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【題目】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high【1】 — as Christie’s becomes the first auction house to offer a work of art created by an algorithm. This portrait, however, is not the product of a human mind. It was created by an【2】 intelligence, an algorithm defined by that algebraic formula with its many parentheses. And when it went under the【3】 in the Prints & Multiples sale at Christie’s on 23-25 October, Portrait of Edmond Belamy sold for an【4】 $432,500, signaling the arrival of AI art on the world auction stage.

From a distance, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy looks almost plausible. Up close, however, the paintwork becomes a grid of mechanical-looking dots, the man’s face a golden blur with black holes for eyes. Look into those eyes. They show no sign of feeling or life. Did a computer make this?

The answer is yes. The first artwork【5】 by AI to be sold at Christie’s, its【6】 price would seem to suggest that in future we will get computers to make art for us. Robot van Gogh will harmlessly cut its ear off and robot Picasso will be a genius.

Is this the future AI art visionaries such as the French collective Obvious, which programmed this “painter” by getting it to compare its own work with 15,000 pre-20th century portraits, have in mind? Or are they just, God forbid, making a fast buck from deceivable art collectors? Because believing the algorithm that knocked this up to be in any meaningful way an “artist” is like thinking your voice-interaction programme is out to get you. Dream on. Computers would need to replicate human consciousness before they could replicate the funny thing humans do called “art”.

Art is a way in which human 【7】 expresses itself, and is equally true of the earliest cave art, Rembrandt’s portraits and Duchamp’s urinal. And that is what is missing from Portrait of Edmond Bellamy. Art is a way humans communicate ideas, perceptions and feelings to each other. It has no 【8】 outside the human passion to communicate. So in what meaningful sense can an AI replica of certain【9】 traits of old master paintings be called art?

For a robot to really make art, it would need an autonomous mind that was emotional as well as【10】. No AI developer has yet claimed to be anywhere near achieving that and if they ever do, their creation will probably have better things to do than paint portraits — like destroy humanity.

Maybe afterwards robots will invent their own kind of art, but it won’t be some poor pastiche of human genius.

It will be beyond anything we organics could imagine.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】ABC

【2】A

【3】D

【4】AB

【5】BC

【6】CD

【7】BD

【8】B

【9】AC

【10】C

【解析】

本文是一篇說明文。文章介紹了一幅名為《埃德蒙·貝拉米的肖像》在佳士得拍賣行舉辦的拍賣會(huì)中以43.25萬美元的驚人價(jià)格拍出，但作者認(rèn)為要讓機(jī)器人真正地創(chuàng)造藝術(shù)，它需要有既感性又理性的自主意識(shí)，但目前還沒有哪個(gè)機(jī)器人能夠做到這一點(diǎn)。

【1】考查名詞。句意：人工智能藝術(shù)品的成交價(jià)為43.25萬美元，幾乎是其最高估價(jià)的45倍。佳士得成為首家提供由算法創(chuàng)作的藝術(shù)品的拍賣行。此處為“倍數(shù)+名詞”結(jié)構(gòu)，表示“是……的多少倍”，根據(jù)“AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high”可知，此處表示“估價(jià)”，故填ABC。

【2】考查形容詞。句意：它是由一個(gè)人工智能創(chuàng)作的，一個(gè)由許多括號(hào)的代數(shù)公式定義的算法。修飾名詞intelligence用形容詞，根據(jù)“This portrait, however, is not the product of a human mind.”可知，此處表示“人工智能”，故填A。

【3】考查名詞。句意：10月23日至25日，這幅名為《埃德蒙·貝拉米的肖像》的作品在佳士得拍賣行舉辦的拍賣會(huì)中以43.25萬美元的驚人價(jià)格拍出，標(biāo)志著人工智能藝術(shù)登上了世界拍賣舞臺(tái)。go under the hammer是固定短語，表示“在拍賣、被拍賣”，故填D。

【4】考查形容詞。句意同上，修飾$432,500用形容詞，一幅人工智能創(chuàng)作的畫拍出432,500美元的天價(jià)，這價(jià)格是非常驚人的，因此此處表示“驚人的”，故填AB。

【5】考查動(dòng)詞。句意：人工智能創(chuàng)作的第一件藝術(shù)品將在佳士得拍賣，其令人印象深刻的價(jià)格似乎表明未來我們將讓電腦為我們創(chuàng)造藝術(shù)�？蘸蟮�by表明，此處用過去分詞作后置定語，根據(jù)“by AI to be sold at Christie’s”可知，此處表示“制作、生成”，故填BC。

【6】考查形容詞。句意同上，修飾名詞price用形容詞，上文說《埃德蒙·貝拉米的肖像》在佳士得拍賣行舉辦的拍賣會(huì)中以43.25萬美元的驚人價(jià)格拍出，這個(gè)價(jià)格是令人印象深刻的，因此此處表示“令人印象深刻的”，故填CD。

【7】考查名詞。句意：藝術(shù)是人類意識(shí)自我表達(dá)的一種方式。此處缺少名詞作主語，根據(jù)“expresses itself”可知，此處表示“人類意識(shí)”，故填BD。

【8】考查名詞。句意：它不存在于人類交流的激情之外。分析句子結(jié)構(gòu)可知此處用名詞在there be句型中作表語，根據(jù)“outside the human passion to communicate”可知，此處表示“存在”，故填B。

【9】考查形容詞。句意：那么，在何種意義上，人工智能能夠復(fù)制出大師畫作的某些身體特征，才能被稱為藝術(shù)呢？修飾名詞traits用形容詞，上文說《埃德蒙·貝拉米的肖像》屬于肖像畫，因此此處指“身體上的特征”，故填AC。

【10】考查形容詞。句意：要讓機(jī)器人真正地創(chuàng)造藝術(shù)，它需要一個(gè)既感性又理性的自主意識(shí)。此處用形容詞作表語，根據(jù)“emotional”可知，此處表示“理性的”，故填C。