【推荐2】By 2050 we’ll be able to send memories, emotions and feelings across the Internet.     1     Teenagers will love it. Instead of putting an emoticon (表情符号) at the end of every sentence, they will use an emotion: anger, happiness, or excitement.

I’m talking about telepathy (心灵感应), really. We’ll still communicate the traditional way.     2     Our children will wonder, What is a keyboard? We will enter the age of the “brain net”.

Medicine will develop fast, too. We will have cured certain forms of cancer, and we will have begun to treat the disease like the common cold. We’ll live with it. It will no longer be deadly.     3     Technology will help in this respect.     4     Smart toilets will perform liquid biopsies (液体活检) to discover cancer cells. Smart objects like phones will check us over automatically.

    5     By 2050 I think we’ll be able to grow many of the important organs (器官) of the body and, rather than allow the organs we’re born with to become old and weak, we’ll replace them. That’s all coming. And it doesn’t take much imagination to realise it.

A．We will do a few tests.

B．People will live an easy life.

C．We won’t fear it like we used to.

D．Brain science will have changed communication.

E．We can already use human cells to grow skin, noses, ears, etc.

F．But communicating telepathically will avoid misunderstandings between people.

G．Our clothes will discover the beginnings of a heart disease, and advise us to get treatment.

【推荐1】He had two armed guards protecting him until his death aged 55. He also had two massive tusks（象牙）and, just as important, he had a name. Ahmed the elephant received the special treatment until his death in 1974, under an order from Kenya’s then-president Jomo Kenyatta. The name helped give Ahmed and, by extension, the cause of elephant conservation greater recognition.

With Ahmed the elephant in mind, Kenya last week launched the Elephant Naming Festival in which people get the chance to adopt an elephant after contributing money toward their chosen animal’s conservation.

The initiative gives the adoptive parent priority when it comes to choosing the first name of the elephant. The second name will be a Maasai（马赛族）one based on the animal’s profile, history, role in the family and physical attributes like the state of its tusks.

Launching the program, Najib Balala, a top official at the Ministry for Tourism and Wildlife, said the elephant-naming initiative will bring greater awareness of the need for conservation and promote tourism. Balala said the event will be held each year on Aug 12, observed as World Elephant Day.

“We feel that this is a great opportunity for everyone to be part of the sustainability of tourism and wildlife in Kenya for future generation,” Balala said.

“Wildlife is a big part of Kenya’s heritage and ensuring that future generations enjoy this resource should always remain the most important. The launch of the Magical Kenya Elephant Naming Festival builds on the good work that the Kenya Wildlife Service and other partners have been doing over the years.”

1. What has the special treatment to Ahmed brought about?

A．More people are willing to protect elephants.

B．More people are anxious to collect tusks.

C．More elephants are guarded by armed soldiers.

D．More elephants are released to the wild.

2. What can adoptive parents do in the Elephant Naming Festival?

A．Adopt an elephant according to its role in the family.

B．Take priority for giving their elephant’s first name.

C．Contribute money toward launching the initiative.

D．Consult the elephant’s profile to give it the second name.

3. Why was the Elephant Naming Festival launched?

A．To be in memory of the dead elephant Ahmed.

B．To raise money for the cause of elephant conservation.

C．To contribute to wildlife protection and sustainable tourism.

D．To offer people a chance of naming and adopting an elephant.

4. What is Najib Balala’s attitude to the elephant-naming initiative?

A．Supportive.

B．Objective.

C．Doubtful.

D．Disapproving.

【推荐2】Despite the huge potential of artificial intelligence (AI), it hasn’t caught hold in most industries. Sure, it has transformed Internet companies such as Google, Baidu, and Amazon—all massive and data-rich with hundreds of millions of users. But for expectations that AI will create $13 trillion of value a year to come true, industries such as manufacturing, agriculture, and healthcare still need to find ways to make this technology work for them. Here’s the problem: The script (程序脚本) that these Internet companies use to build their AI systems—where a single one-size-fits-all AI system can serve massive numbers of users—won’t work for these other industries like mentioned above.

