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【题目】阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

To what degree can a computer achieve intelligence？The answer to this question may lie in a newly-developed US computer program called Smarter Child and the Internet.

If you ran into Smarter Child online, you would be surprised at this kid’s huge memory. It can recite many facts. For example, Smarter Child knows every baseball player in every team this season.

He knows every word in the dictionary and the weather in every major city areas across the US. However, if you ask Smarter Child other questions, you get strange answers. A question about Smarter Child’s age returns, “One year, 11 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes, and 47 seconds!” Asking where he lives, “In a clean room in a high-tech building in California.”

Smarter Child uses the huge information on the World Wide Web as his memory bank. To answer questions about spelling, for instance, Smarter Child goes to American Heritage Dictionary online. For the weather, he visits www.intellicast.com.

Some scientists believe that by joining the many systems of the Internet, an artificial being with the combined knowledge of, say, Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon and Britney Spears could be born. However, if Smarter Child wants to think and learn on his own like the boy-computer David in the movie A. I. Artificial Intelligence, he must solve two problems.

The first is that computers find it difficult to read web pages because the files(文件) are sorted in different ways. That’s why programmers need to tell Smarter Child where to look for the weather. It would be a much more difficult task to let him find it himself.

Another problem is that while Smarter Child can deal with information more exactly and faster than any human, he lacks(缺少) common sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious(明显的) to any young child.

【1】 From the text we can infer that www.intellicast.com is a website ______.

A. which is specially designed to help Smarter Child

B. which is about artificial intelligence

C. where weather forecasts are made

D. where people can find Smarter Child

【2】 It is probably most difficult for Smarter Child to ______.

A. tell us how to spell a difficult word

B. tell us how the American government is run

C. provide us with a famous poem by Shakespeare

D. learn the ability to tell right behaviors from wrong ones.

【3】Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A. Smart Child has his own memory bank big enough for all kinds of information.

B. A.I. Artificial Intelligence is probably the name of a film about a boy-computer.

C. Smart Child can recognize different files and find information needed on his own.

D. We have similar product now which has the knowledge of Einstein, Nixon and Spears.

【4】Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. A New Web Child B. Smarter Child

C. The Future of Internet D. Intelligence Development

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】B

【4】B

【解析】

文中介绍了人工智能“更聪明的小孩”的一些情况。

【1】C。细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句For the weather, he visits www.intellicast.com.，可知答案选C。

【2】D。推理判断题。根据文章最后一句he lacks common sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious to any young child.，可知，人工智能“更聪明的小孩”缺少常识，无法辨别很简单的是非问题。故选D。

【3】B。细节理解题。根据第五段最后一句if Smarter Child wants to think and learn on his own like the boy-computer David in the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence可知，A.I. Artificial Intelligence是一部电影的名字，这部电影主要讲述一个叫David的拥有人工智能的机器人男孩，故选B。

【4】B。主旨大意题。全文内容主要介绍了人工智能“更聪明的小孩”的一些情况，故选B。