2017届上海市黄浦区高考二模试卷-（含答案）(3)

screen reader to read the site through the touch of keyboard and sound of a robotic voice. Still, when a friend sends her in a photo, Wright often has no clue what the image shows.

Now Facebook is trying to solve this problem by exploiting the power of artificial intelligence to create new tools that not only describe items in a photo but allows users to ask what?s in an image.

“I can have a basic picture in my mind of what?s going on in the picture and now I can comment on my own,” said Wright, who got to try out the new tools that are still being tested. “Of course, it?s different, but it?s something more than I had.”

An estimated 285 million people are visually disabled globally, according to the World Health Organization, and research conducted by Facebook showed that blind users have trouble figuring out what?s in a photo because the description isn?t clear or doesn?t exist.

Facebook has made it easier to skim through the content on its website with a screen reader by improving HTML headings, adding alternative text for images, launching keyboard shortcuts, and more. Using artificial intelligence to describe photos is only a part of these ongoing efforts.

With 1.5 billion users, Facebook isn?t the only social media company that wants to improve its website for the visually impaired. Along with Facebook and other major tech firms, Twitter and LinkedIn have their own accessibility teams and belong to an initiative called “Teaching Accessibility.”

Jeff Wieland, Facebook?s head of accessibility engineering, said the group wants to educate more engineers, especially early on in college, about designing products that are compatible with the disabled and others. “We really don?t want accessibility to be the luxury of a handful of companies,” Wieland said. “We want everything around the world to be built with accessibility in mind.”

63. What tool helps the visually disabled to read Facebook? A. A screen reader headings

64 What can be inferred from the passage about the new tool created by Facebook?

A. It adds a lot of shortcuts on the keyboard.

B. It helps users to employ their senses other than sight C. It meets no competitors with its advanced technology. D. It inspires more engines to explore artificial intelligence A. are unaffordable to

B. bring harm to

C. keep company of

D. well suit

B. A special keyboard

C. A helpful robot

D. HTML

65. The underlined phrase in the last paragraph “are compatible with” most probably means ________. 66. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A. Screen reader: tool to access social media B. Ongoing effort: strength to improve websites C. Artificial intelligence: power to help the blind D. Teaching accessibility: initiative to educate engineer

Section C

Directions：Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence

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can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A. But there?s no need for embarrassment. B. If you want proof, turn on the sports channel. C. As we grow older, we don?t abandon this system - we internalize it. D. This so-called inner speech can improve our performance on various tasks. E. Conducting a dialogue with ourselves might turn out to be one of the keys to human creativity. F. Psychologists refer to this as private speech – language that is spoken out loud but directed at the self.

Your Own Best Friend

Talking to yourself may seem a little shameful. If you?ve ever been overheard criticizing yourself for a foolish mistake or practicing a tricky speech ahead of time. you?ll have felt the social restriction against communicating with yourself in words. According to the well-known saying, talking to yourself is the first sign of madness.

___67___ Talking to ourselves, whether out loud or silently in our heads, is a valuable tool for thought. Far from being a sign of foolishness, self-talk allows us to plan what we are going to do, manage our activities, regulate our emotions and even create a narrative of our experience.

Take a trip to any preschool and watch a small child playing with her toys. You are very likely to hear her talking to herself: offering herself directions and giving voice to her frustrations. ___68___ We do a lot of it when we are young – perhaps one reason for our shyness about continuing with it as adults.

As children, according to the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, we use private speech to regulate our actions in the same way that we use public speech to control the behavior of other. ___69___.

Psychological experiments have shown that the distancing effect of our words can give us a valuable perspective on our actions. One recent study suggested that self-talk is most effective when we address ourselves in the second person:“you”rather than “I”.

We internalize the private speech we use as children – but we never entirely put away the out-loud version. ___70___ You?re sure to see an athlete or two getting themselves ready for a sharp phrase or scolding themselves after a bad shot.

Both kinds of self-talk seem to bring a range of benefits to our thinking. Those words to the self, spoken silently or aloud, are so much more than lazy talk. …… 此处隐藏：3210字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……