2015职称英语理工类A级练习题阅读理解(5)

　　Digital Realm

　　That will open the way to the next phase of the digital age: artificial intelligence. By our providing so many thoughts and preferences to our machines each day, theyll accumulate enough information about how we think so that theyll be able to mimic our minds and act as our agents. Scary, huh? But potentially quite useful. At least until they decide they dont need us anymore and start building even smarter machines they can boss around.

　　Along with the recent advances in digital switching and storage technologies, this means a future in which all forms of content movies, music, shows, books, data, magazines, newspapers, your aunts recipes and home videos will be instantly available anywhere on demand. Anyone will be able to be a producer of any content; youll be able to create a movie or magazine, make it available to the world and charge for it, just like Time Warner!

　　36. The techniques of voice recognition _____

　　B. are in its initial stage of development.

　　D. will assist people to recognize each others voice.

　　A. machines can be our agents us they understand our thoughts.

　　C. machines will not need us any more.

　　38. Whats the best description of Gordon Moores law as mentioned in the third paragraph?

　　B. Bill Gates rules the digital world with the law.

　　D. It helps the development of the bandwidth.

　　A. Compose music and make it available to the world.

　　C. Write books and sell them.

　　40. Which of the following statements is true of a personalized market?

　　B. The same product is distributed to millions of users.

　　D. Individuals can control centralized factories and studios.