速测(十四) 完形填空+阅读理解(C+D)+选词填空+阅读理解填词
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Ⅰ.完形填空
In the morning, everything’s slippery with ice outside. I hold the trees to keep from falling, and my fuzzy gloves(毛茸茸的手套) stick. How silly! Shoes slip(滑), but gloves stick to ice. Wait, that gives me an 1 .
I go inside and get a pair of Dad’s old socks. I pull them on over 2 shoes and step outside again. Yay! No more slipping.
In the afternoon, Grandpa’s 3 me to my swimming class. He’s brought me a cup of tea. Yum! I slip off my shoes to relax my feet when I drink. Yikes! The tea is 4 . I want to put it down to cool, 5 Grandpa’s car is old and doesn’t have cup holders.
I put my shoe on the floor. And, look, the 6 where my foot goes in is kind of…cup-shaped!
Grandpa 7 my shoe-cup holder, but he says, “I think I’d better keep my shoes on while I’m driving.”
In the evening, Mom says, “Go away, dog!” She’s making a sweater for Dad, and the silly dog is running after the yarn(毛线) all over.
“When I’m an inventor, I’ll 8 you a dog-proof yarn holder,” I tell her.
“Great!” she says. “Will it be done soon?”
“Well, it’s a new idea,” I say. “I’ll have to think about it.”
As I 9 , I play with a big plastic bottle on the table. Hmm, I cut the bottom of the bottle, then put the ball of yarn in, with the yarn coming out of the mouth. It fits. I hang the bottle on the wall, away from the dog.
“Maybe this will work until I finish my invention,” I tell Mom.
“Perfect,” she says. “And, Xiao Wei, 10 don’t have to be new things. Using old stuff in clever, new ways is inventing.”
( )1.A.idea B.advantage C.article
( )2.A.his B.my C.their
( )3.A.guiding B.flying C.driving
( )4.A.cold B.hot C.sweet
( )5.A.but B.so C.and
( )6.A.bottle B.box C.hole
( )7.A.likes B.hates C.orders
( )8.A.post B.build C.buy
( )9.A.think B.eat C.draw
( )10.A.competitions B.gifts C.inventions
Ⅱ.阅读理解
Passage 1
Would you pay thousands of dollars for a painting with a face so unclear that you’re not even sure it’s a face? Or a picture by an unknown artist? What if the artist was a computer?
A piece of artwork created mainly by a computer programme has been sold at the price $432,500—about ten times more than people expected. This painting, named Edmond de Belamy, was created by artificial intelligence (AI)(人工智能). This means the computer now doesn’t just follow us, but makes some decisions and “thinks itself”.
15,000 real paintings were used by some French students to train the computer programme with two parts. One part tries to create paintings that look real, while the other part decides if it is good. If the painting doesn’t look real enough, the first part will change its decisions until it comes up with a better work.
This is not the first AI artwork, just the first piece on sale. In fact, many people are not impressed with the painting. “The work isn’t interesting or creative,” says Robbie Barrat, who helped create the painting but doesn’t like the idea of selling it. He thinks it’s too simple and gives a bad idea of what real AI artists are doing. He adds that he created many pictures like it much earlier.
In some other people’s opinions, however, AI art is already very unusual. They hope it will be more common in the future.
Still, people who look down upon AI art shouldn’t worry. Just as an AI artist, Theo Triantafyllidis says, he usually thinks of AI as a tool and not the artist. Even the best AI today is somewhere between a stupid child and a smart pet. It will grow up.
