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1、模拟组合练一(2).阅读理解A(2018江苏扬州中学检测)DINERSTONY SOPRANOS LAST MEALBetween 1912 and the 1990s, New Jersey State was home to more than 20 diner manufacturers who made probably 95 percent of the diners in the U.S., says Katie Zavoski, who is helping hold a diner exhibit. What makes a diner a diner? (And not,sa
2、y, a coffee shop?) Traditionally, a diner is built in a factory and then delivered to its own town or city rather than constructed on-site. Zavoski credits New Jerseys location as the key to its mastery of the form. “It was just the perfect place to manufacture the diners,” she says. “We would ship
3、them wherever we needed to by sea.”VISIT “Icons of American Culture:History of New Jersey Diners”, running through June 2017 at The Cornelius House/Middlesex County Museum in Piscataway, New JerseyGOOD FOOD, GOOD TUNESSuzanne Vegas 1987 song “Toms Diner” is probably best known for its frequently sam
4、pled “doo doo doo doo” melody (旋律) rather than its diner-related lyrics. Technically, its not even really about a dinerthe setting is New York Citys Toms Restaurant, which Vega frequented when she was studying at Barnard. Vega used the word “diner” instead because it “sings better that way”, she tol
5、d The New York Times. November 18 has since been called Toms Diner Day, because on that day in 1981, the New York Posts front page was a story about the death of actor William Holden. In her song Vega sings:“And I open up the paper/Theres a story of an actor who had died while he was drinking.”LISTE
6、N “Toms Diner” by Suzanne VegaMEET THE DINER ANTHROPOLOGISTRichard J.S. Gutman has been called the “Jane Goodall of diners” (he even consulted on Barry Levinsons 1982 film, Diner). His book, American Diner:Then & Now, traces the evolution of the “night lunch wagon”, set up by Walter Scott in 1872, t
7、o the early 1920s, when the diner got its name (adapted from “dining car”), and on through the 1980s. Gutman has his own diner facilities (floor plans, classic white mugs,a cashiers booth);250 of these items are part of an exhibit in Rhode Island.READ American Diner:Then & Now(John Hopkins Universit
8、y Press)VISIT “Diners:Still Cooking in the 21st Century”, currently running at the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island1.In what way is a diner different from a coffee shop?A.Its location.B.Its management.C.From what it is built. D.Where it is constructed.2.
9、What do we know about Vegas 1987 song “Toms Diner”?A.It warns people not to drink.B.It was inspired by Toms Diner Day.C.Its melody is preferred to its lyrics.D.Its original title was Toms Restaurant.答案语篇解读本文为说明文,介绍了与美国小饭店历史有关的展览、歌曲和书籍。1.D细节理解题。根据What makes a diner a diner? (And not, say, a coffee sh
10、op?) Traditionally, a diner is built in a factory and then delivered to its own town or city rather than constructed on-site.可知,小饭店在工厂建造,而咖啡屋就地建筑。选D。2.C推理判断题。根据Suzanne Vegas 1987 song “Toms Diner” is probably best known for its frequently sampled “doo doo doo doo” melody (旋律) rather than its diner-r
11、elated lyrics.可知,这首歌是以旋律而不是歌词著称。选C。B(2019江苏南京、盐城二模)Listen carefully to the footsteps in the family home, especially if it has wooden floors, and you can probably work out who it is that is walking about. The features most commonly used to identify people are faces, voices, fingerprints and retinal s
12、cans. But their “behavioural biometrics”, such as the way they walk, are also giveaways.Researchers have, for several years, used video cameras and computers to analyse peoples gaits, and are now quite good at it. But translating such knowledge into a practical identification system can be trickyesp
13、ecially if that system is supposed to be hidden. Cameras are often visible, are hard to set up, require good lighting and may have their view blocked by other people. So a team led by Krikor Ozanyan of the University of Manchester, in England and Patricia Scully of the National University of Ireland
14、, in Galway have been looking for a better way to recognise gaits. Their answer: pressure-sensitive mats.In themselves, such mats are nothing new. They have been part of security systems for donkeys years. But Dr Ozanyan and Dr Scully use a complex version that can record the amount of pressure appl
15、ied in different places as someone walks across it. These measurements form a pattern unique to the walker. Dr Ozanyan and Dr Scully therefore turned, as is now common for anything to do with pattern recognition, to an Artificial Intelligence system that uses machine learning to recognise such patte
16、rns.It seems to work. In a study published earlier this year the two researchers tested their system on a database of footsteps trodden by 127 different people. They found that its error rate in identifying who was who was a mere 0.7%. And Dr Scully says that even without a database of footsteps to work with the system can determine someones sexwomen or men, with wide a
