Intelligent and hard-working, he passed ________ in degree, examinations.
A.with fares
B.with honors
C.with care
D.to honors
A.with fares
B.with honors
C.with care
D.to honors
A.who
B.that
C.whom
D.to whom
What does NOT the speaker say about his father?
A.He was a quiet and intelligent man.
B.He was 17 when he left Italy.
C.Dad worked hard selling.
D.He had much formal schooling.
Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: ●summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then ●comment on whether our brains will get lazy in a world run by intelligent machines. You can support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. With intelligent machines to do the thinking, will our brains get lazy? Changing technology stimulates the brain and increases intelligence. But that may only be true if the technology challenges us. In a world run by intelligent machines, our lives could get a lot simpler. Would that make us less intelligent? Artificial intelligence is taking over many human jobs. For instance, planes are being flown much of the time by automatic pilots. And the complex problem of controlling air traffic around large modern airports is also achieved by artificial intelligence that operates well beyond the capacity of mere human air traffic controllers. As machines get smarter, they will do more of our thinking for us and make life easier. In the future, the electronic assistant will develop to the point that it serves similar functions as a real living butler, fulfilling requests such as: “Organize a dinner party for six on Thursday, Jeeves, and invite the usual guests.” At that point, our long struggle with challenging technologies is at an end. Like Be Wooster, we can take it easy knowing that the hard work of planning and organizing is being done by a better brain-the electronic assistant. Starved of mental effort, our brains will regress.
B: As the Nobel prize winner in physics of the year, your are invited to come back to your university for a lecture on the topic of The Way to Success. Before the lecture, you are interviewed by a reporter of a college journal. Try to explain to the reporter what you believe are the essential qualities for a scientist and what preparations should one make for future success.
special gift intelligent genius curious patience
simplistic determination accessible persistence hard working
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I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon (硅) will arise first to rival and then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon's long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the fi nest intelligence in the known universe. As the intelligence of robots increases to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within over power.
In what way can we make a machine intelligent?
A.By making it work in such environments as deserts, oceans or space.
B.By working hard for 10 or 20 years.
C.By either properly programming it or changing its structure.
D.By reproducing it.
I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon(硅)will arise first to rival and then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon's long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known universe.
As the intelligence of robots increased to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on each through their ability to withstand environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further a head, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man - created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.
In what way can we make a machine intelligent?
A.By making it work in such environments as deserts, oceans or space.
B.By working hard for 10 or 20 years.
C.By either properly programming it or changing its structure.
D.By reproducing it.
I think it certain that in decades, not centuries, machines of silicon (硅) will arise first to rival and then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In a real sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon’s long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the finest intelligence in the known universe.
As the intelligence of robots increases to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability to withstand environments, harmful to ourselves. Thus, deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.
第16题:In what way can we make a machine intelligent?
A) By making it work in such environments as deserts, oceans or space.
B) By working hard for 10 or 20 years.
C) By either properly programming it or changing its structure.
D) By reproducing it.
What makes one person more intelligent than another? (是什么让一个人比另一个人更聪明呢?)What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? These are very old questions and the answers to them are still not clear.
We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. It needs exercise. Mental (done with the mind) exercise is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists think that parents should play with their children more often, and give them problems to think about. The children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent.
Parents should also be careful what they say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive things to their children, such as "That was a very clever thing you did" or "You are such a smart child".
1.The questions in the first paragraph are raised to _____.
A.introduce the topic of what makes a clever mind
B.compare Albert Einstein with ordinary people
C.summarise the characters of an intelligent person
D.prove that there are no answers to these questions
2.According to the context we can guess that a genius is ______ while an idiot is ______.
A.a normal person...a funny person
B.a strong person...a weak person
C.a highly intelligent person...a foolish or weak-minded person
D.a famous person...an ordinary person
3.A person ______ is more likely to become a genius.
A.whose parents are clever
B.who often thinks about difficult problems
C.who is often helped by his parents and teachers
D.who is born with a good brain and putting it to active use
4.It is better for parents ______.
A.to praise and encourage their children more often
B.to be hard on their children
C.to leave their children alone with nothing to do
D.to give their children as much help as possible
5.Which of the following is NOT true according to the article?
A.Parents play an important part in their children's growth.
B.The less you use your mind the duller you may become.
C.Intelligence is obviously the result of where and how you live.
D.Parents should always encourage their children.
Muscles are stringy bundles of fibers varying from one five-thousandth of an inch to about three inches. They have three unique characteristics: they can become shorter and thicker and can stretch to their original position. Under a high-powered microscope, muscle tissue is seen as long, slender cells with a grainy texture like wood.
More than half of a person's body is composed of muscle fibers, most of which involuntary --in other words, work without conscious direction. The voluntary muscles, those that we move consciously to perform. particular action, number more than five hundred. Women have only 60 to 70 percent as muscle as men for their body mass. That is why an average woman can't lift as much, throw as far, or hit as hard as an average man.
Intelligent use of the muscles means that ______.
A.one always knows what his muscles are doing
B.one performs simple actions without working
C.one's muscles are used only to the extent necessary for each action they perform
D.one improves muscular action consciously
M: And they also use clicks as a sort of sonar.
W: I really couldn't understand that part of the lecture. You could?
M: Yes, the dolphins use clicks to identify objects in the water; they can even identify tiny objects more than 100 meters away using these clicks. Scientists believe that a dolphin may even have a sonar-like image in its brain of a distant object so that it can identify the object long before the dolphin can actually see the object.
W: So the dolphins use these clicks mostly to identify objects in the water?
M: I think so, and they have considerably more ability to do this than humans do.
W: It is hard to believe that, in addition to these sonar clicks, dolphins are actually learning some human language.
M: Yes, I believe that the lecture said that some dolphins had already learned around fifty human commands, and that those dolphins were able to understand not only individual words but words clustered together in sentences!
W: Dolphins must certainly be amazing animals to do all of that.
M: I'm sure they are, and we're only just beginning to find out how intelligent they are.
Where did the woman learn about dolphins?
A.In a book..
B.From a television program.
C.During a trip that she took..
D.From a lecture.
One of the most comprehensive ventures was the restoration and transformation of Boston's eighteenth century Faneuil Hall and the Quincy Market, designed in 1824. This section had fallen on hard times, but beginning with the construction of a new city hall immediately adjacent, it has returned to life with the intelligent reuse of these fine old buildings under the design leadership of Benjamin Thompson. He has provided a marvelous setting for dining, shopping, professional offices, and simply walking.
Butler Square, in Minneapolis, exemplifies major changes in its complex of offices, commercial space, and public facilities carved out of a massive pile designed in 1906 as a hardware warehouse. The exciting interior timber Structure of the building was highlighted by cutting light courts through the interior and adding large skylights.
San Antonio, Texas, offers an object lesson for numerous other cities combating urban decay. Rather than bringing in the bulldozers(推土机), San Antonio's leaders rehabilitated existing structures, while simultaneously cleaning up the San Antonio River, which meanders through the business district.
What is the main idea of the passage?
A.During the 1970s, old buildings in many cities were recycled for modern use.
B.With government support, people could recycle old buildings.
C.Experts did quite a lot to fight urban decay.
D.Recycling old building became a reality in Boston in the 18th century.