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 gets, “In a clean room in a high-tech building in California.”

Smarter Child uses the vast 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(人工的) 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 process（处理）information more exactly and faster than any human, he lacks common sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious 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．where we people can find Smarter Child

C．where weather forecasts are made

D．which is about artificial intelligence

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

 

 Coal was formed out of dead forests by chemical ______ .

A. produce              B. processes                C. product      D. Progress

 

Although the film star has got a tight schedule these days, our boss is still _________ to have him invited to the party for the promotion of our new product.

A. concerned        B. determined      C. frustrated        D. annoyed

 

Google Inc. introduced plans in June to offer 3-D maps of major cities and other new features for its popular Google Maps and Google Earth services.

New features include the ability to _____50_____ portions of Google Maps onto phones and other _____51_____ devices, with detailed data, so users can find their way around _____52_____ areas even if they don’t have an active Internet connection.

Perhaps the most _____53_____ new feature was the detailed three-dimensional images that Google plans to offer for major cities in coming months.

Google product manager Peter Birch explained that the company is using _____54_____ to obtain detailed images of every street and building in an area, from different _____55_____, which are then compiled into images that appear to show height, depth and even architectural details of buildings and streets, _____56_____ landscape features such as trees.

“We are trying to create the effect that you are flying _____57_____ the city, almost as if you were in your own personal helicopter,” said Birch.

Compiling those images _____58_____ extensive photographing and processing of images, however. _____59_____ Birch promised to have images _____60_____ for several major cities in coming months, he and other Google officials did not offer a detailed timetable.

Industry blogs have reported that Apple is preparing to _____61_____ its own maps and navigation service, including 3-D images. Analysts say the _____62_____ is part of a larger race between the two tech giants to offer services that keep users _____63_____ and allow each company to deliver advertising or other products targeted to specific locations and other data on ____64______ interests.

1.                A．buy            B．download       C．use  D．apply

 

2.                A．expensive       B．useful          C．portable  D．cheap

 

3.                A．familiar         B．unfamiliar       C．quiet D．busy

 

4.                A．interesting      B．impressive      C．ridiculous D．surprising

 

5.                A．computers      B．cameras        C．phones   D．planes

 

6.                A．angles          B．parts           C．sides D．areas

 

7.                A．except         B．except for       C．including  D．as well as

 

8.                A．over           B．below          C．through  D．in

 

9.                A．spends         B．costs           C．obtains   D．requires

 

10.               A．When          B．As             C．While D．As long as

 

11.               A．sold           B．available        C．accessible D．vivid

 

12.               A．introduce       B．make          C．draw D．sell

 

13.               A．image          B．competition     C．service    D．map

 

14.               A．busy           B．convenient      C．attractive  D．engaged

 

15.               A．children’s     B．users’        C．managers’    D．students’

 

 

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