2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(四)(含答案)

2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(四)(含答

案)

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“停课不停学”：2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(四) Passage1妙哉！大学生首创文言文编程。

词数 310 建议阅读时间 5分钟

World's First Classical Chinese Programming Language

Although programming languages vary in

forms and rules, the keywords used for

The International Data Corporation

(IDC) estimates however that nearly half

developers come from the Asia-Pacific

region.

China and India alone account for about one third of the world’s total developer population.

In an attempt to add some diversity to the range of available programming languages, Carnegie Mellon University computer science major Lingdong Huang has developed ‘Wenyan-Lang,’ a progr amming language based on Chinese hanzi characters and the wenyan classical Chinese grammar system.

Huang did not simply replace the English characters with Chinese hanzi, instead he applied NLP techniques to convert (转变) classical Chinese grammar to JavaScript, Python, and Ruby.

He has open sourced the wenyan-lang project on GitHub, where it received a staggering (令人难以相信的)11,900 stars in a week or so.

A fan of classic Chinese literature, Huang came up with the idea of programming in Chinese in order to shed light on the beauty of wenyan and to inherit (继承) the historical imprint left by generations of eminent (非凡的) figures in Chinese history.

But most importantly, Huang believes the goal of communication is to go beyond the limits of language: “My project still has a lot of room for improvement, but my desire for communication is as strong as some of the historical figures.”

Huang says programming punctuation and line breaks can be removed without affecting the output.

Considering the difficulty converting between classical Chinese and other programming languages, he has provided a “cheat sheet” with tips and conversion rules.

Huang has also included a renderer that can display the program in a manner that resembles (像)pages from ancient books and can parse the resultant SVG file back to the original program.

The Wenyan-Lan project is available on GitHub. Passage2关爱败血症患者，这项实验不简单。

词数 370 建议阅读时间 6分钟

Shirt senses sepsis

Sepsis (败血症) is a toxic (中毒的)

condition resulting from the spread of

infection, which causes 270,000 deaths a

year in the US, according to the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention.

While scientists and doctors have

been trying to improve the situation, a

group of students at Spanish River High in Florida, US, have invented a piece of wearable technology to monitor sepsis in hospital patients.

The idea for the project came from their biotechnology teacher, Mary Fish, whose father died from sepsis while in the hospital. “Th is got me thinking. I want to help the patients with sepsis with a tunic (短上衣) – something the patient could wear that would monitor the symptoms of sepsis,” Fish said. Along with their teacher, the students are currently developing “the sensors (感应器) for the detection of sepsis for the continuous monitoring of a patient,” explained Eesha Shah, a team member.

Their challenges also include finding a fabric (布料) that is both comfortable and conductive, and figuring out how to detect sepsis symptoms in a safer way. However, the biggest challenge is that the students cannot test it on humans. “We are not lab-certified (授予实验许可的),” said Brayant Polanco, 16, another team member. So the group is tasked with inventing an artificial system on which to test it.

All of the 22 students have a deep passion for science. Lauren Bishop, 17, hopes to study biomedical engineering in college. “This experience will greatly help since it’s truly what biomedical engineering is, an application of the problem-solving techniques of engineering to medicine. Getting this kind of research opportunity in high school will help me for future research projects at the university level,” she said.

Senior Daniella Bard, 18, is in awe of (惊叹) her team’s efforts. “If everyone on the te am weren’t so committed, this would be near impossible to come true.” Like the rest of the team members, she values the leadership of the teacher who worked tirelessly and brought them all together. “Ms Fish is always looking to help us, and we really appreciate that. I am proud of my team and excited to see the result presented next June,” Bard said.

1. What are the students doing to help with sepsis

A. They are creating sensors to help patients detect sepsis symptoms.

B. They are designing a system to monitor sepsis patients remotely.

C. They are inventing a new medicine to cure sepsis.

D. They are working with biotechnology experts to improve current treatments.

2. What is the biggest challenge the students faced?