2019年高考英语二轮备考专项狂练专练二十一模块5Unit1Greatscientists含解析

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疯狂专练二十一

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5 Unit 1 Great scientists

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1.

The young man,

in heavy traffic on the

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way, got home an hour later than usual.

A. catching

B. caught

D. to be caught

C. having caught

2.

After class, the teacher couldn’t leave,

by

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the students.

A. surrounded

B. to surround

D. surrounding

C. was surrounded

3.

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Several

of

us

were

asked

to

attend

the

meeting,

as

________ below.

A. listed

B. listing

D. having listed

C. to be listed

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In

1812,

the

year

Charles

Dickens

was

born,

there

were

66

novels

published

in

Britain.

People had

been

writing

novels

for

a

century

—

most

experts

date

the

first

novel

to Robinson Crusoe

in

1719

—

but

nobody wanted to do it professionally. The steam-powered printing press was still in its early stages; the literacy

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rate

in

England

was

under

50%.

Many

works

of

fiction

appeared

without

the

names

of

the

authors,

often

with

something like “By a lady”. Novels, for the most part, were looked upon as silly, immoral, or just plain bad.

In 1870, when Dickens died, the world mourned him as its first professional writer and publisher, famous and

beloved,

who

had

led

an

explosion

in both

the

publication

of novels

and

their

readership

and

whose

characters

—

from

Oliver

Twist

to

Tiny

Tim

—

were

held

up

as

moral

touchstones.

Today

Dickens'

greatness

is

unchallenged.

Removing him from the pantheon

（名人堂）

of English literature would make about as much sense as the Louvre

selling off the

Mona Lisa

.

How did Dickens get to the top? For all the feelings readers attach to stories, literature is a numbers game, and

the test of time is extremely difficult to pass. Some 60,000 novels were published during the Victorian age, from 1837

to

1901;

today

a

casual

reader

might

be

able

to

name

a

half-dozen

of

them.

It's

partly

true

that

Dickens'

style

of

writing

attracted

audiences

from

all

walks

of

life.

It's

partly

that

his

writings

rode

a

wave

of

social,

political

and

scientific progress. But it's also that he rewrote the culture of literature and put himself at the center. No one will ever

know what mix of talent, ambition, energy and luck made Dickens such a singular writer. But as the 200th anniversary

of his birth approaches, it is possible

—

and important for our own culture

—

to understand how he made himself a

lasting one.

1. Which of the following best describes British novels in the 18

th

century?

A. They were difficult to understand.

B. They were popular among the rich.

C. They were seen as nearly worthless.

D. They were written mostly by women.

2. Dickens is compared with the Mona Lisa in the text to stress________.

A. his reputation in France

B. his interest in modern art

C. his success in publication

D. his importance in literature

3. What is the author's purpose in writing the text?

A. To remember a great writer.

B. To introduce an English novel.

C. To encourage studies on culture.

D. To promote values of the Victorian age.

B

Here is a record of the discussion about AI

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(artificial intelligence) conducted by several scientists:

Scientist A:

I would say that we are quite a long way off developing the AI, though I do think it will happen

within the next thirty or forty years. We will probably remain in control of technology and it will help us solve many

of the world’s problems. However, no one really knows what will happen if machines become more intelligent than

humans. They may help us, ignore us or destroy us. I tend to believe AI will have a positive influence on our future

lives, but whether that is true will be partly up to us.

Scientist B:

I have to admit that the potential consequences of creating something that can match or go beyond

human intelligence frighten me. Even now, scientists are teaching computers how to learn on their own. At some point

in the near future, their intelligence may well take off and develop at an ever- increasing speed. Human beings evolve

biologically very slowly and we would be quickly substituted. In the short term, there is the danger that robots will

take

over

millions

of

human

jobs,

creating

a

large

underclass

of

unemployed

people.

This

could

mean

large-scale

poverty and social unrest. In the long term machines might decide the world would be better without humans.

Scientist

C:

I’m

a

member

of

the

Campaign

to

Stop

Killer

Robots.

Forget

the

movie

image

of

a

terrifying

Terminator stamping on human skulls (

头骨

) and think of what’s happening right now: military machines like drones,

gun

turrets

and

sentry

robots

are

already

being

used

to

kill

with

very

little

human

input.

The

next

step

will

be

autonomous “murderbots” following orders but finally deciding who to kill on their own. It seems clear to me that

this

would be completely unethical and dangerous for humans. We need to be very cautious indeed about what we ask

machines to do.

28. What is Scientist B worried about?

A. AI technology will destroy the earth.

B. Computers can’t think by themselves.

C. Robots will take the place of humans.

D. Humans will be unhappy without machines.

29. What does the underlined word “this” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

B. The movie image of a terrifying Terminator.

C. “Murderbots” can’t decide by themselves.

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D. “Murderbots” will be against humans’ orders.

30. Which statement is CORRECT according to the record?

A. Scientist A thinks AI technology will never develop.

B. The employment will be affected by AI technology in the future.

C. “Murderbots” will follow the orders of their manufacturers

in the wars.

D. All the three scientists agree that AI technology will benefit human beings.

31. Who agree(s) AI has more negative aspects than positive aspects?

A. Scientist A.

B. Scientist B.

D. Scientists B & A.

C. Scientists B & C.

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Why we still need to read Dickens

Walk into any bookstore, and you can hardly avoid “bumping into” Charles Dickens. Many of Dickens’ works

still sell well today.

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As someone who teaches Dickens, the question of why we still read him is often on my mind.

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One day

nearly

10

years

ago,

however,

when

I

was

giving

a

lecture,

I

was

telling

the

students

that

for

Victorian

readers,

Dickens’s writing was a “tune

-in-next-

week” type of thing that generated crazes.

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“But why should we still

read this stuff?” the student asked. The answer I gave was only acceptable, “Because he teaches you how to think,” I

said.

The

question

annoyed

me

for

years,

for

years,

and

for

years

I

told

myself

answers,

but

never

with

complete

satisfaction. We read Dickens because he is not just a man of his own times, but also a man for our times. We read

Dickens

because

we

can

learn

from

experiences

of

his

characters

almost

as

easily

as

we

can

learn

from

our

own

experiences.

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But these are not exactly the reason why I read Dickens. My search for an answer continued until one

day a text message came from a student of mine. “We still read Dickens’s novels,” she wrote, “because they tell us

why we are what we are.” Simple as it was, that’s the explanation I had sought for years.