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The Next Web Timothy Berners-Lee might be giving Bill Gates a run for the money, but he passed up his shot at fabulous wealt

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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.
To search for any information needed on tomorrow’s Web, one only has to______.
选项 A、go through screen after screen of irrelevant 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
答案C
解析 本题考查事实细节。可用排除法。文章第四段提到，“即使使用未来网络的一个很原始版本，在巨大的网络资源库中寻找所需信息时，人们也不必在一屏一屏的无关信息中艰难搜索了。相反，电脑将派出智能代理商或软件使者(代替你)查询上千个网站，并按逻辑滤出相关信息。”[A]、[D]项是未来网络可以避免的，与题目要求不符. [B]项是望文生义，本身错误。只有[C]项正确，第四段中所述未来网络的优势，都是你使用它的智能程序这个前提下的结果。
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