长期以来,科学与艺术之间的关系一直是剃头担子一头热:科学热恋着艺术,艺术却拒科学于千里之外。
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The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and each of them may have a thousand connections. So enormous 【M1】______ numbers used to discourage us and causing us to dismiss the 【M2】______ possibility of making a machine with human-like ability, but now that we have grown used to move forward at such a pace 【M3】______ we can be more sure. Quite soon, in only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will be able to assemble a machine as complex as the human brain, and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to render it intelligently by loading in the right software or by 【M4】______ altering the architecture, but that too will happen. I think it certain that in decades, no centuries, machines of silicon will 【M5】______ arise first to rival and then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us they will be capable of their own design. In real 【M6】______ sense they will be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will end carbons long control. And we will no longer be able to claim ourselves to be the fine intelligence in the known universe. As 【M7】______ the intelligence of robots increase to match that of humans and 【M8】______ as their cost declines through economies of scale that we may 【M9】______ use them to expand our frontiers, first on earth, through their ability to withstand environments beneficial to ourselves. Thus, 【M10】______ deserts may bloom and the ocean beds be mined. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man- created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.
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Which of the following words is built by back-formation?
A. Smog.
B. Fridge.
C. Motel.
D. Edit.
Which branch of study can NOT be included in the scope of linguistics?
A. Syntax.
B. Pragmatics.
C. Phonetics.
D. Anthropology.
The word pen originally meant "feather used for writing with ink". Now it refers to any devise used for writing with ink. This is an example of
A. degradation of meaning.
B. broadening of meaning.
C. narrowing of meaning.
D. elevation of meaning.