Facial recognition technology is working well...

Facial recognition technology is working well at tourist attractions around China,　　　 the time people spend standing in lines at entries or security check.

A. to reduce B. reduced

C. having reduced D. reducing

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Despite the obvious privacy concerns, the use of facial-recognition technology is ________ at some public places.

A.out of danger B.on the run C.out of sight D.on the rise

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Despite the obvious privacy concerns, the use of facial-recognition technology is ________ at some public places.

A. out of danger　　 B. on the run　　 C. out of sight　　 D. on the rise

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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.What is the new application of facial recognition technology?

A.Spotting people. B.Memorizing faces. C.Identifying animals.

2.Who will help to send in pictures in the research?

A.Researchers. B.Farmers. C.Workers.

3.What aspect will facial recognition technology be further applied to?

A.Recording animal behavior. B.Recognizing animal varieties. C.Increasing animal populations.

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Facial-Recognition Technology Cannot Read Emotions

Do not believe claims that facial-recognition technology can accurately identify people’s emotions, advised several scientists at the 2020 AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle.

Such claims that a photo of a face can be easily_______are based on a flawed theory that we smile when we are happy and scowl (沉下脸) when angry, said Professor Aleix Martinez. “There’s no way that technology will ever be able to detect_______ that you’re experiencing following that approach,” Martinez said.

Research shows that, on average, people scowl only 30% of the time that they are angry, said Lisa Feldman Barrett, professor of psychology at Northeastern University. The rest of the time, they make other faces when they are angry, she said._______, people may scowl for other reasons — “when they’re concentrating, when someone tells them a bad joke,” she said. “Any AI that is claiming to detect a scowl and interpreting it as anger has some real_______.”

So much goes into communicating our emotions beyond our_______ movements. Other factors involving little use of language include our body pose, body movement and hormone responses like those that cause one’s face to go red from embarrassment or_______, said Martinez.

Martinez offered an example of the importance of having enough information. For instance, when he showed people a photo of a _________ man with his mouth wide open and his eyes nearly closed, most thought the man was extremely angry, his research showed. Yet anyone viewing the context — that the subject was a soccer player — could_________ that he was displaying excitement while celebrating a goal.

A mistake like this may not matter much, but so-called emotion-recognition technology has a larger reach. The technology’s _________ to incorporate facial movements could have serious, even dangerous outcomes, said Martinez. AI is sometimes used in classrooms, in the judicial (司法的) system and in hiring for jobs, he noted. Many of these systems learn from U.S. and European data ______________ by white people. Such inputs could negatively impact, for instance, the hiring of candidates of other races, Martinez said. “I think we have to take seriously the______________ in which this AI is being used,” said Barrett.

Seth Pollak, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shared research about the____________ of our ability to understand facial expressions and emotions. For several decades, scientists thought that infants arrived into the world with a little understanding about emotions, Pollak said. To the contrary, babies do not express____________ emotions. They have a distress system that broadcasts whether they are OK or not. Children learn about emotions beyond good or bad, and research shows that even with incredibly brief levels of exposure to contextual information, very young children start to change how they____________ their inferences about other people’s emotions. “Human brains are actually able to____________ patterns and make inferences about what might be happening at a sophisticated computational level with actually very little experience.” he said.

1.A.recognized B.interpreted C.noticed D.realized

2.A.emotions B.experiences C.incidents D.impacts

3.A.Therefore B.However C.Anyway D.Additionally

4.A.outlooks B.problems C.results D.mysteries

5.A.body B.brain C.facial D.gesture

6.A.disappointment B.unemotionality C.excitement D.shock

7.A.red-faced B.long-eyed C.round-shouldered D.short-haired

8.A.propose B.ensure C.indicate D.infer

9.A.failure B.capability C.fight D.initiative

10.A.dominated B.calculated C.concluded D.preserved

11.A.approach B.direction C.context D.contest

12.A.varieties B.differences C.resources D.origins

13.A.specific B.internal C.strong D.uncomfortable

14.A.pick B.categorize C.express D.expect

15.A.take out B.bring out C.carry out D.figure out

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Communities across the world are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. The efforts are well intentioned, but banning facial recognition is the wrong way to fight against modern surveillance （监 视）.Generally, modern mass surveillance has three broad components: identification, correlation and discrimination.

Facial recognition is a technology that can be used to identify people without their consent. Once we are identified, the data about who we are and what we are doing can be correlated with other data. This might be movement data, which can be used to "follow” us as we move throughout our day. It can be purchasing data, Internet browsing data, or data about who we talk to via email or text. It might be data about our income, ethnicity, lifestyle, profession and interests. There is an entire industry of data brokers who make a living by selling our data without our consent.

