英语四级考试长篇阅读试题及答案.doc

英语四级考试长篇阅读试题及答案英语四级长篇阅读试题原文：Into an Unknown WorldA、Brain chips mean we are struggling to distinguish our own thoughts from ideas implanted by advertisers.Self-driving cars restrt old.school human drivers to special recreation parks.And the optimal(最佳的)number offingers is 12.5.B、ConfusedIts a vision of the world in 25 years，as dreamed up by todays researchers in puter-human interaction(CHI).C、CHI normally means investigating better ways for people to interact with deves we have now,but last week attendees at the annual conference in Toront0，Canada，got ahead of themselves.They created an imanary conference agenda for 2 that predts the kinds of challenges we will face with future puters--many of whh will be implanted.D、Its meant to be sort of the fringes(边缘)of human--puter interaction research，whats really edgy or provocative，says Er 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 whh 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 puters in 2.Is it weird when my organs talk to each otherF、In an abstract entitledMy liver and my kidney pared notes，IBM researcher Mhael Muller,based in Cambridge，Massachusetts，looks at what hens when the implanted monitors on peoples intemal organsa work he calls Arterio--are able to share data and pool knowledge to offer enhanced health tips.G、His conclusion：While most users were skeptal.many users proposed additional features that could lead to greater acceptance and pliance with such remendations.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 silone strips on the hearts，lungs and diaphragms(横膈膜) of live cows，pigs and sheep.Muller says the biggest challenge to creating Arterio will be figuring out how to fit the artifial intelligence in a suffiently small and safe package.Why do plants need their own ,againI、To understand this question，you need to know about Plantast，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 Plantast，whh would advise what plants would work best for your area and tell you what people in the neighbourhood are gro9.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 whh environment.L、Assuming people will want to know whether this adds anythin9，Tomlinsons team created a ftional(虚构的)study that looks at l o backyard gardens over two grog seasons.It suggests that using Plantast 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.Autonomous cars have made driving so boring--what shall I do insteadN、Andreas Riener at the Institute for Pervasive puting 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 20.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 practe miles.P、Reiners contribution is to eplore how this will change us.He predts 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 artifial environment.If the vehles 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 itQ、Multiple contributors to CHl 2 ponder the future of brain implants.Whether it involves capturing input from each of our senses or recording neurons(神经元)directly in the brain，they assume that this one is a question not of if but when.And that could bring opportunities--and challenges.R、Shachar Maidenbaum of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem，Israel，envisions deves that could record our day-to-day eperiences and then allow US to share our memories with one anot。