【正文】 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 hu。故選B。 he added.“教人工智能系統(tǒng)幽默可能會(huì)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。s not suitable,39。根據(jù)最后一段中的“‘Teaching AI systems humor may make them find it where it isn39。故選D。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.”特里斯坦故選B。但這些嘗試大多以失敗告終。 （1）考查推理判斷。 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(jī)器創(chuàng)造幽默。t as intelligent as humans language is plex and changeable language can39。 concern about AI39。 challenges of making sense of humor. scientists39。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。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 be replaced by a machine, she added. Allison Bishop is a puter scientist and she also performs standup edy. She explained that machines are trained to look for patterns. Comedy, on the other hand, relies on things that stay close to a pattern, but not pletely within it. To be funny, humor should also not be predictable, Bishop said. This is a great challenge for a machine to recognize and understand what is funny.Tristan Miller studied more than 10,000 puns in one research project. The pun is a kind of joke that uses a word with two meanings. For example, you could say, “Balloons do not like pop music. The word pop can be a way of saying popular music。 8．閱讀理解 故選C。根據(jù)最后一段可知，David在作者的店里勤勤懇懇工作了十八年,還受到了顧客的贊揚(yáng)。故選A。這時(shí)作者正好看到David進(jìn)來,于是叫他過來幫忙。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第二中的“He requested that I give David an interview just for practice.”可知,他要求作者給David進(jìn)行一次面試,僅僅只是為了練習(xí)。在跟他們一起工作的日子里,作者學(xué)會(huì)了寬恕、理解和耐心。the author prefers David to be more outgoing【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，David是作者的一位雇員,雖然他不善言辭,但勤懇踏實(shí)的工作態(tài)度贏得了顧客的贊美。David has had his character changed through workC.. A.David kept showing upD.he needed someone who was willing to work thenB.show sympathy for him（2）The author finally hired David because give him some practiceC.find a person who is reliablet talk, but he really shows you how to operate a lawn mower!”（1）The author gave David an interview to David worked for my bicycle shop for eighteen years. He came to work every day thirty minutes early. He could talk。 When David came in for the interview, he hardly said a word. I told him what we did at the bicycle shop and showed him around. I told David to keep showing up because the number one thing an employer wanted in an associate was dependability. David was very quiet (he was evaluated as a slow learner in school).Every ten days or so, for weeks after the interview, David walked into the bicycle shop and stood by the front door. He never said a word, just stood by the door. however, they were excellent. Working with them as they improved taught me new ways to show forgiveness, understanding, and patience.7．閱讀理解 作者聽到父母談話，到看到照片感悟?qū)頃?huì)更好，可知文本最好標(biāo)題為B項(xiàng)，故選B?？芍髡哂上容厒兘?jīng)歷的事情得出結(jié)論，未來會(huì)更美好，故選B。根據(jù)第三段中的“ I believe tomorrow will be better than today that the world my generation grows into is going Lo get better， not worse． Those pictures helped me understand why．”我相信明天會(huì)比今天更好﹣﹣我這一代人成長的世界會(huì)變得更好，而不是更糟。根據(jù)第三段中的“l(fā)istening to their conversation， starting to worry about the future my father was describing．”可知作者開始時(shí)是擔(dān)心的，因而C項(xiàng)正確．聽著他們的談話，開始擔(dān)心我父親描述的未來，故選C。根據(jù)第一段中的“a world he fears has a dark and difficult future if it has a future at all．”他害怕世界有一個(gè)黑暗而艱難的未來如果它有一個(gè)未來的話，可知在最近的一個(gè)晚上，作者的父親心煩意亂是因?yàn)閾?dān)心作者這一代人的未來，故選D 。All that exists will e to an end【答案】 （1）D（2）C（3）B（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，作者從聽到父母談話，到看到照片，感悟?qū)頃?huì)更好。Tomorrow will be better than todayC.Never worry about your futuret exist.D.Though the world was full of terrible things, it would get better.C.Sensitive.（3）What did those photos make the author understand? A.C.Optimistic.s worry? A.s generation.（2）What was the author39。He was worried about his dark and difficult future ing soon.D.He was upset that the college is too far from the author39。s dad upset on a recent night？ A. But they saw other things, too, better things: the end of two world wars, passage of the civil rights laws. There was a picture of my grandfather who was a member of the class of 1942, the war class. Next to his picture were photos of my great﹣grandparents. Seeing those pictures made me feel a lot better. I believe tomorrow will be better than today — that the world my generation grows into is going to get better, not worse. Those pictures helped me understand why. There will be a disease that kills millions, a disastrous energy crisis, a horrible worldwide depression and a nuclear explosion set off in anger.On a recent night, while I was busy thinking about important social issues, like what to do over the week﹣end and who to do it with, I overheard my parents talking about my future. My dad was upset not the usual stuff that he and Mom and, I guess, a lot of parents worry about like which college I39。 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和主旨大意兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇人生感悟類閱讀，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案?！弊罘衔恼轮行摹Ｒ约跋挛闹凶髡邔⒛谴螌彝ザ燃俚膬r(jià)值的認(rèn)知，付諸實(shí)踐到自己的家庭生活中。 （3）考查主旨大意。故D選項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的“Involving the kids in planning the vacation makes sure that they have a great vacation too.”讓孩子們參與計(jì)劃假期，確保他們也有一個(gè)美好的假期。故選C。根據(jù)