强化训练3

高三年级英语强化训练3

组题人：周羚

一．阅读理解（共8小题，每小题2分）

A

Sarah Moore rushed her two-year-old daughter Lacie Moore to hospital after she was hurt. The worried mum from Morecambe, Lancashire, left her car on a double yellow line outside the Lancaster hospital and raced inside with her daughter. When Sarah returned to her car, rather than finding a parking ticket, she surprisedly discovered a hand-written note, saying that they had "sweet talked" the traffic warden(交通管理员）into not giving her a ticket.

“They didn't have to do that-it made things a lot easier,” the grateful mum said. “I was fully expecting to come out of the hospital and to have a parking ticket, and I had come to terms with that.”

The dramatic evening began on the evening of July 2 when Lacie split her head open on the hinge(铰链）of a door. Lacie tripped on the carpet and hit the hinge. When Sarah picked her up there was blood everywhere. It terrified Sarah, who quickly switched into action mode. There was no time to call for ambulance so Sarah just put her in the car and got her there in 15 minutes. It was scary.

When she arrived at the hospital Sarah ignored the warnings ambulance staff about potential traffic wardens and raced inside. The note she found on her car when she returned made sure a difficult day was made just a little bit easier. It read: Good afternoon, we noticed you left your car here as you rushed your child into A&E. (We tried to warn you about getting a ticket.) We spoke with the traffic warden and told him about your situation and managed to sweet talk him into letting you off under the circumstances. He wanted us to let you know that you can leave it in the ambulance bay across the road. We hope your little one is okay. Kindest regards."

1.What does the underlined phrase "sweet talked" in Paragraph 1 mean?

A. Trick somebody with some sweets.

B. Persuade somebody in a pleasant way.

C. Confuse somebody with sweet words.

D. Convince somebody with solid evidence.

2.What do we know about Sarah?

A. She injured her daughter at home.

B. She was punished for breaking traffic rules.

C. She thought she would pay a parking fine.

D. No one noticed her when she parked her car.

3.Who wrote the note for Sarah?

A. Passers-by.

B. Traffic wardens.

C. Doctors in A&E.

D. Ambulance staff.

4.What can be the best title for this text?

A.A Sweet Surprise

B.A Lucky Mother

C.A Generous Warden

D.A Thoughtful Parking Ticket

B

Never play games with a bot(机器人）－it will find a way I to cheat if it can. A team from OpenAI,an artificial intelligence lab in San Francisco co-founded by Elon Musk, has developed artificially intelligent bots that taught themselves to cooperate by playing hide-and-seek. The bots also learned how to use basic tools and that disobeying the laws of physics can help to win.

In April,2019,a team of bots known as the OpenAl Five beat the human world champions at the team-based video game Dota 2. The hide-and-seek bots use similar principles to learn but the simpler game allows for more inventive play.

Bowen Baker at OpenAI and his colleagues wanted to see if the team-based dynamics of the OpenAI Five could be used to generate skills that could one day be useful to humans. The researchers set their bots loose in a simulated(模拟的)environment filled with fixed walls and movable boxes and left them to play team games of hide-and-seek millions of times. The bots each had their own view of the world and couldn't communicate with each other directly.

At first, the hiders simply ran away. However, they soon worked out that they could find objects in the environment to hide themselves from view. For example, they learned that boxes could be used to block doorways and build simple hiding places. The seekers learned that they could move a ramp(斜坡）around and use it to climb over walls. The bots then discovered that being a team player was the quickest way to win.

The hiders also learned to sabotage the other team, such as hiding the ramp before hiding themselves so that the other team can't make use of the ramp." Once one team learns a new strategy, it creates this pressure for the other team to adapt." says Baker.

Such tricks show that Als are able to find solutions that humans miss, says Baker." Maybe they'll even be able to solve problems that humans don't yet know how to." However, there's still a long way to go from online hide-and-seek to real problem-solving.

5.What is OpenAI?

A. It's a video game.

B. It's an Al system.

C. It's a team of bots.

D. It's a science lab.