Question

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

A scientist said robots will be more intelligent than humans by 2029. The scientist's name is Ray Kurzweil. He works for Google as Director of Engineering. He is one of the world‘s leading experts on (25)______  intelligence (A.l). Mr Kurzweil believes computers will be able to learn from experiences, just like humans. He also thinks they will be able to tell jokes and stories, and even flirt. Kurzweil‘s 2029 prediction is a lot sooner than many people thought. The scientist said that in 1999, many A.I. experts said it would be hundreds of years (26)____ a computer was more intelligent than a human. He said that it would not be long before computer (27)______ is one billion times more powerful than the human brain.

 Mr Kurzweil joked that many years ago, people thought he was a little crazy for predicting computers would be as intelligent as humans. His thinking has stayed the same but everyone else has changed the way they think. He said: “My views are not radical any more. I've actually stayed (28)______. It's the rest of the world that's changing its View.” He highlighted examples of high-tech things we use, see or read about every day. These things make us believe that computers have intelligence. He said people think differently now: "Because the public has seen things like Siri (the iPhone’s voice-recognition technology) (29)______ you talk to a computer, they've seen the Google self-driving cars."

(Source: https://breakingnewsenglish.com)

Điền vào số 28

A. which

B. where 

C. whom 

D. what

Answer 1

Đáp án A

Kiến thức về từ vựng

A. consistent /kən'sɪtənt/ (a): kiên định, trước sau như một, nhất quán

B. insistent /in'sistənt/ (a): khăng khăng, nài nỉ

C. persistent /pə'sistənt/ (a): bền bỉ, cố chấp, dai dẳng

D. resistant /ri'zistənt/ (a): có sức chịu đựng, có sức bền, có sức đề kháng

Tạm dịch: Mr Kurzweil joked that many years ago, people thought he was a little crazy for predicting computers would be as intelligent as humans. His thinking has stayed the same but everyone else has changed the way they think. He said: "My views aren‘t radical any more. I've actually stayed (28)_____. It's the rest of the world that's changing its'view.”

(Ông KurzweiI nói đùa rằng nhiều năm trước, mọi người nghĩ rằng ông hơi điên khi dự đoán máy tính sẽ thông minh như con người. Suy nghĩ của ông ấy vẫn giữ nguyên nhưng mọi người khác đã thay đổi cách họ nghĩ. Ông ấy nói: “Quan điểm của tôi không còn cực đoan nữa. Tôi thực sự vẫn kiên định. Đây là phần còn lại của thế giới đang thay đổi quan điểm thôi.”