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专业英语四级阅读-10 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟) 一、Text A(总题数：2，分数：23.00) Google has an ambitious vision for spectacles. On June 27th Sergey Brin, one of the companys co-founders, revealed the next stage of Project Glass, its effort to create wireless-connected glasses that allow their wearers to do a host of things, including receiving and responding to messages, and taking and sharing photos and videos. The goal is to get prototypes in the hands of software developers early next year and then to sell a more polished set of specs to consumers in late 2013 or early the following year. A product of Googles secretive XLab, whose mission is to push the boundaries of computing, the glasses were on show at the companys developer conference in San Francisco along with several other gadgets, including a cheap tablet computer and a new wireless media player for the home. These gadgets attracted plenty of attention, but the longest queues at the event were at booths where folk were trying on Googles spectacles. That is hardly surprising because the glasses seem like something out of a science-fiction novel. A tiny transparent display towards the top of one lens allows wearers to see text and images by glancing upwards. And the spectacles can be controlled using either voice commands or a somewhat bulky touchpad integrated into one of the arms. Mr. Brin says the goal is to get technology out of the way so people can, say, take videos without having to pull out a camera or smartphone each time they do so. Googles glasses reflect a growing interest in wearable computing, which many experts think could be the next big thing in personal technology after smartphones and tablets. But some tech veterans give warning that designing novel devices people feel comfortable wearing is an especially tricky task. In general, the first attempt at producing new computing paradigms rarely sticks, notes Sumeet Jain of CMEA Capital, a venture-capital firm. If Googles glasses are to prove an exception to that