【正文】 ot 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(jī)器創(chuàng)造幽默。對(duì)于機(jī)器人是否應(yīng)該被教授幽默，不同的科學(xué)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(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)家希望賦予機(jī)器人技術(shù)技能，幫助它們識(shí)別、處理和應(yīng)對(duì)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(jī)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?yàn)橛哪且环N創(chuàng)造性的語言，對(duì)計(jì)算機(jī)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(duì)于機(jī)器來說，識(shí)別和理解什么是有趣的是一個(gè)巨大的挑戰(zhàn)，可推斷，這兩個(gè)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(huì)讓它們?cè)诓贿m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(huì)開始?xì)⑷?，因?yàn)樗J(rèn)為有些東西很有趣”他補(bǔ)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(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)家希望給機(jī)器人技術(shù)技能，以幫助他們識(shí)別，處理和反應(yīng)幽默，可知，本文講述了教授機(jī)器人幽默，因此推斷這篇文章很可能選自科學(xué)雜志。故選C。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)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(jìn)行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 If you live in a place where most people speak the language you are learning, you may use the language for several hours each day. So it may bee part of your inner speech. In other words, you start thinking in that language. Your mind stops trying to translate things from your native language into the second language. But most of the English learners live in places where English is not the main language. This may be true for you. You may not have many chances to practice English. You may even be selftaught. Thinking in English really helps! It is not very difficult, but it does need practice. Here we will share some mental exercises. A good first step is to think in words. Look around you. What do you see? In your head, try to name each object in your surroundings. Charles Thomas has taught English for over 10 years. He tells his students to name the things that they see around them, wherever they are. Another exercise Thomas suggest is describing in your mind objects you don39。t know the words for. An example would be if you couldn39。t think of the word garage. Thomas says, If you39。re looking at your house and you see your garage, but you can39。t think of the name in English. You can say, 39。The place inside where I put my car39。 or you can say, 39。It39。s next to my house. I keep things there.39。 The next exercise is thinking in simple sentences. For example, if you are sitting in a park, you can tell yourself things like, It39。s such a beautiful day and People are playing sports with their friends. You can also describe your daily activities. Thomas asks his students to describe their day using the simple present verb form. So, they would think to themselves things like, I put on my shirt and He drives the bus. How much time should you spend on these exercises? Thomas says you do a little every day. When you make things a habit, then it just pops up into your mind without thinking and then, before you know it, really, you39。re thinking in English.（1）When a second language bees part of your inner speech, ________. people around you speak the language start thinking in the language translate things from your native language into it learn the language by yourself（2）The place inside where I put my car is an example for ________ objects in your surroundings in simple sentences objects you don39。t know the words for your daily activities（3）Which of the following is the best title for the passage? your time on exercises yourself a second language your brain to think in English English wherever you are【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了在語言環(huán)境中學(xué)習(xí)語言的重要性，并給出了具體的學(xué)習(xí)方法。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中“So it may bee part of your ‘inner speech.’ In other words, you start thinking in that language. ”可知，當(dāng)?shù)诙N語言成為你“內(nèi)在語言”的一部分時(shí)，你就會(huì)開始用這種語言思考。故選B。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Another exercise Thomas suggest is describing in your mind objects you don39。t know the words for. ”可知，此句是總述句，因此“The place inside where I put my car”“我停車的地方”是用來支撐總述句“托馬斯建議描述你的頭腦中一些你不知道的東西”的例子。故選C。 （3）考查主旨大意。縱觀全文全文可知，在一個(gè)大多數(shù)人都說你正在學(xué)習(xí)的語言的地方，你可以每天使用這種語言幾個(gè)小時(shí)，然而大多數(shù)人不具備這樣的條件，全文為這類人提供了具體的學(xué)習(xí)方法，目的要達(dá)到用這種語言進(jìn)行思考。故選C。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分