题目内容
19.My mother finds more achievable with children as a school dinner lady rather than operating computers but some decades ago my mother was replaced by a computer.Her job was pressing buttons on an electromechanical adding machine to work out electricity bills.In my generation I am faced with just how far this growth of technology will go in replacing not just jobs but more fundamental aspects of being human.
A Deloitte report published today suggests that 60% of jobs here in the North East are at high risk of being replaced by robots and artificial intelligence.Yet the implications(含义) are complex.Brynjolfsson and McAfee in The Second Machine Age argue that while some jobs will disappear,others will be created and some existing jobs will become more valuable.This situation is extremely important for education,training and financial field.
But are there wider implications for spirituality?Will these intelligent machines become conscious and what might this mean for our self-understanding of what it means to be human?
Here we need to be careful in dealing with the complex relationship of science and science fiction.Humans and Alex Garland's Ex Machina present an almost inevitable appearance of intelligent machines with consciousness.However,the science is still uncertain about this possibility of intelligent machines,even if the fiction raises useful questions.Equally,those who directly rule it out by claiming that human beings will always be unique need to take scientific advances seriously.
As for me,I welcome intelligent machines taking away dull work,but also want to engage in the discussion of how we structure our world so that all can experience what it means to be fully human.And if the intelligent machines eventually appear as self-aware and with a capacity to love,then why should they not be loved by God?
32.Faced with the intelligent machines,the author's mother feelsA.
A.more comfortable as a dinner cook
B.aimless for the future life
C.satisfied with the current situation
D.hopeless with intelligent machines
33.According to Brynjolfsson and McAfee,what kind of job will still exist?D
A.Farmer.
B.News presenter.
C.Security guard.
D.Accountant.
34.What does the underlined word"it"refer to in the fifth paragraph?B
A.The science of intelligent machines.
B.Intelligent machines with consciousness.
C.The science fiction involved useful questions.
D.Appearance of human like intelligent machines.
35.What is the structure of the passage?C
分析 本文属于说明文阅读,作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了智能机器,它既有缺点又有优点,会让人失去工作也给更多的人带来了便利.
解答 32.A.细节理解题.根据第一段:My mother finds more achievable with children as a school dinner lady rather than operating computers but some decades ago my mother was replaced by a computer可知面对智能机器,作者的母亲感到做饭更加舒适;故选A.
33.D.细节理解题.根据第三段:Brynjolfsson and McAfee in The Second Machine Age argue that while some jobs will disappear,others will be created and some existing jobs will become more valuable可知根据Brynjolfsson和McAfee会计工作会仍然存在;故选D.
34.B.词义猜测题.根据倒数第二段:Equally,those who directly rule it out by claiming that human beings will always be unique need to take scientific advances seriously那些直接统治通过声称人类永远是唯一需要认真的科学进展,可知意为智能机器与意识;故选B.
35.C.细节理解题.通读全文,可知文章先总的引出智能机器,再写他的缺点让人失去工作,在描述他存在的优点分为两段,最后总结;故选C.
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.