【题文】When an earthquake hit the Los Angeles area on Monday morning at 6:25 am, the Los Angeles Times had their story published in about three minutes. It was the first media to report on the breaking news. How?

It used a robot. Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the LA Times said that an algorithm (算法) he created called Quakebot was behind the story. It’s the latest example of robot journalism, a developing practice that has interested many news organizations as it could change the game of breaking news.

Schwencke said that when he was woken by the earthquake on Monday morning, he simply got out of bed, opened his computer, and found the robot-written story already finished in the system. All he had to do was click (点击) “publish”.

The algorithms can produce news stories on earthquakes and crime in the city, and it is then the job of the paper’s staff to determine which stories should be developed further. For this reason, Schwencke disagrees with the guess that robo-journalism could replace human writers. “It saves people a lot of time, and for certain types of stories, it gets the information out there in usually about as good a way as anybody else would. It doesn’t eliminate anybody’s job as much as it makes everybody’s job more interesting,” he said.

Check out the robot’s original report below: An earthquake measuring 4.7 was reported five miles from Westwood, California on Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake happened at 6:25 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 5.0 miles. In the past ten days, there have been no earthquakes measuring 3.0 and greater centered nearby.

This information came from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service and this post was created by an algorithm written by the author.

【小题1】In covering the earthquake, the Los Angeles Times was _______.

A．very serious	B．open-minded
C．well informed	D．highly efficient

【小题2】What do we know about Quakebot?

A．It makes printing much easier.

B．It writes news reports all by itself.

C．It’s a game designed for journalists.

D．It’s used to entertain people at work.

【小题3】What does the word “eliminate” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Affect.	B．Handle.
C．Remove.	D．Defend.

【小题4】What would be the best title for the text?

A．How a robot journalist does its work

B．Programs created for predicting earthquakes

C．LA hit by an earthquake on Monday morning

D．Robot writes earthquake breaking news articles

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