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必修第二册 Unit 3 The Internet
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A(★)
(2024·山东烟台期末)
As the world has changed，so has education.Since 2018，Nelly Cheboi and her nonprofit
TechLit Africa have been bringing computer technology into schools in Kenya，helping students
join the digital world，and unlock their potential.With its own software programs，curriculum(课
程) and teacher training programs，this nonprofit hopes to change Africa.
In 2012，Cheboi received a scholarship to College in Illinois that changed her life.She grew
up in poverty in rural Kenya，watching her mother struggle to support her family alone.Cheboi
had no experience with computers before moving to the US to study.She handwrote papers and then
struggled to type them out on a laptop computer.Somehow she fell in love with computer science
and began a career in the field.But she did not lose sight of her origins.“As an undergraduate，I
invested all of my income from various campus jobs into my community back in Kenya，” she
said on the TechLit Africa website.But soon she wanted to do more for it and that is how TechLit
Africa began.
Cheboi recalled how her background helped her understand how important technological
knowledge could be for children living in poverty.She built a school with the idea of bringing
computer science as part of kids’ curriculum growing up.But she found that it was going to be
really hard to impact as many people as possible，because it was so hard to fund raise.Then in
order to reach more students ， she introduced computer training to existing schools.Cheboi
physically dragged over 40 recycled computers that had been donated to them by various tech
companies to Kenya in suitcases.
Now，since the nonprofit has grown，it works with various companies that help them clean
the donated computers of data and send them to Africa.TechLit Africa runs its own curriculum with
its own software programs in 10 Kenyan schools，and the hope is to increase to 100 throughout
Africa by next year.The students love learning about computers，and in turn are gaining skills that
will help them make use of their talents into a way out of poverty.
1．What has Cheboi been doing since 2018?
A．Boosting her science career. B．Promoting digital education.
C．Starting a scholarship program. D．Updating the computer courses.
2．What inspired Cheboi to set up TechLit Africa?
A．Her love for computer science.
B．Her desire to help her hometown.C．Her dream of supporting her family.
D．Her childhood experience in the US.
3．What do we know about Cheboi from paragraph 3?
A．She hopes to help more kids. B．She plans to build new schools.
C．She seeks to develop new courses. D．She calls for donations of computers.
4．Which of the following can best describe Cheboi?
A．Sensitive. B．Considerate. C．Devoted. D．Cooperative.
B
(2023·浙江1月，C)
A machine can now not only beat you at chess, it can also outperform you in debate.Last
week, in a public debate in San Francisco, a software program called Project Debater beat its
human opponents, including Noa Ovadia, Israel’s former national debating champion.
Brilliant though it is, Project Debater has some weaknesses.It takes sentences from its library
of documents and prebuilt arguments and strings them together.This can lead to the kinds of errors
no human would make.Such wrinkles will no doubt be ironed out, yet they also point to a
fundamental problem.As Kristian Hammond, professor of electrical engineering and computer
science at Northwestern University, put it：“There’s never a stage at which the system knows
what it’s talking about.”
What Hammond is referring to is the question of meaning, and meaning is central to what
distinguishes the least intelligent of humans from the most intelligent of machines.A computer
works with symbols.Its program specifies a set of rules to transform one string of symbols into
another.But it does not specify what those symbols mean.Indeed, to a computer, meaning is
irrelevant.Humans, in thinking, talking, reading and writing, also work with symbols.But for
humans, meaning is everything.When we communicate, we communicate meaning.What matters is
not just the outside of a string of symbols, but the inside too, not just how they are arranged but
what they mean.
Meaning emerges through a process of social interaction, not of computation, interaction that
shapes the content of the symbols in our heads.The rules that assign meaning lie not just inside our
heads, but also outside, in society, in social memory, social conventions and social relations.It is
this that distinguishes humans from machines.And that’s why, however astonishing Project
Debater may seem, the tradition that began with Socrates and Confucius will not end with artificial
intelligence.
5．Why does the author mention Noa Ovadia in the first paragraph?
A．To explain the use of a software program.
B．To show the cleverness of Project Debater.
C．To introduce the designer of Project Debater.
D．To emphasize the fairness of the competition.6．What does the underlined word “wrinkles” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A．Arguments. B．Doubts. C．Errors. D．Differences.
