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37 As most people in the audience have never heard of cloud computing before, how to clearly explain it to
these is a big challenge to Prof. Lin.
adherents apprentices disciples laymen
38 The blood-stained knife was found near the body, which means it is the murder weapon.
ludicrously incredibly presumably superficially
39 If you consistently make financial contributions to your company, you will become at work even when
layoffs are being made all around you.
domineering independent indispensable obligatory
40 If we get news and information from a particular TV channel, our worldviews can be biased.
maliciously exclusively impartially beneficially
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Your bed could be watching you! If you have any of a variety of smart beds or sleep apps, it knows when you fall asleep and
when you 41 . A manufacturer says the bed collects more than 8 billion biometric data points every night, 42 sent
to the company’s servers via an app. According to the company, analyzing all the personal data not only helps them
inform the consumers about their health, but also aids the company’s efforts to make better products. Still, consumer-
privacy 43 are increasingly raising concerns about the fate of personal health information, which is potentially
valuable to companies that collect and sell it. 44 , consumers are flocking to sleep tracking devices and under-
mattress sensors that claim to quantify sleep. But do consumers really need an app to tell them how rested they feel in
the morning? One unexpected 45 is that people who become too attuned to their data may experience anxiety and
an inability to sleep. People get all this data and get upset about having a perfect number.
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In the four minutes it probably takes to read this review, you will have logged exactly half the time the average 15- to
24-year-old now spends reading each day. That is, if you even bother to finish. If you are perusing this on the Internet,
the big block of text below probably seems daunting, maybe even boring. Who has the time? Such is the kind of recklessly
distracted impatience that makes Mark Bauerlein fear for his country. “As of 2008,” the 49-year-old professor of English
at Emory University writes in “The Dumbest Generation,” “the intellectual future of the United States looks dim.”
The way Bauerlein sees it, something new and disastrous has happened to America’s youth with the arrival of the instant
gratification go-go-go digital age. The result is, essentially, a collective loss of context and history. The problem is that
instead of using the Web to learn about the world, young people mostly use it to gossip about each other and follow pop
culture, relentlessly keeping up with the ever-shifting lingua franca of being cool in school. Social life is a powerful
temptation and most teenagers feel the pain of missing out.
And all this feeds on itself. Increasingly disconnected from the “adult” world of tradition, culture, history, context and
the ability to sit down for more than five minutes with a book, today’s digital generation is becoming insulated in its own
stultifying cocoon of bad spelling, civic illiteracy and endless postings that hopelessly confuse triviality with
transcendence.
At fault is not just technology but also a newly indulgent attitude among parents, educators and other mentors, who,
Bauerlein argues, lack the courage to risk “being labeled a curmudgeon and a reactionary.”
46 What is the main purpose of this passage?
To cast doubt on the function of social media.
To highlight the importance of history and politics.
To praise transcendence over triviality.
To point out an urgent issue American youths face.
47 According to the passage, how much time does the average 15- to 24-year-old spend on reading each day?
4 minutes. 8 minutes. 12 minutes. 16 minutes.
48 What does the word “dim” in the first paragraph mean?
Pessimistic. Dark. Gossipy. Illiterate.
49 Which of the following is NOT a problem that currentAmerican young people face?
Bad spelling. Civic illiteracy. Loss of history. Lingua franca.
50 What is the author’s attitude toward the intellectual future of America’s youth?
Supportive. Critical. Indifferent. Neutral.