The iPhone has been called a magical product because of its success over the years. However, now the iPhone seems to have lost its attraction.

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, said in a recent letter that the company expected a revenue(收入)of $84 billion for the first fiscal quarter(财政季度)of 2019. It was much lower than the earliest expectation of between $89 billion and $93 billion. That was the first time that Apple had seen its revenue expectation fall in almost twenty years.

Cook explained that the fall was mainly because of the less growing need in China.

However, people believe that Apple itself is mainly responsible(有责任的)for the fall. Gene Munster told CNN that “one-third of the problem” comes from the company’s move to suddenly increase the price.

This has made people less willing to change the latest iPhones. For example, iPhone Xs Max, one of the company’s latest smartphones, costs $1450 in the US, and costs much more in other countries, including many developing countries, reported Forbes.

Apple has also failed to introduce features that excite people in a forward-thinking technology market, reported CNBC.

Meanwhile, Apple also faces challenges from smartphone makers in China such as Huawei and Xiaomi, which have introduced less expensive but still quality smartphones.

For example, in 2018, Huawei introduced a triple-lens camera(三摄镜头)on its P20 Pro. The triple-lens camera is a popular feature that the iPhone doesn’t have, according to CNBC.

“In the past few years, the technology in Apple’s phones has not had any big improvements, while the technology in smartphones made in China has got better and better ,” Feng Yin, a 32-year-old engineer in China, told The New York Times. “The difference is getting smaller.”

Not the iPhone it 1. to be.

Problems of Apple

? The iPhone seems to have lost its charm.

? The revenue was much lower than the expectation.

2. for the fall

? People in China aren’t 3. about iPhone any more.

? The latest iPhones are much more 4. than earlier ones.

? The latest iPhones don’t have any really new features which make people5..

? Smartphone makers in China such as Huawei and Xiaomi have introduced cheaper but quality smartphones.

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Artificial Intelligence(AI,人工智能)can help us make phone calls. It can guide us to where we want to go. It can play games. And now, AI can do even more things.

Researchers from Microsoft have created the first machine translation system that can translate news articles from Chinese to English.

The researchers tested the system by asking it to translate hundreds of sentences taken from news stories. Then, language experts compared the results to the translation that were done by humans. The experts said that the system's translations were as good as the human translations.

Experts used several methods to improve the system's translation abilities. “Much of our research is really learned from how we humans do things,” lead researcher Liu Tieyan said.

One method is called dual learning(对偶学习). In this method, the system translates every sentence from Chinese to English, as well as translates the sentences back from English into Chinese. This way, the system can improve itself and learn from its own mistakes. This is similar to what humans do to make sure their translations are exact.

Another method makes use of deliberation networks(推敲网络).The researchers taught the system to repeat the process of translating the same sentence over and over. Gradually,the system can improve the quality(质量) of its translations. This is similar to how people correct their own writing by going through it again and again.

1.Microsoft created a system that can ________.

A. make phone calls B. give people directions

C. play games with people D. translate news articles

2.What did the experts say about the system's translations?

A. They were not exact.

B. They were as good as human translations.

C. They were better than human translations.

D. It's hard to tell whether the translations were correct.

3.Dual learning trains the system to translate ________.

A. more quickly B. different sentences

C. more exactly D. the same sentence repeatedly

4.The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to ________.

A. dual learning B. the process

C. the system D. people's own writing

5.The passage wants to tell us ________.

A. what artificial intelligence can do for us

B. how sentences are translated from Chinese to English

C. how the machine translation system was developed

D. why Microsoft created a machine translation system

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