【正文】 B.Data problems.It has already solved all the social issues on biases.D.Justice and equality have been truly achieved.B.D.Professional prejudice.B.Class bias.s unacceptable.（1）What is one of the technology39。 Robinson said. The impulse is that they39。s Rekognition system.s current cloud engagement with ICE supports relatively anodyne(溫和的)office work such as mail, calendar, massaging and document management workloads. The pany said in a statement that its facialrecognition improvements are part of our going work to address the industrywide and societal issues on bias. In an open letter to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella urging the pany to cancel that contract, Microsoft workers pointed to a pany blog post in January that said Azure Government would help ICE accelerate recognition and identification. We believe that Microsoft must take an ethical stand, and put children and families above profits, the letter said. At the center of that debate is Microsoft, whose multimilliondollar contracts with ICE came under fire amid the agency39。s increasing accuracy could also make it more marketable. The system should be accurate, but that39。 Those improvements were heralded(宣布)by some for taking aim at the prejudices in a rapidly spreading technology, including potentially reducing the kinds of false positives that could lead police officers misidentify a criminal suspect.s largest facial dataset which it will release publicly for other panies to use. Facialrecognition systems more often misidentify people of color because of a longrunning data problem: The massive sets of facial images they train on skew heavily toward white men. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study this year of the facerecognition systems designed by Microsoft, IBM and the Chinabased Face++ found that facialrecognition systems consistently giving the wrong gender for famous women of color including Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama and Shirley Chisholm, the first black female member of Congress.diverse39。inclusion39。 s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, quickly seized on how that improved technology might be used. The agency contracts with Microsoft for cloudputing tools that the tech giant says is largely limited to office work but can also include face recognition.s biggest biases (偏見(jiàn)).8．閱讀理解 再結(jié)合文章內(nèi)容可知，文章主要是說(shuō)明了iReader這種新的閱讀方式是小包裝里的大創(chuàng)意，故選D。根據(jù)最后一段中的“iReader gives you the biggest ideas in the shortest possible time. It transforms great ideas into little packs you can listen to or read in just 15 minutes.”可知iReader能在最短的時(shí)間內(nèi)給你最大的想法。根據(jù)第四段中的“The way the content is edited has been specifically designed to ensure it is useful in practice.”可知iReader通過(guò)使得目錄有助于實(shí)踐來(lái)讓內(nèi)容更容易記住，故選B。故選D。根據(jù)第三段中的“There are now more ways for the British to read than ever before, due to the widespread use of ebooks and audio books.”可知由于電子書(shū)和有聲書(shū)的廣泛使用，英國(guó)人現(xiàn)在有了比以往更多的閱讀方式。d like to read.”幾乎沒(méi)有人有時(shí)間讀我們想讀的所有東西；以及最后一段中的“What if we could turn these little blocks of unoccupied time into precious and rewarding moments for learning and reflection?”可知作者認(rèn)為我們應(yīng)該把空閑的時(shí)間變成寶貴的、有價(jià)值的學(xué)習(xí)和反思的時(shí)間，即作者建議我們利用空閑時(shí)間來(lái)閱讀和思考，故選A。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。Bring joy to daily routines.（2）What can we infer from the PRC findings? British benefit a lot from reading. methods are more important than before. technology are taking the place of paper books. forms of books are changing the way the British read.（3）How does iReader make the content easy to remember? bringing fun to it. making it useful. using artistic designs. taking users as examples.（4）What is the best title for the text? Prevents Reading from Dying Unites Worldwide Booklovers: The Best New App Creation: Big Ideas in Small Packages【答案】 （1）A（2）D（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，介紹了一種閱讀方式：iReader。Write and share.C. Holger Seim, German cofounder of this app, declares, iReader gives you the biggest ideas in the shortest possible time. It transforms great ideas into little packs you can listen to or read in just 15 minutes.（1）What does the author suggest people do in the unoccupied time? A.t dying. There are now more ways for the British to read than ever before, due to the widespread use of ebooks and audio books. Reader is pioneering a new method of reading, with over 9 million users enjoying the benefits already. According to the Pew Research Center (PRC), the British read just 4 paper books a year and over 25% haven39。d like to read. Yet we lose countless hours to daily activities that bring us little joy like taking buses and waiting in line. What if we could turn these little blocks of unoccupied time into precious and rewarding moments for learning and reflection?7．閱讀理解 故選C。s anxious thoughts.”可知在房子后面的花園里，作者仿佛能想象出那個(gè)被流放的征服者的焦慮的思想。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“She lived safely there and showed little interest in visiting her husband in his minikingdom.”可知Marie Louise住在Viennese很安全，對(duì)去她丈夫的小王國(guó)探視毫無(wú)興趣。故Dorians可能是最早到Elba的外來(lái)者，故選C。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。s ambition to regain power. of Napoleon39。s mind during his visit to Napoleon39。D.Dorians.B.Napoleon and his army.D.He planned bicycling routes.B.s anxious thoughts. He might gaze over where I stood now, toward the lighthouse of the Stella fort, the sandy bay, and across it, the green mountains of the Tuscan coast. Napoleon spent only ten months here before making his victorious return to France and the throne.（1）What did the author do for the visit to Elba? A.t troubled much by this. He was too busy riding everywhere on horseback, building roads, modernizing agriculture and, above all, sharpening his tiny army and navy into readiness for his escape. It is also an island filled with treasure. Very early on this island, locals discovered rich deposits of iron.