【小初高学习】高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解八十集之连载训练(70)

2016高考英语二轮阅读理解八十集之连载训练（70）

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阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Steven Spielberg's 2002 science-fiction thriller Minority Report produced a world where computers could read minds and predict the future. It seemed fanciful at the time, but fantasy is edging closer to fact.

On Jan. 3l, a team of scientist sat the UC Berkeley, led by Robert Knight programmed computers to decode (解码) brain waves and replay them as words. Five months earlier, another group of Berkeley scientists showed their colleagues short movies and used computers to play back in color what people saw.

These experiments are a big advance from 2006, when a French scientist first replayed images from a human mind, a black-and-white checkerboard pattern. The possibilities are great: a disabled person could “speak”； doctors could access the mind of a patient who fainted; you could rewatch your dreams on an iPad.There are, of course, equally dark side, such as the involuntary take out of information from the brain.

In spite of these breakthroughs,Jack Gallant, the neuroscientist who led the first Berkeley team, says current technology for decoding brain activity is still “relatively primitive.” The field is held back by its poor machinery, in particular the fMRI.

“Eventually,” says Gallant,“someone will invent a decoding machine you can wear as a hat.” Such an advance into the human mind, he says, might take 30 years.

Still, the recent advances at Berkeley offer small answers, which scientists can use to begin unlocking the secrets of memory and consciousness.

l. What is the best title for the passage?

A. New technology can read your mind

B. Fantasy is edging closer to fact

C. A new discovery in human brain

D. The intelligent computers in the future

2. What did scientist sat the UC Berkeley do?

A. They produced a fanciful world.

B. They made computers jump forward like a human.

C. They managed to translate brain waves into language.

D. They used computers to make short movies.

3. Which of the following is impossible for the research?

A. It can help a disabled man recover his ability of speech.

B. Doctors can read a patient's mind even if he is unconscious.

C. People will know what happens in their dreams.

D. People's thoughts may be given away.

4. What plays a most important role in the development of the technology?

A. A computer.

B. An iPad.

C.A decoding machine.

D. A hat.

5. It can be inferred from the passage that .

A. scientists got the inspiration from a movie

B. the technology still has a long way to go

C. the technology has been put into practice