广东省高二下学期英语期中复习卷（1）（含解析）

中小学教育资源及组卷应用平台 广东省高二下学期英语期中复习卷（1） 一、阅读选择 1.阅读理解 How intelligen_t_can__a computer be? May be you can get the answer after reading the following passage about a newly-developed US computer program called Smarter Child and the Internet. 21*cnjy*com If you ran into__Smart_er Child online, you would be surprised at this kid's huge memory. It can recite many facts. For example, Smarter Child knows every baseball player in every team this season. He knows every _word_i_n the dictionary and the weather in every major city areas across the US. However, if you ask Smarter Child other questions, you get strange answers. A question about Smarter Child's age returns, "One year, 11 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes, and 47 seconds!" Asking where he lives, "In a clean room in a high-tech building in California." Smarter__Child_ uses the huge information on the World Wide Web as his memory bank. To answer questions about spelling, for instance, Smarter Child goes to American Heritage Dictionary online. For the weather, he visits 21世纪教育网 intellicast. com. Some scientis_ts_bel_ieve that by joining the many systems of the Internet, an artificial being with the combined knowledge of, say, Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon and Britney Spears could be born. However, if Smarter Child wants to think and learn on his own like the boy-computer David in the movie A. I. Artificial Intelligence, he must solve two problems. The first i_s_that_ computers find it difficult to read web pages because the files are sorted in different ways. That's why programmers need to tell Smarter Child where to look for the weather. It would be a much more difficult task to let him find it himself. Another pro_blem_i_s that while Smarter Child can deal with information more exactly and faster than any human, he lacks(缺少) common sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious(明显的) to any young child. （1）From the text__we_ca_n infer that 21世纪教育网 intellicast. com is a website _____. A.which__is_sp_ecially designed to help Smarter Child B.which is about artificial intelligence C.where people can find Smarter Child D.where weather forecasts are made （2）It _is_pro_bably most difficult for Smarter Child to _____. A.learn the a_bility_ to tell right behaviors from wrong ones. B.tell us how the American government is run C.provide us with a famous poem by Shakespeare D.tell us how to spell a difficult word （3）Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? A.Smart Child__has_h_is own memory bank big enough for all kinds of information. B.A I Artificial Intelligence is probably the name of a film about a boy-computer. C.Smart Child can recognize different files and find information needed on his own. D.We have similar product now which has the knowledge of Einstein, Nixon and Spears. 2.阅读理解 International Volunteering in New Zealand If you're v_isitin_g New Zealand and would like to volunteer, DOC (Department of Concentration) welcomes yo ... ...