The prototype engines never went into ____
A.productive
B.production
C.product
D.produce
A.productive
B.production
C.product
D.produce
What does the author wants to illustrate with Johnny roaming the streets?
A.An instance of arbitrariness.
B.A consequence of permissiveness.
C.A prototype of classics.
D.An example of irresponsibility.
The mechanic examined the car engine ______ but could find nothing wrong with it.
A.throughout
B.exactly
C.thoroughly
D.altogether
For instance, computers can find you a baseball schedule, but they cannot tell you directly if the Yankees are in town. Nor can they tell you whether sitting in the bleachers is a good idea on a first date. AskForCents can, because its answers come from people. "Whatever question you can come up with, there's a person that can provide the answer—you don't have the inflexibility of an algorithm-driven system", says Jesse Heitler, who developed AskForCents. Mr. Heitler was able to do this thanks to a new software tool developed by Amazon, the online retailer, that allows computing tasks to be farmed out to people over the internet. Aptly enough, Amazon's system is called Mechanical Turk.
Amazon's Turk is part toolkit for software developers, and part online bazaar: anyone with internet access can register as a Turk user and start performing the Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) listed on the Turk website (mturk. com). Companies can become "requesters" by setting up a separate account, tied to a bank account that will pay out fees, and then posting their HITs. Most HITs pay between one cent and $5. So far, people from more than 100 countries have performed HITs, though only those with American bank accounts can receive money for their work; others are paid in Amazon gift certificates.
Mr. Heitler says he had previously tried to build a similar tool, but concluded that the infrastructure would be difficult to operate profitably. Amazon already has an extensive software infrastructure designed for linking buyers with sellers, however, and the Turk simply extends that existing model. Last November Amazon unveiled a prototype of the system, which it calls "artificial intelligence". The premise is that humans are vastly superior to computers at tasks such as pattern recognition, says Peter Cohen, director of the project at Amazon, so why not let software take advantage of human strengths?
Mr. Cohen credits Amazon's boss, Jeff Bezos, with the concept for the Turk. Other people have had similar ideas. Eric Bonabeau of Icosystem, an American firm that builds software tools modeled on natural systems, has built what he calls the "Hunch Engine" to combine human intelligence with computer analysis. The French postal service, for example, has used it to help its workers choose the best delivery routes, and pharmaceutical researchers are using it to determine molecular structures by combining their gut instincts with known results stored in a database. And a firm called Seriosity hopes to tap the collective brainpower of the legions of obsessive players of multiplayer online games such as "World of War-craft", by getting them to perform. small real-world tasks (such as sorting photographs) while playing, and paying them in the game's own currency.
The last sentence of the first paragraph means
A.computers have never been superior to human intelligence.
B.human intelligence can still outperform. computers.
C.computers will eventually baffle many tasks humans give them.
D.human intelligence will fail in the face of electronic chessmasters.
The engine is ______ at 6,000 revolutions per minute.
A.turning in
B.turning off
C.turning over
D.turning to
According to the passage, keeping the engine running idly______.
A.will just waste gas
B.will warm it up more quickly
C.will make it work more efficiently
D.is necessary in cold weather
When you find the engine is hotter than normal, you should ______.
A.drive to a service station to get a cool engine
B.turn off your heater so as to cool down the engine
C.switch on the heater as soon as possible
D.try to make the engine boil over ______.
What will happen to the engine when oil pressure drops?
A.It will be damaged when the engine stops working.
B.Very soon it will be severely damaged.
C.Serious damage to it is not likely to occur within the first few minutes.
D.Damage may occur to the engine when you drive the car at high speed.