阅读理解 When I started my career I was astonished by how superhuman some Fortune 500 executives were. It seemed they were magicians. Every decision they made based on deep market knowledge and up-to-date information. How did they do it?
They have marketing teams that can pull research together in hours. They have chiefs of staff who give them carefully crafted agendas for every day. These teams give Fortune 500 executives what appears to be super-human knowledge.
Fortunately for those of us who don't have Fortune 500 budgets at our disposal, it's getting easier and easier to build your own secret support staff. Within five years, most executives at any size company—and, indeed, most knowledge workers—will have tools that do much of the work of a CEO's private group.
That is, "Cyborg systems," or what I called "agents". It will make this possible, using a blend of learning algorithms and distributed labor to perform an ever-widening range of tasks at low cost. With help from these agents, we'll be able to look as smart as those CEOs do today.
I got one taste of this when I started using Wonder. Wonder is like having a personal researcher, deploying a small army of experts, including trained librarians, to do small, defined research projects for me. I ask Wonder for help. For $30 to $60, Wonder saves me hours every week. More and more products and services will fuse machine intelligence with crowd work to help users get things done.
To be clear, CEO support teams aren't going away. Top executives will continue to see benefits from dedicated, trusted support staff who can handle difficult, urgent, delicate work. But machine intelligence systems can take on elements of what these people do at a much lower cost, democratizing many of these capabilities.
Granted, there is going to be a lot of garbage before we realize the full promise of these virtual support armies. Many of them fail to live up to even basic promises, like this weather bot that has trouble telling you about the weather. But if you can filter through the many new offerings to find valuable tools, your work will improve and you may even start to look like those CEOs with the seemingly.
单选题 21.How can CEOs work like superman?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】事实细节题。根据定位词CEOs和superman定位到第一、二段。第二段详细列出了有哪些团队帮助CEO们，如marketing teams(营销团队)，chiefs of staff(主管)等为他们处理各种事务，所以他们有像超人一样工作的能力是因为他们有团队支持，故c项为正确选项。
单选题 22.Executives in small-size companies can work as Fortune 500 CEOs by______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】事实细节题。根据定位词定位到第三段第二句和第四段第一句。原文中没有直接写出小企业高管应该怎样做。但第三段中提到any size company(无论公司大小)，当然也包括小企业。它们即使没有大量预算，可以通过第四段提到的机器智能(machine intelligence)，包括Cyborg systems(赛博系统)或agents(代理机制)实现像500强企业的CEO们那样工作。故D项为正确选项。
单选题 23.It can be inferred that Wonder can______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】推理判断题。根据定位词定位到第五段。该段第二句话提到Wonder．．．research projects．．．(Wonder……完成研究项目……)，和B项的fulfill the research job意思一致，故B项为正确选项。
单选题 24.Top executives will continue to benefit from support teams because______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】事实细节题。根据定位词定位到第六段第一、二句。这两句讲的是CEO的支持团队并不会消失。那些顶尖的高管会继续从忠诚可信且能够处理困难、紧急、复杂工作的支持团队那里获益。故D项为正确选项。
单选题 25.The text mainly discusses______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】主旨大意题。文章第一、二段讨论的是世界500强企业CEO们办事能力高的原因——他们有强大的支持团队。第三、四、五段讨论的是机器智能的运用及前景。第六段论述了CEO们支持团队不会因为机器智能的出现而消失。第七段指出机器智能尚存在的缺陷。因此全文实际上主要谈论的是机器智能的应用，故C项为正确选项。