B Imagine shopping for clothes online and being able to run your hand across the screen of your computer or smartphone to feel the materials. That kind of simulation technology could be available within the next five years. “We’re talking about reinventing how computers interact with humans, said Bernie Meyerson, IBM Vice President. Extending our sense of touch is one of the innovations IBM believes will change the world in the next five years, according to the company’s annual “Five in Five list. Smart machines will also be able to listen to the environment and highlight the sounds we care about most. For instance, an advanced speech recognition system will tell new parents why their baby is crying. This kind of thing is not possible today, but with an advanced enough system, it’s actually possible. In the near future, personal computers will be able to do more than recognize images and visual data. Their built-in cameras will be able to analyze features such as colors, and understand the meaning of visual media, such as knowing how to sort family photos. Smart machines will also be able to smell. If you sneeze on your computer or cellphone, tiny sensors (传感器) in the machine will be able to analyze thousands of molecules in your breath. “It can give you an alarm and says, `Hey, you are probably sick, go to see your doctor immediately,’ Meyerson says. Mark Maloo is a computer science professor from Georgetown University. He hopes the advances will encourage more students to study science, technology, engineering and math, preparing them to play a role in future innovations. He believes there’s little doubt that advances in computer technology over the next five years will make what now seems like science fiction a part of our everyday lives. 4. The purpose of the text is to show us A. how smart machines will replace humans B. what our lives will be like in the future C. how to go shopping on the Internet D. why IBM wants to invent these smart machines 5. In the future, if you buy clothes online, you may . A. feel the materials of the clothes by touching the screen B. ask your computer to give you some advice C. ask your computer to make the decision for you D. save a lot of money by using a smartphone 6. How will a smart machine figure out that you are probably sick? A. By analyzing the thousands of molecules in your breath. B. By analyzing your comments about your body condition. C. By referring your condition to doctors. D. By asking you to describe how you feel. 7. What can we infer from the text? A. The advanced speech recognition system is already available now. B. Extending the sense of touch is the most important object of IBM. C. Students have an important role to play in the future inventions. D. Personal computers can only be used to recognize images. 查看更多

 

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One morning Mrs Smith was driving home after she had done shopping. When she drove near a rubbish dump, she noticed a microwave oven(微波炉) not far from the side of the road.“John is a good electrician!”she said to herself.“Perhaps he can repair this. I'll take it home and let him try.”She picked up the oven and put it in the boot of her car. Then she drove on happily. A few kilometers later, she heard the siren (警报器)of a police car behind her. She looked in the driving mirror and saw a policeman waving to her to tell her to pull over and stop.
 Mrs Smith was very puzzled. She slowed down at the side of the road. A traffic policeman got out of the police car and walked up to her. 
“Can I see your driving license and insurance certificate(保险证),please? ”he asked her. He copied down details of her name, address and the number of the car.“What's wrong, officer?” Mrs Smith asked. The policeman did not reply. He looked in the car and then at the back.      “Open the boot, please.”he said to Mrs Smith.
 Mrs Smith was still puzzled. She opened the boot and pointed to the microwave oven. "I found this old microwave oven a few minutes ago," she said. "I'm just taking it home to see if my husband can repair it." The policeman stared at her for a moment to see if she was telling the truth. "That's not a microwave oven." he said at last. "That's our radar set(雷达装置). It was the start of a speed trap. Do you mind if we have it back?"   Mrs Smith's face turned red. "Oh", she said," I'm very sorry. I wouldn't have touched it if I'd known what it was."
【小题1】Why did Mrs Smith pick up the police's radar set and want to take it home?

A.She had no microwave oven and wanted one.
B.She took it for a waste microwave oven.
C.She saw nobody was looking.
D.She just wanted to steal it.
【小题2】The underlined word "boot" in the third paragraph means_____ .
A.the outer covering for the foot
B.the outer covering for the car
C.the place for luggage at the back of a car
D.the place for metal equipment for protection
【小题3】Choose the right order of the events(事件) given in the passage.
a. The policeman wrote down Mrs Smith's name, address and the car number.
b. Mrs Smith picked up a radar set and put it in the boot of her car.
c. The policeman took back the radar set.
d. Mrs Smith went shopping.
e. A policeman signed Mrs Smith to stop her car.
f. The policeman found the radar set in the boot of Mrs Smith's car.
A.b,d,e,f,c,aB.d,b,e,f,c,aC.b,d,e,a,f,cD.d,b,e,a,f,c

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   Editor’s notes: AWL is well known for its dictionaries and English language teaching materials. Some readers have written in to ask us for the latest information on high quality books on English, so here we introduce two texts that aim to improve spoken English fluency.

