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 envisioned 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 awesome potential. Most knowledge is built on two pillars: semantics and mathematics. In number-crunching, computers already outclass people. Machines that are equally adroit 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 repositories for nuggets of knowledge would no longer force people to wade through screen after screen of extraneous data. Instead, computers would dispatch intelligent agents, or software messengers, to explore Web sites by the thousands and logically sift 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 chores, such as helping manufacturers find and negotiate with lowest-cost parts suppliers and handling help-desk questions. The Semantic Web would also be a bottomless trove 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 juggle 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.

1. Had he liked, Berners-Lee could have _____.

[A]created the most important innovation in the 1990s

[B]accumulated as much personal wealth as Bill Gates

[C]patented the technology of Microsoft software

[D]given his brainchild to us all

2. The Semantic Web will be superior to today’s web in that it _____.

[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

3. To search for any information needed on tomorrow’s Web, one only has to _____.

[A]wade through screen after screen of extraneous data

[B]ask the Web to dispatch some messenger to his door

[C]use smart software programs called “agents”

[D]explore Web sites by the thousands and pick out what’s relevant

4. Thanks to the Web of the future, _____.

[A]millions of web pages can be translated overnight

[B]one can find most inventions and breakthroughs online

[C]software manufacturers can lower the cost of computer parts

[D]scientists using different specialty terms can collaborate much better

5. The most appropriate title for this text is.

[A]Differences between Two Webs

[B]The Humanization of Computer Software

[C]A New Solution to World Problems

[D]The Creator and His Next Creation

參考答案

1. B 2.C 3.C 4.D 5.D

1.【金考網銀行招聘答案解析】本題考查考生根據上下文進行推理的能力。文章一開始就提到，“伯納斯?李原本可以在財富上與比爾?蓋茨一比高低，但是1990年他主動放棄了獲得巨額財富的機會。give sb a (good) run for their money“不讓……輕易取勝，與……進行激烈竟爭”，pass up “放棄，不要(機會等)”。第一段倒數第二句又接著提到，“他想讓世界變得更加富有，而不是積累個人財富，所以他把互聯網這個他個人智慧的結晶無償給了我們”。由此我們可以推出[B]項表述了他有能力卻不愿意做的事情。

文章第一段中間部分說到：伯納斯?李決定不為用來創造20世紀90年代最重要的軟件發明(萬維網)的技術申請專利。[A]、[C]項是對文意的曲解。[D]項在首段末句提到，是伯納斯?李已經做到的事情。

2.【金考網銀行招聘答案解析】本題考查事實細節。由文章的第三段首句可知：新的萬維網將不止能理解詞語和概念的意思，還能理解它們之間的邏輯關系。[C]項的language對應原文中的the meaning of words and concepts, reason對應the logic relationships among them，因此是正確項。

第三段第四句提到：現在的計算機(即今天的網絡)在處理數據方面已超過了人類，因此[A]項不是語義萬維網比現在網絡優越的理由。第二段首句提到伯納斯?李認為今天的網絡像一個反叛的青少年，永遠達不到他(發明者)最初的期望。[B]、[D]項替換詞匯為“使用者”和“成年人”，是對該句的歪曲引申。

3.【金考網銀行招聘答案解析】本題考查事實細節。可用排除法。文章第四段提到，“即使使用未來網絡的一個很原始版本，在巨大的網絡資源庫中尋找所需信息時，人們也不必在一屏一屏的無關信息中艱難搜索了。相反，電腦將派出智能代理商或軟件使者(代替你)查詢上千個網站，并按邏輯濾出相關信息。”[A]、[D]項是在未來網絡中人不用做的，與題目要求不符。[B]項是對文章望文生義，本身錯誤。只有[C]項正確，第四段中所述未來網絡的優勢，都是你使用它的智能程序這個前提下的結果。

4.【金考網銀行招聘答案解析】本題考查事實細節題。題干要求選出未來網絡帶來的好處。第五段最后三句提到：語義萬維網可以閱讀并翻譯專業術語，從上百萬的網站提取總結相關信息;促進全球不同文化背景的人之間的合作。[D]項scientists是不同文化背景的人的一個特例，所以是正確項。

[A]項錯誤，因為該段第四句提到overnight時，是說語義萬維網可以在一夜之間比一個人一輩子評估的知識的聯合還要多，而不是翻譯網頁。[B]項的內容是現在的網絡就能做到的，不能作為未來網絡的好處。[C]項文章沒有提及，文中只是說到軟件代理商能幫助制造商找到成本最低的零件供應商，并和他們洽談。

5.[精解]本題通過選標題的形式考查了文章的主旨。文章主要介紹了著名科學家伯納斯?李以及他將要研究出的語義萬維網，所以[D]項正確。在分析中，為了說明將來的網絡，把它和現在的萬維網進行了比較，但這僅僅是為了更好說明語義萬維網的優點。所以不選[A]項。[B]項是未來萬維網的一個目標，只是文章所述內容的一個方面，不能作為文章主旨。[C]項在文章最后點到，也不是主旨。

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