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1、2015 高考英语（三月）阅读类自练（高考英语（三月）阅读类自练（11）及答案（济南市）及答案（济南市）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项 。In a few years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, and Englishand all at the same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex Waibel, a computer science professor at USs Carnegie Mello
2、n University(CMU)and Germanys University of Karlsruhe, announced last week that it may soon be a reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other. One application, called Lecture Translation,
3、can easily translate a speech from one language into another. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Users also have to be trained how to use the programme. Another prototype (雏形机)can send translations of a speech to different listeners d
4、epending on what language they speak. “It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you,”Waibel said. Prefer to read? So-called Translation Glasses transcribe (转录) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal (液晶) display(LCD)screen. Then there
5、s the Muscle Translator. Electrodes capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech. The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted in a persons face, according to researchers. Dur
6、ing a demonstration held last Thursday in CMUs Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese student named Sang Jun had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks, neck and throat. Then he mouthedwithout speaking alouda few words in Mandarin (普通话) to the audience. A few seconds later, the phrase was di
7、splayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: “Let me introduce our new prototype.”This particular gadget (器具), when fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in any number of languages or, as Waibel put it, “to switch your mouth to a foreign language”. “The
8、idea behind the universitys prototypes is to creategood enough bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world,”Waibel said. With spontaneous (自发的) translators, foreign drivers in Germany could listen to traffic warnings on the radio, tourists in China could read all
9、the signs and talk with local people, and leaders of different countries could have secret talks without any interpreters there. 1. Which of the following statements is not true? A. A lecture translation can translate what you said into other languages easily. B. Muscle Translators can translate wha
10、t you think into speech if you just move your mouth. C. There is no Muscle Translator in the world now. D. The spontaneous translators will help us a lot. 2. What kind of equipment is NOT mentioned in this passage? A. Lecture Translation. B. Multiple Translator. C. Muscle Translator. D. Translation
11、Prototype. 3. Whats the final destination of inventing the language translators? A. To make cultural exchanges between different countries easier. B. To help students learn foreign languages more easily. C. To make people live in foreign countries more comfortably. D. To help people learn more forei
12、gn languages in the future. 4. What can be inferred from the seventh paragraph? A. The translator is so good that it can translate any language into the very language you need. B. The translator is becoming more and more common in the world as a bridge. C. With the help of the translator, you only n
13、eed to open your mouth when you want to say something without saying the exact words at all. D. The translator needs to be improved before being put into market. 5. Where can this passage probably be excerpted from? A. A newspaper. B. A magazine on science. C. A fairy tale. D. A scientific fantasy b
14、ook.【参考答案】15、CBADB 阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的 A,B,C 或 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution: we stopped talking to one another.I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation.There we were, walking and talkin
15、g on a beautiful sunny day andI became invisible, absent from the conversation.The telephone used to connect you to the absent.Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent.Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a t
16、ragedy to the closeness of human interaction.With email and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another.With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone.If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.As almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated, the alienation(疏远) index goes up. You cant even call a person to get
