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课时跟踪检测(三)
Ⅰ.单句语法填空
1.In the last few years thousands of films have been produced( produce)all over the world.
2.—That must have been a long trip.
—Yeah, it took (take)us a whole week to get there.
3.Experiments of this kind had been conducted (conduct)in both the U.S. and Europe well before the Second World War.
4.By the time you have finished this book ,your meal will get(get)cold.
5.I'll go to the library as soon as what I am doing is finished(finish).
6.The meeting to be held(hold)tomorrow is about food safety.
7.To my delight, I was chosen(chose)from hundreds of applicants to attend the meeting.
8.You are not allowed to go into the meeting room, because a secret is being discussed (discuss)there.
Ⅱ.完成句子
1.Sarah was told that she could be Britain's new supermodel,earning a million dollars in the next year.
莎拉被告知她会是英国的新超模,在下一年赚一百万美元。
2.I don't know if he will come. If he comes, I will tell him the news.
我不知道他是否会来。 如果他来了,我会告诉他这个消息。
3.The bridge is being built, so we can't drive across it.
这座桥正在建造中,所以我们不能开车穿过它。
4.The task had been finished when we arrived there.
当我们到达那里时,任务已经完成了。
5.It remains to be seen whether Jim will be fit enough to play in the finals.
吉姆是否适合参加决赛还有待观察。
Ⅰ.阅读理解
Students taking Georgia Tech's online KnowledgeBased Artificial Intelligence course received some surprising news. Jill Watson, one of the nine teaching assistants (TAs)that had helped them finish the challenging course for the past five months, was not a “she” but an “it” — an intelligent robot!
Watson is the brainchild of Ashok Goel, who teaches the popular online course. The professor came up with the idea as a way to deal with a number of questions posed by students in the online forums (论坛).Every time the course is offered, the 300 or so students that enroll post over 10,000 questions which are often repetitive. This led Goel to wonder if a smart robot would handle the questions which require standard responses.
Having worked with IBM's Watson technology platform in the past, the p