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The Next Web Timothy Berners-Lee might be giving

游客2023-12-09  15
问题                             The Next Web
    Timothy Berners-Lee might be giving Bill Gates a run for the money, but he passed up his shot at fabulous wealth-intentionally—in 1990. That’s when he decided not to patent the technology used to create the most important software innovation in the final decade of the 20th century: the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee wanted to make the world a richer place, not a mass personal wealth. So he gave his brainchild to us all.
    Berners-Lee regards today’s Web as a rebellious adolescent that can never fulfill his original expectations. By 2005, he hopes to begin replacing it with the Semantic Web—a smart network that will finally understand human languages and make computers virtually as easy to work with as other humans.
    As imagined by Berners-Lee, the new Web would understand not only the meaning of words and concepts but also the logical relationships among them. That has great potential. Most knowledge is built on two pillars: semantics and mathematics. In number processing, computers already outclass people. Machines that are equally skilled at dealing with language and reason won’t just help people uncover new insights: they could blaze new trails on their own.
    Even with a fairly crude version of this future Web, mining online for valuable pieces of knowledge would no longer force people to go through screen after screen of irrelevant data. Instead, computers would dispatch intelligent agents, or software messengers, to explore Web sites by the thousands and logically pick out just what’s relevant. That alone would provide a major boost in productivity at work and at home. But there’s far more.
    Software agents could also take on many routine business work, such as helping manufacturers find and negotiate with lowest-cost parts suppliers and handling help-desk questions. The Semantic Web would also be a treasure house of eureka insights. Most inventions and scientific breakthroughs, including today’s Web, spring from novel combinations of existing knowledge. The Semantic Web would make it possible to evaluate more combinations overnight than a person could do in a lifetime. Sure scientists and other people can post ideas on the Web today for others to read. But with machines doing the reading and translating technical terms, related ideas from millions of Web pages could be distilled and summarized.
    That will lift the ability to assess and integrate information to new heights. The Semantic Web, Berners-Lee predicts, will help more people become more intuitive as well as more analytical. It will foster global collaborations among people with diverse cultural perspectives, so we have a better chance of finding the right solutions to the really big issues—like the environment and climate warming. [br] The Semantic Web will be superior to today’s web in that it ______.
选项 A、surpasses people in processing numbers
B、fulfills user’s original expectations
C、deals with language and reason as well as number
D、responds like a rebellious adult
答案 C
解析 本题考查事实细节。由文章的第三段首句可知：新的万维网将不止能理解词语和概念的意思，还能理解它们之间的逻辑关系。[C]项的language对应原文中的the meaning of words and concepts，reason对应the logic relationships among them，因此是正确项。第三段第四句提到：现在的计算机(即今天的网络)在处理数据方面已超过了人类，因此[A]项不是语义万维网比现在网络优越的理由。第二段首句提到伯纳斯·李认为今天的网络像一个反叛的青少年，永远达不到他(发明者)最初的期望。[B]、[D]项替换词汇为“使用者”和“成年人”，是对该句的歪曲引申。
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