Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks.
Questions1-10 are based on thefollowingpassage.
“THINKING is hard,”(36)__________Daniel Dennet,a professor of philosophy at Tufts University.“Thinking about some problems is so hard that it can make your head ache just thinking about thinking about them.”He has spent hA.f a century pondering some of the knottiest problems around:the nature of meaning,the(37)__________of minds and whether freewill is possible.His latest book,Intuition Pumps(直覺泵)and Other Tools for Thinking,is a precis of those 50 years,distilled into 77(38)__________ and mostly bite-sized chapters.
“Intuiuon pumps”are what Mr Dennet calls thought experiments that aim to get at the rub of concepts.But the aim of this book is not(39)__________to show how the pumps work,but to(40)__________them to help readers think through some of the most profound conundrums.
This pump which Mr Dennet calls a“cascade of homunculi(級聯(lián)侏儒)”,was(41)__________by the field of artificial Intelligence,An programmer begins by taking a problem a computer is meant to solve and breaking it down into smaller tasks,to be dealt with by particular(42)__________.These,in turn,are(43)__________ of sub.subsystems,and so on.In this way,we are in depth of thinking profound problems.
Of course,Mr Dennet’s book is not a(44)__________solution to such mind-benders;it is philosophy in action.Like all good philosophy,it works by getting the reader to examine deeply held but(45)__________ beliefs about some of our most fundamental concems,like personal autonomy.It is really not all easy read.
注意:此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。
A.consist
B.actually
C.nature
D.concedes
E.inspired
F.definable
G.composed
H.readable
I.substance
J.merely
K.unspoken
L.apply
M.suppose
N.subsystem
O.definitive
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