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Sometimes life gets a little dull. What used to
be fun and different becomes boring. That is the time to look for something
new. It is the time for a big idea to get your mind off everyday life. So why
not search for extraterrestrial (地球外的) intelligence? Or even better, why not get your
computer to do it for you?
Over
two million people have joined the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence(SETI)project.
Based in California, the SETI project analyzes information taken from a giant
radio telescope based in South America. Its task is to look for signals from
outer space that might prove that life exists on other planets.
Processing
this information is far too big a job for one computer. So the SETI project
workers divide the work among volunteers who visit their website. Each computer
gets some information to work out from the SETI network through the Internet. This
process is often known as “meta-computing”.
It
is a wonderful thought. You are sleeping, eating a meal or going out with
friends. All this time, your computer is searching the stars for signs that
might show something is out there trying to get in touch. Volunteers are proud
of being involved in the SETI project. It shows that they understand the potential
(潜能) of computing. They know that it is more than just a way
of working or playing games.
Meta-computing
may also be creating intelligence as well as looking for it. This idea
is based on the theory that human intelligence is created by the way in which
different parts of the brain communicate with each other. As the saying goes,
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.” People who join the SETI project
sometimes wonder whether their computer will become part of a huge network that
has learned to think for itself.
1.According to the writer, meta-computing
may be creating intelligence .
A. because human beings are intelligent
B. because a computer works as the
brain does
C. because of a network of many computers
D. because of the number of computers
2.Which of
the following shows the order in which the SETI network works?
A. Radio telescope→SETI website→Volunteers’ computer→SETI base
B. Radio telescope→SETI base→SETI website→Volunteers’
computer
C. SETI base→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers→Radio telescope
D. SETI base→Radio telescope→SETI website→Volunteers’ computers
3.The underlined word “it” in the last
paragraph refers to .
A. extra-terrestrial
intelligence B. human intelligence
C. the SETI projectD. meta-computing
4.The passage mainly tells us about .
A. a new way to work on the computer
B. a new way to work and play games
C. a new way to search for life outside the
earth
D. a new way to make life interesting and
different