How much do you know about A．I．(Artificial Intelligence)?Artificial means‘man-made’，and intelligence means‘the ability to learn．understand and think about things’．A．I．is about making machines think，talk，do and see．A．I．is used in many fields from、playing games to helping doctors．Many machines around us work very well because they work with the help of A．I．Man has always dreamed of building‘thinking machines’．In 1770，Wolfgand Kempelen(1 734—1804)built a wooden robot called Turk that was able to play chess(SUR)．It played very well and even beat some of the top chess players of the time! Later it was found that Turk was not real．Inside the box machine was a chess player．
John McCarthy(1927—)is thought as the‘Father’of A．I He invented the word‘A．I．’and the LISP computer programming language that many A．I．developers use today．How does A．I．work?
A．I．uses ideas from many fields：
1.What is true about A．I．?
A．A．I．is a machine．
B．A．I．can play chess better than man．
C．A．I．can play games．
D．A．I．is something that makes machines work
like man．
2.A．I．means_________in Chinese．
A．人造能力 B．人造计算机
C．人工智能 D．人工机器人
3.We can learn from the passage that_________．
A．we still do not know how A．I．works
B．computers are the most important part of A．I．
C．Wolfgand Kempelen was the first builder of robot．
D．John McCarthy is good at playing chess．
Thousands of years ago，human(人类)didn’t live in towns．Sometimes they would live in caves(洞穴)or build camps in the forest．
Only about thirty people 1 in each camp．The men would go hunting while the woman and children 2 food from trees around the camp．All the food was 3 among people in the group．Every few weeks they moved to another place to find more food．It was a simple life，but people had to be 4．They had to make everything that they needed，and they had to know a lot about plants and animals．
Nowadays most people live in towns and cities，and they work in offices and factories．Life is 5 than in the old days．There are fewer 6 ，but there is less excitement．Some people go 7 excitement sailing round the world．climbing mountains，or exploring(探测)caves．
Most people look forward to the 8 ,a time when they can enjoy a change from the normal life．For some this means going camping．But camping today is 9 from camping in the past．Gas cookers，ready-made food and air-beds mean people can camp much more 10 than they did in the old times．
1．A．lived B．talked C．came D．danced
2．A．planted B．collected C．watched D．bought
3．A．found B．used C．shared D．sold
4．A．polite B．kind C．calm D．clever
5．A．worse B．faster C．easier D．harder
6．A．dangers B．stories C．people D．animals
7．A．waiting for B．looking for C．turning on D．putting on
8．A．dreams B．gifts C．meals D．holidays
9．A．away B．different C．free D．far
10．A．slowly B．terribly C．comfortably D．hopefully
A _____ lazy man can’t earn _____ money.
A. too much; too much B. much too; much too
C. much too; too many D. much too; too much
Put it down, Tom. You mustn’t read _________ letter.
A. else anyone’s B. anyone’s else C. anyone else’s D. anyone else
I’m very sorry to keep you _____ for a long time
A. wait B. waits C. waiting D. to wait
When you feel _________ to watch TV by then, you are all right.
A. enough good B enough well C well enough D good enough
