There is a technology that may someday be widely used as way to identify people.An American doctor can plant a computer chip under his skin which can send personal information to a scanner.The chip gives off information which will be scanned by a hand-held reader.
The chip is similar to that planted in more than 1 million dogs,cats and other pets in recent years to track and identify them. The doctor decided to test the chip himself after the World Trade Center disaster.He though the dead in the disaster could have been identified if their names and other important information had been chipped .
Officials of the company said they hope to sell the chips to patients with man-made arms or legs. The idea is that the chip will provide immediate and correct medical information when it is needed.
The information can contain name,telephone number and other information.Or it can send out a message that ,when connected to a computer can call up records.The scanner can read it through clothes from over a meter away .The new product also could be used to control prisoners .Workplaces of great importance may want to use the chips for employees,too.Some parents may consider planting chips in young children or elderly relatives who may be unable to say their names,addresses or telephone numbers.
Some medical and technology specialists said the product raises new questions about the relationship between humans and computer technology and could cause problems if it is used against someone's wishes,or if your personal information is read by those who should not see it.
1.In the text,computer chips have already been used to
A.catch escaped prisoners B. find missing children
C. treat sick people D. follow lost animals
2.The doctor decided to test the chips himself because
A. nobody would dare to try it
B. the chip could be used for identification purposes
C. the chip had been proved successful on animals
D. his patients expected him to experience it first
3.We can learn from the passage that
A. the chip has been proven to be very successful.
B.The use of this chip will be favored by everybody
C. doctors will make a lot of money by using chips.
D.There will be a great market for chip planting in humans.
4.What problem may be caused by planting chips in the human bodies?
A. Personal information may be used improperly
B.Chips can be the cause of diseases
C. Computers could send out wrong information
D.Sick people will be controlled by computers.
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There is a technology that may someday be widely used as way to identify people.An American doctor can plant a computer chip under his skin which can send personal information to a scanner.The chip gives off information which will be scanned by a hand-held reader.
The chip is similar to that planted in more than 1 million dogs,cats and other pets in recent years to track and identify them. The doctor decided to test the chip himself after the World Trade Center disaster.He though the dead in the disaster could have been identified if their names and other important information had been chipped .
Officials of the company said they hope to sell the chips to patients with man-made arms or legs. The idea is that the chip will provide immediate and correct medical information when it is needed.
The information can contain name,telephone number and other information.Or it can send out a message that ,when connected to a computer can call up records.The scanner can read it through clothes from over a meter away .The new product also could be used to control prisoners .Workplaces of great importance may want to use the chips for employees,too.Some parents may consider planting chips in young children or elderly relatives who may be unable to say their names,addresses or telephone numbers.
Some medical and technology specialists said the product raises new questions about the relationship between humans and computer technology and could cause problems if it is used against someone's wishes,or if your personal information is read by those who should not see it.
1.In the text,computer chips have already been used to
A.catch escaped prisoners B. find missing children
C. treat sick people D. follow lost animals
2.The doctor decided to test the chips himself because
A. nobody would dare to try it
B. the chip could be used for identification purposes
C. the chip had been proved successful on animals
D. his patients expected him to experience it first
3.We can learn from the passage that
A. the chip has been proven to be very successful.
B.The use of this chip will be favored by everybody
C. doctors will make a lot of money by using chips.
D.There will be a great market for chip planting in humans.
4.What problem may be caused by planting chips in the human bodies?
A. Personal information may be used improperly
B.Chips can be the cause of diseases
C. Computers could send out wrong information
D.Sick people will be controlled by computers.
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Human cloning technology could be used to reserve heart attacks. Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged, and other problems may be solved if human cloning and its technology are not forbidden.
With cloning, infertile couples could have children. Current treatments for infertility, in terms of percentages, are not very successful. Couples go through physical and emotionally painful procedures for a small chance of having children. Many couples run out of time and money without successfully having children. Human cloning could make it possible for many more infertile couples to have children than ever before.
We should be able to clone the bone marrow(骨髓) for children and adults suffering from leukemia(白血病). This is expected to be one of the first benefits to come from cloning technology. We may learn how to switch cells on and off through cloning and thus be able to cure cancer.
Cloning technology can be used to test for and perhaps cure gene-related diseases. The above is just a few examples of what human cloning technology can do for mankind. This new technology promises unprecedented (前所未有的)advancement in medicine if people will release their fears and let the benefit begin.
