1 . Nowhere To Hide: What Machines Can Tell From Your Face

The human face is a remarkable piece of work.    1    . So is the face’s ability to send emotional signals, whether through the unconscious shame or the trick of a false smile. People spend much of their waking lives, in the office and the courtroom as well as the bar and the bedroom, reading faces, for signs of attraction, hostility, trust and deceit. They also spend plenty of time trying to hide their feelings, intentions or nature.

    2     .In America facial recognition is used by churches to track worshippers’ attendance; in Britain, by retailers to spot past shoplifters. This year Welsh police used it to arrest a suspect outside a football game. In China it confirms the identities of ride-hailing drivers, permits tourists to enter attractions and lets people pay for things with a smile. Apple’s new iPhone is expected to use it to unlock the homescreen

Set against human skills, such applications might seem enhancive. Some breakthroughs, such as flight or the internet, obviously transform human abilities.    3    .Although faces are peculiar to individuals, they are also public, so technology does not, at first sight, intrude on something that is private. And yet the ability to record, store and analyse images of faces cheaply, quickly and on a vast scale promises one day to bring about fundamental changes to notions of privacy, fairness and trust.

    4    .Masking true feelings helps fix the wheels of daily life. If your partner can spot every prohibited yawn, and your boss every hint of annoyance, marriages and working relationships will be more truthful, but less harmonious. The basis of social interactions might change, too, from a set of commitments founded on trust to calculations of risk and reward derived from the information a computer attaches to someone’s face. Relationships might become more reasonable, but also transactional.

A．However, facial recognition seems merely to encode them.

B．Research show that artificial intelligence can reconstruct the facial structures of people.

C．Anyone with a phone can take a picture for facial-recognition programs to use.

D．Technology is rapidly catching up with the human ability to read faces.

E．Continuous facial recording that paints computerized data onto the real world might change the texture of social interactions.

F．The astonishing variety of facial features helps people recognize each other and is crucial to the formation of complex societies.

2 . Just How Buggy is Your Phone?

What item in your home crawls with the most germs? If you say     1     toilet seat, you’re wrong. Kitchen sponges top the list. But cell phones are pretty dirty too. They contain around 10 times as many germs as toilet seats. People touch their phones, laptops, and other digital devices all day long, yet rarely clean them.

In one incident, a thief paid a terrible price for stealing a germy cell phone. He stole it from a hospital in Uganda during a widespread of the deadly disease Ebola. The phone’s owner reported the theft before     2    (die)from the disease. Soon, the thief began showing symptoms and finally     3    (confess)to the crime.

    4     in that unusual case a cell phone carried dangerous bacteria, not all germs are bad. Most cause no harm. In fact, they could provide helpful information. Look at the surface of your phone carefully. Do you see some dirty mars? “That's all you,” says microbial ecologist Jarrad Hampton-Marcell. “That’s biological information.”

It turns out that the types of germs that you apply all over your phone or tablet are different from     5     of your friends and family. They’re like a fingerprint that could identify you. Some day in the future, investigators may use these microbial fingerprints to solve crimes. Phones and digital devices may be one of the best places to look for buggy clues.

In a 2017 study, researchers sampled a range of surfaces in 22 participants’ homes,     6     countertops and floors to computer keyboards and mice. Then they tried to match the microbial fingerprints on each object to its owner. The office equipment was easiest to match to its owner. In an     7    (early)study, a different group of researchers found that they could use microbial fingerprints to identify the person who     8    (use)a computer keyboard even after the keyboard sat untouched for two weeks at room temperature.

One day, microbial signatures might show     9     people have gone and what they have touched. They could prove     10     an unmarked device is yours. So, sure, your phone is pretty germy. Does that inspire you, or does it just bother you?

3 . Despite an advertisement campaign suggesting wall-to-wall special effects, “Bridge of Terabithia” is grounded in reality far more than in fantasy. Adapting Katherine Paterson’s award-winning novel, the screenwriters David Paterson and Jeff Stockwell have produced a thoughtful and extremely affecting story of a transformative friendship between two unusually gifted children. The result is a movie whose emotional depth could appeal more to adults than to their children.

