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(C)
If you could be anybody in the world, who would it be? Your neighbour or a super star? A few people have experienced what it might be like to step into the skin of another person, thanks to an unusual virtual reality(虚拟现实)device. Rikke Wahl, an actress, model and artist, was one of the participants in a body swapping experiment at the Be Another lab, a project developed by a group of artists based in Barcelona. She swapped with her partner, an actor, using a machine called The Machine to Be Another and temporarily became a man. "As I looked down, I saw my whole body as a man, dressed in my partner's pants," she said. "That's the picture I remember best."
The set-up is relatively simple. Both users wear a virtual reality headset with a camera on the top. The video from each camera is sent to the other person, so what you see is the exact view of your partner. If she moves her arm, you see it. If you move your arm, she sees it.
To get used to seeing another person's body without actually having control of it, participants start by raising their arms and legs very slowly, so that the other can follow along. Eventually, this kind of slow synchronised(同步的)movement becomes comfortable, and participants really start to feel as though they are living in another person's body.
Using such technology promises to alter people's behaviour afterwards-potentially for the better. Studies have shown that virtual reality can be effective in fighting racism-the bias(偏见)that humans have against those who don't look or sound like them. Researchers at the University of Barcelona gave people a questionnaire called the Implicit Association Test, which measures the strength of people's associations between, for instance, black people and adjectives such as good, bad, athletic or awkward. Then they asked them to control the body of a dark skinned digital character using virtual reality glasses, before taking the test again. This time, the participants' bias scores were lower. The idea is that once you've "put yourself in another's shoes" you're less likely to think ill of them, because your brain has internalised the feeling of being that person.
The creators of The Machine to Be Another hope to achieve a similar result. "At the end of body swapping, people feel like holding each other in their arms," says Arthur Pointeau, a programmer with the project. "It's a really nice way to have this kind of experience. I would really, really recommend it to everyone."
单选题
The word "swapping" (paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】根据上文中step into the skin of another person,以及机器的名字The Machine to Be Another 可知,swap表示“交换,故选B。
单选题
We can infer from the experiment at the Be Another lab that______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】由文章第三段第一句“To get used to……having control of it”可知,B错误,C原文中没有提到,排除,由第三段中最后一句“participants really start……person's body”可知,D错误,故选A。
单选题
In the Implicit Association Test, before the participants used virtual reality glasses to control a dark skinned digital character, ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】根据文章倒数第二段中最后一句you're less likely to think ill of them(测试后人们对不同人的偏见降低)可知,测试前他们对那些与他们不同的人有偏见,故选D。
单选题
It can be concluded from the passage that______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】根据文章倒数第二段最后一句because your brain has internalised the feeling of being that person可知,应选C。