2022年4月23日雅思考试机经-阅读.docxVIP

2022年4月23日雅思 ?纸笔考试 ?机考 阅读机经 考试概述： 本场考试三篇，全部都是新题，难度偏高。第一篇说明文生产类，讨论人和机器的对比，难度不算高；第二篇社会学，演技算是比较冷僻的话题，难度高；第三篇教育，这个主题常见但频率不算非常高，考生平时训练写作的时候，应该会有所涉猎，需要平时重点积累相关词汇。 二、具体题目分析： Passage One： 文章题材：说明文（生产） 文章题目：Man or Machine 文章难度：★★★ 题型及数量：匹配+填空 题目及答案： A During July 2003, the Museum of Science in Cambridge, Massachusetts exhibited what Honda calls the worlds most advanced humanoid robot, AS1MO (the Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility). Hondas brainchild is on tour in North America and delighting audiences wherever it goes. After 17 years in the making, ASIMO stands at four feet tall, weighs around 115 pounds and looks like a child in an astronauts suit. Though it is difficult to see ASIMOs face at a distance, on closer inspection it has a smile and two large eyes that conceal cameras. The robot cannot work autonomously - its actions are remote controlled by scientists through the computer in its backpack. Yet watching ASMIO perform at a show in Massachusetts it seemed uncannily human. The audience cheered as ASIMO walked forwards and backwards, side to side and up and downstairs. After the show, a number of people told me that they would like robots to play more of a role in daily life - one even said that the robot would be like another person. B While the Japanese have made huge strides in solving some of the engineering problems of human kinetics (n.动力学) and bipedal (adj. 两足动物的)movements, for the past 10 years scientists at MITs former Artificial Intelligence (Al) lab (recently renamed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, CSAIL) have been making robots that can behave like humans and interact with humans. One of MITs robots, Kismet, is an anthropomorphic (adj.拟人的) head and has two eyes (complete with eyelids), ears, a mouth, and eyebrows. It has several facial expressions, including happy, sad, frightened and disgusted. Human interlocutors are able to read some of the robots facial expressions, and often change their behavior towards the machine as