【期末备考】专题06：阅读理解之说明文—上海名校2023年高二下英语试卷精选汇编（附答案解析）

【期末备考】专题06：阅读理解之说明文—上海名校2023年高二下英语试卷精选汇编（附答案解析） 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、阅读理解 （2022秋·上海·高二曹杨二中校考期末）Digital assistants such as Siri are increasingly common on phones and computers. Developing an emotional relationship with a piece of software can, however, bring discomfort to some people. As a study published in Psychology Science by Park Daeun, of Chungbuk National University in South Korea, and her colleagues, shows, one emotion sometimes involved in machine-human interaction is embarrassment. Dr. Park and her team recruited 187 participants into their study. To start with, each was presented with a series of statements on the changeability of intelligence. These included, “you have a certain amount of intelligence, and you can’t really do much to change it”, and “you can always substantially change how intelligent you are”. Participants rated their responses to these statements on a six-point scale, on which one meant “strongly disagree” and six meant “strongly agree”. The reason for this initial test was that Dr. Park knew from previous work that those who believe intelligence to be changeable are comfortable asking for assistance while those who believe it to be fixed often feel ashamed to do so. The initial test done, the researchers presented their volunteers with a second, which involved looking at 16 sets of three words and trying to think of a fourth word that linked them. For example, when offered “room, blood, salts” a correct answer would be “bath”. Sometimes the first three words were accompanied by an unrequested hint (in the example given, this was “tub”). Sometimes they were not. Hints appeared as the written form of the word in question, accompanied by a computer-shaped icon (图标). For half of participants this icon had a humanlike face, and the hint was placed inside a speech bubble originating from that face, thus anthropomorphizing (赋予人性) the presentation to some degree. For the other half the icon lacked a