七、[新素材] 阅读理解
Artificial Intelligence (人工智能) is changing the way we learn English. It is becoming an important part of our lives. It provides us with new ways to improve our listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. AI makes learning easier, faster, and more interesting.
AI helps us in many ways, and one of the most popular ways is through language apps. These apps can teach us new words, and even have a talk with us in English. For example, some apps let us talk to an AI partner, and he can answer our questions at any time. This helps practice speaking English more often.
It’s easy to improve listening by using AI. It can provide many kinds of listening materials, such as English stories, poems and songs. We can choose what we want to listen to. AI can play the listening material again and again until we understand it clearly.
AI can also offer some reading materials to us, like interesting novels, short stories and science articles. If you want to translate English words into Chinese, it can do this for you. That helps us understand this material better.
What’s more, AI can check our writing. It finds grammar mistakes and suggests better ways to share the ideas. This helps us become better in writing.
However, AI is not perfect. It cannot understand difficult ideas or give personal advice as well as teachers do. By using both AI and other ways, we can make our English learning more successful.

() 1. How many ways can AI provide us with to improve our English according to this text?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.
() 2. The underlined word “this” in Paragraph 4 refers to .
A. having a talk with us B. finding grammar mistakes
C. translating English words into Chinese D. translating Chinese words into English
() 3. Which of the following is TRUE about AI in the text?
A. AI can do anything for us.
B. AI can find mistakes in writing and suggest better ways for us.
C. AI is the only way for us to make our English learning more successful.
D. AI can completely replace teachers in English learning.
() 4. We may read this text from the section of in a magazine.
A. health B. travel C. science D. history

【主旨大意】本文主要介绍了人工智能是如何帮助我们学习英语的。
1. C 【点拨】细节理解题。根据“It provides us with new ways to improve our listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.”及下文可知，AI通过提高我们的听、说、读、写四种技能来帮助我们学习英语。故选C。
2. C 【点拨】代词指代题。根据“If you want to translate English words into Chinese, it can do this for you.”可知，AI能够将“英语单词翻译成中文”，此处“this”即指代这点。故选C。
3. B 【点拨】细节理解题。根据“What’s more, AI can check our writing. It finds grammar mistakes and suggests better ways to share the ideas.”可知，AI可以检查写作中的语法错误，并提供更好的建议。故选B。
4. C 【点拨】推理判断题。通读全文可知，文章内容主要围绕人工智能对英语学习的影响，属于科技类话题，因此可能在杂志的科学版块读到它。故选C。

【分析】
这是一篇关于人工智能辅助英语学习的阅读理解题，包含细节理解题、代词指代题、推理判断题三类题型。解题时需先通读全文把握主旨，再针对各小题的题型特点定位原文信息：细节题需精准找到对应段落的关键句；代词指代题需联系上下文找指代内容；推理判断题需结合文章主旨判断选项合理性。
【解析】
1. 细节理解题：根据原文第一段“It provides us with new ways to improve our listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.”可知，AI通过听、说、读、写四种方式帮助提升英语，故选C。
2. 代词指代题：第四段划线词“this”所在句前一句为“If you want to translate English words into Chinese, it can do this for you.”，可知“this”指代“将英语单词翻译成中文”，故选C。
3. 细节理解题：根据原文第五段“What’s more, AI can check our writing. It finds grammar mistakes and suggests better ways to share the ideas.”可知，AI能查找写作中的错误并给出更好的建议，B选项符合；A选项“do anything”、C选项“only way”、D选项“completely replace teachers”均与原文“AI is not perfect”不符，故选B。
4. 推理判断题：文章围绕人工智能对英语学习的影响展开，属于科技类话题，因此最可能出自杂志的科学版块，故选C。
【答案】1.C 2.C 3.B 4.C
【知识点】阅读理解细节题、代词指代题、推理判断题
【点评】本文结合新素材人工智能，考查学生对英语阅读理解不同题型的解题能力，题型设置全面，需学生准确提取原文信息、理解代词指代及推理文章主旨，难度适中。
【难度系数】0.7