Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The programme works because everyone’s eyes are different. So in the future you won’t have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You’ll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are.

    The eye-recognition programme is already being tested in shops and banks in the USA, Britain, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Soon, this technology will take the place of all other ways of finding out who people are.

    However, scientists are working on other systems. Machines will soon be able to know you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell! We already have machines that can tell who you are from your voice or the mark made by your finger.

Eye-recognition is better than other kinds because your eyes don’t change as you get older, or get dirty like hands or fingers. And even twins have different eyes, so the programme can be up to 94% correct, depending on how good the technology is. Some programmes may only be right  51% of the time. In Britain, it was found that 91% of people who had tried it said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition. In the future your computer will be looking you in the eye. So smile!

1.How does the eye-recognition programme work?

   A. You write your number.              B. You show your ID card.

   C. You look at the machine.             D. You say your name.

2.Why can the programme be up to 94% correct?

   A. Because eyes never change.

   B. Because hands or fingers can get dirty.

   C. Because people like the idea of the programme.

   D. Because the programme is widely used around the world.

3.The eye-recognition programme can know you from ___________.

   A. the shape of your hand       

B. the shape of your foot

   C. your voice                 

D. your mark made by your finger

4.Which of the following is true?

   A. The programme is being tested in Japan.

   B. Machines with other systems can also tell who you are.

C. 91% of people like the idea of the programme.

   D. Computers can remember you by looking at your clothes.

5.What does Paragraph 4 talk about?

   A. Introduction to other kinds of programmes.   

B. Advantages of the programme.

C. The places where the programme is tested.   

D. The way how the programme works.

 

Every year landslides cause 25 to 50 deaths and $2 billion in damage in the United States. And in December, a single event killed more than 2000 people in the Philippines. Sending workers to stabilize mountainsides using steel bars can help a lot, but it introduces new difficulties because of dust and loosen heavy, dangerous debris from the work. “It’s a quite dangerous job,” says Giorgio Pezzuto of D’ Appolonia, working with eight other companies. Now there may be an answer: a three-ton robot called Roboclimber.

“The idea is to operate a machine far away that can do the stabilizing job without a human being near,”says Pezzuto, manager for the project, which is supported by a European organization. Engineers say that the machine will be faster and cheaper than manual labor. The robot, a large radio-controlled four-legged spider, has cost at least $2 million so far. It should be able to climb mountainsides, drill holes and insert steel bars there. Testing should begin in May.

1.The underlined word “event” refers to_____

A. earthquake               B. debris             C. dust        D. landslide

2.The purpose in writing this text is _____

A. to tell people how serious the damage caused by landslides is

B. to tell people that sending workers to stabilize mountainsides is a dangerous job

C. to show people how to use a new robot

D. to introduce a new robot that can be used to stabilize mountainsides

3.What does the robot look like?

A. human being         B. spider            C. steel bar        D. a drill

4.A landslides cause _____________in damage in the United States Every year .

A. 25 to 50 deaths       B. more than 2000 people died

C. $2 billion           D. both A and C

5.The biggest advantage of this product is that____

A. it will be faster and cheaper than manual labor

B. it can climb mountainsides, drill holes and insert steel bars there.

C. it can do the stabilizing job without human beings near

D. it is like a spider

 

These days computer games are becoming more and more popular in many cities and towns. A lot of small shops along the __1__have changed into computer game houses in order to get more __2___. These places are always crowded with people.

In the computer game houses, people __3__a lot of money matching on the machine. It’s __4__for one to beat a computer, but one can do well after trying again and again. People want to __5__when they play computer games. The more they __6__, the more they want to win, and at last they even can’t __7__without it.

The result(结果) is that some people don’t want to __8__and they play in computer game houses for hours and hours. For school boys, things are __9__. They don’t want to have __10__. When school is over, they rush to the computer game houses near their __11__. Some of them can get enough money from their __12__. Some of them are not __13__enough to get the money. So they have to steal(偷) or rob(抢) others’ money and become __14__.

Computer game addiction(上瘾) is a(n) __15__problem in our life. Something has to be done to stop it.

 (   ) 1 A streets          B schools       C towns         D cities

(   ) 2 A boys              B money         C computers     D houses

(  ) 3 A take           B spend         C cost          D pay

(   ) 4 A possible          B easy          C good          D hard

(   ) 5 A read              B learn         C win           D download

(   ) 6 A lose              B try           C waste         D watch

(   ) 7 A come          B eat           C study         D live

(   ) 8 A watch         B win           C stay there    D work

(   ) 9 A better        B exciting          C even worse    D interesting

(   ) 10 A lessons          B games         C families          D sports

(   ) 11 A classes          B rooms         C schools       D shops

(   ) 12 A classmates  B teachers          C sisters       D parents

(   ) 13 A lucky        B unlucky       C careful       D polite

(   ) 14 A good         B bad           C badly         D worse

(   ) 15 A important    B serious       C unusual       D wonderful

 

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