【正文】 ud to be independent from the family.（4）What can be inferred as the reason for the boomerang children phenomenon? A.They are glad that they could e back.C.allow（3）What is the attitude of the college graduates towards returning home? A.C.defeatBoomerang children never did any housework.（2）The underlined word trigger in Paragraph 2 may be best replaced by ________. A.The parents39。The parents were looking forward to their children39。 Areas of disagreement included chores, money and social life. While parents were keen to help, they also wanted different relationships from those they had with their own parents, and continuing to support their adult children allowed them to remain close.（1）What is the finding of the previous research? A. The families featured in the study were middleclass and tended to view the achievement of adult independence for their children as a family project. Parents accepted that their children required support as university students and then as graduates returning home, as they tried to find jobs paying enough to enable them to move out and get on the housing ladder. financial and emotional support. Daughters were happier than sons, often slipping back easily into teenage patterns of behaviour, the study found. quality of life and wellbeing. Boomerang children who return to live with their parents after university can be good for families, leading to closer, more supportive relationships and increased contact between the generations, a study has found.5．犇犇閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。故選B。現(xiàn)在，有證據(jù)表明這是正確的”，接著在下文用硬實證明了這一點。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)最后一段中的......this confirmed what had been observed in previous studies―dogs are more efficient at reading facial expressions of people that are the same gender as their owner可知，狗擅長辨別與自己主人性別相同的人的表情，由此推斷，讓主人是女性的狗來辨別男性面部表情的圖片是比較困難的。由此可判斷出A符合題意，故選A。 （2）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第二段中的For their study biologist Corson Miller and his team exposed eleven selected dogs to digital images of women that were either angry or happy.可知，實驗人員通過屏幕向這些狗展示了一組女性面部表情的照片，這些表情中既有快樂的，也有憤怒的。s Mood Research【答案】 （1）D（2）A（3）C（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，最新的實驗發(fā)現(xiàn)，即狗能夠識別人的面部表情的變化。 The researchers also noticed only dogs with a male owner had a harder time understanding the expressions correctly. Since the touchscreen models were all females, this confirmed what has been observed in previous studies dogs are more efficient at reading facial expressions of people that are the same gender as their owner.（1）How did the scientists conduct the experiment? leaving dogs to women who are either happy or angry. mixing the selected dogs together. rewarding only half of the dogs touching the screen showing digital pictures of women39。 After some training like how to recognize small differences like the wrinkles between the eyes or the changes in their shape that acpany the happy or angry expressions, the dogs were mostly able to identify the correct expression not only on a familiar face but on a strange face. The researchers concluded the dogs were smart enough to read human emotions. Interestingly, the dogs were not provided with the entire face. Some dogs were shown only upper halves while the others observed lower halves. That39。 While every dog owner knows their dogs can read their moods perfectly, scientists have always been a little doubtful. Now thanks to some researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria, we finally have some convincing evidence.4．犇犇閱讀下面短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。因此標題“機器人被拯救，人類就會承受打擊”最切題，故選C。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)最后一段中的‘This result indicates that our study group attached a certain moral status to the robot,’ says Paulus. One possible suggestion of this finding is that attempts to humanize robots should not go too far. Such efforts could e into conflict with their intended function—to be of help to us.可知，Paulus認為讓機器人人性化的嘗試不應該走得太遠，可以推斷出，Paulus認為過多地人性化機器人可能是不合適的。故選A。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“As increasing numbers of machines, equipped with the latest artificial intelligence, take on a growing variety of specialized and everyday tasks, the question of how people see them and behave towards them bees ever more urgent.”可知，隨著越來越多的機器裝備了最新的人工智能，承擔著越來越多的專業(yè)和日常任務，人們如何看待它們以及如何對待它們的問題變得越來越緊迫。Humanized Robots, Replace Human【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，隨著越來越多的機器人具有人性化，它們承擔越來越多樣化的專業(yè)和日常任務，人們如何看待他們，如何對待他們的問題變的迫在眉睫。Humanized Robots, A New TrendC.Conflicts often happen between humans and robots.（4）Which of the following would be the best title for the text? A.Humanizing robots too much may be improper.C. words? A.which robot to work withD.when to sacrifice a robotB.How to use them effectively.D.How to humanize them.B. The study suggested that the more the robot was humanized, the less likely participants were to sacrifice it. Situations that included vivid stories in which the robot was described as a merciful being or as a creature with its own understandings, experiences and thoughts, were more likely to stop the study participants from sacrificing it in the interests of anonymous (無名的) humans. A team led by Sari Nijssen of Radboud University and Markus Paulus, Professor of Developmental Psychology at LudwigMaximiliansUniversitaet (LMU), have carried out a study to determine the degree to which people show concern for robots and behave towards them based on moral principles. 【點評】本題考點涉及細節(jié)理解，詞義猜測，推理判斷和主旨大意四個題型的考查，是一篇科研類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細節(jié)信息的基礎上，進一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關系，進行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。根據(jù)第三段中的“Ullman says his research shows that the human brain does not have a special area or system for making language. Over time we have simply reused or coopted (指派) parts of our brain for language.”以及全文可知，人類的語言學習是由大腦前區(qū)完成的，該區(qū)域早于人類本身。所以it是指代using grammar patterns，故選C。 （3）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第六段中的And procedural motor memory is what we ofte