7．What is Project Debater unable to do according to Hammond?
A．Create rules. B．Comprehend meaning.
C．Talk fluently. D．Identify difficult words.
8．What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A．Social interaction is key to understanding symbols.
B．The human brain has potential yet to be developed.
C．Ancient philosophers set good examples for debaters.
D．Artificial intelligence ensures humans a bright future.
C(★)
(2024·江西南昌模拟)
Feeling a hug from each other via the Internet may be a possibility in the near future.A
research team led by City University of Hong Kong recently developed a wireless，soft e-skin that
can both detect and deliver the sense of touch，and form a touch network allowing one-to-
multiuser interaction.It offers great potential for improving the distance touch communication.
While there are numerous devices in the market to simulate(模拟) the sense of touch in the
virtual world，they provide only touch sensing or touch response.The uniqueness of the novel e-
skin is that it can perform self-sensing and touch reproducing functions on the same interface.
The e-skin is a 7cm×10cm,4.2mm-thick device containing 16 flexible actuators(驱动器)，a
microcontroller unit，a Bluetooth module，and other electronics on a flexible circuit board.The
actuator serves as the core part of the e-skin.Once the actuator is pressed and released by a force，a
current is produced to provide electrical signals that are turned into digital signals by a converter(转
换器) and then sent to another e-skin via Bluetooth.When the signals are received，a current is
caused to reproduce the touch response on the receiver’s e-skin through mechanical vibration(振
动)．The process can be reversed to deliver vibrations from the receiver’s e-skin to the
corresponding actuator of the sender’s.
The e-skin can communicate with Bluetooth devices and send data through the Internet with
smartphones and computers to perform long-distance touch，and to form a touch Internet of
Things(IoT) system ， where one-to-one and one-to-multiple touch delivery could be
realized.Friends and family in different places could use it to “feel” each other.This form of
touch overcomes the limitations of space and greatly reduces the sense of distance in human
communication.
Next ， the research team will focus on practical applications for people with visual
disability，who could wear the e-skin to gain remote directional guidance and read Braille
messages.
9．What is the unique feature of the e-skin?A．It provides hugs for users.
B．It builds a social network.
C．It provides touch sensing and copying.
D．It monitors the process of self-sensing.
10．What does the underlined word “reversed” in paragraph 3 mean?
A．Started. B．Disturbed. C．Completed. D．Exchanged.
11．What can we learn about e-skin?
A．It strengthens bonds across distance.
B．Its converter vibrates when working.
C．It sends electrical signals to receivers.
D．Its system delivers touch with phones.
12．What would be the best title of the text?
A．A Signal-sending Application B．An Invention for the Disabled
C．A Device for Virtual Interaction D．A Long-distance Communication
Ⅱ.七选五
You may feel your backbreaking and low-paid part-time summer job isn’t worth your effort.
1 Here are some you can enjoy.
When landing a job，you’ll put yourself into unfamiliar territory and learn how to survive
and develop there. 2 Whether it’s learning a new skill or dealing with a tough boss，you
must rely on yourself for solutions，through which you can build up your self-belief.
Hanging around all summer is a great way to relax，but it won’t contribute to your time
management skill. 3 This skill helps you decide what should be accomplished in a day and
learn how to handle those things to make it happen，which involves prioritizing，planning and
judging how much you can realistically finish.The best way to develop this skill is through
practice.With loads of free time，you’ll likely not have to flex your time-management muscles.
4 Take it easy.Most people change their minds many times before settling on their long-
term career.Getting out into the workforce as a waiter at a cafe may not help you see what it’ll
be like as a doctor but you’ll figure out whether you like to work with people or whether you can
work efficiently under pressure.A summer job helps zero in on your likes and dislikes to evaluate
your strengths and resolve your weaknesses.
Chances are that your social circle is comprised of people in your age group.However，in a
job，you’ll work with diverse groups of people，from whom you’ll learn varying viewpoints
and experiences. 5
A．Working will，though.
B．But such jobs uplift willpower.
C．Not sure of your future profession?
D．Does a summer job help with college?E．Actually，its added bonuses go beyond your wallet.
F．There’re various confidence-boosting challenges to overcome.
G．You can develop friendships and increase your visibility as well.
