【正文】 。C.Optimistic.D.Uncertain.（4）What can be a suitable title for the text? A.Elderly people leave the nursing home.B.Smart Home Tests first elderCare robot.C.RAS, the first robot to make home smart.D.Older adults have benefited from RAS.【答案】 （1）A（2）B（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，介紹了一款由美國(guó)華盛頓州立大學(xué)的科學(xué)家們研發(fā)的機(jī)器人，可以幫助那些癡呆或有身體缺陷的老年人在家里過(guò)上自立的生活。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)章第二段中的“ The Robot Activity Support System, or RAS, uses sensors （傳感器）equipped in a WSU smart home to determine where its residents are, what they are doing and when they need assistance with daily activities”可知機(jī)器人活動(dòng)支持系統(tǒng)（RAS）使用WSU智能家居中配備的傳感器（傳感器）來(lái)確定其居民在哪里，他們?cè)谧鍪裁匆约昂螘r(shí)需要日?；顒?dòng)的幫助，說(shuō)明傳感器起到了重大的作用，故選A。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“The next step in the research will be to test RAS39。 performance…”可知，這臺(tái)機(jī)器人的表現(xiàn)還要經(jīng)過(guò)進(jìn)一步的測(cè)，說(shuō)明正在測(cè)試階段，故選B。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“ While we are still in an early stage of development, our initial results with RAS have been promising”可知，Minor對(duì)這款機(jī)器人的未來(lái)發(fā)展充滿(mǎn)信心、非常樂(lè)觀，故選C。 （4）考查主旨大意?？v觀全文可知，本文介紹了一款由美國(guó)華盛頓州立大學(xué)的科學(xué)家們研發(fā)的機(jī)器人。再根據(jù)最后一段中的“The next step in the research will be to test RAS39。 performance ”可知，機(jī)器人目前還在華盛頓州立大學(xué)的智能屋里進(jìn)行測(cè)試，故選B。 【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，是一篇科技類(lèi)閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息，同時(shí)根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，概括歸納，從而選出正確答案。7．閱讀理解 It has been discovered that after the age of sixteen, the number of our brain cells begins to decrease at a speed of several million a year. They simply die off. In certain types of activity, the human brain is at its highest point in the early twenties, when it has collected enough information to be able to use the vast number of cells freely in the most effective way. Pure mathematics is one of the fields in which this happens, and we know that Albert Einstein made all his worldshaking discoveries between the age of about 20 and 25, and spent the rest of his life tidying them up and arranging them. But in certain other types of activity (of which being an author is perhaps one), experience is more important than sharpness of brain, and there one usually finds that a person reaches his or her peak much later in life. Besides sharpness of brain and experience, here is another thing that is very important, and that is wisdom. One can have a very quick, inventive brain and plenty of experience, but if one uses these foolishly, one harms both oneself and others. Wisdom does not always e with age ——there are plenty of foolish middleaged people about ——but the average person tends to learn wisdom as he gets older, usually by making painful of embarrassing mistakes. Leaning to be wise is basically learning what is not possible。 and what is possible but so difficult that it is not worth all the trouble one has to go through to get there. Mostly, it is learning about human nature。 how real people behave and react, as against how one would like them to behave and react. One can read and hear lot of idealistic stuff about how to make the world a better place, which would be found if it was based on an accurate observation of human nature, but which is basically a waste of time because it is not.（1）According to the writer, the great discoveries made by Albert Einstein were mainly a result in________. of hard work of the brain experience deep understanding of the nature（2）Some people achieve success much later in life because . work often requires much experience do not have a chance to show their talents have to learn lessons from failures fail to realize earlier the importance of hard work（3）The importance of wisdom lies in the fact that . helps to avoid various mistakes contributes to one39。s creativity encourages one to go forward in face of difficulty provides the right direction of efforts（4）The writer came to believe that . is always a waste of time to make plans about the future is human nature to make attempts on what looks impossible should always challenge the impossible to push the society forward has to use wisdom in deciding what is the best thing to do【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）D（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，介紹了人類(lèi)的大腦在20歲左右于巔峰，在以后的成就多數(shù)是因?yàn)樾枰S富的經(jīng)驗(yàn)。除了頭腦敏銳和經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富外，智慧也非常重要，因?yàn)橹腔蹫槿藗兲峁┝苏_的努力方向。人們要用智慧來(lái)決定做什么才是最好的。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第一段“It has been discovered that after the age of sixteen, the number of our brain cells begins to decrease at a speed of several million a year. They simply die off. In certain types of activity, the human brain is at its highest point in the early twenties, ... and we know that Albert Einstein made all his worldshaking discoveries between the age of about 20 and 25, and spent the rest of his life tidying them up and arranging them.” 人們發(fā)現(xiàn)，16歲以后，我們的腦細(xì)胞數(shù)量開(kāi)始以每年幾百萬(wàn)的速度減少。在某些類(lèi)型的活動(dòng)中，人類(lèi)的大腦在20歲早期處于巔峰狀態(tài),... 我們知道阿爾伯特愛(ài)因斯坦在20到25歲之間做出了所有震驚世界的發(fā)現(xiàn)。用余生來(lái)整理和安排這些發(fā)現(xiàn)。根據(jù)對(duì)愛(ài)因斯坦所的發(fā)現(xiàn)可知，他的偉大的發(fā)現(xiàn)是在2025歲之間，更是印證了人類(lèi)大腦在20年代初達(dá)到了巔峰，可推斷出，本段主要研究人類(lèi)大腦巔峰期，故選B。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段“But in certain other types of activity (of which being an author is perhaps one), experience is more important than sharpness of brain, and there one usually finds that a person reaches his or her peak much later in life.”但在某些其他類(lèi)型的活動(dòng)中(作家可能是其中一種)，經(jīng)驗(yàn)比頭腦的敏捷更重要，人們通常會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)一個(gè)人在他一生的晚期才達(dá)到頂峰。可推斷出有些人在晚年取得成功是因?yàn)樗麄兊墓ぷ髦型枰芏嘟?jīng)驗(yàn)。故選A。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Besides sharpness of brain and experience, here is another thing that is very important, and that is wisdom.... Leaning to be wise is basically learning what is not possible； and what is possible but so difficult that it is not worth all the trouble one has to go through to get there. Mostly, it is learning about human nature；how real people behave and react, as against how one would like them to behave and react.”除了敏銳的頭腦和豐富的經(jīng)驗(yàn)外，還有一件事是非常重要的，那就是智慧。學(xué)習(xí)成為智者，要基本的了解什么是不可能的；學(xué)習(xí)有可能但又很困難的東西，以至于不值得一個(gè)人為了達(dá)到目的而付出所有的努力。最重要的是了解人性，了解真實(shí)的人是如何行為和反應(yīng)的，以及人們希望他們?nèi)绾涡袨楹头磻?yīng)的。由此可推斷出智慧的重要性在于智慧能讓人知道什么可做，什么不能做，即為人提供正確的努力方向。故選D。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Leaning to be wise is basically learning what is not possible；and what is possible but so difficult that it is not worth all the trouble one has to go through to get there. Mostly, it is learning about human nature；how real people behave and react, as against how one would like them to behave and react. One can read and hear lot of idealistic stuff about how t