《2026年天利38套中考试题精选英语浙江专版》

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Like many other grandmothers, Daisy likes cooking delicious meals for her family, chatting with her friends, and she isn’t very good with technology. Or, at least, that’s what she might tell people on the phone. Daisy also describes herself as “your most terrible dream”. But don’t worry; she’s not talking to you—she’s talking to phone scammers (诈骗者). That’s because Daisy is actually an AI chatbot. She was created by a UK phone company to speak to scammers on the phone and make them believe they’re talking to a real person.
Older people are easily cheated by scammers. In July 2024, a UK study found that about 67% of people over 75 were victims (受害者) of at least one scam in the six months before the study—with nearly 75% of those being phone scams.
Meet Daisy, who has been trained to have conversations with phone scammers, and waste their time. The company worked with Jim Browning, who has spent years acting like to be naive victim to waste scammers’ time. And that’s the whole point—Daisy can’t stop scammers, but she can slow them down. “Whenever she’s on the phone with a scammer, your parents, your grandparents, your relatives, are not being cheated,” Browning said.
The company says, “Daisy is already wasting hundreds and hundreds of hours of scammers’ time, and has shared real life conversations the chatbot has had with them.” Some conversations last nearly an hour. She talks about her cat, Fluffy, and people in her family. In some conversations, she even gives the scammers what they want—bank information. But of course, they’re not real. “Daisy is also there to remind you that the person you’re speaking to on the phone might not always be who he says he is,” the company adds.
27. What can we know about Daisy?
A. She is good at cooking.
B. She belongs to a kind of robot.
C. She enjoys talking with her family.
D. She works in a computer company in the UK.
28. How does the writer explain the problem of cheating in Para. 2?
A. By using pictures.
B. By giving an example.
C. By telling a story.
D. By listing numbers.
29. What does the underlined word “naive” probably mean?
A. Simple.
B. Clever.
C. Funny.
D. Hard-working.
30. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The rise of scammers in the UK.
B. A creative way to slow scammers down.
C. The reason why the old are easy to be cheated.
D. The development of AI technology in the world.

答案： 23—26 ACCD
27—30 BDAB