Jess Aarons (Josh Hutcherson) is a sixth grader with four sisters, financially tensed parents and a talent for drawing. An introverted(内向的) kid who is regularly picked on by the school buses, Jess forms a bond with a new student named Leslie (Anna Sophia Robb), a free spirit whose parents, both writers, are fondly neglectful. An attraction between outsiders, their friendship feeds on her words and his pictures; together they create an imaginary kingdom in the woods behind their homes, a world they can control and where their minds can wander free.

Beautifully capturing a time when a bully in school can occur as large as a monster in a nightmare and the encouragement of a teacher can alter the course of a life, “Bridge to Terabithia” keeps the fantasy in the background to find magic in the everyday. Gabor Csupo directs this, his first feature, like someone close to the pain of being different, fascinated in tiny, perfect details.

With strong performances from all the leads, “Bridge to Terabithia” is able to handle adult topics with sensitivity. As the emotional landscape darkens, those who haven’t read the book may be surprised at the sorrow the filmmakers cause without ever resorting to horror or terror. In other words, your children may cry, but they won’t be traumatized so badly.

Consistently smart and delicate as a spider web, “Bridge to Terabithia” is the kind of children’s movie rarely seen nowadays. At a time when many public schools are being forced to cut music and art from the curriculum, the story’s insistence on the healing power of a cultivated imagination is both welcome and essential.

1. The second paragraph indicates that Jess and Leslie ________.

A．lost their control over the imaginary kingdom.

B．looked down on their individual realities.

C．formed a good friendship despite their different talents.

D．wrote a book about a magical land called Terabithia.

2. Which of the following words is most likely to replace “traumatized” (paragraph 4)?

A．criticized.

B．ignored.

C．delighted .

D．shocked.

3. The two children most likely ________.

A．skipped school to play in the woods behind their campus.

B．created an imaginary world as an escape from reality.

C．disappointed their parents with their over-active imaginations.

D．won against the bullies at school with strong performances.

4. Which of the following statements will the author most probably agree with?

A．The fantasy components of the movie were too over-done.

B．The movie is motional but not much too dramatic.

C．“Bridge to Terabithia” has a negative impact on public school education.

D．Children shouldn’t watch the film as they are too young to understand the topics.

4 . Keeping The Taps Running in Thirsty Cities

Water covers 71% of Earth’s surface yet only 2% of it is accessible as a source of fresh water. ______ on this limited resources is rising, a trend likely to continue.

It is important to recognize that it is not just city residents who ______ water. Agriculture, industry and tourism often require more water than the municipal water supply. Globally, 70% of fresh water is ______ for agriculture, but locally in heavily irrigated(灌溉)areas this can increate to 90%. A healthy environment also requires fresh water, and the quality of available water is as important as its ______.

Water stress is not always caused by physical shortages in dry areas. ______ for water resources between different users within river catchments or basins can also be a cause.

Every thirsty city operates within its own context, _____ to the challenge of providing adequate water supplies. Cape Town, ______, has faced three years of drought during which winter rains failed to materialize. At the end of the 2017 rainy season the city faced the ______ of its dams running dry during 2018. The dams were only 37% full—in the same week four years before they were full to the top. In January 2018, it was ______ that Cape Town would reach Day Zero, when it would be forced to turn off the taps, in April. This was despite the city reducing its water use by more than half, from 1.2 billion litres a day in 2015 to fewer than 600 million litres, and working ______ with industry and agriculture to reduce demand.

On February 1, the authorities put in place a strict limit of 50 litres of water per person per day. ______, in Britain this is considered enough for a five-minute shower of half a washing machine cycle on full load.

In addition, a ban was placed on using ______ water for gardens, water management devices were installed at household with a high water use and the water pressure was reduced to cut demand and leaks. At the same, the city launched a media ______ to change habits and introduced higher duties. This is not without its costs; agriculture and tourism, both significant areas of employment, have ______. It is a classic example of the problem of water economics-the cost of water is low but the cost of a lack of water is very high.

Crises such as the Cape Town drought are in danger of becoming the new norm. The ______ of Day Zero must serve as a wake-up call for cities across the world to develop cost-effective water management strategies to cope with an uncertain future.

