【正文】 ext generation of artificial intelligence (AI) may be sitting right beneath you, at least if furniture maker Ikea has any say in the matter. The Swedish furniture pany39。 AI is now walking into more aspects of people39。s not surprising that Ikea would be moving in the same direction.s the new survey doesn39。 Just as with human friends, most wanted AI friends that were like them, affirming their own worldview. They wanted an AI assistant that was reasonably intelligentthat could collect data to predict what a person wanted before he or she asked, and that could prevent someone from making mistakes.s survey online.（1）What does the underlined word ubiquitous in Paragraph 2 mean? A.B.C.D.The differences between robotlike and humanlike assistants.B.What kind of friends people want.The popular robots on the market.（3）Most people who received the survey wanted an AI assistant that could ________. A.municate with them without troublesC.deal with their problems in advance（4）Which of the following products are from Ikea? A.B.Wireless charging cars.D.（1）考查詞義猜測。s daily lives.”可猜測出As smart home technologies have bee more ubiquitous,這句話的意思是智能家居技術變得越來越普遍，故選B。根據(jù)第三段中的“Most participants wanted a more human0like form of virtual（虛擬的）assistants, as opposed to one that is more robotic. In terms of the ideal gender（性別）of the assistants, the most popular choice was neither male nor female. Few wanted a religious form of AI.”可知第三段主要講了人們想要什么樣的人工智能助手，故選B。根據(jù)第四段中的“They wanted an AI assistant that was reasonably intelligentthat could collect data to predict what a person wanted before he or she asked, and that could prevent someone from making mistakes.”可知收到調查的大多數(shù)人都想要一款可以提前解決問題的人工智能助手，故選D。根據(jù)最后一段中的“In addition to wireless charging tables and chainless bikes that never rust（生銹）, the furniture giant has also pictured smart kitchens that can cook the best meal.”可知沒有鏈條的不生銹自行車是來自于Ikea的產品，故案選D。7．閱讀理解 As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickens distinguish among one hundred chicken faces and recognize familiar individuals even after months of separation. When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one. Healthy hens may aid friends, and mourn when those friend die.s. Then the team switched from reallife objects to Tshirts printed with X or O symbols. Still, the pigs walked only toward the Oshirted people: they had transferred their knowledge to a twodimensional format, a not inconsiderable feat of reasoning.ve been guilty of prejudiced expectations, myself. At the start of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys and apes outthink and outfeel other animals. They39。 Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even further and explore the inner lives of fish, chickens, pigs, goats, and cows, 1 started to wonder: Will the new science of food animals bring an ethical (倫理的) revolution in terms of who we eat? In other words, will our ethics start to catch up with the development of our science? . A.B.C.D.learn letters quicklyB.can build up a good relationshipD.the similarities between mammals and humansthe necessity of longterm studies on mammalsC.s attitudes towards animalsa discovery of how animals express themselves（4）What might be the best title for the passage? A.B.Science Reports on Food AnimalsD.人類不應只將它們當作食物。根據(jù)第二段中的“When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons choose some times to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one”可知，當解決問題時，母雞們會推理：例如，受過挑選彩色紐扣的訓練的母雞們有時會選擇放棄即時的食物獎勵，換取稍晚一些(而且更好)的食物獎勵。故選B。根據(jù)第三段中的“Pigs respond meaningful to human symbols. When a research team led by Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocks marked with X and O symbols around pigs, only the O carriers offered food to the animals. The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the O39。當木板換成帶X和O標記的襯衫時，豬仍然只走向那些穿帶O標記襯衫的研究者。故選D。根據(jù)第四段中的“At the start of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys and apes outthink and outfeel other animals...Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closest living relatives, whales too are masters of cultural learning, and elephants express profound joy and mourning with their social panions. Longterm studies…h(huán)elped to fuel a viewpoint shift in our society: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to undergo painful procedure kin laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks.”可知，數(shù)十年前，作者堅信猴子和猩猩在思考能力和情感上都勝過其他的動物。長期的研究也促進著我們社會觀點的轉變：我們不再認為猴子只能是實驗室里的實驗對象，大象只能在馬戲團里進行表演，海豚只能被養(yǎng)在主題公園狹小的池子里。故選C。第一段提出：科學開始擁抱原來被我們認為是二等公民的動物們（即：我們對某些動物的看法正在發(fā)生變化）。第四段介紹了人們對動物看法的轉變。結合每段大意可知，該文主要是圍繞動物也有情感有思想來展開的。【點評】本題考點涉及推理判斷。8．閱讀理解s edge, taking a shot with a camera and then walking away, like 39。, barely even glancing at the magnificent scene in front of him,” Linda Henkel, a scientist at Fairfield University, US told Live Science. birthday parties, on museum tours and so on.s latest study has just found out, this obsession may prevent their brains remembering what actually happened, reported The Guardian. memory of the tour was tested, and the results showed that they were less accurate in recognizing the objects and they remembered fewer details about them if they photographed them.39。 But there is also an exception: if students zoomed in to photograph part of an object, their memory actually improved, and those who focused the lens (鏡頭) on a specific area could even recall parts that weren39。 So basically, this study is saying that constantly taking pictures can harm your memory. But shouldn39