2016—2017学年北京市朝阳区期末高三英语试题及答案

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Mean Machines?
“If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing harm caused by robots.” Author Daniel Wilson’s description of How to Survive a Robot Uprising seems like it is straight out of a robot disaster movie. “The problem with cleverly-designed robots is that we become dependent on them,” saysWilson.
The classic movieWestworlddescribes an amusement park where, after a safety error, therobots spend a killing period of time. Yet in reality, statistics show that as technology improves there is a trend towards increased safety. Similarly, public transport systems using computers and machines arebelieved to be more reliable than those in human control,and a robot-assisted operation is more precise andresults in fewer medical problems.
But where does the idea of robots being cruel and harmful come from?“Robots were pop culture figures before they existed,” saysWilson.“They were frightening creatures in novels. When robots really started existing, they already had this image (形象) set up not based on reality. That’s exactly whathappened—a movie monster became real.”
Recent reports talked of a robot “attack” on a worker in Sweden. Even if thesereferences to an attack rather than an error are meant in joke, thisonly makes the problem worse.“We’re so interested in the robot-attack storyline that it can influence the way real robot-safety problems are discussed,” says one journalist. But with robots becoming increasingly advanced,is it going to come a time when an error could become anunkind and cruel attack?
“Robots are just a bunch of metal,” says one engineer.“If you are scared, then youare scared of the people building them.” So what do engineersthink we should be afraid of?Nanotechnology is the science which involves developing and making extremely small but very powerful machines. Someengineerssuggest that with these new developments come “severe dangers” if they are used inappropriately. Its theory goes that “the small sizeand rapid potential of nano-built weaponry(武器) will make it difficult to control and hard to keep out of the hands of terrorists.” And this is a view shared by some artificial intelligence experts. “With robots… if it makes an error, you can unplug it and shut it down. But if you have lots ofnano-built weapons, which are extremely small, there is no way you can do the same thing.”
67. In the first paragraph, Daniel Wilson ______.
A. confirms the existence of robots
B. introduces the development of robots
C. states that robots are potentially dangerous
D. suggeststhat we should bedependent on robots
68. Peoplehave come to think of robots as something bad because ______.
A.designers of the first robots spread this idea
B. reality shows they are the same as in the movies
C. movie audience continue to give this impression
D. they were originally described this way in novels
69. The author believes that the reportof the robot attack in Sweden ______.
A. isintended as a joke
B. serves as a serious warning
C. presents the technical problem
D. expresses sympathy for the worker
70. What are experts afraid of when considering nanotechnology?
A. Robots could use it inappropriately.
B. It could make robots harder to control.
C. It could be more dangerous than robots.
D. There’ll bemore terrorist attacks because of it.

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Dear Diary
Many people have the habit of writing a diary. They try to describe clearly and remember correctly all that they see and admire.The word“diary” comes from the Latin word“diarium”, which means“daily allowance”.___71___Someexpertssuggest that keeping a diary is a good form of self-study.
In America, from the 1940s through the 1980s, a diary was thought ofmostly as a way to express one’s deepest thoughts while keepingnotations about the day. In those times,writing in a diary was like writing to a friend. Many times, movieswould show a teenage girl beginning to write in her diary while she said aloud,“Dear diary, …”___72___
Private diaries may have historical significance long afterthe author’s death. Those diaries are regarded as the result of how a particular authorexperiencedall the things around.___73___A diary kept by a Jewish girl by thename of Anne Frank documented her experiences while she hid from the Nazis in World War II. Her diary has becomeone of the world’s most widely read books.Samuel Pepys, who lived during the 17th century, is still very famous today. His diary was also an important documentation of history. ___74___Pepys took diary writing from the general area of business to personal preference.Reading his diary is extremely interesting, and it makes his life all the more real tous.
___75___The electronic version of the diary, the blog, hasmadeit much more than a personal account of the day’s events. There are blogs to document recipes, traveling, product announcements,and anything else that needs to be recorded over time. Search engines like Technorati.com have been created to keep track of millions of blogs that are available for anyone. Diary has become more popular than ever.
A. It refers to a book consisting of many small parts of writings by date.
B. More and more personal diaries have given the attention to public interest.
C.They’ve proved that writing diaries is highly beneficial to historical development.
D. By extension the term “diary”has been used to mean the publication in some way.
E. It gave his clear understanding of some big events such as the Great Fire of London.
F. They show how people accepted or resisted the time and the place in which they lived.
G. What followed was a summary of the day filled with a strong feeling such as love or hate.