Instead, these huge industries will need a large number of custom-built solutions that are adapted to their many diverse use cases. This doesn’t mean that AI won’t work for these industries, however. It just means they need to take a different approach.

To bridge this gap and release AI’s full potential, leaders in all industries should adopt a new, data-centered approach to building AI. Specifically, they should aim to build AI systems with careful attention to ensuring that the data clearly conveys what they need the AI to learn. This requires focusing on data that covers important cases and is constantly labelled, so that the AI can learn from this data what it is supposed to do. In other words, the key to creating these valuable AI systems is that we need teams that can program with data rather than program with code. The data-centered approach to AI, supported by tools designed for building, using, and maintaining AI applications—called machine learning operations (MLOps) platforms—will make AI’s full potential possible. Companies that adopt this approach faster will have a leg up relative to competitors.

Just as electricity has transformed every industry, AI is on a path to do so too. Specifically, a new data-centered approach, coupled with MLOps tools that allow industry domain experts to participate in the creating, using and maintaining of A I systems, will ensure that all industries can get the rewards that AI can offer.

1. Why do some industries still need to find ways to make AI work for them?

A．AI technology needs hundreds of millions of users.

B．Internet companies such as Amazon have transformed AI.

C．The potential of AI has caught hold in most industries so far.

D．The script of Internet companies can’t suit all industries.

2. What is the author’s attitude to the prospect of AI’s application to all industries?

A．Positive.	B．Doubtful.
C．Unclear.	D．Intolerant.

3. What will contribute to realizing AI’s full potential?

A．Leaders in all industries.	B．Program learning with code.
C．Machine learning operations.	D．Concepts clearly illustrated，

4. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about concerning AI?

A．AI and Electricity are of equal importance.

B．AI is closely related to industry domain experts.

C．AI will need electricity to completely transform every industry.

D．AI will benefit all industries through the data-centered approach.

【推荐3】When having a meal, a European usually holds the knife in the right hand, and the fork in the left. He uses the knife and fork with his both hands. He keeps his knife and fork in his hands until he finishes eating.

But an American, on the opposite, may use just one hand whenever possible and keep the other hand on his lap. He uses the fork in his right hand to pick up fried potatoes. When he has to cut his meat, he changes his fork to the left hand and cuts it. Then he puts down the knife and changes his fork to his right hand to pick up the sliced meat. Then, perhaps, he will suddenly think of his coffee or orange. So he has to put down his fork in order to drink his coffee or orange. Now you can see, an American is busy all the time at the dinner table. By the way, Europeans usually have their coffee after meals, but many Americans prefer to have coffee during the meal.

If you are present at a formal dinner, you might be confused to find so many forks, knives and spoons put before you. You might be at a loss to know what to do with them. Don’t worry. The rule is simple. You just use them in the order in which they lie, beginning from outside towards the plate. The small fork on the outside on the left is for salad. The spoon on the outside on the right is for soup. There is another little knife, called a butter spreader, on a bread-and-butter plate on the left. As the bread is passed, each guest helps himself and puts his pieces on the small plate. Next to the soup there will probably be the blunt(钝的) knife for fish, which is smaller and blunter than other knives.

1. When do Europeans usually drink their coffee?

A．Before meals.

B．After meals.

C．While they are having their meals.

D．They never drink coffee when they eat.

2. The right way to use the forks, knives and spoons is ________.

A．to use whichever you like when necessary

B．to use them from the outside to the inside

C．to use them from the inside to the outside

D．to use them from the middle to both sides

3. The butter spreader is________.

A．a fork

B．a spoon

C．a knife

D．a plate

4. The spoon on the outside on the right is for________.

A．soup

B．salad

C．butter

D．chicken

5. The best title for this passage is________.

A．Eating Habit in America

B．Eating Habit in Europe

C．How to use Forks, Knives and Spoons

D．Dining Customs of the West