【正文】 sland.C.People can admire fish off shore.D.People can charge phones using wireless connections（3）Where can Tom best go with his grandparents and parents? A.Los Cabos, Mexico.B.Petit St Vincent, the Grenadines.C.Costa Rica.D.The Exumas, Bahamas.【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇應(yīng)用文，介紹了冬天來臨之時，適合外出度假的一些地點。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“As winter set in, it39。s the perfect time to get out of town and escape the seasonal mood disorder.”隨著冬天的到來，這是走出小鎮(zhèn)，擺脫季節(jié)性情緒障礙的最佳時機。故選C。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)Petit St Vincent， the Grenadines部分中的“This private Caribbean island was spared the anger of hurricanes Irma and Maria．”這個私人的加勒比島幸免于颶風伊爾瑪和瑪麗亞，可知選A。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)The Exumas， Bahamas部分的 “Best of all， if you39。re planning a group getaway or multigenerational trip， you rent the entire island for a one﹣of﹣a﹣kind island escape．”最重要的是，如果你正在計劃一次集體出游或多代人旅行，你就可以租整個島，以獲得獨一無二的島嶼之旅，故選D。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個題型的考查，是一篇介紹類閱讀，考生需要準確捕捉細節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 Microsoft announced this week that its facialrecognition system is now more accurate in identifying people of color, touting (吹噓)its progress at tackling one of the technology39。s biggest biases (偏見). But critics, citing Microsoft39。s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, quickly seized on how that improved technology might be used. The agency contracts with Microsoft for cloudputing tools that the tech giant says is largely limited to office work but can also include face recognition. Columbia University professor Alondra Nelson tweeted, We must stop confusing 39。inclusion39。 in more 39。diverse39。 surveillance (監(jiān)管)systems with justice and equality. Facialrecognition systems more often misidentify people of color because of a longrunning data problem: The massive sets of facial images they train on skew heavily toward white men. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study this year of the facerecognition systems designed by Microsoft, IBM and the Chinabased Face++ found that facialrecognition systems consistently giving the wrong gender for famous women of color including Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama and Shirley Chisholm, the first black female member of Congress. The panies have responded in recent months by pouring many more photos into the mix, hoping to train the systems to better tell the differences among more than just white faces. IBM said Wednesday it used 1 million facial images, taken from the photosharing site Flickr, to build the world39。s largest facial dataset which it will release publicly for other panies to use. IBM and Microsoft say that allowed its systems to recognize gender and skin tone with much more precision. Microsoft said its improved system reduced the error rates for darkerskinned men and women by up to 20 times, and reduced error rates for all women by nine times. Those improvements were heralded(宣布)by some for taking aim at the prejudices in a rapidly spreading technology, including potentially reducing the kinds of false positives that could lead police officers misidentify a criminal suspect. But others suggested that the technology39。s increasing accuracy could also make it more marketable. The system should be accurate, but that39。s just the beginning, not the end, of their ethical obligation, said David Robinson, managing director of the think tank Upturn. At the center of that debate is Microsoft, whose multimilliondollar contracts with ICE came under fire amid the agency39。s separation of migrant parents and children at the Mexican border. In an open letter to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella urging the pany to cancel that contract, Microsoft workers pointed to a pany blog post in January that said Azure Government would help ICE accelerate recognition and identification. We believe that Microsoft must take an ethical stand, and put children and families above profits, the letter said. A Microsoft spokesman, pointing to a statement last week from Nadella, said the pany39。s current cloud engagement with ICE supports relatively anodyne(溫和的)office work such as mail, calendar, massaging and document management workloads. The pany said in a statement that its facialrecognition improvements are part of our going work to address the industrywide and societal issues on bias. Criticism of face recognition will probably expand as the technology finds its way into more arenas, including airports, stores and schools. The Orlando police department said this week that it would not renew its use of Amazon. 39。s Rekognition system. Companies have to acknowledge their moral involvement in the downstream use of their technology, Robinson said. The impulse is that they39。re going to put a product out there and wash their hands of the consequences. That39。s unacceptable.（1）What is one of the technology39。s biggest biases in Paragraph 1? A.Class bias.B.Regional difference.C.Professional prejudice.D.Racial discrimination.（2）What can we know about the improvement of facialrecognition technology? A.Justice and equality have been truly achieved.B.It is due to the expansion of the photo database.C.It has already solved all the social issues on biases.D.The separation of immigrant parents from their children can be avoided.（3）What is the focus of the facerecognition debate? A.Data problems.B.The market value.C.The application field.D.A moral issue.（4）What is David Robinson39。s attitude towards facialrecognition technology? A.Skeptical.B.Approval.16