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第8练 阅读＋七选五＋语法填空＋短文改错

Ⅰ.阅读理解

A

体裁：记叙文 话题：日常生活 词数：310 时间：5′

Think you can keep a straight face while watching your favorite comedian？Now，the comedy club named Teatre in Barcelona is betting you can't.The club is even basing its ticket prices on how often it can make you laugh.It's said you can get into the club show for free，but every laugh will cost you 38 cents more.Would you like to deliberately keep from laughing in order to save money？

The Teatre club has equipped facial－recognition technology on the back of its chairs.It can track how much each person in their theatre has enjoyed the show.The system was developed by advertising agency The Cyranos McCann，after Teatre asked them to think up a way to increase ticket sales.

A number of people have tried to sit through a comedy show without laughing in an attempt to get a free ticket，but they all failed.Using the new system，the average ticket price per person has so far been $7.58.It seems the pricing system has caught__on，with other theatres in Spain now copying the pay－per－laugh technology.

It is unclear which kind of facial recognition software is being used，but most use algorithms (算法) to track facial marks on an audience's face.For example，an algorithm can analyze the position，size or shape of the mouth to determine whether a person is laughing，smiling or sad.The comedy club has also launched a mobile app as a method of payment and a pay－per－laugh season ticket.

James Woron，director of the Club，said，“The idea sounds fun.It'd be a big technical challenge—as people laugh so often，we'd have to put a cash machine by every seat.”

【语篇解读】 西班牙的一家剧院根据观众笑的次数收费。

1．The Teatre club charges ticket price based on ________． A．the audience' s appearance B．how long people watch the show C．the times that audience laugh D．the times people come to the club

答案 C [细节理解题。根据第一段“The club is even basing its ticket prices on how often it can make you laugh.”可知，这家剧院根据观众笑的次数收费。]

2．Why do the club use the facial－recognition technology? A．To save performance costs. B．To increase ticket sales. C．To keep the thieves away. D．To satisfy more audience.

答案 B [细节理解题。根据第二段“...after Teatre asked them to think up a way to increase ticket sales.”可知，剧院运用这项技术是为了提高门票销量。]

3．What does the underlined phrase “caught on” mean? A．Become popular. B．Learned from others. C．Held tightly. D．Understood.

答案 A [词义猜测题。根据第三段画线词下文“...with other theatres in Spain now copying the pay－per－laugh technology.”可知，西班牙的其他剧院也在效仿运用这种技术，由此可猜测，这项技术变得流行起来。] 4．What can we get to know from the text?

A．The Teatre club always offers the best shows. B．A lot of people can get a free ticket in Teatre. C．People couldn't help laughing in order to save money. D．The facial－recognition software can tell people's moods.

答案 D [细节理解题。根据第四段“...an algorithm can analyze the position，size or shape of the mouth to determine whether a person is laughing，smiling or sad.”可知，这款软件可以根据观众嘴的位置、大小和形状来判断他/她的情绪。]

B

体裁：记叙文 话题：保护自然 词数：401 时间：8′

While the presence of rats in homes may cause anxiety and annoyance，they rarely result in driving out the residents.But that is exactly what happened to the inhabitants of the 10－square－mile Hawadax Island off the coast of Alaska，almost 230 years ago.Now thanks to a five－year effort by scientists，the terribly silent “Rat Island” as it had been called for many years has been returned to its rightful owners—birds!

Hawadax Island is part of a chain of volcanic islands in the Bering Sea called the Aleutian Islands.The rats that arrived there in 1780，when a Japanese ship carrying them broke down nearby，completely destroyed the native population because the environment of the island was not built to defend its animals from these predators.There isn't any tree on the island，which meant that the birds were accustomed to building their nests low in the ground，giving the rodents(啮齿动物) easy access to both eggs and baby chicks.As years passed，the birds that had called the island home for thousands of years became endangered and eventually，disappeared completely.

In 2007，the U．S.FWS(Fish and Wildlife Service) started a serious plan to rid the island of the rats and try bringing back the beautiful birds that had once called it home.Given that there were an estimated 10，000 rodents inhabiting “Rat Island” and the fact that they reproduce rapidly，