2019届高考英语一轮基础自练题unit2theunitedkingdom（含解析）新人教版必修

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1、TheUnitedKingdom李仕才一、阅读理解。Wouldn’titbewonderfultotraveltoaforeigncountrywithouthavingtoworryabouttheheadacheofcommunicatinginadifferentlanguage?InarecentarticlefromTheWallStreetJournal,technologypolicyexpertAlecRossarguedthat，withinadecadeorso,we’llbeabl

2、etocommunicatewithoneanotherviasmallearpieceswithbuiltinmicrophones.That’sbecausetechnologicalprogressisextremelyrapid.It’sonlyamatteroftime.Indeed,someparentsaresoconvincedthatthistechnologyisimminentthatthey’rewonderingiftheirkidsshouldevenlearnasecond

3、language.It’struethatanincreaseinthequantityandaccuracyofthedataloadedintocomputerswillmakethemclevererattranslating“Noesbuenodormirmucho”as“It’snotgoodtosleeptoomuch”.Replacingawordwithitsequivalent(对应词)inthetargetlanguageisactuallythe“easypart”ofatrans

4、lator’sjob.Buteventhisseemstobeadiscouragingtaskforcomputers.It’ssodifficultforcomputersbecausetranslationdoesn’t—orshouldn’t—involvesimplytranslatingwords,sentencesorparagraphs.Rather,it’sabouttranslatingmeaning.Andinordertoinfermeaningfromaspecificexpr

5、ession,humanshavetointerpretamassofinformationatthesametime.Thinkaboutalltherelatedcluesthatgointounderstandinganexpression:volume,gesture,situation,andevenyourculture.Allarelikelytoconveyasmuchmeaningasthewordsyouuse.Therefore，weshouldbeveryskepticalofa

6、machinethatisunabletointerprettheworldaroundus.Ifpeoplefromdifferentculturescanoffendeachotherwithoutrealizingit,howcanweexpectamachinetodobetter?Unlessengineersactuallyfindawaytobreatheasoulintoacomputer,undoubtedlywhenitcomestoconveyingandinterpretingm

7、eaningusinganaturallanguage,amachinewillneverfullytakeourplace.【解题导语】　技术专家说随着技术的进步，即时翻译机器将在大约十年内出现在市场上。但是，由于翻译包括很多方面，因此电脑翻译不会精确，也不会完全取代人类的翻译。1．Whatdoestheunderlinedword“imminent”inParagraph2probablymean?A．Ready.　　　　　　B．Approaching.C．Helpful.D．Advanced.B　

8、解析：词义猜测题。根据画线词所在句的前一句并结合第二段的第一句可知，这种产品在大约十年内会在市场上出现，再结合画线词后的“thatthey’rewonderingiftheirkidsshouldevenlearnasecondlanguage”可以判断，这种产品即将出现，家长们在考虑他们的孩子是否要学习一门外语。据此可知，画线词意为“即将发生的；临近的”，故B项正确。2．Whyisithardforcomputerstoreplaceaw