短英语2019年北京卷C篇
林肯简介The problem of robocalls has gotten so bad that many people now refu to pick up calls from numbers they don’t know. By next year, half of the calls we receive will be scams (欺诈). We are finally waking up to the verity of the problem by supporting and developing a group of tools, apps and approaches intended to prevent scammers from getting through. Unfortunately, it’s too little,法国气候 too late. By the time the “solutions” (解决方案) become widely available, scammers will have moved onto cleverer means. In the near future, it’s not just going to be the number you e on your screen that will be in doubt. Soon you will also question whether the voice you’re hearing is actually real.
That’s becau there are a number of powerful voice manipulation (处理) and automation technologies that are about to become widely available for anyone to u. At this year’s I/O Conference, a company showed a new voice technology able to produce such a convincing human — sounding voice that it was able to speak to a receptionist and book a rervation without detection.
The developments are likely to make our current problems with robocalls much wor. The reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision A decade of data breaches (数据侵入) of personal information has led to a situation where scammers can easily learn your mother’s name, and far more. Armed with this knowledge. They’re able to carry out individually targeted campaigns to cheat people. This means. for example, 奶奶英语that a scammer could call you from what looks to be a familiar number and talk to you using a voice that sounds exactly like your bank teller’s, ricking you into “confirming” your address, mother’s name, and card number. Scammers follow money,乃马真后 狡猾的反义词so companies will be the worst hit. A lot of business is still done over the phone, and much of it is bad on trust and existing relationships. Voice manipulation technologies may weaken that gradually.
We need to deal with the incure nature of our telecom networks. Phone carriers and consumers need to work together to find ways of determining and communicating what is real. That might mean either developing a uniform way to mark videos and images, showing when and who they were made by. or abandoning phone calls altogether and m
严肃的近义词oving towards data-bad communications — using apps like Face Time or WhatsApp, which can be tied to your identity.
Credibility is hard to earn but easy to lo, and the problem is only going to harder from here on out.
38. How does the author feel about the solutions to problem of robocalls?
A. Panicked.
B. Confud.
C. Embarrasd.
D. Disappointed.
39. Taking advantage of the new technologies, scammers can ______.
A. aim at victims precily
B. damage databas easily
C. start campaigns rapidly
D. spread information widely
40. What does the passage imply?
A. Honesty is the best policy.
B. Technologies can be double-edged.
C. There are more solutions than problems.
D. Credibility holds the key to development.
41. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Where the Problem of Robocalls Is Rooted
B. Who Is to Blame for the Problem of Robocalls
C. Why Robocalls Are About to Get More Dangerous
D. How Robocalls Are Affecting the World of Technology
【答案解析】
38. D根据第一段中“We are finally waking up to the verity of the problem by supporting and developing a group of tools, apps and approaches intended to prevent scammers from getting through. Unfortunately, it’s too little, too late”可知，作者对骚扰电话的解决方法感到失望，故选D。
39. A 根据第三段中“A decade of data breaches of personal information has led to a situation where scammers can easily learn your mother’s name, and far more. Armed with this knowledge, they’re able to carry out individually targeted campaigns to cheat people”并结合整个第三段可知，通过运用新的技术，骗子可以了解到潜在受害人的更多信息，从而精准地定位目标，故选A。
40. B 文章主要讲述了随着科技的进步，新的技术被研究出来，使骗子行骗更容易，因此
暗示着科学技术具有两面性，故选B。
41. C 本题考查主旨，文章第一段提到了自助语音电话给人们带来的危害，紧接着又进一步阐述这类电话给人们带来危害的原因，并阐述了减轻危害的方案，最终提出了信任度是很难获得又很容易失去的东西。整篇文章都在阐述自助语音电话愈加危险的状况，故选C。
