【正文】 ip ， 跳躍 sync ， 同時 。 ” 第十九篇 Musical Robot Companion Enhances Listener Experience Shimi, a musical panion developed by Geia Tech?s Center for Music Technology, remends songs, dances to the beat and keeps the music pumping based on listener feedback. The smartphoneenabled, onefoottall robot is billed as an interactive “musical friend”. “Shimi is designed to change the way that people enjoy and think about their music， ” said Professor Gil Weinberg, the robot?s creator. He will unveil the robot at the June 27th Google I/O conference in San Francisco. A band of three Shimi robots will perform for guests, dancing in sync with music created in the lab and posed according to its movements. Shimi is essentially a docking station with a “brain” powered by an Android phone. Once docked, the robot gains the sensing and musical generation capabilities of the user?s mobile device. In other words, if there?s an “app” for that, Shimi is ready. For instance, by using the phone?s camera and facedetecting software， Shimi can follow a listener around the room and position its “ears”， or speakers, for optimal sound. Another recognition feature is based on rhythm and tempo. If the user taps a beat, Shimi analyzes it, scans the phone?s musical library and immediately plays the song that best matches the suggestion. Once the music starts， Shimi dances to the rhythm. “Many people think that robots are limited by their programming instructions, said Music Technology Ph. D. candidate Mason Bretan. “Shimi shows us that robots can be creative and interactive. ??Future apps in the works will allow the user to shake their head in disagreement or wave a hand in the air to alert Shimi to skip to the next song or increase/decrease the volume. The robot will also have the capability to remend new music based on the user?s song choices and provide feedback on the music play list. Weinberg hopes other developers will be inspired to create more apps to expand Shimi?s creative and interactive capabilities. “I believe that our center is ahead of a revolution that will see more robots in homes.” Weinberg said. Weinberg is in the process of mercializing Shimi through an exclusive licensing agreement with Geia Tech. Weinberg hopes to make the robot available to consumers by the 2020 holiday season. “If robots are going to arrive in homes, we think that they will be this kind of machines一 small, entertaining and fun， Weinberg said. “They will enhance your life and pave the way for more intelligent service robots in our lives.” 詞匯： pump 。人類可以真正感知到自身 的需要或者為之奮斗的目標。雷戴爾給出了這樣的解釋。 饑餓的人看到與食物有關的詞更明亮，且能更好地辨認出與食物有關的詞。每閃動一個字，被試者回答字體的亮度并選擇看到的是哪類詞：一類是和食物有關的詞，比如 “蛋糕 ”；一類是中性詞，比如 “船 ”。由于字體非常之小，被試者只能憑感覺捕捉到字形。 實驗的步驟如下：要求被試者看電腦屏幕。其余的給 1個小時的時間先吃午飯。等他們到達實驗室時，他們被告知實驗時間有延遲。 雷戴爾招募了健康指數正常的 42位學生作為被試者。例如，貧窮的孩子看到的硬幣比實際的要大；饑餓的人看到的食物圖片更 明亮。一項新研究發(fā)現：比起那些剛剛用過餐的人，饑餓的人能更清晰地看到與食品有關的詞。最后一段第二句的 “Humans can really perceive what they need or what they strive for” 為選擇 D 項提供了依據。B、 C內容也不能直 接從短文中推斷出來。 D項 barely意為 “僅僅 ， 勉強 ， 幾乎沒有 ”， 因此也不符合句意。 B項 neutral意思為“中性的 ”， 在本文中的意思是與 foodrelated相對的 ， 即 “與食物不相關的 ”， 因此是錯誤選擇 。本文最后一句給出了直接的答案。選項 B是答案。他又請另外一部分學生用午餐。 Radel為了保證 42名學生到達實驗室時是空腹，所以要求他們中午到達。選項 B和 D文章中沒有提到。饑腸轆轆的人只是看 foodrelated words比較清楚，選項 C的句意與上述句子的意思完全一致，是答案。 3. body mass index:身體質量指數 4. at the threshold of:當 …… 快要開始時 5. in perception： 感知 6. at the disposal of:受到 …… 的控制 練習 ： 1. What does the new study mentioned in Paragraph 1 find? A Hungry people see every word more clearly than ordinary people. B Hungry people are always thinking of foodrelated words. C Hungry people are more sensitive to foodrelated words than stomachfull people. D Hungry people do not have lowerlevel of thinking process. 2. Why was there a delay on the day of the experiment? A Because hungry people needed time to fill their stomach. B Because Radel wanted to create two groups of testees, hungry and nonhungry. C Because noon was not the right time for any experiment. D Because Radel needed time to select participants in terms of body mass index. 3. What does the writer want to tell us? A Human9s senses aren?t just delivering a strict view of what?s going on in the world. B What39。尼斯大學在尼斯市設有 7處主校園，另外，還在索菲亞 ? 安提波利斯市 (Sophia Antipolis)、戛納市（ Cannes)和芒東市（ Menton)設有校區(qū)。五官 感覺還受大腦活動的影響。配置 neutral ； 中立的 motive ， 目的 strive ， 力求 。第十一篇 When Our Eyes Serve Our Stomach Our senses aren?t just delivering 汪 strict view of what?s going on in the world； they?re affected by what?s going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry people see foodrelated words more clearly than people who?ve just eaten. Psychologists have known for decades that what?s going on,inside our head affects our senses. For example, poorer children think coins are larger than they are, and hungry people think pictures of food are brighter. Remi Radel of University of Nice SophiaAntipolis， France， wanted to investigate how this happens. Does it happen right away as the brain receives signals from the eyes or a little later as the brain?s highlevel thinking processes get involved. Radel recruited 42 students with a normal body mass index. On the day of his or her test, each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating. Then they were told there was a delay. Some were told to e back in 10 minutes。 others were given an hour to get lunch first. So half the students were hungry when they did the experiment and the other half had just eaten. For the experiment, the participant looked at a puter screen. One by one, 80 words flashed on the screen for about l/300th of a second each. They flashed at so small a size that the students could only consciously perceive. A quarter of the words were foodrelated. After each word， each person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of t