【正文】 是敵人的語言被禁止了，故選C。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的”Takamizawa said her grandchildren helped persuade her that she was not too old to learn. ‘When I talked to my grandchildren about my wish, they said, ‘It39。s not too late. We will teach you one word a day39。 ”.可知她的孫輩說服并且?guī)椭龑W習英語，因此推斷她從家人那里得到很大的支持。故選A。 （3）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第四段中的“Japan ranks 49th among countries where English is not the first language.” 在英語不是第一語言的國家中，日本排名第49位?？芍癟his situation”指的是在日本人的英語水平相對較低，故選B。 （4）考查主旨大意。文章主要介紹了日本91歲的奶奶Takamizawa在孫輩的鼓勵和幫助下學習英語，從她身上體現(xiàn)了“活到老，學到老”的精神，故選B。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和主旨大意三個題型的考查，是一篇故事類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。7．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(shù)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 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。“也許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 humor.”計算機科學家希望給機器人技術(shù)技能，以幫助他們識別，處理和反應幽默，可知，本文講述了教授機器人幽默，因此推斷這篇文章很可能選自科學雜志。故選C。 【點評】本題考點涉及推理判斷題型的考查，是一篇科技類閱讀，考生需要根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 The arts, especially music, should be part of every school39。s lessons at every grade level. Students would be much smarter if they had some musical experience. They could improve their classroom skills, like paying attention and following directions. People develop all these skills when they learn music. Making music also lets children use their imagination. It provides students with a chance to try out their own ideas. Music not only makes children better students, but also gives them something positive to do. In a music program, children can be part of a band instead of joining a gang(團伙). Parents can enjoy listening to their children39。s music instead of seeing them gluedto a puter or TV screen. In a school band, students get to be part of a team. They can get along well with old friends and make new friends through music. Music builds self－confidence, too. It gives children a sense of achievement and success. Making music is something for them to be proud of, and it lets kids practice performing in front of an audience. Music gives children an opportunity for self－expression, and that helps develop their self－confidence. Once again, music is important because it can make children better students, give them something positive to do, and build their character. That is why music should be offered in every single grade in every school.（1）According to the passage, music could make students smarter by ________. their classroom skills and attention their classroom skills and imagination their attention, d