【正文】 s 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 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 Rumors (謠言): we39。ve all heard some and we39。ve all spread some. In more traditional times they shook entire families. Today, they travel differently because the way we share information has also changed. The fact is that rumors have great potential to upset things, whether socially or personally. We don39。t enjoy being on the receiving end of one, since they usually don39。t have good intentions. They are somewhat veiled (掩飾的) messages. Normally rumors are oral messages: word of mouth. The paradox (自相矛盾) is that there is no evidence to support rumors, but the more people share it, the more they see it as true. To finish explaining rumors, we think that they follow certain very clear laws. Secrecy: The source is unknown. There is also a proven phenomenon that human beings usually forget the source of a message before they forget its content. Certainty: We hardly question rumors simply because of the mental effort involved. On the other hand, no one likes to doubt a person who convinces us that the information they spread is true. Change: It acts like a tree. New rumors branch out to fill in the gaps left by the first rumor. Another property (屬性) of rumors is that they tend to bee viral. Each receiver is at the same time a potential transmitter (傳輸者) of the information. The receiver often adds their own opinion. Their manner and tone of transmitting it also changes it. How can we end rumors? The answer is as simple as it is impossible: preventing people from municating. A more realistic response is equally difficult, although less than the first one. It is that we should be critical of the information we receive. We should ask ourselves if the source is reliable. Ask (if possible) the person you heard it from whether they also trust the information. We should also think about if the rumor benefits someone, and if that someone started the rumor. One rumor to be especially cautious of is a rumor about groups relatively unable to defend themselves. That39。s why we say, History is always told by the winners. The first payment the defeated must make is to accept the victor39。s version of the story.（1）What can we learn about rumors? have all heard some and believed them.39。re happy to be the receiving end of them. may have negative influence on society. often hide good intentions in the messages.（2）How are rumours like a tree? keep changing, just as trees change their colour. are deeply rooted in reality, like tree roots in the earth. rumours have gaps, like the space between tree branches. rumours grow out of the original, like branches out of a trunk.（3）What does the underlined word 39。viral39。 in Para 4 probably mean? easily spread. acceptable. easily defended. beneficial.（4）Which of the following may the author agree with? is easy to prevent people from spreading rumors. are often active in judging the rumors critically. should think about the hidden message of the rumors. told by the victors are usually better worth trusting.【答案】 （1）C（2）D（3）A（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹了謠言的特點，分析了謠言存在的原因，并提出了如何終結謠言的解決方式。 （1）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“The fact is that rumors have great potential to upset things, whether socially or persona