多选题0|show" data-onresultcheck="*redo|*.na|hide@*correct|*.na|hide@*reset|*.na|hide"> The online retail giant Amazon has announced the Amazon Go Store, a new shopping experience that fundamentally changes shopping and payments at the same time. Amazon has combined decades of research with artificial intelligence and machine learning along with image recognition. They have combined all of the knowledge that they’ve gained from the one click buying experience and brought this to the retail store. The new kind of physical store concept was announced in a video published on Monday. The Amazon Go Store doesn’t work like a typical Walmart — instead, shoppers use an app, also called Amazon Go, to scan the products they plan to buy, then they can walk out of the building without waiting in a checkout line. The idea is that Amazon’s machine learning technology can automatically identify when a product is added to your cart, so you don’t have to do it yourself. When you leave the store, Amazon automatically charges your Amazon account. 3. What does the news report say about the Amazon Go Store? A、It is another online store being planned. B、It is a new store without a checkout line. C、It is available online through a new app. D、It is a retail store that works like Walmart.简答题For each of these types of resources, either the container or the provider helps to enlist the resource into the ______. A、transformation B、transmission C、transaction D、transition简答题To combat this new breed of criminal, all computerized data on individuals should be ______ in code, says the commission. A、transmitted B、forwarded C、dispatched D、transcended简答题The goal is to create a system that would essentially replace the time spent fiddling with payments and tickets for moments of personal interactions with visitors. (Para.11) A、The purpose of creating a system is to save employees more time from payments and tickets, and then they could spend more time interacting with visitors. B、They could create a system to replace payments and tickets, and then they could interact with visitors more.简答题Soon, their food arrives exactly as promised, delivered by a smiling young man pushing an ornately carved serving cart that resembles a display case at an old museum. (Para.3) A、In a while, they are served with the food they ordered by a smiley waiter, who is pushing a delicately made cart that is as old and exquisite as a display case at an old museum. B、In a while, they are served with the food they expected by a smiley waiter, who is pushing an old and exquisite display case from an old museum.简答题Some people favor a more ______ style of parenting, saying they fear being too strict with their children. A、individualistic B、egalitarian C、democratic D、feministic简答题The room was ______ and smelly so we opened all the windows and gave it a good airing. A、damp B、humid C、wet D、dank简答题What lies at the root of all this is a(an) ______ division of opinion over what constitutes, or should constitute, national identity. A、encyclopedic B、complicated C、discerning D、profound简答题The government is to ________ its privatization programme. A、accumulate B、accelerate C、accede D、account简答题In contrast, pragmatic parties hold more ______ goals and are oriented to moderate or incremental policy change. A、obedient B、extensible C、flexible D、mouldable简答题The government has already proposed and introduced a package of plans to ________ negative impact of financial crisis. A、manage B、tackle C、cope D、deal判断题VR: A New Dimension in Learning A)I’m in a lecture hall listening to a cartoonish avatar (虚拟化身) of the American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explain the history of science. Just as he starts speaking about medieval beliefs in demons, a red devil appears out of nowhere. It rushes at my face showing its teeth, making me flinch. As Tyson moves on to Galileo and the experimental method, he creates a model of the Leaning Tower of Pisa out of thin air, from which drop the two famous balls of different mass with exactly the same accelerations. This lecture hall is, of course, not real. I’m wearing a virtual reality (VR) headset, experiencing the virtual spaces created by Immersive VR Education. B)Immersive VR Education is a company based in a business park in the Republic of Ireland’s oldest city, Waterford. Tyson’s magic tricks are just a taste of VR’s potential to change how students learn, according to Dave Whelan, who quit his web design business to found the company in 2014 after putting on a headset for the first time. (“As soon as I put it on my face, I knew I wanted to work in VR,” he says.) Whelan imagines a world where aeronautics students assemble jet engines in VR, engineers build bridges around them using a kind of “virtual Meccano set” and chemistry lecturers take their classes inside models of molecules. “Why even teach in a classroom?” he asks. “If you’re teaching marine biology, teach that on the seabed and have a whale swim through the centre of the class. It’s a lot more engaging.” C) Whelan is just one of many people experimenting with the educative potential of VR now that the technology is widely accessible. High-quality headsets that can smoothly track head movements have come on to the consumer market in the past year. You would struggle to mistake the alternative worlds they create for real life just yet, but developers are already creating impressively detailed environments that look nearly as good as current computer games. D)At the top end, the headsets are not cheap, starting at £350 (700 million (£550 million), 15 million-user market in schools and universities by 2025. E)Immersive VR Education is part of this push to extend the benefits of VR — which so far has been designed for gaming — into education. The application that hosts the Tyson lecture is called Engage, which is essentially a customisable (可定制的) space in which academics can call up 3-D models so that students can inspect them from every angle. In one demonstration, I assemble a human skeleton with one of Whelan’s colleagues. Although my partner is controlling his avatar from the next room, we can throw bones to each other before putting them together. Using the handheld controllers, I can pick up and examine the flattish bone that sits below the shoulder, turning it over and then slotting it into place. Even three weeks later, the memory of its shape is