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19.Are you working on your typing skills to make you become a more efficient worker?That may be all for nothing as Intel believes that we will be able to manage our computers with our brains by 2020.
Intel and its research partners are studying how the brain acts when it thinks.For example,scientists have found that people's brains react in a similar way when they are asked to think of a bear.Through some equipment that can also find this sort of brain activity,Intel thinks that it will be able to read and translate this into an input system tanks to an implantable chip in the brain.
"We are trying to prove you can do interesting things with brain waves."Intel research scientist Dean Pomerleau told Computerworld."Eventually people may be willing to be more devoted to brain implants."Even if thinking about a bear isn't enough to show that you want to copy something,Intel still thinks that there is a future in suing your brain instead of the keyboard."If we can get to the point where we can find specific words,you could mentally type,"he added."You could compose characters or words by thinking about letters flashing on the screen."
While this may all sound impractical or even inconvenient for present time,Intel thinks that it's possible.
"I think human beings are very adaptive,"said Andrew Chien,vice president of research and director of future technologies research at the Intel Labs."If you had told people 20years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time,they would have said,‘I don't want that.'Now you can't get them to stop.There are a lot of things that have to be done first but I think implanting chips into human brains is possible."
Make good use of your mouse and keyboard set-up before they're old-fashioned.

64.What can be known about Intel from the passage?D
A.it is researching how our brains manage our computers.
B.it is working on how to improve people's typing skills.
C.It is finding how the brain reacts when it thinks of a bear.
D.It is studying the relation between what the brain thinks and how it acts.
65.From what Dean Pomerleau said,we can learn thatC.
A.brain implants are not accepted now
B.people have no interest in the research
C.mentally typing will probably be a real fact
D.new things need a long time to be accepted
66.What Andrew Chien said can prove thatD.
A.everything is possible in the world
B.man has great power to face difficulties
C.society is changing from time to time
D.man is very good at accepting new things
67.What does the last paragraph implay?B
A.Everything should be used to the full.
B.Mouses and keyboards won't exist in the future.
C.Our brains can take the place of computers.
D.Some new kinds of mouse and keyboard will appear.

分析 本文是一篇科教类阅读,文章主要介绍了现在Intel及同伴正在研究怎样用人脑控制我们的电脑.此外,Dean Pomerleau认为:精神上打字可能会变为事实.最后,作者风趣地告诉读者:人类大脑将控制电脑是必然趋势,鼠标和键盘终将被淘汰.

解答 DCDB
64.D细节理解题.根据第二段Intel and its research partners are studying how the brain acts when it thinks.可知英特尔及其合作伙伴正在研究当大脑思考时,它会如何运行.故选D.
65.C推理判断题.根据第三段"If we can get to the point where we can find specific words,you could mentally type,"he added."You could compose characters or words by thinking about letters flashing on the screen."可知Dean Pomerleau认为:如果我们能到达这种地步,我们可以打出具体的话.即你可以用精神打字在屏幕上组成字符或单词.故选C.
66.D细节理解题.根据倒数第二段I think human beings are unusually adaptive可知Andrew Chien举电脑的例子是为了证明首句的观点,即人们非常善于接受新事物.故选D.
67.B主旨大意题.根据最后一段的内容可知,作者风趣地告诉读者:人类大脑将控制电脑是必然趋势,鼠标和键盘终将被淘汰.故选B.

点评 本文考察学生的理解推断能力以及细心程度,只要抓住文章的关键词,采用寻读的方法查找细节,就能找到正确答案.

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(73)BThey decide what they want in life and then get there by making plans and setting goals.Unsuccessful people just let life happen by accident.Goals aren't difficult to set,and they aren't difficult to reach.(74)CYou are the one who must decide what to achieve and in what direction to aim your life.
(75)AWritten goals can be reviewed regularly,and have more power.Like a contract with yourself,they are harder to neglect or forget.Also when you write your goals in a particular way you are able to make yourself continuously aware of situations that will bring you nearer to your goal.
A.Research tells us that when we write a goal down we are more likely to achieve it.
B.Winners in life set goals and follow through.
C.It's up to you to find out what your goals really are.
D.It's difficult for a driver to reach his destination without a map.
E.Because goals can help you do,be and experience everything you want in life.[F.By setting goals you are taking control of your life.
G.Because everybody should have a goal in his mind.

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