Question

A board game is a game played on a pre-marked surface or “board” according to a set of rules. Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history. Do you think of yourself as a bit of an expert at board games like chess or Go?
Maybe you’re not quite as good as you think. New research from the University of Manchester and Oxford suggests complex games like these are impossible to learn fully. They may even be too complex for the human mind to understand.
Researchers studied two-player games, to try and understand the strategies which people use to make decisions during the game. Some games with two players are simple, with only a small number of possible moves. Players can quickly work out the best strategy but that means the game soon becomes boring.
It gets more interesting when there are many possible moves. That’s why people are so fascinated by complex board games like chess or Go, or some card games. But what the researchers found was that with difficult games, players find it hard to work out the best strategy and their actions become less reasonable.
This research is part of the field called game theory: the study of human strategic decision-making. Much thinking on how people play complex games is based on something called “the balance point”, which is when players have a perfect knowledge of what they are going to do and of what their rivals are going to do.
When you add more than two players then of course the game becomes even harder to understand. Trading on the stock market is an example of a complex multi-player game.
【小題1】Which of the following games belongs to board games?

A．football

B．badminton

C．swimming

D．Mahjong

【小題2】It can be inferred in the passage that _______.

A．the simpler the board game is, the better it is

B．people dislike board games for the complex moves

C．players are easy to lose patience when in difficult games

D．it’s possible for people to understand complex games thoroughly

【小題3】If players want to get to the balance point, they should ______.

A．a(chǎn)sk other players to work out the best strategy

B．have a good knowledge of the games they are playing

C．figure out the next actions of themselves and their opponents

D．come to a quick decision about what to do next by themselves

【小題4】In which section can we read this passage in a newspaper?

A．Culture

B．Discovery

C．Career

D．Campus

【小題5】The author intends to tell us ___________.

A．a(chǎn) new research about board games

B．the importance of playing board games

C．how the players win board games

D．how to learn board games fully

Answer 1

【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】C
【小題4】B
【小題5】A

解析試題分析：文章可知是一個(gè)關(guān)于棋類比賽的新的研究，太容易的棋類游戲容易讓人厭煩，太難的游戲容易讓人失去耐心。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第一段的句子：A board game is a game played on a pre-marked surface or “board” according to a set of rules.可知麻將是一種board game，選D
【小題2】推理題：從文章第四段的句子：But what the researchers found was that with difficult games, players find it hard to work out the best strategy and their actions become less reasonable.可知在困難的游戲中，人們很容易失去耐心，選C
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第五段的句子：which is when players have a perfect knowledge of what they are going to do and of what their rivals are going to do.可知如果玩的人想找到平衡點(diǎn)，他們要弄明白自己和對(duì)手的下一步的行動(dòng)，選C
【小題4】文章出處題：從文章可知是一個(gè)關(guān)于棋類比賽的新的研究，所以在報(bào)紙的“發(fā)現(xiàn)”版面，選B
【小題5】寫作意圖題：從文章第二段的句子：Maybe you’re not quite as good as you think. New research from the University of Manchester and Oxford suggests complex games like these are impossible to learn fully.可知作者想要告訴讀者的一個(gè)關(guān)于棋類游戲的新的研究，選A
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