高中英语 专题5.4 【阅读七选五】题型满分练04（原题版）.pdfVIP

2020 30 04 年高考英语考前特训 天之 【阅读七选五】题型满分练 原题版 Test 1 “Big datalivesup to itsname:Weproduce 2.5 quintillion bytes(字节）of data every day through the digital connections that link people, objects, and devices. Every email, text, post, online search and doctors visit contributetobig data. 1 Many believe it is. Stores are using it to improve our shopping experience. 2 In the United States, Macysdepartment store creditsbigdatawith improvingtheir customer satisfaction andhelpingto increase salesby 10percent. Banks are also putting quite a lot of money into big data. 3 One area to benefit is customer service, where valuable information collected is supporting speedier decisions on loans (贷款）andcreditwhileprovidingbetterprotection against theft and even overspending. Health care is also seeing a marked difference. Data collection is helping to reduce preventable deaths, improve quality of life,predict and cure diseases. 4 Big data searches for patterns topredict how cancers willbehaveandrecently ledtothebreakthrough discovery that acommonlyusedantidepressant(抗抑郁剂）hasthe potentialtohelp find acure for lungcancer. Big data is stilljust getting started,but it already influences almost every area of our lives-mostly attemptsto makethem better.By 2021,therewillbe200billion connected devices. 5 If computationalpower and data scientistscan keeppacewith such growth,thepotential forbig datatomakean evenbigger differenceishuge. A. Itsevenusedin cancerresearch. B. But isbig datareally making adifference? C. Why isbig dataimportanttoyourbusiness? D. Over $20billionwere spent on dataanalysisin 2016. E. Withoutbig dataanalysis,companiesareblind anddeaf. F. Andwerepredictedtoproduce 1.7millionbytes