2025年上海中考英语首字母填空专项训练：人工智能

中考专题阅读：人工智能 January 20, 2025, a Chinese tech company named DeepSeek made a new AI called DeepSeek-R1. This smart program can solve math problems, write code (代码), and answer questions like top models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o, but it costs much l_____________ to build. The team spent only $5.58 million (1/70 of OpenAI’s cost) and used 2,048 computer chips (芯片) for two months to make it. This shows that good ideas can b___________ big money. DeepSeek-R1 learns by trying many times and getting better, like how students practice maths. Other AIs need lots of prepared examples, but R1 i____________ by itself. In a global math test, it got 79.8% right, a little higher than OpenAI’s model. A simple version (版本) of R1 can even run on low-cost computers, helping schools and small companies. DeepSeek-R1 is free to use and change. On its first day online, over 19,000 programmers worldwide started projects to study it. A German scientist said experiments with R1 cost $10 instead of $300 with other AIs. E__________ Meta (a famous U.S. tech company) top scientist said, “This kind of free AI could change the world.” U.S. tech companies are w__________. Meta planned to spend $65 billion more on AI research. Experts said China was catching up fast. A report in Nature magazine called R1 a “big s__________ forward”, confirming that smart ideas carries more weight than expensive tools. As a DeepSeek engineer said, “We want AI to be a f_________, not something only rich people can use.” With R1, China shows the world that great things come from new ideas and hard work, not just money. 答案：less, beat, improves, Even, worried, step, friend With red handkerchiefs spinning (手绢转动) at fingertips, 16 robots were moving their feet and shaking their bodies to the music, dancing Yangge with human dancers on the stage. This is a picture that happened at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala when robots performed “YangBOT” on January 28th, 2025. “YangBOT”, a s___________ performance at the Gala, is a creative combination (结合) of traditional Chinese culture and modern technology. The show combined Yangge, a traditional folk dance, with robots and artificial intelligence (AI). In the performance, humanoid robots (robots shaped like humans) dressed in c__________ costumes danced Yangge. They spun the red handkerchiefs and f__________ creative group patterns. Their movements were very smooth and natural, just like humans. These robots were developed by Unitree, a Chinese robotics company. “YangBOT” became a hot topic on social media and won the hearts of millions of people after the Gala. People p___________ it for its creativity and bringing something fresh to the stage. Some even said it was their favorite performance at the Gala. As a young man said, “It’s like watching the future and p___________ dance together!” Zhang Yimou, the director of the performance, explained, “This dance isn’t just f___________, and it shows how technology can bring new life to traditions.” Many people said they took pride in the cultural inheritance (传承) and were amazed at how fast technology develops. The performance shows how much technology has improved and how it can be used to brighten traditional culture like Yangge. It is a___________ a great way to change our life with the combination of tradition and modern technology. 答案：special, colourful, formed, praised, past, fun, also Artificial intelligence (AI) can do many different things. From controlling the lights in our homes to helping us order pizzas, it seems there aren’t many more uses for AI than we already have. However, can AI make music like human beings? Thanks to a team of Swiss scientists, AI may soon be able to come up with music e___________ for us. Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have created a computer algorithm (算法), the “Deep Artificial Composer” (DAC), which can create original music all by itself. Florian Colombo, an EPFL scientist who helped create the DAC, said that AI could produce c____________ melodies (旋律), with a beginning and an end. At present, the DAC is only able to produce several pieces of traditional Irish folk music, but it’s hoped that it will be able to create songs based on any t_____________ of music in the end. To “teach” the DAC, the scientists trained it to “listen” to over 2,000 different folk songs. Based on this input (输入), the AI taught itself how to compose music, from getting the pitch (高音) and timing right, to c___________ the right notes. This process is still in its e____________ stages, with the DAC still not producing perfect results, but Colombo told AFP that the AI’s music is still “quite pleasant to listen to.” W___________ the idea sounds very hopeful, we shouldn’t expect the DAC to replace real-life composers any time soon. According to Colombo, the system was designed to produce only simple melodies. So far, it can only create songs based on a single instrument. Colombo said that his p____________ in creating the DAC was to help people create their own music, not to have it made for them. His exciting new ideas came from Austrian composer Wolfgang Mozart. It’s said that he used to throw dice (掷骰子) to help him pick which notes to use when making new music. 