Let’s speak (Beginner)

By Bev Dusuya, Naoko Ozeki and Kevin Bergman

ISBN: 962001359X

Speak Up(Pre-Intermediate)

By Bev Kusuya, Nako Zeki

ISBN: 0583338050

“Teach the students about your culture and help them talk about their own.” How often are these worthy goals kept from being achieved by the limitations of your beginner level learners? Students at all levels want to talk about culture.

Topics include food, shopping, sports, fashion, the roles of men and women, health, music, and many more.

These are all chosen from surveys of over 15,000 students about their own interests in cross-cultural communication.

Let’s SpeakandSpeak Up” share a special but excellent way that allows all students to take part in.

 The series has questions which start thinking and then help collect opinions about personal topics. Conversation practice is provided by ready to use (现成的)models of basic exchanges on the topic. Also, the cultural information presented in the series comes in the form of interesting, relevant(相关的)facts and ideas from other countries through listening tasks and Culture Quiz exercises.

Team activities in books provide lively problem solving games to enable sharing and comparison of cultural values.

Let’s Speak” is fit for entry level students of all ages. “Speak Up” provides for the needs of higher level beginners, offering the same careful listening and speaking help, but with slightly more open ended discussion.

For any information about AWL’s books, please get in touch with the following addresses:

Beijing Addison Wesley Longman Information Center

Room 2306, FLTRP Beijing

19 Xi San Huan Beilu, Beijing 100081

Tel: (010)68917488 (010) 68917788

Fax: (010) 68917499E-mail: zrh@public.bat.net.cn

In the sentence “Teach the students about your culture and help them talk about their own”, “your culture” here means the culture of           

    A.the English native speakers    B.the English learners

    C.the readers of the two books     D.the readers of the newspaper

Which of the following are mentioned about the two books in the passage above?

    a.publisher    b.titles  c.content      d.writers 

    e.prices  f.pages    g.book number

    A.a,b,d,f         B.a,c,d,g          C.b,c,d,e          D.b,c,e,f

The two books have in common everything EXCEPT         

    A.the same interesting topics

    B.the same level of learners

    C.proper ways to excite the learners to talk

The passage above is probably taken from the            section in a newspaper.

    A.EDUCATION        B.NEWS

    C.ENTERTAINMENT    D.BOOKSHELF   

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根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

1.      If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor and some to the local manager of the supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market. 2.      If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them.

If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steel worker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market.

3.      You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market.

4.      But for each person or business that is making and selling something, it is very concrete(具体的). If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won’t be long before you get the message. 5.   _____ It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’t want you to do.

A. The market may be something abstract.

B. The sellers are always smarter than buyers.

C. When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market.

D. The market is a concept.

E. One has to make his ends meet when shopping.

F. The market is telling you something.

G. Your efforts are being directed by the market.

 

