Question

    US poet Allen Ginsberg once said, "Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind."

In celebrating World Poetry Day, March 21, UNESCO discovers the special ability of poetry to express the human spirit.

The magic of poetry lies in the connection built up through words between the author and the reader. When we read a poem, we often imagine what the poet was thinking when they wrote it, or what they were doing at the time. These thoughts let us connect with the words better.

But in the age of AI(人工智能), would a poem still mean as much if it wasn't written by a human at all? Today, computers can create all kinds of texts, even poems included.

In 2013, Australian researcher Oscar Schwartz and his friend Benjamin Laird created a website called "bot or not", where readers can read poems and guess whether they were written by a human or a computer. During a recent speech at TedX Sydney, Schwartz said that throughout the years, some of the website's poems were able to fool 65 percent of human readers into thinking they were written by a human.

By starting the website, Schwartz and Laird hoped that people would question the difference between humans and machines and be able to find out what makes us human.

Unstableness(不稳定性)is part of the answer. "The human is not a cold, hard fact," Schwartz said. "Rather, it is something that's constructed(构成)with our ideas and something that changes over time."

A computer may be able to create poems that are correct in both grammar and style, but it wouldn't be able to get the same meanings and feelings across as a human poet could. In fact, today's AI software creates poems based on ones that have already been written by humans. As Schwartz noted, "The computer works like a mirror that reflects(反映)any idea of a human that developers teach it."

So a new challenge arises: What kind of human mind do we want the computer to reflect back at us?

1.What's the purpose of the first three paragraphs?

A.To introduce how World Poetry Day was started.

B.To show the popularity of poetry around the world.

C.To show the importance and beauty of poetry.

D.To give some tips on appreciating(欣赏).

2.What do the data(数据)from "bot or not" show?

A.Computers are better than humans at writing poetry.

B.Computers can also produce poems of high quality.

C.Readers don't really care whether the poems were written by humans.

D.Few readers can tell poems written by computers from those by humans.

3.According to Schwartz, what makes humans different from machines?

A.We have changing ideas. B.We often make mistakes.

C.We are stable in what we do. D.We value feelings over facts.

4.Why can't computers match humans in creating poems according to the article?

A.They can't express feelings as well as humans.

B.They can't create poems that make sense(说得通)at all.

C.They fail to use the correct grammar and style.

D.They only know how to copy poems written by humans.

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.A

【解析】

本文介绍了诗歌的重要性和美感，然后谈论了在人工智能时代电脑创作诗歌和人类诗人的区别，最后指出尽管电脑能创作出语法和风格都正确的诗歌，但它无法像人类诗人那样理解相同的感受和含义。

1.段落大意题。A：介绍世界诗歌日是如何开始的。B：展示诗歌在世界各地的受欢迎程度。C：展示诗歌的重要性和美感。D：给一些欣赏的建议。文章的前三段主要描述了诗歌的重要性和诗歌的美感。故选C。

2.细节理解题。根据“Schwartz said that throughout the years, some of the website's poems were able to fool 65 percent of human readers into thinking they were written by a human.”可知，施瓦茨说，多年来，网站上的一些诗歌能够骗过65%的人类读者，让他们以为是人类写的。所以电脑也可能产生高质量的诗歌。故选B。

3.细节理解题。根据“Unstableness(不稳定性)is part of the answer. ‘The human is not a cold, hard fact,’ Schwartz said. ‘Rather, it is something that's constructed(构成)with our ideas and something that changes over time.’”可知，人类的不稳定性以及随时间变化的东西是区别于机器的。故选A。

4.细节理解题。根据“A computer may be able to create poems that are correct in both grammar and style, but it wouldn't be able to get the same meanings and feelings across as a human poet could.”可知，计算机也许能够写出语法和风格都正确的诗歌，但它不可能像人类诗人那样理解相同的含义和感受。故选A。