单选题
The pursuit of information has been a human preoccupation since knowledge was first recorded. In the 3rd century BC Ptolemy stole every (1) scroll from passing travellers to (2) his great library in Alexandria. After 2001 America (3) a program to compile as many data as possible about just about everything. Since 1996 Brewster Kahle has been (4) all the content on the web as a not-for-profit (5) called the "Internet Archive". It has (6) expanded to software, films, audio recordings and scanning books. There has always been more information than people can mentally process. The disparity between the amount of information and man's ability to deal with it may be (7) , but that need not be a cause for (8) Our sensory and attentional systems are tuned to be (9) People find patterns to compress information and make it manageable. (10) Commander Schmorrow does not think that man will be (11) by robots. "The flexibility of the human to consider as-yet-unforeseen (12) during critical decision-making, go (13) the gut when problem-solving under uncertainty and other such (14) reasoning behaviours will not be readily replaced by a computer," he says. The (15) of data now available is a resource, similar to other resources and even to technology itself. (16) , resources and technologies are neither good nor bad; it depends on how they are (17) . In the age of big data, computers will be monitoring more things, making more decisions and even (18) improving their own processes--and man will be left with the same (19) he has always faced. (20) T.S. Eliot asked: "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?/
【答案解析】语义逻辑题。通过下文的解释,可以判断,这句话意为,“就连海军司令斯莫罗也不认为人类会被机器人‘取代’。”A为答案。B意为“使结合,使完善”,如integrate traditional Chinese medicine withwestern medicine.(把中西医结合起来。);C“帮助,协助”、D“支持,支撑”均不符合句子逻辑。