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1、 homes woke up and tried to order dollhouses!Alexa isnt the only AI willing to serve you. Apple Homepod has Siri, Google Home has its Assistant, and the upcoming Galaxy Home device will have Bixby. People who have these devices use them mainly for listening to music, checking the weather, and settin

2、g timers. According to a report from The Information, nowadays voice shopping is rare. But many scientists predict a boom（增长） in voice shopping in the near future. Is that a good thing?_. You can shout out an order as soon as you think of it, even if you are cooking, cleaning, or driving. In additio

3、n, people with disabilities who are unable to use a keyboard or mouse can shop without any help.But voice shopping has its disadvantages. Unwanted dollhouses arent the biggest problem. Its usually very easy to cancel an order or return products. The thing that worries some people is that these assis

4、tants are always listening. They have to be able to respond when you want them. So they listen for “Alexa” or “OK Google” or another order. When they hear it, they start recording the conversation. Some have worried about what happens to these recordings. Should companies be allowed to use them to l

5、earn about peoples shopping habits? And what if someone hacks（入侵） the device? The CIA found a way to hack smart TVs to turn them into spies that listen all the time. Others could do the same with any smart device.What do you think? Are you ready to start voice shopping?（ ）1. From the passage, we kno

6、w that Alexa _A. can look after the baby B. can cook delicious foodC. is a toy doll sold online D. is one kind of AI device（ ）2. The underlined word “rare” in Paragraph 2 probably means _A. unusual B. expensive C. harmful D. impossible（ ）3. Which of the following is the best to fill in the “_” in Pa

7、ragraph 3?A. Convenience is the main advantage of voice shoppingB. The cost of voice shopping is lower than other waysC. The popularity of voice shopping is increasingD. The technology of voice shopping needs improving（ ）4. Paragraph 4 mainly tells us that _ when people try voice shopping.A. AI some

8、times forgets peoples ordersB. personal information might be hackedC. its difficult to cancel or return productsD. the needs for products cant be satisfiedPassage 2（2019宿迁）Technology is developing fast and it has become an important part of our life. Then what will the world be like in the future?3D

9、 food will be both delicious and nutritious（有营养的）. We can use 3D printers to print some basic materials. _ And we can go further. Scientists believe that we just need to turn on a printer in the kitchens and then we can enjoy our favourite food whenever we like._ 5G network will allow many more peop

10、le to get information. Big companies like China Mobile and China Unicom will start to offer 5G. It is said that 5G promises download speeds 10 to 20 times faster than 4G. For example, we can download a film within just 1 second. But with a 4G network, it takes a few minutes. There will be much bandw

11、idth（带宽） and we can get unlimited（无限的） information.Underwater cities will provide more space. The earth is becoming more and more crowded. We may turn to underwater homes, which will be built as low as 15 kilometers below the sea. And the different temperatures at the different depths（深度） of the sea

12、 can be used to provide power for the homes._ For us common people on the earth, the dream of travelling around space will come true. In the coming years, spacecraft will be as popular as buses, trains and planes. We can leave our home and enter space to take an adventure（冒险）. And even we will get u

13、sed to living there.A robot will be a part of life. Robots can do many of the same things as we humans do like driving cars. But they will be used in other areas as well. They will be able to think. They can tell the difference between right and wrong. They can feel sadness or joy. When we are lonel

14、y, they can have a talk with us like real friends._ In a word, just as Jules Verne said, “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”（ ）1. According to the passage, which of the following statements about the future world is TRUE?A. 3D food will be easy to make but wont taste good.B. Wit

15、h 5G, users will get only a little information.C. Underwater cities will provide more living space.D. A robot will do everything for us human beings.（ ）2. Where can the sentence “Space tour will be a piece of cake.” be put?A. B. C. D. （ ）3. What can we infer（推断） from the passage?A. People will live

