大学英语四级-260
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Reading Comprehension
The Recorded World
As cameras become ubiquitous (普遍存在的) and able to identify people, more safeguards on privacy will be needed.
板栗的做法>麻城烈士陵园A. "This ason there is something at the aside wor than sharks," declared a newspaper in 1890. "It is the amateur photographer." The invention of the handheld camera shocked the 19th-century society, as did the "Kodak fiends" (柯达狂人) who patrolled beaches snapping sunbathers.
B. More than a century later, amateur photography is once more a troubling issue. Citizens of rich countries have got ud to being watched by clod-circuit cameras that guard road
s and cities. But as cameras shrink and the cost of storing data falls sharply, it is individuals who are taking the pictures.
水调歌头书法C. Some 10,000 people are already testing a prototype of Google Glass, a **puter worm like eyeglass. It aims to have all the functions of a smartphone in a device put on a person"s no. Its flexible frame holds both a camera and a tiny screen, and makes it easy for urs to take photos, nd messages and arch for things online.
D. Glass may fail, but a wider revolution is under way. In Russia, where insurance fraud is commonly en, at least 1 million cars already have cameras on their dashboards (仪表盘) that film the road ahead. Police forces in America are starting to issue officers with video cameras, pinned to their uniforms, which record their interactions with the public. Collar-cams help anxious cat-lovers watch their wandering pets carefully. Paparazzi (狗仔队) have started to u drones to photograph celebrities in their gardens or on yachts. Hobbyists are even devising clever ways to get cameras into space.
E. Ubiquitous recording can already do a lot of good. Some patients with brain injuries ha
ve been given cameras: looking back at images can help them recover their memories. Dash-cams can help resolve insurance claims and encourage people to drive better. Police-cams can discourage criminals from making **plaints against police officers and officers from abusing criminals. A British soldier has just been convicted of murdering a wounded Afghan becau the act was captured by a colleague"s helmet-camera. Videos showing the line of sight of experienced surgeons and engineers can help train their successors and be ud in liability disputes. Lens linked to computers are reading street-signs and product labels to partially sighted people.
F. Optimists e broader benefits ahead. Plenty of people carry activity trackers, worn on the wrist or placed in a pocket, to monitor their exerci or sleep patterns; cameras could do the job more effectively, perhaps also spying on their wearers" diets. "Personal black boxes" might be able to transmit pictures if their owner falls victim to an accident or crime. Tiny cameras trained to recogni faces could become personal digital assistants, making conversations as archable as documents and e-mails. Already a small band of "life-loggers" (生活记录器) stored years of footage (镜头) into databas of "e-memories".
G. Not everybody will be thrilled by the prospects. A perfect digital memory would probably be a pain, prerving unhappy events as well as cherished ones. Suspicious spous and employers might feet entitled to review it.
H. The bigger worry is for tho in front of the cameras, not behind them. School bullies already u illegal snaps from mobile phones to embarrass their victims. The web is full of cret photos of women, snapped in public places. Wearable cameras will make such immoral photography easier. And the huge, looming issue is the growing sophistication of face-recognition technologies, which are starting to enable business and governments to get information about individuals by arching the billions of images online. **bination of cameras everywhere—in bars, on streets, in offices, on people"s heads—with the algorithms (算法) run by social networks and other rvice providers that process stored and published images is a powerful and alarming one. We may not be far from a world in which your movements could be tracked all the time, where a stranger walking down the street can immediately identify exactly who you are.
由衷的意思
I. Well, we still strongly held beliefs that technological progress should generally be welcomed, not feared—runs up against an even deeper impul, in favour of liberty. Freedom has to include some right to privacy: if every move you make is being recorded, liberty is limited.RIRS
J. One option is to ban devices that em annoying. The u of dashboard cameras is forbidden in Austria. Drivers who film the road can face a10,000 ($13,400) fine. But banning devices deprives people of their benefits. Society would do better to develop rules about where and how the technologies can be ud, just as it learned to cope with the Kodak fiends.
带小的成语K. For the moment, companies are behaving in a cautious way. Google has banned the u of face-recognition in apps on Glass and its camera is designed to film only in short bursts. Japane digital camera-makers ensure their products emit a shutter sound every time a picture is taken. Existing laws to control stalking or harassment can be extended to deal with peeping drones.
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