1.What does the underlined word “infertile” (paragraph 2) most probably mean?
A. with physical and emotional problems
B. short of time and money
C. unable to give birth to children
D. separated from each other for a long time
2.According to the text, one of the first expected benefits from cloning technology is in ______.
A. the treatment of mental diseases
B. the reserve of heart diseases
C. the cure of gene-related diseases
D. the bearing of babies
3.According to the writer, the main problem with the development of human cloning technology is that__________.
A. it has brought about benefits so far
B. it may be out of human control
C. people still know little about it
D. people are afraid of such technology
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A technology company is developing a lie detector app for smartphones that could be used by parents, teachers—and even Internet daters.
The app measures blood flow in the face to assess whether or not you are telling the truth. Its developers say that it could be used for daters wanting to see if somebody really is interested in them. Parents could use it on their children to see if they are lying and teachers could work out which of their pupils are honest.
The app is being developed by Toronto startup NuraLogix and the software is called Transdermal Optical Imaging. The idea is that different human emotions create different facial blood flow patterns that we have no control over. These patterns change if we are telling the truth or telling a lie.
Using the footage(拍摄的片段) from the smartphone camera, the software will see the changes in skin colors and compare them to standardized results. A study found last year found that anger was associated with more blood flow and redness while sadness was associated with less of both.
Developmental neuroscientist(神经病学家)Kang Lee, who has been researching the field for 20 years, said, “It could be very useful, for example, for teachers. A lot of our students have math anxiety but they do not want to tell us, because that’s embarrassing.” Lee added that the technology would not replace lie detectors used in a court of law. He said: “They want the accuracy to be extremely high, like genetic tests, so a one-in-a-million error rate. Our technique won’t be able to achieve an extremely high accuracy level, so because of that I don’t think it’s useful for the courts.” He added that it will be a few years before the app is available to consumers.
1.How does the app work to identify whether the person is lying or not?
A. By controlling the blood flow patterns in our face when people are speaking
B. By measuring blood flow patterns and comparing changes in skin colors
C. By taking footage to replace lie detectors used in a court of law
D. By creating different facial blood flow patterns people needed
2.Why Transdermal Optical Imaging cannot be applied in courts at present?
A. It is too complicated to standardize results in courts
B. It hasn’t reached the required accuracy yet
C. Genetic tests are enough for situations like this
D. Its use is forbidden by law
3.What can be inferred from Kang Lee’s remarks in the last paragraph?
A. Students with math anxiety rarely ashamed of themselves
B. Lie detectors and Transdermal Optical Imaging are of the same function
C. The result of genetic tests is far more accurate than that of Transdermal Optical Imaging
D. Consumers will be able to download the app in the near future
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Science and technology are advancing so quickly that _____ is a possibility today may be a reality tomorrow.
A.that B.which C.不填 D.what
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Science and technology are advancing so quickly that________ is a possibility today may be a reality tomorrow.
A.that B.which C.不填 D.what
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What comes as a shock to many Westerners may be the unfriendly way that some Chinese treat waiters and waitresses in restaurants and bars. Over the last few years,as many in Beijing have made fortunes,I and many of my foreign friends have noticed a downturn in the treatment of those who work all hours and often live in terrible conditions to bring us our food,guard our homes and sell us clothes.It's not the common citizens,but the young nouveau riches(暴发户) Chinese in Beijing who are mostly guilty of this both social and human misbehavior.
It is not unusual to see and hear these people,especially the young women among their ranks,speaking rudely to the waiters and waitresses,as they sit there in the misguided belief that the latest mobile phone,a new car and designer clothes give them the right to talk to people like dirt.In one recent incident(事件) in an expensive restaurant near where I live ,I overheard the table next to me,two guys and a girl,tell the waitress "You really are stupid ",because she had brought them two glasses instead of three.They all burst into loud laughter as the young girl ran away to fetch another.In anther incident I saw a waitress reduced to tears as four well-dressed girls criticized everything from her accent to her looks.
Lately I have noticed that this rather unpleasant aspect of the nouveau riches has been taken up by many of their foreign peers(同类人).So I ask Beijing's bright young things to set a good example,and treat all people with equal respect.And I urge foreigners to follow the good examples of their Chinese language teachers and textbooks while adding some of the pleasantries of their own cultures,so that cultural interpenetration(相互渗透) has a positive influence and not a negative one.
