【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 voicerecognition credit is powered by a mini battery. To extend batter life, the electronics have only to be switched on when the card is being used. Pressing a button on the card’s surface allows one to hear a female voice saying, ―Say your password.‖ If the voicerecognition software proves that the password is real, it sends its ID, which the server then identifies, allowing the deal to continue. 59. Why is the voice credit an important innovation? A. It is cheap to make and buy. B. It can leave voice messages. C. It makes online shopping easy. D. It makes fraud more difficult. is the problem with the model card? A. It is too large. B. It is too thick. C. It can’t be used online. D. It has no loudspeaker. of the following about the earlier card is TRUE? A. Its owner can change the ID code at will. B. Its user needn’t key in the credit card number. C. It can record its user’s spoken password. D. It can be used by someone who has stolen it. 62. What can we infer from the last paragraph? A. Further improvement should be made to extend battery life. B. Only female voice passwords can be recognized by the card. C. There are no limits to the use of the card. D. Female customers will like using it. C Creative conservationist (環(huán)保者 ) Asher Jay is a designer, artist, writer, and activist who is trying to save the world’s most threatened wildlife with an unusual weapon: Art. ―Today we need everyone’s involvement, not just core conservationists,‖ says Jay. ― People with no previous interest in conservation tune in to my messages because they engage with my work aesthetically. It starts as an interest in art for art’s sake and ends with making lifestyle changes.‖ The New Yorkbased artist has bee a visual voice for a range of environmental causes. In Africa, screen savers glow with Jay’s graphics of a Poached rhino horn dripping with blood. Jay’s cartoons of elephants killed for their tusks have been shown in New York’s Times Square, wild other works have spread worldwide on social media. ―The right image can overe language and cultural barriers, connecting with people on a nonverbal, emotional level,‖ she says. ―It all starts with making an emotional impression on one person. Only then will someone change habits, speak out, or donate.‖ In recent years, much of Jay’s best known work has focused on the illegal ivory trade. In 2021, she created a silk screen print, showing a stark image of an elephant’s head silhouetted in black, dripping with red blood, and accented by a tusk decorated with images of elephants’ families. ―Every tusk costs a life,‖ said acpanying text. ―Stop poaching.‖ ―I wanted to visualize the scale and brutality of the crisis and use art to tell the blood ivory story,‖ she says. Every year, 35,000 elephants are slaughtered。 that’s one every 15 minutes.‖ ―Twothirds of Africa’s elephants have been killed for tusks in the last 35 years. If this continues, experts predict elephants in the wild will be extinct in less than ten years.‖ Much of Jay’s work around poaching aims simply to correct a widespread misunderstanding. ―Many people think an elephant’s tusk or a rhino’s horn simply falls off, like losing a tooth. My goal,‖ she says, ―is to make them understand that elephants die painful deaths, because they are alive and conscious as poachers cut out their tusks.‖ 63. What does the underlined word, “poacher”, in the third paragraph probably mean? A. Broken optionally B. Incidentally decayed C. Taken illegally D. Repaired carelessly 64. What can we learn from the last paragraph? A. More and more people care about wild animals now. B. Wild animals will be extinct in less than ten years. C. Jay wants people to stop buying ivory products. D. Jay’s works show the pain of elephants that are poached. 65. What is this passage mainly about? A. An artist’s animal work aims to stop animal slaughter. B. The risk of extinction for wild animals in Jay’s works. C. A new way to stop illegal trade designed by an artist. D. How people hunt and abuse wild animals. 66. What does Jay say about the effect of art? A. It is a visual voice for animal protection. B. It needs words to illustrate its meaning. C. It can help more money to be donated to people in need. D. It makes an emotional impression on people. D After my sixth voyage I was quite determined that I would never go to sea. One early spring day, however, I was brought to see the Caliph. He said, ―Sindbad, I have chosen you to deliver a letter and a gift to the King of Serendib in return for his message of friendship. The Caliph39。s mandment fell upon me like a thunderbolt(晴天霹靂 ). ―Your Majesty, I answered, I am ready to do all that your Majesty mands, but I have made a promise never again to leave Baghdad. I admit, said he, that you have indeed had some extraordinary experiences, but I do not see why they should prevent you from doing as I wish. You have only to go straight to Serendib and give my message, an