Question

    Facebook will no longer use facial recognition to let users automatically identify their friends in photographs uploaded to its site after America’s consumer watchdog called the practice “deceptive” (欺 骗性的).Facebook had used technology called Deep Face to scan the millions of pictures uploaded to its site each day in search of faces it recognized. 1.

This, Facebook boasted, enabled it to hold the “largest facial dataset to date” - a trove of information built up as its 2. 4 billion users uploaded hundreds of pictures of people at different times in their lives, from different angles, in different clothes and hairstyles.

2. - unless they request it - and will give existing users the option to turn it off. The Federal Trade Commission, which protects consumer rights in America, described the technology as deceptive to tens of millions of users”. It said that Facebook must obtain “ affirmative express user content” before enabling it.

Facebook also used the facial recognition feature to alert a user if a picture of them had been uploaded on to the site. 3.

Srinivas Narayanan, the head of artificial intelligence applied research at Facebook, said: 4., but we won’t recommend you to be tagged (加标签)if you do not have face recognition turned on.”

“We don’t share your face recognition information with third parties. 5..” It also emerged this week that Facebook began experimenting with hiding the amount of “likes” a person gets for their posts. Some users can develop a fixation with getting as many likes as possible and feel inadequate if they gain fewer than their friends.

A.We also don’t sell our technology

B.People will still be able to manually tag friends

C.Scanning ability of Facebook is criticized by the public

D.We appeal to the users to use the technology in a secret way

E.However, the feature is now being switched off for all new users

F.It then offered users the ability to “tag” that person with their name

G.It allowed people to check if someone was trying to use their identity in a wrong way

Answer

1.F

2.E

3.G

4.B

5.A

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了脸书关闭了通过人脸识别确认上传到该网站照片中的人的身份的功能。

1.

考查对上下文的理解及推理判断能力。本小题为段尾连接句。本段第一句说“脸书关闭了通过人脸识别确认上传到该网站照片中的人的身份的功能。”。结合空格前的“Facebook曾使用一种名为“深脸”的技术，每天扫描上传到其网站上的数百万张照片，以寻找被识别的面孔”，可推断出“在确认身份的前提下这一功能使得使用者可以tag(标签)该人的名字”，分析选项可知F项It then offered users the ability to “tag” that person with their name （然后，用户可以用自己的名字“标记”那个人）符合语境，故选F。

2.

考查对上下文的理解及推理判断能力。本小题是段首连接句。通过后面unless看出，除非用户要求，不然这个功能将会关闭。可推断出现在该功能对所有的新用户都关闭了，除非他们自己要求，否则就会关闭。分析选项可知E项However, the feature is now being switched off for all new users（但是，这个功能现在对所有新用户都关闭了）符合语境，故选E。

3.

考查对上下文的理解及推理判断能力。本小题是段尾连接句。根据上句“当用户的照片被上传到Facebook上的时候，会被提醒”,由此可推断出提醒用户的目的就是让用户核对检查，以防他们的照片被用于不正当用途。分析选项可知G项It allowed people to check if someone was trying to use their identity in a wrong way（它允许人们检查是否有人试图以错误的方式使用他们的身份）符合语境，故选G。

4.

考查对上下文的理解及推理判断能力。本小题是段中连接句。从后句“but”后面不建议“tag”，说明前面指的是人们可以手动的使用这个功能。可知，B项People will still be able to manually tag friends（人们仍然可以手动标记朋友）符合语境，故选B。

5.

考查对上下文的理解及推理判断能力。本小题为段中连接句。前句“We don’t share your face recognition information with third parties（我们不会与第三方共享您的人脸识别信息）”，那么后句应该使用“We also don’t sell... ”来说明公司的两个承诺。因此A项We also don’t sell our technology（我们也不卖我们的技术）符合语境，故选A。