【正文】 oid phone. D Shimi can gain the sensing and musical generation capabilities of the user?s mobile device. 2. What does Shimi do if the user taps a beat? A It stores the beat in the musical library. B It transmits the beat to the docking station. C It positions its speakers for optimal sound. D It selects a perfectlymatched song and plays it in sync with that beat. 3. Which of the following about Shimi is true? A Robots are limited by their programming instructions, and Shimi is no exception. B Present apps allow the user to shake their head to alert Shimi to skip to the next song. C Existing apps allow the user to wave a hand to alert Shimi to turn up/down the volume. D Shimi can be creative and interactive. 4. What does the author want to tell us? A The research center is developing a stronger and more versatile Shimi. B Weinberg only expects staffs from Geia Tech. to develop more apps for Shimi. C Shimi is not yet technologically ready for mercialization. D Robots such as Shimi are created for large corporations rather than homes. 5. Which of the following is Weinberg?s assertion? A Shimi as a robotic musical panion can be applied to all types of smart phones. B human lives will be filled with more fun if Shimi is going to arrive in homes. C Shimi39。第四段第三句指的是未來的應(yīng)用程序 : future apps in the works,而選項 B,C是指目前的應(yīng)用程序，兩者的表述均與原文有出入。 參考譯文 第十九篇 音樂機器人伴侶提升音樂欣賞體驗 Shimi是由佐治亞理工大學(xué)音樂技術(shù)中心研發(fā)的一款音樂伴侶。一旦連接上，機器人便從用戶的移動裝置獲得傳感和音樂生成能力。正在研發(fā)中的程序?qū)⑹褂脩裟軠贤?過搖頭或擺手表示不同意，來提醒 Shimi跳到下一首歌或增減音量。s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences， have discovered that human walking upright, may have originated millions of years ago as an adaptation to carrying scarce, high quality resources. The team of researchers from the U. S., England, Japan and Portugal investigated the behavior of modernday chimpanzees as they peted for food resources， in an effort to understand what ecological settings would lead a large ape — one that resembles the 6 millionyear old ancestor we shared in mon with living chimpanzees — to walk on two legs. “These chimpanzees provide a model of the ecological conditions under which our earliest ancestors might have begun walking on two legs, ， said Dr. Richmond. The research findings suggest that chimpanzees switch to moving on two limbs instead of four in situations where they need to monopolize a resource. Standing on two legs allows them to carry much more at one time because it frees up their hands. Over time， intense bursts of bipedal activity may have led to anatomical changes that in turn became the subject of natural selection where petition for food or other resources was strong. Two studies were conducted by the team in Guinea. The first study was conducted by the team in Kyoto University?s “ outdoor laboratory ” in a natural clearing in Bossou Forest. Researchers allowed the wild chimpanzees access to different binations of two different types of nut — the oil palm nut， which is naturally widely available, and the coula nut, which is not. The chimpanzees? behavior was monitored in three situations:(a) when only oil palm nuts were available,(b)when a small number of coula nuts were available， and(c) when coula nuts were the majority available resource. When the rare coula nuts were available only in small numbers, the chimpanzees transported more at one time. Similarly, when coula nuts were the majority resource, the chimpanzees ignored the oil palm nuts altogether. The chi mpanzees regarded the coula nuts as a more highlyprized resource and peted for them more intensely. In such highpetition settings， the frequency of cases in which the chimpanzees started moving on two legs increased by a factor of four. Not only was it obvious that bipedal movement allowed them to carry more of this precious resource, but also that they were actively trying to move as much as they could in one go by using everything available 一 even their mouths. The second study, by Kimberley Hockings of Oxford Brookes University, was a 14month study of Bossou chimpanzees cropraiding, a situation in which they have to pete for rare and unpredictable Resources. Here, 35 percent of the chimpanzees activity involved some sort of bipedal movement, and once again, this behavior appeared to be linked to a clear attempt to carry as much as possible at one time. 詞匯 ： scarce ， 不足的 ； 稀 有的 chimpanzee ape 。 7. oil palm nut: 油棕櫚堅果 8. increased by a factor of four:增加了四倍 9. in one go: —口氣 10. Oxford Brookes University: 牛津布魯克斯大學(xué) ， 創(chuàng)立于 1865年 ， 是英國最具特色的綜合性大學(xué)之一。其他選項所述內(nèi)容均可從第一段和第二段推斷出 2. B 文章報道，科學(xué)家通過實驗證實黑猩猩直立行走是為了解放前肢，讓前肢搬運對其生命至關(guān)重要的資源，從而推斷出人類祖先也經(jīng)歷了從四足到二足的進化過程。 5. D 了解了通篇文章的意思，就會選擇選項 D。 “這些黑猩猩居住的生態(tài)環(huán)境和我們最早的祖先開始直立行走時是相同的， ” Richmond博士說。(c)大多數(shù)是可樂果，少數(shù)是油棕櫚堅果。在這項研究中，黑猩猩 35%的活動是直立行走。 2. Kuala Lumpur:吉隆坡 （ 馬來西亞首都 ) 3. The Millau Bridge: 米約高架橋。自 1991年起，伊泰普水電站每年發(fā)電收益約 23億美元。四個選項中wonderful符合這個要求，而 delightful, useful和 careful均與 constructions極好性狀無關(guān)，因此不可能是答案。其他三個選項與 architect相比，相關(guān)性就差多了。建造髙架大橋的目的是為了緩解交通擁擠 ， 所以選擇 relieve是理所當(dāng)然的。 countries是理所當(dāng)然的選擇。原因是每年都有新的更令人嘆為觀止的建筑出現(xiàn)。 第二座：米約高架橋。伊泰普水電站是同類建筑中最大的一個。 in question意為 “討論中的 ， 考慮中的 ”。 sharp teeth和 sharp eyes是禿鷹的特點，但文章并未提及。 4. D作者原來的用詞一定是 across the Indian subcontinent(整個印度次大陸），不可能是 。上一句的 “alarm rather than celebration”提供了解題的線索，禿鷹瀕臨滅亡對我們是一種警告，而不是一件值得慶賀的事。例 :Your proposal is positive rather than negative. (你 的提議是積極的 ， 而不是消極的。該建筑作為兩個國家的共同開發(fā)項目， 1975年動工修建 ，歷時 16年完工。它是當(dāng)時世 界上最高的大橋，最高點超過 340米。 第一座：國油雙峰塔。 Energy是答案。本題的答案是 most。 6. D本 段前面的句子描述了國油雙峰塔的建筑特色 ， 本句進而介紹塔的其他兩個特色 ， 即 doubledecker lifts (雙層電梯 ） 和 glass and steel sunshades(建材為玻璃和鋼的遮陽篷 ） 。 Three giant, structures 值得什么呢 ？ 值得我 們 passion (熱情 ） 、 expression(表達(dá) )或 detection(發(fā)現(xiàn) ）？ 這三個選項顯然不會是答案。南美洲第二大河。建造這座斜拉索式橋梁共花費了 3年多的時間，總耗資 。 第三篇 Giant Structures It is an impossible task to select the most amazing wonders of the modem world since every year more __1__ co