北师大高中英语选修七同步作业：nit New Frontier课后限时作业5 含答案

课后限时作业(五)

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Ⅰ.单句语法填空

1．This dictionary is available in __electronic__(electricity) version.

2．He found the book was of great __assistance__(assist)．

3．The past few days have really worn him __out__.

4．The government has set up a working party to look __into__ the problem of drug abuse.

5．The situation made it no use __quarrelling__(quarrel) with him about it.

6．These people are facing increasing risks of __starvation__(starve) and disease.

7．This __technical__(technology) innovation will save us much time and labour.

8．A good tool－box is a __handy__(hand) thing to have in the house.

9．Learning to deal with the social world is __equally__(equal) important.

10．What time is suitable __for__ us to meet?

Ⅱ.课文语法填空

People around the world have always been trying to find out more about the future over the centuries.Some people read fantasy stories 1.__while__ others write about the future themselves.For them, 2.__thinking__(think) about the future is just for fun.There are also some people 3.__who__ plan the future of the world for a living.They 4.__are called__(call) futurologists.Here are some of their 5.__predictions__(predict)．Computers will become

6.__handier__(handy)；new types of material will have been produced by the clothing industry and

7.__whatever__ you spill on them，they will remain stainless；there will be enough food for everyone so that no one 8.__will die__(die) of starvation；development in science will have made 9.__it__ theoretically possible for us to live for far longer；we will be linking our brains to the computers；we will have discovered other places 10.__suitable__(suit) for living.

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Ⅲ.阅读理解

There is an old joke among pilots that says the ideal flight crew is a computer, a pilot and a dog. The computer's job is to fly the plane. The pilot is there to feed the dog. And the dog's job is to bite the pilot if he tries to touch the computer.

Handing complex tasks to computers is not new. But recent progress in machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI), has enabled computers to handle many problems which were previously beyond them. The result has been an AI boom, with computers moving into everything from medical diagnosis and insurance to self－driving cars.

There is a problem, though. Machine learning works by giving computers the ability to train themselves, which adapts their programming to the task at hand. People struggle to understand exactly how those self－written programs do what they do. When algorithms(计算机程序) are doing small tasks, such as playing chess or recom mending a film to watch, this “black box”