【題目】Do you want to live forever? By the year 2050,you might actually get your wish-if you are willing to leave your biological body and live in silicon circuits (半導(dǎo)體電路). But long before then, perhaps as early as 2020,some measures will begin offering a semblance of immortality (虛的永生).

Researchers are confident that the technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life? Whatever you see and hear, all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and added to your personal chronicles (履歷). By the year 2030, it may be possible to catch your nervous systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions.

Researchers at the laboratories of British Telecommunications have given the name of this idea as Soul Catcher. Small electronic equipment will make preparation for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps in a wristwatch, with wireless links to microseosors under your scalp (頭皮) and in the nerves that carry all five sensory signals. So wearing a video camera would no longer be required.

At first, the Soul Catcher's companion system-the Soul Reader-might have trouble copying your thoughts in complete details. Even in 2030, we may still be struggling to understand how the brain is working inside, so reading your thoughts and understanding your emotions might not be possible. But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities (永生實體). Researchers can only wonder what it will be like to wake up one day and find yourself alive inside a machine.

For people who choose not to live in silicon, semblance of immortal it would not be as useless as they thought. People would know their lives would not be forgotten, but would be kept a record of the human race forever. And future generations would have a much fuller understanding of the past. History would not be controlled by just the rich and powerful, Hollywood stars, and a few thinkers in the upper society.

【1】The main idea of this passage is that_____ .

A. human beings long for living forever

B. there are many difficulties in making the Soul Catcher

C. people can live forever as technology develops

D. the invention of Soul Catcher has great importance

【2】According to this passage, a Soul Catcher will be______ .

A. a new machine on which research measures have already been made

B. a new invention in order to catch and keep human's thoughts

C. made by British scientists to offer something that looks like living forever

D. made of silicon circuits which can catch people's nervous activity

【3】We can infer from the passage that semblance of immortality is______.

A. to be a reality sooner or later

B. far from certain

C. just an idea that couldn't be realized at all

D. a fading hope

【4】The meaning of the underlined word revitalize, in the fourth paragraph is close to___ .

A. make dead B. make famous

C. make known D. make active

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】A

【4】D

【解析】

試題分析：科學(xué)家們正在研究一種技術(shù)使人們活到永遠。這種技術(shù)可以將你所見所聽的記錄下來，若干年后通過腦電活動來保持你對過去的記憶和情感。我們的下一代可能會對歷史有更為清晰的理解。

【1】C主旨大意題。從第一段可知，文章講述了隨著現(xiàn)代社會科技的發(fā)展，我們活到永遠的夢想將會實現(xiàn)，故選C.

【2】B細節(jié)推理題。根據(jù)第二自然段it may be possible to catch your nervous systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions.和第三自然段第一句話可知，Soul Catcher 是一種新的發(fā)明來記錄保持人類的想法和情感的，故選B.

【3】A推理判斷題。從最后一段可知，作者相信下一代人會對歷史有更為深刻的認(rèn)識，所以作者相信虛擬的永生這種技術(shù)遲早會實現(xiàn)的，故選A.

【4】D猜測詞義題。句意：這些信號能夠保存到那一天，當(dāng)他們被轉(zhuǎn)移到半導(dǎo)體電路上時，就可以使永生實體的意識復(fù)活，劃線詞語指的是“復(fù)活”與D項同義，故選D.

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