Unit 3 Inventors and inventions话题导入.pptVIP

Inventors and inventions Unit 3 话 题 导 入 Steven Spielbergs 2002 science-fiction thriller Minority Report produced a world where computers could read minds and predict the future. It seemed fanciful at the time, but fantasy is edging closer to fact. On Jan. 31, a team of scientists at UC Berkeley, led by Robert Knight programmed computers to decode (破译) brain waves and replay them as words. Five months earlier, another group of Berkeley scientists showed their colleagues short movies and used computers to play back in color what people saw. These experiments are a big advance from 2006, when a French scientist first replayed images from a human mind, a black-and-white checkerboard pattern. The possibilities are great: a disabled person could “speak”； doctors could access the mind of a patient who fainted; you could rewatch your dreams on an iPad. There are, of course, equally dark side, such as the involuntary take out of information from the brain. In spite of these breakthroughs, Jack Gallant, the neuroscientist who led the first Berkeley team, says current technology for decoding brain activity is still “relatively primitive”. The field is held back by its poor machinery, in particular the fMRI. “Eventually，” says Gallant, “someone will invent a decoding machine you can wear as a hat.” Such an advance into the human mind, he says might take 30 years. Still, the recent advances at Berkeley offer small answers, which scientists can use to begin unlocking the secrets of memory and consciousness. 语篇概述：通过科学家们的努力，惊悚科幻电影中提到的电脑能读懂人的大脑并预测未来的幻想快要成为现实了。 1． What is the best title for the passage? A．New technology can read your mind B．Fantasy is edging closer to fact C．A new discovery in human brain D．The intelligent computers in the future 答案：A　标题判断题。根据第一段并综合全文可知，该文主要介绍了科学家利用新技术可能会读懂人的大脑，故A项最适合作为本文的标题。 2．What did scientists at UC Berkeley do? A．They produced a fanciful world. B．They made computers jump forward like a human. C．They managed to translate brain waves into lang