【正文】 me， Alvin has carried some 12,000 people on a total of more than 3,000 dives． A newer， better versions of Alvin is bound to reveal even more surprises ahout a world that is still full of mysteries， Fornari says． It might also make the job of exploration a little easier．“ We take so much for granted on land,” Fornari says．“ We can walk around and see with our eyes how big things are． We can see colors， special arrangements．” Sizewise， the new HOV will be similar to Alvin． It’ ll be about 37 feet long． The setting area inside will be a small sphere， about 8 feet wide， like Alvin， it’ ll carry a pilot and two passengers． It will be just as maneuverable． In most other ways，it will give passengers more opportunities to enjoy the view， for one thing． Alvin has only three windows， the new vehicle will have five， with more overlap so that the passengers and the pilot can see the same thing． Alvin can go up and down at a rate of 30 meters every second， and its maximum speed is 2 knots (about 2． 3 miles per hour)， while the new vehicle will be able to ascend and descend at 44 meters per second． It’ll reach speeds of 3 knots， or 3． 5 miles per hour． 詞匯： fraction/5frAkFEn/n ． 一 部 分 dive/daiv/v．＆ n．潛水；跳水 underwater/5QndE5wC:tE(r)/adj ． bound/baund /adj．受約束的，一定的 水下的； adv．在水下 sphere/sfiE(r)/n ． 球 體 ； 范 圍 manned/5mAnd/adj．載人的 maneuverable/mE5nu:vErEbl/adj ． undersea/5QndEsi:/ adj．海底的 ，機 動 的 ， 可 調(diào) 動 的 submersible/sQb5mE:sEbl/n．潛艇；潛水器 overlap /5EuvE5lAp/v．＆ n．重疊 upgrade/5Qp^reid/n．升級 ascend/E5send/ v ． 上 升 geologist/dVi5ClEdVist/n．地質(zhì)學(xué)家 注釋： 1． Woods Hole：美國馬薩諸塞州的一個漁村，但同時擁有 許多重要研 究 機 構(gòu) ， 如 ： the Marine Biological Laboratory ， the Sea Education Association 以及 the Woods Hole Oceanographic lnstitution。他說：“我認為我們中心正在引領(lǐng)這場將更多機器人應(yīng)用到家庭中去的變革。”音樂技術(shù)博士研究生Mason Bretan如是說。另外一種識別特征是基于節(jié)奏和速度。 Shimi 實際上是一個 擴充基座，它的“大腦”由安卓手機控制。 Gil Weinberg教授是該機器人的發(fā)明者，他解釋說：“ Shimi設(shè)計的宗旨是改變?nèi)藗冃蕾p音樂、認識音樂的方式。本題的答案是B,依據(jù)是最后一段倒數(shù)第二句。文章最后一段告訴我們 ,Weinberg正在與 Geia Tech進行有關(guān) Shimi商業(yè)化的談判 ,選項 C 的意思與此相反，不會是答案。選項 D的意思與原文相同，因而是答案。 2. D 選項 D 簡要地表述了第三段的倒數(shù)第二句“ If the user taps a beat, Shimi analyzes it, scans the phone ’ s musical library and immediately plays the song that best 348 mess microscopic M matches the suggestion”的意思 ,所以是答案。 7. dock：對接 8. the sensing and musical generation capabilities:傳感和音樂生成能力 9. app:應(yīng)用程序（ =application) 10. if the user taps a beat:如果用戶打出某個 (音樂）拍子 11. in the works:正在準(zhǔn)備階段 。 5. docking station: 插接站 ,擴充基座，擴展插口 6. Android:(科幻小說里的 )機器人。佐治亞理工學(xué)齒是美國南部最大的公立理工學(xué)院 ,也是全美最頂尖的理工學(xué)院之一，排名僅次于麻省理工學(xué)院 (MIT)和加州理工學(xué)院 (CalTech)。不斷播放（音樂） scan 。有了 艾米的幫助，科蓊只用了兩個 星期就完成了 這部歌劇，叫做《搖籃墜落》。他還在數(shù)據(jù)庫中加人了一些其他作曲家的作品，其中也包括他自己的 作品。不久，這個軟件就能夠?qū)懗龊桶秃诊L(fēng)格很像的小曲子。他認識到作曲家的大腦就像一個大數(shù)據(jù)庫，他們先是吸收他們 聽 過的所有音樂，然后去除他們不喜歡的，最后再根據(jù)留下的音樂來創(chuàng)作出新的旋律。科普花了 30 年才 完成 這個軟件，現(xiàn)在，科普的電腦寫出的作品與德國著名作曲家 寫的作品很相似，很少 有人能 分辨出其中不同。 5. D從本文第一句可知 David是一個作曲家 ,不是計算機程序員 ,所以排除 A。 2. C 從第二段的第一句可以看出 ,David 編寫電腦軟件的目的是寫歌劇。k / 注釋： 1. J. S. Bach:約翰?塞巴斯蒂安?巴赫 (德語 :Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 年 3 月 31 日一 1750 年 7 月 28 H),巴洛克時期的德國作曲家，杰出的管風(fēng)琴、小提琴、大鍵琴演奏家 ,同作曲家亨德 爾和泰勒曼齊名。341 mess microscopic M 閱讀理解： 第二十九篇 I’ ll Be Bach（ 2020年新文章） Composer David Cope is the inventor of a puter program that writes original works of classical music. It took Cope 30 years to develop the software. Now most people can’ t tell the difference between music by the famous German poser J. S. Bach1 (16851750) and the Bachlike positions from Cope ’ s puter. It all started in 1980 in the United States, when Cope was trying to write an opera. He was having trouble thinking of new melodies, so be wrote a puter program to create the melodies. At first this music was not easy to listen to. What did Cope do? He began to rethink how human beings pose music. He realized that posers1 brains work like big databases. First,they take in all the music that they have ever heard. Then they take out the music that they dislike. Finally, they make new music from what is left. According to Cope， only the great posers axe able to create the database accurately,remember it,and form new musical patterns firom it. Cope built a huge database of existing music. He began with hundreds of works by Bach. 1 he software analyzed the data： it broke it down into smaller pieces and looked for patterns. It then bined the pieces into new patterns. Before long, the program could pose short Bachlike works. They weren’ t good,but it was a start. Cope knew he had more work to dohe had a whole opera to write. He continued to improve the software. Soon it could analyze more plex music. He also added many other posers， including his own work,to the database. A few years later， Cope’ s puter program,called “ Emmy”，was ready to help him with his opera. The process required a lot of collaboration between the poser and Emmy. Cope listened to the puter’ s musical ideas and used the ones that he liked. With Emmy, the opera took only two weeks to finish. It was called Cradle Fallingttind it was a great success! 342 mess microscopic M Cope received some of the best reviews of his career,but no one knew exactly how he had posed the work. Since that first opera, Emmy has written thousands of positions. Cope still gives Emmy feedback on what he likes and doesn’ t like of her music,but she is doing most of the hard work of posing these days! 詞匯： original /9 Vicinal/ adj. 有獨 創(chuàng)性 coHaboration /ka 丨laebdreijan / review/ ri39。reg。s brain? A It forms