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     Since the 1970s, scientists have been searching for ways to link the brain with computers.
Brain-computer interface(BCI) technology could help people with disabilities send commands to machines.
     Recently, two researchers, Jose Milan and Michele Tavella from the Federal Polytechnic school in
Lausanne, Switzerland, demonstrated(展示)a small robotic wheelchair directed by a person's thoughts.
     In the laboratory, Tavella operated the wheelchair just by thinking about moving his left or right hand.
He could even talk as he watched the vehicle and guided it with his thoughts.
     "Our brain has billions of nerve ceils. These send signals through the spinal cord(脊髓)to the muscles
to give us the ability to move. But spinal cord injuries or other conditions can prevent these weak electrical signals from reaching the muscles," Tavella says. "Our system allows disabled people to communicate with external world and also to control devices."
     The researchers designed a special cap for the user. This head cover picks up the signals from the
scalp(頭皮) and sends them to a computer. The computer interprets the signals and commands the
motorized wheelchair. The wheelchair also has two cameras that identify objects in its path. They help the computer react to commands from the brain.
     Prof. Milan, the team leader, says scientists keep improving the computer software that interprets brain signals and turns them into simple commands. "The practical possibilities that BCI technology offers to
disabled people can be grouped in two categories: communication, and controlling devices. One example
is this wheelchair."
     He says his team has set two goals. One is testing with real patients, so as to prove that this is a
technology they can benefit from. And the other is to guarantee that they can use the technology over long periods of time.
1. BCI is a technology that can ________.
A. help to update computer systems
B. help the disabled to recover
C. link the human brain with computers
D. control a person's thoughts
2. How did Tavella operate the wheelchair in the laboratory?
A. By controlling his muscles.
B. By talking to the machine.
C. By using his mind
D. .By moving his hand.  
3. Which of the following shows the path of the signals described in Paragraph 5?
A. scalp→computer→cap→wheelchair
B. computer→cap→scalp→wheelchair
C. cap→computer→scalp→wheelchair
D. scalp→cap→computer→wheelchair
4. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Switzerland, the BCI Research Center
B. New Findings About How the Human Brain Works
C. Robotic Vehicles Could Help to Cure Brain Injuries
D. BCI Could Mean More Freedom for the Disabled
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科目：高中英語 來源：英語教研室 題型：050

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Since many of you are planning to study at a college or university in this country, you may be curious to know what you usually do in a typical week, how you can get along with your fellow students, and so on. These are the questions I want to discuss with you today.

First, let’s talk about what your weekly schedule will look like. No matter what your major may be, you can expect to spend between four and six hours a week for each class attending lectures. Lectures are usually in very large rooms because some courses such as introduction to sociology or economics often have as many as two or three hundred students, especially at large universities. In lectures, it’s very important for you to take notes on what the professor says because the information in a lecture is often different from the information in your textbooks. Also, you can expect to have exam questions based on the lectures. So it isn’t enough to just read your textbooks; you have to attend lectures as well. In a typical week you will also have a couple of hours of discussion for every class you take. The discussion section is a small group meeting usually with fewer than thirty students where you can ask questions about the lectures, the reading, and the homework. In large universities, graduate students, called teaching assistants, usually direct discussion sections.

If your major is chemistry, or physics, or another science, you’ll also have to spend several hours a week in the labor laboratory, doing experiments. This means that science majors spend more time in the classroom than non-science majors do. On the other hand, people who major in subjects like literature or history usually have to read and write more than science majors do.

1.The main purpose of this text is__________.

A.to help the students to learn about university life

B.to persuade the students to attend lectures

C.to encourage the students to take part in discussions

D.to advise the students to choose proper majors

2.We can learn from the passage that university professors__________.

A.spend about 5 hours on lectures each week

B.must join the students in the discussion sections

C.prefer to use textbooks in their lectures

D.require the students to read beyond the textbooks

3.A discussion section does NOT include__________.

A.working under the guidance of university professors

B.talking over what the students have read about the courses

C.discussing the problems related to the students’ homework

D.raising questions about what a professor has said in a lecture

4.According to the author, science majors__________.

A.have to work harder than non-science majors

B.spend less time on their studies than non science majors

C.consider experiments more important than discussions

D.read and write less than non-science majors

 

