How to Tell If Someone Is Happy or Sad on the Phone
Scientists have come up with some researches on what makes different types of people“tick”.
The scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed new mobile phone technology called Emotion Sense that can tell if a caller is happy, angry or sad.
Scientists hope to fit the speech recognition system to standard mobile phones and use it to determine emotions—it will also use a GPS tracking system to log where the call is made.
 And they’ve already made some pretty major breakthroughs into really getting under the skin of us humans.
The results from the pilot scheme make interesting scientific reading. Among the key revelations (﹦facts) are that callers feel happier at home and sadder at work.
To break it down, scientifically, it shows 45 percent of all emotions produced at home are “happy”and 54 percent of emotions at work are “sad”.
Meanwhile, people show more “intense”(﹦nervous) emotions in the evening than they do in the morning.
Of course, this could just be because most people feel too tired in the morning to get overly “intense”. Eating breakfast and getting to work on time is usually enough of an achievement.
Anyway, the Emotion Sense technology has been developed by psychologists(心理學(xué)家) and computer scientists who say it uses speech recognition software and phone sensors(傳感器) attached to standard smart phones to judge how callers’ emotions are changed by everyday factors.
The sensors analyze voice samples and these are then divided into five categories: happiness, sadness, fearfulness, anger or neutral-—boredom or passivity(消極) would fit into this last category.
【小題1】How many emotions can the sensors tell?

A.TwoB.ThreeC.FourD.Five
【小題2】What does the underlined sentence mean?
A.Scientists have put something testing people’s emotions under humans’ skin.
B.There were some breakthroughs in this technology in getting something from people’s skin.
C.In this technology, people’s skin was broken through.
D.There were improvements in testing people’s emotions.
【小題3】Why do most people feel less intense in the morning than in the evening?
A.Because morning is the start of a new day.
B.because they feel too tired in the morning.
C.Because of humans’ physiological structure.
D.Because of the fresh air and bright sunlight.
【小題4】Which of the following hasn’t been put into the standard mobile phones?
A.Speech recognition software.B.Phone sensors.
C.GPS sensors.D.Translation system.


【小題1】D
【小題2】D
【小題3】B
【小題4】D

解析試題分析:文章是一篇說明文,主要介紹了科學(xué)家最近的一項研究項目:通過電話來識別對方的情緒。這種新技術(shù)可以分辨開心、悲傷、恐懼、憤怒和中立等五種情緒。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由最后一段中的“…divided into five categories: happiness, sadness, fearfulness, anger or neutral…”可知,這種新技術(shù)可以分辨開心、悲傷、恐懼、憤怒和中立五種情緒。其余選項錯誤。故選D。
【小題2】詞義猜測題。此句的關(guān)鍵在于“getting under the skin”,其表面意思為“到皮膚下”,在本文中引申為“了解人的真實情緒”。其余說法錯誤。故選D。
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由倒數(shù)第三段第一句“Of course, this could just be because most people feel too tired in the morning to get overly “intense”.”可知,由于早上人們總是很累,以至于緊張不起來。其余說法錯誤。故選B。
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第三段和倒數(shù)第二段可知,只有D項未提及,文中無信息支持。故選D。
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