题目内容
Taiwanese singer and actress Karena Lam(林嘉欣)_____ more attention for cleft-lipped(唇裂)children last week in Hong Kong.
- A.called for
- B.looked for
- C.called on
- D.looked on
IMAGINE if there was a device that could do everything for you – wake you up every morning, chat with you and type your e-mails.
The piece of technology in question would be smart, able to tell you about the weather and where the nearest restaurants are.
The good thing is you no longer need to wonder, because something like this already exists. And its name is Siri.
Siri is a voice recognition application designed for Apple products and the concept has been around for almost a year.
When Siri first came out it could only speak English, but now it has “learned” lots of new languages, including Chinese, Cantonese and Taiwanese, reported The Wall Street Journal. So, you can give it orders in your mother tongue.
But how could a cell phone or a computer “hear” what you are saying and understand it? This is all because of voice recognition technology.
When you speak, your voice creates vibrations (振动) in the air – a bit like waves in the water when you throw a rock into the lake. The microphone receives the vibrations and the computer changes them into digital data that is then divided into many parts. They are analyzed one by one to see what pronunciations each part stands for. The computer then puts these pronunciations together into possible words according to its built-in dictionary.
But figuring out the words is far from enough; building words into meaningful sentences is the most difficult part. The computer has to compare what it hears to a large library of known phrases and sentences to determine what the user is saying.
However, people don’t always talk in the most standard way and sometimes make grammatical mistakes. This is why traditional voice recognition software always requires you to remember keywords and to speak in a certain way.
Fortunately, Siri isn’t like that. It’s not just “voice recognition”; it’s “natural language understanding (NLU)”. You can ask it things like “Do I need an umbrella today?” and it will know that you are asking about the weather, according to ABC News.
“The key thing is NLU – understanding what you mean and what you want,” Neil Grant from Nuance, a software company in the US, told The Guardian. “Historically, you had to learn a huge long list of commands . As NLU progresses, you can say what you want in a way that’s natural to you.”
【小题1】What is the function of the first two paragraphs?
A.To show that invention usually results from need. |
B.To clear doubts about voice recognition technology. |
C.To introduce something that offers these helpful services. |
D.To show how the voice recognition works. |
A.Changing the received vibrations into digital data. |
B.Analyzing the digital data to see what pronunciations it represents. |
C.Putting the pronunciations together into possible words. |
D.Figuring out meaningful sentences based on the words. |
A.You can speak in a natural way as you would to a person. |
B.You can only speak English and Chinese. |
C.You have to say things in a certain way. |
D.You have to remember keywords and speak specific commands. |
A.Siri can record and save what you say frequently into a computer dictionary. |
B.Siri will fail to understand what you say if you make grammatical mistakes. |
C.The biggest advantage of Siri is that it’s NLU is rather than just voice recognition. |
D.Since first applied to Apple products a year ago, Siri has made great improvements. |
A.the convenience of future life. |
B.an introduction to the Apple products. |
C.the working system of voice recognition |
D.the introduction to Siri |
"S. H.E. is going to sing at the CCTV annual Spring Festival Evening Party, is that true?" cried out Peng Weiye, a Senior 2 girl in Shanghai and die-hard S. H.E. fan.
After checking it on the Internet, Peng quickly phoned friends to spread the news. For fans like her, S. H. E. ’s performance is perhaps the only part of the old fashioned evening to get excited about.
The Taiwanese band is made up of Selina, Hebe and Ella. Their name comes from the first letter of each of the singers' English names.
Last week S. H. E. announced they would perform in Las Vegas, US, over Christmas and then in Guangzhou on January 15.
At their Shanghai show on October 30, hundreds of parents waited outside the Hongkou Stadium. Inside, thousands of teenagers sang, cried and shouted as the band performed.
"I love their music, healthy image and everything related to them. Thank God that, although my parents don't understand why I love them so much, they still bought me a ticket for that show," said Peng about the Shanghai performance.
It is not just on the mainland that the three girls have made audiences much excited. In the past year the band has passed through Taiwan, Hong Kong and even Singapore and Malaysia.
When the three high school girls entered a singing contest in Taiwan in 2000, none of them ever dreamed of being a superstar. "We had never met before, and we didn't talk at all at the beginning," recalled Ella.
