英语四级考试长篇阅读试题及答案

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英语四级考试长篇阅读试题及答案

A、Brain chips mean we are struggling to distinguish our own thoughts from

ideas implanted by advertisers.Self-driving cars restrict old.school

human drivers to special recreation parks.And the optimal(最正确的)number offingers is 12.5.

B、ConfusedIts a vision of the world in 25 years，as dreamed up by todays

researchers in computer-human interaction(CHI).

C、CHI normally means investigating better ways for people to interact

with devices we have now,but last week attendees at the annual conference

in Toront0，Canada，got ahead of themselves.They created an imaginary

conference agenda for 2039 that predicts the kinds of challenges we will

face with future computers--many of which will be implanted.

D、Its meant to be sort of the fringes(边缘)of human--computer

interaction research，whats really edgy or provocative，says Eric Baumer

of Cornell University in Ithaca，New York，who dreamed up the idea of the

conference.Theres a lot of retrospective thinking about the past，but

theres not as much thinking about what are the futures toward which we

think were working.

E、We used the abstracts to create a list of the questions weor more

accurately.our cyborg descendants--might have about computers in 2039. 2 / 9

Is it weird when my organs talk to each other

F、In an abstract entitledMy liver and my kidney compared notes，IBM

researcher Michael Muller,based in Cambridge，Massachusetts，looks at what

happens when the implanted monitors on peoples intemal organsa network

he calls Arterionet--are able to share data and pool knowledge to offer

enhanced health tips.

G、His conclusion：While most users were skeptical.many users proposed

additional features that could lead to greater acceptance and compliance

with such recommendations.

H、Its worth thinking about how people might deal with health tips from

organ monitors.Wearable technology that tracks your activity or your

health status is slowly gaining popularity while researchers earlier this

year implanted power-generating silicone strips on the hearts，lungs and

diaphragms(横膈膜) of live cows，pigs and sheep.Muller says the biggest

challenge to creating Arterionet will be figuring out how to fit the

artificial intelligence in a sufficiently small and safe package.

Why do plants need their own Facebook,again

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I、To understand this question，you need to know about Plantastic，the

brainchild of Bill Tomlinson and his colleagues at the University of

California at Irvine.

J、In their abstract，they reason that to make our food supply more

sustainable，it may make sense to grow more fruits and vegetables close

to home.But certain crops thrive when theyre grown in large quantities

or alongside certain other plants--too tall all order for the average

farmer.

K、Enter Plantastic，which would advise what plants would work best for

your area and tell you what people in the neighbourhood are

growin9.Nanochips on plants would feed data back to the site.That

information in turn could be used to 1earn more about what grows best in

which environment.

L、Assuming people will want to know whether this adds anythin9，Tomlinsons team created a fictional(虚构的)study that looks at l o

backyard gardens over two growing seasons.It suggests that using

Plantastic will increase yields by 4 to 12 percent.

M、Tomlinsons graduate student Juliet Norton is working on an early

version of what the online system might look like.

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Autonomous cars have made driving so boring--what shall I do instead

N、Andreas Riener at the Institute for Pervasive Computing in

Linz.Austria，has written an abstract that starts with a bold view of the

future：The first self-driving car cruised on our roads in 2022.Now,20

years after,it is time to review how this innovation has changed our

mobility behaviour.

O、This vision is rooted in a real trend.Self-driving cars have been

making headlines for several years now.They are legal to drive in the state

of Nevada.and Googles driverless car has already racked up hundreds of

thousands of practice miles.

P、Reiners contribution is to explore how this will change us.He predicts

that once the robots take the wheel everywhere.many of us will lose

interest in driving altogether.Fewer of us will own our own cars.Those

who do wont waste as much time pimping them out or driving around iust

for fun.People who still love cars might have to seek their thrills in

specialrecreation parks.where they can drive manually in an artificial

environment.If the vehicles of the future are only a means to get from

A to B，this car culture would get lost.he says.

Did I just think up that idea or did an advertiser implant it