A board game is a game played on a pre-marked surface or “board” according to a set of rul

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.
【小题1】Which of the following games belongs to board games?A．footballB．badmintonC．swimmingD．Mahjong【小题2】It can be inferred in the passage that .A．the simpler the board game is, the better it isB．people dislike board games for the complex movesC．players are easy to lose patience when in difficult gamesD．it’s possible for people to understand complex games thoroughly【小题3】If players want to get to the balance point, they should .A．ask other players to work out the best strategyB．have a good knowledge of the games they are playingC．figure out the next actions of themselves and their opponents D．come to a quick decision about what to do next by themselves【小题4】In which section can we read this passage in a newspaper?A．CultureB．DiscoveryC．CareerD．Campus【小题5】The author intends to tell us .A．a new research about board gamesB．the importance of playing board gamesC．how the players win board gamesD．how to learn board games fullyD

(答案→)D 解析：文章可知是一个关于棋类比赛的新的研究，太容易的棋类游戏容易让人厌烦，太难的游戏容易让人失去耐心。【小题1】细节题：从文章第一段的句子：A board game is a game played on a pre-marked surface or “board” according to a set of rules.可知麻将是一种board game，选D【小题2】推理题：从文章第四段的句子：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.可知在困难的游戏中，人们很容易失去耐心，选C【小题3】细节题：从文章第五段的句子：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点，他们要弄明白自己和对手的下一步的行动，选C【小题4】文章出处题：从文章可知是一个关于棋类比赛的新的研究，所以在报纸的“发现”版面，选B【小题5】写作意图题：从文章第二段的句子：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.可知作者想要告诉读者的一个关于棋类游戏的新的研究，选A

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