Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The programme works because everyone's eyes are different. Therefore, in the future you won't have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You'll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are.

The eye-recognition programme has already been tested in shops and banks in the USA, Britain, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Soon this technology will take the place of all other ways of finding out who people are.

However, scientists are also working on other systems. Machines will soon be able to know you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell! We already have machines that can tell who you are from your voice or the mark made by your finger.

Eye-recognition is better than other kinds because your eyes don't change as you get older, and don't get dirty like hands or fingers, and even twins have different eyes. The eye-recognition programme can be up to 94% correct, depending on how good the technology is. However, some other programmes may only be 51% correct at present. In Britain, it was found that 91% of people who had tried it said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition.

In the future your computer will be looking at you in the eye. So smile!

1.Where has the eye-recognition programme already been tested in a few countries?

A. In shops and banks.

B. In shops and schools.

C. In banks and schools.

D. In schools and hospitals.

2.We already have machines that can tell who you are from________.

A. your eyes or your smell

B. your voice or the mark by your finger

C. your face or your voice

D. your face or your hand

3.Which of the following doesn't belong to the advantages of the eye-recognition programme?

A. Your eyes don't change as you get older.

B. Eyes don't get dirty like hands or fingers.

C. Everyone's eyes are different, even twins have different eyes.

D. We can't see anything without eyes.

Once Effendi had a joke with the Prime Minister(宰相), He said that the Minister would die the next day, The next day, the Minister fell to the ground from the horse, and really died.When the king learned this, he got angry and sent his men to catch Effendi at once.When Effendi was brought to him, the king shouted angrily, “Effendi, since(既然死)you knew when my Minister would die, you must know the date of your own death(死), say it out, or you’ll die today

Effendi looked at the king for a while, Then he answered, “But how can I know? I’ll die two days earlier than you, The king was afraid that if he killed Effendi, he himself would die after that, He thought he must keep Effendi alive(活着)as long as possible, so he let Effendi go.

1.This story tells us__________.

A.how Effendi fool(愚弄)the king

B. when the king would die

C.why the Minister died

D.Effendi knew the dates of everyone's death

2.The prime Minister died because __________.

A.Effendi killed him

B.Effendi said he would die

C.He was badly ill

D.He fell of the horse

3.Why did the king ask Effendi to tell him the date of Effendi's own death? __________.

A.Because the king wanted to know when he himself would die

B.Because he wanted to find an excuse to kill Effendi

C.Because he himself had known the date of Effendi's death

D.Because he wanted to know when Effendi would die

4.The king let Effendi go because __________.

A.he hoped to live a long life

B.he was afraid of Effendi

C.he didn't believe(相信) Effendi's words

D.he knew he would die two days later

5.Which of the following is not true__________.

A.Effendi played a joke on the Minister.

B.The king was afraid of death

C.Effendi didn't know when the king would die

D.If the king killed Effendi, he himself would die two days later

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