1、Ty Reid President,Redland Oaks Junior High Outdoor Club【语篇解读】本文是应用文。文章主要介绍了去Canyon Lake State Park的自然之旅。1What do we know about the tour?ASchool teachers will go on the tour as well.BIt includes fishing, bicycling and canoeing.CNonmembers of the club can also join the tour.DIt was started by Redland
2、Oaks Junior High School.C细节理解题。 由第一段的最后一句可知,非俱乐部会员也可以参加这次旅行。2What is the main aim of the nature tour?ATo practice canoeing.BTo take pictures of birds.CTo find something interesting.DTo watch many kinds of birds.D细节理解题。 由第二段中的“The main focus of the nature tour will be to observe the various species o
3、f birds found in the area.”可知,这次旅行的主要目的是观察各种鸟类。3Students are expected to Abring life jackets and a notepadBprepare sun protection equipmentClearn the safety rules by themselvesDask questions about their favorite birdsB细节理解题。由倒数第二段中的“Students,however,will need to supply.do not forget this equipment.”
4、可知,学生需要准备防晒用品。BFrom selfdriving cars to carebots(carerobots)for elderly people, rapid development in technology has long represented a possible threat to many jobs normally performed by people. But experts now believe that almost 50 percent of occupations existing today will be completely unnecessar
5、y by 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to change businesses.“The next fifteen years will see a revolution in how we work,and a revolution will necessarily take place in how we plan and think about workplaces,”said Peter Andrew,Director of Workplace Strategy for CBRE Asia Pacific.A growing nu
6、mber of jobs in the future will require creative intelligence, social skills and the ability to use artificial intelligence.The report is based on interviews with 200 experts,business leaders and young people from Asia Pacific,Europe and North America. It shows that in the US technology already dest
7、roys more jobs than it creates.But the report states:“Losing occupations does not necessarily mean losing jobsjust changing what people do.”Growth in new jobs could occur as much,according to the research.“The growth of 20 to 40 person companies that have the speed and technological knowhow will dir
8、ectly challenge big companies,”it states.A 2014 report by Pew Research found 52 percent of experts in artificial intelligence and robotics were optimistic about the future and believed there would still be enough jobs in the next few years. The optimists pictured “a future in which robots do not tak
9、e the place of more jobs than they create”according to Aaron Smith, the reports coauthor.“Technology will continue to affect jobs, but more jobs seem likely to be created.Although there have always been unemployed people,when we reached a few billion people there were billions of jobs.There is no sh
10、ortage of things that need to be done and that will not change,”Microsofts Jonathan Grudin told researchers.【语篇解读】本文讲述了未来社会的人工智能大发展,大约50%的职业将消失,但失去职业并不等于丢掉工作,只是改变了人们所做的是什么人们将从事更具有创造性的工作。4According to the report, Apeople wont necessarily lose jobsBbig companies will face fewer challengesCsmall compan
11、ies will win against big companiesDmost people will become interested in technologyA推理判断题。根据第五段中的“Losing occupations does not necessarily mean losing jobsjust changing what people do.”可知,失去职业并不等于丢掉工作,只是改变了人们所做的是什么。故选A。5We can infer from the text that in the future Apeople will face many difficulties
12、Bpeople will take up more creative jobsCartificial intelligence will threaten peoples livesDmost jobs will be done in traditional workplacesB推理判断题。根据第三段“A growing number of jobs in the future will require creative intelligence,social skills and the ability to use artificial intelligence.”可知,人们将会从事更具
13、创造性的工作。故选B。6What is the attitude of most experts in artificial intelligence and robotics to the future?AMixed. B Worried.CHopeful. DDoubtful.C推理判断题。根据倒数第二段第一句可知,这些人工智能的专家们对未来充满了希望。故选C。7Jonathan Grudins words in the last paragraph suggest that Athere will be enough jobs for peopleBthings will change
14、a lot in a few yearsCmany people will become unemployedDtechnology will totally change future jobs根据最后一段可知,在未来社会,人们虽然会失业,但却会面临更多的需要创造性的工作。CThe latest technology inventions in 3D printing are rapidly changing how things are being made.At the International Manufacturing (制造业) Technology Show in Chicag
15、o,a littleknown car maker became popular by manufacturing a car at the show.It was a fully functional car that was 3D printed in 44 hours and assembled (装配) in two days.The car is called a “Strati”,Italian for layers,so named by its designer Michele Anoe because the entire structure of the car is ma
16、de from different layers of materials.The average car has more than 20,000 parts but this latest technology reduces the number of parts to 40.“The goal here is to get the number of parts down and to drop the tooling costs to almost zero,”said John BRogers Jr.,chief manager of Local Motors.“Cars are
17、ridiculously complex,”he added, referring to the thousands of bits and pieces that are sourced, assembled and connected to make a vehicle.This technology can use a variety of materials to manufacture anything in complicated detail. Imagine if you could order a new car online according to your needs
18、and pick it up or have it delivered to you the next day at a small part of the cost of buying one from a shop? What if you could make small parts at a lower cost rather than buying them from a parts supplier? What a great change would that be for the industry? Its already happening.One of the challe
19、nges with collecting antique (古老的) cars is replacing parts.You cant buy them because theyre not in use and its difficult to find the parts that fit.But now people can use 3D printing technology to make parts for their cars.John B. Rogers Jr.believes that in the near future a car will be made in just
20、 60 minutes. The company is already organizing a worldwide network of “Microfactories”where you can order and pick up your personalized car.【语篇解读】本文是说明文。3D打印汽车的亮相改变了人们对传统汽车制造业的认识,将来人们能直接从网上订购满足个性化需求的汽车。8What impressed people deeply at the show?AA car maker.BA 3Dprinted car.CThe variety of cars.DTech
21、nology inventions.由第一段中的“3D printing are rapidly changing how things are being made”和第二段中的“a littleknown car maker became popular by manufacturing a car at the show”可知,在本次展览会上最使人印象深刻的是一辆3D打印汽车。9What do we know about the “Strati” car?AIts a model car.BIt was made in Italy.CIt has over 2,000 parts.DIt
22、 was made within four days.由第三段中的“It was a fully functional car that was 3D printed in 44 hours and assembled (装配) in two days.”可知,这辆被称作Strati的汽车是一台真正的运转正常的汽车,在四天之内就完成了打印和装配。10The questions in Paragraph 5 are raised to Aanalyse the latest technologyBchallenge traditional car makersCexplain how the c
23、hange happenedDshow the advantage of the technologyD写作意图题。由第五段中的第一句可知,本段提出的这几个问题都是为了说明用3D技术打印汽车的优势。.阅读七选五(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分) 11 In the future your automobile will run on water instead of gas!You will be able to buy a supercomputer that fits in your pocket! You might even drive a flying car!Not all pa
24、st predictions have been proved wrong. 12 Some great thinkers predicted the arrival of the credit card,the fax machine and even the Internetyears before they happened.But for each prediction that has come true,some others have missed by a mile.Many of these predictions didnt consider how people woul
25、d want to use the technology,or whether people really needed it in their lives or not.Lets look at some predictions from the nottoodistant past. 13 Wheres the robot in my kitchen?Nowhere,of course.And hes probably not coming any time soon.Robots do exist today, but mostly in factories and other work
26、ing environments.Back in the 1950s,however,people said that by now personal robots would be in most peoples homes.So why hasnt it happened? Maybe because robots are still too expensive and clumsy.And probably the idea of robots cooking our dinners and washing our clothes is just too strange.At home we seem to be doing fine without them. 14 In 1964 an American company introduced the video telephone.They said by the year 2000 most people would have a video phone
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