2019-2020年牛津译林版八年级英语上阅读理解加强训练(五)(含答案)

2019-2020年牛津译林版八年级英语上阅读理解加强训练（五）(含答案)

Day One ‘Growing’ trees online

Taking a bus or subway, making payments online, or just walking – these daily activities can help turn China’s deserts into forests if you are using Ant Forest.

Ant Forest is a feature (功能) in the Alipay mobile payment app. It records users’ low-carbon (低碳的) activities – taking a bus to work instead of driving, for example – and gives users “green energy”. When the user’s green energy gets high enough, Ant Forest and its partners will plant a real tree for the user.

Ant Forest recently received the 2019 Champions of the Earth award (“地球卫士奖”), the UN’s highest environmental honor (荣誉), for encouraging people to live greener lifestyles and protect the environment.

About half a billion people have used Ant Forest since it came out in August 2016. Ant Forest and its partners have planted about 122 million trees in China’s driest areas, including parts of Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai and Shanxi. The trees cover a total area of 112,000 hectares (公顷). This makes Ant Forest China’s largest tree-planting project started by a private (私营的) company.

Executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme Inger Andersen said that Ant Forest shows us how we can use technology to solve

environmental problems. Ant Forest has “fundamentally (从根本上) redesigning how we interact (相互影响) with the planet,” said Anderson. Choose the answer :

1. You can get “green energy” in Ant Forest by _____. a. taking a bus b. paying bills c. walking

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d. planting trees e. opening the app

A. abc B. bde C. acd D. bce

2. Ant Forest received the 2019 Champions of the Earth award because _____. A. it helps people save money

B. it is the first company to plant trees

C. it solved a major environmental problem

D. it encourages people to protect the environment

3. What can we learn from Paragraph 4?

A. Alibaba has already planted millions of trees. B. Alibaba only plants trees in poor areas.

C. The trees planted by Alibaba have fully covered China’s deserts. D. More than half of China’s population is using Ant Forest. 4. What is the main point of the story?

A. Planting trees is a good way to protect the environment. B. There are many low-carbon activities. C. Alibaba is helping to protect our planet. D. Ant Forest is the best feature of Alipay.

Word in use

翻译句子。

1. 我们可以通过多种树来保护环境。 _____________________

2. 父母应该鼓励孩子自己解决问题。 _____________________

3.我们应该帮助他而不是嘲笑他。 _____________________

参考答案及解析

1. A。根据文中第一段，以及第二段中 Ant Forest … records users’ low-carbon activities … and gives users “green energy”. 可知答案选 A。

2. D。根据第三段 … for encouraging people to live greener lifestyles and protect the environment. 可知答案选 D。

3. A。由第四段中 Ant Forest and its partners have planted about 122 million trees in China’s … 可知选 A。另外，根据细节也可推断其余选项不正确。

4. C。本文主要说的是阿里巴巴集团鼓励人们多进行低碳活动，并通过种树助力环境保护，所以正确答案应为 C。 翻译句子

1. We can protect our environment by planting more trees.

2. Parents should encourage their children to solve problems on their own. 3. We should help him instead of laughing at him.

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Day Two AI passes science test

Do you think robots could pass an eighth-grade test? Guess what – they can. The artificial intelligence (AI) system Aristo recently passed the same eighth-grade science test that some US students take, The New York Times reported. Aristo correctly (正确地) answered 90 percent of the questions on the test.

This is an example of the progress that is being made in AI development. Four years ago, 700 computer scientists tried to develop AI systems that could pass these kinds of exams. None scored higher than 60 percent.

Scientists at the Allen Institute in the US developed the system. Aristo was able to pass the exam because it can not only understand language, but also use logical thinking (逻辑思维) to solve difficult problems. For example, it can understand what a forest fire is and how it could affect (影响) animals.

The system used BERT, a kind of neural (神经的) network technology developed by Google, to answer the questions. BERT has “read” thousands of articles (文章) and can understand English. If it looks at a sentence with a missing word, it can correctly guess what the word is.With BERT’s help, Aristo “read” many multiple-choice (多选的) questions. Over time, it was able to find logical patterns (逻辑模式). Aristo’s success means that we might see new AI-based products (人工智能产品), such as search engines (搜索引擎) and databases (数据库) for hospitals. AI systems might be able to better understand users in the future. Choose the answer:

1. What did the AI system Aristo do? A. Help students study. B. Pass a school test.

C. Talk like a human does. D. Develop other AI systems.

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2. What was Aristo’s biggest success? A. It passed several kinds of tests.

B. It passed the test with a perfect score. C. It scored 90 percent on the test. D. It worked out a set of test questions.

3. Paragraph 5 is written to _____.

A. explain how Aristo learned to answer questions B. show how Aristo was created C. describe another AI breakthrough D. show what else Aristo can do

4. From the story, we can learn that _____.

A. Aristo will be used in school to help teach students B. AI systems might be used in many fields C. robots can’t think logically

D. AI-based products are not useful

Word in use

pass, progress, be able to, guess

选择合适的词并用其正确形式填空。

1. Older children should ___________ prepare simple meals. 2. Kevin has just _________ his driving test.

3. - I think my parents will be angry about my grades. - Yes, I ___________ so.

4. Study hard and make ___________ every day.

参考答案及解析

1. B。根据文章第二段 The artificial intelligence (AI) system Aristo recently passed the same eighth-grade science test … 可知答案选 B。

2. C。据第二、三段可知 Aristo 在测试中答对了90%的题目，与四年前在测试中得分不超60分的智能系统相比有了很大的进步，所以答案选C。

3. A。第五段介绍了 Aristo 使用的神经网络技术 BERT ，并说明经过大量的“学习”， Aristo 能够掌握逻辑模式，可推测答案选 A。

4. B。细读文章最后一段，尤其 … we might see new AI-based products, such as search engines and databases for hospitals … 可知人工智能系统有被广泛应用的趋势，所以答案选 B。

1. be able to 2. passed 3. guess 4. progress

Day Three

China’s volleyball queens

It’s rare to see a team earn 11 straight wins (连胜) in a tournament (锦标赛). However, the Chinese women’s volleyball team has done it!

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