When asked about the secret of their success, she said, "Our average looks and not-so-expensive clothes keep us close to our fans. We are happy to be the girls next door, your singing sisters."
"It's really a magical journey, from day-dreaming high school girls to singers performing on the same stage as our idols(偶像). Nothing but magical," she said.
【小题1】 Why was Peng Weiye, a Senior 2 girl, so excited?
A.S.H.E. band will get the old fashioned evening exciting. |
B.S. H.E. will perform in Las Vegas over Christmas. |
C.Her parents bought her a ticket for S. H. E. Is Shanghai show. |
D.S. H.E. will perform on the CCTV Spring Festival Evening Party. |
A.Their fans gave the name to them. | B.Their idols had a deep influence on them. |
C.A singing contest gave their idea of the band name. | |
D.The first letters of Selina, Hebe and Ella form the band name. |
A.She stayed outside the Hongkou Stadium to listen to S. H. E. 's performance. |
B.She will watch the performance in Guangzhou on January 15. |
C.She pays close attention to everything about S. H. E. |
D.She was grateful that her parents understood and supported her. |
A.The secret to their success is their pretty faces and lovely clothes. |
B.They were close friends when they entered a singing contest. |
C.They caused a storm of excitement in Southeast Asia. |
D.They have well prepared to perform with their idols. |
A.Their music and their healthy image. |
B.Their success meets their fans’ day dream of becoming others’ idols. |
C.They can make audience much excited |
D.Their average looks and not-so-expensive clothes keep them close to their fans. |
NBA commissioner David Stern was in Orlando on Thursday night, getting ready for Sunday’s All-Star Game. Of course, all he could talk about was the only player anyone wants to talk about these days: New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin.
Hours before Lin took the court against the Heat, a few hundred miles South down I-95 in Miami, Stern told reporters that Lin’s instant popularity hasn’t ever been matched in sports history, not even by Sunday’s biggest names, LeBron James or Kobe Bryant.
The Associated Press had the details.
“I haven’t done a calculation, but it’s fair to say that no player has created the interest and the craze in this short period of time, in any sport, that I’m aware of like Jeremy Lin has,” Stern said Thursday.
Lin, an undrafted(未选秀的)guard from Harvard, has become the NBA’s biggest story since coming off the Knicks’ bench earlier this month to lead them to nine wins in 11 games heading into their matchup with Miami on Thursday night.
With Lin’s popularity in Asia as the league’s first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent, and with the religious community because of his strong Christian faith, Stern says he’s “never quite seen anything like” the attention on Lin.
“It’s fascinating,” Stern said after the All-Star Jam Session opening ceremonies.
The top five videos on NBA.com since Feb. 4, when Lin joined the circulation, are all Lin or Knicks related. Lin went from 190,000 followers on Sina, China’s version of Twitter, on Feb. 2 to more than 1 million as of Feb. 16.
Indeed, Lin’s popularity is so out of this world that the NBA made a late list switch to ensure his participation in the Rising Stars Challenge on All-Star Saturday, a game that includes the NBA’s best rookies(新秀球员)and sophomores. Lin is in such high demand that all of the game’s other participants will meet with the media following a team practice on Friday while Lin will have his own, separate press conference later in the night.
This is Jeremy’s world, folks. We’re all just living in it. Even David Stern and the rest of the league’s All-Stars, at least for the moment.
【小题1】The following statements about Jeremy Lin’s instant popularity are true EXCEPT that ______.
A.Jeremy Lin led New York Knicks to win all the recent games this month |
B.David Stern said Lin was the only instant popular player in NBA’s history |
C.Lin has become the NBA’s greatest story though he was an undrafted guard |
D.no player has created the interest and the enthusiasm in such a short period of time |
A. Because Jeremy Lin was born in Taiwan with strong Christian faith.
B. Maybe because he is the first player born in America but has Chinese descent.
C. Because Sina has a large group of surfing people, maybe more than 10 million.
D. Because the top five videos on NBA. com since Feb. 4 are all Lin or Knicks related.
【小题3】The underlined phrase “out of this world” in Paragraph 9 may probably be replaced by ______.
A.impossible | B.important | C.exceptional | D.excellent |
A.Knowledge starts with practice. | B.Failure is the mother of success. |
C.Every dog has its day. | D.No pains, no gains. |