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1、高二上学期期中考试（三）英语考试时间：100分钟；总分：120分注意事项：1答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息2请将答案正确填写在答题卡上第I卷（选择题）第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30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。AHow intelligent can a computer be? May be you can get the answer after reading the following passage about a newly-developed US computer progra
2、m called Smarter Child and the Internet.If you ran into Smarter Child online, you would be surprised at this kids huge memory. It can recite many facts. For example, Smarter Child knows every baseball player in every team this season.He knows every word in the dictionary and the weather in every maj
3、or city areas across the US. However, if you ask Smarter Child other questions, you get strange answers. A question about Smarter Childs 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
4、 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 .Some scientists believe that by joining the many systems of the Internet, an artificial being
5、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 AI. Artificial Intelligence, he must solve two problems.The first is that computers find it dif
6、ficult to read web pages because the files are sorted in different ways. Thats 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 problem is that while Smarter Child can deal with information more exactl
7、y and faster than any human, he lacks(缺少) common sensea basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious(明显的) to any young child.1From the text we can infer that is a website _.Awhich is specially designed to help Smarter ChildBwhich is about artificial intelligenceCwhere people can find Smarter ChildD
8、where weather forecasts are made2It is probably most difficult for Smarter Child to _.Alearn the ability to tell right behaviors from wrong ones.Btell us how the American government is runCprovide us with a famous poem by ShakespeareDtell us how to spell a difficult word3Which of the following is TR
9、UE according to the text?ASmart Child has his own memory bank big enough for all kinds of information.BAI. Artificial Intelligence is probably the name of a film about a boy-computer.CSmart Child can recognize different files and find information needed on his own.DWe have similar product now which
10、has the knowledge of Einstein, Nixon and Spears.BFor some years，my mother worked for a charity as President and Secretary. Selling raffle tickets(兑奖券) was her main means of bringing in the charitys muchneeded funds. We girls would accompany her，selling tickets with great success. My father made and
11、donated beautiful wooden toys，jewellery boxes and other lovely items as prizes.Now my sister was always coming up with “good ideas”，most of which didnt work out to plan. But that didnt deter her. She had many just waiting to be tested. When she was eight and I was just five，we had a wonderful idea f
12、or a business adventure. We decided we would sell raffle tickets for charity，and that charity was us!So one afternoon，we told our mother we were going to play in the park with our cousins as we did most days after school. But instead，we walked around the streets armed with a raffle book，a pen and a
13、large cloth bag to carry the money.Wed accompanied our mother many times when she sold tickets，so people were familiar with us when we appeared at their doors. Despite the blank looks they received when asking about the prizes on offer，they were very generous. Although there were no actual prizes，ou
14、r mothers previous track record enabled us to sell nearly the whole book of raffle tickets.Like a little pair of lottery(彩票) winners，we walked home and proudly showed off our takings. But our enjoyment of this sudden wealth was shortlived，and our plans for spending it quickly failed. Our angry mothe
15、r took us back to every ticket buyer，making us apologise and give the money back. Thankfully，our sweet neighbours didnt make a big deal of our “clever” misbehavior and thus my mothersfundraising career could continue safely. We were taught a good lesson by our mother that day. Also I remember my sis
16、ters entrepreneurial(企业家的) spirit dried up a bit after that.4What did the authors father do?AHe got prizes ready.BHe sold handmade items.CHe was in charge of a charity.DHe helped design raffle tickets.5What does the underlined word “deter” in Paragraph 2 mean?AEmbarrass.BShock.CDiscourage.DMislead.6What can
