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(1)推理判断题。根据第二段He told Sky﹣News that "Necessarily there will be more robots in everybody's life.They'll be helping you at home,when you go out shopping,when you go to a hotel,they'll serve you,when you go to a theatre,everything.And in your working life."(他告诉Sky﹣News,"每个人的生活中必然会有更多的机器人。它们会在家里帮助你,当你出去购物时,当你去酒店时,它们会为你服务,当你去剧院时,一切都会。在你的工作生活中也是如此。")可知,人工智能在许多方面帮助人类。故选C。
(2)词句猜测题。根据划线词前文A new survey of researchers from the New York University Centre for Data Science found that more than a third (36%) of respondents that had published recent papers in the field thought that AI could produce catastrophic outcomes in this century, "on the level of all﹣out nuclear war".(一项针对纽约大学数据科学中心研究人员的新调查发现,在最近发表该领域论文的受访者中,超过三分之一(36%)的人认为人工智能可能在本世纪产生catastrophic后果,"达到全面核战争的水平")可知,后文提到人工智能达到全面核战争的水平,即是灾难性的。故画线词意思是"灾难性的"。A.Disastrous.灾难性的;B.Dramatic.戏剧的;C.Surprising.令人惊讶的;D.Promising.有希望的。故选A。
(3)细节理解题。根据最后一段He added, "A lot of people have already been working on making sure the software sitting behind AI has safeguards built into it." To make sure that,particularly when it's running on a robotic platform,it can't do any harm or at least we make sure it does as minimal harm as we possibly can.So those kinds of safeguards will be built in by the engineers. "We will have to put safeguards in place and make sure we have good controls around it,because artificial intelligence is a very powerful technology.But I think it has more things to bring that will be good than we have to worry about."(他补充说,"很多人已经在努力确保人工智能背后的软件有内置的安全措施。"为了确保,特别是当它在机器人平台上运行时,它不会造成任何伤害,或者至少我们要确保它尽可能地减少伤害。所以这些安全措施是由工程师们建立起来的。"我们将不得不采取安全措施,确保我们对它有良好的控制,因为人工智能是一项非常强大的技术。但我认为它会带来更多的好处,这是我们不必担心的。")可知,安全措施指的是安装安全软件,所以通过安装安全软件来避免人工智能的威胁。故选D。
(4)主旨大意题。根据第二段Stewart Miller,the chief executive of the National Robotarium has said that society needs to prepare for the increased integration of robots but shouldn't fear the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).(美国国家机器人博物馆的首席执行官斯图尔特•米勒表示,社会需要为机器人的日益融合做好准备,但不应该害怕人工智能的崛起);第三段Internationally,some scientists have expressed concerns over rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence. (在国际上,一些科学家对人工智能领域的快速发展表示担忧)以及最后一段中We will have to put safeguards in place and make sure we have good controls around it,because artificial intelligence is a very powerful technology.But I think it has more things to bring that will be good than we have to worry about.(我们将不得不采取安全措施,确保我们对它有良好的控制,因为人工智能是一项非常强大的技术。但我认为它会带来更多的好处,这是我们不必担心的)可知,这篇文章主要讲的是不必担心人工智能。A.Security defense of artificial intelligence.人工智能的安全防御;B.No need to worry about artificial intelligence.不用担心人工智能;C.Wide application of artificial intelligence.人工智能的广泛应用;D.Major problems brought by artificial intelligence.人工智能带来的主要问题。故选B。