the use of the technology to catch sight of return customers. Then they can offer special deals, based on the customers’ buying habits.
In America, facial recognition is used by universities to check students’ attendance. This year, Welsh police use it to catch a terrorist outside a football game. In China it checks on the identities of the ride-hailing drivers, permits tourists to enter some places of interests quickly and lets people pay for things with a smile.
While some systems are used with knowledge of the persons, others aren't, and that raises worries. For many people, however, convenience is more important than the worries, so facial recognition technology is probably to stay here. ( ) 34. Which is TRUE according to Paragraph 1? A. Computers now can read faces with few mistakes. B. Humans never make mistakes in reading faces.
C. Some people can’t tell one face from another easily.
D. Computers have a stronger ability to read faces than humans.
( ) 35. According to the passage, stores use facial recognition technology to ________. A. keep the store safe
B. catch thieves quickly D. improve the convenience
C. know customers’ needs
( ) 36. It can be inferred from the passage that the writer feels ______ about the facial
recognition technology.
A. moved
B. doubtful
C. worried
D. hopeful
( ) 37. What’s the main idea of the article?
A. To show the importance of facial recognition. B. To encourage the use of facial recognition. C. To introduce the technology of facial recognition. D. To predict the development of facial recognition technology.
C
A disease called “Panama” is threatening(威胁) supplies of the world’s most popular fruit – banana. Two years ago, the United Nations warned that the “Panama disease” could destroy “much of the world’s banana crop.” Since then, things have not gotten better. A new outbreak was discovered last year in Australia. The disease started in Asia in the 1990s, and later spread to