1. (2023高三下·宣威月考) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最正确选项。

Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008) is a science-fiction writer. His fictional HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-wrote, 1 many of today's fears about artificial intelligence. I have a copy of a long-forgotten 1987 book of him July20, 2019: Life in the 21st century. I did not plan on mentioning it until the 50^th anniversary of the first moon landings, which its title reflects. But I am 2 my own word because re-reading it has given me new insight.

Till now, the book is 3 in almost every detail. Clarke suggests, for example, "amplifiers(放大器)" to make us more intelligent, but makes no 4 of the Internet, which was in development at the time and was 5 15 years earlier by Joseph Licklider of MIT, when he was working at the US defence department.

Being wrong is just one problem I have with Clarke's book. Like most future-gazing, it sees tomorrow 6 in terms of technology. He viewed technology as humanity's saviour(救世主). Technology is marvellous, but it has had little or nothing to do with the best things about the world, and it will play a 7 role in casting out humanity's worst things: poverty, ignorance and madness. What do I mean by the best things? The outlawing of racism; rights for disabled people; liberation for women; the rise of 8 but the fall of superstition(迷信); social security, animal rights and greater life expectancy.

I love what technology is doing for the developing world, where electric lighting, washing machines and the Internet have 9 progress. But even better for that world will be universal education, the elimination of corruption(腐败), the rule of law, and democracy. Technology will play its part, but it will not be 10.

Mare Demarest, an Oregon-based digital thinker and author, believes technology tells us truths regardless of our nasty tendency to get distracted, to miss the moment, and to 11 data to make it mean what we want it to mean. "Gathering data is mostly done to 12 the human lot one way or another. Making sense of data, 13, will remain a human activity," he says. "We are better at 14 than any machine we will be able to make for a very long time to come."

We're not progressing humanity or changing the world. That's what ideas do, and machines don't have ideas. Technology is only the 15 of our desires. It isn't the future; we are the future. It's funny that even Clarke stopped short of predicting machines with imaginations.