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1、阅读理解真题考研英语 上下文、时间、空间、情景、对象、话语前提等与词汇运用有关的都是语境因素。大家须要留心一点，同个单词在不同的语言环境、抑或和不同的词汇搭配，就有产生不同含义。下文是我为你细心编辑整理的阅读理解真题考研英语，希望对你有所帮助，更多内容，请点击相关栏目查看，感谢! 阅读理解真题考研英语1 Text 3 Any fair-minded assessment of the dangers of the deal between Britain's National Health Service (NHS) and DeepMind must start by acknowl

2、edging that both sides mean well. DeepMind is one of the leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the world. The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giants. It Is against that background that the in

3、formation commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has issued her damning verdict against the Royal Free hospital trust under the NHS, which handed over to DeepMind the records of 1.6 million patients In 2022 on the basis of a vague agreement which took far too little account of the patients' rights and

4、their expectations of privacy. DeepMind has almost apologized. The NHS trust has mended its ways. Further arrangements- and there may be many-between the NHS and DeepMind will be carefully scrutinised to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has b

5、een cleaned. There are lessons about informed patient consent to learn. But privacy is not the only angle in this case and not even the most important. Ms Denham chose to concentrate the blame on the NHS trust, since under existing law it “controlled” the data and DeepMind merely “processed" it

6、. But this distinction misses the point that it is processing and aggregation, not the mere possession of bits, that gives the data value. The great question is who should benefit from the analysis of all the data that our lives now generate. Privacy law builds on the concept of damage to an individ

7、ual from identifiable knowledge about them. That misses the way the surveillance economy works. The data of an individual there gains its value only when it is compared with the data of countless millions more. The use of privacy law to curb the tech giants in this instance feels slightly maladapted

8、. This practice does not address the real worry. It is not enough to say that the algorithms DeepMind develops will benefit patients and save lives. What matters is that they will belong to a private monopoly which developed them using public resources. If software promises to save lives on the scal

9、e that dugs now can, big data may be expected to behave as a big pharm has done. We are still at the beginning of this revolution and small choices now may turn out to have gigantic consequences later. A long struggle will be needed to avoid a future of digital feudalism. Ms Denham's report is a

10、 welcome start. 31.Wha is true of the agreement between the NHS and DeepMind ? A It caused conflicts among tech giants. B It failed to pay due attention to patients rights. C It fell short of the latter's expectations D It put both sides into a dangerous situation. 32. The NHS trust responded to

11、 Denham's verdict with A empty promises. B tough resistance. C necessary adjustments. D sincere apologies. 33.The author argues in Paragraph 2 that A privacy protection must be secured at all costs. B leaking patients' data is worse than selling it. C making profits from patients' data i

12、s illegal. D the value of data comes from the processing of it 34.According to the last paragraph, the real worry arising from this deal is A the vicious rivalry among big pharmas. B the ineffective enforcement of privacy law. C the uncontrolled use of new software. D the monopoly of big data by tec

13、h giants. 35.The author's attitude toward the application of AI to healthcare is A ambiguous. B cautious. C appreciative. D contemptuous. 阅读理解真题考研英语2 Text 3 The rough guide to marketing success used to be that you got what you paid for. No longer. While traditional “paid” media such as televisio

14、n commercials and print advertisements still play a major role， companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media. Consumers passionate about a product may create “owned” media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Web site. The way consumers no

15、w approach the broad range of factors beyond conventional paid media. Paid and owned media are controlled by marketers promoting their own products. For earned media ， such marketers act as the initiator for users responses. But in some cases， one marketers owned media become another marketers paid

16、media for instance， when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site. We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment. This trend ，which we believe is still in its infancy， effect

17、ively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further. Johnson & Johnson， for example， has created BabyCenter， a stand-alone media property that promotes complementary and even competitive products. Besides generating income， the presence of oth

18、er marketers makes the site seem objective， gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies marketing， and may help expand user traffic for all companies concerned. The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more (and mor

19、e diverse) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker， more visible， and much more damaging ways. Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media： an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers， other stakeholders， or ac

20、tivists who make negative allegations about a brand or product. Members of social networks， for instance， are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them. If that happens， passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott products，

21、putting the reputation of the target company at risk. In such a case， the companys response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful， and the learning curve has been steep. Toyota Motor， for example， alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick an

22、d well-orchestrated social-media response campaign， which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg. 31.Consumers may create “earned” media when they are A obscssed with online shopping at certain Web sites. B inspired by product-promot

23、ing e-mails sent to them. C eager to help their friends promote quality products. D enthusiastic about recommending their favorite products. 32. According to Paragraph 2，sold media feature A a safe business environment. B random competition. C strong user traffic. D flexibility in organization. 33.

