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The problem of robocalls has gotten so bad that many people now refuse to pick up calls from numbers they don’t know. By next year, half of the calls we receive will be scams (欺詐) .We are finally waking up to the severity of the problem by supporting and developing a group of tools, apps and approaches intended to prevent scammers from getting through. Unfortunately, it’s too little, too late. By the time these “solutions” (解決方案) become widely available, scammers will have moved onto cleverer means. ln the near future, it’s not just going to be the number you see on your screen that will be in doubt. Soon you will also question whether the voice you’re hearing is actually real.

That’s because there are a number of powerful voice manipulation (處理) and automation technologies that are about to become widely available for anyone to use. At this year’s I/O Conference, a company showed a new voice technology able to produce such a convincing human-sounding voice that it was able to speak to a receptionist and book a reservation without detection.

These developments are likely to make our current problems with robocalls much worse. The reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision. A decade of data breaches (數(shù)據(jù)侵入) of personal information has led to a situation where scammers can easily learn your mother’s name, and far more. Armed with this knowledge, they’re able to carry out individually targeted campaigns to cheat people. This means, for example, that a scammer could call you from what looks to be a familiar number and talk to you using a voice that sounds exactly like your bank teller’s, ricking you into “confirming” your address, mother’s name, and card number. Scammers follow money, so companies will be the worst hit. A lot of business is still done over the phone, and much of it is based on trust and existing relationships. Voice manipulation technologies may weaken that gradually.

We need to deal with the insecure nature of our telecom networks. Phone carriers and consumers need to work together to find ways of determining and communicating what is real. That might mean either developing a uniform way to mark videos and images, showing when and who they were made by, or abandoning phone calls altogether and moving towards data-based communications — using apps like FaceTime or WhatsApp, which can be tied to your identity.

Credibility is hard to earn but easy to lose, and the problem is only going to harder from here on out.

53. How does the author feel about the solutions to problem of robocalls?

A. Panicked B. Confused

C. Embarrassed D. Disappointed

53.【答案】D

【解析】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段第三句至第五句“We are finally waking up to the severity of the problem by supporting and developing a group of tools, apps and approaches intended to prevent scammers from getting through. Unfortunately, it's too little, too late. By the time these ‘solutions (解決方案)’ become widely available, scammers will have moved onto cleverer means.”可知，我們認識到了問題的嚴重性，支持和開發(fā)了旨在防止欺詐者通過的工具、應用程序和方法，。不幸的是，我們的努力太少了，也太晚了。在這些“解決方案”被廣泛使用的時候，騙子將轉(zhuǎn)移到更巧妙的手段上。由此可推知，作者認為這些“解決辦法”對于解決問題起不了什么作用，因此作者感到很“失望”。故選D。

54. What does the passage imply?

A. Honesty is the best policy.

B. Technologies can be double edited.

C. There are more solutions than problems.

D. Credibility holds the key to development.

54.【答案】B

【解析】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段第二句“At this year’s I/O Conference, a company showed a new voice technology able to produce such a convincing human-sounding voice that it was able to speak to a receptionist and book a reservation without detection.(這項語音技術(shù)可以產(chǎn)生一個聽起來和人類非常相似的聲音，它可以和接待員進行交談，進行預訂。)”可知，這項新技術(shù)有其好的方面;再根據(jù)第三段可知，欺詐者們可以利用這項新技術(shù)來進行欺詐行為。由此推知，這項新技術(shù)既可以發(fā)揮好的作用，也可能為壞人所利用，產(chǎn)生不好的影響，因此可以說它是一把雙刃劍。故選B。

55. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Where the Problem of Robocalls Is Rooted

B. Who Is to Blame for the Problem of Robocalls

C. Why Robocalls Are About to Get More Dangerous

D. How Robocalls Are Affecting the World of Technology

55.【答案】C

【解析】主旨大意題。第一段提到：robocalls(機器人電話：自動撥號播放錄音信息的推銷電話)在未來變得會越來越嚴重，不僅僅是出現(xiàn)在你的手機屏幕上的電話號碼令人懷疑，而且你會質(zhì)疑聽到的聲音是否是真的;第二段介紹原因：語音操作與自動化技術(shù)的出現(xiàn)使得機器人電話可以以假亂真;第三段介紹了語音操作和自動化技術(shù)發(fā)展會使得機器人電話產(chǎn)生的問題更加嚴重;最后兩段提出我們該如何應對這些問題。綜上，文章第一段點明文章中心：機器人電話問題在未來會變得越來越嚴重。下文都是圍繞這一話題展開的。故選C。