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高效组合练十五 阅读理解＋七选五＋语法填空＋应用文写作 Ⅰ.阅读理解 (2020·江西临川二中月考)Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci ...the art world has never lacked talent.And now, a new painter is ready to join the list, although this one isn't even human. Next month, the auction house Christie's Prints and Multiples will make history by offering the first piece of art work created by artificial intelligence (AI) for sale.The painting is a portrait of a man called Edmond De Belamy, and is expected to be sold for up to $10,000. The work, which features a man with a mysterious look on his face, was created by software developed by the French art group Obvious.Laugero­Lasserre, an art collector, called the work “grotesque_and amazing at the same time”．This isn't the first example of AI­produced artwork, as AI has already been used to write poems and compose songs.However, many people doubt whether it should be called art at all. According to Russian writer Leo Tolstroy (1828－1910), art is about creating emotion (情感)．It's “a means of...joining people together in the same feelings，” he once said. So, if the emotion behind art is what makes it, the ability to create and use tools is what makes human beings different from other species.And as a tool itself, the AI technology used to create the portrait is the result of a lot of effort made by several designers.Together, they “fed” the AI a huge collection of paintings from the 14th to the 18th centuries, until it was able to work out how to make similar paintings of its own. The introduction of AI art could be the beginning of a new artistic movement.However, not everyone is ready to welcome these high­tech artists just yet. “The human mind is what's behind the AI technology.And the human mind is not a cold hard fact，” said Oscar Schwartz, a professor of AI.“Rather, it is something that's created with our opinions and something that changes over time.” [语篇解读]　本文是一篇说明文，介绍了人们通过人工智能在艺术创作方面的运用。 1．Why does the author mention the artists in Paragraph 1? A．