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阅读理解 　　In Google's vision of the future, people will be able to translate documents instantly into the world's main languages, with machine logic, not expert linguists, leading the way． 　　Google's approach, called statistical(统计的)machine translation, differs from past efforts in which it does without language experts who program grammatical rules and dictionaries into computers．Instead, they feed documents humans have already translated into two languages and then rely on computers to decide patterns for future translations． 　　While the quality is not perfect, it is an improvement on previous efforts at machine translation, said Franz Och, 35, a German who heads Google's translation effort at its Mountain View headquarters south of San Francisco．“Some people who have been in machine translations for a long time see our Arabic-English output, and then they say, that's amazing, that's a breakthrough，”said Och．“And then other people who have never seen what machine translation was read through the sentence and they say, the first mistake here in Line Five－it doesn't seem to work because there is a mistake there．” 　　But for some tasks, a mostly correct translation may be good enough．Speaking over lunch this week in a Google cafeteria famed for offering free, healthy food, Och showed a translation of an Arabic Web news site into easily digestible English． 　　Two Google workers speaking Russian at a nearby table said, however, that a translation of a news site from English into their native tongue was understandable but a bit awkward．Och, who speaks German, English and some Italian, feeds hundreds of millions of words from parallel texts such as Arabic and English into the computer, using United Nations and European Union documents as key sources． 　　Languages without considerable translated texts, such as some African languages, face greater obstacles．“The more data we feed into the system, the better it gets，”said Och, who moved to the United States from Germany in 2002． 　　The program applies statistical analysis, an approach he hopes will avoid diplomatic embarrassing mistakes in diplomatic situations, such as when Russian leader Putin's translator annoyed then German Chancellor(总理)Gerhard Schroeder by calling him the German “Fuhrer(“leader” in English)，”which is forbidden in that context because of its association with Adolf Hitler． 　　“I would hope that the language model would say, well, Schroeder is…very rare but Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schroeder is probably 100 times more frequent than Fuhrer and then it would make the right decision．”Och said． (1) What is the best title of this passage? [　　] A． Google Seeks World of Instant Translations B． Google Starts a Revolution of Machine Translations C． A Breakthrough Makes Google World Brighter D． Surf Google and Try the New Computer System (2) In what way is “Google's machine translation” different from previous ones? [　　] A． Linguists guide the computer translation on Google． B． International official papers are programmed as its major sources． C． Rules and dictionaries are fed into computers to support it． D． Google daily updates the program of this computer translation． (3) We can learn from the passage that users ________． [　　] A． think highly of Google's new approach B． criticize it for its broken translation C． hope Google can perfect it before launching D． hold different opinions towards Google's new approach (4) Why are there more troubles in translations relating to African languages? [　　] A． Most of the translated materials are not properly translated． B． Experts managing the program know poorly of African languages． C． It's hard to find enough materials of African translation works． D． The UN and EU fail to provide translated African documents． (5) Statistical analysis in this passage is conducted by ________． [　　] A． counting how frequently a word is used in the language B． hiring people who speak different languages C． using the computer with its own grammatical rules D． reminding users of the likely embarrassing mistakes

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答案：1．A;2．B;3．D;4．C;5．A;
解析：

(1)	主旨大意题。从第一段的描述便可知本文将主要谈论Google的翻译软件(机器)。
(2)	细节题。根据第2段…differs from past efforts in which it does without language experts who program grammatical rules and dictionaries into computers说明先前的翻译软件都是将语法规则或词典编成程序输入电脑。
(3)	判断归纳题。根据第3段的叙述，可知不同的人对Google软件的态度也不尽相同，下文也有具体的描述。
(4)	细节题。根据第6段Languages without considerable translated texts, such as some African language,…说明非洲一些语言翻译起来较为困难主要是因为关于这些语言的原始翻译材料较少。
(5)	解析：推理判断题。根据第7段The program applies statistical analysis,…及第8段…is probably 100 times more frequent than Futher and then it would make the right decision可知文中所说的统计分析是指在系统中根据某单词出现的频率多少来计算，若出现频率高，则翻译准确度就高。 　　文章大意：由于网络的普及，翻译软件也是百花齐放，但Google公司发明的翻译软件也许是其中的佼佼者。