2017-2018学年安徽省舒城一中高二上学期第八次周考英语试卷

舒城一中高二研究性学习材料（八）

英 语 2017.12.30

第一部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项

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Where can you find a nice place to relax on holiday for both you and your children? Well, I suggest you try the beautiful and green Isle of Wight (IOW). The Isle of Wight is one of the main tourist attractions. Here is some information on a few of the attractions on the IOW.

Dinosaur Isle

It is located in Sandown, a seaside town on the southeast coast. It’s a large, lovely museum, both fun and educational. Here you can see a large fossil collection of all kinds of dinosaurs, as well as a gift shop. You can walk into the past and then the future, learning about the history and the development of the civilization of dinosaurs that lived 120 million years ago.

Robin Hill Country Park

The park is in the beautiful countryside, and is suitable for children’s parties and games. It has five new gardens, and offers great opportunities to see and take pictures of the rare red squirrels.

The West of the Wight

Here we have the Marine Aquarium, the Archaeology Exhibition and the Model Railway. They offer another opportunity to combine fun with learning. This is a great place to see ancient boats crossing the narrow strait between the island and the mainland.

The Wight Bus Museum

This museum is run completely by unpaid volunteers. It has a bus collection stored in what was once a warehouse（仓库）. Most of the buses in the museum date back to around the 1910’s.

With all of these choices, what are you waiting for? IOW Tourism welcomes you! 1. In Robin Hill Country Park, children can NOT ______. A. have parties.

B. buy gifts.

C. play games.

D. take pictures.

2. It can be learned from the passage that ______. A. those running the Wight Bus Museum work for free B. on Dinosaur Isle we can learn about all kinds of animals C. there are five new gardens on Dinosaur Isle D. visitors can drive buses in the Wight Bus Museum 3. The purpose of this passage is to ______. A. show the development of tourism on the IOW

B. tell readers what is worth visiting C. attract readers to come to the IOW 4. You can read this article in a ______. A. travel magazine C. book review

B. science journal B

Philip Pullman is the author of the award-winning and best selling books named His Dark Materials. The three books follow the progress of a young girl called Lyra and her friend Will on their journey into unknown worlds. His Dark Materials is much more than an adventure story —it's about growing up, or innocence (天真) and experience, and it explores the major themes of truth, love and death.

Pullman himself spent a great deal of his childhood traveling abroad because both his father and stepfather were pilots in the Royal Air Force. As a child he went on several long sea voyages and he lived in Africa and Australia. \

\radio. I remember listening to gangster serials, and cowboy serials, and best of all Superman! When I first saw a Superman comic, it changed my life. I'd been reading books for a long time. but I'd never known comics before. Soon afterwards I discovered Batman too, whom I loved even more.\

Pullman started writing his first novel the day after he had finished his final exams at Oxford University. \still is. I found that the amount I could write comfortably every day was about three pages, so that's what I've done ever since.\

Before he became a full-time writer, Pullman had been teaching for many years. \I enjoyed most in that difficult and valuable profession was telling stories, telling folk tales and ghost stories and Greek myths, over and over, until I knew them as well as I knew my own life.\always loved telling stories as a schoolboy he had entertained his friends by reading ghost stories to them, or by making up his own.

Questions 56-58: Choose the best answer from A, B, C and D according to the passage. 5. Philip usually writes about ______pages every day. A. three

B. four

C. five

D. six

6. From the passage we learn that_______________. A. Pullman's stepfather didn't like him while he was young

B. TV sets were popular with the Australians when Philip lived in Australia C. Pullman began his writing after he finished his exams at Oxford University D. Philip's stories weren't well received by his students

D. film advertisement

D. advise readers how to relax on holidays

7. The best title for this passage is___________________. A. Philip Pullman, a storyteller C. Superman, a great comic

C People become increasingly concerned that robots could cause a threat because Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more and more complicated. This danger can be avoided, according to computer science professor Stuart Russell, if we figure out how to turn values into a programmable code.

For example, if a robot does chores around the house, you wouldn’t want it to put the pet cat in the oven to make dinner for the hungry children. “You would want that robot preloaded with a good set of values,” said Russell.

Some robots are already programmed with basic human values. For example, mobile robots have been programmed to keep a comfortable distance from humans. Obviously there are cultural differences, but if you were talking to another person and they came up close in your personal space, you wouldn’t think that’s the kind of thing a properly brought-up person would do.

Robots could also learn values from drawing patterns from large sets of data on human behavior. They are dangerous only if programmers are careless.

The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do enough testing and they’ve produced a system that will break some kind of taboo(禁忌).

One simple check would be to program a robot to check the correct course of action with a human when presented with an unusual situation.

If the robot is unsure whether an animal is suitable for the microwave, it has the opportunity to stop, send out beeps(嘟嘟声), and ask for directions from a human. If we humans aren’t quite sure about a decision, we go and ask somebody else.

The most difficult step in programming values will be deciding exactly what we believe is moral, and how to create a set of ethical rules. But if we come up with an answer, robots could be good for humanity.

8. What does the author say about the threat of robots? A. It may act as a challenge to computer programmers. B. It accompanies all machinery involving high technology.

C. It can be avoided if human values are translated into their language. D. It has become an unavoidable danger as technology gets more complicated.

9. What would we think of a person who invades our personal space according to the author? A. They are polite. C. They are outgoing. A. Keep a distance from possible dangers.

B. They are proud. D. They are poorly educated.

B. His Dark Materials, an adventure story D. Lyra, a visitor to unknown world

10. What will a well-programmed robot do when facing an unusual situation?