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“Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? ” An old tale tells seemingly unbelievable story of a magic mirror, but now the magic is no longer unachievable.
In August 2018, news went viral (广为传播的) that the police had caught criminal suspects who attended Chinese singer Jacky Cheung’s concerts. How did the police pick out the suspects among thousands of screaming fans? The helping hand is AI facial recognition technology. The low-key yet powerful tool is no longer far-fetched, but entering the world of China’s top investors and companies.
Facial recognition is a technology able to identify a person from digital image or a frame from a video source. Tang Wenbin, CTO of Face++, an AI computer vision technology company in China, vividly explained the workflow. According to him, facial recognition is the identification of our appearance, including knowing the sex, age and identity of a person. You may think it is like a brain or a neural network. You use data to train it, and then, it learns the pattern.
Facial recognition technology has been traditionally allied with the security work but today there is active expansion into other industries including mobile phones, marketing and finance.
Chinese start-ups have seen the potential of AI facial recognition for simplifying and speeding up tasks in multiple industries. And the market is now crowded and competitive.
China is starting the AI revolution and has made breakthroughs in facial recognition. “If applying AI to different industries is a marathon, the companies there probably have just got off the blocks. ” said Tian Feng, director of Alibaba Cloud Research Center. He also thinks that in the future, everybody will be able to use AI as it will soon become a basic tool for work and life.
【文章大意】本文为科技类说明文。文章主要介绍了人脸识别技术在中国的发展与前景。
1. Why does the author mention mirrors in Paragraph 1?
A. To imply that such magical mirror is achievable.
B. To lead to the topic that such magic has become reality.
C. To prove that old tales are based on true stories.
D. To describe the background of facial recognition.
【解析】选B。推理判断题。第一段中指出An old tale tells seemingly unbelievable story of a magic mirror, but now the magic is no longer unachievable. 一个古老的传说讲述了一个看似难以置信的魔镜的故事, 但现在魔法不再是无法实现的。下文就介绍了人脸识别技术的运用, 所以用魔镜是为了引出文章讨论的主要内容——人脸识别技术。
2. Which of the following best explains“allied with”underlined in Paragraph 4?
A. Content with. B. Compared with.
C. Burdened with. D. Associated with.
【解析】选D。词义猜测题。由第四段中的but today there is active expansion into other industries including mobile phones, marketing and finance可知: 但是当今社会人脸识别技术在其他相关产业不断扩大使用, 其中包括移动电话, 市场销售及金融产业。根据语境和画线词语前的traditionally可推知原来只是涉及安保工作, 现在已经扩大了适用的相关范围。allied with与associated with同义, 意为“与……相联系”。
3. What is Tian Feng’s attitude towards the future of AI?
A. Favorable. B. Pessimistic.
C. Indifferent. D. Objective.
【解析】选A。推理判断题。通过最后一段He also thinks that in the future, everybody will be able to use AI as it will soon become a basic tool for work and life. 得知, 阿里巴巴云研究中心主任田丰认为未来人人都能够使用人工智能, 它将成为人们工作和生活的基本工具。由此可推知田丰对AI的未来充满希望。
4. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Breakthroughs of Chinese Technology
B. Effects of AI Technology
C. The Eye of AI in China
D. Facial Recognition in Security
【解析】选C。标题归纳题。本文开头用魔镜引出人脸识别技术, 随后介绍了中国人工智能中人脸识别技术的应用与发展前景。A项“中国技术的突破”概括范围太大, B项“人工智能技术的影响”和D项“人脸识别在安全中的应用”概括不全面, C项“中国的人工智能之眼”概括了本文内容, 其中eye与人脸识别的功能吻合, 故为最佳标题。
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【知识拓展】词汇积累
far-fetched牵强的; get off the blocks刚起步; be allied with与……联盟; expansion into扩张, 进入; make breakthroughs取得突破
长难句分析
Facial recognition technology has been traditionally allied with the security work but today there is active expansion into other industries including mobile phones, marketing and finance.
翻译: 面部识别技术之前与安保工作密不可分, 但是现今它在积极地扩张到其他领域, 包括移动手机, 市场营销和金融行业。
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