【正文】 ave been up since early November, another tradition in Colombia is that during the nine days before Christmas, family members and friends meet up to pray, sing songs and share traditional foods at home. s easy to believe that as a worldwide festival, most countries probably celebrate it in a fairly similar manner. Being from the UK, Christmas for me means spending time with family and friends, exchanging presents, eating and drinking, and, of course, hiding from the cold. In Colombia, however, Christmas is viewed much more as a time which devotes itself to religion. 6．閱讀理解 根據(jù)最后一段中的“No pany has reached that level of autonomy, which means that a driverless car could navigate any road under any conditions and that all the human ‘driver’ would need to do is to input a destination. 可推出“Level 5 autonomy”將會(huì)讓人類司機(jī)解放，故選D。根據(jù)第三段中的“In fact, Musk has heard the ‘evil AI’ alarm several times. ”可猜測(cè)出“malicious”的意思是有害的，故選A。根據(jù)第二段中的“Musk will continue to “donate and advise the organization”可推知Eldon Musk對(duì)于AI的態(tài)度是同情，故選B。s leaving his position on the board of the Open AI, according to a blog post.”和第二段中的“adding that “As Tesla continues to bee more focused on AI, this will avoid a potential future conflict for Eldon.”可知Eldon Musk離開(kāi)他的職位是為了避免可能和Tesla產(chǎn)生沖突，故D。(1)考查推理判斷。Level 5 autonomy could set human drivers free.【答案】（1）D（2）B（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇應(yīng)用文，介紹了傳奇人物埃隆The rumors about Tesla is meaningless.C.Level 5 autonomy is impossible.Traditional.（4）What can we infer from Eton Goodbye39。C.Unpopular.Sympathetic.（3）What does the underlined word “malicious” in Paragraph 3 mean? A.C.Supportive.s attitude towards the AI? A.D.To build powerful Internet.C.s departure from the Open AI board could mean big things for Tesla. As Eton Goodbye, a financial reporter, noted on Futurism, the move “could signal that Tesla is more deeply mitted to their own AI projects than we thought. ”He added, “Those who have had their ears to any rumors (謠言)that Tesla is ready to deliver vehicles capable of Level 5autonomy could take this new Open Al development as a sign that the pany is inching closer to that unapproachable goal, ”No pany has reached that level of autonomy, which means that a driverless car could navigate any road under any conditions and that all the human “driver” would need to do is to input a destination. （1）Why does Eldon Musk leave his position? A. Musk and Y Combiner CEO Sam Altman cofounded the nonprofit enterprise in December2015, its mission is to develop safe artificial general intelligence and ensure those developments are made public. Open AI researchers published a paper on the site ArXiv, org, detailing the possible secure threats that e with“malicious”AI. In fact, Musk has heard the “evil AI”alarm several times, On ，2017, he warned that artificial intelligence poses a bigger threat to humanity, and he told a gathering of state governors that the government needs to regulate Al before robots start “killing people. ” The departure is likely the result of Tesla39。 Entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and Space X, Eldon Musk may have a little more time on his hands, as he39。【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，詞義猜測(cè)和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇文化類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。以此引入主題即水手們?cè)诤叫袝r(shí)使用的一些航海術(shù)語(yǔ)對(duì)英語(yǔ)這門(mén)語(yǔ)言所產(chǎn)生的影響。（4）考查主旨大意。s boatswain (水手長(zhǎng)) would blow a whistle, or pipe, at the end of the day to indicate (表明) to the sailors it was time to quieten down and go to sleep.”可知船上的水手長(zhǎng)會(huì)在一天結(jié)束的時(shí)候吹口哨或吹笛子，向水手們表示應(yīng)該安靜下來(lái)睡覺(jué)了。（3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解?！?。根據(jù)第二段中的“…people monly describe an honest and fair business deal as being “above board”可知，如果”一個(gè)誠(chéng)實(shí)公正的人就會(huì)被認(rèn)為是39。故選C。（1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。英國(guó)曾有著強(qiáng)大的海軍。The sailing history of England.D.The influence of British sailors39。There is no spare room to raise cats on ships.（4）What is the main idea of the passage? A.Sailors will be whipped if they do business below decks.C.dishonest（3）Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A.cheerfulhonestsecretiveD.they got more wealth from the seaC.they occupied more land around the worlds boatswain (水手長(zhǎng)) would blow a whistle, or pipe, at theend of the day to indicate (表明) to the sailors it was time to quieten down and go to sleep.sbusiness would be carried out below decks (below the boards) out of public the other hand, honest business was always conducted on deck (above the boards),in the open where everyone could see what was going on.s territories, its wealthand its knowledge of the world. Ships returned to England bringing goods, peopleand new ideas from foreign places. By the nineteenth century, Britain had the largest,most powerful navy in the world.going sailing ships in the fifteenthcentury, the sea became even more important to the country39。4．閱讀理解故選D。s Erik Demaine, ‘we39。根據(jù)第二段中的“in 1995, Japanese engineers launched a satellite with solar panels that folded like a map.”；第三段中的“Lang, an origami enthusiast since age six, advised a advised wellknown ear manufacturer the best way to fold an airbag into a dashboard.”； 第四段中的“There39。故選A。 （3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“Lang, an origami enthusiast since age six, advised a wellknown ear manufacturer the best way to fold an airbag into a dashboard.”可知折紙愛(ài)好者Lang向一位制造商建議了把安全氣囊折疊到儀表盤(pán)中的最佳方式。故選B。 （1）考查推理判斷。Popscience.【答案】 （1）B（2）C（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說(shuō)明文，折紙是一種具有創(chuàng)造性的傳統(tǒng)藝術(shù)，而現(xiàn)在它已經(jīng)被應(yīng)用到技術(shù)工程領(lǐng)域，人們利用折紙?jiān)韯?chuàng)造出了很多可折疊的裝置。C.Culture.Ambiguous.（4）In which section of a newspaper may this text appear? A.C.Doubtful.s attitude towards origami engineering? A.An airbag can be better folded into a dashboard of a car.D.A space telescope lens can be folded to the size of an umbrella.B.D.It requires plex techniques.B.It consumes lots of time.ll build reconfigurable (可重構(gòu)的) robots that can fold on their own from one thing into another, like Transformers. T