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[理工类英语] 2011职称英语理工B级:补全短文练习(1)

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发表于 2012-8-16 00:07:50 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
 阅读下面的短文,文章中有5处空白,文章后面有6组文字,请根据文章的内容选择5组文字,将其分别放回文章原有位置,以恢复文章原貌。 4 d4 i5 `$ d* ~8 J! |! b& U: m
Every Dog Has His Say / Y! z% A8 M  M6 x1 p& e
  KIMIKO Fukuda always wondered what her dog was trying to say. Whenever she put on makeup, it would pull at her sleeve.     (1) When the dog barks, she glances at a small electronic gadget. The following "human" translation appears on its screen: "Please take me with you." "I realized that's how he was feeling," says Fukuda.
  r+ R, f& C( g0 @3 c" Y  The gadget is called Bowlingual, and it translates dog barks into feelings. People laughed when the Japanese toymaker Takara Company made the world's first dog-human translation machine in 2002. But 300,000 Japanese dog owners bought it.     (2)
3 n' _) L2 \1 ]  z' Z9 B# v0 B  "Nobody else had thought about it," said Masahiko Kajita, who works for Takara, "We spend so much time training dogs to understand our orders; what would it be like if we could understand dogs?"
% T6 j2 q! A% }  Bowlingual has two parts.     (3) The translation is done in the gadget using a database containing every kind of bark.
" ?' |3 |) ~. S; n% O  Based on animal behaviour research, these noises are divided into six categories: happiness, sadness, frustration, anger, declaration and desire.     (4) In this way, the database scientifically matches a bark to an emotion, which is then translated into one of 200 phrases. / r5 }% L. K9 }  j
  When a visitor went to Fukuda's house recently, the dog barked a loud "bow wow"     (5). It was followed by "I'm stronger than you" as the dog growled and sniffed at the visitor.
- y( |4 k: B3 v7 V6 X0 R# w" H  The product will be available in US pet stores this summer for about US$120. It can store up to 100 barks, even recording the dog's emotions when the owner is away.
3 F8 ^! T- n7 H; X  A A wireless microphone is attached to the dog's collar, which sends information to the gadget held by the owner.
2 L1 H3 @& x7 w" d3 K1 @$ z  B Nobody really knows how a dog feels. * p/ b/ P$ U. q& i- P! ~: ^
  C This translated as "Don't come this way". 4 I+ {" l) p, Z7 i: x$ Q
  D More customers are expected when the English version is launched this summer. ! R  s5 [6 k1 {- {  B
  E Now, the Japanese girl thinks she knows. , m6 p8 |; `8 L% I/ _. @
  F Each one of these emotions is then linked to a phrase like "Let's play," "Look at me," or "Spend more time with me." 2 j( p$ ^3 B: ?- ?9 P5 |9 b, }4 h
  【参考答案】1. E 2. D 3. A 4. F 5. C
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