UNIT 4 课时跟踪检测(三) 语言技能应用练(Word练习)-【新课程学案】新教材2022-2023学年高中英语选择性必修第二册（北师大版2019）

UNIT 4 课时跟踪检测(三) 语言技能应用练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Robots are increasingly being developed to think and act like humans. But it is difficult for engineers to create humour in machines. Computer scientists have hoped to help them understand humour. But they failed again and again. Why is it so difficult? Kiki, a computer language expert, studies humour at a university.“Most robots are powered by artificial intelligence (人工智能AI). But AI will never understand jokes like humans do.” He said，“The main problem is that AI system doesn't have the sense of humour.” Other experts agree that context (语境) is very important to understand humour, both for humans and robots. In one project, Tristan Miller, a computer scientist, studied more than 10,000 puns. Puns are a kind of joke that uses a word with two meanings. For example, you could say，“Balloons do not like pop music.” The word “pop” can be a way of saying popular music, or “pop” can be the sound a balloon makes when it explodes.“A robot might not understand the joke because it doesn't know the meaning of the puns，” Miller said. Although it's difficult, some scientists say there are good reasons to keep trying to teach humour to robots. It can make machines understand humans better and serve humans better. And it can also help them to think more like humans. But other scientists don't think it's a good idea to teach humour to robots. They may find humour, but they may use it in a wrong way. Maybe bad AI will start killing people because it thinks it is funny. Besides, it may make some people feel not safe. The comedians may lose their jobs when the robots can understand humour. 语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。工程师很难让机器理解幽默，而对于机器人是否应该被教授幽默，不同的科学家有不同的见解。 1．Kiki is an expert who studies ________ at a university. A．humans　　　　　　　　 B．humour C．AI system D．robots 解析：选B　细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Kiki, a computer language expert, studies humour at a university.”可知，Kiki是一个电脑语言专家，在大学研究幽默。 2．What does the underlined word “puns” mean in Paragraph 3? A．语言 B．笑话 C．双关语 D．同义词 解析：选C　词