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精品文档 11欢迎下载 南充一中高南充一中高 20172017 届高三届高三 1010 月最新英语阅读文章月最新英语阅读文章 A A RecallRecall couldcould costcost billionsbillions South Korean electronics giant Samsung has suffered one of the biggest and most expensive product scandals in recent history Its latest smartphone flagship the Galaxy Note 7 rolled out to much fanfare on Aug 2 but had to be recalled in several markets within mere weeks Dozens of buyers around the world complained of severe overheating in the phone s battery causing fires and even explosions in some cases The complaints led Samsung to announce a recall offering replacement handsets with upgraded batteries in the US or software patches in its home market of South Korea In China Samsung assured consumers that Note 7 units sold in the country had a different battery supplier and were therefore safe from overheating Despite some Chinese Note 7 owners reporting overheating Samsung insisted all units sold in China were safe However China s General Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine said on Oct 11 that Samsung is to recall Galaxy Note 7 phones on the Chinese mainland Users may replace their recalled phones with other Samsung smartphones or get a full refund the administration said In the US where supposedly safe replacements were issued some exchanged phones continued to suffer from issues with some units overheating and catching fire Samsung eventually announced a second recall and permanent discontinuation of the Note 7 model on Oct 11 offering full refunds or exchanges to alternative models Asides from the huge blow to its reputation globally the effects of which are yet to be seen investment bank Credit Suisse estimates that Samsung could lose as much as 17 billion 114 billion yuan in revenue following this fiasco 近日 韩国电子巨头三星遭受了一桩近些年来最大 损失最多的产品丑闻 8 月 2 日 三星最新的主 打智能手机 盖乐世 Galaxy Note 7 大张旗鼓地上市了 但就在几周后 三星却不得不召回部分市场上 的这款新机 全球有数十名用户抱怨该款手机电池过热 有的甚至还引发了火灾 乃至爆炸 这些投诉报 告令三星决定召回该手机 并为美国顾客更换配有升级版电池的同款手机 而在韩国的本土市场 官方则 紧急发布了软件补丁 三星向消费者们保证 在中国出售的 Note 7 手机电池来源于不同的供应商 因而不存在电池过热的 问题 尽管也有一些中国的 Note 7 用户报告手机电池过热 但三星仍坚称所有在中国销售的产品是安全 的 然而 10 月 11 日 中国国家质量监督检验检疫总局却宣布 三星将召回中国大陆地区的盖乐世 Note 7 手机 总局称 用户可以免费更换其他款的三星智能手机 或是享受全额退款 而在美国 尽管三星已发布了安全的更换版手机 但一些更换版手机依然出现了同样的过热自燃问题 10 月 11 日 三星最终宣布二次召回 Note 7 手机并永久停产该机型 并向消费者提供全额退款或免费更 换其他机型 除了在全球范围内信誉大大受损 这一事件所带来的影响目前尚未可知 瑞士信贷银行估计 在本次重挫后 三星总计损失可高达 170 亿美元 约 1140 亿人民币 精品文档 22欢迎下载 B B WinWin surelysurely worthworth itit It doesn t seem that US singer Bob Dylan has much in common with literary mavens like Ernest Hemingway and T S Elliot But last week these three figures became forever bonded by the Nobel Prize for Literature This year s prize makes Dylan the first American since Toni Morrison in 1993 to win the title At the same time the surprise announcement has also ignited a firestorm of discussion around the globe Influential US writer Jodi Picoult joked that she might now deserve a Grammy And well known British Indian novelist Hari Kunzru lamented on social media by saying This feels like the lamest Nobel win since they gave it to Obama for not being Bush Dylan s new status a musician awarded the Nobel Prize for literature to a degree defies convention However this is by no means his first prize for his writing talents Back in 2008 the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded Dylan a special citation for his profound impact on popular music and American culture marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power In this strand it could be argued that what the Nobel Committee is doing is simply reinforcing Dylan s unshakable standing in the world of literature The words behind Dylan s songs address social issues and have been transmitted from generation to generation Protest songs like Blowin in the Wind 1962 were the anthems of anti war and civil rights movements in 1960s US Densely poetic and image rich songs such as Mr Tambourine Man 1965 pushed the folk rock movement And even today many of Dylan s songs are still relevant and streamed regularly by people all over the world In a speech during the MusiCares pre Grammy honors in 2015 Dylan revealed how he uses lyrics to document American culture and create an American songbook of his own I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs said Dylan And I played them and I met other people that played them back when nobody was doing it There is nothing more honorable to win acclaim from one s competitors but Dylan managed it From Orpheus to Faiz song poetry have been closely linked Salman Rushdie the