【正文】 s genes, the scientists were able to increase the amount of leaf growth on plants between 14 and 20 percent. Scientists hacked the plant39。 genes. Hacked plants are larger than normal plants.s genes in order to make it use sunlight more quickly. Someday, the results could increase the number of food produced around the world.根據(jù)最后一段中的“The hotel does employ humans, though Alibaba declined to detail how many.”可知，人類無法完全被取代。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“At the hotel39。它也是一個(gè)測試在中國無人商務(wù)消費(fèi)者舒適程度的實(shí)驗(yàn)?！庇纱送浦?jiǎng)澗€詞的意思是“消除”。盡管如此，人類無法完全被取代。Conventional things must be abolished.B.t need waiter sand cooks in the restaurant.B.To pete with other hotels.C.LimitsRemovess restaurant, taller capsuleshaped robots deliver food that guests have ordered via the FlyZoo app while at a separate bar, a large robotic arm can mix more than 20 different types of cocktails. Facial recognition cameras add charges to the room rate automatically.s voice mand technology is used to change the temperature, close the curtains, adjust the lighting and order room service.t used it much yet, but basically, I can be in my room in one minute, said guest Tracy Li. Li added that safety was one of her priorities and she was pleased her room could only be entered with a scan of her face. Formally opened to the public last month, the 290room FlyZoo is an incubator for technology Alibaba wants to sell to the hotel industry in the future and an opportunity to showcase its prowess in artificial intelligence. It is also an experiment that tests consumer fort levels with unmanned merce in China. The robots are part of a set of hightech tools that Alibaba says strongly cuts the hotel39。 Moving smoothly and silently through Alibaba Group Holding Ltd39。7．閱讀短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“If all goes according to plan. future generations will be able to interact with him using voice puting platforms of mobile devices, asking him questions, letting him tell stories and drawing upon a lifetime39。根據(jù)第二段中的“Now the silver haired 78year old has realized he would like his loved ones to have access to those stories, even when he is no longer alive to share them. Kaplan has agreed to bee ‘AndyBot’...a virtual person who will be”現(xiàn)在這位花白頭發(fā)的78歲的老人想要他愛的人知道這些故事，甚至當(dāng)他去世之后還可以分享這些故事?？ㄆ仗m豐富多彩的人生；在根據(jù)第二段中的“Now the silver haired 78year old has realized he would like his loved ones to have access to those stories, even when he is no longer alive to share them. Kaplan has agreed to bee “AndyBot” a virtual person who will be”現(xiàn)在這位花白頭發(fā)的78歲的老人想要他愛的人知道這些故事，甚至當(dāng)他去世之后還可以分享這些故事。 （1）考查推理判斷。If technology succeeds in creating emotionally intelligent digital humans, experts say, it may forever change the way living people cooperate with puters and experience loss. AndyBot may bee one of the world39。Kaplan is eager to bee one of the world39。For decades, Silicon Valley futurists have sought to free humanity from the life cycle. Today, a new generation of panies is selling some approximation(近似) of virtual immortality, which gives people the opportunity to preserve one39。Someday, Kaplan, who playfully refers to himself as a pig, may be remembered as one of the world39。If all goes according to plan future generations will be able to interact with him using voice puting platforms of mobile devices, asking him questions, letting him tell stories and drawing upon a lifetime39。 （4）考查推理判斷。運(yùn)行現(xiàn)金經(jīng)濟(jì)背后的基礎(chǔ)架構(gòu)需要付出高昂的成本,這些基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施包括自動(dòng)取款機(jī),載有紙幣的貨車,接受硬幣的出納員。瑞典和中國的共同點(diǎn)是現(xiàn)金支付減少,電子支付比例上升,由此可推斷作者提到瑞典和中國是為了說明數(shù)字支付正成為一種不可阻擋的趨勢。結(jié)合上下文,可知某些富裕國家比如瑞典正在減少現(xiàn)金支付,推廣不用紙幣或硬幣的支付方式,也就是電子支付方式。indifferent【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，富裕國家正在減少現(xiàn)金支付,現(xiàn)金正在因?yàn)樾枨蟮仍蛳?。negativefinancial firms want to abandon oldfashioned customers（4）The author39。. A.the differences between developed and developing countriesB.dematerialize moneyB. Countries are removing cash at varying speeds. In Sweden the number of retail cash transaction per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years. America is perhaps a decade behind. Outside the rich world, cash is still king. But even there its leading role is being challenged. In China digital payments rose from 4% of all payments in 2012 to 34% in 2017.根據(jù)第三段中的“A new environmentallyfriendly shopping model was recently launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.”及全文內(nèi)容可知，文章主要介紹美國一家公司推出一種新的零浪費(fèi)購物模式。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。故選A。The concerns of future shopping.【答案】 （1）A（2）C（3）D（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，介紹美國一家公司推出一種新的零浪費(fèi)購物模式。B.D.The milkman model.（3）Which countries is Loop expected to expand to by 2020? A.Zerowaste model.Advocate zerowaste lifestyle.C. Loop is set to launch later this year in three eastern . states, and also in Paris, France and some of the surrounding area. Then Loop plans to expand to the . West Coast, Toronto, Canada and Britain by the end of this year or 2020.（1）What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 2? A. Now, that may be changing. A new environmentallyfriendly shopping model was recently launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This shopping model, called Loop, aims to replace throwaway containers with reusable ones. The world39。分析選項(xiàng)可知C項(xiàng)符合題意，故選C。可知座頭鯨需要在暖和的地方繁殖，故選A。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第四個(gè)小點(diǎn)后的一段Body color is dark brown to black。introduce how humpbacks migrate through some dangerous watersC.They find plentiful food in tropical waters.D. migration? A.They are large and likely to grow longer than 15 metres.C. Humpback whales belong to the rorqual (groovethroated) family, which includes fin, sei, Bryde39。s ears to help them detect the sound of approaching insects.”及全文內(nèi)容可知，文章主要講述人與植物的交流可以促其生長。從而推斷可知，園丁經(jīng)常與植物交談，生長得更好。從而推斷可知，在叢林里的植物生長得更好。故選B。s voices improve plants39。B.Plants respond to sounds slowly and ecologically.D.D.In the woods.D.Brighter color. response to bees39。s oceans will be, on average,