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第二部分Week Eleven人与社会热点话题@
Week Eleven
人与社会
热点话题
Monday
◆答案P197
■阅读理解
机器人电话
@关键词:robocalls
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@体裁:说明文
@词数:428
©正确率:/4
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The problem of robocalls(自动语言电话)
We need to deal with the insecure nature of
has gotten so bad that many people now
our telecom networks.Phone consumers need to
refuse to pick up calls from numbers they
work together to find ways of determining and
don't know.By next year,half of the calls we
communicating what is real.That might mean
receive will be scams(欺诈).We are finally
either developing a uniform way to mark videos
waking up to the severity of the problem by
and images,showing when and who they were
supporting and developing a group of tools,
made by,or abandoning phone calls altogether
apps and approaches intended to prevent
and moving towards data-based communications-
scammers from getting through.Unfortunately,
using apps like FaceTime or WhatsApp,which
it's too little,too late.By the time these
can be lied to your identity.
solutions become widely available,
Reliability is hard to earn but easy to lose,
scammers will have moved onto cleverer
and the problem is only going harder from
means.In the near future,it's not just going to
now on.
be number you see on your screen that will be
1.How does the author feel about the solutions
in doubt.Soon you will also question whether
to the problem of robocalls?
the voice you're hearing is actually real.
A.Panicked.
B.Confused.
That's because there are a number of
C.Embarrassed.
D.Disappointed.
powerful voice processing and automation
2.Taking advantage of the new technologies,
technologies that are about to become widely
scammers can
available for anyone to use.At this year's 1/O
A.aim at victims accurately
Conference,a company showed a new voice
B.damage databases easily
technology able to produce such a persuasive
C.start campaigns rapidly
human-sounding voice that it was able to speak
D.spread information widely
to a receptionist andbook a reservation
3.What does the passage want to say