第5部分：补全短文（第46～50题，每题2分，共10分）
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Every Dog Has His Say
Kimiko Fukuda always wondered what her dog was trying to say. Whenever she put on makeup, it would pull at her sleeve. ________________ (46) When the dog barks, she glances at a small electronic gadget. The following "human" translation appears on its screen: "Please take me with you.” “I realized that’s how he was feeling,” says Fukuda.
The gadget is called Bowlingual, and it translates dog barks into feelings. People laughed when the Japanese toymaker Takara Company made the world’s first dog-human translation machine in 2002.But 300,000 Japanese dog owners bought it. _______________ (47)
"Nobody else had thought about it," said Masahiko Kajita, who works for Takara. "We spend so much time training dogs to understand our orders; what would it be like if we could understand dogs?"
Bowlingual has two parts. __________ (48) The translation is done in the gadget using a database containing every kind of bark.
Based on animal behavior research, these noises are divided into six categories: happiness, sadness, frustration, anger, declaration and desire. ___________ (49) In this way, the database scientifically matches a bark to an emotion, which is then translated into one of 200 phrases.
When a visitor went to Fukuda's house recently, the dog barked a loud "bow wow". ___________ (50) It was followed by "I'm stronger than you" as the dog growled and sniffed at the visitor
The product will be available in US pet stores this summer for about US $120. It can store up to 100 barks, even recording the dog's emotions when the owner is away.
A A wireless microphone is attached to the dog's collar which sends information to the gadget he1d by the owner
B Nobody really knows how a dog feels.
C This translated as "Don't come this way".
D More customers are expected when the English version is launched this summer.
E Now, the Japanese girl thinks she knows.
F Each one of these emotions is then linked to a phrase like "Let's play", "Look at me", or "Spend more time with me".
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Hitchhiking
When I was in my teens and 20s, hitchhiking was a main form of long-distance transport. The kindness or curiosity of strangers __51__ me all over Europe, North America, Asia and southern Africa. Some of the lift-givers became friends, many provided hospitality __52__ the road.
Not only did you find out much more about a country than __53__ traveling by train or plane, but there was that element of excitement about where you would finish up that night. Hitchhiking featured importantly in Western culture. It has books and songs about it. So what has happened to __54__?
A few years ago, I asked the same question about hitching in a column on a newspaper. __55__ of people from all over the world responded with their view on the state of hitchhiking.
"If there is a hitchhiker's __56__ it must be Iran," came one reply. Rural Ireland was recommended as a friendly place for hitching, _57__ was Quebec, Canada －"if you don't mind being berated for not speaking French".
But while hitchhiking was clearly still alive and well in many parts of the world, the __58__ feeling was that throughout much of the west it was doomed(消亡).
With so much news about crime in the media, people assumed that anyone on the open road without the money for even a bus ticket must present a danger. But do we _59_ to be so wary both to hitch and to give a lift?
In Poland in the 1960s, __60__ a Polish woman who e-mailed me, " the authorities introduced the Hitchhiker's Booklet. The booklet contained coupons for drivers, so each time a driver __61 __who had picked up somebody, he or she received a coupon. At the end of the season, __62__who had picked up the most hikers were rewarded with various prizes. Everybody was hitchhiking then."
Surely this is a good idea for society? Hitchhiking would increase respect by breaking down __63__between strangers. It would help fight __64__warming by cutting
down on fuel consumption as hitchhikers would be using existing fuels. It would also improve educational standards by delivering instant __ 65__in geography, history, politics and sociology.
51. A) made B) took C) traveled D) crossed
52. A) in B) over C) at D) on
53. A) when B) after C) before D) if
54. A) the books B) them C) it D) the songs
55. A) Hundreds B) Hundred C) Thousand D) Dozen
56. A) sky B) space C) map D) heaven
57. A) like B) as C) for D) since
58. A) big B) large C) general D) little
59. A) have to B) must C) should D) need
60. A) according to B) owing to C) due to D) with respects to
61. A) sent B) picked up C) collected D) helped
62. A) passengers B) hikers C) drivers D) strangers
63. A) fences B) barriers C) gaps D) walls
64. A) global B) world C) entire D) whole
65. A) discussions B) debates C) consultations D) lessons
[此贴子已经被作者于2007-6-27 9:18:06编辑过]
