【正文】 0。. A.younger consumers are short of money to live their digital livesB.suppliers are trying to reduce costs and obtain money and dataC.the infrastructure is developing at a high speed in developed marketsD.financial firms want to abandon oldfashioned customers（4）The author39。s attitude towards digitalized payment is . A.favorableB.negativeC.objectiveD.indifferent【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，富裕國(guó)家正在減少現(xiàn)金支付,現(xiàn)金正在因?yàn)樾枨蟮仍蛳??？偟膩?lái)說(shuō),無(wú)現(xiàn)金經(jīng)濟(jì)的未來(lái)是個(gè)好消息,但是對(duì)于電子支付人們也有一些擔(dān)憂。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“Rich countries are racing to dematerialise payments.”可知, 富裕國(guó)家正競(jìng)相將支付非物質(zhì)化；再根據(jù)第三段中的“In Sweden the number of retail cash transaction per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years.”在過(guò)去的十年中,瑞典的人均零售現(xiàn)金交易數(shù)量下降了80％。結(jié)合上下文,可知某些富裕國(guó)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。故選D。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“In Sweden the number of retail cash transaction per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years.”可知在過(guò)去的十年中,瑞典的人均零售現(xiàn)金交易數(shù)量下降了80％；再根據(jù)“In China digital payments rose from 4% of all payments in 2012 to 34% in 2017.”可知在中國(guó),數(shù)字支付從2012年占所有支付的4％上升到2017年的34％。瑞典和中國(guó)的共同點(diǎn)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(guó)是為了說(shuō)明數(shù)字支付正成為一種不可阻擋的趨勢(shì)。故選C。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第四段中的 “But equally important is that suppliers such as banks and tech firms (in developed markets)... Most financial firms are keen to abandon it, or discourage oldfashioned customers with heavy fees.”可知現(xiàn)金消失的一個(gè)重要原因就是諸如銀行和科技公司（在發(fā)達(dá)市場(chǎng)）和電信公司（在新興市場(chǎng)）之類的供應(yīng)商正在開(kāi)發(fā)快速,易于使用的支付技術(shù),他們可以從中提取數(shù)據(jù)和小費(fèi)。運(yùn)行現(xiàn)金經(jīng)濟(jì)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(dòng)取款機(jī),載有紙幣的貨車,接受硬幣的出納員。大多數(shù)金融公司都渴望放棄它,或者以高昂的費(fèi)用勸阻老式客戶。也就是供應(yīng)商為了減少成本,獲取數(shù)據(jù)和小費(fèi),開(kāi)發(fā)了更便捷的支付方式,導(dǎo)致現(xiàn)金支付的減少。故選B。 （4）考查推理判斷。縱觀全文可知，,作者提到無(wú)現(xiàn)金支付即電子支付的好處,也提到電子支付引起的擔(dān)憂,對(duì)待電子支付是客觀的,故選C。 【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，是一篇科技類閱讀，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。7．閱讀理解 Learning, Fast and Deep Over the past five years researchers in artificial intelligence have bee the rock stars of the technology world. A branch of AI known as deep learning, which uses neural(神經(jīng)的) networks to scan through large volumes of data looking for patterns, has proven so useful that skilled practitioners can mand high sixfigure salaries to build software for Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. The standard route into these jobs has been a PhD in puter science from one of America39。s top universities. Earning one takes years and requires a personality suited to academia, which is rare among more normal folk. That is changing. Last month , a nonprofit 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(shuō)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(yíng)利性教育機(jī)構(gòu)致力于讓深度學(xué)習(xí)變得簡(jiǎn)單。 （1）考查細(xì)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(gè)分支、運(yùn)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(kāi)出六位數(shù)高薪，聘請(qǐng)熟練的專業(yè)人員編寫軟件。這說(shuō)明深度學(xué)習(xí)能幫助編寫軟件，故選D。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的”Last month fast. ai, a nonprofit education organization based in San Francisc