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上海市静安区2019届高三英语二模试卷

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.

A. involve    B. strategically    C. delicate    D. shame    E. weaknesses    F. sensitivity    G. superior    H. occasional    I. encounter    J. clues    K. collapse

    For several decades, various types of artificial intelligence kept shocking the world. Robots could 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 humans: Jenga, the popular game in which players remove pieces from an increasingly unstable tower of 54 blocks, placing each one on top until the entire structure would .

    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 (夹子), a force-sensing wrist and an external camera, allowing the robot to detect the tower's 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 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 . That physical is significant, researchers say, because it provides further proof that robots can be used to perform 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 players—for now.

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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.

A. processed  B. increasing  C. applications  D. typing  E. interpreting F. reflected  G. injected  H. transforming  I. connections  J. remarkable  K. superhuman

The Next Frontier: Using Thought to Control Machines

    Technologies are often billed as transformative. For William Kochevar, the term is justified. Mr Kochevar is paralysed below the shoulders after a cycling accident, yet has managed to feed himself by his own hand. This {#blank#}1{#/blank#} progress is partly thanks to electrodes, implanted in his right arm, which stimulate muscles. But the real magic lies higher up. Mr Kochevar can control his arm using the power of thought. His intention to move is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} in neural(神经的) activity in his motor region; these signals are detected by implants in his brain and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} into commands to activate the electrodes in his arms.

    An ability to decode thought in this way may sound like science fiction. But brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) like the BrainGate system used by Mr Kochevar provide evidence that mind-control can work. Researchers are able to tell what words and images people have heard and seen from neural activity alone. Information can also be encoded and used to stimulate the brain. Over 300, 000 people have cochlear(耳蜗的) implants, which help them to hear by {#blank#}4{#/blank#} sound into electrical signals and sending them into the brain. Scientists have "{#blank#}5{#/blank#}" data into monkeys heads, instructing them to perform actions via electrical pulses.

    As our Technology Quarterly in this issue explains, the pace of research into BCIs and the scale of its ambition are {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. Both America's armed forces and Silicon Valley are starting to focus on the brain. Facebook dreams of thought-to-text {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. Kernel, a startup, has $100m to spend on neurotechnology. Elon Musk has formed a firm called Neuralink; he thinks that, if humanity is to survive the arrival of artificial intelligence, it needs an upgrade. Entrepreneurs imagine a world in which people can communicate using thoughts, with each other and with machines, or acquire {#blank#}8{#/blank#} abilities, such as hearing at very high frequencies.

    These powers, if they ever materialise, are decades away. But well before then, BCIs could open the door to wonderful new {#blank#}9{#/blank#}. Imagine stimulating the visual region to help the blind, making new neural{#blank#}10{#/blank#} in stroke victims or monitoring the brain for signs of depression. By turning the firing of neurons into a resource to be used, BCIs may change the idea of what it means to be human.

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

A. witnessed  B. amounted  C. imaginary  D. immigrant  E. natural  F. financial  G. increased  H. similar  I. vehicle  J. citizenship  K. residence

    FLORENCE, Italy - Svetlana Cojochru feels hurt. The Moldovan has lived here seven years as a caregiver to Italian kids and elderly, but in order to stay she's had to prove her language skills by taking a test which requires her to write a postcard to a(n) {#blank#}1{#/blank#} friend and answer a fictional job ad.

    Italy is the latest Western European country trying to control a growing {#blank#}2{#/blank#} population by demanding language skills in exchange for work permits, or in some cases, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}.

    Some immigrant advocates worry that as hard {#blank#}4{#/blank#} times make it more difficult for natives to keep jobs, such measures will become more a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} for intolerance than integration. Others say it's only {#blank#}6{#/blank#} that newcomers learn the language of their host nation, seeing it as a condition to ensure they can contribute to society.

    Other European countries laid down a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} requirement for immigrants, and some terms are even tougher. The governments argue that this will help foreigners join the society and promote understanding across cultures.

    Italy, which has a much weaker tradition of immigration, has {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a sharp increase in immigration in recent years. In 1990, immigrant numbered some 1.14 million out of Italy's then 56.7 million people, or about 2 percent. At the start of this year, foreigners living in Italy {#blank#}9{#/blank#} to 4.56 million of a total population of 60.6 million, or 7.5 percent, with immigrants' children accounting for an even larger percentage of births in Italy.

    Cojochru, the Moldovan caregiver, hoped obtaining permanent {#blank#}10{#/blank#} would help her bring her two children to Italy; they live with her sister in Moldova, where salaries are among the lowest in Europe. She was skeptical that the language requirement would encourage integration.

    Italians always "see me as a foreigner," an outsider, even though she's stayed in the country for years and can speak the local language fluently, she said.

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