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1、甘肃省民勤县第一中学2020学年高二英语下学期期中试题 （时间：100分钟总分：120分）第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AModern technology has a strong influence on many things we do. In fact, technology is shaping almost every part of our daytoday existence, including education. Ashok
2、Goel is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Every term over 300 graduate students take his class on artificial intelligence (AI). The students never meet in person. All of the classes take place onlinethrough a website.Having hundreds of students in a class means Ashok Goel has to an
3、swer thousands of questions. He has eight teaching assistants to help him. But even that is not enough to give all the students the help they need. So, in January, he decided to try an experiment. At the start of the spring 2020 semester, he added a new member to his teaching team: Jill Watson. She
4、was able to answer questions faster than most other teaching assistants. And she was available 24 hours a day. It was only at the end of the semester that Goels students learned Watsons secret: she was not a real person. Jill Watson is an AI computer program. Goel says only two students came close t
5、o predicting Watsons true identity. He was worried about telling his students because he thought they would not like being part of the experiment. But once they learned Watsons identity, they became very excited.“Then, you know what happened? They not only asked that question about Jill，”“Is she an
6、AI? Once the identity of Jill was revealed, they also asked if I was an AI，” he said.Goel now uses Watson in two classes, but still doesnt tell his students which of his teaching assistants is a computer program. He hopes this technology will make it easier for teachers to create their programs to u
7、se in and outside the classroom.1How does Goel give his students help?AThrough books.BBy writing to them.CBy facetoface teaching.DThrough the Internet.2Why did Goel decide to try an experiment?ABecause some questions were difficult for assitants to answer.BBecause it was hard to answer so many stude
8、nts questions.CBecause he was too tired to answer those questions.DBecause he wanted to improve students selfstudy ability.3Whats the students response to Jill Watson?ABeing surprised. BBeing indifferent.CBeing excited. DBeing shocked.4Whats the best title of this passage?ATechnology Making Educatio
9、n EasierBAshok Goel, a Professor Shaping EducationCJill Watson, a Real Teaching AssistantDThe Internet Has a Strong Impact on Our Life.BAs a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some
10、common intestinal (肠的) disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously . But the boy died suddenly that night.Knowing the death could have been avoided if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, he always felt he was guilty. To make matters worse, his wife left him
11、 a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Al could stand, and he turned to alcohol for help. In time Al became an alcoholic.As the alcoholism progressed, Al began to lose everything he possessedhis land, house, et
12、c. Finally Al died alone in a small bar. Hearing of Als death, I thought, “What a totally wasted life! What a complete failure! ”As time went by, I began to re-value my earlier rough judgement, I knew Als now adult son, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most caring, most loving men I have ever known.
13、 I saw the love between Ernie and his children, thinking that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere.I hadnt heard Ernie talked much about his father. One day, I worked up my courage to ask him what on earth his father had done so that he became such a special person. Ernie said quietly, “As
14、 a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, love you, son. ”Tears came to my eyes as I realized what I had been a fool to judge Al as a failure. He had not left any material possessions behind. But he had been a kind loving father, and left behind his
15、 best love.5. What directly made the author think of Al as a failure?A. His losing everything and his life.B. His older sons death.C. His strong addiction to alcohol.D. His wifes divorcing him.6. What can we infer from Als son, Ernie?A. His fathers life was indeed wasted.B. The love from his father
16、made him what he was.C.A great fortune must have been left to him.D. He was not very kind but very loving.7. Which of the following changed the writers earlier judgment?A. Al was indeed very wealthy and left behind lots of material possessions.B. Als son, Ernie, grew into a kind, loving and caring person.C. Al had been totally devoted to educating
