单选题
Villages in developing countries often lack many things. Books, clean water, electricity. These shortages are
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to
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But a
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kind of shortage is not easy to see. That is a shortage of
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Many villages have no doctors, engineers or scientists. They have no one who knows
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to treat unusual medical problems or design a new expert system. There"s a way to ease these problems. They can do it with
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. In the past few years, computer scientists around the world
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they call expert systems. An expert system is a special kind of computer program. In some
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, it can take the place of a human expert. For example, an expert in
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system can help
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a sick person. A question appears on the computer screen, "Is the person hot"? You tell the computer either yes or no. The computer asks
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questions. "Has the person lost any blood"? "Can the person move normally"? You
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The computer continues to ask questions
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it has enough
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to make a decision. Then it tells what
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or other treatment is needed. In this way the expert system takes the place of a
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Another kind of expert system takes the place of an engineer. It
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the flow of water in a river. It tells if a dam can be built
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the river. It also tells
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electricity can be produced. Still other kinds of expert systems help solve problems for farmers and owners of small businesses.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题选项中的四个词放回原文都不存在语法错误,因此不能单纯从选项提供的信息来选出正确答案。紧接这句话后,转折连词but连接了一个与本题紧密相关的句子。这句子使用了“not easy to see”这个词组,那么本题就应该选择easy这个词,才能与后面这句话形成转折关系。
【答案解析】[解析] what to do结构中,what是do的宾语,而本句中treat已经有宾语,所以不能用what。how, when, where都可以填入空白而不会引起语法错误。但是,从意思上来看,这些村落面临的困难是“没有人懂得如何医治疑难杂症或是设计专门的系统”,所以我们应该选择表示方式的how。