Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each the numbered blanks. A scientist said robots will be more intelligent

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each the numbered blanks.

A scientist said robots will be more intelligent than humans by 2029. The scientist's name is Ray Kurzweil. He works for Google as Director of Engineering. He is one of the world’s leading experts on (26) _______ intelligence (A.I). Mr Kurzweil believes computers will be able to learn from experiences, just like humans. He also thinks they will be able to tell jokes and stories, and even ﬂirt. Kurzweil‘s 2029 prediction is a lot sooner than many people thought. The scientist said that in 1999, many A.I. experts said it would be hundreds of years (27) _______ a computer was more intelligent than a human. He said that it would not be long before computer (28) _______ is one billion times more powerful than the human brain.

Mr Kurzweil joked that many years ago, people thought he was a little crazy for predicting computers would be as intelligent as humans. His thinking has stayed the same but everyone else has changed the way they think. He said: “My views are not radical any more. I've actually stayed (29) _______. It's the rest of the world that's changing its View.” He highlighted examples of high-tech things we use, see or read about every day. These things make us believe that computers have intelligence. He said people think differently now: "Because the public has seen things like Siri (the iPhone’s voice-recognition technology) (30) _______ you talk to a computer, they've seen the Google self-driving cars

intelligent

intelligently

intelligence

intelligences

Giải thích

Đáp án C

Kiến thức : Đọc điền từ - từ loại

Giải thích:

A. intelligent /ɪn'telɪdʒənt/ (a): thông minh

B. intelligently /ɪn'telɪdʒəntli/ (adv): sáng dạ, thông minh

C. intelligence /ɪn'telɪdʒəns/ (n): sự thông minh, trí thông minh

Căn cứ vào danh từ "computer", ta có quy tắc sau danh từ là danh từ. Từ đó, ta loại phương án A, B. “Intelligence” là danh từ không đếm được nên đáp án là C.

Thông tin: He said that it would not be long before computer (28) __ intelligence __ is one billion times more powerful than the human brain.

Tạm dịch: Ông nói rằng sẽ không lâu nữa trí thông minh của máy tính mạnh hơn não người một tỷ lần