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上海市上海交通大学附属中学2018-2019学年高一下学期英语期中考试试卷

Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. planting    B. art    C. feature    D. casual    E. frequent    F. mingled    G. desired    H. properties    I. suspect    J. accents    K. converted

    The elementary means of communicating with other people is conveying messages by voice. This fact is widely acknowledged and we recognize the voice as a(n) characterizing the identity of a person. The array of voices is immeasurable as no two are exactly similar. They can be nasal, resonant or shrill produced in accordance with the individual physical of the throat.

    One possible implementation of the of voice recognition is voice profiling used by police analysts as a method of substantiating court evidence in trials. Every year, thousands of audiotapes with recorded interviews or utterances are put to the purpose to help identify the probable . Specialists dealing with the voice investigation claim that people can give themselves away by their , inflections or other voice attributes like pitch, intensity and loudness. A recorded sample is usually into electric impulses and later transformed into a pictorial recoding which is processed by a computer program. Very frequently voice analyst have a stake at deciphering the relevant information which may be with background noise or other interfering sounds until they attain the results.

    Thankfully, these efforts help the police detect individuals who threaten their victims by phone or inform about bomb or those who make offensive calls disturbing the peach of decent citizens.

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Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. processed  B. increasing  C. applications  D. typing  E. interpreting F. reflected  G. injected  H. transforming  I. connections  J. remarkable  K. superhuman

The Next Frontier: Using Thought to Control Machines

    Technologies are often billed as transformative. For William Kochevar, the term is justified. Mr Kochevar is paralysed below the shoulders after a cycling accident, yet has managed to feed himself by his own hand. This {#blank#}1{#/blank#} progress is partly thanks to electrodes, implanted in his right arm, which stimulate muscles. But the real magic lies higher up. Mr Kochevar can control his arm using the power of thought. His intention to move is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} in neural(神经的) activity in his motor region; these signals are detected by implants in his brain and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} into commands to activate the electrodes in his arms.

    An ability to decode thought in this way may sound like science fiction. But brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) like the BrainGate system used by Mr Kochevar provide evidence that mind-control can work. Researchers are able to tell what words and images people have heard and seen from neural activity alone. Information can also be encoded and used to stimulate the brain. Over 300, 000 people have cochlear(耳蜗的) implants, which help them to hear by {#blank#}4{#/blank#} sound into electrical signals and sending them into the brain. Scientists have "{#blank#}5{#/blank#}" data into monkeys heads, instructing them to perform actions via electrical pulses.

    As our Technology Quarterly in this issue explains, the pace of research into BCIs and the scale of its ambition are {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. Both America's armed forces and Silicon Valley are starting to focus on the brain. Facebook dreams of thought-to-text {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. Kernel, a startup, has $100m to spend on neurotechnology. Elon Musk has formed a firm called Neuralink; he thinks that, if humanity is to survive the arrival of artificial intelligence, it needs an upgrade. Entrepreneurs imagine a world in which people can communicate using thoughts, with each other and with machines, or acquire {#blank#}8{#/blank#} abilities, such as hearing at very high frequencies.

    These powers, if they ever materialise, are decades away. But well before then, BCIs could open the door to wonderful new {#blank#}9{#/blank#}. Imagine stimulating the visual region to help the blind, making new neural{#blank#}10{#/blank#} in stroke victims or monitoring the brain for signs of depression. By turning the firing of neurons into a resource to be used, BCIs may change the idea of what it means to be human.

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