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1、Unit2Cloning阅读理解(2018·四川成都诊断)Wouldn’titbewonderfultotraveltoaforeigncountrywithouthavingtoworryabouttheheadacheofcommunicatinginadifferentlanguage?InarecentarticlefromTheWallStreetJournal,technologypolicyexpertAlecRossarguedthat，withinadecadeorso,we’llbeabletocommunicatewithoneanotherviasma

2、llearpieceswithbuiltinmicrophones.That’sbecausetechnologicalprogressisextremelyrapid.It’sonlyamatteroftime.Indeed,someparentsaresoconvincedthatthistechnologyisimminentthatthey’rewonderingiftheirkidsshouldevenlearnasecondlanguage.It’struethatanincreaseinthequantityandaccuracyofthedataloadedi

3、ntocomputerswillmakethemclevererattranslating“Noesbuenodormirmucho”as“It’snotgoodtosleeptoomuch”.Replacingawordwithitsequivalent(对应词)inthetargetlanguageisactuallythe“easypart”ofatranslator’sjob.Buteventhisseemstobeadiscouragingtaskforcomputers.It’ssodifficultforcomputersbecausetranslationdo

4、esn’t—orshouldn’t—involvesimplytranslatingwords,sentencesorparagraphs.Rather,it’sabouttranslatingmeaning.Andinordertoinfermeaningfromaspecificexpression,humanshavetointerpretamassofinformationatthesametime.Thinkaboutalltherelatedcluesthatgointounderstandinganexpression:volume,gesture,situat

5、ion,andevenyourculture.Allarelikelytoconveyasmuchmeaningasthewordsyouuse.Therefore，weshouldbeveryskepticalofamachinethatisunabletointerprettheworldaroundus.Ifpeoplefromdifferentculturescanoffendeachotherwithoutrealizingit,howcanweexpectamachinetodobetter?Unlessengineersactuallyfindawaytobre

6、atheasoulintoacomputer,undoubtedlywhenitcomestoconveyingandinterpretingmeaningusinganaturallanguage,amachinewillneverfullytakeourplace.【解题导语】　技术专家说随着技术的进步，即时翻译机器将在大约十年内出现在市场上。但是，由于翻译包括很多方面，因此电脑翻译不会精确，也不会完全取代人类的翻译。1．Whatdoestheunderlinedword“imminent”inParagraph2probablymean?A．Ready.　　　　　　B．

7、Approaching.C．Helpful.D．Advanced.B　解析：词义猜测题。根据画线词所在句的前一句并结合第二段的第一句可知，这种产品在大约十年内会在市场上出现，再结合画线词后的“thatthey’rewonderingiftheirkidsshouldevenlearnasecondlanguage”可以判断，这种产品即将出现，家长们在考虑他们的孩子是否要学习一门外语。据此可知，画线词意为“即将发生的；临近的”，故B项正确。2．Whyisithardforcomputerstoreplac