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【題目】Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

For several decades, various types of artificial intelligence kept shocking the world. Robots could 【1】 people in highly competitive games and then quickly destroyed their human competitors.

AI long ago mastered chess, the Chinese board game Go and even the Rubik's cube, which it managed to solve in just 0.38 second.

Now machines have a new game that will allow them to 【2】 humans: Jenga, the popular game in which players 【3】remove pieces from an increasingly unstable tower of 54 blocks, placing each one on top until the entire structure would 【4】.

A newly released video from MIT shows a robot developed by the school's engineers playing the game with surprising accuracy. The machine is equipped with a soft gripper(夾子), a force-sensing wrist and an external camera, allowing the robot to detect the tower’s 【5】 the way a human might do

Unlike in purely recognitive tasks or games such as chess or Go, playing the game of Jenga also requires mastery of physical acts such as pushing, pulling, placing, and arranging pieces. It must 【6】 interactive physical operation, where you have to touch the tower to learn how and when to move blocks.

Imitating it is rather difficult, so the robot has to learn in the real world, by working with the real Jenga tower. Recently, a relevant research was published in the journal Science Robotics. Researchers say the robot demonstrates that machines can learn how to perform certain tasks through actual touching instead of relying heavily on visual 【7】. That physical 【8】 is significant, researchers say, because it provides further proof that robots can be used to perform 【9】 tasks, such as separating recyclable objects from landfill trash and assembling consumer products.

In a cellphone assembly line, the felling of any component is coming from force and touch rather than vision. To become an accomplished Jenga player, the robot did not require as much repetitive practice as you might imagine. Hoping to avoid reconstructing a Jenga tower thousands of times, researchers developed a method that allowed the robot to be trained on about 300 games. Researchers say the robot has already begun facing off against humans, who remain 【10】 players—for now.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】I.

【2】D

【3】B

【4】K

【5】E

【6】A

【7】J

【8】F

【9】C

【10】G

【解析】

本文是一篇科技類短文閱讀。人工智能的發(fā)展一直震驚著世界，研究人員現(xiàn)以開發(fā)新的機(jī)器人，可以通過實(shí)際觸摸來學(xué)習(xí)如何執(zhí)行任務(wù)。

【1】考查動詞。動詞encounter遇到。could后面選動詞原形。句意：機(jī)器人可以在競爭激烈的游戲中遇到人類，然后迅速消滅人類對手。故選I。

【2】考查動詞。動詞shame使羞愧。to do形式選動詞原形。句意：現(xiàn)在，機(jī)器有了一個新游戲，它們可以使人類羞愧。故選D。

【3】考查副詞。副詞strategically戰(zhàn)略上。主謂之間選副詞，選項(xiàng)只有一個副詞，句意適當(dāng)。句意：玩家從一個由54塊積木組成的越來越不穩(wěn)定的塔上戰(zhàn)略性地移走棋子，把每一塊積木放在塔頂，直到整個結(jié)構(gòu)倒塌。故選B。

【4】考查動詞。動詞collapse倒塌。would后面選動詞原形。句意：玩家從一個由54塊積木組成的越來越不穩(wěn)定的塔上戰(zhàn)略性地移走棋子，把每一塊積木放在塔頂，直到整個結(jié)構(gòu)倒塌。故選K。

【5】考查名詞。名詞weaknesses薄弱。選名詞作賓語，根據(jù)句意：探測塔的薄弱之處。故選E。

【6】考查動詞。動詞involve涉及。must后面選動詞原形。根據(jù)句意：層層疊游戲要涉及互動。故選A。

【7】考查名詞。名詞clues線索，形容詞visual后接名詞。根據(jù)句意：而不是嚴(yán)重依賴視覺的線索。故選J。

【8】考查名詞。名詞sensitivity敏感。作主語，而且是單數(shù)。根據(jù)句意：物理的敏感性很重要。故選F。

【9】考查形容詞。形容詞delicate需要謹(jǐn)慎處理的，修飾名詞tasks。根據(jù)句意：機(jī)器人可用于執(zhí)行需要謹(jǐn)慎處理的任務(wù)，后面有例子。故選C。

【10】考查形容詞。形容詞superior更勝一籌的，修飾名詞players。根據(jù)句意：機(jī)器人開始挑戰(zhàn)目前更勝一籌的人類。故選G。