歷年公共英語二級考試閱讀真題題訓練
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Computers
A
A computer has been trained to "read"people’s minds by looking at scans1 of their brains. It might lead to better understanding of how and where the brain stores information.
"This might lead to better treatment for language disorders and learning disabilities,"said Tom Mitchell of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who led the study.
Mitchell’s team used a type of brain scan that could see real-time brain activity. They asked nine students to think of 58 different words, while making the images of their brain activities.
"We gave these instructions to people, 'We are going to show you words and we would like you to see the word and think of its characteristics,’"Mitchell said.
And then they created a kind of "average"image of a word. "If I show you the brain images for two words, the main thing you notice is that they look pretty much alike. However, if you look at them for a while, you might see small differences,"Mitchell said.
"We have the program work out the brain activities over all of the words that somebody has looked at. That gives us the average when somebody thinks of a word, and then we get that average out from all those images,"Mitchell added.
Then the test came.
"After we train on the other 58 words, we can say 'Here are two new words you have not seen, phone and airplane.’"The computer was asked to choose which brain image matched the word "plane".
The computer passed the test. It could predict2 when a brain image was taken when a person thought of the word "airplane"or "phone".
The next step is to study brain activities for phrases.
"I want to basically use that to study language processing in the brain."
Mitchell was surprised at how similar brain activities were among the nine volunteers, although the work was difficult.
For an experiment to work well, the patient must sit or lie very still for several minutes.
Notes:
1. scan n. 掃描
2. predict v. 預報
Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question.
1. The best title of this passage could be _______.
A. Computer Trained to "Read"Mind’s Image of Words
B. The Average Image of a Word
C. The Computer Test
D. Study Brain Activity of a Word
2. It can be inferred from the passage that __________.
A. different people have different images of the same word
B. there is similarity between the words "airplane"and "phone"
C. to complete the experiment, the patient must sit or lie very still for several minutes
D. the scientists will study the computer’s reflection (反應) for phrases
B
"Computers 4 Students"(C4S) provides students and adult learners with computers. It helps break down the economic, social, and cultural barriers1 to computing.
We make the given and spare computers fresh with updated software. "Computers 4 Students", working with schools and non-profit2 organizations, provides an easy and economical way for poor families and students in need of home computers.
The aim of C4S is to help poor students and others overcome the digital3 separation by making home computing available to everybody. C4S is a small non-profit organization located in the Columbia Pike Corridor of South Arlington, which provides computer hardware and software for low-income individuals and families in Arlington County.
The organization’s method has been to renew given hardware and form community partnerships. And in this way it helps to increase the capacity4 of schools and non-profit organizations. To date, C4S’s work has worked on the provision of technology hardware for individuals and families helped by other local community development organizations.
_______________________________We collect spare hardware and software from business and government offices.
We receive contributions and sponsorship5 from individuals and organizations.
We work with partners such as PC Retro to improve or repair given equipment.
We buy inexpensive hardware and software to make a complete, working computer.
We give computers to students, training centers, and non-profit organizations.
"Thank you for providing computers for our students, they are excited to have a computer in their homes,"said Sandra Overton, project coordinator of Hoffman-Boston Elementary School, Arlington, Virginia.
Notes:
1. barrier n. 障礙
2. non-profit adj. 非營利的, 不以營利爲目的的
3. digital adj. 數字的`, 數碼的
4. capacity n. 能力
5. sponsorship n. 資助,贊助
Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question.
1. The best title for this passage could be ___________.
A. Computers 4 Students Is Free
B. Be a Part of Computers 4 Students
C. Computing Helps Break Down Barriers
D. C4S Bridging the Digital Division
2. According to the passage, the sentence that could fill in the blank is _______.
A. Here’s how we work
B. We are looking for partners
C. Thank you for contacting us
D. Let’s get to know each other
3. What can NOT be inferred from this passage?
A. The computers donated by C4S are not new.
B. Some organizations repair computers for C4S.
C. C4S has partners from non-profit organizations.
D. Sandra Overton is a partner of C4S.
4. We can infer from the last paragraph that the author would continue this passage with ___________.
A. requirements of computers in some schools
B. some members of the C4S program C. how these computers are given to schools
D. some successful examples of C4S
新閱題讀型
閱讀下面的短文,並根據短文後的要求答題(請注意問題後的字數要求)。
Second Life is an online imaginary world. Computer users can create a new self and experience a separate life there. The company Linden Lab of San Francisco, California created Second Life in 2003.
To play Second Life, a computer user signs up at the Second Life website. Then he or she creates an imaginary image, called an avatar1. Some people try to make their avatar look as close to their real self as possible. Other people change their sex2 or become an imaginary creature as their Second Life avatar.
Once you have your avatar you become a "resident3"of Second Life. In some ways the imaginary world is like the real world. Your avatar can make friends with other Second Life avatars. Residents can go to school, run a business, and even get married. However, there are also activities in Second Life that are impossible in the real world. For example, if you do not feel like walking to that park near your Second Life home, why not fly?
You can get your first Second Life account4 for free. But it costs money to get other accounts and to buy land. The virtual world has its own money, the Linden dollars. You spend them on virtual clothes, property, entertainment and many other things. You can earn Linden dollars by getting a job. That unreal money has a real-life value. About 250 Linden dollars are worth one American dollar.
Second Life is popular with schools and businesses. Many universities have set up schoolyards on the website. Many kinds of stores can also be found there. Entertainers sometimes perform on Second Life with their Second Life avatars.
How many people do you think play Second Life? It is said that the total number of residents is more than 13 million from more than 100 countries.
Notes:
1. avatar n. (尤指電腦遊戲或聊天室中代表使用者的)化身
2. sex n. 性別
3. resident n. 居民
4. account n. 賬戶
1. Find a word in the passage closest in meaning to the underlined word "virtual".
2. According to Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4, what do we know about Second Life? (答案不超過10個詞)
3. What is the author’s main purpose in writing this passage?(答案不超過10個詞)
參考答案:
閱讀A) 1-2 AA
閱讀B) 1-4 DADD
閱讀新題型
1. Imaginary.
2. Second Life is an imaginary life.
3. To give a brief introduction of the online game Second Life.
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