【正文】 as music, medicine, and money. Other specialized spinoff conferences address narrower issues.s most inspired thinkers, as the website puts it. The current version of the site was launched in April 2007, and contains videos of talks given at the TED conferences around the world. The talks are transcribed into hundreds of languages.s been called elitist(精英) for its high ticket prices (more than 6,000 dollars total). It39。 t important is the best website【答案】 （1）D（2）A（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了TED以及它的歷史發(fā)展。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。 （3）考查推理判斷。它因其高昂的票價被稱為精英主義；以及最后一段中的“And accusations of elitism ring hollow when so much is given away for free on TED39。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Whatever its failings, TED is a source of inspirational information for those who seek it out.”不管它的缺點是什么，TED都是那些尋找它的人鼓舞人心的信息來源。 Books were my true friends back then. I was so thankful that the authors wrote those books. The kindness they offered me with their books saved my life. One of my biggest dreams was to bee an author so I could write books that would help other teenagers the way those books helped me.s life like when he was 12? ....（2）How did the volunteer work benefit the author? made him popular in his town. helped him find the meaning of life. helped him understand others39。 feelings.【答案】 （1）C（2）B（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇記敘文，作者講述了自己參加志愿活動的經(jīng)歷，告訴人們：一次小善舉也可能改變一個人的一生。 （2）考查推理判斷。故選B。 （4）考查推理判斷。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，考生需要準確捕捉細節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。 In 2015, a man named Nigel Richards memorized 386, 000 words in the entire French Scrabble Dictionary in just nine weeks. However, he does not speak French. Richards39。 The potential applications for AI are extremely exciting. Because AI can outperform humans at routine tasks—provided the task is in one field with a lot of data—it is technically capable of replacing hundreds of millions of white and blue collar jobs in the next 15 years or so.four types of jobs are not at risk at all. First, there are creative jobs. AI needs to be given a goal to optimize. It cannot invent, like scientists, novelists and artists can. Second, the plex, strategic jobs—executives, diplomats, economists — go well beyond the AI limitation of singlefield and Big Data. Then there are the asyetunknown jobs that will be created by AI.t employ as many people as AI will replace? Not to worry, as the fourth type is much larger: jobs where emotions are needed, such as teachers, nannies and doctors. These jobs require passion, trust and sympathy—which AI does not have. And even if AI tried to fake it, nobody would want a robot telling them they have cancer, or a robot to babysit their children.To introduce the topic.B.To suggest humans go beyond AI in memory.（2）Which of the following best explains outperform underlined in paragraph 2? A.C.The writer.B.Limit the application of AI to a certain degree.B.s professional skills all the time.【答案】 （1）A（2）A（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，人工智能有取代人類工作的潛力,但是,并非所有工作都會被人工智能取代,有四種類型的工作完全沒有風險。理查茲（Nigel Richards）的人在短短九周內(nèi)記住了《法國拼字游戲詞典》中的386,000個單詞。故選A。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。也就是作家和科學(xué)家不會被取代。根據(jù)最后一段中的“So there will still be jobs in the age of AI. The key then must be retraining the workforce so people can do them.” 可知作者認為在AI時代仍然會有工作,關(guān)鍵必須是對勞動力進行再培訓(xùn),這樣人們才能從事這些工作。 Countries are removing cash at varying speeds. In Sweden the number of retail cash transaction per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years. America is perhaps a decade behind. Outside the rich world, cash is still king. But even there its leading role is being challenged. In China digital payments rose from 4% of all payments in 2012 to 34% in 2017.dematerialize moneyB.the differences between developed and developing countriesB.. A.financial firms want to abandon oldfashioned customers（4）The author39。negativeindifferent【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，富裕國家正在減少現(xiàn)金支付,現(xiàn)金正在因為需求等原因消失。結(jié)合上下文,可知某些富裕國家比如瑞典正在減少現(xiàn)金支付,推廣不用紙幣或硬幣的支付方式,也就是電子支付方式。瑞典和中國的共同點是現(xiàn)金支付減少,電子支付比例上升,由此可推斷作者提到瑞典和中國是為了說明數(shù)字支付正成為一種不可阻擋的趨勢。運行現(xiàn)金經(jīng)濟背后的基礎(chǔ)架構(gòu)需要付出高昂的成本,這些基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施包括自動取款機,載有紙幣的貨車,接受硬幣的出納員。 （4）考查推理判斷。 we are numb(麻木的）to new stimulation(刺激), new ideas. Relearning the art of seeing the world around us is quite simple, although it takes practice and requires breaking some bad habits.d felt cold water at first.d seen. Oh, a few birds, they said. They seemed bent on their destinations.. A.likely to develop unpleasant habitsD.s advice.D.question the accuracy of the field guides（4）Why do the hikers take no notice of the surroundings during the journey? A.The forest in the dark is dangerous for them.D.open our mind to new things and ideasD.根據(jù)第二段中的”Most of us observed much more as children than we do as adults. A child39。 （2）考查推理判斷。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第五段中的”I encountered many hikers who were headed to a distant campground with just enough time to get there before dark. It seldom occurred to them to wander a bit, to take a moment to see what39。作者想要通過此文要告訴我們：大自然只展現(xiàn)給那些善于觀察和等待的人,帶著我們所有的感官來感受周圍世界的奇妙吧。 He was upset that the college is too far from the author39。s generation.（2）What was the author39。Optimistic.C.Though the world was full of terrible things, it would get better.C.Never worry about your futureTomorrow will be better than todayC.根據(jù)第一段中的“a world he fears has a dark and difficult future if it has a future at all．”他害怕世界有一個黑暗而艱難的未來如果它有一個未來的話，可知在最近的一個晚上，作者的父親心煩意亂是因為擔心作者這一代人的未來，故選D 。根據(jù)第三段中的“ I believe tomorrow will be better than today that the world my generation grows into is going Lo get better， not worse． Those pictures helped me understand why．”我相信明天會比今天更好﹣﹣我這一代人成長的世界會變得更好，而不是更糟。作者聽到父母談話，到看到照片感悟?qū)頃?，可知文本最好標題為B項，故選B。 The standard route into these jobs has been a PhD in puter science from one of America39。 That is changing.s course can be pleted in just seven weeks.B