Do you want to live forever? By the year 2050, you might actually get your wish — if you are willing to leave your biological body and live in silicon circuits (半導(dǎo)體電路).But long before then, perhaps as early as 2020, some measures will begin offering a semblance of immortality (虛擬的永生).
Researchers are confident that technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life. Whatever you see and hear, all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and added to your personal chronicles (履歷). By the year 2030, it may be possible to catch your nervous systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions.
Researchers at the laboratories of British Telecommunications have given the name of this idea as Soul Catcher. Small electronic equipment will make preparation for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps in a wristwatch, with wireless links to micro sensors under your scalp(頭皮) and in the nerves that carry all five sensory signals. So wearing a video camera would no longer be required.
At first, the Soul Catcher's companion system — the Soul Reader — might have trouble copying your thoughts in complete details. Even in 2030, we may still be struggling to understand how the brain is working inside, so reading your thoughts and understanding your emotions might not be possible. But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities (永生實(shí)體). Researchers can only wonder what it will be like to wake up one day and find yourself alive inside a machine.
For people who choose not to live in silicon, semblance of immortality would not be as useless as they thought. People would know their lives would not be forgotten, but would be kept a record of the human race forever. And future generations would have a much fuller understanding of the past. History would not be controlled by just the rich and powerful, Hollywood stars, and a few thinkers in the upper society

  1. 1.

    The main idea of this passage is that _______.

    1. A.
      human beings long for living forever
    2. B.
      there are many difficulties in making the Soul Catcher
    3. C.
      people might live forever as technology develops
    4. D.
      the invention of Soul Catcher has great importance
  2. 2.

    According to this passage, a Soul Catcher will be ______.

    1. A.
      a new machine on which research measures have already been made
    2. B.
      a new invention in order to catch and keep human's thoughts and emotions
    3. C.
      made by British scientists to offer something that looks like living forever
    4. D.
      made of silicon circuits which can catch people's nervous activity
  3. 3.

    According to the writer, semblance of immortality is ______.

    1. A.
      to be a reality sooner or later
    2. B.
      far from certain
    3. C.
      just an idea that couldn't t be realized at all
    4. D.
      a fading hope
  4. 4.

    The meaning of the underlined word "revitalize" in the fourth paragraph is close to        

    1. A.
      make dead
    2. B.
      make famous
    3. C.
      make known
    4. D.
      make active
CBAD
試題分析:文章講述了科學(xué)家們正在研究一種技術(shù)能夠使人們活到永遠(yuǎn)。這種技術(shù)可以將你所見的所聽的記錄下來,若干年后可以通過腦電活動(dòng)來保持你對過去的記憶和情感。所以我們的下一代可能會(huì)對歷史有更為清晰的理解。
1.主旨題。從第一段可知,文章講述了隨著現(xiàn)代社會(huì)科技的發(fā)展,我們活到永遠(yuǎn)的夢想將會(huì)實(shí)現(xiàn),故選C
2.細(xì)節(jié)題。通過第二自然段it may be possible to catch your nervous systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions. 和第三自然段第一句話可知,Soul Catcher 是一種新的發(fā)明來記錄保持人類的想法和情感的,故選B
3.從最后一段可知,作者相信下一代人會(huì)對歷史有更為深刻的認(rèn)識(shí),所以作者相信虛擬的永生這種技術(shù)遲早會(huì)實(shí)現(xiàn)的,故選A
4.從第四段But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities (永生實(shí)體).可知,這些信號(hào)能夠保存到那一天,當(dāng)他們被轉(zhuǎn)移到半導(dǎo)體電路上時(shí),就可以使永生實(shí)體的意識(shí)復(fù)活,故選D
考點(diǎn):科普類說明文
點(diǎn)評:本文較難,科技類的文體是比較繁瑣的,因?yàn)閷S忻~較多。學(xué)生在解答這類題目時(shí),首先對文章有大致的掌握,對于文章一遍沒有看懂時(shí),可以先看題目,按照文章題目的提示,再在文章中找出相對應(yīng)的地方,然后仔細(xì)分析文章的上下文,同時(shí)對于專有名詞可以用筆畫出,通過多個(gè)地方的比較就可以猜出意思了。
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