Will chips one day be planted in our bodies for identificationA US doctor has planted under his skin a computer chip that can send personal information to a scanner(扫描仪), a technology that may someday be widely used as a way to identify people. The chip gives off information which will be scanned by a hand-held reader.The chip is similar to those planted in more than one million dogs, eats and other pets in recent years to track and identify them.The doctor decided to test the chip himself after the Word Trade Center disaster. The dead could have been identified if their names and other important information had been chipped.Officials of the company said they hope to sell the chips to patients with man-made arms or legs or other body parts. The idea is that the chip will provide immediate and correct medical information when it is needed.The information can contain name, telephone number and other information. Or it can send out a message that, when connected to a computer, can call up records. The scanner can read it through clothes from over a meter away. The new product also could be used to control prisoners. Workplaces of great importance may want to use the chips for employees, too. Some parents may consider planting chips in young children or elderly relatives who may be unable to say their names, addresses or telephone numbers.Some medical and technology specialists said the product raises new questions about the relationship between humans and computer technology and could cause problems if it is used against someone’s wishes, or if your personal information is read by those who should not see it. According to the text, computer chips have already been used to ().
A. catch escaped prisoners
B. find missing children
C. follow lost animals
D. treat sick people
查看答案
Some people have very good memories, and can easily learn quite long poems by hearts. There are other people who can only remember things when they have said them over and over.Charles Dickens, the famous English author, said that he could walk down any long street in London and then tell you the name of every shop he had passed. Many great men of the world have had wonderful memories.A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child. Some children — like boys and girls who live in foreign countries with their parents — seem to learn two languages almost as easily as one. In schools it is not easy to learn a second language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects as well.The human mind is rather like a camera, but it takes photographs not only of what we see but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photograph with a camera, there is much to do before the photograph is finished and ready to show to our friends. In the same way there is much work to be done before we can make a picture remain forever in the mind.Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. () have good memories.
A. Some great people
B. Only great people
C. The children who live in foreign countries with their parents
D. The pupils who study a second language in schools
Mr. Bill liked shooting very much but he was never good at it. A month ago some of his friends visited him in his house and saw a new target(靶子)which Bill had put several days before in his garden.His friends went nearer and looked at this beautiful target. There was a hole right in the middle of the target. When they asked who had shot the target, Bill said he had. They all laughed and said, "How far away were you ,Bill Two feet But Bill said he was fifty yards (码) away.Then Mr. Bill’s wife explained about the hole in the middle. She said, "Bill went to a shop and bought a very big piece of wood. He brought it home in a car, put it in the garden and shot at it from fifty yards away. Then he drew a target round the bole and cut the wood.\ What did Bill do after he shot at the wood from 50 yards away().
A. He drew a target round the hole.
B. He brough it in a car.
C. He put it in the garden.
D. He cut the wood.
According to the dictionary definition of "create", ordinary people are creative every day. To create means "to bring into being, to cause to exist something each of us does daily".We are creative whenever we look at or think about something in a new way. First, this includes an awareness (意识) of our surroundings. It means using all of our senses to become aware of our world. This may be as simple as being aware of color and texture (质地), as well as taste, when we plan a meal. Above all, it is the ability to notice things that others might miss.A second part of creativity is an ability to see relationships among things. If we believe the expression, "There is nothing new under the sun. The creativity is remaking or recombining (组) the old in new ways." For example, we might do this by finding a more effective way to study or a better way to arrange our furniture, or we might make a new combination of camera lenses and filters to create an unusual photograph.A third part of creativity is the courage and drive to make use of our new ideas, to ask for them to achieve some new results. To think up a new idea is one thing; to put the idea to work is another.These three parts of creativity are included in all the great works of geniuses, but they are also included in many of our day to day activities. Which of the following activities is NOT a creative one according to the passage().
A. To prepare for a meal.
B. To arrange the furniture in a special way.
C. To buy some books from a bookstore.
D. To "write" a letter with the computer.
I began to register on Monday/by picking up registration forms, completing them, and then turning them in with my photo. On Tuesday when I (36) to pay my fee, the lady at the fee desk (37) me to the line of (38) registrants because the university’s computer refused to (39) my forms. Even after standing in line for an hour, I (40) to see the humor in the (41) when the little man at the desk told me that I did not have a good (42) for not living in a school dormitory. However, he (43) to let me register when I asked him to note the (44) of my being a girl and the university’s all-boy dormitories. He asked me to come back the next day, at which time my (45) would have been through the computer again. When. I came back on Wednesday and (46) Tuesday’s experience, I began to (47) my sense of humor. Almost to my (48) I was not sent to the line of problem registration on Thursday. (49) the lady at the fee desk (50) my computerized fee receipt and announced that I (51) Green College $100. When I questioned her about the (52) of registering for 15 hours a week for that small fee, she answered that the computer (53) that I was a full-time teacher. Early the next morning, Friday, I visited the registrar, who was able to (54) the problem, and then went so the Fiscal Office where I paid ,the additional fee. As I wrote the check, I congratulated myself on (55) registration at Green College in only five days. 39().
A. admit
B. accept
C. recognize
D. notice