Passage 8

2017年新課標Ⅰ高考英語試卷押題卷C

You’re surrounded by robots and you probably don’t even know it. Most are not all that　 1 　and they won’t come up to you and speak like a friend.　 2 　you’re unaware of them, they know you’re there. Robots are monitoring　 3 　in hospitals, providing banking services,　 4 　people from burning buildings and assisting astronauts in　 5 　. Robots are everywhere.

Are robots　 6 　or deadly enemies? Robotic expert Hans Moravec says intelligent robots today are no smarter than the average insect. But, don’t feel too　 7 　about that. For example, army ants in South America　 8 　everything in their path when they go to war—forests, crops, buildings, people...

In case you　 9 　don’t care about our little mechanical friends,　 10 　this:Robot technology is currently　 11 　at a rate 10 million times faster than the evolution of　 12 　.

Considering the advances in robot technology during the upcoming years, Moravec says that robots must pass through four　 13 　of development before they rule the planet.

First robot technology must achieve the ability to　 14 　as general purpose tools with software running at one million instructions per second(MIPS). Those robots will have the　 15 　of reptiles（爬行動物）. Next, this happening into 2020, robots will have acquired brains capable of　 16 　300 million MIPS, which will give them the intelligence of smart mice. A hundred billion MIPS will be　 17 　sometime after 　2030. By　 then robots will be provided by their　 18 　(humankind)with monkey-like brains.　 19 　, at the dawn of 2040, robots will　 20 　human intelligence and they will quickly surpass humans and challenge people for supremacy（至高無上）of the planet.

1. A. slow　B. obvious　C. huge　D. valuable

2. A In case　B. If only　C. Even if　D. As if

3. A. researchers　B. scientists　C. presidents　D. patients

4. A. rescuing　B. forcing　C. sending　D. calling

5. A. studio　B. space　C. distance　D. town

6. A. servants　B. leaders　C. competitors　D. friends

7. A. curious　B. nervous　C. safe　D. pleasant

8. A. destroy　B. hide　C. smell　D. visit

9. A. also　B. still　C. again　D. seldom

10. A. consider　B. explain　C. declare　D. conclude

11. A. beginning　B. selling　C. exploding　D. reducing

12. A. farmers　B. theories　C. societies　D. animals

13. A. stations　B. generations　C. results　D. experiments

14. A. serve　B. stay　C. settle　D. appear

15. A. weight　B. memory　C. intelligence　D. sense

16. A. recording　B. improving　C. dividing　D. processing

17. A. followed　B. reached　C. corrected　D. loaded

18. A. neighbor　B. parent　C. creator　D. enemy

19. A Finally　B. Luckily　C. Suddenly　D. Regularly

20. A. collect　B. change　C. discover　D. equal