To what degree can a puter achieve intelligence(智力)? The answer to this question may lie in a newly-developed US puter 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. .
Some scientists believe that by joining the many systems of the Internet, an artificial being with the bined 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-puter David in the movie A. I., Artificial Intelligence, he must overe two problems.
The first is that puters 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(处理) information more exactly and faster than any human, he lacks mon sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious to any young child.
【小题1】From the text we can infer that www. Intellicast. is a website .A．which is specially designed to help Smarter ChildB．where we people can find Smarter ChildC．where weather forecasts are madeD．which is about artificial intelligence【小题2】 It is probably most difficult for Smarter Child to .A．tell us how to spell a difficult wordB．tell us how the American government is runC．provide us with a famous poem by ShakespeareD．learn how to tell right behaviors from wrong ones.【小题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-puter.
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.
【小题4】Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A．A New Web ChildB．Smarter ChildC．The Future of Internet D．Intelligence DevelopmentC
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(答案→)C
解析：
【小题1】根据For the weather, he visits www. intellicast. .描述，可知选C，一个进行天气预报的地方。
【小题1】根据he lacks mon sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious to any young child.描述，可知它缺乏尝试性的东西，故不能学会如何区分正确的行为和错误的行为，故选D。
【小题1】根据However if Smarter Child wants to think and learn on his own like the boy-puter David in the movie A. I., Artificial Intelligence,描述，可知A. I.人工智能很可能是一部关于儿童电脑的电影，故选B。
【小题1】通过阅读短文可知这篇短文主要描述了一种美国开发的一种名叫SMARTER CHILD 的电脑程序，故选B。