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标 题: Building your vocabulary through reading (4)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2001年07月31日00:11:12 星期二), 站内信件
Building your vocabulary through reading (4)
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*The Library Machine
As automation [PERMEATES] many new ideas of life, its effect upon us bec
omes [CONCOMITANTLY] more [PROFOUND].Infromation processing and communicatio
ns machines are finding their way into libraries. Here they [ALLEVIATE] the
burden of storing and bringing out to the reader the accumulation of informa
tion which is becoming more [PRODIGIOUS] in this [ERA] of specialization and
threatening to [INUNDATE] our already [ENCUMBERED] library system.As a way
to [EXPEDITE] the selection of [PERTINENT] information for the reader, the m
achine scans 5,000 words per minute. It is the [CELERITY] of machine reading
that makes automation in the library so valuable.
*The Language Machine
Those who see the spread of automated machines as a [NEFARIOUS] force ou
t to [USURP] the proper functions of mankind have [CORROBORATION] for their
belief in the language machine. The [PALTRY] handful of expert translators w
ith a profound knowledge of many foreign languages leaves a wide gap in our
sources of vital information. With important technological and scientific wo
rk being done abroad, it is difficult to [CONDONE] the situation. A machine
may be set to treat a foreign language as a coded message which it can analy
ze and put into English.Perhaps it will not do an [IMPECCABLE] job, but it w
ill permit the translation of even the most [TRIVIAL] foreign reports and wr
itings. As [BIZARRE] as it might seem, machines are taking over as translato
rs in ever increasing numbers.
*A Predicting Machine
While a machine may usurp many [MENIAL] tasks - typing of letters, makin
g out paychecks - it can also work in less [MUNDANE] ways. One such example
was the use of a computer to predict the results of a football game. All the
information about the two teams: speed of the backs, weight of the linemen,
past performances of the teams, even the years served by the [VENERABLE] co
aches was fed into the machine. [EXTRANEOUS] material was avoided. The [ASTU
TE] computer printed the figure "one" for each team. While this may seem [AM
BIGUOUS] to the average person, it represented in the [SUCCINCT] language of
the computer the actual score of one touchdown for each side:7-7.
*A Painting Machine
There is even now a computer machine which may make other art forms [ARC
HAIC]. Using computer methods, this machine can originate paintings and phot
ographs. A machine that can [EMULATE] an artist is not as [FACETIOUS] as it
may appear. Automation is inundating, some say with [DELETERIOUS] effects, a
ll areas of self - expression - from music to literature.The most [RABID]adh
erents of our technological progress look upon these events as [SINGULARLY]
favorable. They see these as [HARBINGERS]of a time when machines will do all
of the labor, and man will [REAP] the [SALUBRIOUS] benefits.
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