Our aim was to update the health service,and we succeeded.
A:offer
B:provide
C:fund
D:modernize

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• The project required ten years of diligent research.
  A:hardworking
  B:social
  C:basic
  D:scientific

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  Messages From the Media
  1.The weather forecast,a story about the candidates in an election,and movie reviews are examples of messages from the media. A communication medium, of which the plural（复数的）form is media,is a means of communicating a message.Examples of media are television,radio,newspapers, books and the telephone.The media that can reach many people at once are called mass media.
  2.It is not difficult to think of other messages we receive through the mass media. Every day we get hundreds of them. Think about advertisements,for example,we see and hear these messages almost everywhere we go.Advertisements are important messages,even though they are sometimes annoying. They help us compare and evaluate products.
  3.Most of us get more information from the media than from the classroom. Think for a moment,about how you learn about local news and events.Do you depend on other people or the media?What about international news?What is the most important source of information for you? People who are asked this question usually answer,"Television".
  4.Think of all the messages you received today.Perhaps you read a newspaper during break-fast,or maybe you read advertisements on billboards（露天广告牌）on your way to school. Did you listen to a weather forecast or the sports news on the radio this morning?Right now you are getting information through a very important medium of mass communication一a book.
  5.We use the information we get from radio,television,newspapers,and other media to make decisions and form opinions.That is why the mass media are so important. Editorials and articles in newspapers help us decide how to vote,consumer reports on television help us decide how to spend our money,and international news on the radio makes us think and form opinions about questions of war and peace.
  Paragraph 5______
  A:Importance of Classroom Learning.
  B:Television一A Rich Source of Information.
  C:Advertisements as Important Messages from the Mass Media.
  D:Various Messages One May Receive Each Day.
  E:Media-Means to Communicate Messages.
  F: Importance of the Mass Media.

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  Every Dog Has His Say
  Kimiko Fukuda always wondered what her dog was trying to say. Whenever she put on makeup,it would pull at her sleeve.______(1)When the dog barks,she glances at a small electronic gadget（装置）. The following “human” translation appears on its screen: “Please take me with you”“I realized that's how he was feeling.”says Fukuda.
  The gadget is called Bowlingual,and it translates dog barks into feelings. People laughed when the Japanese toymaker Takara Company made the world's first dog-human translation machine in 2002.But 300,000 Japanese dog owners bought it.______(2)
  “Nobody else had thought about it,”said Masahiko Kajita,who works for Takara.“ We spend so much time training dogs to understand our orders;what would it be like if we could understand dogs?”
  Bowlingual has two parts.______(3)The translation is done in the gadget using a da-tabase containing every kind of bark.
  Based on animal behavior research,these noises are divided into six categories:happi-ness,sadness,frustration,anger,declaration and desire.______(4)In this way,the data-base scientifically matches a bark to an emotion,which is then translated into one of 200 phrases.
  When a visitor went to Fukuda's house recently,the dog barked a loud“bow wow”. ______(5)It was followed by“I'm stronger than you”as the dog growled and sniffed（嗅） at the visitor.
  The product will be available in US pet stores this summer for about US$120.It can store up to 100 barks,even recording the dog's emotions when the owner is away.
  ______(3)
  A:.A wireless microphone is attached to the dog's collar,which sends information to the gadget held by the owner.
  B: Nobody really knows how a dog feels.
  C: This translated as“Don't come this way”.
  D: More customers are expected when the English version is launched this summer.
  E: Now,the Japanese girl thinks she knows.
  F: Each one of these emotions is then linked to a phrase like“Let's play”,“Look at me”, or“Spend more time with me”.

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  I'll Be Bach
  Composer David Cope is the inventor of a computer program that writes original works of classical music.It took Cope 30 years to develop the software.Now most people can't tell the difference between music by the famous German composer J.S.Bach(1685-1750)and the Bach-like compositions from Cope's computer.
  It all started in 1980 in the United States,when Cope was trying to write an opera.______(46)At first this music was not easy to listen to.What did Cope do?He began to rethink how human beings compose music.He realized that composers'brains work like big databases.First,they take in all the music that they have ever heard.______(47)Finally,they make new music from what is left.According to Cope,only the great composers are able to create the database accurately,remember it,and form new musical patterns from it.
  Cope built a huge database of existing music.He began with hundreds of works by Bach.The software analyzed the data:it broke it down into smaller pieces and looked for patterns.It then combined the pieces into new patterns._______(48)They weren't good,but it was a start.
  Cope knew he had more work to do-he had a whole opera to write.He continued to improve the software.Soon it could analyze more complex music.He also added many other composers,including his own work,to the database.
  A few years later,Cope's computer program,called"Emmy",was ready to help him with his opera.______(49)Cope listened to the computer's musical ideas and used the ones that he liked.With Emmy,the opera took only two weeks to finish.It was called Cradle Falling,and it was a great success! ______(50) Since that first opera,Emmy has written thousands of compositions,Cope still gives Emmy feedback on what he likes and doesn't like of her music,but she is doing most of the hard work of composing these days!
  ______(49)
  A:By developing a computer software,David Cope aimed to write an opera.
  B:Cope received some of the best reviews of his career,but no one knew exactly how he had composed the work.
  C:He was having trouble thinking of new melodies,so he wrote a computer program to create the melodies.
  D:The process required a lot of collaboration between the composer and Emmy.
  E:Before long,the program could compose short Bach-like works.
  F:Then they take out the music that they dislike.

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  Credit Card Only Works When Spoken To
  A credit card that will not work unless it hears its owner's voice could become an
  important weapon in the fight against fraud（欺骗）.
  The card requires users to give a spoken password that it recognizes using a built-in
  voice-recognition chip.The idea is to prevent thieves using a stolen card or fraudsters using
  someone else's credit card details to buy goods online.
  A model built by engineers at Beepcard in Santa Monica,California,represents the
  first attempt to pack a microphone,a loudspeaker,a battery and a voice-recognition chip
  into a standard-sized credit card.
  They are not quite there yet:the card is the length and width of an ordinary credit card,
  but it is still about three times as thick.The company now plans to make it thinner.
  The voice card is based on an earlier Beepcard technology designed to prevent fraud in
  online transactions.This earlier card has no microphone,but has a built-in loudspeaker
  that it uses to " squawk"（发出叫声）a voice ID signal via a computer's microphone to an
  online server.
  By verifying（证实）that the signal matches the card details,the server can establish
  that the user is not simply keying in a credit card number but actually has the card to hand.
  The ID code changes each time the card is used in a pre-ordered sequence that only the server knows.
  This prevents fraudsters recording the beeps, noting the card details and then playing
  back the audible ID when they key in the details later.But this earlier technology cannot
  prevent fraudulent use of stolen cards.The new one can.
  The new voice card also identifies itself by its ID squawk,but it will not do this until it
  has verified the legitimate（合法的）user's spoken password. Thieves will be unable to use
  the card because even if they knew the password they would have to be able to copy the
  owner's voice with a high degree of accuracy.
  The challenge for Beepcard has been to develop voice-recognition and audio circuitry
  that can be powered by a mini battery embedded（嵌入的）in a credit card. To maximize
  battery life,the electronics are only switched on when the card is being used.Pressing a
  button on the card's surface prompts it to utter "Say your password" in female voice.If the
  voice-recognition software proves that the password is authentic（真实的）,it sends its ID
  squawk which the server then identifies,allowing the transaction to proceed.
  The voice credit card is an important invention because
  A:it can be made cost-effectively.
  B:it can leave voice messages.
  C:it makes online shopping easy.
  D:it makes fraud difficult.

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