1.

A．Impact

B．Pressure

C．Impression

D．Observation

2.

A．recycle

B．waste

C．consume

D．apply

3.

A．restored

B．abstracted

C．separated

D．preserved

4.

A．change

B．source

C．origin

D．volume

5.

A．Competition

B．Protection

C．Construction

D．Regulation

6.

A．contributing

B．regarding

C．responding

D．referring

7.

A．in addition

B．for example

C．on the contrary

D．as a result

8.

A．prospect

B．illustration

C．symptom

D．security

9.

A．reported

B．presented

C．predicted

D．explained

10.

A．respectively

B．increasingly

C．restrictively

D．extensively

11.

A．By comparison

B．In other words

C．To our surprise

D．What’s more

12.

A．feasible

B．drinkable

C．inevitable

D．influential

13.

A．campaign

B．statement

C．presentation

D．advertisement

14.

A．invaded

B．liberated

C．suffered

D．proceeded

15.

A．change

B．theory

C．record

D．threat

5 . Questions are based on the following passage.1.

A．He just has no time to buy one.	B．He grew up after it became common.
C．He thinks a good one costs too much.	D．He doesn’t think it does good to life.

2.

A．A computer.

B．A video camera.

C．An FM radio.

D．A fax machine.

3.

A．He thought telephone bills might be a burden.

B．He was disappointed at the telephones on each street corner.

C．He believed he simply didn’t need it for anything.

D．He would contact his friends with the help of his computer.

4.

A．He gets great enjoyment when he goes on the Internet.

B．He regards the jet plane as the only modern form of media.

C．He links up with people from foreign countries by the Internet.

D．He thinks the international communication won’t develop without the jet plane

6 . Welcome to Adventureland!

Everyone loves Adventureland! The Parks and Exhibitions were built for you to explore (探索), enjoy, and admire their wonders. Every visit will be an unforgettable experience. You will go away enriched, longing to come back. What are you going to do this time?

The Travel Pavilion

Explore places you have never been to before, and experience different ways of life. Visit the Amazon jungle (丛林) village, the Turkish market, the Tai floating market, the Berber mountain house and others. Talk to the people there who will tell you about their lives, and things they make. You can try making a carpet, making nets, fishing ...

The Future Tower

This exhibition shows how progress will touch our lives. It allows us to look into the future and explore the cities of the next century and the way we’ll be living then. Spend some time in our space station and climb into our simulator (模拟装置) for the Journey to Mars.

The Nature Park

This is not really one park but several. In the Safari Park you can drive among African animals in one of our Range Cruisers: see lions, giraffes, elephants in the wild. Move on to the Ocean Park to watch the dolphins and whales. And then there is still the Aviary to see ...

The Pyramid

This is the center of Adventureland. Run out of film, need some postcards and stamps? For all these things and many more, visit our underground shopping center. Come here for information and ideas too.

1. The Travel Pavilion is built to help visitors ______.

A．realize the importance of travelling

B．become familiar with mountain countries

C．learn how to make things such as fishing nets

D．learn something about different places in the world

2. If you are interested in knowing about what people’s life will be, you may visit ______.

A．the Travel Pavilion	B．the Future Tower
C．the Safari Park	D．the Pyramid

3. If you want to get a toy lion to take home, where will you most likely go?

A．The Pyramid.	B．The Nature Park.
C．The Future Tower.	D．The Travel Pavilion.

7 . A recent survey in the United States showed that the average family spent more money on its pets than on its children. Although rather shocking, it should not _______ anyone who has seen the doggy parlors(客厅) where loved pets rest. It is possible that: Americans are unique in treating their little friends in this way, but the information we have suggests that the English, too, are _______ to their pets.

This can clearly be seen when we look at pet foods, which often contain more vitamins than human food or at least, are _______ less nutrition. They certainly cost much. Last year the British public spent two hundred million pounds on pet food alone, _______ veterinary(兽医的) bills or animal furniture. It is difficult not to feel _______ with this when considering what the same amount could do for victims of starvation and poverty, so it is _______ for me to get hot under collar when I read an old man left all his money to his dog instead of his children.

