【推荐1】Butterfly Garden (Permanent Exhibit)

Walk among the free-flying residents of this warm conservatory. It is a wonderful opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from New England and across the globe. The “Emergence Box” offers a window into the butterfly behavior. Look inside to see hanging chrysalids (蝶蛹) transform into adult butterflies. Tickets are required and visitors should reserve at least two weeks in advance.

A Bird’s World (Permanent Exhibit)

This exhibit features the Museum’s extraordinary collection of birds, displaying over 300 species found in New England. Here, you can learn to interpret the bird language taking place just outside your window at home.

Test your observation skills and see if you can get past different birds without them alerting (发信号) other animals to your presence. Learn to identify birds from a distance by recognizing unique flight patterns. Practice your flying technique in the Bird Walk.

Hall of Human Life (Permanent Exhibit)

Should you have your baby’s DNA sequenced? What keeps you awake? Step inside the Hall of Human Life, the Museum’s new biology exhibition, and encounter such far-reaching questions on an amazing journey inside the human body. Through digital media and personal interaction, you become “part of the story’, as you contribute your own data in a process of learning and discovery.

BODY WORLDS & The Cycle of Life (Temporary Exhibit Now Open!)

BODY WORLDS comes to the Museum of Science with a new chapter, Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS & The Cycle of Life. Don’t miss this truly unique opportunity to look within yourself and gain a whole new perspective on what it means to be alive. More than one hundred preserved human specimens reveal the wonders of human development and show how poor health, good health, and lifestyle choices can shape your body.

1. Which exhibit do you need to book in advance?

A．Butterfly Garden	B．A Bird’s World
C．Hall of Human Life	D．BODY WORLDS & The Cycle of Life

2. What can you do in A Bird’s World?

A．Improve your own flying technique.

B．Communicate with birds in body language.

C．Watch digital media showing birds’ history.

D．See different birds from all over the world.

3. What is special about BODY WORLDS & The Cycle of Life?

A．It is related to human body.

B．It lasts for only a limited time.

C．It is the most visited exhibition in the world.

D．It has something to do with the growth of life.

【推荐2】Here is your best chance to travel around the UK in 2018: More than 200 B&Bs（bed & breakfast）across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are selected to offer you amazing services for your stay at their lowest prices! Don’t miss it. Just collect the vouchers（活动券）in our B&B Daily printed from 01/04/2018 to 07/04/2018 and book the stays for your travel following the terms and conditions below:

The offer includes a room for the night and a breakfast the next morning.

The offer is of two kinds: ￡20 per room, per night, valid（有效的）during stay period of 02/04/2018—31/05/2018 and then again 01/09/2018—31/10/2018；￡35 per room, per night, valid during stay period of 01/06/2018—31/08/2018.

The offer is valid for a basic twin or double room only.

The stay must be booked directly with the chosen B&Bs before 28/04/2018.

Each voucher can only be used by the holder to book one room for one night.

If voucher holders book either the ￡20 or ￡35 per room per night, any additional services such as lunch, evening meal or activities may require an extra charge. But these are not required in order to take up the offer. Please check directly with your chosen B&Bs to see what extra services are available.

Vouchers may not be used together with any other offer.

The voucher holders must pay for the stay in full at the time of booking. Additional ￡10 may be paid to confirm the booking and will be returned on arrival.

The B&Bs reserve the right to refuse voucher holders’ bookings for people under the age of 18.

1. The voucher can be used for a stay at the chosen B&B on ______.

A．26/04/2018

B．04/02/2018

C．06/01/2018

D．09/01/2018

2. How much should be paid for a three-night stay in October 2018 at a chosen B&B?

A．￡70.

B．￡60.

C．￡35.

D．￡30.

3. By taking up the offer, the voucher holders can choose to ______ .

A．book the stays through B&B Daily

B．use the B&B offer together with other offers

C．have lunch or evening meal without paying extra money

D．book either a basic twin or double room at the chosen B&Bs

【推荐3】

＂Don Quijote" by Cervantes Saavedra Much reading and book-learning can drive you to try and become one of the characters in your favorite novels. This is what happens to Don Quixote, who attempts many knightly(骑士) acts while stopped by a world that has rejected knightly virtues.        Cervantes combines all three elements-madness, comedy, and fantasy-in between conversations and adventures.

＂A Treatise of Human Nature" by David Hume Examining a scientifically applied moral philosophy is the goal of this Treatise. Building on early complaints against the endless guesses and arguments between philosophers, this work promotes a move away from metaphysical speculation(形而上学的思辨) and a permanent shift toward systems based on observational fact.

＂None" by B. Kovner Einstein's favourite reading during his last few months of his life were humorist stories of B. Kovner, a writer for the Jewish Daily Forward. Kovner wrote a series of humorist stories in Yiddish for the forward.

“The Brothers Karamasov" by Dostoevsky In the book, each character is representative of one of the ruling classes. There is the father Fyodor, the landowner who is careless about his land, but greedy in using its produce for himself. There's Dmitri, who has been passed around from house to house. And gentle Alyosha, the mystic peacemaker. Throughout are themes of love, law, and duty, which makes this one of the best Dostoyesky books to read.

1. Which book probably explores the link between science and human nature?

A．None	B．Don Quijote
C．A Treatise of Human Nature	D．The Brothers Karamasov

2. Which of the following contributes to the popularity of The Brothers Karamasov?

A．Rich imagination.	B．Humor applied to writing.
C．Themes of love,law and duty.	D．Characters representing ruling classes.

