“Facebook needd to leave us alone. 5）Assignment（ 分）第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分，满分 （共15小题；每小题230分） 第一节 A Sunny days in Seattle are quite rare. I'd planned to spend my weekend in the sun, potting flowers arrived. Out of nowhere, they had set up their outdoors. But that was before the pair of crows（乌鸦）base camp in our backyard. We first discovered our feathered enemies on Friday morning. It was early, and the sound the birds made traveled through our neighborhood. I figured they'd go away soon. But, no. They were getting louder and probably annoying my neighbors nearly as much as us with the noise. I admit I got a little my shoulder bag at the first stop 20 So far scientists from the Australian National University in Canberra 1 B Facebook has taken over a start-up named CTRL-Labs, which is developing devices that can pick up electrical signals from the brain and transmit them to a computer. CTRL-Labs has designed a wristband that can identify the signals the brain sends to the hand telling it to move, and decode ( 解 )them. It could then transmit that command — for example, to press a button — to a computer or 码 other devices. It also “captures ()your intention”said Facebook VR president Andrew Bosworth. “So you ，捕捉
can share a photo with a friend using an imperceptible ()movement or just by, well, intending 极细微的
to,” he said in a post on his personal Facebook page. Facebook has not confirmed a report by CNBC
which claimed that the deal was worth between $500m and $ l bn (￡0.4bn and ￡0.8bn).) Mr Bosworth said he hoped the CTRL-Labs team would help
Facebook to uild this kind of technology, at scale and get it into consumer products faster There was a mixed response to the news. Step away from our lives more.” tweeted tech commentator
Azeem Azhar. desperate.
“I'm very curious to see what the response is from regulators here, wrote an analyst Fatemeh Then, on Sunday afternoon, I looked out of the kitchen window to see our dog Quatchi staring at Khatibloo.
something on the ground. I went to explore and found a small coal-black bird in the grass. Its eyes were Underneath Andrew Bosworth's Facebook post, Josh Chan, founder of an educational app, said the milky, and it stayed perfectly still as my dog walked towards it. Only when Quatchi touched his nose to news was exciting.
its head did it walk away. I grabbed the dog and locked him inside and came back with my camera. “As an educator, I'm imagining how this could transform how we all learn, he said.
It never occurred to me that the young would be hanging out on the ground, growing and gaining Facebook implied it would be some time before the product came to market. The CTRL-Labs strength as its parents guarded it from above. The second I saw this little creature I forgave the crows. r birds and by To be honest, I've never been much of a bird person. I also have a healthy respect fotechnology is an innovative input that Facebook hopes will be used to significantly improve the upcoming Facebook VR experiences a few years down the road to fundamentally improve the user based. They're basically living dinosaurs.healthy, I mean slightly fear-I wish they'd chosen another backyard. There are only so many sunny days in Seattle, and I still experience. it said.
see this little bit of nature unfold up can't do any gardening out there. But I'm also grateful that I got to Facebook may have more to say about the new acquisition on Wednesday at its annual VR headset close. It's pretty amazing.event, which the firm purchased in 2014 for around $2bn. 5What does the underlined sentence imply?
The experience has also strengthened my desire to create a beautiful backyard garden that
attracts ．AFacebook should not affect people's lives any more. lots of bees, butterflies, and yes, birds. They are welcome here. ．BFacebook should get less involved in people's lives. 1The arrival of the two crows ______. ．．C frightened the author's dog disturbed the author's lifeABFacebook should be less concerned about people's lives. ．．．Ddamaged the author's backyard Dangered the author's neighbors CPeople's lives have been totally disturbed by Facebook. ．．．6What is the author's attitude towards CTRL-Labs? Why did the author lock her dog up? 2．．ABShe wanted to take some photos. APositive. BNegative. CThe dog kept making loud noises. Objective. DIndifferent. ．．．．．．7 She wanted to protect the little bird. DCWhat does the passage mainly talk about?
The parent crows were to attack the dog. ．．．A3The acquisition of a start-up company that has designed a fancy wristband. After seeing the little crow, the author ______. ．．Bplanned to drive the crows away B decided to help look after it AThe design of a high-tech product that can greatly affect people's lives. ．．．Cappreciated knowing its growing process D fell in love with the pair of crows CThe development of a wristband that can capture users' intentions.
．．．D ______ By saying “They're basically living dinosaurs” in paragraph 5, the author means The purchase of a start-up company that is developing a mind-reading product.4 ．．birds are very ugly
河北省衡水中学 2020年高三年级寒假英语作业2月14日
