2016年6月英语四级仔细阅读真题及答案(卷三)

　　46正确答案C

　　What does the author say about the threat of robots?

　　A) It may constitute a challenge to computer programmers.

　　B) It accompanies all machinery involving high technology.

　　C) It can be avoided if human values are translated into their languages.

　　D) It has become an inevitable peril as technology gets more sophisticated.

　　47正确答案D

　　What would we think of a person who invades our personal space according to the author?

　　A) They are aggressive.

　　B) They are outgoing.

　　C) They are ignorant.

　　D) They are ill-bred.

　　48正确答案C

　　How do robots learn human values?

　　A) By interacting with humans in everyday life situations.

　　B) By following the daily routines of civilized human beings.

　　C) By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.

　　D) By imitating the behavior of properly brought-up human beings.

　　49正确答案B

　　What will a well-programmed robot do when facing an unusual situation?

　　A) Keep a distance from possible dangers.

　　B) Stop to seek advice from a human being.

　　C) Trigger its built-in alarm system at once.

　　D) Do sufficient testing before taking action.

　　50正确答案A

　　What is most difficult to do when we turn human values into a programmable code?

　　A) Determine what is moral and ethical.

　　B) Design some large-scaled.

　　C) Set rules for man-machine interaction.

　　D) Develop a more sophisticated program.

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.

　　Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc. But what effect does your personality have on your longevity(长寿)? Do some kind’s personalities lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

　　The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic (神经质的) than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

　　Interestingly, however, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old. Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.

　　Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.