【正文】 researchers received a $ 3milliondollar award from the National Science Foundation for a special project. They want to find ways to add artificial intelligence, or ., to Hasbro39。s “Joy for All” robotic The cat has already been for sale for two years. Though priced over 1000 dollars, it sold quite well. It was meant to act as a “panion” for older people. Now the project is aimed at developing additional abilities for the cat. Researchers at Brown39。s HumanityCentered Robotics Initiative are working to decide which activities older adults may need the most. They hope to make the cat perform a small number of activities very well. Such activities include finding lost objects and reminding the person to take medicine or visit their doctor. They also want to keep the cost down to just a few hundred dollars. It is an idea that has appealed to Jeanne Elliott. Her 93yearold mother Mary Derr lives with her in South Kingstown. Derr has dementia (癡呆). The Joy for All cat that Elliott bought this year has bee a true panion for Derr. The cat stays with Derr and keeps her calm while Elliott is at work. Elliott said a robotic cat that helps her mother to remember to take her medicine and be careful when she walks would be greater. The researchers are trying to learn how the improved cats will plete helpful activities and how they will municate. They say that they do not want a talking cat, however. Instead they are trying to design a cat that can move its head in a special way to successfully municate its message. In the end, they hope to create an exchange between the human and the cat in which the human feels the cat needs them. By doing so, the researchers hope they can even help prevent feelings of loneliness and sadness among elderly people. （1）What39。s the purpose of the project? A.To relieve the pain of the elderly.B.To promote the sales of a medicine.C.To invent a robotic cat for the elderly.D.To help make the robotic cat smarter.（2）Compared with the old model, the new robotic cat will be A.smallerB.cheaperC.more talkativeD.more expensive（3）What does Paragraph 3 intend to tell us? A.The cat gives much help to the elderly.B.The more functions of the cat, the better.C.There is no cure for dementia at present.D.Mary Derr would have died without the cat.（4）What can we infer from the last paragraph? A.A talking cat is quite popular among the elderly.B.Feelings of sadness among the elderly are unavoidable.C.Each family can afford such a cat in the future.D.The feeling of being needed is vital to the elderly.【答案】（1）D（2）B（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是說(shuō)明文，主要介紹新型的人工智能機(jī)器貓。機(jī)器貓會(huì)給老年人更多的幫助，同時(shí)機(jī)器貓也離不開(kāi)他們。被需要的感覺(jué)是至關(guān)重要的。他們甚至可以幫助防止老年人的孤獨(dú)和悲傷情緒。(1)目的意圖題。根據(jù)第一段第一句Imagine a cat that does not need someone to clean up after it keeps an older person pany and help them remember to take their 。故答案選D。(2)推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段最后一句They also want to keep the cost down to just a few hundred ，與舊模型相比新的機(jī)器貓更便宜。故答案選B。(3)段落大意題。根據(jù)第三段最后一句Elliott said a robotic cat that helps her mother to remember to take her medicine and be careful when she walks would be ，機(jī)器貓會(huì)給老年人更多的幫助。故答案選A。(4)推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段最后兩句In the end, they hope to create an exchange between the human and the cat in which the human feels the cat needs them. By doing so, the researchers hope they can even help prevent feelings of loneliness and sadness among elderly ，被需要的感覺(jué)是至關(guān)重要的。故答案選D?！军c(diǎn)評(píng)】推論性考察題一般包括事實(shí)推斷、指代推斷、邏輯推斷和對(duì)作者意圖與觀點(diǎn)的推斷。常見(jiàn)的提問(wèn)方式有：①The writer believes that ＿＿＿＿.②From this passage we can guess ＿＿＿＿.③The write suggests that ＿＿＿＿。除了一般的事實(shí)題可直接從文中找出答案外，其他諸如對(duì)條件變化、因果關(guān)系以及作者意圖等較為深層的邏輯推斷題，則必須要建立在對(duì)全文的理解基礎(chǔ)上，通過(guò)文章所提供的線索，加以綜合分析，才能做出正確的推斷。8．閱讀理解 It took me a moment to realize what had happened. Three days had passed and Rita seemed to get weaker and weaker. The rain had stopped. However, the sky was still cloudy, and it was so dark that I couldn39。t see the buildings even across the road. I took a pressure reading from the weather station: 947mb, which let me know exactly where I was—in the eye of the storm. There were rains and winds still, but not oppressive (難以忍受的)anymore. There was still no power, hot water or food. Besides, I didn39。t sleep well for all these days, but I felt more relaxed since the weather report said Rita was leaving. What39。s more, I was luckier than those people who had lost their homes or even worse, lost their lives because of Rita. As I travelled further to the west, going after the storm, the damage along the way became less severe. I arrived in Houston after a tricky journey with my fuel supplies almost all gone. However, I came across another storm chaser (追逐者) who had 45 gallons of petrol. He helped me and we shared our working experience these days. With a plete stroke of luck I found a rundown hotel that allowed me to have a room overnight before the midnight. Although there was no running water, no power and no air conditioning, I curled up into a corner and fell asleep quickly. I woke up the next morning, and what a change! The sky was blue and cars were moving around. Sirens could be heard as convoys (護(hù)航隊(duì)) of emergency managements started to head west towards where I had e from. The storm had stopped and I could go home. I gave all my remaining supplies to other people at the hotel and headed towards the airport. Houston Airport was not damaged, so I took my flight and drank my first hot drink in four days. All in all, when I came back home, I was proud that I finally made it again to follow and record the storm and I really learned a lot these days. Although it39。s dangerous, I love my job as not many people would go into the eye of an intense storm.（1）We can know from the passage that “Rita” is ________. A.a petB.a stormC.a friend of the authorD.a citizen in Houston（