【正文】 t solve the problem of this labor shortage with automation, the industry is facing a big challenge ahead. The price of fruit is going to be much higher, Jose Santos, the leader of the farm, says.s remembering where all these plants are. It knows all this, thanks to the superaccurate GPS. Its puter brain contains a map showing the locations of every strawberry plant in the field. The action of machinery is truly impressive, but the baskets are still practically empty. Pitzer says the robots are able to find and pick more than 50 percent of ripe berries. That39。t seem to figure it out. Pizter says the hardest thing for them is finding the fruit. Pizter39。 （2）考查推理判斷。s growth.C.Take charge of your life independently.（4）What is the author39。Having a happy life ever after.（2）What can we know from Paragraph 2? A.t some reward that you get at the end of your journey. Happiness isn39。根據(jù)第七段中的The thing I learnt from his passing, at the age of 28, is a love of life.可知，父親的離世讓作者認(rèn)識(shí)到了自己生命中的愛，故選A。s life. Father39。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查閱讀理解。通過第三段最后一句Typically, the original message has ，信息原始的意思已經(jīng)改變了。Passive learning is not found among scholars.【答案】 （1）C（2）D（3）A（4）B 【解析】【分析】短文大意：本文主要主要介紹了被動(dòng)獲得知識(shí)所存在的一個(gè)嚴(yán)重的問題——被告知的可能是謠言。B.Active learning is less important.Doing scientific reasoning（2）What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 2 refers to? A.Visiting an exhibition可推知，作者聽到女兒的話語覺得“不適”，故選B。A world of children【答案】 （1）D（2）B（3）D（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者通過和女兒相處的一件小事，有感而發(fā)，覺得童年只有一個(gè)，從而要讓女兒過一個(gè)快樂的童年。t hate her mother any more.B.MovedB.The girl39。 But now my attitude has changed because in my heart I realize that I39。t you know what I mean?ll never forget the words she said, even though it was imagined.全文圍繞兩個(gè)關(guān)鍵詞couch(指在陌生當(dāng)?shù)丶彝セ谛湃喂餐钜粌商?和 travel 展開,故選A。 （1）考查詞義猜測。A Free Travel in FinlandC.To learn more about others39。To take an adventure with strangers.根據(jù)文章第一段和下面的小標(biāo)題可知，文章是在告訴我們?cè)鯓咏慌笥押桶l(fā)展友誼，故選C。quarrel with your friends（3）The passage mainly tells us ______________. A.everyone needs a friend in his life（2）To make and keep many friends, you need to do the following EXCEPT ___________. A. We all long for friendship, but how to make a friend? The best time to make a friend is before you need one. Joy Steven said. The following are some tips for you.根據(jù)第四段中的“A college education requires sufficient time for a student to bee skilled in their major and do coursework in fields outside their major.”大學(xué)教育要求學(xué)生有足夠的時(shí)間掌握專業(yè)技能，并在專業(yè)以外的領(lǐng)域?qū)W習(xí)課程；以及“It is not a good idea to water down education, any more than it39。 （2）考查推理判斷。In my opinion, a quality fouryear education is always superior to a quality threeyear education. A college education requires sufficient time for a student to bee skilled in their major and do coursework in fields outside their major. It is not a good idea to water down education, any more than it39。One costcutting proposal is to allow college students to get a bachelor39。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇介紹類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。s own life.【答案】 （1）A（2）D（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇應(yīng)用文，推薦了幾本適合在旅行途中閱讀的書。D.Jack Kerouac39。The Stories of Sahara.B.s stories, each with their unique characteristics. It reveals modern people39。s simple but adventurous life in the Sahara Desert, which seems a desolate and dull place. The fancy natural scenery and life there, along with the author39。s romantic but miserable life, about how he reads, dreams, and has a relationship. Experience the artist39。C.The stories of Sahara records its authors39。s passionate life in the book during a trip to Central Europe”可知，Germany（德國）是屬于Central Europe（中歐）的，故選D。re hungry, we eat at home instead of going out. We take buses instead of taxis. And we wear our old designer jeans just a few months longer. With college expenses at alltime highs, high school students are eager to do anything to cut the cost of a university education.I doubt that mainstream North American colleges will carry out a threeyear curriculum any time soon. For one thing, most universities already allow highly qualified students to graduate early by testing out of certain classes and obtaining a number of college credits. In addition, at famous universities, the mittee who determine which courses are required and which courses are electives are unlikely to suddenly throw out one quarter of the required credits. Professors will resist diluting (稀釋) the quality of the education they offer.根據(jù)第二段中的“Few US universities have formally approved a ‘threeyear degree’ model.”很少有美國大學(xué)正式批準(zhǔn)“三年學(xué)位”模式；以及最后一段中的“In my opinion, a quality fouryear education is always superior to a quality threeyear education.”在我看來，優(yōu)質(zhì)的四年教育總是優(yōu)于優(yōu)質(zhì)的三年教育?？芍?，特別優(yōu)秀的大學(xué)生可以提前畢業(yè)。3．閱讀理解 Friends understand each other when talking. Many unpleasant personal quarrels can be avoided if you will take the time to understand others39。 （2）細(xì)節(jié)理解題。s this: Most people are good and generous. Where will couch surfing take me next? Who knows? But I can39。B.Interested.He was reserved like most Finns.根據(jù)第四段中的What urged these people to open their homes to strangers? I concluded that there was a desire to lend a hand to likeminded folks who might enrich their own lives. 可知,人們像陌生人提供沙發(fā)沖浪服務(wù)是為了充實(shí)自己的生活,故選D。s not been very good. She didn39。t know how to fold towels. I don39。d been caught up in responsibilities that increased throughout the years.D.Only one childhoodB.故選D。作者通過和女兒相處的一件小事，有感而發(fā)，覺得童年只有一個(gè)，從而要讓女兒過一個(gè)快樂的童年，故選A。 We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. We are used to passive learning, and it39。 That39。CommunicationTo show that a message should be delivered in different ways.C.根據(jù)it 所在句We are us