时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


英语课
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[00:07.50]Since the dawn of human ingenuity,
[00:10.22]people have devised ever more cunning tools
[00:13.05]to cope with work that is dangerous,
[00:15.66]boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty.
[00:20.83]That compulsion has resulted in robotics
[00:24.27]--the science of conferring various human
[00:26.59]capabilities on machines.
[00:29.12]And if scientists have yet to create
[00:31.54]the mechanical version of science fiction,
[00:34.27]they have begun to come close.
[00:37.09]As a result, the modern world
[00:39.51]is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos
[00:43.16]whose presence we barely notice
[00:45.27]but whose universal existence
[00:47.60]has removed much human labor 1.
[00:50.42]Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms.
[00:54.87]Our banking 2 is done at automated 3 teller 4 terminals
[00:58.00]that thank us with mechanical politeness for the transaction.
[01:03.24]Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robot-drivers.
[01:07.98]And thanks to the continual miniaturization of electronics
[01:12.22]and micro-mechanics,
[01:14.03]there are already robot systems
[01:15.94]that can perform some kinds of brain
[01:17.97]and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy
[01:22.01]--far greater precision than highly skilled physicians
[01:25.02]can achieve with their hands alone.
[01:28.08]But if robots are to reach the next stage of
[01:30.72]laborsaving utility,
[01:32.53]they will have to operate with less human supervision
[01:35.96]and be able to make at least a few decisions
[01:38.48]for themselves--goals that pose a real challenge.
[01:42.62]"While we know how to tell a robot
[01:44.19]to handle a specific error,"
[01:46.50]says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA,
[01:51.34]"we can't yet give a robot enough 'common sense'
[01:54.77]to reliably interact with a dynamic world."
[01:58.41]Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence
[02:02.25]has produced very mixed results.
[02:05.67]Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s
[02:10.91]when it appeared that transistor 5 circuits
[02:13.23]and microprocessors 6 might be able to copy the action
[02:16.47]of the human brain by the year 2010,
[02:19.99]researchers lately have begun to extend
[02:22.71]that forecast by decades if not centuries.
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[02:26.95]What they found, in attempting to model thought,
[02:30.17]is that the human brain's roughly one hundred billion
[02:33.09]nerve cells are much more talented
[02:36.12]--and human perception far more complicated
[02:38.94]--than previously 7 imagined.
[02:41.26]They have built robots
[02:42.67]that can recognize the error of a machine panel
[02:45.29]by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled
[02:48.22]factory environment.
[02:50.43]But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene
[02:54.16]and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant,
[02:58.70]instantaneously focusing on the monkey
[03:01.02]at the side of a winding 8 forest road
[03:04.05]or the single suspicious face in a big crowd.
[03:07.77]The most advanced computer systems on Earth
[03:10.50]can't approach that kind of ability,
[03:12.82]and neuroscientists still don't know quite how we do it.


1 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
2 banking
n.银行业,银行学,金融业
  • John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
  • He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。
3 automated
a.自动化的
  • The entire manufacturing process has been automated. 整个生产过程已自动化。
  • Automated Highway System (AHS) is recently regarded as one subsystem of Intelligent Transport System (ITS). 近年来自动公路系统(Automated Highway System,AHS),作为智能运输系统的子系统之一越来越受到重视。
4 teller
n.银行出纳员;(选举)计票员
  • The bank started her as a teller.银行起用她当出纳员。
  • The teller tried to remain aloof and calm.出纳员力图保持冷漠和镇静。
5 transistor
n.晶体管,晶体管收音机
  • This make of transistor radio is small and beautifully designed.这半导体收音机小巧玲珑。
  • Every transistor has at least three electrodes.每个晶体管至少有三个电极。
6 microprocessors
微(信息)处理机( microprocessor的名词复数 )
  • This sort of work would have been inconceivable before the advent of microprocessors. 在微处理机问世之前这种工作是难以想象的。
  • In microprocessors, the name used for the IEEE interface bus standard. 微处理机中,IEEE接口总线标准的名字。
7 previously
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
8 winding
n.绕,缠,绕组,线圈
  • A winding lane led down towards the river.一条弯弯曲曲的小路通向河边。
  • The winding trail caused us to lose our orientation.迂回曲折的小道使我们迷失了方向。
学英语单词
-gerous
2 x2 table
Altfraunhofen
bang-bang control
Barsowite
bitter almond oils
brianville
british isless
buccinators
Cahuita, Pta.
cascade press
Chemosympathectomy
chervil
circuit switching delay
courbevoie
coutinite
crenate leaves
customs enforcement
cystitis follicularis
dairy-farmings
debit note
defense policy
demuxes
diacetone acrylamide(DAA)
direct action wind tunnel
empawns
emplunging
engine displacement
eustathiuss
fire engine
grid operation security policy
hanger equipment
harbour radar
hekurans
helmet diving equipment
high silicon surface layer
huddler
human diagnostics
hurlbarrow
hydraulic lift mining-vessel
initial jobless claims
Isabel Prov.
Jo Daviess County
kalundborg
lacasse
land barge
law of diminishing land fertility
linear-discriminant
lost-wax moulding
lurchingly
manganese tetrachloride
maximum guaranteed capability
McCrone
melniks
methican
noctis
non-Christian priest
non-exclusive licence contract
normal agglutinin
nut cap
olein
ousie
oyster-catcher
paleolate
pass as
Peach County
philosophy of astronomy
Port Salvador
poweractuated
prairieteks
prestressed concrete reactor vessel
primatial
pseudodiadematid
pug-mill mixer
real things
renga
resistor-capacitor coupling
retraveled
rock picker
scabrities unguium
screen overflow
set composite
single-lever brake
slip through ... fingers
snack table
solvent polymeric membrane
sound absorber
spd-compatible
speed of shear waves
spinous foramen
STG
strepsitene
Streptomyces thermophilus
surface sample
sustainable building
Taconic Mountains
taken it
to step on the gas
to yield
uterothermometry
volumetrical ratio
Zartan