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【題目】 One of China’s top technology companies is trying to push the artificial intelligence (人工智能，簡稱AI) by teaching computers to understand scenes from the 1990’s romance-disaster (災(zāi)難) Titanic.

The technology, from China company Sense Time, is supposed to distinguish (辨別) Titanic’s romantic scenes from disaster scenes. Although most humans would have no problem distinguishing Jack and Rose’s deep love from the Titantic’s sinking, the scene is highly complex for computers.

In a show at MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Digital meeting in San Francisco last Monday, the technology performed well and was able to sort the scenes correctly. It points out the progress of artificial intelligence, but also how far it still has to go before being able to understand more difficult movie scenes outside of public shows.

Dahua Lin, the director of a joint research lab between SenseTime and the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he’s also a professor, played a video of the scene from Titanic in which Jack gently holds Rose as she stands over the bow (船首) of the ship like she’s flying. Below the video was a small chart showing whether the company’s computers thought the scene was romantic or action – packed. After processing data, probably taken from thousands of videos and pictures stills in video clips (剪輯)，the computer determined that the scene was more “romantic” than a “disaster”. Then later, when Lin showed the clip of the Titanic sinking, the computers quickly named the scene as more of a “disaster” than “romantic”.

【1】The underlined word “complex” in this passage probably means “_______”in Chinese.

A.高科技的B.容易的C.復(fù)雜的

【2】What’s the main idea of Paragraph Three?

A.The technology performed well in the show.

B.The technology can understand more difficult movie scenes outside of public shows.

C.Artificial intelligence has made great progress but still has a long way to go.

【3】Besides being a director, what other job does Dahua Lin have according to the passage?

A.A cleanerB.A professorC.An engineer

【4】How do the computers feel about the scene when Lin showed the clip of the Titanic sinking?

A.It is a romance.B.It is a disaster.C.It is neither a disaster nor a romance

【5】Where can you probably see this passage?

A.In a storybook.B.In a magazine about AI.C.In a travel magazine.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】C

【3】B

【4】B

【5】B

【解析】

中國最頂尖的科技公司之一正試圖通過教計(jì)算機(jī)理解20世紀(jì)90年代浪漫災(zāi)難故事——泰坦尼克號的場景來推動人工智能。

【1】詞句猜測題。劃線詞前面的句子“Although most humans would have no problem distinguishing Jack and Rose’s deep love from the Titantic’s sinking”和劃線單詞所在句“the scene is highly complex for computers.”存在著轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系。前面說的是：大多數(shù)人都可以毫無疑問地將杰克和羅斯的深愛與泰坦尼克號的沉沒區(qū)分開來。因?yàn)檗D(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，可推測后面說的應(yīng)該是：對電腦來說區(qū)分就很復(fù)雜。故選C。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。本段指出了人工智能的成績和進(jìn)步，但是人工智能還有很長的路要走。故選C。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中的句子“Dahua Lin, the director of a joint research lab between SenseTime and the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he’s also a professor”可知，Dahua Lin也是實(shí)驗(yàn)室的教授。故選B。

【4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文文章的最后一句“Then later, when Lin showed the clip of the Titanic sinking, the computers quickly named the scene as more of a “disaster” than “romantic””，句子的意思是說：當(dāng)展示泰坦尼克號沉沒的片段時，電腦很快將這一場景命名為“災(zāi)難”而非“浪漫”�？芍�，電腦判斷的是災(zāi)難。故選B。

【5】推理判斷題。本文主要講述的是人工智能�？赏茰y應(yīng)該是能從有關(guān)人工智能雜志上看到這篇文章。故選B。

要通過單詞的前后文來猜測單詞的意思。本題中的第一題就是利用前面的句子來猜測單詞complex的意思，是通過劃線詞前后句的對比得來的。正是因?yàn)閯澗�詞前說的：大部分人都可以將杰克和羅斯的深愛與泰坦尼克號的沉沒區(qū)分開來，但是對電腦來說，區(qū)分是復(fù)雜的。從而得到complex“復(fù)雜的”。