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 almost all of

them are in English.

The International Data Corporation (IDC)

estimates however that nearly half of the world’s

million software 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 programming 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 comm unication 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 h as 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.