2015年英語四級練習題之閲讀題

Questions 61 to 65 are based on thefollowingpassage.

web search—-which scours only the latest updates to services like Twitter—is currently generating quite a buzz because it can provide a glimpse of what people around the world are thinking or doing at any given rest in this kind of search is so great that，according to recent leaks，Google is considering buying Twitter.

The latest research from the interact search giant，though，suggests that real—time results could be even more powerful—they may reveal the future as well as the present.

Google researchers Hyunyoung Choi and Hal Varian combined data from Google Trends on the popularity of different search terms with models used by economists to predict trends in areas such as travel and home result?Better forecasts in every works because searches reveal something about people’s le has demonstrated before that search data can predict flu outbreaks，and last week World Bank economist Erik Feyen said he could cut errors in a model that forecasts lending to the private sector by 15%using 　　Google search data.

But real-time results could have even more predictive power：knowing what people are actually doing，not just thinking，at a particular instant gives a strong hint of the future consequences.

Johan Bollen of Los NationA. Laboratory and o Pepe of the University of California，Los Angeles，applied a mood rating system to the text from over 10，000 Future Me emails sent in 2006 to gauge people’s hopes，fears and predictions for the found that emails directed at 2007 to 2012 were significantly more depressed in tone than messages aimed at the subsequent six d they have predicted the world’s current economic slump?

Without more data，that is no more than an intriguing Bollen plans to look at more Future Me emails，as well as Twitter messages，to search for mood swings that foreshadow other economic he finds any such sanle sources might be used to try and predict future economic fluctuations.

So will our online footsteps become a central part of economic forecasting?We’11 have to wait and see——0r perhaps do a quick web search.

　　 is real-time web search，like Twitter?像Twitter一樣的實時搜索是什麼?

tells us what people did in past days.它能告訴我們人們在過去都做什麼。

generates quite a buzz in recent days.它是最近互聯網中熱門的應用領域。

provides latest news about everything.它能為人們提供一切最為實時的消息。

informs what people do in the future.它能告知我們未來人們都在做什麼。

　　 is the result of research established by Google researchers Hyunyoung Choi and HA. Varian?谷歌的'研究人員崔元英和哈爾•範裏安的研究結果如何?

gain nothing special from the combination of data and models.他們並未從數據和模型中得到任何特殊的信息。

B. They indeed reveal something about people’s intentions in such areas.研究人員確實解讀到人們的一些意圖。

find that the future trends can not be predicted from the research.他們發現有關未來的預測並不能從此得出。

understand the future trends ofthese areas from research.他們可以完全得知這些領域未來的發展趨勢。

　　 Can we infer from Para.57我們可以從第五段得出什麼?

is possible for researchers to get some hints from the Future Me emails.研究人員可能從這些郵件中得到一些暗示。.

e is no relationship between the depression and economic slump.人們的沮喪情緒和經濟衰退沒有任何關係。

e is a potential relationship between depression and economic slump.人們的沮喪情緒和經濟衰退有潛在的聯繫。

FutureMe emails may indicate people’s reaction about future prediction.這些郵件表明人們的情緒也許可以預測未來的一些事情。

　　’s the meaning of“Without more data，that is no more than all intriguing possibility.”?“沒有更多的數據，那就只能是一個有趣的可能性”是什麼意思?

data are necessary to turn this possibility to be reality.需要更多的數據來證實這一可能性也許就是事實。

possibility isjust all intriguing possibility without data.沒有數據，可能性就只能是有趣的可能性。

amount of data cannot be a strong proof for the possibility.再多的數據也不能將可能性變為事實。

data are needed to turn it out to be a pure possibility.需要更多的數據證明那只是一種可能性。

　　’s the attitude ofauthor to real-time search?作者對於實時搜索持何種態度?

tive.消極的。

ical.批評的。

mistic.樂觀的。

fferent.漠不關心的。