2023年肇庆市封开县考研英语一预测试卷Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) My father was a highly educated, intelligent gentleman. He could debate or discuss for 1 on almost any topic and hold your attention in the process. I thought there was 2 he wasnt able to do.A few days 3 my younger brothers 7th birthday, Dad planned to put together a shiny new 4 as a special birthday surprise. After nearly an hour of 5 the instructions, Dad was still unable to put the new bike together. Later he folded up the paper of instructions, 6 his tool box, and decided to take the bike back to the local toy store and pay extra money to have it 7 assembled(组装) there. Then, a(n) 8 came to him, as he called out to Lovett, the quiet little man who mowed our grassland.Lovett, have you ever assembled a boys bicycle? As Lovett walked towards the bike, Dad handed him the paper of instructions. Lovett handed it 9 to him, saying, No, thanks. I cant read. When you cant read, you have to 10 . Less than 15 minutes later, the new bicycle was fully assembled, with no spare parts 11 . Dad shook Lovetts hand , patted him on the back, thanked him and hid the bike.On the night after my brother 12 his simly new gift. Dad announced at the family dinner table 13 had happened several days earlier. He took great delight in telling it 14 -he used it as an example of thinking.He did not 15 illiteracy (文盲) , but strongly taught us to use our 16 . The joke was on my father, 17 he was able to turn it into a learning tool, and I liked him even 18 after the incident. I also gained a respect for Lovett. To me he had always been the old yard man who didnt say much, but after that day, he seemed to smile 19 , even walk taller. Its amazing what a real nod of 20 can do to lift people up.1、AminutesBsecondsChoursDyears2、AnothingBeverythingCsomethingDone thing3、AafterBagoCbeforeDduring4、AtoyBcarCvehicleDbike5、AwritingBreadingChearingDexplaining6、Atook upBpicked upCheld upDgave up7、AsimplyBdeliberatelyCevidentlyDcorrectly8、AplotBsceneCideaDstory9、AbackBinCoutDdown10、AquitBstopCargueDthink11、AremainingBremainedCspottedDlosing12、AdesignedBboughtCdecoratedDreceived13、AwhatBthatCwhichDwhy14、Aonce in a whileBin no timeCfrom then onDagain and again15、Arefer toBapply toCrely onDspy on16、AhandsBheadsCmouthsDfeet17、AorBandCbutDbecause18、AlessBworseCmoreDmuch19、AlargerBhappierCluckierDbroader20、AapprovalBachievementCjudgmentDcomfortSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1Every day, we are inching closer to some kind of artificial intelligence. Advances in big data, machine learning and robotics are going to give us a world where computers are effectively intelligent in terms of how we deal with them. Should you be scared by this? Absolutely, but not in the usual “robot overlords” (机器人帝国) kind of way. Instead, the real fear should be about getting human beings wrong, not getting AI right.The key to the technology is the ability of computers to recognize human emotions based on the activation” of muscles in the face. A computer can identify the positions of facial muscles and use them to infer the emotional state of its user. Then the machine responds in ways that take that emotional state into account.One potential application of it is to provide “emotional robots” for the elderly. Having a machine that could speak in a kind way would comfort a lonely older person. That is a good thing, right? But that wont also relieve us from questioning how we ended up in a society that takes care of the elderly because we dont know what else to do with them? Cant we have more humane solutions than robots?“Emotion data” arent the same thing as the real and vivid emotional experiences we human beings have. Our emotions are more than our faces or voices. How can they be pulled out like a thread, one by one, from the fabric of our being?Research programs can come with much philosophical concern, too. From the computers point of view, what the computing technology captures are emotions, but at its root is a reduction of human experience whose outward expressions can be captured algorithmically (计算上). As the technology is used in the world, it can reframe the world in ways that can be hard to escape from.The technology will clearly have useful applications, but once it treats emotions as data, we may find that it is the only aspect of emotion we come to recognize or va