It's not just that they know who we are; it's that they correlate what they know about us to create profiles about who we are and what our interests are. The whole purpose of this process is for companies to treat individuals differently. We are shown different ads on the Internet and receive different offers for credit cards. In the future, we might be treated differently when we walk into a store, just as we currently are when we visit websites.

It doesn't matter which technology is used to identify people. What's important is that we can be consistently identified over time. We might be completely anonymous （匿名的）in a system that uses unique cookies to track us as we browse the Internet, but the same process of correlation and discrimination still occurs.

Regulating this system means addressing all three steps of the process. A ban on facial recognition won't make any difference. The problem is that we are being identified without our knowledge or consent, and society needs rules about when that is permissible.

Similarly, we need rules about how our data can be combined with other data, and then bought and sold without our knowledge or consent. The data broker industry is almost entirely unregulated now. Reasonable laws would prevent the worst of their abuses.

Finally, we need better rules about when and how it is permissible for companies to discriminate. Discrimination based on protected characteristics like race and gender is already illegal, but those rules are ineffectual against the current technologies of surveillance and control. When people can be identified and their data correlated at a speed and scale previously unseen, we need new rules.

Today, facial recognition technologies are receiving the force of the tech backlash （抵制），but focusing on them misses the point. We need to have a serious conversation about all the technologies of identification, correlation and discrimination, and decide how much we want to be spied on and what sorts of influence we want them to have over our lives.

1.According to Para. 2, with facial recognition _______.

A.one’s lifestyle changes greatly

B.one's email content is disclosed

C.one's profiles are updated in time

D.one's personal information is released

2.We can learn from the passage that _______.

A.discrimination based on new tech surveillance is illegal

B.different browsing data bring in different advertisements

C.using mobiles anonymously keeps us from being correlated

D.data brokers control the current technologies of surveillance

3.The underlined part “the point，,in the last paragraph probably refers to _______.

A.people's concern over their safety

B.the nature of the surveillance society

C.proper regulation of mass surveillance

D.the importance of identification technology

4.The author wrote this passage to _______.

A.call for banning facial recognition technologies

B.advocate the urgent need for changes in related laws

C.inform readers of the disadvantages of facial recognition

D.evaluate three broad components in modem mass surveillance

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请阅读下面文字，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

Facial recognition technology has increasingly been used in China, from airports, hotels, hospitals, restaurants and even tourist spots. Guo Bing, a law professor at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, has filed a lawsuit against(起诉) a local wildlife park because it requires visitors to walk through a compulsory facial recognition lane for admission.

China Daily held a forum on this case. Here are the selections of the views.

Johanna (China)

My concern is that my data might get leaked or sold to some company. My cellphone could be unlocked, my account hacked, and what would I do? Passwords can be changed, but I just can’t change my face. The government needs to start regulating this face identification. Misuse of data ought to come with penalties. Companies should face serious consequences if they fail to follow the rules.

Markwu (Malaysia)

Facial recognition really marks a leap forward in transportation. Truly, technology offers convenience to our clothing, dining, traveling and housing. It also helps law enforcement departments preempt(抢先行动) criminals. To fight against terrorists, facial recognition is necessary, because prevention is better than cure.

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Microsoft announced this week that its facial-recognition system is now more accurate in identifying people of color, touting （吹嘘）its progress at tacking one of the technology’s biggest biases （偏见）.But critics, citing Microsoft's work with immigration and Customs Enforcement ,quickly seized on how that improved technology might be used. The agency contracts with Microsoft for cloud-computing tools that the tech giant says is largely limited to office work but can also face recognition.

Columbia University professor Alondra Nelson tweeted. “We must stop confusing 'inclusion5 in more 'diverse' surveillance （监管）systems with justice and equality.”

Facial-recognition systems more often misidentify people of color because of a long-running data problem: The massive sets of facial images they train on skew heavily toward white men. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study this year of the face-recognition systems designed by Microsoft, IBM and the China-based Face found facial-recognition systems consistently giving the wrong gender for famous women of color including Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama and Shirley Chisholm, the first black female member of Congress.

The companies have responded in recent months by pouring many more photos into the mix, hoping to train the systems to better tell the differences among more than just white faces. IBM said Wednesday it used 1 million facial images, taken from the photo-sharing site Flickr, to build the "world's largest facial data-set" which it will release publicly for other companies to use.

IBM and Microsoft say that allowed its systems to recognize gender and skin tone with much more precision. Microsoft said its improved system reduced the error rates for darker-skinned men and women by "up to 20 times,n and reduced error rates for all women by nine times.

Those- improvements were heralded （宣布）by some for taking aim at the prejudices in a rapidly spreading technology, including potentially reducing the kinds of false positives that could lead police officers misidentify a criminal suspect.

But others suggested that the technology's increasing accuracy could also make it more marketable. The system should be accurate, "but that’s just the beginning, not the end, of their ethical obligation,” said David Robinson, managing director of the think tank Upturn.