16、a hard life in the futureB. Technology will make our future better.C. People will have no real friends in the future.D. Technology will make no difference to our future.（ ）4. Where does the passage probably come from?A. A storybook. B. A film poster.C. A travel guide. D. A science magazine.Passage 3

17、（2019绍兴）To help Japanese companies better deal with the increasing number of foreigners visiting the country, Panasonic has created a megaphone（扩音器） which is able to smartly translate Japanese into English, Chinese and Korean.Panasonic named the product “Megahonyaku”. It is a term for the Japanese w

18、ords for “megaphone” and “translate”， which actually makes a lot of sense because its a megaphone that can translate Japanese into several other languages in real time. When a user speaks Japanese into the megaphone, it recognizes（辨认） and translates what is being said immediately, and outputs the wo

19、rds in English, Chinese or Korean.It sounds amazing, and seeing it in action is wonderful, but Megahonyaku is not good enough. It cannot translate everything you say, as it only stores 300 common expressions, like “The train has been put off” or “Watch your step”. However, the Japanese company behin

20、d Megahonyaku promises to add new expressions regularly, which users can get on the Internet.The machine was designed to be used in places like transport stations, airports and places of interest, where quick and exact announcements are needed most. Around 30 Japanese organizations, including the po

21、lice and guides, have been trying out Megahonyaku for about one year, but Panasonic says it will come onto the market on December 20th. Instead of selling these speech translators, Panasonic plans on renting（出租） them out for less than $183 a month on a threeyear agreement, and offering users future

22、improvements and necessary services.Panasonic has also said that it may add support for other languages, like Russian, depending on customers needs. Megahonyaku also includes a touch screen that allows users to choose the language they need their speech translated into.（ ）1. Panasonic has produced M

23、egahonyaku so that _.A. guides can translate Chinese into Japanese fasterB. Japanese companies can receive foreigners betterC. foreigners can talk with the Japanese freelyD. the Japanese can learn other languages easily（ ）2. The third paragraph is mainly about the _ of Megahonyaku.A. invention B. im

24、portance C. disadvantage D. history（ ）3. It can be learnt from Paragraph 4 that Megahonyaku _A. may be popular with the policeB. is widely used in private homesC. will be sold on December 20thD. stores about 30 foreign languages（ ）4. According to the passage, Panasonic will _ in the future.A. sell M

25、egahonyaku to foreign visitorsB. bring down the price of MegahonyakuC. change the screen of MegahonyakuD. improve Megahonyaku regularlyPassage 4（2019广安）Artificial intelligence（AI）（人工智能） is the ability of a computer program or a machine. The computer or the machine with AI can think and learn. It is

26、also a field of study that tries to make computers “smart”. John McCarthy, a scientist, came up with（提出） the name “artificial intelligence” over 60 years ago. Many things such as learning and problem solving can be done by computers, though not in the same way as people do.An unusual goal of AI rese

27、arch is to create special computer programs. They can learn, solve problems, and think logically（逻辑地）. At present, AI can successfully understand human speech, recognize（识别） human faces, operate selfdriving cars and compete in some game systems like playing Chess. However, some people consider（认为） A

28、I a danger to humans if it develops too quickly. A famous British scientist also was not for this kind of technology.Math is the basic language of AI. If students are good at math, they will be more likely to become successful AI designers（设计者） in the future. We need not only bright students but als

29、o average（普通的） students. As for（对于） average students, if they get enough math skills, they can also become successful AI designers. Besides, a good knowledge of computer science is also necessary for AI designing.Scientists hope to create creative（有创造力的） and emotional（有情感的） AI. The AI can possibly u

30、nderstand human feelings or create art. Many ways and tools have been tried to discover this wide and exciting field.（ ）1. From Paragraph 1, we know that _A. all problems can be solved by computersB. machines with AI can think and learnC. AI has been around for only 60 yearsD. AI works in the same way as people（ ）2.According to the passage, what cant AI do at present?A. Understand human speech.B. Operate selfdr