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1、甘肃省静宁县2016-2017学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题（无答案）I.阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分 ，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B 、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A My name is Kenn Nesbitt and Im a poet. I started writing poems as a hobby in 1994. At the time, I never gave any thought to publishing them; I just wrote for my own amusement. But it was
2、 so much fun that I ended up writing a lot of poems, which led me to the idea of creating a website, and at last writing books. If you want to write poems, I have some advice for you. My ideas mostly come from my imagination. That is, I like to sit and daydream, and see what kinds of crazy things I
3、can think up. For kids, I suggest that whenever you think of an idea, you should write it down, even if you dont have time right then to create a whole poem from your idea. I have notebooks full of ideas that I havent written poems about yet. So I can always look through my notebooks and find someth
4、ing fun to write about. One way to make poems interesting is to write about things readers can understand: school, family, food, pets, games, sports, and so on. To make a poem funny, I often ask myself, “What kinds of funny things might happen at school, or over dinner? What funny things might your
5、pets do?” and its OK to make things up, such as having a pet elephant, or a pet that plays video games. Use your imagination and see where it leads. But the best advice I can give kids is not to just write one poem, it might be a great one, or maybe not so good. But if you write ten poems, youll pro
6、bably find that, even though they arent all perfect, a few of them are much better than the others.1. Why did the author start writing poems at first?A. To publish them. B. To entertain himself. C. To contribute to a website. D. To kill time.2. Whats the main idea of Paragraph 2?A. How to write poem
7、s. B. How to think up crazy things.C. How to get ideas for poems. D. How to become creative.3. According to the author, what is the best advice he can give us?A. Just write great poems. B. Write as many as possible.C. Make poems as funny as possible. D. Try to make things up in your poems.4. Whats t
8、he authors purpose of writing the text? A. To suggest some poems written by him. B. To show writing poems isnt that hard. C. To tell readers how to write poems. D. To explain how he writes poems.BYou use her as a shoulder to cry on. She texts you back with casual jokes. But she, Xiaoice, is only a v
9、irtual chatbot. Xiaoice, Microsofts latest artificial intelligence robot, was briefly released in 2014, and returned to WeChat in 2015, where she became a big hit. Millions of young Chinese now exchange messages with her daily, The New York Times reported. On WeChat, Xiaoice is an official account.
10、After following it, users can start text-based conversations with Xiaoice. “Her incredible learning ability was why people loved to talk with Xiaoice,” Liu Jinchang, a researcher at High-tech Research and Development Center under the Ministry of Science and Technology, told China Daily. Apart from h
11、er ability to identify photos and send emojis (表情符号) in conversations, Xiaoice gains 45 percent of her knowledge from interacting with users, China Daily reported.Chatbot programs first appeared in the mid-1960s in the US. Driven by top tech companies, they are becoming smarter and more common. For
12、instance, IBMs latest artificial intelligence program served as an academic consultant at Australias Deakin University, answering students questions about course schedules and financial aid. Apples Siri and Amazons Alexa have been used as voice assistants who can read news, play music and even make
13、jokes for their users. These programs are expected to move beyond smartphones, into televisions, cars and living rooms. The New York Times pointed out. However, it may take decades before scientists develop a “Samantha”, the advanced chatbot seen in the fiction film Her. In the film, Samantha sparks
14、 a romantic relationship with her user played by US actor Joaquin Phoenix. Many viewers were enthusiastic about this fantasy of virtual soul mates.5. What does the underlined part in Paragraph Two mean? A. She became a best seller. B. She became very powerful. C. She became a money maker. D. She bec
15、ame very popular.6. Which of the following can Xiaoice do?A. Do housework. B. Spread messages. C. Identify various photos. D. Read news to its users. 7. Which companys chatbot program can act as an academic consultant? A. Microsoft. B. IBM. C. Apple. D. Amazon.8. What can be learned from the last paragraph? A. Chatbots mainly run on smartphones now. B. Itll take decades to apply chatbots to cars. C. Samantha is played by a US actor in the film. D. The film Her doesnt interest many audienc
