Unit 7.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Part I. PHONETICS
Exercise 1. Choose the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation
1. A. application B. combustion C. navigation D. recognition
2. A. computer B. communication C. command D. complicated
3. A. advanced B. automated C. constructed D. reunited
4. A. arrangement B. application C. activate D. assistance
5. A. potential B. production C. promotion D. psychology
Exercise 2. Choose the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress
6. A. machine B. robot C. human D. fiction
7. A. applicable B. automation C. artificial D. evolution
8. A. algorithm B. exterminate C. intelligence D. technology
9. A. capable B. robotic C. industry D. futurist
10. A. assembly B. interfere C. reunite D. resurrect
Part II. VOCABULARY
Exercise 3. Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
11. High intelligent machines can be automated to operate without human ____.
A. intervene B. intervening C. intervention D. interventionist
12. The old astronomer patiently made his ____ and wrote down what he saw.
A. observation B. observatory C. observe D. observer
13. One of the popular ____ used in smartphones at present is voice recognition.
A. applicant B. applicable C. applications D. apply
14. If there are aliens out there, do you think they are much more ____ advanced than we are?
A. technological B. technologically C. technology D. technologies
15. ____ have announced that a major breakthrough has been made.
A. Research B. Researchers C. Researches D. Researching
16. I wish you would ____ the TV and go outside and get some exercise.
A. call off B. give off C. put off D. turn off
17. Scientists are trying to ____ out the ways to reduce pollution from aircraft.
A. break B. call C. turn D. work
18. I'll ____ you ____ you to our research department. Please hold on.
A. put - away B. put - out C. put - through D. put - up
19. No wonder the vacuum cleaner isn't working. You haven't ____ it ____.
A. brought - in B. given - in C.plugged - in D. pulled - in
20. Whoever ____ up with that idea should have won the Nobel Prize.
A. came B. caught C. kept D. put
21. Ten million text messages are sent on ____ every minute.
A. account B. average C. common D. general
22. Astronomers have ____ a new planet outside our galaxy.
A. invented B. unearthed C. developed D. discovered
23. ____ is a type of book or film showing space travel of life on other planets, based on imagined scientific
discoveries of the future.
A. Epic B. Fiction C. Non-fiction D. Science fiction
24. Unluckily, David's dangerous and incredible journey in search of the Blue Fairy is in ____.
A. advance B. danger C. end D. vain
25. Most scientists believe that the day when robots become part of our lives will come ____.
A. from time to time B. more or less C. sooner or later D. later than never
26. Do you know who ____ the fact that sound travels in waves?
A. developed B. discovered C. found D. invented
27. I'm thinking of getting a fax ____.
A. engine B. instrument C. machine D. motor
28. The ____ of the outbreak of the disease is still unknown.
A. aim B. cause C. motive D. reason
29. GPS systems help a lot of people ____ on land, on the sea, and in the air.
A. inform B . interfere C. navigate D. reunite
30. After the power failure last night, the washing machine started to ____, so I had to wash the clothes by
hands.
A. make noise B. malfunction C. operate D. work
31. FM is a method of ____ signals, especially in radio broadcasting.
A. transacting B. transferring C. transmitting D. translating
32. UFO is an acronym for ____ Flying Object.
A. Unidentified B. Unimaginative C. Unknown D. Unique
33. The biggest fear is that humans might ____ control over robots.
A. gain B. keep C. lose D. take
34. Researchers have ____ to the conclusion that your personality is affected by your genes.
A. arrived B. come C. got D. reached
35. The telescope will photograph distant galaxies, ____ attempt to understand their past.
A. in B. for C. on D. with
36. It is likely that artificial intelligence might decide to ____ an end to humanity simply because it surpasses
human intelligence.
A. come B. make C. put D. take
37. A.I. robots are ____ of having human emotions.
A. able B. capable C. efficient D. fond
38. I don't think people should be allowed to ____ experiments on animals.
A. create B. make C. perform D. produce
39. Many materials have been used for ____ teeth, including wood.
A. artificial B. false C. hand-made D. natural
40. Once they've finished the extension to the ____, there'll be room for them to take on a lot more workers.
A. factory B. industry C. manufacturing D. trade
Exercise 4. Choose the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
41. Thanks to the first lawn mower which was invented in 1830, we don't have to pay for someone to have our
grass to be cut any more.
42. According to the futurist Ray Kurzweil, humans could have tiny computerized machines or nanobots invent
thanks to future medical advances.
43. In his Aston Martin DB5 car, Bond can have the photos being printed out along with the information about
the people in them from a panel in a dashboard.
44. There's a network in computing called 'beta testing', which means you test something seeing if it works
properly before it comes official.
45. No longer do housewives have to clean the house every day because they get it done for robotic vacuum
cleaners.
46. Before the cotton gin had been invented in 1794, American farmers had cheap slaves remove seeds from
the cotton fiber.
47. Before the invention of email and the Internet in 1972, it took people at least one day to cause hand-written
letters sent to the recipients' homes.
48. In communication, we can have the voice recognition systems in smartphones or other electronic devices to
be identified our speech.
49. The owners of modern manufacturing plants had workers doing heavy and repetitive tasks replacing by
robots.
50. In this throw-away society, instead of having an old electronics device fixed, people tend to toss it away
and buy a new one.