Ⅴ. 任务性阅读
（陕西宝鸡期末）AI（人工智能） makes our lives easier and better. Let’s see the amazing AI.
Cool driverless bus
A bus door opens and you get on. Wait! Where is the driver? Here is a new kind of driverless bus called Apolong. It has 14 seats and doesn’t need a driver. The bus follows traffic rules. It stops as soon as it sees a stop light.
Your close friend
Hi, everyone. I’m Xiaobing, a chatbot(聊天机器人). I speak like a 17-year-old girl. If you feel lonely, you can talk with me. I’m talented in singing, writing poems and telling stories. I want to be your friend!
The world’s first AI anchor(节目主持人)
Hey, look! The famous Chinese anchor Qiu Hao is reporting the news to us. But, is
“he” really Qiu Hao? The answer is “no”. This is the world’s first AI anchor. It looks and speaks just like a real person. It can work 24 hours a day and doesn’t make any mistakes. You might see it on TV soon.
Popular AI artist
This beautiful painting was at auction(拍卖) in 2022. The painting was worth about 3,000,000 yuan! But it is not a work by a famous painter, such as Vincent van Gogh. It was painted by an AI artist. Three Frenchmen created the AI artist. It studied over 15,000 paintings.
1. What is Apolong?
It is .
2. What is the chatbot good at doing?
It’s good at .
3. What does the underlined word “It” refer to?
It refers to .
4. Who created the AI artist?
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5. Where may we read this passage, in a diary or in a newspaper?
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【语篇导读】本文介绍了四个令人大为惊奇的人工智能产品。
1. a new kind of driverless bus 根据"Here is a new kind of driverless bus called Apolong."可知,Apolong是一种新型的无人驾驶公共汽车。
2. singing, writing poems and telling stories 根据"I'm talented in singing, writing poems and telling stories."可知,聊天机器人擅长唱歌、写诗和讲故事。
3. the world's first AI anchor 根据"This is the world's first AI anchor. It looks and speaks just like a real person."可知,这是世界上第一个人工智能节目主持人,它看起来和讲起话来就像一个真人,故It在此处指代"世界上第一个人工智能节目主持人"。
4. Three Frenchmen. 根据"Three Frenchmen created the AI artist."可知,三位法国人创造了这个人工智能艺术家。
5. In a newspaper. 通读全文可知,本文介绍了四个令人大为惊奇的人工智能产品,由此推断本文可能出现在报纸上。