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   Editor’s notes: AWL is well known for its dictionaries and English language teaching materials. Some readers have written in to ask us for the latest information on high quality books on English, so here we introduce two texts that aim to improve spoken English fluency.
Let’s speak (Beginner)
By Bev Dusuya, Naoko Ozeki and Kevin Bergman
ISBN: 962001359X
Speak Up(Pre-Intermediate)
By Bev Kusuya, Nako Zeki
ISBN: 0583338050
“Teach the students about your culture and help them talk about their own.” How often are these worthy goals kept from being achieved by the limitations of your beginner level learners? Students at all levels want to talk about culture.
Topics include food, shopping, sports, fashion, the roles of men and women, health, music, and many more.
These are all chosen from surveys of over 15,000 students about their own interests in cross-cultural communication.
Let’s SpeakandSpeak Up” share a special but excellent way that allows all students to take part in.
The series has questions which start thinking and then help collect opinions about personal topics. Conversation practice is provided by ready to use (现成的)models of basic exchanges on the topic. Also, the cultural information presented in the series comes in the form of interesting, relevant(相关的)facts and ideas from other countries through listening tasks and Culture Quiz exercises.
Team activities in books provide lively problem solving games to enable sharing and comparison of cultural values.
Let’s Speak” is fit for entry level students of all ages. “Speak Up” provides for the needs of higher level beginners, offering the same careful listening and speaking help, but with slightly more open ended discussion.
For any information about AWL’s books, please get in touch with the following addresses:
Beijing Addison Wesley Longman Information Center
Room 2306, FLTRP Beijing
19 Xi San Huan Beilu, Beijing 100081
Tel: (010)68917488 (010) 68917788
Fax: (010) 68917499E-mail: zrh@public.bat.net.cn
【小题1】In the sentence “Teach the students about your culture and help them talk about their own”, “your culture” here means the culture of           

A.the English native speakers B.the English learners
C.the readers of the two booksD.the readers of the newspaper
【小题2】Which of the following are mentioned about the two books in the passage above?
a.publisher       b.titles          c.content         d.writers 
e.prices          f.pages           g.book number
A.a,b,d,f B.a,c,d,gC.b,c,d,eD.b,c,e,f
【小题3】The two books have in common everything EXCEPT         
A.the same interesting topics
B.the same level of learners
C.proper ways to excite the learners to talk
【小题4】The passage above is probably taken from the            section in a newspaper.
A.EDUCATIONB.NEWS
C.ENTERTAINMENTD.BOOKSHELF

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   Editor’s notes: AWL is well known for its dictionaries and English language teaching materials. Some readers have written in to ask us for the latest information on high quality books on English, so here we introduce two texts that aim to improve spoken English fluency.

Let’s speak (Beginner)

By Bev Dusuya, Naoko Ozeki and Kevin Bergman

ISBN: 962001359X

Speak Up(Pre-Intermediate)

By Bev Kusuya, Nako Zeki

ISBN: 0583338050

“Teach the students about your culture and help them talk about their own.” How often are these worthy goals kept from being achieved by the limitations of your beginner level learners? Students at all levels want to talk about culture.

Topics include food, shopping, sports, fashion, the roles of men and women, health, music, and many more.

These are all chosen from surveys of over 15,000 students about their own interests in cross-cultural communication.

Let’s SpeakandSpeak Up” share a special but excellent way that allows all students to take part in.

 The series has questions which start thinking and then help collect opinions about personal topics. Conversation practice is provided by ready to use (现成的)models of basic exchanges on the topic. Also, the cultural information presented in the series comes in the form of interesting, relevant(相关的)facts and ideas from other countries through listening tasks and Culture Quiz exercises.

Team activities in books provide lively problem solving games to enable sharing and comparison of cultural values.

Let’s Speak” is fit for entry level students of all ages. “Speak Up” provides for the needs of higher level beginners, offering the same careful listening and speaking help, but with slightly more open ended discussion.

For any information about AWL’s books, please get in touch with the following addresses:

Beijing Addison Wesley Longman Information Center

Room 2306, FLTRP Beijing

19 Xi San Huan Beilu, Beijing 100081

Tel: (010)68917488 (010) 68917788

Fax: (010) 68917499E-mail: zrh@public.bat.net.cn

1.In the sentence “Teach the students about your culture and help them talk about their own”, “your culture” here means the culture of           

    A.the English native speakers         B.the English learners

    C.the readers of the two books         D.the readers of the newspaper

2.Which of the following are mentioned about the two books in the passage above?

    a.publisher        b.titles           c.content          d.writers 

    e.prices           f.pages            g.book number

    A.a,b,d,f         B.a,c,d,g          C.b,c,d,e          D.b,c,e,f

 

3.The two books have in common everything EXCEPT         

    A.the same interesting topics

    B.the same level of learners

    C.proper ways to excite the learners to talk

4.The passage above is probably taken from the            section in a newspaper.

    A.EDUCATION                            B.NEWS

    C.ENTERTAINMENT    D.BOOKSHELF       

 

 

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