阅读理解解析A篇21. 答案为 B。【分析】“The 4-Week Learning Sprint, which will
take place during November 2023, is a virtual learning programme.”明确提到 4 周学习冲刺是一个虚拟学习项目，参与者将参加这个虚拟学习项目，A 选项在社区中创造改变并不是在 4 周学习冲刺中直接进行的；C 选项遇见不同背景的人不是重点强调的内容；D 选项推广 IOC 青年领袖项目也不是主要内容。22. 答案为 C。【分析】“After successfully completing the
4-Week Learning Sprint, you will need to submit a plan for a sport﹣based project, which you will work on if
selected as an IOC Young Leader.”说明如果被选为 IOC 青年领袖，就需要致力于一个基于运动的项目，A 选项每周完成一个反思任务是在 4 周学习冲刺中的要求；B 选项在 IOC 频道上看体育不是主要任务；D 选项指导和建议同伴也不是当选后的首要任务。23. 答案为 B。【分析】“Requirements for the
Applicants”中明确提到“You have at least one year of work
experience.”，A 选项传播体育的良好信息是成为青年领袖后的行为；C 选项对项目规划有极大热情不是明确列出的要求；D 选项致力于成为专家也不是申请的必要条件。B篇：24. 答案为 A。【分析】从文中“My heart raced when I saw the email
sender’s name.”可知看到发件人名字时作者心跳加速，这体现出他很焦虑，B 选项生气、C 选项惊讶、D 选项安定均不符合。25. 答案为 D。【分析】从“but I was going to give it my all.”可知作者决定全身心投入实验室工作，A 选项批评评审过程文中未提及；B 选项在撒哈拉沙漠待更久与文意不符；C 选项再次申请最初的项目错误。26. 答案为 B。【分析】从“That project, which I could complete
from my sofa instead of in the burning heat of the desert, not only survived
the lockdown but worked where traditional methods didn’t. In the end, I had a
new scientific interest to pursue.”可知这个项目很有启发性，A 选项要求高、C 选项误导、D 选项有趣均不准确。27. 答案为 C。【分析】作者最初申请的项目被拒绝后，又有了新的机会和方向，这表明拒绝可能会引导到新的方向，A 选项邀请是声誉、B 选项创新是解决方案、D 选项反思是限制均不符合文意。C篇：28. 答案为 D。【分析】文中提到“The historian Francis Cole argues that
the West has entered a period where “only the present exists, a present
characterised at once by the cruelty of the instant and by the boredom of an
unending now”.”，这句话表明了当下只存在于当下，体现了短视的问题，这就是引用 Francis Cole 的话来突出这个严重问题的依据。A 选项比较、B 选项引入话题不确切，C 选项评价一个陈述也不准确。29. 答案为 C。【分析】最后一段中“As a psychologist once joked, if aliens
(外星人) wanted to weaken
humanity, they wouldn’t send ships; they would invent climate change. Indeed,
when it comes to environmental transformations, we can develop a form of
collective “poor memory”, and each new generation can believe the state of
affairs they encounter is nothing out of the ordinary.”，这里提到了对于环境变化人们会形成一种“糟糕的记忆”，新的一代会觉得遇到的情况没什么特别，这就是说明人类的思维不善于注意到缓慢变化的依据。A 选项气候变化被遗忘不准确，B 选项历史教训被高度重视文中未体现，D 选项人类不愿意承认自己的缺点也不恰当。30. 答案为 A。【分析】文章多处强调了短视带来的问题，比如“In recent years,
researchers from diverse fields have agreed that short-termism is now a
significant problem in industrialised societies.”等，这就是在告诉我们有远见的思考对人类很重要。B 选项人类倾向于做出长期牺牲与文意不符，C 选项当前政策促进未来决策文中未提及，D 选项对当下的偏向有助于减少近期欲望错误。D篇：31. A。【分析】作者在描述 Alan Smith 对 ALife 的辩护时，虽然也提到了 ALife 存在一些问题，如概念未定义、研究者意见不统一等，但整体上还是较为客观地呈现了 Alan Smith 的观点和理由。根据题干定位到文中“Alan Smith, a complexity
scientist, is tired of such complaints. Asking about ‘the point’ of ALife might
be, well, missing the point entirely, he says.”（艾伦·史密斯对这类抱怨感到厌倦。他说，询问“人工生命的意义”可能完全是不得要领。）等表述，可以看出作者对 Alan Smith 为 ALife 辩护的态度是有一定认可和理解的，是较为支持的，A 选项正确。B 选项“困惑的”、C 选项“不关心的”、D 选项“怀疑的”均不太符合。32. C。【分析】根据上下文，研究者们对“开放进化”这个概念很着迷、被吸引，“enamored”的意思应为“被吸引”。“Artificial intelligence may be
considered ALife’s cousin in that researchers in both fields are enamored by a
concept called open-ended evolution (演化).”。33. B。【分析】文章提到人工智能和人工生命在“开放进化”这个方面有共同特征，“Artificial intelligence
may be considered ALife’s cousin in that researchers in both fields are
enamored by a concept called open-ended evolution (演化).”。
