Day 2-2021年中考英语考前抢分练之完形填空专练（杭州专用）

Day 2 A Computers, smartphones, and 1 machines are the perfect servants. They always do 2 they are “told”. We usually “tell” them to do things by using a mouse or keyboard. But what if we could just talk to them normally and literally （真正地） tell them what to do? This type of technology, 3 as voice control or voice recognition（识别）, 4 in films and TV shows since the 10s. The Star Trek TV series, which debuted （首播） at this time, showed spaceships that could reply to human voice commands （命令）. The 18 film 21: A Space Odyssey “starred” HAL 3000, a computer 5 human astronauts could talk to. It was 6 used to play chess and maintain the astronauts’ spaceship. Real-world voice recognition, on the other hand, is used for more everyday tasks. You 7 be familiar with Siri and Alexa, two examples of voice recognition software made by Apple and Amazon. They can be asked to do many things, 8 setting alarms and playing music to 9 online grocery ord