题目内容
9.Robots and humans will soon be living in harmony(和睦).A singing robot is being taught to create jazz with a human in a project.Antonio Chella from Italy is working with a Telenoid robot.To start with,the Telenoid will be trained to follow the movements and simple sounds made by a human singer,and to connect music with different emotional states.Chella then plans to see if the robot can use these connections to create music.
Intelligence is often regarded as the ability to find connections between the existing things.But Chella suggests that a conscious(有意识的) creature should be able to go a step further and introduce new connections tat result in the creation of something new.
Some jazz musicians say that they should have a mental library of musical phrases so that they are able to combine them in new ways.More importantly,however,this combination happens in a state that is similar in a sense to dreaming.Chella wants to copy these states in a machine.
"This work raises interesting questions about the link between consciousness and music making,"says Philippe Pasquier,a a musician and computer scientist.But he is skeptical about whether a robot musician needs a physical body.
Pasquier argues that the robots are faced with two challenges(挑战).Software that can copy Bach has already been developed.But interpretation(演绎)includes human's different tastes and judgments."What made the Beatles famous was not so much their works,but the fact that the interpretations of the works were wonderful,"he says.
It is not yet clear how a robot would go about interpreting music in a new way.But by copying humans and then learning to sing,Chella's robot could provide clues.
What seems to be important is that human composers often listen to lots of music made by others.So Chella;s robot had better listen to those jazz standards first.
28.Which of the following is the robot's first step before it tries to create jazz?C
A.Living with human beings in harmony.
B.Connecting actions with human's emotions.
C.Copying a human singer's movements and sounds.
D.Learning to communicate with human beings freely.
29.The underlined word"skeptical"in Paragraph 5 could be replaced by"A".
A.doubtful
B.worried
C.certain
D.concerned
30.What can we know about the robots like Telenoid from the text?C
A.They are household robots.
B.They can talk with researchers.
C.They are faced with two challenges.
D.They will become human singers.
31.What can be concluded(推断出) from the text?D
A.Chella's robot needs a physical body to make music.
B.How to interpret jazz is a piece of cake for Chella's robot.
C.A new kind of software should be developed to copy Bach.
D.Chella's robot should listen to much jazz to create something new.
分析 本文属于说明文阅读,作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了机器人和人类将生活和谐,目前正在创造音乐机器人.
解答 28.C.细节理解题.根据第二段To start with,the Telenoid will be trained to follow the movements and simple sounds made by a human singer,and to connect music with different emotional states可知机器人在创造爵士乐之前的第一步是模仿人类歌手的动作和声音;故选C.
29.A.词义猜测题.根据文章But he is skeptical about whether a robot musician needs a physical body可知但他怀疑一个机器人音乐家是否需要身体;故选A.
30.C.细节理解题.根据文章Pasquier argues that the robots are faced with two challenges可知机器人面临两个挑战;故选C.
31.D.推理判断题.根据最后一段What seems to be important is that human composers often listen to lots of music made by others.So Chella;s robot had better listen to those jazz standards first可知Chella的机器人应该多听爵士乐来创造新的东西;故选D.
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.
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38.A.switching | B.swinging | C.swapping | D.shuttling |
39.A.benefits | B.reasons | C.consequences | D.challenges |
40.A.guided | B.changed | C.adapted | D.interrupted |
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49.A.affordable | B.basic | C.considerable | D.modest |
50.A.research | B.aspect | C.reaction | D.approach |
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