【正文】 Each year, setting aside vacation time to spend together is especially important to us. A relaxing environment opens the doors to all kinds of conversations—deep, silly or meaningful. There39。8．閱讀理解 s not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. 可知作者認(rèn)為Stevenson只關(guān)注到了片面的，故選A。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。s near miss made the news because she blamed it on he GPS(導(dǎo)航儀). 可知Ceely認(rèn)為事故發(fā)生的原因是GPS沒有指出那個路口。The relationship between humans and technology.【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）A（5）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者講述了一起交通事故，司機(jī)沒有看到火車路口導(dǎo)致了一起事故，司機(jī)卻將責(zé)任歸咎到自己的導(dǎo)航儀沒有路口提示上。wellbased（5）What is the real concern of the writer of this article? A.puzzlingreasonableonesidedGPS error is not the only cause for Ceely39。Modern technology is what we can39。C.t tell her about the crossing.（2）The phrase near miss (Paragraph 2) can best be replaced by ________. A.She was not familiar with the road.B. The game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and plex. It is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. Somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be a way for a wiser use of technology. both show a small rise in some parts of the country. He says that once again not all new locks have proved reliable, Perhaps, but maybe it39。 Who is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely39。 Ceely39。 One evening in February 2007, a student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote road in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path. That39。7．閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。m going to fill the house with memories of a child and her mother, for we have only one childhood and we will never get another.”可知作者想讓她的女兒有一個快樂的童年，故選D。根據(jù)第三段中的“And that day I thought a lot about making some changes in my life, after listening to her innocent words cut me like a knife.”“我”在聽了她那些天真的話語后，就像被一把刀割了一樣。s in the corner because she39。How to deal with my daughterD.s happiness.D.the little girl doesn39。C.s words? A.m going to fill the house with memories of a child and her mother, for we have only one childhood and we will never get another.（1）Who is Suzie? A.m not going to worry about keeping up with them any more. And that day I thought a lot about making some changes in my life, after listening to her innocent words cut me like a knife. I hadn39。t have the time to sit and play don39。m all fed up and I just don39。d been put there to sit alone and think. She said, Suzie39。 in the other a toy. I listened as she was speaking to her makebelieve little friend and I39。 即作者寫這篇文章的目的是說服別人。失敗并不意味著你永遠(yuǎn)不會成功。故選C。故選A。根據(jù)第四段中的“I was no exception. I thought of running away.”我也不例外。一開始介紹了作者的教授提出的一個觀點，但是作者當(dāng)時不以為然，直到在今后實際生活中真正遇到了失敗或挑戰(zhàn)時才認(rèn)識到了教授的觀點。D.C.B.s purpose of writing the passage is most likely to ________. A.C.Calm（3）What does the underlined phrase water down in the 4th paragraph probably mean? A.C.B. Success es to the one who dares, even after failure, to think positively and look forward confidently. After all, it is only the experience that makes a man tough. Failure does not mean you will never make it. It means that it will take a little longer. It provides us with a learning experience.（1）The main method the author uses to support his understanding of his professor39。 I landed in a small city in the Middle East to set up a firm, a world－class car rental firm. Having decided on the project, I earnestly settled in preparation. With a positive mind, I told myself nothing should stop me now, and was more than keen to make it a success.縱觀全文可知，,作者提到無現(xiàn)金支付即電子支付的好處,也提到電子支付引起的擔(dān)憂,對待電子支付是客觀的,故選C。大多數(shù)金融公司都渴望放棄它,或者以高昂的費用勸阻老式客戶。故選C。故選D。總的來說,無現(xiàn)金經(jīng)濟(jì)的未來是個好消息,但是對于電子支付人們也有一些擔(dān)憂。C.. A.s attitude towards digitalized payment is younger consumers are short of money to live their digital livesB.that cash is still king across the worldC.get rid of the sideeffects of cashC. Yet set against these benefits are a couple of worries. Electronic payment systems may risk technical failures, power failure and cyberattacks. In a cashless economy the poor, the elderly and country folk may be left behind. And a digital system could let governments watch over people39。 For the past 3,000 years, when people thought of money they thought of cash. Over the past decade, however, digital payments have taken off— tapping your plastic on a terminal or swiping a smartphone has bee normal. Now this revolution is about to turn cash into an endangered species in some rich economies. That will make the economy more efficient—but it also causes new problems that could hold back the transition(轉(zhuǎn)型).進(jìn)行培訓(xùn)是為了得到專業(yè)技能,由此推斷作者會給出一直提升人們的專業(yè)技能的建議,故選D。排除A；再根據(jù)第四段中的“as the fourth type is much larger: jobs where emotions are needed, such as teachers, nannies and doctors.”可知需要情感的工作,例如老師,保姆和醫(yī)生也不大可能被取代,因此排除C和D。根據(jù)第三段中的“First, there are creative jobs. AI needs to be given a goal to optimize. It cannot invent, like scientists, novelists and artists can.”可知四種類型的工作完全沒有風(fēng)險。 （2）考查詞義猜測。但是,他不會說法語。因此,在人工智能時代人類仍然會有工作,關(guān)鍵必須是對勞動力進(jìn)行再培訓(xùn),這樣人們才能從事這些工作。Get more support from the government.C.C.The shop assistant.Be similar toBe superior toTo mention Nigel39。 impressive feat is a useful example to show how artificial intelligence works—real AI. Both of Richard and AI take in massive amounts of data to achieve goals with unlimited memory and superman accuracy in a certain field.3．閱讀理解 縱觀全文可知，本文敘述了作者通過“extra minute”rule來避免以后說“if only”的情況。故選B。根據(jù)第三段中的“But then I thought about the fact that he39。父親在作者小的時候經(jīng)常讓她提前做一些能防止意外發(fā)生的事，因此她懂得珍惜現(xiàn)在所擁有的一切，而且知道自己正在做對的事。I know there will still be occasions when I have to say if only about something, but my life is definitely better because of my policy of doing everything possible to avoid that eventuality.