Passage 1

It is undeniable that some very useful analogies can be drawn between the relational systems of
computer mechanism and the relational systems of brain mechanism. The comparison does not
depend upon any close resemblance between the actual mechanical links which occur in brains and
computers; it depends on what the machines do. Furthermore, brains and computers can both be
organized so as to solve problems. The mode of communication is very similar in both the cases, so
much so that computers can now be designed to generate artificial human speech and even, by
accident, to produce sequences of words which human beings recognize as poetry. The implication is
not that machines are gradually assuming human forms, but that there is no sharp break of continuity
between what is human, what is mechanical.

1. From the passage, it is evident that the author thinks

(a) computers are now naturally programmed to produce poetry.

(b) computers are likely to usurp the place of intellectual superiority accorded to the human brain.

(c) the resemblance that the computer bears to the human brain is purely mechanical.

(d) the unintentional mixing up of word sequences in the computer can result in poetry.

2. Computers have acquired a proven ability of performing many of the functions of the human
brain because

(a) the brain of modern man is unable to discharge its functions properly on account of over-reliance
on machines.

(b) the sophisticated computer mechanism is on the verge of outstripping human mental faculties.

(c) the process of organizing and communicating are similar in both cases.

(d) the mechanics of the human brain have been introduced in the computer.

3. The resemblance between the human brain and the computer is

(a) imaginary.

(b) intellectual.

(c) mechanical.

(d) functional.

4. The passage implies that

(a) computers are assuming human forms.

(b) human are assuming mechanical forms.

(c) computers and humans are substitutable.

(d) there is continuity between what is human and what is mechanical.

5. The author uses the word ‘recognize’ in relation to computer poetry to convey a

(a) sense of sorrow at the reluctant admission of the superiority of machines by mankind.

(b) feeling that computers have yet to conquer the emotional heights that man is capable of attaining.

(c) feeling of derision for the popular faith in the omnipotence of the computer.

(d) feeling of a fatalistic acceptance of the computer’s encroachment upon human bastions.

6. Points of dissimilarity between the human brain and the computer don’t extend to

(a) the faculty of composing poetry.

(b) methods of communication.

(c) the faculty of problem solving.

(d) the faculty of speaking naturally.