六級仔細閱讀專項訓練題原文

　　And of counse ,when you arrive to pick up your child , settling the hospital bill with yourhealth insurance policy will be a simple matter of waving your own chip -the oneembedded(牢固地,插入)in your hand .

　　To some ,this may sound far-fetched .But the technology for such chips is no longer thestuff of science fiction,And it may soon offer many other benefits besides locating lost childenor elderly Alzheimer patients.

　　"Down the line ,it could be used as credit cards and such ,"says Chris Hables Gray , aprofessor of cultural studies of science and technology at the University of Great Falls inMontana,"A lot of people won’t have to carry wallets anymore ,"he says,"what the implicationsare for this technology,in the long run,is profound.”

　　Indeed, some are aleady wondering what this sort of technology may do to the sense ofpersonal privacy and liberty.

　　“Any technology of this kind is easily abusive of personal privacy.”says Lee Tien,seniorstaff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.“If a kind is trackable,do you want otherpeople to be able to track your kid?It’s a double-edged sword.”

　　Tiny Chips That Know Your Name

　　The research of embedding microchips isn’t entirely new.Back in 1988,Brian Warwick,aprofessor of cybernetics(控制論) at Reading University in London,implanted a chip into his armas an experiment to see if Warwick’s computer could wirelessly track his whereabouts with theuniversity’s building.

　　But Applied Digital Solutions,Inc,in Palm Beach,Fla. is one of the latest to try and push theexperments beyond the realm of academic research and into the hands——and bodies——ofordinary humans.

　　The company says it has recently applied to the Food and Drug Administration forpermission to begin testing its VeriChip device in humans.About the size of a grain of rice,themicrochip can be encoded with bits of information and implanted in humans under a layer ofskin.When scanned by a nearby reader,the embedded chip yields the data——say an IDnumber that links to a computer database file containing more detailed information.

　　Chipping Blocks

　　Most embedded chips designs are so-called passive chip which yield information onlywhen scanned by a nearby reader.But active chips——such as the proposed Digital Angel of thefuture——will need to beam out information all the time.And that means designers will have todevelop some sort of power source that can provide a continuous source of energy ,yet besmall enough to be embedded with the chips.

　　Another additional barrier,developing tiny GPS receiver chips that cuold be embeddedyet still be sensitive enough to receive signals from thousnads of miles out in space.Inaddition to technical hurdles(需要克服的困難),many suspect that all sorts of legal andprivacy issues would have to be cleared as well.

　　六級仔細閱讀專項訓練題

　　1. A chip is able to do the following EXCEPT——

　　A telling the location of your child

　　B telling doctors your child’s medical history

　　C telling whether your child needs immediate help

　　D telling the rescue workers which medicine your child should take at once

　　2. The word“paramedic”refers to ——

　　A one who is trained to assist a doctor

　　B one who drives the ambulance

　　C an ambulance

　　D a disease

　　3. The implications for chip technology are proound because——

　　A it can help people a lot in their daily life

　　B it is easily abusive if personal privacy

　　C it is easily abusive if personal liberty

　　D it is a double-edged sword

　　4. What has Applied Digital Solutions,Inc,recently done?

　　A It has recently implanted a chip into Professor Brian Warwick’s arm.

　　B It has recently pushed the expermients into the realm of academic research.

　　C It has recently made the research of embedding microchips.

　　D It has recently applied to the Food and Drug Administration for permission to test itsVeriChip device in humans.

　　5. To produce active chips,the problems designers need to solve are as many as — —

　　A two B three

　　C four D five

　　六級仔細閱讀專項訓練題答案

　　1.D細節理解題。根據第二段第一、二句“…if your child has fallen and needs immediate help. Once paramedics arrive ,the chip will also be able to tell the rescue workers…”得出此結論。

　　2.A猜測詞義題。根據第四段第一句“To some ,this may…”得出此結論。

　　3.D推論題。根據第七段最后一句話“It’s a double-edged sword.”得出此結論

　　4.D細節理解題。根據第十一段第一句“The company says it has recently…”得出此結論。

　　5.C細節理解題。根據文章最后兩段敘述得出此結論。