1、 letters help remind us of care, friendship and love. While is becoming more and more popular, some people are wondering what will happen if the postal address changes or if the company goes broken before the letters arrive. Zheng said customers are glad to sign a contract（签订合同） to make sure that th
2、ey can be compensated if their letters are lost or damaged. Most of the customers are college students and young white-collar（白领） workers. Psychologists （心理学家） said that young Chinese might have a new way to express their feelings through this service. Most people put their hopes and wishes in the l
3、etter so that they can experience the connection（联系） between the past and the present when they receive the letter.（1）Future mail is a/an _ way to send your letter. A.fast B.old C.new D.cheap（2）The underlined word compensate means _ in Chinese. A.赔偿 B.完成 C.送达 D.抛弃（3）The service is popular among _. A
4、.junior studentsB.college studentsC.young childrenD.blue-collar workers（4）The service can help us _. A.sign a contractB.express our love and careC.forget friendshipD.understand the meaning of time in a wrong way（5）Youd better use if you want to _. A.save money from sending express mailB.send a birth
5、day gift to your friend quicklyC.talk with your friends about your life freelyD.send best wishes to yourself on January 1, 2020B根据短文内容，判断下列句子正误。 Wearing a white blouse, Ai-Da studies her subject and begins to draw. She looks like any artist at work. However, the beep . beep . beep noise from her arm
6、 gives her away. Ai-Da is, in fact, a robot.Ai-Da has been described as the worlds first Al （人工智能） robot artist. She takes her name from Ada Lovelace, the worlds first female computer programmer. Scientists at Oxford University developed Al systems （系统） for Ai-Da. The robot has cameras in her eyebal
7、ls. After she has studied a subject, she will use her left arm to draw. Now, Ai-Da can only use a pencil for sketches （素描）.The plan is for her to paint.Ai-Da is not the first Al system to produce artworks. Since 2006, scientists have been developing software （软件） to turn photos into drawings. Last y
8、ear, an artwork created using Al was sold in New York for$432,500. However, Ai-Das human-like appearance. brings something new to the field.In June, Ai-Da opened her first exhibition at Oxford. Then were about 30 drawings by the robot. Ai-Da, standing next to her artworks, attracted （吸引） many visito
9、rs.Ai-Das inventor, Aidan Meller, talked about the importance of the robot. Ai-Da bring a new voice to the art world, she said Al is going to be the big thing of the 2020s. That influences us greatly. Meller hopes the exhibition was just the start and that more will follow to show how AI is influenc
10、ing human life.（1）Ai-Da is a real artist who helps scientists at Oxford University develop Al systems. （2）Last year, scientists began to develop software to turn photos into drawings. （3）In June, Ai-Da opened her first exhibition at Oxford successfully. （4）Aidan Meller thinks AI is going to influenc
11、e human life more and more greatly. COn October 25th, 2018, Christies （佳士得拍卖行） had a very unusual sale. It sold the first piece of artwork created by artificial intelligence for $432,500. The painting was created by an AI program written by Obvious, an AI research studio in Paris. Soon questions ran
12、g through the media: Is this art? Who is the artist? How about the owner? Are machines now creative, too?All good questionsbut too early. The technology is far from advanced （高级的）, as Obvious suggested, because the public is completely confused about what AI is, and what it is able to do. In fact, t
13、he painting was just one of the countless artworks AI could produce. It was the team behind Obvious that chose this one. The team first programmed the AI, and then they chose 15,000 paintings to train the software （软件）. Connecting the painting with the algorithm （计算程序） was just a clever marketing to
14、ol. AI did not produce the painting on its own at all. Lots of artists are using the same software as Obvious, but none of them are worried about losing jobs because of AI. As they build the machine themselves and work with it every day, they know how limited it is. What interests the artists is to
15、create works together: the way AI lets them go beyond their natural ability. Artists also laugh at the idea that AI is creative. It certainly creates things, sometimes in new and successful ways, but it does so without a purpose. It is the artist who shapes its output. You make a fire and it produce
16、s interesting shapes, but in the end the fire is not creative. AI is a glorified （被美化的） campfire, said one of the pioneers of using AI in art. （1）The underlined word confused in Paragraph 3 probably means _. A.easy to understandB.angryC.unable to think clearlyD.certain（2）Paragraph 4 mainly talks abo
17、ut _. A.what the painting was created forB.how AI learned to paintC.why the painting was connected with the algorithmD.why the painting was not created by AI alone（3）According to the article, the AI technology makes artists able to _. A.paint on the computersB.come up with new ideasC.improve their p
18、ainting skillsD.save time and money（4）We can learn from the article that the AI technology _. A.can produce countless artworksB.requires no programmingC.can think for itselfD.makes artists lose jobsDAlex is reading a book about AI, artificial intelligence （人工智能）. He finds the book a little difficult
19、 but very interesting. Though the word AI is very popular now, he enjoys reading it very much. He has learned a new idea about AI from the book.When people ask AI a question, it answers the question in a very short time. So, people may feel that AI can think and answer questions as human beings do.