Indian born novelist also thought to have been a candidate for the prize told The New York Times Dylan is the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition Rushdie added Great choice 美国歌手鲍勃 迪伦与文学大家欧内斯特 海明威 T S 艾略特似乎并没有什么共同之处 但是 就在 上周 诺贝尔文学奖却将这三人永久地联系在一起 精品文档 33欢迎下载 今年的奖项使迪伦成为自 1993 年托妮 莫里森获奖以来首位获奖的美国人 与此同时 这一出人意 料的结果也激起全球热议 极具影响力的美国作家茱迪 皮考特开玩笑说 她现在应该拿到格莱美奖 而著名英籍印度裔小说家哈 里 昆兹鲁也在社交媒体上抱怨道 我感觉这是自评委会把诺贝尔和平奖颁给奥巴马 而不是布什以来 最没说服力的诺贝尔奖 迪伦的新身份 获得诺贝尔文学奖的音乐人 在某种程度上打破了常规 然而 这绝不是他靠写 作天赋所赢得的首个奖项 早在 2008 年 普利策奖评委会便授予了迪伦特别荣誉奖 以示他对流行音乐 和美国文化的深远影响 他的歌词创作中具有超凡的诗意力量 在这一层面上 诺贝尔委员会现在所做的 只不过是强化了迪伦在文学界中不可动摇的地位罢了 迪伦的歌词中披露了许多社会问题并被代代传唱 他的抗议歌曲 如 在风中飘荡 1962 等 便 是赞扬 20 世纪 60 年代美国反战和民权运动的颂歌 铃鼓先生 1965 等极富诗意与想象力的歌曲 则 推动了摇滚民谣运动的发展 即使到了今天 迪伦的许多歌曲依然和现今社会息息相关 在世界各地广为 流传 在 2015 年格莱美颁奖礼前夕的 MusiCares 晚会上 迪伦在一次演讲中透露了他如何用歌词来记录美 国文化 并创造了一个属于自己的美国歌集 听民谣令我学到了不少歌词 并懂得了如何创作 迪伦说 道 然后我开始演奏民谣 与同好接触 当时并没有多少人这样做 没什么能比获得对手的称赞更值得令人敬佩的了 但迪伦却做到了 从俄耳甫斯到法伊兹 歌曲和诗 歌都紧密相连 诺贝尔文学奖候选人之一 印度小说家萨尔曼 鲁西迪在接受 纽约时报 采访时表示 迪伦是诗歌传统的杰出继承者 鲁西迪补充道 这是个无与伦比的选择 C C ShipShip meetsmeets lablab inin spacespace The Shenzhou 11 manned spaceship bearing China s space dream is flying high On Oct 17 the spaceship was launched 发射 into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Two days later on Oct 19 the spacecraft successfully docked 对接 with space lab Tiangong 2 China is now one big step closer to its plan of building a space station in 2020 The crew onboard Shenzhou 11 consists of two Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng 50 and Chen Dong 38 They will undergo 经历 a 33 day mission on Tiangong 2 and will be testing new technology and doing experiments to prepare for future space missions But a month long space mission is not an easy task Therefore Chinese scientists and engineers have come up with new technologies to allow astronauts to stay safer and more comfortable in space One of the new technologies that are being tested in this mission is a device called a space hospital The space hospital is two little silver boxes strapped 捆绑住 around the two astronauts legs Through the space hospital scientists and doctors on Earth can monitor the astronauts heart rate and temperature When the astronauts feel tired the space hospital can even massage their muscles 精品文档 44欢迎下载 D D RobotRobot toto taketake entranceentrance examexam Many of you are studying hard because you have to compete with many others in the upcoming national college entrance exam But it may not occur to you that one of your competitors is a robot An artificial intelligence AI robot will take part in the 2017 national college entrance exam reported China Daily The robot will sit three exams math Chinese and a comprehensive 综合的 test of liberal arts 文科 which includes history politics and geography Lin Hui CEO of an AI company in Chengdu told China Daily Like the others who take the exam the robot will have to finish the tests in the time given But instead of taking exams together with other students the robot will take its exams in a closed room without anyone else present except for proctors 监考人 and a notary 公证人 It is expected to be totally disconnected from the internet and solve the problems with its AI program It s believed that Chinese and a test of its liberal arts skills rather than its math skills will give the robot its biggest challenges Questions in math are objective 客观的 with specific answers while in the other test subjects there are some subjective 主观的 questions that test skills such as reading comprehension and essay writing v The robot aims to be enrolled in one of the first class Chinese universities in 2017 and then try to get into the more prestigious 有声望的 universities of Tsinghua or Peking University in 2020 The robot is actually a real achievement in AI development And AI can be a big help for students and teachers AI can meet each student s needs and lessen the teacher s burden now Liu Qingfeng president of tech firm iFLYTEK told Xinhua He showed how robots can recognize notes on a piece of homework and give it a score They can also find a student s weakness in his or her answer so that the student can improve With AI teachers can save time grading answer sheets and help underachievers 后进生 As the AI robots have such great potential for development many have fears about the idea of a Terminator style 终结者式的 attack from machines in the future But according to Hu Yu vice president of iFLYTEK advances in AI will lead us away from such fiction In the future robots will be able to use more intelligence but 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