In a few years，you might be able to speak Chinese，Korean，Japanese，F(xiàn)rench，and English-and all at the same time. This sounds incredible，but Alex Waibel，a computer science professor at US's Car-negie Mellon University (CMU) and Germany's University of Karlsruhe，announced last week that it may soon be reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other.
One application，called Lecture Translation，can easily translate a speech from one language into an-other. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Us-ers also have to be trained how to use the programme.
Another machine can send translations of a speech to different listeners depending on what languagethey speak. “It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you，”Waibel said
Prefer to read? So- called Translation Glasses transcribe(轉(zhuǎn)錄) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal display(LCD) screen.
Then there's the Muscle Translator. Electrodes capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech.The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted in a person's face，according to research-ers.
During a demonstration held last Thursday in CMU's Pittsburgh campus，a Chinese student named Sang Jun had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks，neck and throat. Then he mouthed-without speaking aloud- a few words in Mandarin(普通話) to the audience. A few seconds later，the phrase was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: “Let me introduce our new prototype.”
This particular instrument，when fully developed，might allow anyone to speak in any number of lan-guages or，as Waibel put it，“to switch your mouth to a foreign language”. “The idea behind the universi-ty's prototypes is to create'good enough' bridges for cross- cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world，”Waibel said.
With spontaneous(自發(fā)的) translators，foreign drivers in Germany  could listen to traffic warnings on the radio; tourists in China could read all the signs and talk with local people;leaders of different coun-tries could have secret talks without any interpreters there.
小題1:What can't be learned from the text?
A．The spontaneous translators will help us a lot.
B．There is no Muscle Translator in the world now.
C．Muscle Translators can translate what you think into speech if you just move your mouth.
D．A lecture translation can translate what you said into other languages easily.
小題2:What does the underlined word mean?
A．happening at at the same time.B．happening by itself.
C．similar in size.D．Similar in quality.
小題3:What's the final destination of inventing the language translators?
A．To make cultural exchanges between different countries easier.
B．To help students learn foreign languages more easily.
C．To make people live in foreign countries more comfortably.
D．To help people learn more foreign languages in the future.
小題4:What can be inferred from the seventh paragraph?
A．The translator is so good that it can translate any language into the very language you need.
B．The translator is becoming more and more common in the world as a bridge.
C．With the help of the translator，you only need to open your mouth when you want to say something without saying the exact words at all.
D．The translator needs to be improved before being put into market.
小題5:Where can we probably find this passage?
A．A newspaper.B．A magazine on science.
C．A fairy tale.D．A scientific fantasy book.

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:A
小題4:D
小題5:B
本文介紹了一個(gè)與語(yǔ)言翻譯有關(guān)的發(fā)明。
小題1:推理題。根據(jù)文章第五段，可知Muscle Translators可以把肌肉的運(yùn)動(dòng)轉(zhuǎn)換成語(yǔ)言。
小題2:猜測(cè)詞義題。根據(jù)上下文可知這里應(yīng)該是指同聲翻譯，所以A正確。
小題3:推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一段可知這種發(fā)明的作用是讓文化交流更容易了！
小題4:推斷題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第一段第一行This particular instrument，when fully developed.. 中的when fully developed.要想投入市場(chǎng)，必須要進(jìn)一步完善。
小題5:推理題。通讀全文可知這是關(guān)于一項(xiàng)科技發(fā)明的文章，所以應(yīng)該是科學(xué)雜志。
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