To what degree can a computer achieve intelligence(智力)? 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 stranger 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 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 overcome two problems.
The first is that computers find it difficult to read web pages because the files are labeled 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(處理) information more exactly and faster than any human, he lacks common sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious to any young child.
小題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
小題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 how to tell right behaviors from wrong ones.
小題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.
小題4:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A．A New Web ChildB．Smarter Child
C．The Future of Internet D．Intelligence Development

小題1:C
小題1:D
小題1:B
小題1:B

小題1:根據(jù)For the weather, he visits www. intellicast. com.描述，可知選C，一個進行天氣預(yù)報的地方。
小題1:根據(jù)he lacks common sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious to any young child.描述，可知它缺乏嘗試性的東西，故不能學(xué)會如何區(qū)分正確的行為和錯誤的行為，故選D。
小題1:根據(jù)However if Smarter Child wants to think and learn on his own like the boy-computer David in the movie A. I., Artificial Intelligence,描述，可知A. I.人工智能很可能是一部關(guān)于兒童電腦的電影，故選B。
小題1:通過閱讀短文可知這篇短文主要描述了一種美國開發(fā)的一種名叫SMARTER CHILD 的電腦程序，故選B。
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A．Two dogs star the movie．
B．The boy' s mother is very disgusting．
C．The movie will be liked by all the children．
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C．Thinking highly of the relationship between animals and humans．
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After the competition, I won and I got the biggest apple. In our family, as long as you want to get the best things, you must take part in competition. I think it is fair. No matter what you want, you must pay lots of efforts.
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A. enjoy the beautiful scenery of the whole town
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D. help her forget some unpleasant things earlier that day
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A. Do something delicious for lunch. 
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D. Speak to the school about lunch.
小題3:The underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph suggests that__________________.
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B. the author’s mother was angry with the cook.
C. her father persuaded her mother successfully.
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C. It is terrible..
D. It was as good as her cook did.
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Ten years ago, this thought came into the mind of Arian de Bondt, a Dutch engineer．He finally persuaded his boss to follow it up．The result is that their building is now heated in winter and cooled in summer by a system that relies on the surface of the road outside．
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In winter, the working system is changed slightly．Water is pumped through the heat exchangers to pick up the heat stored during summer．This water goes into the building and is used to warm the place up．After performing that task, it is pumped under the asphalt and its remaining heat keeps the road free of snow and ice．
小題1:Which of the following is true according to the first two paragraphs?
A．Arian de Bondt got his idea from his boss．
B．Large, flat, black surfaces need to be built in cities．
C．The Dutch engineer's system has been widely used．
D．Heat can also be collected from asphalt roads．
小題2:For what purpose are the diving pipes used?
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C．To turn solar energy into heat energy．D．To carry heat down below the surface．
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A．some pipes have to be re-arranged in winter
B．the system can do more than warming up the building
C．the exchangers will pick up heat from the street surface
D．less heat may be collected in winter than in summer
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A．What we shall do if the system goes wrong．
B．What we shall do if there are no asphalt roads．
C．How the system cools the building in summer．
D．How the system collects heat in spring and autumn．

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