【題目】Robots make me nervous—especially the ones which seem to think for themselves.I was embarrassed to admit this till I heard that Bill Gates,the founder of Microsoft,felt the same way.

Gates said in an interview with the social networking and news website Reddit:“I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence.First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent.That should be positive if we manage well.A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern.”

Well,maybe I don’t have to worry about my computer and kitchen equipment yet.After I use them I can always pull the plug.But in the future,machines might find a way to prevent us from switching them off.There’s a terrible thought!

Maybe the problem with computers too clever for us is not that they are evil like some we’ve seen in scifi movies.What could put us in danger is that they might be too efficient.That’s what philosopher Nick Bostrom from Oxford University believes.He says that machines are indifferent to humans and in pursuit of their own goals,the destruction of people might be just additional damage.Bostrom gives us an example:A machine which might have as its only goal to produce as many paperclips as possible might look at human bodies as extra material for paperclips and go after you.Because it is,well,a machine,it would not take pity on you.

It’s a good thing that American writer Isaac Asimov thought about how far robots can go and left us his three rules of robotics.He states that a robot may not hurt a human being or allow the human being to come to harm.

I’m glad my machines at home are “dumb”.All my cleaner wants to take over is the carpet in my living room.Let’s hope they don’t create an appliance which wants to take over the world!

1The author quoted Bill Gates’ words in Paragraph 2 in order to make the text .

A. betterknown B. more persuasive

C. betterorganized D. more interesting

2An intelligent paperclip machine would harm us because .

A. it is much cleverer than us

B. it would take over the world

C. it would see us just as material

D. it has the strong feeling of destroying us

3How does the author feel about Isaac Asimov’s rules of robotics?

A. Optimistic. B. Sympathetic.

C. Disappointed. D. Regretful.

【答案】

1B

2C

3A

【解析】試題分析:本文講述的是機(jī)器人給我們帶來(lái)的一些恐懼。

1B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段第二句I was embarrassed to admit this till I heard that Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, felt the same way.(我很尷尬地承認(rèn)這個(gè)直到我聽(tīng)說(shuō)微軟的創(chuàng)始人比爾蓋茨也有同樣的感受。)可知,引用比爾蓋茨的話是為了更具有說(shuō)服力。故選B。

2C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段倒數(shù)第二句A machine which might have as its only goal to produce as many paperclips as possible might look at human bodies as extra material for paperclips and go after you. 可知,機(jī)器人可能把人體當(dāng)作生產(chǎn)回形針額外的原材料。故選C。

3A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第五段It’s a good thing that American writer Isaac Asimov thought about how far robots can go and left us his three rules of robotics.(美國(guó)作家Isaac Asimov考慮到機(jī)器人能走多遠(yuǎn),并給我們留下了他的機(jī)器人的三個(gè)原則,這是個(gè)好事。)故可知作者感覺(jué)是正面的,故選A。

【名師點(diǎn)撥】

細(xì)節(jié)題的破解一般采用尋讀法,即先看試題,再讀文章。對(duì)有關(guān)信息進(jìn)行快速定位,再將相關(guān)信息進(jìn)行整合、甄別、分析、對(duì)比,有根有據(jù)地排除干擾項(xiàng),選出正確答案。尋讀法還特別適用于對(duì)圖形表格類題材的理解。做此類型的題目還要特別注意句子的邏輯關(guān)系。英語(yǔ)中有許多功能詞,如:表因果關(guān)系的because, since, as等;表轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系的but, however ,on the contrary, on the other hand等等。1小題B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段第二句I was embarrassed to admit this till I heard that Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, felt the same way.(我很尷尬地承認(rèn)這個(gè)直到我聽(tīng)說(shuō)微軟的創(chuàng)始人比爾蓋茨也有同樣的感受。)故可知引用比爾蓋茨的話是為了更具有說(shuō)服力。故選B。

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