vivid (although I have forgotten what it is called). These virtual spaces “feel like real locations, and they’re making real memories”, says Whelan. It is easy enough for a medical student to examine a human skeleton without virtual reality, of course. But Whelan says that the next stage of the project is to create a far more detailed model of the human body that can be taken apart and reconstructed in VR. “That’s going to be useful for all medical institutes,” he says, adding that medicine is the “beachhead (据点，立足点)” for the use of VR in universities. F)The potential to use virtual reality when teaching students about anything physical and visual — bodies, molecules, archaeological digs and so on — seems clear. But there are also attempts to create historical experiences, loosely based on original sources, which raise a number of questions about if and how history should be taught in VR. G)Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel is one such project from the BBC. This takes the viewer back to the Dublin of 1916 to experience the uprising against British rule. The actual historical content is a narrative from Willie McNeive, who took part in the rebellion aged 19 and set down his memories on tape in the 1970s. The viewer hears McNeive’s recollections while being transported into increasingly perilous situations as the uprising unfolds. The world around the viewer is not designed to appear realistic, and is instead created as though painted with thick, flickering brush strokes. The effect is fascinating, but the memories it leaves you with are not those of McNeive’s voice — the genuine historical source — but of the parts of the experience that seem most interactive and exciting, like looking through broken glass windows at British troops, or hiding behind a street corner to avoid being shot. H)The company Immersive VR Education has also created an award-winning documentary (纪录片) that allows users to experience the Apollo 11 Moon landing. The experience is a mixture of the historical (it opens with footage of John F. Kennedy’s famous 1961 speech vowing to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade), the hyper-realistic (at one point you sit alongside a lifelike Buzz Aldrin in a carefully recreated rocket cockpit) and the emotional, with music and the virtual effects. “It’s an inspirational piece, based on fact,” Whelan says. It has reportedly left some viewers in tears of emotion. I)But Whelan admits that the experience is so effective and powerful that it may be fixed in people’s memories as the “true” version of what happened on Apollo 11. More generally, with history in VR, “people might take stuff that they see in virtual reality as fact. It might affect their idea of history negatively,” he acknowledges. Much of the study of history is about living with a fragmentary (碎片的) and incomplete picture of the past. But the very nature of virtual reality — in common with recreations of history in films — is that gaps in knowledge get filled in as vividly as possible. Lecturers themselves, according to Whelan, should be honest about how much is actually known, and how much of the VR experience is an evidence-informed reconstruction. But whether a viewer’s memory would be able to go back over the VR experience and separate truth from guesses must be open to question. _______ 1. VR headsets are expensive, but education could potentially become a huge part of the VR market. _______ 2. A history project creates a VR experience of the Irish rebellion against British rule, using voice of a rebel who took part, but a viewer recalls the interactive experience later. _______ 3. Dave Whelan thinks that the promotion of using VR in universities can start from medicine. _______ 4. The study of history in VR may raise a question as to whether a viewer can tell the difference between what is known and what is filled in with recreations. _______ 5. Whether history can be taught through VR technology like physics and biology is still not clear. _______ 6. Dave Whelan was fascinated by his first experience with the VR headset and immediately decided to work in VR. _______ 7. The realistic VR recreation of the Apollo 11 Moon landing is so powerful that it moves some viewers to tears. _______ 8. Immersed in the virtual spaces through a VR headset, the author is listening to a lecture on the history of science. _______ 9. Several weeks after learning the bones of the human body in a VR environment, the author found the image of a particular bone was still clear and detailed. _______ 10. VR learning environments, like those designed for gaming, are being well developed in terms of their details.简答题The economy is regarded as the decisive factor which will ______ the outcome of the general election. A、terminate B、determine C、induce D、stimulate简答题He was wearing a(an) ______ black cloth lounge suit, and had no intentions of changing his mode of attire. A、decent B、prudent C、virtuous D、ethical简答题In this ________ meeting, we made a lot of important decisions and made agreements on certain issues. A、spiteful B、merciful C、dreadful D、fruitful简答题Madame Curie is a great woman of exceptional ___________ and noble virtues. A、intelligence B、intellectual C、intelligibility D、intelligent简答题That feeling of ease, and whatever flows from it, just might make you more apt to come back. (Para.10) A、That kind of relaxation and the care-free journey the visitors could experience in the park, allure the visitors to come back for another journey in the park again. B、The easiness the visitors could experience and everything else besides that, make the visitors come back easily.简答题Nowadays, a wholefood diet free from ________ additives, colors and flavors is increasingly popular among people. A、architectural B、automatic C、artificial D、arguable简答题He says pressure from the NATO mission, combined with internal dissent from regime supporters, will ultimately end Gadhafi’s 42-year ______. A、helm B、reign C、prevalence D、predominance简答题And with that, they’ll have hooked the white whale of customer service: Turning a negative experience into a positive one. (Para.12) A、Through tackling the white whale problem, they could offer customers satisfactory service. B、Through those customer-friendly services, they could turn a negative experience into a positive one by tackling the insurmountable problem in customer service.