职称英语考试

试题来源：2015年职称英语(理工类A级)模拟试题及答案(1)
【单选题】    Pool Watch
    Swimmers can drown in busy swimming pools when lifeguards fail to notice that they are in trouble. A report says that on average 15 people drown in British pools each year, but many more suffer major injury after getting into difficulties. Now a French company has developed an artificial intelligence system called Poseidon that sounds the alarm when it sees someone in danger of drowning.
    When a swimmer sinks towards the bottom of the pool, the new system sends an alarm signal to a poolside monitoring station and a lifeguard's pager (呼机). In trials at a pool in Ancenis, near Nantes, it saved a life within just a few months, says Alistair McQuade, a spokesman for its maker, Poseidon Technologies.
Poseidon keeps watch through a network of underwater and overhead video cameras. AI software analyses the images to work out swimmers' trajectories (轨迹). To do this reliably, it has to tell the difference between a swimmer and the shadow of someone being cast onto the bottom or side of the pool.
It does the same with an image from another camera viewing the shape from a different angle. If the two projections are in the same position, the shape is identified as a shadow and is ignored. But if they are different, the shape is a swimmer and so the system follows its trajectory.
    To pick out potential drowning victims, anyone in the water who starts to descend slowly is added to the software's "pre-alert" (预先警戒) list, says McQuade. Swimmers who then stay immobile on the pool bottom for 5 seconds or more are considered in danger of drowning. Poseidon double-checks that the image really is of a swimmer, not a shadow, by seeing whether it obscures (使模糊) the pool's floor texture when viewed from overhead. If so, it alerts the lifeguard, showing the swimmer's location on a poolside screen.
    The first full-scale Poseidon system will be officially opened next week at a pool in High Wycombe, B    uckinghamshire. One man who is impressed with the idea is Travor Baylis, inventor of the clockwork (时钟装置) radio. Baylis runs a company that installs swimming pools - and he was once an underwater escapologist (脱身杂技演员) with a circus (马戏团). "1 say full marks to them if this works and can save lives," he says.
11 AI means the same as_________.
A　an image.
B　an idea.
C　anything immobile.
D　artificial intelligence
12 To save a life, AI software must be able to_________.
A　descend in the water.
B　videotape every movement.
C　distinguish between a swimmer and a shadow
D　save a life within a few months.
13 How does Poseidon save a life?
A　It orders an underwater robot to rescue the drowning swimmer.
B　It alerts the lifeguard.
C　It displays the swimmer's shadow on the screen.
D　It watches the pool through dozens of overhead cameras.
14 Which of the following statements about Travor Baylis is NOT true?
A　He owns a swimming pool.
B　He invented the clockwork radio.
C　He was once an entertainer.
D　He runs a company.
15 How does Baylis look at the Poseidon system?
A　He thinks it is too expensive.
B　He thinks it is a good system.
C　He thinks it is not efficient enough.
D　He thinks it is as good as the British pool Watch system.

网考网参考答案：D、C、B、A、B
大数据分析：根据网考网与考试题库的统计分析，该试题：
54%的考友选择了A选项
37%的考友选择了B选项
8%的考友选择了C选项
1%的考友选择了D选项
考友解析与评论：
 · 应该是D、C、B、A、B啊
 · 我选了D、C、B、A、B，没有理由，就是D、C、B、A、B
 · 这个答案是有歧义