24、The author indicates in Paragraph 3 that earned media A invite constant conflicts with passionate consumers. B can be used to produce negative effects in marketing. C may be responsible for fiercer competition. D deserve all the negative comments about them. 34. Toyota Motors experience is cited as

25、an example of A responding effectively to hijacked media. B persuading customers into boycotting products. C cooperating with supportive consumers. D taking advantage of hijacked media. 35. Which of the following is the text mainly about ? A Alternatives to conventional paid media. B Conflict betwee

26、n hijacked and earned media. C Dominance of hijacked media. D Popularity of owned media. 阅读理解真题考研英语3 Text 3 Now utopia has grown unfashionable, as we have gained a deeper appreciation of the range of threats facing us, from asteroid strike to pandemic flu to climate change. You might even be tempted

27、 to assume that humanity has little future to look forward to. But such gloominess is misplaced. The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an

28、 excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years (see "100,000 AD: Living in the deep future"). Look up Homo sapiens in the IUCN's "Red List" of threatened species, and you will read: "Listed as Least Concern as the species is very widely d

29、istributed, adaptable, currently increasing, and there are no major threats resulting in an overall population decline." So what does our deep future hold? A growing number of researchers and organisations are now thinking seriously about that question. For example, the Long Now Foundation, bas

30、ed in San Francisco, has created a forum where thinkers and scientists are invited to project the implications of their ideas over very long timescales. Its flagship project is a mechanical clock, buried deep inside a mountain in Texas, that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years he

31、nce. Then there are scientists who are giving serious consideration to the idea that we should recognise a new geological era: the Anthropocene. They, too, are pulling the camera right back and asking what humanity's impact will be on the planet - in the context of stratigraphic time. Perhaps pe

32、rversely, it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future. The potential evolution of today's technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it's perhaps best left to science-fiction writers and futurologists to explore th

33、e many possibilities we can envisage. That's one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication dedicated to the near future. But take a longer view and there is a surprising amount that we can say with considerable assurance. As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now id

34、entified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves. This long perspective makes the pessimistic view of our prospects seem more likely to be a passing fad. T

35、o be sure, the future is not all rosy: while our species may flourish, a great many individuals may not. But we are now knowledgeable enough to mitigate many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come. Thinking about our place in deep time i

36、s a good way to focus on the challenges that confront us today, and to make a future worth living in. 31. Our vision of the future used to be inspired by A our desire for ares of fulfillment B our faith in science and teched C our awareness of potential risks D our bdief in equal opportunity 32. The

37、 IUCN“Rod List”suggest that human beings on A a sustained species B the words deminant power C a threat to the environment D a misplaced race 33. Which of the following is true according to Paragraph 5? A Arc helps limit the scope of futurological studies. B Technology offers solutions to social pro

38、blem. C The interest in science fiction is on the rise. D Our Immediate future is hard to conceive. 34. To ensure the future of mankind, it is crucial to A explore our planets abundant resources. B adopt an optimistic view of the world. C draw on our experience from the past. D curb our ambition to

39、reshape history. 35. Which of the following would be the best title for the text? A Uncertainty about Our Future B Evolution of the Human Species C The Ever-bright Prospects of Mankind. D Science, Technology and Humanity. 阅读理解真题考研英语4 Text 3 The US$3-million Fundamental physics prize is indeed an int

40、eresting experiment, as Alexander Polyakov said when he accepted this years award in March. And it is far from the only one of its type. As a News Feature article in Nature discusses, a string of lucrative awards for researchers have joined the Nobel Prizes in recent years. Many, like the Fundamenta

41、l Physics Prize, are funded from the telephone-number-sized bank accounts of Internet entrepreneurs. These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science. Whats not to like? Quite a lot, accordin

42、g to a handful of scientists quoted in the News Feature. You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels, The new awards are an exercise in self-promotion for those behind them, say scientists. They could distort the ac

43、hievement-based system of peer-review-led research. They could cement the status quo of peer-reviewed research. They do not fund peer-reviewed research. They perpetuate the myth of the lone genius. The goals of the prize-givers seem as scattered as the criticism.Some want to shock, others to draw pe

44、ople into science, or to better reward those who have made their careers in research. As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizesboth new and oldare distributed. The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, launched this year, takes an unrepresentative v

45、iew of what the life sciences include.But the Nobel Foundations limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern researchas will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledgin

46、g the discovery of the Higgs boson. The Nobels were, of course,themselves set up by a very rich individual who had decided what he wanted to do with his own money. Time, rather than intention, has given them legitimacy. As much as some scientists may complain about the new awards, two things seem cl

47、ear. First, most researchers would accept such a prize if they were offered one. Second, it is surely a good thing that the money and attention come to science rather than go elsewhere, It is fair to criticize and question the mechanismthat is the culture of research, after allbut it is the prize-givers money to do with as they please. It is wise to take such gifts with gratitude and grace. 31.The Fundamental Physica