【正文】 Some genetically engineered plants can resist natural pests such as viruses or insects. This reduces the amount of chemical needed to kill pests, which is helpful to the environment. There are many reasons for changing plants in this way. International development agencies believe that breeding new crops is important for ensuring food security by developing new varieties that are higher yielding(高產(chǎn)的), disease resistant, drought tolerant or regionally adapted to different environments and growing conditions. For example, some genetically engineered plants can live through frost or draught. As a result, famers can make more profit because fewer plants will die. Actually, plant breeding has been practiced for thousands of years, since near the beginning of human civilization. It is practiced worldwide by individuals such as gardeners and farmers and by professional plant breeders employed by organizations such as government institutions, universities, cropspecific industry associations or research centers. They have crossbred plants to create the new types of plants that are, for example, bigger, stronger, or more attractive.8．閱讀理解 Benefits and Problems of Genetic Engineering故選C。s possible, he said, that people have the desire to be looked at, so they think the woman is looking straight at them.”他說，人們有被注視的欲望是可能的，所以他們認為女人在直視他們。 （4）考查推理判斷?？芍芯咳藛T對24人進行了實驗是為了證實霍斯特曼的觀點。t just him, the researchers asked 24 people to view images of the Mona Lisa on a puter screen.”為了確保不僅僅是他，研究人員讓24個人在電腦屏幕上觀看蒙娜麗莎 的 （3）考查細節(jié)理解?？芍灰暯嵌炔怀^5度左右，就會出現(xiàn)蒙娜麗莎效應(yīng)。根據(jù)第二段中的“As long as the angle of the person39。故選D。芬奇最著名的畫作中的女人，無論站在房間的哪個角落，似乎都會回頭看著觀察者，用她的眼睛跟隨他們。s most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room.”眾所周知，列奧納多根據(jù)第一段中的“It39。一項新研究發(fā)現(xiàn)這一常識是錯誤的，研究發(fā)現(xiàn)人們有被蒙娜麗莎凝視的感覺可能是因為人們渴望被關(guān)注。達The position of the ruler in the experiment will influence the viewers39。The Mona Lisa effect contributes to the creation of artificial intelligence.C.Horstmann thinks it39。s gazeD.create artificialintelligence avatarsC.confirm Horstmann39。D.C.B.looks at the viewers wherever they stand（2）What gaze range in a painting will cause the Mona Lisa effect? A.fixes her eyes on the back of the viewersB.attracts the viewers to look backs possible, he said, that people have the desire to be looked at, so they think the woman is looking straight at them. Or maybe the people who first coined the term Mona Lisa effect just thought it was a cool name.（1）It is generally believed that the woman in the painting Mona Lisa So why do people repeat the belief that her eyes seem to follow the viewer? Horstmann isn39。s gaze. To calculate the angle of Mona Lisa39。 To make sure it wasn39。 Horstmann and his coauthor were studying this effect for its application in the creation of artificialintelligence avatars(虛擬頭像) when Horstmann took a long look at the Mona Lisa and realized she wasn39。surprisingly, doing so would make an observer feel like the character isn39。 This is important for human interaction with onscreen characters. If you want someone off to the right side of a room to feel that a person onscreen is looking at him or her, you don39。s gaze (凝視) in a photograph or painting seeming to follow the viewer is called the Mona Lisa effect . That effect is absolutely real, Horstmann said. If a person is illustrated or photographed looking straight ahead, even people viewing the portrait from an angle will feel they are being looked at. As long as the angle of the person39。well outside of the range that people normally believe when they think someone is looking right at them. In other words, said the study author, Horstmann, She39。s degrees off to the observer39。s most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room. But this mon knowledge turns out wrong. It39。 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測和推理判斷三個題型的考查，是一篇科技類閱讀，考生需要準確掌握細節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。根據(jù)最后一段中的“So there will still be jobs in the age of AI. The key then must be retraining the workforce so people can do them.” 可知作者認為在AI時代仍然會有工作,關(guān)鍵必須是對勞動力進行再培訓(xùn),這樣人們才能從事這些工作。故選B。也就是作家和科學(xué)家不會被取代。首先,有創(chuàng)造性的工作。 （3）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二段中的“Because AI can outperform humans at routine tasks—provided the task is in one field with a lot of data”可知AI可以在日常任務(wù)中outperform人類（前提是該任務(wù)在一個涉及到大量數(shù)據(jù)的領(lǐng)域中；以及“it is technically capable of replacing hundreds of millions of white and blue collar jobs in the next 15 years or so.”可知從技術(shù)上講,人工智能具有在未來大約15年里取代成千上萬的白領(lǐng)和藍領(lǐng)工作的能力。故選A。其展示了人工智能是如何工作的。理查茲（Nigel Richards）的人在短短九周內(nèi)記住了《法國拼字游戲詞典》中的386,000個單詞。 （1）考查推理判斷。s professional skills all the time.【答案】 （1）A（2）A（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，人工智能有取代人類工作的潛力,但是,并非所有工作都會被人工智能取代,有四種類型的工作完全沒有風(fēng)險。Apply for the donation from panies.D.Limit the application of AI to a certain degree.B.D.The babysitter.B.The writer.D.C.B.To suggest humans go beyond AI in memory.（2）Which of the following best explains outperform underlined in paragraph 2? A.s feat.C.To introduce the topic.B.t employ as many people as AI will replace? Not to worry, as the fourth type is much larger: jobs where emotions are needed, such as teachers, nannies and doctors. These jobs require passion, trust and sympathy—which AI does not have. And even if AI tried to fake it, nobody would want a robot telling them they have cancer, or a robot to babysit their children.four types of jobs are not at risk at all. First, there are creative jobs. AI needs to be given a goal to optimize. It cannot invent, like scientists, novelists and artists can. Second, the plex, strategic jobs—executives, diplomats, economists — go well beyond the AI limitation of singlefield and Big Data. Then there are the asyetunknown jobs that will be created by AI. The potential applications for AI are extremely exciting. Because AI can outperform human