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第一节：阅读理解
cinderella什么意思典例1：
（北京东城·一模）Picture this: It’s 2003 and your family has just finished arguing over which Netflix movies to rent that week. Movies come in the mail and the family watch them throughout the week before nding them back and ordering new ones. Then, fast forward to 2008, and you have started to watch TV shows on Netflix’s new platform.
bigotedNow, let’s come to the prent. You sit down and open up Netflix on your TV and scroll for a while. Then you flip over to Hulu to e if they have anything more interesting to offer. Then you check HBO GO. Finally, you check Disney+. Then you realize that you’re paying for four different streaming rvices, maybe more.
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Let’s return to Netflix. More generally, streaming. There are over 100 video streaming rvices available, as well as quite a few music streaming, including Apple Music, YouTube Music, Google Play, and etc. The streaming world, at least to some, is on its way to getting out of control, with each rvice requiring its own monthly subscription. And that is just entertainment subscriptions. We haven’t even taken into account subscriptions like Microsoft Office, magazine subscriptions, and email newsletters. Subscriptions started out as a rvice of convenience, but now, the oversaturation may have become burdensome. The rvices believe customers will pay more to get the content they want. However, statistics show a growing frustration(失望) among consumers. With so many options, they find it harder than ever to make a decision on what to pick.
Not only does the oversaturation of streaming result in confusing navigation, it also creates a financial burden for the consumers. Let’s say if you want to watch Stranger Things , The Handmaid’s Tale , and Game of Thrones , which belong to three different rvices, you would have to pay nearly $50 a month to access all three of tho rvices,
meaning it’s not cheaper, and potentially more expensive, than cable.
People cut their cords and went the streaming route becau it was simpler and cheaper. Now, it’s just as inconvenient and difficult as cable was, if not more so, and unless you’re limiting yourlf to one rvice, it’s not cheaper. Streaming will survive becau we’re in a Golden Age of Media and becau each rvice is able to create high-quality originals. But Golden Ages don’t last, and bubbles tend to burst. Until the inevitable(不可避免的) day when some product or rvice proves streaming out of date, we must suffer the choices in front of us. The next time you are scrolling through Netflix, Hulu, or whatever, and the overchoice is killing you, maybe you should just go pick up a book instead.
13．What is mainly talked about in the first two paragraphs?
A．Social progress has promoted the quality of life in the past decade.
B．Changes in home entertainment have brought us more options.
C．Technology innovation results in different ways of relaxation.
D．Netflix has been developing its rvice patterns.
14．What does the underlined word “oversaturation” in Paragraph 3 probably refer to?
A．The large number of subscriptions.
B．The frustration caud by poor rvice.
C．The rapidly developing entertainment market.
D．The confusing navigation resulting from streaming.
15．According to the passage, streaming rvices may____.
A．enhance ur satisfaction
webbingB．increa energy consumption
C．rai entertainment costs
D．realize the resource sharing
16．The author would probably agree that ___.
A．the streaming rvice will have a bright future
B．reading has an advantage over streaming rvice
C．there will be some better rvice to replace streaming
D．nothing can end streaming rvices as long as media exists
典例2：
（北京房山·一模）Say goodbye to standing in long lines holding boarding pass and other travel documents. Step this way, instead. Look into the camera lens and off you go.
Sound convenient? Technology companies working with travel providers and the federal government to install facial recognition systems at airports hope you think so.
But privacy advocators don’t want you to become too comfortable. They worry that what
we’re willing to accept for convenience today will soften our resistance to the idea of filling public spaces with cameras that can identify us and track our every move.
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Facial recognition technology came suddenly into modern reality with very few people prepared for it. Facial recognition is a biometric technology that us distinguishable facial features to identify a person. In many cas, we e it being ud by governments and law enforcement agencies—testing its accuracy and value for future purpos.
Today, it’s ud in a variety of ways from allowing you to unlock your phone, go through curity at the airport, purcha products at stores. It checks the identities of ride-hailing drivers, permits tourists to enter attractions and let people pay for things with a smile. Airports are increasingly adding facial recognition technology to curity checkpoints. It’s even said that past footage of unsolved mysteries would benefit greatly from this technology as it would help identify the criminals of crimes long forgotten.
However, there has been a rious towerbridgeclash between the government and citizens in general over the technology’s u cas. At an airport, travelers are requested to prent their pa
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ssports, from which the software will determine whether the person standing in front of the camera matches the identity. If it matches, then they can get through quickly. However, the surveillance system arches a large databa for the face prented to the camera. Editing such a big databa, many worry, will inevitably lead to privacy concerns down the road. The biggest drawback for facial recognition technology in most people’s opinions is the threat to an individual’s privacy.haccp是什么意思
