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Into an Unknown World

A. Brain chips mean we are struggling to distinguish our own thoughts from ideas implanted by advertisers. Self-driving cars restrict old-school human drivers to special recreation parks. And the optimal (最佳的) number of fingers is 12.5.
B. Confused It’s a vision of the world in 25 years, as dreamed up by today’s researchers in computer-human interaction (CHI).
C. CHI normally means investigating better ways for people to interact with devices we have now, but last week attendees at the annual conference in Toronto, Canada, got ahead of themselves. They created an imaginary conference agenda for 2039 that predicts the kinds of challenges we will face with future computers—many of which will be implanted.
D. "It’s meant to be sort of the fringes (边缘) of human—computer interaction research, what’s really edgy or provocative," says Eric Baumer of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who dreamed

[填空题]
A. Brain chips mean we are struggling to distinguish our own thoughts from ideas implanted by advertisers. Self-driving cars restrict old-school human drivers to special recreation parks. And the optimal (最佳的) number of fingers is 12.5.
B. Confused It’s a vision of the world in 25 years, as dreamed up by today’s researchers in computer-human interaction (CHI).
C. CHI normally means investigating better ways for people to interact with devices we have now, but last week attendees at the annual conference in Toronto, Canada, got ahead of themselves. They created an imaginary conference agenda for 2039 that predicts the kinds of challenges we will face with future computers—many of which will be implanted.
D. "It’s meant to be sort of the fringes (边缘) of human—computer interaction research, what’s really edgy or provocative," says Eric Baumer of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who dreamed

[单项选择]Our statistics show that we consume all that we are capable of producing（　）.
A. waste
B. buy
C. use
D. sell

[单项选择]Much as we may pride ourselves on our taste, we are no longer free to choose the things we want because of advertising everywhere.
A. 尽管我们可以自夸自己的品位，但广告无处不在，我们已经无法独立自主地作出自己的选择了。
B. 正如我们可以自夸自己的品位一样，我们想不再自由地选择是因为无处不在的广告。
C. 当我们可以自夸自己的品位的时候，无处不在的广告已使我们不再自由地选择了。
D. 我们可以自夸自己的品味，但到处都是广告，我们不再自由地作出自己的选择了。

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When we use automatic teller machines (ATM), we are ______.

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Now we are altering the planet more rapidly and profoundly than ever, and much of the diversity produced by half a billion years of evolution could be lost in the next few centuries. We are triggering a mass extinction that could be as severe as the one that ended the reign of the dinosaurs.
Given enough time, biodiversity will recover. Extinctions create new evolutionary opportunities for the survivors: the blossoming of mammals after the dinosaurs died out ultimately led to our evolution, after all. But the aftermath of this Anthropocene ( 地质史上的新时期，称为“人类世”) extinction will not be like any other. Humans have become the main driving force in evolution--and life will never be the same again.
The list of threats we pose to biodiversity is long. We are killing many creatures directly, destroying habitats, introducing exotic predators and diseases, and pumping out pollution. Already, a tenth o
A. To set domestic animals free to move.
B. To lay down some protective policies.
C. To move species to suitable climate zones.
D. To protect the surrounding environment.