【正文】 Americanbased recycling pany. Its chief, Tom Szaky told the Associated Press (AP) that removing plastics from the ocean is not enough. He said the point is to get away from singleuse packages. Szaky said that Loop is the future of shopping. But it es from an idea of the past. Jennifer Morgan from the environmental nonprofit organization Greenpeace also joined in the discussion about Loop at Davos. She said that Greenpeace weles the aim of the Loop Alliance to move away from throwaway culture and disposability. But Morgan questioned whether panies worldwide are ready to change their business models.Provide background information.B.Explain the reason for trash.D.The World Economic Forum.Demand of some panies.C.D.United States and Switzerland.B.Canada and Britain.France and Canada.（4）What is the text mainly about? A.The development of future city.C.s environmental issue.D. （1）考查推理判斷。s cities produce 2 billion tons of trash every year. By the year 2050 that number is expected to rise to 3 billion tons. The World Bank estimates that the largest amount of trash today, about 44 percent, is plastic. But we often have to buy packaged goods. And often that packaging is made of plastic.”可知，世界上的城市每年產生大量的垃圾，并且其中最大的垃圾量是塑料，結合下文可知，作者寫本段目的是為下文提出新的購物模式提供背景信息。 （2）考查細節(jié)理解。故選C。根據最后一段“Loop is set to launch later this year in three eastern . states, and also in Paris, France and some of the surrounding area. Then Loop plans to expand to the . West Coast, Toronto, Canada and Britain by the end of this year or 2020.”可知，Loop計劃在2020年前將業(yè)務擴大到加拿大和法國。 （4）考查主旨大意。故選A。6．閱讀理解 Learning, Fast and Deep The standard route into these jobs has been a PhD in puter science from one of America39。 That is changing.s course can be pleted in just seven weeks. Some experts worry that this will serve only to create a flood of unreliable AI systems which will be useless at best and dangerous at worst. In the earliest days of the Internet, only a select few nerds, namely puter holies with specific skills, could build applications. Not many people used them. Then the invention of the World Wide Web led to an explosion of web pages, both good and bad. But it was only by opening up to all that the Internet gave birth to online shopping, instant global munications and search. If Mr. Howard and others have their way, making the development of AI software easier will bring forth a new crop of fruit of a different kind.（1）What can we learn about deep learning? A.B.It scans patterns for large panies.D.ensures one to obtain a PhDB.offers a course in deep learningrequires weeks to apply（3）The underlined words No. Greek. Lettersin Paragraph 5 means doing course is easyB.interestingD.it is quite reliable for anyone to grasp artificial intelligenceB.opening up to all leads to instant global search and online shoppingD. （1）考查細節(jié)理解。這說明深度學習能幫助編寫軟件，故選D。根據第四段中的”Last month fast. ai, a nonprofit education organization based in San Francisco, kicked off the third year of its course in deep learning.“可知。也就是說fast. ai是一個提供深度學習課程的組織，故選C。根據五段中的”To make it accessible to anyone who wants to learn …He says school mathematics is sufficient.“可知讓深度學習不再神秘是杰里米讓任何想學習編寫AI軟件的人都能學習這門技術。僅需要中學數學知識。故選A。根據最后一段中的”If Mr Howard and others have their way, making the development of AI software easier will bring forth a new crop of fruit of a different kind. “如果霍華德和其他人如愿以償，那么讓AI軟件開發(fā)變得更容易將會催生出一批新的不同的果實。故選D。7．閱讀理解 s no joke. The US space agency is looking for a joker to join their planned mission to Mars. When you39。This is probably why NASA wants an astronaut with a sense of humor. These are people that have the ability to pull everyone together, Johnson said.t alone. By laughing together, we share our stress. Then we can focus on our jobs instead of just worrying. s team, was a clown. He made people laugh through the whole journey. Amundsen later wrote that Lindstrom was the most valuable member of the team. re hoping that your favorite TV edian will fly to Mars, that probably won39。Being funny won39。Besides, they must be in top physical condition.（1）What is NASA39。A funny engineer.A talented clown.A good cook.A popular edian.（2）What does a confined space in Paragraph 3 refer to? A.B.C.D.It can stop them from feeling bored.B.It can make them feel less homesick.It can help them know themselves better.（4）What39。s purpose of giving the example of the cook? A.To prove that an amateur can play a more important role than a professional.C.To reveal that a mission to Mars is more difficult than a journey to the South Pole.【答案】 （1）A（2）D（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，由美國宇航局尋找一位幽默的工程師來和宇航員一起執(zhí)行航天任務介紹了幽默對宇航員的重要作用。根據倒數第二段中的“‘Being funny won39。 （2）考查詞義猜測。 （3）考查推理判斷。 （4）考查推理判斷。t alone. By laughing together, we share our stress.”可知，在壓力大的情況下，幽默是一種減壓的方式，第六段第一句話又說有很多團隊小丑的例子，緊接著舉廚師的例子就是為了證明這一點，即：幽默的人能使人在困難的情況下振作起來，故選C。8．閱讀理解 Looking like something in a scifi movie, the pod is equipped with solar panels, which guarantee solar energy as its power. In this way the tiny home can let you live fortably wherever you travel. It even has its own shower and toilet, sleeping area for two, and a small kitchen. The 3,306 ib pods can be transported in a seacontainer, meaning the possibilities are endless. The 86 sqft pods are able to sleep two people for up to year and for those worried about a cold night39。 The pod is designed to cope with extreme weather conditions due to its innovative (創(chuàng)新的) design and materials used. No wonder the Nice Architects are so confident about its future and the producers are receiving heavy orders.（1）Where does the Ecocapsule get power? A.From a portable battery.C.From electric cars.（2）Whom may be the Ecocapsule initially designed for?