Artificial Intelligence Comprehension and English Usage Test

Key to Artificial Intelligence Assessment

(A) Comprehension (4 points)

a) Answer Questions 1–2 According to the Information Given in the Text.

1) Why has AI investigation been successful recently?

Because they have incorporated meaning and language use in the process of translation.

2) How can programmers improve computer translators?

By studying the human process for understanding.

b) Are These Statements True or False? (0.5 points per answer)

3) Artificial Intelligence has been a recent target in computer science.

FALSE. ... Artificial intelligence is an area of research that goes back to the very beginnings of computer science. (line 1)

4) Human chess players can defeat chess programs.

TRUE. ... Chess programs can defeat almost all best human players. (line 5)

5) No acceptable translator needs to understand texts before translating.

FALSE. Natural-language processing (understanding) becomes the key to translation. (line 10)

6) We can only enter data into a computer by a keyboard or a mouse.

FALSE. As well as being important in itself for such applications as human-computer interaction through speech input. (line 11)

(B) Use of English (3 points)

7) Give one opposite for ABSURD (adjective) (line 8). (0.25 points)

• Logical
• Coherent
• Reasonable
• Sensible

8) Find in the text the word which has the following definition: (0.25 points)

“Answer or solution to a problem or subject” (noun)

Key (line 10)

9) Complete the series with another word of the same semantic group: (0.25 points)

Windscreen, wheel, brake, seatbelt

Headlight, clutch, gear lever …

10) Which word is not an ADJECTIVE? (0.25 points)

Cowardly, friendly, happy, hardly

Hardly

11) Turn the following sentence into the passive voice: (0.5 points)

Computers cannot, at this moment in time, perform tasks that require human intelligence.

Tasks that require human intelligence cannot be performed by computers at this moment in time.

12) Join the following sentences using a relative. Make changes if necessary: (0.5 points)

These robots can be considered intelligent machines. Their reactions are almost human.

These robots, whose reactions are almost human, can be considered intelligent machines.

13) Rewrite the sentence without changing its meaning. Begin as indicated: (0.5 points)

She can play the guitar but she has never studied music.

Although … She has never studied music, she can play the guitar.

14)

We danced all night to the music of Shakira.