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2016届高考（浙江、江苏）英语二轮复习检测：第2部分题型专题突破专题2 阅读理解第3讲专题强化训练

　　Assuming that the growth of computing power continues to follow Moore’s Law，the leader of IBM’s side thinks it should be practical to mimic an entire human brain in silico this way in ten to fifteen years.Such an artificial brain would，of course，be a powerful research tool.It would allow neurological experiments that currently take days in a “web lab” to be conducted in seconds.The researchers hope that their simulated brain will reveal the secrets of how certain psychiatric and neurological，disorders develop.But that is probably not the real reason for doing it.The most interesting question，surely，is whether such an artificial brain will be intelligent，or conscious，or both.

　　【解题导语】　本文是科技文阅读。该文通过实验介绍人的大脑是如何工作的。________．rge number of nerve cells

　　解析：选D。推理判断题。通读文章第三段并根据该段中的关键词a cylindrical(圆柱形的)element可知选D。l be no mean feat.”in Paragraph 5 indicate?

　　A．It is rather difficult to connect the artificial nerve cells up.

　　B．The function of chemical transmitters is hard to understand.

　　C．A digital representation of an entire column is timeconsuming.

　　D．A single nerve cell is complicated to identify across connections.

　　解析：选A。句意猜测题。根据该句话后面的那句话和上一段的最后一句话They will do so by assigning electrical properties(电to them，and telling them how to communicate with each other and how they should modify their connections with one another depending on their activity.可知连接人工神经细胞很困难。故选A。ng the research is probably ________．解析：选C。细节理解题。The most interesting question，surely，is whether such an artificial brain will be intelligent，or conscious，or both.可知研究的最基本的目的就是发现大脑是如何工作的。故选C。nce fiction.