Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

Artiicial Intelligence: Can machines think? 181

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EXERCISE

Reading for details For each of the following sentences, choose the correct answer

to ill in the blank.

1. The led to the Industrial Revolution.
   a. wheel
   b. steam engine
   c. plow


2. Mathematicians and computer scientists began working on artiicial intelligence
   .
   a. after World War I
   b. after World War II
   c. during the Industrial Revolution


3. The term artiicial intelligence was irst used by.
   a. Leonardo da Vinci
   b. Alan Turing
   c. John McCarthy


4. The irst adult-sized robot was developed at.
   a. the Stanford Research Institute
   b. the Burden Neurological Institute
   c. NASA


5. The Unimate was used in.
   a. space exploration
   b. medical surgery
   c. manufacturing