Here I'd like to leave you with the words from Confucius:"What you do not wish for yourself, do not "do to others."
64.The writer has noticed that less respect is shown to _______ in Beijing in recent years.
A.common citizens B.waiters and the like
C.young nouveau riches D.some foreigners
65.The two incidents mentioned in Paragraph 2 are used to show ______.
A.waiters and waitresses can make excusable mistakes
B.waitresses are usually too shy to be laughed at
C.some Beijingers are too particular about restaurant service
D.what's being talked about is not rare
66.The young Beijingers are asked to set a good example in order to ______
A.have good influence over foreigners
B.leave a good impression on foreigners
C.educate younger Chinese
D.develop traditional Chinese culture
67.The origial title of the article is most likely to be _______.
A.One Dark Side of the Bright Chinese Capital
B.Beijing's Young Nouveau Riches,Watch Out
C.Dno't Throw Away Good Manners,Please
D.People Like Waiters Live at Bottom of Society
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As there is less coal and oil, scientists are exploring new ways of making use of _____ energy, such as sunlight, wind, and water for power and fuel.
A. primary B. alternative
C. instant D. unique
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As there is less coal and oil, scientists are exploring new ways of making use of _____ energy, such as sunlight, wind, and water for power and fuel.
A. primary B. alternative C. instant D. unique
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. As there is less and less coal and oil, scientists are exploring new ways of making use of ______ energy, such as sunlight, wind and water for power and fuel.
A.primary | B.alternative | C.instant | D.Unique |
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World's coolest bookstores
(CNN)-Someday there may be a generation of kids who think bookstores are fictional creations found only in novels that come in the mail.
Understandable, since many of the world's most beautiful independent bookstores have closed in recent years. Not all of them are facing unhappy endings, however. The brick-and-mortar(砂浆)survivors-and brave newcomers-have adapted to the Age of Amazon in their own ways. Old or new, all with fascinating stories, the bookstores below serve as historic sites, sanctuaries(避难所),salons of culture and must-visit entries in any travel guide.
Librairie Avant-Garde (Nanjing, China)
China's most beautiful bookstore is located inside a massive underground parking lot once used as a bomb shelter. The 4,OOO-square-meter store's unusual features include large crosses, a copy of Rodin's "The Thinker" and a checkout counter built out of thousands of old books,
The store also functions as a sort of public library, with more than 300 reading chairs. "A good bookshop should provide space, vision and nurture the city with its humanitarian spirit," owner Qian Xiaohua tells CNN. "It's a place for people to have dreams in the city."
Foyles flagship (London)
In June 2014, the century-old London bookseller moved into its spacious new digs -- the size of 13 tennis courts-just a step away from its former home. Foyles new space has its own interest- ing history as the former Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design building, where Alexan- der McQueen and Stella McCartney once studied.
The stage where the Sex Pistols played their first gig(演奏) in 1975 now houses the Foyles children's department. The store also launched a helpful in-store digital book search map that's automatically enabled on customers' smart phones when they connect to the store's Wi-Fi net- work- the first of its kind in the country.
The Last Bookstore (Los Angeles)
Hopefully, the Last Bookstore will never fulfill the prophecy(预言) of its name.
The popular warehouse-like store buys and sells new and used books and is home to an excel-lent coffee bar and a record shop. The 100,000 books stacked in the "Labyrinth Above the Last Bookstore" section on the mezzanine(夹层楼面) level sell for a dollar each.
"The space we occupy was originally a bank, and there are still vaults(穹顶 ) on both floors of our store, but now they are full of books," says store manager Katie Orphan. "We generally have around 200,000 books in the store at any given time."
1.The first sentence of the text implies that
A. many bookstores have disappeared
B. kids like fictional books to read
C. bookstores provide the service of mailing
D. novels are mailed to kids for free
2.What is strange of Foyels flagship?
A. Readers can use WiFi free of charge.
B. Readers can use their phones to search books.
C. Readers can download digital books onto their phones.
D. Readers can play tennis in the bookstore.
3.According to Qian, his bookstore is where
A. people get support to achieve their dreams
B. people can park their cars underground
C. people experience their mental enjoyment
D. people read various books as a thinker
4.What do we know about the Last Bookstore?
A. It is the last bookstore in Los Angeles.
B. Its books are sold for a dollar each.
C. It provides readers free coffee all day.
D. It is formerly used as a bank.
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