20、Before Alex read this book, he believed this, too. However, this book says it will never happen. Actually, AI only uses a lot of information to get the best answer, So, when it has more information, the answer will be much closer to the perfect one. AI technologies will be cleverer tools for human b
21、eings to use. This book also says almost half of our jobs will be done by AI technologies in the near future. People will soon find more AI technologies in our lives, such as checking the tickets, the price, peoples faces and fingers.So, we believe that we will have much happier lives with these AI
22、technologies around us.（1）What is the short form for artificial intelligence?A.PC. B.AI. C.NBA D.UFO.（2）What does Alex think of the book?A.Difficult but interesting.B.Easy but important.C.Popular and interesting.D.Difficult and important.（3）What new idea does Alex get from the book?A.AI can think by
23、 itself.B.AI cant answer questions immediately.C.AI can have ideas of its own.D.AI will never think by itself.（4）What is the meaning of the underlined part （划线部分） in the article?A.Some of the jobs can be done by AIB.All the jobs can be done by AIC.None of the jobs can be done by AID.AI will take the
24、 place of human beings（5）Which of the following is true?A.AI is used everywhere in the world now.B.AI will have its own opinions in the future.C.AI finds the best answers by using information.D.AI thinks and answers questions as people do.二、完形填空 No one knows what our life will be like in the future.
25、 Here are some childrens 1 .Crystal: In the future, people will have more holidays. They will 2 a lot of time traveling around the world. Maybe some families will go to the moon 3 their holidays.Leo: I think the earth will be more 4 and polluted. Maybe some people will 5 their houses on other planet
26、s.Celina: Students in the future wont need to go to 6 and they will study at home. What will happen 7 students have problems with a subject? They will 8 with a teacher through videoconferencing（视频会议）.Simon: In the future, people will speak 9 languages. Maybe there will be 10 one language in the worl
27、d. And it will be much 11 for people to talk with each other.Lily: Robots will play an important 12 in our life. 13 will help humans do all kinds of work. These predications may seem impossible today, but I 14 they will come true one day. The future must be quite different from today. Lets just 15 a
28、nd see.1. A. resolutionsB. predictionsC. programsD. activities2. A. buyB. loseC. showD. spend3. A. forB. withC. ofD. from4. A. beautifulB. importantC. crowdedD. popular5. A. drawB. buildC. saveD. move6. A. townB. workC. hospitalD. school7. A. ifB. orC. butD. though8. A. agreeB. fightC. discussD. laugh9. A. moreB. fewerC. betterD. worse10. A. onlyB. stillC. alreadyD. ever11. A. slowerB. easierC. luckierD. quieter12. A. gameB. jokeC. roleD. tape13. A. IB. HeC. WeD. They14. A. mindB. believeC.
