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Unit 2 学校及社区生活

序号 标题 题型 体裁 词数 难度 建议用时

A 虚拟助教 阅读理解 记叙文 297 ★★★★☆ 8 min

B 数学焦虑 阅读理解七选五 说明文 257 ★★★☆☆ 7 min

C 自尊自信的品格与学习成绩同等重要 完形填空 夹叙夹议 324 ★★★★★ 14 min

D 社会呼吁学校开展理财教育 语法填空 说明文 181 ★★☆☆☆ 6 min

E 骄兵必败 读后续写 记叙文 337 ★★★★☆ 25 min

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阅读下面的短文,从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Professor Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech developed an artificially intelligent teaching assistant to help

handle the enormous number of student questions in the online class, Knowledge-Based Artificial

Intelligence. Professor Goel already had eight teaching assistants, but that wasn t enough to deal with the

extremely huge number of daily questions from students.

Many students drop out of online courses because of the lack of teaching support. When students feel

isolated or confused and reach out with questions that go unanswered, their motivation for continuing begins

to fade. Professor Goel decided to improve this situation and created a virtual assistant named Jill Watson.

Goel and his team developed several versions of Jill Watson before releasing her to the online

forums(讨论会). At first, the virtual assistant wasn t too great. But Goel and his team sourced(从……获

得) the online discussion forum to find all the 40,000 questions that had ever been asked since the class

was launched. Then they began to feed Jill with the questions and answers. After some adjustments and a

long enough period of time, Jill was able to answer the students questions correctly 97% of the time. The

virtual assistant became so advanced and realistic that the students didn t know she was a computer. The

students, who were studying artificial intelligence, were interacting with the virtual assistant and couldn t

tell it apart from a real human being. Goel didn t inform them about Jill s true identity until April 26. The

students were actually very positive about the experience.

The goal of Professor Goel s virtual assistant next year is to take over answering 40% of all the

questions posed by students on the online forum. The name Jill Watson will change to something else next

semester. Professor Goel has a rosy(乐观的) outlook on the future of artificial intelligence.
(湖南师范大学附属中学 2021 届高三月考)

1. What problem did Professor Goel meet with?

A. His students were unsatisfied with the assistants. B. His course was too difficult for the students.

C. Students questions were too many to handle. D. Too many students dropped out of his course.