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【题目】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high【1】 — as Christie’s becomes the first auction house to offer a work of art created by an algorithm. This portrait, however, is not the product of a human mind. It was created by an【2】 intelligence, an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses. And when it went under the【3】 in the Prints & Multiples sale at Christie’s on 23-25 October, Portrait of Edmond Belamy sold for an【4】 $432,500, signaling the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage.

From a distance, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy looks almost plausible. Up close, however, the paintwork becomes a grid of mechanical-looking dots, the man’s face a golden blur with black holes for eyes. Look into those eyes. They show no sign of feeling or life. Did a computer make this?

The answer is yes. The first artwork【5】 by AI to be sold at Christie’s, its【6】 price would seem to suggest that in future we will get computers to make art for us. Robot van Gogh will harmlessly cut its ear off and robot Picasso will be a genius.

Is this the future AI art visionaries such as the French collective Obvious, which programmed this “painter” by getting it to compare its own work with 15,000 pre-20th century portraits, have in mind? Or are they just, God forbid, making a fast buck from deceivable art collectors? Because believing the algorithm that knocked this up to be in any meaningful way an “artist” is like thinking your voice-interaction programme is out to get you. Dream on. Computers would need to replicate human consciousness before they could replicate the funny thing humans do called “art”.

Art is a way in which human 【7】 expresses itself, and is equally true of the earliest cave art, Rembrandt’s portraits and Duchamp’s urinal. And that is what is missing from Portrait of Edmond Bellamy. Art is a way humans communicate ideas, perceptions and feelings to each other. It has no 【8】 outside the human passion to communicate. So in what meaningful sense can an AI replica of certain【9】 traits of old master paintings be called art?

For a robot to really make art, it would need an autonomous mind that was emotional as well as【10】. No AI developer has yet claimed to be anywhere near achieving that and if they ever do, their creation will probably have better things to do than paint portraits — like destroy humanity.

Maybe afterwards robots will invent their own kind of art, but it won’t be some poor pastiche of human genius.

It will be beyond anything we organics could imagine.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】ABC

【2】A

【3】D

【4】AB

【5】BC

【6】CD

【7】BD

【8】B

【9】AC

【10】C

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了一幅名为《埃德蒙·贝拉米的肖像》在佳士得拍卖行举办的拍卖会中以43.25万美元的惊人价格拍出，但作者认为要让机器人真正地创造艺术，它需要有既感性又理性的自主意识，但目前还没有哪个机器人能够做到这一点。

【1】考查名词。句意：人工智能艺术品的成交价为43.25万美元，几乎是其最高估价的45倍。佳士得成为首家提供由算法创作的艺术品的拍卖行。此处为“倍数+名词”结构，表示“是……的多少倍”，根据“AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high”可知，此处表示“估价”，故填ABC。

【2】考查形容词。句意：它是由一个人工智能创作的，一个由许多括号的代数公式定义的算法。修饰名词intelligence用形容词，根据“This portrait, however, is not the product of a human mind.”可知，此处表示“人工智能”，故填A。

【3】考查名词。句意：10月23日至25日，这幅名为《埃德蒙·贝拉米的肖像》的作品在佳士得拍卖行举办的拍卖会中以43.25万美元的惊人价格拍出，标志着人工智能艺术登上了世界拍卖舞台。go under the hammer是固定短语，表示“在拍卖、被拍卖”，故填D。

【4】考查形容词。句意同上，修饰$432,500用形容词，一幅人工智能创作的画拍出432,500美元的天价，这价格是非常惊人的，因此此处表示“惊人的”，故填AB。

【5】考查动词。句意：人工智能创作的第一件艺术品将在佳士得拍卖，其令人印象深刻的价格似乎表明未来我们将让电脑为我们创造艺术。空后的by表明，此处用过去分词作后置定语，根据“by AI to be sold at Christie’s”可知，此处表示“制作、生成”，故填BC。

【6】考查形容词。句意同上，修饰名词price用形容词，上文说《埃德蒙·贝拉米的肖像》在佳士得拍卖行举办的拍卖会中以43.25万美元的惊人价格拍出，这个价格是令人印象深刻的，因此此处表示“令人印象深刻的”，故填CD。

【7】考查名词。句意：艺术是人类意识自我表达的一种方式。此处缺少名词作主语，根据“expresses itself”可知，此处表示“人类意识”，故填BD。

【8】考查名词。句意：它不存在于人类交流的激情之外。分析句子结构可知此处用名词在there be句型中作表语，根据“outside the human passion to communicate”可知，此处表示“存在”，故填B。

【9】考查形容词。句意：那么，在何种意义上，人工智能能够复制出大师画作的某些身体特征，才能被称为艺术呢？修饰名词traits用形容词，上文说《埃德蒙·贝拉米的肖像》属于肖像画，因此此处指“身体上的特征”，故填AC。

【10】考查形容词。句意：要让机器人真正地创造艺术，它需要一个既感性又理性的自主意识。此处用形容词作表语，根据“emotional”可知，此处表示“理性的”，故填C。