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　　2014级高三上学期第一次月考试题


　　本试卷共11页，满分为135分，考试时间120分钟
　　第一部分阅读理解（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。
　　A
　　Robots make me nervous —especially the ones which seem to think for themselves. I was embarrassed to admit this till I heard that Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, felt the same way.
　　Gates said in an interview with the social networking and news website Reddit: “I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern.”
　　Well, maybe I don’t have to worry about my computer and kitchen equipment yet. After I use them I can always pull the plug. But in the future, machines might find a way to prevent us from switching them off. There’s a terrible thought!
　　Maybe the problem with computers too clever for us is not that they are evil like some we’ve seen in sci-fi movies. What could put us in danger is that they might be too efficient. That’s what philosopher Nick Bostrom from Oxford University believes. He says that machines are indifferent to humans and in pursuit of their own goals, the destruction of people might be just additional damage. Bostrom gives us an example: A machine which might have as its only goal to produce as many paperclips as possible might looman bodies as extra material for paperclips and go after you. Because it is, well, a machine, it would not take pity on you.
　　It’s a good thing that American writer Isaac Asimov thought about how far robots can go and left us his three rules of robotics. They state that a robot may not hurt a human being or allow the human being to come to harm.
　　I’m glad my machines at home are “dumb”. All my cleaner wants to take over is the carpet in my living room. Let’s hope they don’t create an appliance which wants to take over the world!
　　1. The author quoted Bill Gates’words in Paragraph 2 in order to make the text ____________．
　　A. better-known B. more persuasive C. better-organized D. more interesting
　　2. An intelligent paperclip machine would harm us because _____________．
　　A. it is much cleverer than us B. it would take over the world
　　C. it would see us just as material D. it has the strong feeling of destroying us
　　3. How does the author feel about Isaac Asimov’s rules of robotics?
　　A. Optimistic. B. Sympathy. C. Disappointed. D. Regretful.
　　B
　　We know the famous ones —the Thomas Edisons and the Alexander Graham Bells —but what about the less famous inventors? What about the people who invented the traffic light and the windshield wiper（雨刮器）? Shouldn’t we know who they are?
　　Joan Mclean think so. In fact, Mclean, a professor of physics at Mountain University in Range, feels so strongly about this matter that she’s developed a course on the topic. In addition to learning “who”invented “what”, however, Mclean also likes her students to learn the answers to the “why”and “how”questions. According to Mclean, “When students learn the answers to these questions, they are better prepared to recognize opportunities for inventing and more motivated to give inventing a try.”