【正文】 evaluated as a slow learner in school).Every ten days or so, for weeks after the interview, David walked into the bicycle shop and stood by the front door. He never said a word, just stood by the door. One day, shortly before Christmas, a large truck came to the shop, packed with 250 new bicycles. It had to be unloaded right away or the driver would leave. It was raining. Some of my workers (without physical limitations) chose not to brave the weather to get into work, so I was shorthanded. It seemed everything was going wrong and on top of it, David came in the front door and just stood there. I looked at him and shouted,“Well, all right! Fill out a time card and help me unload this truck!” David worked for my bicycle shop for eighteen years. He came to work every day thirty minutes early. He could talk。 however, he rarely chose to. He drove my truck and made deliveries. The customers would praise David, saying,“He doesn39。t talk, but he really shows you how to operate a lawn mower!”（1）The author gave David an interview to . A.find a person who is reliableB.give him some practiceC.find a parttime worker in needD.show sympathy for him（2）The author finally hired David because . A.he needed someone who was willing to work thenB.there were no other workers in the shop thenC.David kept showing upD.he realized David was dependable（3）We can infer from the last paragraph that . A.some customers just play jokes on DavidB.David has had his character changed through workC.the author feels lucky to hire DavidD.the author prefers David to be more outgoing【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，David是作者的一位雇員,雖然他不善言辭,但勤懇踏實的工作態(tài)度贏得了顧客的贊美。他也讓作者明白:作者的伙伴們和作者一樣都不完美,但卻很優(yōu)秀。在跟他們一起工作的日子里,作者學會了寬恕、理解和耐心。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二中的“He requested that I give David an interview just for practice.”可知,他要求作者給David進行一次面試,僅僅只是為了練習。故選B。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段可知,當裝滿250輛新自行車的大卡車冒雨到達時,一些工人不愿在這樣的天氣情況下工作,因此人手短缺。這時作者正好看到David進來,于是叫他過來幫忙。結(jié)合最后一段可知,David從此開始在這里工作了。故選A。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段可知，David在作者的店里勤勤懇懇工作了十八年,還受到了顧客的贊揚。由此可推知,作者感覺很幸運能有這樣的員工。故選C。 【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，是一篇人生感悟類閱讀，考生需要準確掌握細節(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 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(yīng)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(shù)技能，幫助它們識別、處理和應(yīng)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 funny,39。 he added.“教人工智能系統(tǒng)幽默可能會讓它們在不適合的地方找到幽默，也可能在不適合的地方使用它”，他說?！耙苍S壞的人工智能會開始殺人，因為它認為有些東西很有趣”他補充說道，可推斷出，教授人工智能系統(tǒng)幽默可能是一把雙刃劍。故選B。 （4）考查推理判題。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 h