单选题 If a potential customer enjoys your advert, they are more likely to buy your product. It's a simple     25    , but it is extremely difficult to know how well your advert is being received in the real world. Now a new system could help     26    know exactly how their latest offering is going down with viewers, just by watching their face.
    The system, developed by Daniel McDuff and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, looks at how     27    in the face move in response to watching a video. Software can then classify what counts as positive     28    responses and smiles during the video and from that predict which adverts the viewer most enjoys. The team collected more than 3200 videos of people, whose faces were     29    by their own computer's webcam as they watched three adverts online during the Super Bowl in 2011. After each commercial—one for Doritos, one for Google and one for Volkswagen—the viewers were asked if they liked the video and whether they would want to watch it again. In tests, the system made correct     30    more than 75 per cent of the time.
    The system would be a     31    for advertisers trying to grab the attention of potential customers on the Internet. In future, the system could be used to personalize adverts for viewers as they watch programs online, depending on their     32    , or as a more     33    way of testing how good a new advert is at     34    to customers.
    A. facial          F. created            K. predictions
    B. boon            G. suggestions        L. advertisers
    C. reaction        H. concept            M. appealing
    D. filmed          I. effective          N. people
    E. face            J. eyes              O. muscles
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【正确答案】H
【答案解析】[考点] 名词辨析 句子中it指的是前面的一句话“如果一个潜在的客户喜欢你的广告,他们会更有可能去购买你的产品。这是一个非常简单的______。”根据选项中的名词,concept更符合句意。
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【正确答案】L
【答案解析】[考点] 名词辨析 根据句意“一种新系统可以帮助______通过观察观众的面部表情来准确地判断出他们的新产品是否被接受”可以得知,此处需要填入一个指人的名词,前文提到了广告被接受的程度,因此该空应填入advertisers(广告商)。
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【正确答案】O
【答案解析】[考点] 名词辨析 “主要是对观众观看视频时脸上的______变化进行研究”,选项中可以与脸部搭配的有A,J和O选项,该空需填入名词,所以可以排除A,下文中提到了面部的反应和微笑,所以不仅仅是眼部的变化,故排除J,答案为O。
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【正确答案】A
【答案解析】[考点] 形容词辨析 根据上下文可以很容易选出A选项,指面部反应。
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【正确答案】D
【答案解析】[考点] 动词辨析 该空所填入的词与be动词were构成被动语态,通过电脑上的网络摄像头对人们的脸部变化进行拍摄。因此可以选出答案filmed。
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【正确答案】K
【答案解析】[考点] 名词辨析 该空需要综合上下文进行分析。该句指出“在测试中,该系统准确______超过了75%”。文章中讲述的是通过新发明的系统对人们的面部变化进行分析来预测广告的受欢迎度,因此该空应该是说预测的准确率超过了75%。所以可以选出predictions。
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【正确答案】B
【答案解析】[考点] 名词辨析 根据句意“对于试图在互联网上抓住潜在顾客注意力的广告商来说,该系统是一个______”,该系统对广告商判断他们的产品是否能被接受是有利的,因此是一种利好,所以应选择boon。
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【正确答案】C
【答案解析】[考点] 名词辨析 该空可以根据整个句子的句意选出正确答案,“未来,广告商可以利用该系统判断人们观看在线节目时的______,以制作个性化广告”,填入的是reaction“反应”一词。
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【正确答案】I
【答案解析】[考点] 形容词辨析 根据上下文,该系统对广告商来说是非常有利的,是一种有效的方式,因此正确答案是effective。
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【正确答案】M
【答案解析】[考点] 动词辨析 根据文章的中心思想,可以得知这个新系统主要用来测试新广告吸引顾客的程度,因此该空需填appealing,与to搭配构成短语,appeal to意为“对……有吸引力”。