At the center of that debate is Microsoft, whose multimillion-dollar contracts with ICE came under fire amid the agency's separation of migrant parents and children at the Mexican border.

In an open letter to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella urging the company to cancel that contract, Microsoft workers pointed to a company blog post in January that said Azure Government would help ICE “accelerate recognition and identification.” “We believe that Microsoft must take an ethical stand, and put children and families above profits,”the letter said.

A Microsoft spokesman, pointing to a statement last week from Nadella, said the company's "current cloud engagement” with ICE supports relatively anodyne （温和的）office work such as calendar, massaging and document management workloads.” The company said in a statement that its facial-recognition improvements are “part of our going work to address the industry-wide issues on bias.”

Criticism of face recognition will probably expand as the technology finds its way into more arenas, including airport. stores and schools. The Orlando police department said this week that it Would not renew its use of Amazon. Com's Rekognition system.

“Companies have to acknowledge their moral involvement in the downstream use of their technology,” Robinson said : “The impulse is that they're going to put a product out there and wash their hands of the consequences. That’s unacceptable”.

1.What is “one of the technology's biggest biases ”in Paragraph 1?

A.Class bias. B.Racial discrimination.

C.Professional prejudice. D.Regional difference.

2.What can we know about the improvement of facial-recognition technology?

A.It is due to the expansion of the photo database.

B.Justice and equality have been truly achieved.

C.It has already solved all the social issues on biases.

D.Migrant parents and their children can be reunited.

3.What is the focus of the face-recognition debate?

A.Data problems. B.The market value.

C.The application field. D.A moral issue

4.What is David Robinson's attitude towards facial-recognition technology?

A.optimistic. B.Approval.

C.Skeptical. D.Neutral.

5.We can infer from the last paragraph that ______.

A.companies had better hide from responsibilities

B.companies should not launch new products on impulse

C.companies deny problems with the technical process of facial-recognition system

D.companies should be responsible for the new product and the consequences

6.Which can be the suitable title for the passage?

A.Fears of facial-recognition technology B.The wide use of Microsoft system

C.The improvement of Microsoft system D.Failure of recognizing black women

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Facebook will no longer use facial recognition to let users automatically identify their friends in photographs uploaded to its site after America’s consumer watchdog called the practice “deceptive” (欺 骗性的).Facebook had used technology called Deep Face to scan the millions of pictures uploaded to its site each day in search of faces it recognized. 1.

This, Facebook boasted, enabled it to hold the “largest facial dataset to date” - a trove of information built up as its 2. 4 billion users uploaded hundreds of pictures of people at different times in their lives, from different angles, in different clothes and hairstyles.

2. - unless they request it - and will give existing users the option to turn it off. The Federal Trade Commission, which protects consumer rights in America, described the technology as deceptive to tens of millions of users”. It said that Facebook must obtain “ affirmative express user content” before enabling it.

Facebook also used the facial recognition feature to alert a user if a picture of them had been uploaded on to the site. 3.

Srinivas Narayanan, the head of artificial intelligence applied research at Facebook, said: 4., but we won’t recommend you to be tagged (加标签)if you do not have face recognition turned on.”

“We don’t share your face recognition information with third parties. 5..” It also emerged this week that Facebook began experimenting with hiding the amount of “likes” a person gets for their posts. Some users can develop a fixation with getting as many likes as possible and feel inadequate if they gain fewer than their friends.

A.We also don’t sell our technology

B.People will still be able to manually tag friends

C.Scanning ability of Facebook is criticized by the public

D.We appeal to the users to use the technology in a secret way

E.However, the feature is now being switched off for all new users

F.It then offered users the ability to “tag” that person with their name

G.It allowed people to check if someone was trying to use their identity in a wrong way

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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

A Chinese company says it has created a new facial recognition system that can identify people even if they 1. (wear) masks. Engineers at Hanwang Technology Ltd. say their system is the first to be created to 2. (effective) identify people wearing face masks.

Hanwang is now selling two main 3. (kind) of products that use the new technology. One performs “single channel” recognition, which is designed to be used at the 4. (enter) to buildings. The other product is a “multi-channel” recognition system, which can identify individuals in 5. crowd of up to 30 people “within a second” by 6. (use) groups of surveillance (监控) cameras. When people wear a mask, the recognition rate can reach about 95%. And the system’s success rate for people not wearing a mask 7. (be) about 99. 5%.

8. was not immediately clear how Chinese citizens were reacting to the new technology. The Chinese government has already been using other surveillance tools in the fight against the new coronavirus (新冠肺炎). 9. some citizens have expressed opposition to such tools, many others seem to have accepted the methods as a way 10. (deal) with the current health emergency.

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