Every Dog Has Its Say Kimiko Fukuda, a Japanese girl, always wondered what h...

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问题 Every Dog Has Its Say
Kimiko Fukuda, a Japanese girl, always wondered what her dog was trying to say. Whenever she put on makeup, it would pull at her sleeve. _____ (46) When the dog barks, she glances at a small electronic gadget (装置)The following “human” translation appears on its screen: “Please take me with you. ” “I realized that’s how he was feeling,” said Fukuda_
The gadget is called Bowlingual, and it translates dog barks into feelings. People laughed when the Japanese toymaker Takara Company made the world’s first dog-human translation machine in 2002. But 300, 000 Japanese dog owners bought it. ________(47)
“Nobody else had thought about it,” said Masahiko Kajita, who works for Takara. uWe spend so much time training dogs to understand our orders; what would it be like if we could understand dogs?”
Bowlingual has two parts. _____(48) The translation is done in the gadget using a database (资料库)containing every kind of bark.
Based on animal behaviour research, these noises are divided into six categories:happiness, sadness, frustration, anger, declaration and desire. ________ (49) In this way, the database scientifically matches a bark to an emotion, which is then translated into one of 200 phrases.
When a visitor went to Fukuda’s house recently,the dog barked a loud “bow wow”.This translated as “ Don’t come this way”. ________(50)
The product will be available in US pet stores this summer for about US $120. It can store up to 100 barks, even recording the dog’s emotions when the owner is away.
A

选项 A wireless microphone is attached to the dog’s collar, which sends information to the gadget held by the owner.
B Nobody really knows how a dog feels.
C It was followed by “I’m stronger than you” as the dog growled (嗥叫)and sniffed (嗅) at the visitor.
D More customers are expected when the English version is launched this summer.
E Now, the Japanese girl thinks she knows.
F Each one of these emotions is then linked to a phrase like “Let’s play”,“Look at me”,or “Spend more time with me”.

答案F

解析第五段的第一句话说的是:根据动物行为研究,这些杂音可以分成六类:幸福、悲痛、受挫、气愤、声称、欲望。因为是人狗翻译机,这些情感还需要跟人的话对应起来。
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