Artificial intelligence has re-entered public consciousness after years of being avoided by researchers. While early expectations of AI were not met, new approaches now promise the most powerful form of AI yet. Researchers believe their new techniques for neural networks, agents, and case-based reasoning will solve longstanding problems and truly deliver on the original vision of intelligent machines.

1. IELTS
Reading
The Return of Artificial
Intelligence

2. 01
How to paraphrase

3. Words 1.Cognate （同根词）
原文：
People try to connect with the world and if they are not
successful there’s that frustration and irritability.
题目：
And as a result, they become frustrated and irritable.

4. Words
2. synonymous substitution（同义替换）
double standards
different criteria
vague explanation
not revealing the technical details of…
provide a clue
help explain

5. Words 3. 子集替换
一个集合名词与其子集之间的一种替换，比如fruits（集合）与
watermelon（子集）。
题目：Bakelite was only available in a limited range of colours.
原文：......they were now, at last, no longer restricted to the wood
tone and drab browns of the pre-plastic era.
原文：Our computer club provides printer.
题目：Our computer club provides color printer.

6. 题目: Studies show drugs available today can delay the
process of growing old.
原文: As researchers on aging noted recently, no treatment
on the market today has been proved to slow human
aging—the build-up of molecular and cellular damage that
increases vulnerability to infirmity as we get older
集合： treatment 子集： drugs

7. Sentence 1. 语态改写
主动句和被动句的替换：A do(es) B = B be done by A
原文：
We can relate a study of this kind to texts in other media too.
题目：
A study of this kind can be related to texts in other media
too.

8. Sentence 2. 从句改写
一般是把表示定语的词或词组（形容词、介词词组、分词词组
等）与定语从句进行替换
原文：
There appears to be a qualitative difference in the way the intellectually
highly able think, compared with more average-ability or older pupils,
for whom external regulation by the teacher often compensates for lack
of internal regulation.
题目：
Children of average ability seem to need more direction from teachers
because they do not have internal regulation .

9. Sentence
3. 逻辑改写
四种常见逻辑关系：比较、并列、转折、因果
题目：
Although English was then overtaken by ......... , it developed again in
the 19th century as a direct result of the .........
原文：
However, in the 19th century scientific English again enjoyed
substantial lexical growth as the industrial revolution ...

10. Meaning
By the late 1980s, the term Al was being avoided by many
researchers, who opted instead to align themselves with
specific sub-disciplines such as neural networks, agent
technology, case-based reasoning, and so on.'
12. According to researchers, in the late 1980s there was a feeling
that original expectations of AI may not have been justified.
Para C

11. 02
Match Information with paragraphs

12. Para A
After years in the wilderness, the term 'artificial intelligence’
(Al) seems poised to make a comeback.
3. the reason why AI has become a common topic of
conversation again
题目：
It re-entered public consciousness with the release of Al, a
movie about a robot boy.

13. Para B：
The expression provided an attractive but informative name
for a research programme that encompassed such
previously disparate fields as …
2. the fact that AI brings together a range of separate
research areas
题目：

14. 10. The problems waiting to be solved by AI have not
changed since 1967.
But the tide may now be turning, according to …, reckon
that their new approach to artificial intelligence is the
most powerful and promising approach ever discovered.
Para E
Some problems existed for a long time but now a new
approach to AI is the most powerful approach ever
discovered.
Meaning

15. HAL thus encapsulated the optimism of the 1960s that
intelligent computers would be widespread by 2001.
11. The film 2001: A Space Odyssey reflected
contemporary ideas about the potential of AI computers
集合：ideas
子集：optimism of the 1960s
contemporary
同义替换

16. 03
Paraphrase Exercise