【正文】 rofit education organization based in San Francisco, kicked off the third year of its course in deep learning. Since its foundation it has attracted more than 100, 000 students around the globe from India to Nigeria. The course and others like it, e with a simple idea: there is no need to spend years obtaining a PhD in order to practise deep learning. Creating software that learns can be taught as a craft, not as a high intellectual pursuit to be undertaken only in an ivory tower. Fast. ai39。s course can be pleted in just seven weeks. To make it accessible to anyone who wants to learn how to build AI software is the aim of Jeremy Howard, who founded with Rachel Thomas, a mathematician. He says school mathematics is sufficient. No. Greek. Letters, Mr. Howard intones, pounding the table with his fist for punctuation. Some experts worry that this will serve only to create a flood of unreliable AI systems which will be useless at best and dangerous at worst. In the earliest days of the Internet, only a select few nerds, namely puter holies with specific skills, could build applications. Not many people used them. Then the invention of the World Wide Web led to an explosion of web pages, both good and bad. But it was only by opening up to all that the Internet gave birth to online shopping, instant global munications and search. If Mr. Howard and others have their way, making the development of AI software easier will bring forth a new crop of fruit of a different kind.（1）What can we learn about deep learning? A.It replaces artificial intelligence.B.It attracts rock stars to practice.C.It scans patterns for large panies.D.It helps technicians to create software.（2）Fast. ai is an organization that . A.ensures one to obtain a PhDB.teaches craft in ivory towerC.offers a course in deep learningD.requires weeks to apply（3）The underlined words No. Greek. Lettersin Paragraph 5 means doing course is . A.easyB.difficultC.interestingD.boring（4）It can be inferred from the last paragraph that . A.it is quite reliable for anyone to grasp artificial intelligenceB.the Internet has brought forth a flood of useless AI systemsC.opening up to all leads to instant global search and online shoppingD.simplifying software development may result in unexpected outes【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，人工智能的深度學(xué)習(xí)被證明很有用，霍華德和數(shù)學(xué)家托馬斯一起創(chuàng)辦的非營利性教育機構(gòu)致力于讓深度學(xué)習(xí)變得簡單。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的”A branch of AI known as deep learning, which uses neural networks to scan through large volumes of data looking for patterns…build software for Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.“可知AI技術(shù)的一個分支、運用神經(jīng)網(wǎng)絡(luò)處理大量數(shù)據(jù)并從中尋找模式的深度學(xué)習(xí)被證明非常有用，亞馬遜、蘋果、Facebook和谷歌愿意開出六位數(shù)高薪，聘請熟練的專業(yè)人員編寫軟件。這說明深度學(xué)習(xí)能幫助編寫軟件，故選D。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的”Last month fast. ai, a nonprofit education organization based in San Francisco, kicked off the third year of its course in deep learning.“可知。上月，位于舊金山的非營利性教育機構(gòu) 進入了它開辦深度學(xué)習(xí)課程的第三年。也就是說fast. ai是一個提供深度學(xué)習(xí)課程的組織，故選C。 （3）考查句義猜測。根據(jù)五段中的”To make it accessible to anyone who wants to learn …He says school mathematics is sufficient.“可知讓深度學(xué)習(xí)不再神秘是杰里米霍華德的目標，為此，他和數(shù)學(xué)家雷切爾，讓任何想學(xué)習(xí)編寫AI軟件的人都能學(xué)習(xí)這門技術(shù)?；羧A德說有中學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)知識就足夠了。，僅需要中學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)知識。因此霍華德說No. Greek. Letters”沒有，希臘，字母“是想說fast, ai的深度學(xué)習(xí)課程很簡單。故選A。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的”If Mr Howard and others have their way, making the development of AI software easier will bring forth a new crop of fruit of a different kind. “如果霍華德和其他人如愿以償，那么讓AI軟件開發(fā)變得更容易將會催生出一批新的不同的果實。由此推斷簡化軟件開發(fā)可能會導(dǎo)致意料之外的結(jié)果。故選D。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，句義猜測和推理判斷三個題型的考查，是一篇科研類閱讀，要求考生準確掌握細節(jié)信息，同時根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。7．閱讀理解 Some things should just be mon knowledge by now. The Earth isn39。t flat. Nope, your hair and nails don39。t grow after you die. The holes at the top of Bic biro pens are there so that, if you swallow one accidentally, you can still breathe and won39。t choke to death. It39。s debatable whether that last one there is mon knowledge or not. A quick Google search of the fact, rewritten as a question, shows articles addressing this point going back several years, with the latest (re)appearing just this week over on ScienceAlert. We suppose it39。s one of those things that e up from time to time, like what would happen if you attack Yellowstone with a nuclear weapon (not much, as it turns out). If you jump over to Bic39。s website, under their FAQs (frequently asked questions), it quite clearly states: The reason that some BIC174。 pens have a hole in their cap is to prevent the cap from pletely obstructing the airway if accidentally breathed in. This is requested by the international safety standards ISO11540, except for in cases where the cap is considered too large to be a choking risk. That39。s rather lovely of them. In appreciation of their want to not kill off their more clumsy customers, we thought we39。d share a few more random facts about Bic that are probably going to e up in a pub quiz one day. Did you know, for example, that each Bic ballpoint pen can produce at least 2 kilometers ( miles) of ink before it begins to run out? In fact, in 2018, 7,250 kilometers (4,505 miles) of writing tests on such pens were carried out on ballpoint pens, gel pens(中性筆), and rollers to make sure they worked to the highest standard. The best part of the Bic site, however, is this rather curious fact: 100 percent of pen balls are made through a highlycontrolled process. As opposed to a highly uncontrolled process, involving explosions and bouncy castles and total chaos, we suppose.（1）Why does the author mention the case of Yellowstone? A.To list the facts.