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 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 (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 . 42.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 43.It is probably most difficult for Smarter Child to______. A.tell us how to spell a difficult word B.tell us show 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 . 44.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 ahs the knowledge of Einstein , Nixon and Spears. 45.Which of the following is the bet title for the passage ? A.A New Web Child B.Smarter Child C.The Future of Internet D.Intelligence Development |