There are a variety of reasons why I find the popularity of British pets _______. They cause physical problems. An example of this is New York where they have great difficulty getting rid of the mess that dogs leave on the streets. Many people find this funny, but in a number of large cities it is a major problem. Animals can cause disease, too. It is the threat of rabies—a disease with no known cure—that has made the English government impose strict _______ on animals coming into the United Kingdom. When the Spanish government recently _______ a number of stray dogs as protection against the same threat, English tourists immediately wrote letters to the newspapers ________about 'mass murder'.

Another problem is the ________ of pet owners. Most little children want a dog or a cat, and they continually push their mothers and fathers until they get one. It is only when the "sweet little thing" has been brought home that the parents realize how much time and money must be spent on "Rover" or "Bonzo". Then they just ________ it. This brings me to my last point. Pets, which run free, are often not ________ at all. English farmers lose hundreds of sheep a year, killed by someone’s pet and you must have read of children being hurt by some pets of their own.

________, I would only suggest that we have got our ________ wrong and that something should be done about it. In my view, it’s time we stopped being sentimental about pets.

1.

A．alert

B．surprise

C．disappoint

D．interest

2.

A．kind

B．polite

C．subject

D．available

3.

A．seldom

B．far

C．frequently

D．totally

4.

A．in spite of

B．regardless of

C．not to mention

D．rather than

5.

A．delighted

B．patient

C．mention

D．unsatisfied

6.

A．usual

B．natural

C．concerned

D．essential

7.

A．inevitable

B．understandable

C．ridiculous

D．common

8.

A．orders

B．punishments

C．unacceptable

D．restriction

9.

A．cured

B．destroyed

C．treatments

D．drove

10.

A．inquiring

B．caring

C．enclosed

D．complaining

11.

A．thoughtlessness

B．hesitation

C．worrying

D．kindness

12.

A．isolate

B．scold

C．abandon

D．bind

13.

A．funny

B．sweet

C．desert

D．loving

14.

A．Nevertheless

B．Moreover

C．Therefore

D．Meanwhile

15.

A．mind

B．behavior

C．love

D．priority

8 . Calling for Contributions
Keen to share your views and have your articles published in the Campus Link? We are calling for contributions to the following sections:
Lifestyle:
Do you travel widely, keep a journal of your adventures and have nice photographs that you might want to share? Or have you simply been somewhere that caught your imagination? Tell us all about your travels!
Are you an eager movie-goer? Be Leonard Maltin for the day and share your views of the latest blockbuster (大片) with our readers!
If food is your preferred choice of relaxation, try your hand at being food critic and send us your views on food/restaurants worth trying.
Class Notes:
Whether it’s about your accomplishments, memories of campus days, your recent career or a new addition to your family, we welcome you to share your news, views and photos with friends and classmates through Class Notes. Read about your classmates in this issue of Campus Link.
Research:
If this noble line of work is your bread and butter or passion, we want to hear from you! Share with Campus Link your research developments and breakthroughs. If you know of someone (your schoolmate or teacher) whose research work is a source of inspiration for our community, do not hesitate to send in your suggestions!
If you are interested in sharing any of the above, or if you know of someone worthy of feature, please get in touch with the Editor-in-Chief, at karinyeo@campuslink.sg.
Contributions will be selected based on their relevance and quality and Campus Link reserves the right to publish or reject a submission. All contributions will be edited for clarity and length. Please send your submissions in word.doc files and your photos in jpeg format.
Contributions for the next issue should reach us by 10 July 2013.
1. In the Lifestyle section, you may not find ___________.

A．journals of travels	B．well-taken photographs
C．stories of Leonard Maltin	D．opinions on restaurants

2. Which of the following is TRUE about Campus Link?

A．It offers readers bread and butter.

B．It welcomes research developments and breakthroughs.

C．It helps you to recognize your schoolmates and teachers.

D．It is a source of inspiration for the community.

3. The poster aims to __________.

A．declare the rights of Campus Link

B．introduce someone worthy of feature

C．share views and articles among teachers

D．encourage contributions for the next issue