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①The growth of the number of solar panels installed will take up a lot of space. Few like large solar panels to be installed near them.

• take up：占據(jù)

②The result is that many communities see solar farms as destroyers of the soil.

32.What do solar developers often ignore?

• A. The decline in the demand for solar energy.
• B. The negative impact of installing solar panels.?
• C. The rising labor cost of building solar farms.
• D. The most recent advances in solar technology.

③InSPIRE is investigating practical approaches to "low-impact"solar development, which focuses on establishing and operating solar farms in a way that is kinder to the land.

33. What does InSPIRE aim to do?

• A. Improve the productivity of local farms.
• B. Invent new methods for controlling weeds.
• C. Make solar projects environmentally friendly.?
• D. Promote the use of solar energy in rural areas.

④Over 28 states have passed laws related to pollinator habitat protection and pesticide use.

34.What is the purpose of the laws mentioned in paragraph 4?

• A. To conserve pollinators.?
• conserve：v. 保存（+自然資源）
• preserve：v. 保存，腌制
• reserve：v. 預(yù)定
• B. To restrict solar development
• C.To diversify the economy.
• D. To ensure the supply of ene

⑤... resulting in soil improvement and carbon reduction."These pollinator-friendly solar farms canhave a valuable impact on everything that's going on in the landscape,"says Macknick.

• reduction：n. 減少

35. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

• A. Pollinators: To Leave or to Stay
• B. Solar Energy: Hope for the Future
• C. InSPIRE: A Leader in Agriculture
• D. Solar Farms: A New Development?

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A machine can now not only beat you at chess, it can also outperform you in debate. Last week, in a public debate in San Francisco, a software program called Project Debater beat its human opponents, including Noa Ovadia, Israel's former national debating champion.

28. Why does the author mention Noa Ovadia in the first paragraph?

• A. To explain the use of a software program.
• B. To show the cleverness of Project Debater.?
• C. To introduce the designer of Project Debater.
• D. To emphasize the fairness of the competition.

Brilliant though it is, Project Debater has some weaknesses. It takes sentences from its libraryof documents and prebuilt arguments and strings them together. This can lead to the kinds of errors no human would make. Such wrinkles will no doubt be ironed out yet they also point to a fundamental problem. As Kristian Hammond, professor of electrical engineering and computerscience at Northwestern University, put it: "There's never a stage at which the system knows what it's talking about.”

• stage：n. 階段

29. What does the underlined word "wrinkles” in paragraph 2 refer to?

• A. Arguments.
• B. Doubts.
• C. Errors.?
• D. Differences.

What Hammond is referring to is the question of meaning, and meaning is central to whatdistinguishes the least intelligent of humans from the most intelligent of machines. A computer works with symbols. Its program specifies a set of rules to transform one string of symbols intoanother. But it does not specify what those symbols mean. Indeed, to a computer, meaning isirrelevant.Humans，in thinking, talking, reading and writing, also work with symbols. But for humans, meaning is everything. When we communicate, we communicate meaning. What mattersis not just the outside of a string of symbols, but the inside too, not just how they are arranged but what they mean.

30. What is Project Debater unable to do according to Hammond?

• A. Create rules.
• B. Comprehend meaning.?
• C. Talk fluently.
• D. Identify difficult words.

Meaning emerges through a process of social interaction, not of computation, interaction thatshapes the content of the symbols in our heads. The rules that assign meaning lie not just inside our heads, but also outside, in society, in social memory, social conventions and social relations. It is this that distinguishes humans from machines. And that's why, however astonishing Project Debatermay seem, the tradition that began with Socrates and Confucius will not end with artificial intelligence.

31. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

• A. Social interaction is key to understanding symbols.?
• B. The human brain has potential yet to be developed.
• C. Ancient philosophers set good examples for debaters.
• D. Artificial intelligence ensures humans a bright future.