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8
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阅读+七选五+语法填空+短文改错
?阅读理解
A
体裁:记叙文
话题:日常生?/p>
词数?/p>
310
时间??/p>
Think you can keep a straight face while watching your favorite
comedian
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Now
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the comedy club named Teatre in Barcelona is betting you
can't.The club is even basing its ticket prices on how often it can make
you
laugh.It's
said
you
can
get
into
the
club
show
for
free
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but
every
laugh
will cost you 38 cents more.Would you like to deliberately keep from
laughing in order to save money
?/p>
The
Teatre
club
has
equipped
facial
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recognition
technology
on
the
back
of
its
chairs.It
can
track
how
much
each
person
in
their
theatre
has
enjoyed
the
show.The
system
was
developed
by
advertising
agency
The
Cyranos
McCann
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after Teatre asked them to think up a way to increase ticket sales.
A number of people have tried to sit through a comedy show without
laughing
in
an
attempt
to
get
a
free
ticket
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but
they
all
failed.Using
the
new system
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the average ticket price per person has so far been $7.58.It
seems the pricing system has caught__on
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with other theatres in Spain now
copying the pay
?/p>
per
?/p>
laugh technology.
It
is
unclear
which
kind
of
facial
recognition
software
is
being
used
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but most use algorithms (
算法
) to track facial marks on an audience's
face.For example
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an algorithm can
analyze the position
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size or shape
of
the mouth to determine whether a person is laughing
?/p>
smiling or sad.The
comedy club has also launched a mobile app as a method of payment and a
pay
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per
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laugh season ticket.
James Woron
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director of the Club
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said
,“The idea sounds fun.It'd
be a big technical challenge
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as people laugh so often
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we'd have to put
a cash machine by every seat.?/p>
【语篇解读?/p>
西班牙的一家剧院根据观众笑的次数收费?/p>