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     Since the beginning of human evolution(進(jìn)化), men have migrated(遷移)across continents
in search of food, shelter, safety, and comfortable weather. People still move for these reasons,
but new reasons for human migration are arising, such as job relocation(重新安置) and
overpopulation.
     Three million migrants are moving from poor countries to wealthier ones each year, and
increasingly, their destination is a neighboring country in developing parts of the world. People
are moving within the developing world for the same reasons as they migrate to wealthier nations.
People from poor countries are going to less poor countries, fleeing wars and conflicts(沖突).
They are also responding to population pressures because some countries are densely
populated(人口密集), and they often have high population growth. Those people need to
go somewhere else.
     There are three main reasons why people move. The basic categories and percentages
are as follows, according to the Current Population Surveys (CPS):
     Family-related reasons account for 26.3%, including changes in marital status(婚姻情形),
establishing a household and other family reasons; work-related reasons 16.2%, including job
transfer, retirement, and other job-related reasons; housing-related reasons 51.6%, including
new and better houses, better neighborhood, cheaper housing and other housing reasons;
the remaining 5.9% of other reasons are attending college, the change of climate and health
reasons.
     Americans have been migrating south and west for decades in search of better job
opportunities and warmer climates. They have also been moving to places a little far from
cities, in search of bigger yards and houses, lower crime rates and better schools. In 1950,
nearly a fifth of the population lived in the nation's 20 largest cities. In 2006, it was about one
in ten. That's why many American people say, "Big Cities Shrink as People Move South, West."
     Between March 2005 and March 2007, 73.4 million Americans moved. Fifty-six percent
of these moves were within the same country. Twenty percent were between counties but in
the same state. Nineteen percent were moves to a different state. Some families even went
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     Since the 1970s,scientists have been searching for ways to link the brain with computers.
Braincomputer interface (BCI) technology could help people with disabilities send commands
to machines.
     Recently,two researchers,Jose Millan and Michele Tavella from the Federal Polytechnic
School in Lausanne,Switzerland,demonstrated(展示)a small robotic wheelchair directed by
a person's thoughts.
     In the laboratory,Tavella operated the wheelchair just by thinking about moving his left or
right hand.He could even talk as he watched the vehicle and guided it with his thoughts.
     "Our brain has billions of nerve cells.These send signals through the spinal cord(脊髓)to
the muscles to give us the ability to move.But spinal cord injuries or other conditions can
prevent these weak electrical signals from reaching the muscles,"Tavella says."Our system
allows disabled people to communicate with external world and also to control devices."
     The researchers designed a special cap for the user.This head cover picks up the signals
from the scalp(頭皮)and sends them to a computer.The computer interprets the signals and
commands the motorized wheelchair.The wheelchair also has two cameras that identify objects
in its path.They help the computer react to commands from the brain.
     Prof.Millan,the team leader,says scientists keep improving the computer software that
interprets brain signals and turns them into simple commands."The practical possibilities that
BCI technology offers to disabled people can be grouped in two categories:communication,
and controlling devices.One example is this wheelchair."
     He says his team has set two goals.One is testing with real patients,so as to prove that this
is a technology they can benefit from.And the other is to guarantee that they can use the
technology over long periods of time.

1．BCI is a technology that can ________.
A．help to update computer systems
B．link the human brain with computers
C．help the disabled to recover
D．control a person's thoughts
2．How did Tavella operate the wheelchair in the laboratory?
A．By controlling his muscles.
B．By talking to the machine.
C．By moving his hand.
D．By using his mind.
3．Which of the following shows the path of the signals described in Paragraph 5?
A．scalp→computer→cap→wheelchair
B．computer→cap→scalp→wheelchair
C．scalp→cap→computer→wheelchair
D．cap→computer→scalp→wheelchair
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A．make profits from them
B．prove the technology useful to them
C．make them live longer
D．learn about their physical condition
5．Which of the following would be the BEST title for the text?
A．Switzerland,the BCI Research Center
B．New Findings about How the Human Brain Works
C．BCI Could Mean More Freedom for the Disabled
D．Robotic Vehicles Could Help to Cure Brain Injuries

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A. To show humans are the most developed.
B. To introduce the topic of the passage.
C. To indicate people have different needs to satisfy.
D. To explain why people need to read.
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stop."
A. When mind keeps growing, creativity fully stops.
B. When freedom is lost, creativity gets a full stop.
C. When mind stops growing, creativity fully stops.
D. When growing is lost, creativity gets a flail stop.
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A. how the pre-historic man feeds his mind
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C. how to develop creativity
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     Since its opening,camp teachers at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect
(給……消毒) door knobs,take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind
the campers not to share canned Coke.
     Many of the 12,000-plus summer camps in the United States are making greater efforts
to guard against the spread of the new A/H1N1 flu.
     Many parents are debating whether they should stop their kids from enjoying the summer
camp because of the new flu.Jing Zhang of New York said she decided to keep her
5-year-old daughter at a local day-care center."Why would I want to spend a fortune on
the summer camp when the risk is the same?" she asked.
     Dr.Daniel Rauch,said the risk of catching A/H1N1 flu is only greater in close or group
settings,for instance,when kids sleep near each other in beds,tents or cabins.Unless children
already have potential illness or immunodeficiencies (免疫缺陷),going to summer camps
does not necessarily have a greater risk of catching A/H1N1 flu than going to public spaces
such as playgrounds and shopping centers,he added.
     Some camp administrators said they would send any sick child home immediately or
separate them in a clinic and let them play board games while they are being observed.
"We try to create a temporary camping center in the summer and we are very vigilant
about it," said Andy Pritikin,director of Liberty Lake Day Camp in Mansfield,who sent a
child with fever home last week,with full credit to come back later in the summer.
     "Parents should know whether camp nurses are available.And if there's only a bottle
of medicine and a bed in the back room,and it takes three and a half hours to get to the
nearest hospital,parents need to know that," said Sean Nienow,director of the National
Camp Association.
1．To protect campers from A/H1N1 flu,the organizers have taken the following
measures EXCEPT________.
A．taking campers' temperatures on their arrival
B．building temporary clinics near camping places
C．separating sick campers or sending them home soon
D．reminding campers of some matters they need to pay attention to
2．According to Dr.Daniel Rauch,________.
A．taking children to public places and sending them to camps are both safe
B．parents should not let their children go camping or take them to public places
C．going to summer camps doesn't mean an increasing risk of catching A/H1N1 flu
D．sending children to camps is more dangerous than taking them to public places
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A．cautious
B．excited
C．hopeful
D．confident
4．Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?_____
A．Experts encourage parents to send their kids to camps.
B．Parents are very worried about the spread of A/H1N1 flu.
C．A/H1N1 flu has spread widely among young campers in the US.
D．Children who have potential illnesses are not allowed to go camping.
5．What can we learn from what Sean Nienow says in the last paragraph?_____
A．The medical conditions are poor at the camp.
B．Children should not be sent to camps far from the hospital.
C．Parents should be informed of the medical conditions at the camp.
D．Parents need to realize that camps have no good medical conditions.

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