题目内容
The film we saw last week was very ______.
- A.exciting
- B.excited
- C.excitement
- D.excitedly
阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给首字母的提示，在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。
| W：Hello, Jim. Where are you going? M：To the cinema. What about (76) c_______ with me? W：No, thanks. I’m going home. My friend’s expecting me. M：What a (77) p_____！ I believe it’s a very good film. W：Do you go to the cinema a lot? M：(78) O___ a week. Most nights I sit at home and watch TV. W：Oh, I see. (79) B__ the way, where are you going for your holidays this year? M：I don’t know yet. My wife’s going to her mother’s for a (80) c_____ of weeks. She lives by the sea, you know. W：Oh, does she? That’s convenient. M：Yes, but I want to go to the (81) c________. W：Don’t you like the sea? M：Yes, very much. But I need (82) p_____ and quiet when I’m on holiday. What are you going to do? W：I’m going to (83) s_____ at home. M：Aren’t you going to (84) h____ a holiday abroad this year? W：No, I want to buy a car, and that’s going to take (85) e_______ penny I’ve got. | ________ _______ ________ ________ _______ _______ ________ ________ _______ _______ |
Technology: Taking the good without the bad?
Very soon, unimaginably powerful technologies will remake our lives．This could have dangerous consequences, especially because we may not even understand the basic science underlyi ng them．There’s a growing gap between our technological capability and our basic scientific understanding．We can do very clever things with the technology of the future without necessarily understanding some of the science underneath, and that is very dangerous．
The technologies that are particularly dangerous over the next hundred years are nanotechnology （纳米技术）, artificial intelligence and biotechnology．The benefits that they will bring are beyond doubt．But they are going to be very, very dangerous．I’m working in the field of artificial intelligence．I have a model design for something that might be 50,000 million times smarter than the human brain．Target date is 2010．The only thing that's not possible in the film Terminator（终结者） is that the people win．If you're fighting against technology w hich is 50,000 million times smarter than you, you probably will not win．
Nanotechnology．We've all heard of the grey glue problem, that self-replicating nanotech devices might keep on copying until the world has become sticky glue．And certainly in biotechnology, we've really got a big problem because it's converging with nanotechnology and IT．Once you start mixing nanotech with organisms and you start feeding nanotech-enabled bacteria, we can really go an awful lot further than the Borg in Star Trek（星际迷航）．And those superhuman organisms might not like us very much．
Eventually these technologies will become routine．That’s a threat to humanity．I don’t think it’s possible to slow it down．So what we need to do is accelerate the scientific research and try to get some extra tools．The problems facing us in the future are getting bigger and bigger．I think if we don’t get some proper science done, the future is hopeless indeed．
【小题1】From the text, we know that the author’s greatest concern is ．
| A．our lack of technological understanding of the process involved |
| B．our lack of technological capability |
| C．creating technology without really understanding the basic science |
| D．Our refusal to face the consequences of the technology we create |
| A．thinks people overvalue the capabilities of technology |
| B．is not optimistic that artificial intelligence will always be used positively |
| C．thinks that we should take science fiction movies more seriously |
| D．believes artificial intelligence is the greatest threat we face technologically |
| A．Because the power of the technology is exaggerated（夸大）． |
| B．Because the strength of the machines is much greater． |
| C．Because machines with that much intelligence can easily defeat humans． |
| D．Because human beings are not courageous enough to win the battle． |