出自:国家开放大学理工英语4
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Baidu, China.s leading search engine company, has unveiled its own eyewear called Baidu Eye. It is said to be a different product from Google Glass in terms of functionality.
The company demonstrated a working prototype on September 3 at its annual Technology Innovation Conference in Beijing. It bears a similarity to Google Glass, but it has no screen. Instead, the device uses a camera to scan objects, and focuses on analyzing information around its user and beaming that to a smartphone.
Baidu says the device is designed to support image search. The company.s CEO Robin Li believes in five years. time, people will get used to searching by image and audio rather than text. Li has given an example of how one can take advantage of Baidu Eye, "If you are in a shopping mall and come across a woman whose skirt looks really attractive, you take a photo of her skirt using Baidu Eye, and you.ll get to know where to buy one for yourself."
According to Kaiser Kuo, Baidu.s director of international communications, Baidu Eye can also recognize voice and gesture, "You can use voice commands, or gesture commands - like expanding to zoom, or circling an object in your field of view with your finger."
Baidu is yet to announce a release date or marketing plans for Baidu Eye.
Baidu is China.s leading search engine company. 1
2.Baidulaunched a product that has more functions than Google Glasson September 3. 2
3.Baidu Eyecanscan objects with its small screen. 3
4.The company’s CEO Robin Li believes thatpeople will get used to searching by text. 4
5. Baidu has already announced the release of Baidu Eye. 5
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Passage 1 (教材课文原文)
"The printer did not always manage to spread the plastic evenly, making some of the ribs of the honeycomb structure of the block uneven," reported ARN (Australian Radio Network) to the surprise of no one who has used a 3D printer. But the architects remain optimistic. The first few printed blocks are meant to be test pieces as they improve the process.
It takes about a week to print a 3-meter high block right now. The project.s leaders hope to eventually get that down to two hours and finish the first of 12 rooms in a year, and the entire house in less than 3 years.
Ultimately, 3D Print Canal House is an architectural research project, one that is very much being conducted in the public eye: you can actually buy tickets to visit the construction site for 2.50 Euros.
The top floors will become more ornate, for example, as newer techniques are incorporated. They.ll explore the possibilities of 3D printing, like the honeycomb walls or an entire room recycled, redesigned, and built anew. Nobody.s going to move into a 3D printed house soon, but, if anyone ever does, something might be learned from this experiment by the canal.
According to the passage, the 3D printer can type with plastic evenly. 1
2. This 3D printer printed some blocks to test its work. 2
3. The project.s leaders will finish the entire house in less than 3 years. 3
4. 3D Print Canal House is printed to live. 4
5. The canal house will be decorated more. 5
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（课外选材）
When computer servers operate a complex program, they can get very hot. Cooling the servers can be costly. So researchers asked what would happen if the heat created by the servers could be captured and used?
Data centers of large Internet companies such as Google and Microsoft have thousands of computer servers. As these servers process information, they create large amounts of heat, so they need huge cooling systems. These systems send the heat into the air. The Dutch company Nerdalize thinks paying for electricity to operate the servers and then paying again to cool them is a waste of energy. So it developed a device called the e-Radiator. It is a computer server that also works as a heating source. Boaz Leupe is the chief executive officer of Nerdalize. He says the e-Radiator saves money because companies don.t have to pay to cool their servers.
"The kilowatt（千瓦）hour you are using is used twice -- once to heat the home and once to compute the client.s task without the cooling overhead." He says five homeowners in the Netherlands are testing the heating device in their homes. "We reimburse the electricity the server uses, and that we can do because of the computer clients on the other side, and, in that way, homeowners actually get heating for free, and computer users don.t have to pay for the overhead of the data center."
Jan Visser is one of the participants in the year-long experiment. He says the amount of heat produced by the e-Radiator depends on the work being done by the computer server. He says it cannot be used as the primary source of heat. But he is ready to try it.
He says if it provides enough warmth, he will be able to use his home.s heating system less, which will save him money. Nerdalize says e-Radiators create heat temperatures of up to 55℃. It says the devices could save users up to $440 in heating costs a year.
Why did researchers ask what would happen if the heat created by the servers could be captured and used? 1
A. Because computers can get very hot.
B. Computer servers is a complex program.
C. Cooling computer servers costs a lot of money.
2.The computer servers in large Internet companies such as Google and Microsoft can 2 .
A. create large amounts of information
B. create large quantity of heat
C. manage the huge cooling systems
3. Nerdalize developed the e-Radiator because 3 .
A. e-Radiator cost less energy
B. e-Radiator can cool the servers for free
C. e-Radiator can create cold air for free
4.According to Jan Visser, the amount of heat produced by the e-Radiator 4 .
A. depends on the work being processed by PC
B. cannot be used as the home.s heating system
C. cannot be used as the main source of heat
5.The best title for this passage is 5
A. The New Way to Heat Homes
B. The New Way to Cool Homes
C. Hot Computers Could Be Used for Free
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（教材对话原文）
Marry: What do you plan to do for your holiday?
Jeff: Come on, it went up in smoke. 1
Marry: Wow,you are going for a business trip next week? Where?
Jeff: Xiamen.
Marry: 2
Jeff: By train. You know our boss is afraid to take a plane because of high anxiety.
Marry: Actually, it.s not so awful to take a plane if you don.t look out the window.
Jeff: Good idea!
Marry: Well, Xiamen is a perfect place to be on holiday, you know.
Jeff: I know. But a business trip is tiring to me.
Marry: Oh, take it easy. 3 I like taking occasional business trip for a change of pace.
Jeff: I hope so.
Marry: I think you should take advantage of this good opportunity to go on a business trip with our boss and gain the boss.s favor.
Jeff: 4 . I think it makes sense.
Marry: You know, I.ve dreamed a thousand times that I could lie down on the beach of Xiamen to relax myself.
Jeff: So have I. But it.s not always nice and sunny there, sometimes cloudy and rainy.
Marry: Come on, I don.t think it will spoil your trip. 5
Jeff: Thanks a lot.
A. By plane or by train?
B. Maybe it.s not so bad as you imagined.
C. I have to go on a business trip with my boss.
D. Anyhow, I hope you.ll have a nice trip.
E. Hey, that sounds like a really good idea.
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（教材对话原文）
Janet: Hey, how about getting together for a movie tonight?
Danny: Sure. 1
Janet: Well, let me check the Internet. What about the Interstellar?
Danny: Wow, I learn that it stars Anne Hathaway, my favorite actress.
Janet: Well, 2 , but I am more interested in the film director.
Danny: Who is it?
Janet: Christopher Nolan, a British-American film director. You must have watched the Inception, one of his masterpieces.
Danny: Absolutely, that movie took my breath away and I must admit that its director is brilliant. 3
Janet: Obviously it is a sci-fi film, which features a crew of astronauts who travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity.
Danny: 4
Janet: The screenplay was written by Christopher and his brother Jonathan Nolan.
Danny: You are such a great fan of sci-fi movie.
Janet: Yeah, I am really into this. So let’s go to this movie and see what exciting experience it will bring to us.
Danny: 5
A. she is amazing
B. What about the screenplay?
C. Can’t wait to watch it.
D. So could you tell me more about Interstellar?
E. What’s playing?
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