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第8练　阅读＋七 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A 体裁：记叙文　话题：日常生活　词数：310　时间：5′ Think you can keep a straight face while watching your favorite comedian？Now，the comedy club named Teatre in Barcelona is betting you cant.The club is even basing its ticket prices on how often it can make you laugh.Its said you can get into the club show for free，but every laugh will cost you 38 cents more.Would you like to deliberately keep from laughing in order to save money？ The Teatre club has equipped facial－recognition technology on the back of its chairs.It can track how much each person in their theatre has enjoyed the show.The system was developed by advertising agency The Cyranos McCann，after Teatre asked them to think up a way to increase ticket sales. A number of people have tried to sit through a comedy show without laughing in an attempt to get a free ticket，but they all failed.Using the new system，the average ticket price per person has so far been $7.58.It seems the pricing system has caught__on，with other theatres in Spain now copying the pay－per－laugh technology. It is unclear which kind of facial recognition software is being used，but most use algorithms (算法) to track facial marks on an audiences face.For example，an algorithm can analyze the position，size or shape of the mouth to determine whether a person is laughing，smiling or sad.The comedy club has also launched a mobile app as a method of payment and a pay－per－laugh season ticket. James Woron，director of the Club，said，“The idea sounds fun.Itd be a big technical challenge—as people laugh so often，wed have to put a cash machine by every seat.” 【语篇解读】　西班牙的一家剧院根据观众笑的次数收费。 1．The Teatre club charges ticket price based on ________． A．the audience s appearance B．how long people watch the show C．the times that audience laugh D．the times people come to the club 答案　C　[细节理解题。根据第一段“The club is even basing its ticket prices on how often it can make you laugh.”可知，这家剧院根据观众笑的次数收费。] 2．Why do the club use the facial－recognition technology? A．To save performance co