2020高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(四)(含答案)教学资料

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2020

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Passage1

妙哉！大学生首创文言文编程。

词数

310

建议阅读时间

5

分钟

World's First Classical Chinese Programming Language

Although programming languages vary in

forms and rules, the keywords used for almost all of

them are in English.

The International Data Corporation (IDC)

estimates

however that nearly half of the world’s

22.3 million software developers come from the

Asia- Pacific region.

China and India alone account for about one

third of the world’s total developer p

opulation.

In an attempt to add some diversity to the range of available programming

languages, Carnegie Mellon University computer science major Lingdong Huang has

developed ‘Wenyan

-

Lang,’ a programming language based on Chinese hanzi

characters and the wenyan classical Chinese grammar system.

Huang did not simply replace the English characters with Chinese hanzi, instead

he applied NLP techniques to convert (

转变

) classical Chinese grammar to JavaScript,

Python, and Ruby.

He has open sourced the wenyan-lang project on GitHub, where it received a

staggering (

令人难以相信的

)11,900 stars in a week or so.

A fan of classic Chinese literature, Huang came up with the idea of programming

in Chinese in order to shed light on the beauty of wenyan and to inherit (

继承

) the

historical imprint left by generations of eminent (

非凡的

) figures in Chinese history.

But most importantly, Huang believes the goal of communication is to go

beyond the limits of language: “My project still has a lot of room for improvement,

but my desire for co

mmunication is as strong as some of the historical figures.”

Huang says programming punctuation and line breaks can be removed without

affecting the output.

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Considering the difficulty converting between classical Chinese and other

programming languages, he

has provided a “cheat sheet” with tips and conversion

rules.

Huang has also included a renderer that can display the program in a manner that

resembles (

像

)pages from ancient books and can parse the resultant SVG file back to

the original program.

The Wenyan-Lan project is available on GitHub.

Passage2

Sepsis (

败血症

) is a toxic (

中毒的

)

关爱败血症患者，这项实验不简单。

词数

370

建议阅读时间

6

分钟

Shirt senses sepsis

condition resulting from the spread of

infection, which causes 270,000 deaths a

year in the US, according to the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention.

While scientists and doctors have

been trying to improve the situation, a group of students at Spanish River High in

Florida, US, have invented a piece of wearable technology to monitor sepsis in

hospital patients.

The idea for the project came from their biotechnology teacher, Mary Fish,

whose father died from sepsis while in the hospital. “This got me thinking. I want to

help the patients with sepsis with a tunic (

短上衣

)

–

something the patient could wear

that

would monitor the symptoms of sepsis,” Fish said. Along with their teacher, the

students are currently developing “the sensors (

感应器

) for the detection of sepsis for

the continuous monitoring of a patient,” explained Eesha Shah, a team member.

Their challenges also include finding a fabric (

布料

) that is both comfortable

and conductive, and figuring out how to detect sepsis symptoms in a safer way.

However, the biggest challenge is that the students cannot test it on humans. “We are

not lab-certified (

授予实验许可的

),” said Brayant Polanco, 16, another team member.

So the group is tasked with inventing an artificial system on which to test it.

All of the 22 students have a deep passion for science. Lauren Bishop, 17,

hopes to study biomedical engineering in co

llege. “This experience will greatly help

since it’s truly what biomedical engineering is, an application of the problem

-solving

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