《2025年新课程学习指导南方出版社八年级英语上册人教版》

B
Animals are people’s good friends. Many people hope to talk with their pets in everyday life. This may sound too good to be true,but scientists are now using AI to help make this dream come true.
Karen Bakker,a teacher at a university in Canada,believes that AI will bring humans closer to the world of animals and plants in the future. “AI helps humans talk with bats and bees,” Bakker said. How does it work?
When bats talk with each other,scientists first record their sounds and input(输入)them into a computer. Then,they use AI to find out what the bats say and try to speak back to them. Humans cannot hear these sounds with their own ears,but AI makes it possible for us to understand and “speak” back to the bats by training a computer to “speak” like a bat.
Scientists also found an interesting fact：When baby bats start to learn to “speak”,mother bats often lower(降低)their voices. However,human mothers often raise(提高)their voices during this time.
As for bees,scientists use a computer to both listen to and watch them in order to study their language. Scientists now know how bees send messages like “stop”. They even made a robot bee that can talk with other bees.
6. What does the underlined word “This” refer to?
A. Keeping pets. B. Talking with pets. C. Using AI to help animals. (B)
7. How can people talk with bats and bees?
A. People listen to their sounds with their ears and learn their languages.
B. By the help of farmers.
C. By the help of AI. (C)
8. What do we know about mother bats?
A. They never talk with their babies.
B. They often talk to their babies in a lower voice.
C. They act the same way as human mothers do. (B)
9. Why does the writer write the passage?
A. To show us how scientists use AI to talk with bees and bats.
B. To tell us an interesting talk between bees and bats.
C. To show us the scientists’ care for the bees and bats. (A)
10. Where can we find the passage above?
A. In a travel newspaper. B. In a diary. C. In a science magazine. (C)

答案： 6. B
7. C
8. B
9. A
10. C