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1. Words fail to________________(表达)my meaning.
2. We admire him for his________________(勇敢的)conduct.
3. Please treat people and animals with________________(人性).
4. What the Great Wall is like is beyond________________(描述).
5. They set up a monument in________________(纪念)of the well-known hero.
6. The student answered the question with c (自信).
7. If you don’t help me, I’ll h (缠绕)you after my death.
8. He p (参加)in their discussion last weekend.
9. After he came to himself, he found all his b (财物)gone.
10. He is a man of w (智慧).
When I was growing up, I seldom heard the words “I love you” from my father. If your father never 1 them to you when you are a 2 , it gets more and more 3 for him to say those words as you get older. To tell you the truth, I could hardly 4 when I heard those words from my father. Neither could I remind when I had last said those words to 5 . I decided to 6 my shyness aside and make the first move. 7 hesitating for some time, in our next 8 conversation, I spoke out the words suddenly, “Dad ... I love you!”
There was a 9 at the other end. It wasn’t after a while did he awkwardly(笨拙地) reply, “Well, 10 to you!” I laughed and said, “Dad, I 11 you love me, and when you are ready, I know you will say what you want to say.”Fifteen minutes later my mother called and 12 asked, “Paul, is everything okay?”
A few weeks later, Dad 13 our phone conversation with the words, “Paul, I love you.” I was at work during this conversation and the 14 was (were) rolling down my cheeks as I finally “ 15 ” the love. As we both sat there in tears, we 16 that this special moment had taken our father and son 17 to a new level.
A short while after this special moment, my father 18 escaped death from the following heart surgery. Many times since his return to the usual state of health, I have 19 , if I did not take the first step and Dad did not 20 the surgery, I would have never heard him say those words.
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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 |
B. the ability to recognize faces unhesitatingly is an unusual gift
C. quite a few people can visualize faces they have seen
D. few people can give exact details of the appearance of a face
B. people don't think much of the problem of how and why we acquire the ability to recognize and
remember faces
C. people don't realize how essential and valuable it is for them to have the ability to recognize faces
D. people have been arguing much over the way people recognize and remember faces
B. It is acquired soon after birth.
C. It is something we can do from the very moment we are born.
D. It is learned from our environment and experiences.
B. sight is indispensable (必需的) to recognizing individuals
C. the ability to recognize faces is a special inborn ability of the brain
D. the importance of the ability of recognizing faces is fully appreciated by people.