【正文】 he general public to suffer from allergies (過敏) or depression (抑郁), and they are almost six times more likely to struggle with anxiety. These are just some of the physical and emotional problems that gifted children in particular may face. Noticing those children is important, but many of them are being missed. To find out gifted children, you actually have to look for them in all places. The benefits can be huge when those lost Einsteins are found. A study has been observing 5,000 gifted people since 1972. All of the children had test scores high enough to get into university when they were just 13. In adulthood, the first 1,650 people went on to publish 85 books, more than 7,500 articles. Onethird of the group earned a doctor39。s degree that is 17 times the national average. The founder of Google and Lady Gaga were discovered as gifted children. The child geniuses who could change tomorrow39。s world are already out there. But will we notice them?（1）What do we know about William James Sidis? was only gifted in languages because he could speak 8 languages. was famous for collecting hundreds of street car models. was accepted at a top university at a young age. was a wellknown musician.（2）According to the passage, what do gifted children tend to do? all skills at five. themselves everything. a lot of time and energy into their interests. members of Mensa when they are 13 years old.（3）What can we infer from the passage ? the gifted children struggle with physical and emotional problems. national average, about 32 out of 1650 can earn a doctor39。s degree. of the 5,000 gifted people got into university at 13. was lost when he was young.（4）What can be a suitable title for the text? to notice a child genius. Lost child geniuses. famous child geniuses. difficulties child geniuses may face.【答案】 （1）C（2）C（3）B（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了天才少年的三個特點，但天才少年也比普通人更容易過敏或抑郁。發(fā)現(xiàn)這些天才少年也有著非常大的益處，他們能大量的產(chǎn)出學術文章，也有更多的人能獲得博士學位。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的“He was accepted at Harvard University at the age of 11.” William James Sidis在11歲的時候就被哈佛大學錄取了，故選C。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第四段中的“gifted children can be crazy about their interests”天才兒童對自己感興趣的內(nèi)容都非常瘋狂，故選C。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第八段中的“Onethird of the group earned a doctor39。s degree that is 17 times the national average.”1650名高智商人群中有1/3的人可以上大學，即550人，而相比全國人口而言上大學的人數(shù)是17倍，因此完整的公式應是1650247。3247。17≈32，故選B。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)第一段中的“How do you notice a child genius?”如何發(fā)現(xiàn)天才少年，接著介紹了三項天才少年的特點；以及最后一段中的“The child geniuses who could change tomorrow39。s world are already out there. But will we notice them?”能改變未來的天才少年已經(jīng)出現(xiàn)了，但我們能不能發(fā)現(xiàn)他們呢？由此可判斷文章采用了總分總結構，介紹了如何發(fā)現(xiàn)天才少年，故選A。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，考生需要準確捕捉細節(jié)信息，同時根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 Computer scientists have hoped to give robots technical skills to help them recognize, process and react to humor. But these attempts have mostly failed. AI experts say that in many cases, attempts to make robots understand humor end up producing funny results, but not in the way they were supposed to. Tristan Miller studied more than 10,000 puns in one research project. The pun is a kind of joke that uses a word with two meanings. For example, you could say, “Balloons do not like pop music. The word pop can be a way of saying popular music。 or can mean the sound a balloon makes when it explodes. But a robot might not get the joke. Tristan Miller says that is because humor is a kind of creative language that is extremely difficult for puter intelligence to understand. Allison Bishop is a puter scientist and she also performs standup edy. She explained that machines are trained to look for patterns. Comedy, on the other hand, relies on things that stay close to a pattern, but not pletely within it. To be funny, humor should also not be predictable, Bishop said. This is a great challenge for a machine to recognize and understand what is funny. Bishop says since robots have great difficulty understanding humor, she feels like it gives her better job safety as a edy performer. It even made her parents happy when her brother decided to bee a fulltime edy writer because it meant he wouldn39。t be replaced by a machine, she added. Despite the difficulties, Darmstadt University39。s Miller says there are good reasons to keep trying to teach humor to robots. It could make machines more relatable (敘述的), especially if they can learn to understand sarcasm (諷刺), he noted. Humans use sarcasm to say one thing but mean another. But Kiki Hempelmann thinks differently. Teaching AI systems humor may make them find it where it isn39。t, and they may use it where it39。s not suitable, he said. Maybe bad AI will start killing people because it thinks something is funny, he added.（1）What does the author most probably want to show in Paragraph 1? 39。 influence on the scientific development.39。 challenges of making sense of humor. scientists39。 devotion to technical skills. scientists39。 concern about AI39。s development.（2）What are examples mentioned in Paragraphs 2 and 3 intended to do? robots do poorly in funny work robots aren39。t as intelligent as humans language is plex and changeable language can39。t be taught in a set pattern（3）What can we infer about teaching AI system humor from the last paragraph? will make no difference. may be a doubleedged sword. may help improve humans39。 humor. will attract more puter scientists.（4）Where would the passage most probably e from? journal speech【答案】 （1）B（2）D（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，工程師很難讓機器創(chuàng)造幽默。對于機器人是否應該被教授幽默，不同的科學家有不同的見解。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段中的“Computer scientists have hoped to give robots technical skills to help them recognize, process and react to humor. But these attempts have mostly failed.”可知，計算機科學家希望賦予機器人技術技能，幫助它們識別、處理和應對幽默。但這些嘗試大多以失敗告終。通過第一段作者想要展示的是讓機器人理解幽默是有挑戰(zhàn)性的。故選B。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“Tristan Miller says that is because humor is a kind of creative language that is extremely difficult for puter intelligence to understand.”特里斯坦米勒說，這是因為幽默是一種創(chuàng)造性的語言，對計算機智能來說是非常難以理解的；第三段中的“This is a great challenge for a machine to recognize and understand what is funny.”對于機器來說，識別和理解什么是有趣的是一個巨大的挑戰(zhàn)，可推斷，這兩個例子是用來說明語言不能用固定的模式來教授的。故選D。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“‘Teaching AI systems humor may make them find it where it isn39。t, and they may use it where it39。s not suitable,39。 he said. ‘Maybe bad AI will start killing people because it thinks something is