5.artificial intelligence emerged during the late 1950’s as an academic discipline based on the assumption that computer are able to be programmed to think like people
A.could be programmed to think like people B.can be programmed to think as people can 答案是A.请问B如果 不是CAN 没有用过去时,后面的be programmed to think as people could应该等价于be programmed to think like people 吧?
6. while the base salary for the top five officers of the company did not change from 1990 to 1991 , cuts were made in nonsalary compensation as in allowances for overseas assignment and club membership.
A.cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as B.cuts were made in such ninsalary compenstation as those in 答案是A 但是B的as those in不是和cuts were made in nonsalary compensation 对称吗?
5. B.can be programmed to think as people can. Here, conjunction "as" is used as comparison(比较), that is "people can be programmed to think", illogically. so you cannot substitute "be programmed to think as people can" with "be programmed to think like people".