英语四级 2024年12月·第3套 Part III Section A 完形填空（选词填空）试卷排版
英语四级2024年12月·第3套 Part III Section A 完形填空（选词填空）：共 10 题、占整卷 5%（710 分制折算约 36 分）、卷面选文共 247 个英文单词。本页按真题原卷版式还原该模块卷面（不含解析）；逐题解析在「题目解析」页，全文逐句精读在「原文精读」页；本模块真题可免费下载 PDF/Word，入口见上方本题行。
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真题卷第3套(2024-12) • 英语四级
Part III Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Super realistic masks are made from flexible materials such as silicone and are designed to imitate real human face—down to every last detail.
In a study by the Universities of York and Kyoto, researchers asked participants to look at pairs of photographs and decide which showed a 26 face and which showed a person wearing a mask.
Surprisingly, participants made the wrong call in one-in-five cases.
The 20% error rate 27 in the study likely underestimates the extent to which people would struggle to tell an 28 face from the real thing outside of the lab.
The researchers collected data from participants from both the UK and Japan to 29 any differences according to race. When trial participants were asked to choose between photographs of faces of a different race from theirs, response times were slower and selections were 5% less 30 .
There are now dozens of criminal cases in which offenders have 31 themselves off as people of a different age, race or gender, sending police investigations down the wrong path.
In one recent case, an international gang used an 32 realistic mask to pose as a French minister, 33 business executives out of millions of pounds.
Dr Jet Sanders, who worked on the study while a PhD student at the University of York, said: "Failure to detect synthetic faces may have important implications for security and crime prevention as super realistic masks may 34 the key characteristics of a person's appearance to be 35 identified."
A)accurate
B)allow
C)artificial
D)cheating
E)deserted
F)establish
G)extremely
H)immediately
I)incorrectly
J)normal
K)observed
L)passed
M)reminding
N)reparable
O)resolve
选文出处：本文节选自2019年11月20日发表于SciTechDaily上的一篇标题为 “Hyper-Realistic Masks Can Be More Believable Than Real Human Faces” 的文章。