专业英语四级阅读模拟题3

专业英语四级阅读模拟题3

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Google has an ambitious vision for spectacles. On June 27th Sergey Brin, one of the company's

co-founders, revealed the next stage of Project Glass, its effort to create wireless-connected glasses that allow their wearers to do a host of things, including receiving and responding to messages, and taking and sharing photos and videos. The goal is to get prototypes in the hands of software developers early next year and then to sell a more polished set of specs to consumers in late 2013 or early the following year.

A product of Google's secretive X Lab, whose mission is to push the boundaries of computing, the glasses were on show at the company's developer conference in San Francisco along with several other gadgets, including a cheap tablet computer and a new wireless media player for the home. These gadgets attracted plenty of attention, but the longest queues at the event were at booths where folk were trying on Google's spectacles.

That is hardly surprising because the glasses seem like something out of a science-fiction novel. A tiny transparent display towards the top of one lens allows wearers to see text and images by glancing upwards. And the spectacles can be controlled using either voice commands or a somewhat bulky touchpad integrated into one of the arms. Mr. Brin says the goal is to "get technology out of the way" so people can, say, take videos without having to pull out a camera or smartphone each time they do so.

Google's glasses reflect a growing interest in wearable computing, which many experts think could be the next big thing in personal technology after smartphones and tablets. But some tech veterans give warning that designing novel devices people feel comfortable wearing is an especially tricky task. "In general, the first attempt at producing new computing paradigms rarely sticks," notes Sumeet Jain of CMEA Capital, a venture-capital firm.

If Google's glasses are to prove an exception to that rule, the firm will have to meet several challenges. One is to refine their design so that wearers don't look like nerds from a laboratory. Another is to relieve inevitable concerns around privacy that the glasses will raise. The firm will also need to reassure people their eyeballs won't be blitzed with advertising, which is Google's preferred

way to mint money. Mr. Brin stresses the aim is to make a profit on the glasses themselves, whose mass-market price will be well below the $1,500 developers are paying for a pair. That should make them worth a close look.1. When could software developers get prototypes of the spectacles?

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B.Early 2013.

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D.Early 2014.

答案：B

推理题。文章第一段最后一句提到“...get prototypes in the hands of software developers early next year”，表明是在明年年初让软件开发者拿到产品原型，而该句的后半句表明在2013年年末或者2014年年初向消费者出售更加精良的眼镜，由此推断出软件开发者得到产品原型的时间早于C“2013年年末”和D“2014年年初”，而A“2012年年末”与文中的“明年年初”矛盾，所以正确答案只能是B“2013年年初”。

2. The most popular product at Google's developer conference in San Francisco was ______.

A.tablet computer

B.wireless media player

C.the spectacles

D.smart phone

答案：C

推理题。文章第二段最后一句提到这些小发明吸引了广泛的关注，但此次活动中排队最长的是谷歌眼镜试戴展位，由排队最长可推断出在旧金山公司的开发者会议上最受欢迎的产品是谷歌眼镜，所以选C。A“平板电脑”和B“无线媒体播放器”是上一句中提到的小发明，所以排除；D“智能手机”在第四段第一句有所提及，但并未指出其参与了此次展出，故排除。

3. Some experts believe it is a difficult task to ______.

A.design new devices worn comfortably

B.increase customers' interests in the spectacles

C.push the boundaries of wearable computing

D.invent new wearable computing devices

答案：A

细节题。文章第四段第二句提到，但是一些资深技术人员警告称设计使人们佩戴舒适的新颖装置是一件非常棘手的任务，所以A“设计可以舒适佩戴的新装置”为正确答案。B“增加客户对眼镜的兴趣”在文中并未提及，故排除；C“拓宽可佩戴的计算领域”在第二段第一句有所提及，但这是谷歌X实验室的使