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The human brain contains 10 thousand million cells and
each of these may have a thousand connections. So enormous ___1___
numbers used to discourage us and causing us to dismiss the ___2___
possibility of making a machine with human-like ability, but now
that we have grown used to move forward at such a pace we can ___3___
be less sure. Quite soon, in only 10 or 20 years perhaps, we will
be able to assemble a machine as complex as the human brain,
and if we can we will. It may then take us a long time to render
it intelligently by loading in the right software or by altering the ___4___
architecture but that too will happen. I think it certain that in
decades, no centuries, machines of silicon will arise first to rival ___5___
and then exceed their human ancestors. Once they exceed us
they will be capable of their own design. In real sense they will ___6___
be able to reproduce themselves. Silicon will have ended carbon's
long control. And we will no longer be able to claim
ourselves to be the fine intelligence in the known universe. As ___7___
the intelligence of robots increase to match that of humans and ___8___
as their cost declines through economics of scale that we may use ___9___
them to expand our frontiers, first on earth through their ability
to withstand environments, beneficial to ourselves. Thus, deserts ___10___
may bloom and the ocean beds are minded. Further ahead, by
a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the
technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man-created
world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be
within our power.

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Jane Adams came from a well-to-do and cultural family. She was so
distressed about the misery of poor people as she left her fine home to ___1___
spend her life in slums of Chicago. In 1889, she established a settlement ___2___
house where she initiated many projects such as hot lunch service that for ___3___
factory workers, day care centers for children, free classes for young
and adults, gymnasium and art gallery. Immigrants and other poor people
came to her settlement house for advice and help, as well for fun. ___4___
Jane Adams was also passive in fighting against the use of child labor ___5___
and against war. She work for women's right to vote and for improving ___6___
the situation of the blacks. She initiated country vocation program for
poor city children. Jane Adams had a great influence to the development ___7___
of social work in the United States and in other parts of the world She
promoted the idea of responsibility for the welfare of the poor. Settlement
houses of a similar kind was founded in many poor neighborhood to make ___8___
the lives of the poor more meaningful. In 1931, Jane Adams was rewarded ___9___
the Nobel Prize for which she had done for the society. ___10___

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