2014年全国职称英语考试 理工类B级 阅读理解押题 孙伟.pdf

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机会只给有准备的人。
Opportunities are only for the prepared person.
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Composer David Cope is the inventor of puter program that writes
original works of classical music. It took Cope 30 years to develop the software.
Now most people can't tell the difference between music by the famous German
composer J. S. Bach (1685-1750) and the Bach-positions from Cope's
computer.
It all started in 1980 in the United States, when Cope was trying to write an
opera. He was having trouble thinking of new melodies, so he wrote puter
program to create the melodies. At first this music was not easy to listen to. What
did Cope do? He began to rethink how human pose music. He realized
posers' brains work like big databases. First, they take in all the music that
they have ever heard. Then they take out the music that they dislike. Finally, they
make new music from what is left. According to Cope, only the posers
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are able to create the database accurately, remember it, and form new musical
patterns from it.
Cope built a huge database of existing music. He began with hundreds of
works by Bach. The software analyzed the data: it broke it down into smaller pieces
and looked for patterns. It bined the pieces into new patterns. Before long,
the program pose short Bach-like works. They weren't good, but it was a
start.
Cope knew he had more work to do-he had a whole opera to write. He
continued to improve the software. Soon it could analyze more. complex music. He
also added many posers, including his own work, to the database.,
A few years later, Cope'puter program, called "Emmy", was ready to
help him with his opera. The process required a lot of collaboration betwee