【正文】 和給客人拿食物。盡管如此，人類無(wú)法完全被取代。 （1）考查詞義猜測(cè)。根據(jù)第二段中的“The robots are part of a set of hightech tools that Alibaba says strongly cuts the hotel39。s cost of human labour and eliminates the need for guests to interact with other people.”機(jī)器人是一組高科技工具的一部分，阿里巴巴說(shuō)強(qiáng)烈削減酒店的人力勞動(dòng)成本和消除客人與他人互動(dòng)的需要?！庇纱送浦?jiǎng)澗€詞的意思是“消除”。故選A。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Formally opened to the public last month, the 290room FlyZoo is an incubator for technology Alibaba wants to sell to the hotel industry in the future and an opportunity to showcase its prowess in artificial intelligence. It is also an experiment that tests consumer fort levels with unmanned merce in China.”上個(gè)月正式向公眾開放，290間客房的FlyZoo孵化器技術(shù)阿里巴巴在未來(lái)想要賣給酒店業(yè)，并展示自己在人工智能上的實(shí)力。它也是一個(gè)測(cè)試在中國(guó)無(wú)人商務(wù)消費(fèi)者舒適程度的實(shí)驗(yàn)。由此可知，Alibaba建theFlyZoo是為了嘗試它的人工智能。故選C。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“At the hotel39。s restaurant, taller capsuleshaped robots deliver food that guests have ordered via the FlyZoo app while at a separate bar, a large robotic arm can mix more than 20 different types of cocktails.”可知，the FlyZoo的特色是“它的機(jī)器人可以混合雞尾酒也可以給客人拿食物。故選B。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“The hotel does employ humans, though Alibaba declined to detail how many.”可知，人類無(wú)法完全被取代。故選D。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測(cè)和推理判斷三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇科普類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，同時(shí)根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，從而選出正確答案。7．閱讀短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 Plants are boring. They just sit there photosynthesizing (光合作用) while animals have all the fun. Right? Not so much. A new study has found that there is a long history of interactions between ants and plants. The ant and plant coevolution (協(xié)同進(jìn)化) started with ants feeding on plants and plants evolving antfriendly features. Plants make a number of different structures that are specific for ant use. Some plants have evolved features that persuade ants into defending them from attack from other insects and even mаmmаl?. Тhе?е ?nсludе hollow thorns that аnt? will live ?n??dе, or ехtra nесtаr (瓊漿) оn lеаvе? or stems for the ants to eat. Some ants will just cheat and take the nectar and run, but some will stick around and attack anything that tries to hurt the plant. Other plants get ants to help them move their seeds around, by providing them with rich food packets attached to the seeds. The ant will pick up the seed and carry it away, eat the food packet, and leave the seed—often in a nutrientrich area where it39。ll grow better, and since it39。s farther away from its parent, they won39。t have to pete for resources. But scientists weren39。t sure how the evolutionary relationship between ants and plants got started. If evolution is an arms race between species developing ways to make use of their neighbors, then scientists wanted to know whether plants or ants fired the first shot. It was a chickenandegg question, whether things started with ants developing behaviors to take advantage of plants, or plants evolving structures to take advantage of ants. The history of ants and plants evolving together goes back to the time of the dinosaurs, and it39。s not easy to tell from fossils who fired the first shot. However, it is a question of little significance. Scientists say their study maters because it provides a look at how these widespread and plex interactions evolved.（1）Some plants attach food packets to their seeds in order to ________. A.reward the antsB.make a fool of antsC.provide nutrition for the seedsD.get the seeds moved around（2）What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us? A.How plants and ants interact.B.What ants do to protect plants.C.How plants and ants survive attacks.D.Why plants and ants need coevolution.（3）Which is true about the evolutionary relationship between ants and plants? A.Ants depended more upon plants.B.It caused a race for better evolution.C.How it got started was uncertain.D.It was of little value for future studies.（4）What39。s the author39。s purpose of writing the passage? A.To introduce a science research method.B.To inform readers of a latest research finding.C.To arouse readers39。 interest in science research.D.To criticize people39。s traditional views about plants.【答案】 （1）D（2）A（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，一項(xiàng)新的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，螞蟻和植物之間的互動(dòng)有著悠久的歷史。螞蟻和植物的共同進(jìn)化始于螞蟻以植物為食，植物進(jìn)化出對(duì)螞蟻友好的特征。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“Other plants get ants to help them move their seeds around, by providing them with rich food packets attached to the seeds.”其他植物讓螞蟻幫助它們移動(dòng)種子，方法是在種子上附加豐富的食物包。故選D。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“Plants make a number of different structures that are specific for ant use.”植物有許多不同的結(jié)構(gòu)，這些結(jié)構(gòu)是專門為螞蟻使用的；“Some ants will just cheat and take the nectar and run, but some will stick around and attack anything that tries to hurt the plant. Other plants get ants to help them move their seeds around, by providing them with rich food packets attached to the seeds.”可知，有些螞蟻會(huì)偷取花蜜逃跑，但有些會(huì)留下來(lái)攻擊任何試圖傷害植物的東西。其他植物讓螞蟻幫助它們移動(dòng)種子，方法是在種子上附加豐富的食物包。由此可知，第二段主要講了植物和螞蟻如何互動(dòng)，故選A。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“But scientists weren39。t sure how the evolutionary relationship between ants and plants got started.”但是科學(xué)家們并不確定螞蟻和植物之間的進(jìn)化關(guān)系是如何開始的。由此可知C選項(xiàng)描述正確，故選C。 （4）考查推理判斷。第一段中的“A new study has found that there is a long history of interactions between ants and plants.”一項(xiàng)新的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，螞蟻和植物之間的互動(dòng)有著悠久的歷史。是全文的主題句，由此推斷出，作者寫這篇文章的目的是告知讀者最新的研究結(jié)果，故選B。 【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，是一篇科研類閱讀，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。8．閱讀短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 Your next Saturday night takeaway could be brought to you by a robot after a major food delivery pany announced plans to use automated vehicles to transport meals. Europe39。s biggest online takeaway food pany Just Eat has partnered with Starship Technologies to deliver food with robots on the streets of London later this month. Nobody has ever done deliveries with landbased robots, said Allan Martinson, the chief operating officer of Starship. The robot courier can travel up to 4 miles per hour for about 10 miles. It uses a GPS signal and nine cameras to navigate (確定方向). Instead of a person arriving at their door, customers could find themselves receiving a notification on their phone that says a robot is on its way and a code to unlock the automated courier. Put the code in, the robot opens up, and there39。s your food, said David Buttress, chief manager of Just Eat. The robot, which has so far been tested in Greenwich, Milton Keynes and Glastonbury, costs 163。 1 to transport within 3 miles, pared with the 163。3 to 163。6 it costs for a human courier. To date 30 robots have driven nearly 5,000 miles without getting into an accident or findin