2002考研英语真题及答案(编辑修改稿)

2002考研英语真题及答案(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a lighthearted remark. Look for the humor. It often es from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote If at first you don39。 t succeed, give up or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor. 41. To make your humor work, you should [A] take advantage of different kinds of audience. [B] make fun of the disanized people. [C] address different problems to different people. [D] show sympathy for your listeners. 42. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are [A] impolite to new arrivals. [B] very conscious of their godlike role. [C] entitled to some privileges. [D] very busy even during lunch hours. 43. It can be inferred from the text that public services [A] have benefited many people. [B] are the focus of public attention. [C] are an inappropriate subject for humor. [D] have often been the laughing stock. 44. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered [A] in wellworded language. [B] as awkwardly as possible. [C] in exaggerated statements. [D] as casually as possible. 45. The best title for the text may be [A] Use Humor Effectively. [B] Various Kinds of Humor. [C] Add Humor to Speech. [D] Different Humor Strategies. Text 2 Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That pulsion has resulted in roboticsthe science of conferring various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to e close. As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with mechanical politeness for the transaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robodrivers. And thanks to the continual miniaturization of electronics and micromechanics, there are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracyfar greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone. But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselvesgoals that pose a real challenge. While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error, says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA, we can39。 t yet give a robot enough 39。 mon sense39。 to reliably interact with a dynamic world. Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed results. Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2020, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries. What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain39。 s roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talentedand human perception far more plicatedthan previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The most advanced puter systems on Earth can39。 t approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still don39。 t know quite how we do it. 46. Human ingenuity was initially demonstrated in [A] the use of machines to produce science fiction. [B] the wide use of machines in manufacturing industry. [C] the invention of tools for difficult and dangerous work. [D] the elite39。 s cunning tackling of dangerous and boring work. 47. The word gizmos (line 1, paragraph 2) most probably means [A] programs. [B] experts. [C] devices. [D] creatures. 48. According to the text, what is beyond man39。 s ability now is to design a robot that can [A] fulfill delicate tasks like performing brain surgery. [B] interact with human beings verbally. [C] have a little mon sense. [D] respond independently to a changing world. 49. Besides reducing human labor, robots can also [A] make a few decisions for themselves. [B] deal with some errors with human intervention. [C] improve factory environments. [D] cultivate human creativity. 50. The author uses the example of a monkey to argue that robots are [A] expected to copy human brain in internal structure. [B] able to perceive abnormalities immediately. [C] far less able than human brain in focusing on relevant information. [D] best used in a controlled environment. Text 3 Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC agreed to supplycuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This neartripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 197980, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in doubledigit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time? The oil price was given another push up this week when Ir。