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Directions: For each blank in the following passage, there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. Mind-reading AI turns thoughts into words using a brain implant An artificial intelligence can accurately translate thoughts into sentences, at least for a limited vocabulary of 250 words. The system may bring us a step closer to1speech to people who have lost the ability because of paralysis. Joseph Makin at the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues used deep learning algorithms to study the brain 2of four women as they spoke. The women, who all have epilepsy, already had electrodes attached to their brains to 3 seizures. Each woman was asked to read aloud from a set of sentences as the team measured brain activity. The largest group of sentences 4 250 unique words. The team fed this brain activity to a neural network algorithm, training it to identify regularly 5 patterns that could be linked to repeated aspects of speech, such as vowels or consonants. These patterns were then fed to a second neural network, which tried to turn them into words to 6 a sentence. Each woman repeated the sentences at least twice, and the final repetition didn't form part of the training data, 7 the researchers to test the system. Each time a person speaks the same sentence, the brain activity associated will be similar but not identical. "Memorising the brain activity of the these sentences wouldn't help, so the network instead has to learn what's similar about them so that it can generalise to this final example," says Makin. Across the four women, the AI's best 8 was an average translation error rate of 3 per cent. Makin says that using a small number of sentences made it easier for the AI to learn which words tend to follow others. For example, the AI was able to decode that the word "Turner" was always likely to follow the word "Tina" in this set of sentences, from brain 9 alone. The team tried decoding the brain signal data into 10 words at time, rather than whole sentences, but this increased the error rate to 38 per cent even for the best performance. "So the network clearly is learning facts about which words go together, and not just which neural activity11 to which words," says Makin. This will make it hard to 12 the system to a larger vocabulary because each new word increases the number of possible sentences, reducing 13. Making says 250 words could still be useful for people who can't talk. "We want to deploy this in a patient with an actual speech disability," he says, although it is possible their brain activity may be different from that of the women in this study, making this more 14. Sophie Scott at University College London says we are a long way from being able to translate brain signal data comprehensively. "You probably know around 250, 000 words, so it's still an incredibly 15 set of speech that they're using," she says. （1） A . inspecting B . restoring C . admiring D . inspiring （2） A . emotion B . attractiveness C . awareness D . signals （3） A . monitor B . master C . control D . expect （4） A . concluded B . excluded C . contained D . increased （5） A . extended B . occurring C . ignored D . concerned （6） A . form B . handle C . hand D . force （7） A . issuing B . producing C . allowing D . acquiring （8） A . behavior B . comment C . preparation D . performance （9） A . possibility B . activity C . capacity D . responsibility （10） A . individual B . financial C . social D . technical （11） A . serves B . finishes C . maps D . competes （12） A . switch up B . put up C . rise up D . scale up （13） A . privacy B . accuracy C . currency D . fluency （14） A . critical B . specific C . proper D . difficult （15） A . committed B . oppressed C . restricted D . dominated 答案：（1）B；（2）D；（3）A；（4）C；（5）B；（6）A；（7）C；（8）D；（9）B；（10）A；（11）C；（12）D；（13）B；（14）D；（15）C；

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