3. What's the purpose of the passage?

A．To inform readers of the books.	B．To share studies of the books.
C．To evaluate the contents of the books.	D．To compare the features of the books.

【推荐1】The dangers of drowsy (昏昏欲睡) driving have been widely known. Now several companies have developed face-tracking technology that can tell when drivers become dangerously sleepy.

Here is how it might work: A camera in your car monitors your facial expression, compares it to a database of expressions and determines if you are likely sleepy or distracted. The car then alerts you to pay attention or pull over.

Affectiva has developed emotion recognition technology that aims to detect when people are just starting to get tired. The idea is to catch the warning signs before drowsiness really strikes. “Actually, when someone is drowsy, that is too late.” Gabi, vice president of Affectiva said. “What if you can see trends in someone’s face about five minutes before they become sleepy?” Affectiva’s program can recognize seven different emotions and 15 facial expressions. Its standards were developed by sifting (筛选) through a database of 4 million faces from 75 counties, said Zijderveld. She suggested that carmakers could coordinate (协调) the program’s facial recognition data with oral reminders, such as sound warnings, or (nonverbal) alerts, like a change of temperature and vibrations (continuous slight shaking movements).

Eyeris is another company working in facial analytics. Modar Alaoui, the company’s CEO, said that its software detects “eye openness” in addition to other facial indicators. The software can also read head position, which may indicate when someone begins to nod off.

These technologies aren’t the first attempt to fight drowsiness behind the wheel. Inventors came up with the similar device “sleeper beeper” to prevent sleep in cars back in 1983. The sleeper beeper was attached to a driver’s ear and would issue a noisy warning when the driver’s head nodded past a certain point. But the latest software would intervene (干涉) earlier and more effectively.

1. The camera in the car can determine if a driver is ________.

A．near-sighted	B．absent-minded
C．bad-tempered	D．cold-blooded

2. When will drivers be reminded to pay attention or pull over by the face-tracking technology?

A．When they are drowsy.

B．When they are really tired.

C．Five minutes after they become sleepy.

D．When they are just beginning to get tired.

3. It is most likely that the “sleeper beeper” would send out a warning by ________.

A．making noise	B．shaking slightly
C．flashing brilliantly	D．changing temperature

4. What is the main idea of the text?

A．The dangers of drowsy driving have been widely known.

B．Inventors have tried out the similar device “sleeper beeper”.

C．Several companies have found some ways to fight drowsiness behind the wheel.

D．Face-t racking technology for drowsy driving has been developed by several companies.

【推荐2】Can artificial intelligence uncover a liar? It sounds like science fiction, but such an AI system is possible. The question is: How accurate can it be? Rada Mihalcea, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, has worked on deception(欺骗) detection for about a decade. This is how they constructed one AI deception detector, and how it works.

The first thing that researchers working on artificial intelligence and machine learning need is data. In the case of the work that Mihalcea did, they began with videos from actual court cases. For example, a defendant speaking in a trial in which they were found guilty could provide an example of deceit(欺骗); they also used testimony(证词) from witnesses as either example of truthful or deceitful statements. Altogether, they used 121 video clips and the corresponding transcripts of what they said—about half represented deceptive statements, and half truthful. It was this data that they used to build machine learning classifiers that ultimately had between a 60 to 75 percent accuracy rate.

One thing the system noticed is the use of pronouns—people who are lying would tend to less often use the word ‘I’ or ‘we’, Mihalcea explains. “Instead, people who are lying would more often use ‘you,’ ‘yours,’ ‘he,’ ‘they,’ and ‘she.’” That’s not the only linguistic signal: someone telling a lie would use “stronger words” that “reflect certainty,” she says. Examples of those types of words are “absolutely,” and “very,” while interestingly, people telling the truth were more likely to use words such as “maybe” or “probably.” “I think people who are deceptive would try to make up for the lie they are putting forward,” she says, “and so they try to seem more certain of themselves.” As for gestures, she points out that someone being deceitful would more likely look directly into the eyes of the person questioning them. They also tended to use both hands when gesturing. Instead of just one—also, she suspects, as part of trying to be convincing.

However, Mihalcea’s work is “far from perfection,” she concedes. “As a researcher, we are content that we were able to get to 75 percent accuracy.” But looked at another way, that’s an error rate of one in four. Ultimately, she sees technology like this as being assistive for people—it could, for example, indicate that it noticed something “unusual” in a speaker’s statement, and then perhaps have a person “investigate more.”

1. Why did the researchers gather testimony from the court?

A．To test the accuracy of AI deception detector.

B．To provide data base for machine learning.

C．To help the judges find the guilty people.

D．To understand how deception works.

2. According to Professor Mihalcea, which is a symbol of deception?

A．Avoiding direct eye contact.	B．Using first-person pronouns.
C．Gesturing with only one hand.	D．Trying to be sure of themselves.

3. What does Professor Mihalcea think of the new technology?

A．Flawed but promising.	B．Unsatisfying but helpful.
C．Accurate and meaningful.	D．Imperfect and impractical.

4. Which will be the best title for this passage?

A．Will AI Rid the World of Liars?

B．What Can AI Do for Us in Court?

C．Where Is AI Leading Us in the Future?

D．Can AI Become a Convincing Detective?