
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