


人工智能
在科技发展极其迅速的当下,人工智能已经不再是天方夜谭,不再是漫画家笔下虚无缥缈的想象,而是真真切切地存在于21世纪的今天。阿尔法狗与韩国围棋高手李世石的对决,已经引起全世界对人工智能的广泛关注,各方媒体争相对其进行报道,也成为了考试的热点。
人工智能投入眼科检测:比人更快更精确
A Chines hospital on Thursdaylaunched free consultations featuring artificial-intelligence (AI) cameras todetect eye diseases, which are major causes of blindness.Deqing county hospitalin Guangdong Province became the first to use the device, co-developed byChina’s search engine Baidu and Sun Yat-sen University, to serve the generalpublic, Baidu told Xinhua.The instrument is capable of diagnosing three typesof eye disorders — diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and macular degeneration. Itscans the eyes and generates a report in 10 seconds, all done without the needfor an doctor to be present.With an accuracy rate of 94 percent, it hadpreviously been piloted in hospitals in nine Chinese provinces, according toBaidu.Though it may be interpreted as AI making the doctors lose their jobs,Baidu said the new tool aimed to help cut the waiting line at the eye doctor’sshort, especially in China’s rural regions.Eye diseases are a major cause ofblindness in the developing world, where the short supply of eye doctors andinstruments make it difficult to check and treat in time. China, with apopulation of 1.39 billion, has only thousands of eye doctors capable ofanalyzing eye screening photos.Xu Yanwu, a Baidu engineer developing theinstrument, said the AI cameras were specifically designed to address the lackof medical instruments and eye doctors at grassroots health facilities.
1. How many kinds of eye disorders can the instrument diagnose?
A 1.B 2.C 3.D 4.
2. What’s the disadvantage of the instrument?
A It can make the eye doctors lose jobs.
B It can cut the treatment cost down
.C It can reduce the eye disorder rate.
D It can rise the eye treatment rate.
3. What is the aim of the instrument?
A To make the eye disease check more accurate.
B To make eye disease treatment easier.
C To make eye doctors’ work easier.
D To make seeing an eye doctor easier.
4. Which of the following is TRUE?
A The AI instrument can bring brightness for blind people.
B The AI instrument is easy to use and have high accuracy.
C The AI instrument is invented by two universities.
D The eye doctors feel uneasy about the AI instrument.
5. What is the main idea of this passage?
A The short of eye doctors is making eye disease treatment hard.
B The AI instrument is being put into use to diagnose eye diseases.
C New diagnosing ways are being used for eye diseases.
D .Eye doctors are in danger of losing their jobs becauseof the AI instrument.