答案：especially, complete, type, choosing, early, While, purpose Usually, we think of workers picking tea leaves by hand. But now, some Longjing tea is being picked by metal workers—tea-picking robots! In a Hangzhou tea garden, a smart tea-picking robot developed by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University s__________ to work for the first time. “We took thousands of pictures of new tea buds (芽) and fed them to the robot for it to learn. The robot uses an AI model to r__________ the buds it needs to pick,” said Professor Chen Jianneng. This lets the robot find the right tea buds about 90 percent of the time. The robot’s arm pulls and then sucks (吸) up the tea buds. These buds are quickly moved into a special box. A___________ the robot gathers all the buds from the area it’s working at, it moves the buds from the box to a main box that holds everything it collects. The robot was made because there are not e___________ people to pick tea. In Zhejiang, about 400,000 more pickers are needed now. “Picking is the biggest c___________ for the development of the tea industry,” said Professor Wu Chuanyu, who leads the research team. “Although tea-picking robots are not p__________, for example, they can’t tell the difference because some tea buds look very similar, they are a trend (趋势) of the future. About five years from now, the robots will do the j___________ of picking West Lake Longjing tea instead of people,” Wu added. 答案：started, remember, After, enough, challenge, perfect, job For families suffering from the loss of their loved ones, grief chatbots can now help them still feel connected to the dead and find support in the digital (数字的) world. Since 2022, Super Brain, an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, has created digital avatars (化身) for more than 600 families. “Technically, digital immortality (永生) is coming…which will e__________ everyone to have a virtual (虚拟的) online twin,” said Zhang Zewei, co-founder of the AI company. While creating digital avatars of those who have passed away, Zhang noted that the company has also helped over 100 clients (客户) in making their virtual avatars from their digital trails (痕迹) such as emails, photos and social media p_________. The prices for the services can be from thousands of yuan to 10,000 yuan. Among Zhang’s clients are parents missing their only child, a woman wanting to say goodbye to her boyfriend who died in an accident, and a mother wanting to “revive (复活)” her h__________ to comfort their daughter. While the idea might seem strange to some, Zhang believes that because of the emotional s__________ the technology offers, those dealing with regret and loneliness following the loss of their loved ones are drawn to the technology. H__________, he’s still unsure about how much of a connection that technology can offer. “A chatbot has no warmth,” he argued, pointing out that these avatars cannot stay up to date with the latest information. Tech experts and psychologists (心理学家) are also expressing worries. Wang Qiang, a psychologist in Beijing said that these “griefbots” could make people feel like they have a r__________ emotional connection with the dead. It could make people feel emotionally and mentally w___________, making it challenging for them to move on. 答案：enable, posts, husband, support, However, real, worse Automated Kitchens: Benefits and Risks Do you think automated (自动化的) kitchens only exist in science fiction shows like Star Trek? Well, think again! Nowadays, robots are already being used to do many things in the kitchen, like frying chicken, making pizzas, and preparing salads. And artificial intelligence (AI) can even create new recipes based on the ingredients a__________ in a kitchen. There are also more advanced ideas being developed to make high-quality restaurant kitchens automated. At first, because new technologies are usually expensive, it’s the restaurants and other businesses that start using AI kitchen technologies. But as time passes by, the prices will probably go down enough for ordinary families to a___________. This will change how our homes and society work. There are some good things about AI kitchens. For example, cooks don’t have to do b__________ jobs like peeling potatoes or standing in one place for hours. This saves time and lets people do more important things. AI can also provide different kinds of special diets and t__________ to meet personal needs. However, there are also problems. Cooking is not just about making food. It’s a good activity that helps people communicate and express themselves. If we don’t need humans to cook anymore, these good things might disappear. Family relationships might not be as good w__________ the time spent together in the kitchen. Moreover, the kitchen is like a science lab at home. It’s important for kids to learn about materials, chemistry, and how to solve problems through cooking. We also have to think about cultural problems. Sometimes, AI might change traditional recipes and cooking methods because it doesn’t understand cultural details well. This could make the dishes less diverse. If we r_________ too much on technology for cooking, the food might taste the same. It’s similar to how AI art images look alike in different apps. In conclusion, while new technologies bring convenience, they also have a price. We need to think about the possible problems they might cause in our society, e___________ when it comes to something as important as food in our daily lives. 答案：available, afford, boring, tastes, without, rely, especially 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$