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 strange 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 information more exactly and faster than any human, he lacks common 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.com is a website

How to apply (申请) for a free mailbox (邮箱)? First you have to connect to the Internet and go to the homepage of the ICP providing free mailboxes. Then you will find an icon (图标), an agreement about the rules for using the free mailbox will appear. If you want to go, click the icon “I agree”. Then you have to fill in a form about your basic personal data, and the name and PIN (密码) of the mailbox. The PIN is the key to the mailbox. After finishing these, you will get a mailbox like this：your name @ mail server (for example：tvguide@mail.cctv.com.cn. “tvguide” is the name of the mailbox, and “mail.cctv.com.cn” is the name of the mail server.). The mailbox is separated (分隔) into two parts by a separator “@”, which is read as “at”. The former part is the name of the mailbox. The latter is the domain name (域名) of the mail server. All mails to you will be received by the server and put into your mailbox. You can read these mails on any computer on the Internet in the world, if you have the name and PIN of the mailbox.

1 If you want to send or receive an e-mail, you should first ____ .

A. apply for a mailbox                 B. buy a computer

C. go to the post office                D. fill in a form

2 When you get a FREE mailbox, you can send an e-mail ____ .

A. by paying some money            B. to anyone

C. without paying money            D. anywhere

3 The mailbox’s name in the e-mail address “editor@ew.com.cn.” is ____ .

A. ew                B. ew.com.cn     C. com.cn          D. editor

4 The writer mainly wants to tell us how to ____ in this passage.

A. send a letter by e-mail            B. read the e-mail on computers in the world

C. get a free mailbox                   D. find out one’s e-mail address

5 We can find the similar information in the book “____”.

A. Who Moved My Cheese           B. Surfing on the Internet

C. Bill Gates’ Story                      D. Harry Potter

How to apply (申请) for a free mailbox (邮箱)? First you have to connect to the Internet and go to the homepage of the ICP providing free mailboxes. Then you will find an icon (图标), an agreement about the rules for using the free mailbox will appear. If you want to go, click the icon “I agree”. Then you have to fill in a form about your basic personal data, and the name and PIN (密码) of the mailbox. The PIN is the key to the mailbox. After finishing these, you will get a mailbox like this：your name @ mail server (for example：tvguide@mail.cctv.com.cn. “tvguide” is the name of the mailbox, and “mail.cctv.com.cn” is the name of the mail server.). The mailbox is separated (分隔) into two parts by a separator “@”, which is read as “at”. The former part is the name of the mailbox. The latter is the domain name (域名) of the mail server. All mails to you will be received by the server and put into your mailbox. You can read these mails on any computer on the Internet in the world, if you have the name and PIN of the mailbox.

1.If you want to send or receive an e-mail, you should first ____ .

      A. apply for a mailbox                         B. buy a computer

      C. go to the post office                       D. fill in a form

2. When you get a FREE mailbox, you can send an e-mail ____ .

      A. by paying some money                  B. to anyone

      C. without paying money                 D. anywhere

3.The mailbox’s name in the e-mail address “editor@ew.com.cn.” is ____ .

      A. ew                      B. ew.com.cn       C. com.cn              D. editor

4.The writer mainly wants to tell us how to ____ in this passage.

      A. send a letter by e-mail                  B. read the e-mail on computers in the world

      C. get a free mailbox                          D. find out one’s e-mail address

5.We can find the similar information in the book “____”.

      A. Who Moved My Cheese                B. Surfing on the Internet

      C. Bill Gates’ Story                               D. Harry Potter

How to apply (申请) for a free mailbox (邮箱)? First you have to connect to the Internet and go to the homepage of the ICP providing free mailboxes. Then you will find an icon (图标), an agreement about the rules for using the free mailbox will appear. If you want to go, click the icon “I agree”. Then you have to fill in a form about your basic personal data, and the name and PIN (密码) of the mailbox. The PIN is the key to the mailbox. After finishing these, you will get a mailbox like this：your name @ mail server (for example：tvguide@mail.cctv.com.cn. “tvguide” is the name of the mailbox, and “mail.cctv.com.cn” is the name of the mail server.). The mailbox is separated (分隔) into two parts by a separator “@”, which is read as “at”. The former part is the name of the mailbox. The latter is the domain name (域名) of the mail server. All mails to you will be received by the server and put into your mailbox. You can read these mails on any computer on the Internet in the world, if you have the name and PIN of the mailbox.

1 If you want to send or receive an e-mail, you should first ____ .

       A. apply for a mailbox   B. buy a computer

       C. go to the post office  D. fill in a form

2 When you get a FREE mailbox, you can send an e-mail ____ .

       A. by paying some money     B. to anyone

       C. without paying money     D. anywhere

3 The mailbox’s name in the e-mail address “editor@ew.com.cn.” is ____ .

       A. ew      B. ew.com.cn  C. com.cn       D. editor

4 The writer mainly wants to tell us how to ____ in this passage.

       A. send a letter by e-mail      B. read the e-mail on computers in the world

       C. get a free mailbox     D. find out one’s e-mail address

5 We can find the similar information in the book “____”.

       A. Who Moved My Cheese    B. Surfing on the Internet

       C. Bill Gates’ Story D. Harry Potter