题目内容
Particular attention must be paid ______ welfare, especially in the poor area.
| A.develop | B.to develop | C.to developing | D.developing |
C
解析试题分析:句意:应该特别重视发展人民的福祉,尤其是在贫困地区。句中用到了pay attention to doing sth重视做某事,的固定句型,本句中运用给了被动形式,故选C
考点:固定短语辨析
点评:此类固定短语,在理解句意的基础上,要分清各个之间意思侧重的不同。这就要求学生在平时的学习中,遇到类似的题目需要将用法积累、牢记在脑海中,并且要学会举一反三,这样才能在多变的题目中找到不变的规律。
In a few years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, and English
— and all at the same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex Waibel, a computer science professor at US's Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Germany's University of Karlsruhe, announced last week that it may soon be reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other.?
One application, called Lecture Translation, can easily translate a speech from one language into another. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Users also have to be trained how to use the programme.?
Another prototype(雏形机) can send translations of a speech to different listeners depending on what language they speak. “It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you,” Waibel said.?
Prefer to read? So-called Translation Glasses transcribe(转录) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal(液晶) display(LCD) screen.?
Then there’s the Muscle Translator. Electrodes capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made
naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech. The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted in a person's face, according to researchers.?
During a demonstration held last Thursday in CMU's Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese student named Stan Jou had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks, neck and throat. Then he mouthed — without speaking aloud — a few words in Mandarin(普通话) to the audience. A few seconds later, the phrase was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: “Let me introduce our new prototype.”?
This particular gadget(器械),when fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in any number of languages or, as Waibel put it, “to switch your mouth to a foreign language”. “The idea behind the university's prototypes is to create ‘good enough’ bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world,” Waibel said.?
With spontaneous(自发的) translators, foreign drivers in Germany could listen to traffic warnings on the radio, tourists in China could read all the signs and talk with local people, and leaders of different countries could have secret talks without any interpreters there.?
【小题1】 Which of the following statements is not TRUE?
| A.A lecture translation can translate what you said into other languages easily.? |
| B.There is no Muscle Translator in the world now.? |
| C.Muscle Translators can translate what you think into speech if you just move your mouth.? |
| D.The spontaneous translators will help us a lot. |
| A.Lecture Translation. |
| B.Muscle Translator.? |
| C.Multiple Translator. |
| D.Translation Prototype. |
| A.To make cultural exchanges between different countries easier.? |
| B.To help students learn foreign languages more easily.? |
| C.To make people live in foreign countries more comfortably.? |
| D.To help people learn more foreign languages in the future. |
| A.The translator is so good that it can translate any language into the very language you need.? |
| B.The translator is becoming more and more common in the world as a bridge.? |
| C.With the help of the translator, you only need to open your mouth when you want to say something without saying the exact words at all.? |
| D.The translator needs to be improved before being put into market. |
| A.A newspaper. |
| B.A magazine on science.? |
| C.A fairy tale. |
| D.A scientific fantasy book. |
Ideas about polite behavior are different from one culture to another.Some societies, such as America and Australia, for example, are mobile and very open.People here change jobs and move house quite often.As a result, they have a lot of relationships that often last only a short time, and they need to get to know people quickly.So it’s normal to have friendly conversations with people that they have just met, and you can talk about things that other cultures would regard as personal.
On the other hand there are more crowded and less mobile societies where long – term relationships are more important.A Malaysian or Mexican business person, for example, will want to get to know you very well before he or she feels happy to start business.But when you do get to know each other, the relationship becomes much deeper than it would in a mobile society.
To Americans, both Europeans and Asians seem cool and formal at first.On the other hand, as a passenger from a less mobile society puts it, it’s no fun spending several hours next to a stranger who wants to tell you all about his or her life and asks you all sorts of questions that you don’t want to answer.
Cross-cultural differences aren’t just a problem for travelers, but also for the flights that carry them.All flights want to provide the best service, but ideas about good service are different from place to place.This can be seen most clearly in the way that problems are dealt with.
Some societies have ‘universalistic’ cultures.These societies strongly respect rules, and they treat every person and situation in basically the same way.
‘Particularistic’ societies, on the other hand, also have rules, but they are less important than the society’s unwritten ideas about what is right or wrong for a particular situation or a particular person.So the normal rules are changed to fit the needs of the situation or the importance of the person.
This difference can cause problems.A traveler from a particularistic society, India, is checking in for a flight in Germany, a country which has a universalistic culture.The Indian traveler has two much luggage, but he explains that he has been away from home for a long time and the suitcases are full of presents for his family.He expects that the check – in official will understand his problem and will change the rules for him.The check – in official explains that if he was allowed to have too much luggage, it wouldn’t be fair to the other passengers.But the traveler thinks this is unfair, because the other passengers don’t have his problem.
【小题1】Often moving from one place to another makes people like Americans and Australians _____.
| A.like traveling better | B.easy to communicate with |
| C.difficult to make real friends | D.have a long–term relationship with their neighbors |
| A.who will tell them everything of their own |
| B.who want to do business with them |
| C.they know quite well |
| D.who are good at talking |
| A.boring | B.friendly | C.normal | D.rough |
| A.interests | B.habits and customs | C.cultures | D.ways of life |