Question

The next time you try for a high-ranking post, you could let your possible boss listen to a recommending(推荐) phone call “made” by US President George W. Bush or British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Of course, neither of them could really do that for you--- you could just “borrow” their voices. AT&T labs will start selling speech software that, it says, is so good at reproducing the sounds of a human voice that it can recreate voices and even bring the voices of long-dead famous people back to life.

The software, which turns printed text into speech, makes it possible for a company to use recording of a person’s voice to say things that the person never actually said.

Possible customers for the software, which is priced in the thousands of dollars, include telephone call centers, companies that make software that automated(使…自动化) digital files voice devices. The advances raise severe problems. Who, for example, owns the rights to a famous person’s voice? Some experts even believe new contracts will be drawn that include voice-licensing clauses(条款).

And although scientists say the technology is not yet good enough to commit fraud(打假), would the synthesized(合成的)voices at last be able to trick people into thinking that they were getting phone calls or digital audio recordings from people they know?

Even Mr. Fruchterman, one of AT&T labs’ possible first customers, said he wondered what the new technology might bring. “Just like you can’t trust a photograph any more,” he said, “you won’t be able to trust a voice, either”.

1.　　   The passage mainly wants to _______.

A.　　  introduce a new software

B.　　  describe the future market of a new product

C.　　  advertise a new kind of product

D.　　 explain the disadvantage of a new invention

2.　　   With the help of the speech software, it is most possible to _______.

A.　　  help you to find a better job

B.　　  say what you want in another’s voice

C.　　  make a speech much more easily

D.　　 improve a famous person’s speech

3.　　   If the speech software were widely used, ______.

A.　　  no radio or TV broadcasts would be needed

B.　　  people would no longer believe each other

C.　　  it would not be necessary to go for a speech by a famous person

D.　　 recording of a voice alone would not be taken as proof in the court

4.　　   According to the passage, we can infer that ______.

A.　　  the software will soon prove to be nothing but rubbish

B.　　  the government will forbid the sale of the software in the market

C.　　  it’s hard to decide whether the software will enjoy popularity

D.　　 the software will turn out to be an immediate success in the market

 

Answer 1

答案：A;B;D;C
提示：

1.       这篇文章主要介绍了一种新的产品，说了产品的优点和缺点 2.       A只是文章开头开的一个小玩笑，主要是B，用任何人的声音来说话 3.       显然，如果你能用任何人的声音来说话的话，录音就不可能成为证据了 4.       最后一段中可知，这种软件的利弊非常难以控制，弊端太多，不知能否被广泛使用