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Do you want to live forever? By the year 2050, you might actually get your wish — if you are willing to leave your biological body and live in silicon circuits （半导体电路）．But long before then, perhaps as early as 2020, some measures will begin offering a semblance of immortality （虚拟的永生）.

Researchers are confident that technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life. Whatever you see and hear, all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and added to your personal chronicles （履历）. By the year 2030, it may be possible to catch your nervous systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions.

Researchers at the laboratories of British Telecommunications have given the name of this idea as Soul Catcher. Small electronic equipment will make preparation for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps in a wristwatch, with wireless links to micro sensors under your scalp（头皮） and in the nerves that carry all five sensory signals. So wearing a video camera would no longer be required.

At first, the Soul Catcher's companion system — the Soul Reader — might have trouble copying your thoughts in complete details. Even in 2030, we may still be struggling to understand how the brain is working inside, so reading your thoughts and understanding your emotions might not be possible. But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities （永生实体）. Researchers can only wonder what it will be like to wake up one day and find yourself alive inside a machine．

For people who choose not to live in silicon, semblance of immortality would not be as useless as they thought. People would know their lives would not be forgotten, but would be kept a record of the human race forever. And future generations would have a much fuller understanding of the past. History would not be controlled by just the rich and powerful, Hollywood stars, and a few thinkers in the upper society.

1.The main idea of this passage is that _______．

A．human beings long for living forever

B．there are many difficulties in making the Soul Catcher

C．people might live forever as technology develops

D．the invention of Soul Catcher has great importance

2.According to this passage, a Soul Catcher will be ______．

A．a new machine on which research measures have already been made

B．a new invention in order to catch and keep human's thoughts and emotions

C．made by British scientists to offer something that looks like living forever

D．made of silicon circuits which can catch people's nervous activity

3.According to the writer, semblance of immortality is ______．

A．to be a reality sooner or later              B．far from certain

C．just an idea that couldn't t be realized at all    D．a fading hope

4.The meaning of the underlined word "revitalize" in the fourth paragraph is close to        .

A．make dead        B．make famous       C．make known       D．make active

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.D

【解析】

试题分析：文章讲述了科学家们正在研究一种技术能够使人们活到永远。这种技术可以将你所见的所听的记录下来，若干年后可以通过脑电活动来保持你对过去的记忆和情感。所以我们的下一代可能会对历史有更为清晰的理解。

1.主旨题。从第一段可知，文章讲述了随着现代社会科技的发展，我们活到永远的梦想将会实现，故选C

2.细节题。通过第二自然段it may be possible to catch your nervous systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions. 和第三自然段第一句话可知，Soul Catcher 是一种新的发明来记录保持人类的想法和情感的，故选B

3.从最后一段可知，作者相信下一代人会对历史有更为深刻的认识，所以作者相信虚拟的永生这种技术迟早会实现的，故选A

4.从第四段But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities （永生实体）.可知，这些信号能够保存到那一天，当他们被转移到半导体电路上时，就可以使永生实体的意识复活，故选D

考点：科普类说明文

点评：本文较难，科技类的文体是比较繁琐的，因为专有名词较多。学生在解答这类题目时，首先对文章有大致的掌握，对于文章一遍没有看懂时，可以先看题目，按照文章题目的提示，再在文章中找出相对应的地方，然后仔细分析文章的上下文，同时对于专有名词可以用笔画出，通过多个地方的比较就可以猜出意思了。