【正文】 tribal alphabet, as well as a basic list of the words included. With the Tlingit Language Games app, users are given a choice of different places of environments, like a house, forest or ocean.（1）What is the problem the native Americans are facing now? number of native Americans has been increasing. and fewer native Americans speak their own language. native language has been extinct.39。s hard to increase the interest of hearing native languages.（2）What will be the result if more and more native Americans only speak English? will get better jobs and higher pay. will teach their own children to speak English. will lose their history and culture. will get along well with the government.（3）What can we know about Tlingit? can help the native people know some language topics. can help the: native people earn money and buy a. house or nice things is a very popular app among the native speakers is a native language spoken by fewer than 200 people.（4）What is the main idea of the passage? Indian tribes39。 efforts to increase native speakers. for the disappearance of some American Indian languages. to help the native tribes lead a traditional life. popularity of the language learning apps.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）D（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，美國(guó)的印第安人正在使用新的方法來(lái)增加本族語(yǔ)言的使用，否則，他們的本族語(yǔ)言將面臨嚴(yán)重的危機(jī)。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“Yet the number of native. Americans with the ability to speak their tribe39。s language has decreased over the past century. ”但是能說(shuō)他們本族語(yǔ)言的本地美國(guó)人的數(shù)量在過(guò)去的一個(gè)世紀(jì)中已將減少。可知，會(huì)說(shuō)本族語(yǔ)的美國(guó)土著的人數(shù)在過(guò)去的一個(gè)多世紀(jì)中已經(jīng)減少了，故選B。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第六段中的“However, fearing a loss of history and culture, the Indian Nations are experimenting with new ways to increase the language ability of tribal members.”然而，害怕失去自己的歷史和文化，許多印第安部落嘗試新的方法來(lái)提升族人的本族語(yǔ)使用能力?？芍?，如果越來(lái)越多的族人只說(shuō)英語(yǔ)，他們將會(huì)失去自己的歷史和文化。故選C。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第九段中的“The Tlingit tribe has about 10, 000 members. They live mainly in southeastern Alaska. But as of 2013, the tribe had only 125 native speakers left.”特林吉特部落有大約一萬(wàn)人。他們主要居住在阿拉斯加?xùn)|南部。但是就2013年的統(tǒng)計(jì)，這個(gè)部落只有125人可以說(shuō)自己民族的語(yǔ)言，可知，現(xiàn)在僅僅有不到兩百人可以說(shuō)這種語(yǔ)言了，故選D。 （4）考查主旨大意。本文前六段描述了美國(guó)印第安人在民族語(yǔ)言方面面臨的處境以及這一處境引起的擔(dān)憂，最后四段提出了針對(duì)這一問(wèn)題的解決方案：美國(guó)的印第安人正在使用新的方法（app）來(lái)增加本族語(yǔ)使用人數(shù)。選項(xiàng)A中efforts能凸顯人們這一問(wèn)題的擔(dān)心及在努力尋求解決方案方面所做的努力。故選A。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和主旨大意兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇文化類(lèi)閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，同時(shí)根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 Robots have taken over many of America39。s factories. But can they pick a strawberry? It39。s really hard for robots to match what humans can do, says Bob Pizter, an expert on robots. Any 4yearold kid can pick a strawberry, but machines can39。t seem to figure it out. Pizter says the hardest thing for them is finding the fruit. Pizter39。s strawberrypicking robot is rolling into a strawberry field. This welldesigned device drives itself. It39。s as big as a bus, long enough to straddle (跨越) a dozen rows of strawberries at once. Powerful puters are sitting on top. Underneath, there are highdefinition cameras to find the berries, and robotic claws ready to pick them. Nobody39。s telling it what to do, explains Paul Bissett, the chief operating officer of Harvest CROO Robotics. It39。s remembering its path down the row. It39。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。s not yet up to human standards. A typical worker, he says, manages to pick anywhere from 60 to 90 percent of the berries. Also, he admits, the machine is slower than human hands. On the other hand, it has some advantages. It can work right through the night. Two years later, he says, this machine will be in the fields working for real. There are weaknesses to work out, but it39。s getting there. We39。re close. he says. Strawberry panies are putting millions of dollars into this project. The reason, Gary Wishnatzki, the owner of Wish Farms says, is that it39。s getting more and more difficult to find enough people to pick his berries. The fact of the matter is, if we don39。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. Jose is pretty convinced, though, that picking strawberries will always require people. The machines will break down, he points out. In fact, he39。s looking on the bright side. You could afford to give people a day off if you have machines behind you,” he says.（1）According to the passage, the strawberrypicking robot __________. work extra hours on GPS only to find berries on petrol just like a bus both ripe and unripe berries（2）What do people mentioned in the passage think of the strawberrypicking robot? will lead to the price of strawberries rising. keeps human workers working through night. is not very efficient at the moment but promising. will pletely take the place of human workers.（3）We know from the article that __________. have been widely used in farming seems hard for robots to exactly locate strawberries now can surely perform any work better than human workers the help of robots, strawberry panies have already earned much（4）What does the passage mainly talk about? working principle of strawberrypicking robots.39。 expectations for strawberrypicking robots. present state of strawberrypicking robots. differences between humans and strawberrypicking robots.【答案】 （1）A（2）C（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，介紹了摘草莓機(jī)器人的目前的優(yōu)點(diǎn)和缺點(diǎn)：效率不高，但可以長(zhǎng)時(shí)間工作，其缺點(diǎn)也可以改進(jìn)。未來(lái)需求大，前景廣闊。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的“It can work right through the night.”可知，機(jī)器人可以整夜工作。故選A。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Pitzer says the robots are able to find and pick more than 50 percent of ripe berries. That39。s not yet up to human standards. A typical worker, he says, manages to pick anywhere from 60 to 90 percent of the berries. Also, he admits, the machine is slower than human hands.”可知，摘草莓的機(jī)器人比人手慢，沒(méi)有達(dá)到人類(lèi)采摘草莓的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。由此可以推知，它效率不高；以及“On the other hand, it has some advantages. It can work right through the night. Two years later, he says, this machine will be in the fields working for real